South_Cache
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Originally posted by 3fros:That's one great reason to hide members-only caches in the parks there. The parks dept will have to pay to find out where they are.
Finally a good and logical use for the MOC. The only one I have ever seen.
Capn Skully
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Originally posted by Planet:Ttepee and I adopted one of the Ape Project caches that had been stolen, we replaced it and Jeremy put it in Ttepee's name that night, she asked him to switch it to my name, it was done very quickly. It can always go back to the original cacher if he shows up and wants it. Sounds awful, but something could have happened to him, or he just quit.
Cache you later,
Planet
I feel much more like I do now than when I first got here.
He hasn't posted a find since June 2002. Of course if it is given to me I would return it to his control when requested. I just hate to see a good site go to waste. I hope nothing happened to him and perhaps he is on hiatus. I don't plan to geocache from May till September except for maintenance.
Capn Skully
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A geocacher named Swamprat has placed three caches in our area. I have attempted to contact him but is email address is no longer any good.
His I-310 cache should be removed it is illegal to park on the Interstate except for emergencys.
The Wilmer cache was lost in a recent flood.
His Keychain Cache is still good but needs maintenance.
He has another cache along I-95 in South Carolina. I would like to propose to Gecocaching to let me take over the maintainence of the caches or let me post a new Wilmer Cache and archive the I-310 cache. So Jeremy what do you think??
Capn Skully
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Originally posted by Publius64:It's the yellow Etrex, and no I didn't get a serial cable for it.... I wouldn't know where to hook up the serial cable.... seems like there is no place for it. I guess when you want inexpensive, you get inexpensive..... bleh... Yeah, I'm excited about going for my first cache. I commute to Fort Myers, FL and back to Naples and got waypoints both ways.... I love my etrex, but I don't see a place for a serial cable.
Help!!!!
Pub.
Brian...
On top of the yellow eTrex is a black rubber patch, it peels back to reveal the contacts.
Capn Skully
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but the poor thing gets car sick. I took him sailing and he got sea sick. Nothing worse than a sea sick dawg. (he is mixed chow)
Capn Skully
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I see you purchased the optional night jacket...
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Originally posted by Mopar:To suggest that something be banned for everyone because of a few people lack common sense is down right insulting to me, and lots of other people. Every day some idiot talking on a cell phone or something runs a red light and causes an accident. Should we ban driving cars because of that?
+ _Tae-Kwon-Leap is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon. _
You know I feel the same way. Recently some folks wanted the airlines to ban peanuts on airplanes. Why?? Because one person in 50,000 is deathly allergic to eating peanuts. The smell of a bag of peanuts may set off a reaction in the one rare person.
My company just spent $800 per person for ergonomic chairs because the people in my office are too dense to stop and take a break from typing.
I see parks with elevated board walks for trails because the powers that be are afraid a person may touch a stinging nettle or trip over a nutria rat on it's way to the park trash cans.
Our country is becoming a place of wimpy do gooders.
Capn Skully
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ORANGE Traffic barrels?? Talk about a huge cache, you could hide stuff in it like lap top computers, video games, small TV etc.
Capn Skully
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Originally posted by mtn-man:I am sure I will be quoted. Have at it. I do my best and love what I do.
I didn't know it was a volunteer job. I thought you were very fair with me when I had trouble with one of my caches.
I hope I wasn't rude to you about all the issues I was having.
Gary
Capn Skully
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Originally posted by Whidbey Walk:I thought this all sounded familiar. A little bit of history:
http://opentopic.Groundspeak.com/0/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=1750973553&f=3000917383&m=9740918135
Isn't Devils Backbone the rock formation where the 4X4 truck had the brakes fail and it ran down uncontrolled to the bottom and crashed? It was on Ripley's and several other TV shows.
Capn Skully
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Originally posted by Rygel:The great question...which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?" --Freud
THEY WANT DIAMONDS THEN CHOCOLATE but not necessarily in that order.
Capn Skully
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Virtual caches may be the only thing left and allowed.
Capn Skully
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Here we go again with the dangerous cache thread....
One of my caches could possibly maybe be used by an animal as a den or a snake could crawl in to get out of the heat. Since I placed the thing in the "SWAMP" with wild creatures about anything could happen. A group of wayward fire ants could build a nest under the cache and bite you when you move it.
Funny thing about fire ants, they have a signal system of some kind. First the swarm all over you, usually up to your knee or elbow and then one of them gives a signal and they all start biting at once. OUCH!!
Just remember it isn't a wet lands - IT IS A SWAMP and it isn't a rain forest - IT IS A JUNGLE!
Capn Skully
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Originally posted by Mr. Snazz:quote:
Originally posted by Renegade Knight:I tripled my gas bill and bought an SUV. As a result I get thank you letters from Arab Terrorists.
hehe... I'm going to take this opportunity to state my opinion.
My guess is that, if you add up ALL the oil consumed by the united states, to provide services to the citizens, for things such as power generation, freight for shipping product, etc. and then divide that amongst citizens, and add in each person's gas usage, the extra fuel used by SUV owners might end up being quite insignificant.I personally don't appreciate the commercials labeling me as a supporter of terrorism simply because I drive a Ford Bronco. If that logic is to be believed, then it has to be extendable to all oil usage, which makes our entire country, each and every one of us, financial supporters of terrorism. Except for those of us who always ride bikes, and eat only food grown on our own farms, and use no electricity or only non-oil electricity.
I love people that want to blame SUVs for all the troubles in the world. I go each spring to buy a new quart of outboard oil for my sailboat outboard motor. One quart - six gallons of gas. I always go on Saturday, the power boaters are there buying one or two cases for their boats. I tell them I am buying all of my oil for the season, the best part?? I seldom use all six gallons, I have to burn the excess in my truck or lawn mower.
Most of our oil comes from South America, it is cheaper and closer than the middle east. Prices are high now because of the current strike down there.
At 14 mpg, my Ford Excursion gets better mileage than my friends Ford Mustang 5.0 liter. Of course the one I am comparing it to is owned by a 59 y/o leadfooted kid.
Mr. Snazz you are so right!
Mr. Knight - thank you from my family, I work for an oil company and it feeds my family. I am not an Arab or a terrorist.
Capn Skully
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It's ridiculous to keep repeating that mantra when such a low percentage of caches are, in fact, MOCs. What percentage of caches in your local area are MOCs?As long as you keep saying I am wrong I will continue to say that MOCs are wrong. I paid my three dollars and I have the right to speak my peace.
I don't care if there is only one in my area. It is wrong. If there is one or one thousand it is still wrong.
Capn Skully
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So it's wrong for members to take advantage of features they have chosen to pay for? That's silly; then it must also be just as wrong for you, as a member, _not_ to take advantage of features you chose to pay for.No it isn't wrong to use the features I pay for. I pay for a weekly report that lists all the caches in my area, I then in turn download those to my GPSr. My first big disappointment is that State maps no longer show found caches. Shouldn't that be a premium feature? Some cachers used these maps on thier personal websites and suddenly the feature was turned off. IMHO Pay to Play is wrong. I can afford to buy top of the line GPSr, I can afford to travel to long distance caches, I can afford to place caches. Some people participating in this hobby can't become charter members because it could make the difference in buying milk for thier kids.
They go with other cachers and in many cases don't own a PC or GPS. So I am to exclude those honest hardworking people from particpating? My good friend an honest and hardworking person with a wife and four kids to support he can't afford a GPSr much less a membership in Groundspeak. So we "elitist" charter members are going exclude him. Before you ask how does he know about geocaching with out a PC, the public libraries and schools have PCs. He called me up the other day interested in a cache near our location.
Tell me where an MOC is fair to him...
Capn Skully
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Members only caches are wrong, it supports this elitist cacher mentality. Granted I am a so called charter member and I pay because I thought it would improve and support the website. I also thought this was the only website that features geocaching. Turns out it isn't.
With all the things that have occured in the past few weeks, Accusations of hiding unsafe caches and now another cache stolen I am not feeling welcome any more. It may sound like a conspiracy theory but there is an "inner circle" here and most of us are on the outside looking in.
Capn Skully
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One of my caches has gone missing. Since the water is over knee deep and doesn't flow it should be very near by. I have searched in the water where I could reach but no luck.
I have a funny feeling the cache has been stolen.
Capn Skully
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I think my cache is lost in the swamp. The water is too deep for knee boots. Do AMMO Cans float when sealed? Do they leak a little and eventually sink?
Capn Skully
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I was working for NASA in New Orleans when the Challenger accident occured. I worked there when the first TDRS Navigation Satelites were launched on different shuttle missions. On this past Saturday I was with my brother-in-law delivering a boat to Kentucky.
I have met several astronauts in person, they are the most likable and intelligent people you could ever hope to know. They are painfully aware of the risks they take going to work each day. I followed the space program as a kid and I was proud to work at NASA in New Orleans building the external tank. I am proud to be an American and I am proud to live in a free country that allows people to persue dreams and live life to the fullest.
If a shuttle was launching tomorrow I would be happy to go with them.
[image]http://www.simplysailing.com/images/Mice_in_Snake.jpg[/image]
Capn Skully
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Originally posted by BrianSnat:According to US Census Bureau statistics, the average Geocacher is a married, Caucasian male, 37 years old with 1.5 children and employed in the Information Systems field.
Actually I just made those statistics up becuase they sounded good, but I bet I'm not too far off.
"Life is a daring adventure, or it is nothing" - Helen Keller
47, Male Caucasion - 2 kids - Married - Employed in Information Management
Fair winds, Capn Skully
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Two cowboys sitting on a fence in front of a sign that said, "Dell's Dude Ranch."
A station wagon was driving by with some people in it.
The caption reads, "Dell, You're gettin' a dude!"
Fair winds, Capn Skully
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Originally posted by LoneHowler:HMM Nerdy or not, I'm sertanly not a steriotypical nerd,
1: it's hard to call a six foot female nerdy
2: it's even harder to call a airport security officer nerdy
3: I'm the outdoors type I grew up in the mountains and love the silence only deep forest can produce
4: Athough I love high tec toys, I don't know every detail about them, how they were proggramed, etc
5: I may have a pale complection but that's because I work night shift
6: When I'm not holding my GPS it's clipped to my belt
No I don't think the sport itself is nerdy it's how you go about it
More to see, More to do
I guess I am a NERD then, I wear the lanyard around my neck. When I carried tools for a living I carried my tools in an electricans pouch and belt. I never wore it around my waist, doing so was considered NERDY. Plus it is hard to run from a gas leak or spill wearing 10lbs of tools on one hip. I carried my tool belt over one shoulder so I could easily throw it down to run!
A six foot lady! I would call her anything she wants me too. Especially Yes Maam!, in my best southern gentleman accent!
Fair winds, Capn Skully
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What about using my sextant?
Three things come to mind...
How would you find the horizon on land?
How would you carry the conversion tables? Does a palm pilot have enough memory to hold the tables?
Make room in your back pack for the charts, dividers, parallel rules, straight edge and other such assorted navigation gear.
Fair winds, Capn Skully
Do Where's George dollars belong in caches?
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I'll be sure log them and put them to good use.
Capn Skully