Ttepee
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Originally posted by vash the stampede:once i find the cache i can sit there and wonder, "what would it be like if that special someone was here now?"
Well if it were my special someone you wouldn't be sitting there... get up and get moving out of these god awful woods! heheh... yeah I found this pretty funny... my boyfriend hates caching. I don't get it...what's there not to love?
Ttepee
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Originally posted by vash the stampede:once i find the cache i can sit there and wonder, "what would it be like if that special someone was here now?"
Well if it were my special someone you wouldn't be sitting there... get up and get moving out of these god awful woods! heheh... yeah I found this pretty funny... my boyfriend hates caching. I don't get it...what's there not to love?
Ttepee
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This probably totally redundant.... but you did check the "no photo" box next to the photo...right?
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Looks good to me so far. It's taking awhile to load some pages but so far they eventually seem to come up for me....even multiple pages.
Thanks!!!
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Personally I'm a believer in the Olympus C-700... or I think it might be 710 by now... has a 10x optical zoom... though you have to be pretty still at that point... a hiking staff with monopod screw makes for a nice pic
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Personally I'm a believer in the Olympus C-700... or I think it might be 710 by now... has a 10x optical zoom... though you have to be pretty still at that point... a hiking staff with monopod screw makes for a nice pic
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Yeah I can see your point about the weight. How about a mortar tube? They are much lighter and have a shoulder strap for carrying...or clip it on to your pack. Or if your creative with pvc tube I've seen people do nice things with those. Tupperware type stuff just takes such a beating out there.... Something at least with a screw lid and durable material that won't shatter when it freezes. Good Luck.
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Yeah I can see your point about the weight. How about a mortar tube? They are much lighter and have a shoulder strap for carrying...or clip it on to your pack. Or if your creative with pvc tube I've seen people do nice things with those. Tupperware type stuff just takes such a beating out there.... Something at least with a screw lid and durable material that won't shatter when it freezes. Good Luck.
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Sounds like a good idea. If it were me I would prefer to use an ammo can in the wilderness though. They stand up to the elements so much better and if it's really out there it's not something that you will be able to maintain too easily. It seems to me that an ammo can in the wilderness really has only one true danger.. that is in accidental find... a tupperware container is also subject to weather and curious or hungry critters. If your already expecting very few visitors then I feel it should be in as durable container as possible so that it doesn't end up to be a long trip to a pile of soggy trash.
Just how I think, though I'm sure plastic holds up some of the time.
Have fun with it.
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Sounds like a good idea. If it were me I would prefer to use an ammo can in the wilderness though. They stand up to the elements so much better and if it's really out there it's not something that you will be able to maintain too easily. It seems to me that an ammo can in the wilderness really has only one true danger.. that is in accidental find... a tupperware container is also subject to weather and curious or hungry critters. If your already expecting very few visitors then I feel it should be in as durable container as possible so that it doesn't end up to be a long trip to a pile of soggy trash.
Just how I think, though I'm sure plastic holds up some of the time.
Have fun with it.
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I flew from NY to Little Rock Arkansas last month and had gps in carry on bag, Used it on a delta flight no problem, no questions. I tell you though all the talk of the hyped up security but I was not impressed. They never looked at our electronics in carryon... gps, digital camera, laptop, palm.. and on the way home I was randomly marked for thorough search. We were bringing back computer parts in our check in luggage and right on the top of my bag was a puter power supply with wires coming out all over the place... the guy checking took a step back from the bag... my boyfriend proceeded to show him that this was a power supply and here was the mother board and chip. The guy checking the bag didn't look any further... said this stuff scared him... "let someone else deal with it"... he zipped up the bag and put it on the belt for loading.
Considering he removed and checked every pile of neatly folded clothes of the mother with 3 yr old daughter ahead of me I found this extremly unsafe judgement on the checker's part. If the stuff made him nervous then he should have called a supervisor or someone else over to check out our story... not that I was looking for trouble... but this was ridiculous.
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Originally posted by PDOP's:Katoth / Elias
Any idea on when this fix will happen??
Sign me
Unhappily using IE
DITTO!!! Explorer is driving me nuts!
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oops...but now reading your post again I see that you are talking about using the TBXXXX # that number gets plugged in as a waypoint to bring up the travel bug page. The number that you need to enter when on the travel bugs page is the number on the dogtag attached to the geosheep.
But this still doesn't feel right. It doesn't look like any of the geosheep have moved since larry left except for the Westward sheep. I dunno... wierd.
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Here is the last post of his I saw before he left http://forums.Groundspeak.com/ubb/Forum26/HTML/000076.html
Maybe this will help convince geocaching.com that he is not available to activate the bugs.
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gypsymoth,
If my memory serves me correctly Larrycott was called into the reserves for service right before he turned his hitchiking sheep into travel bugs. It looks like he may have forgotten to activate the travel bugs before he left? Maybe an email to geocaching.com could help... possibly they could activate the tags since Larrycot is more than likely out of the country and appears not to have internet access. He had expressed his concern before he left and that's why he attached the TB tags, in hopes that they could travel without his intervention... before that he had quite an extensive site for tracking his hitchhikers and I bet he'll be real dissappointed when he gets home to see that they haven't been able to travel
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gypsymoth,
If my memory serves me correctly Larrycott was called into the reserves for service right before he turned his hitchiking sheep into travel bugs. It looks like he may have forgotten to activate the travel bugs before he left? Maybe an email to geocaching.com could help... possibly they could activate the tags since Larrycot is more than likely out of the country and appears not to have internet access. He had expressed his concern before he left and that's why he attached the TB tags, in hopes that they could travel without his intervention... before that he had quite an extensive site for tracking his hitchhikers and I bet he'll be real dissappointed when he gets home to see that they haven't been able to travel
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Wow this is the first I've heard of this. I did come upon a freshly dead deer a couple of months back here in NY but had heard nothing about this at the time. Is this a nationwide epidemic?
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You should be able to edit the message when logged in... look for the "what type of log" button and click on the Found it selection. Good Luck and Happy Caching!
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There actually is a cache within the West Point Grounds, passed security check at gate. It appears to have been placed by cadets. It comes up 3rd on my nearest cache watch list all the time but I haven't braved that one yet. I was pretty intimidated taking pictures of TB Army guy 2, outside of the gates back in October.. doesn't seem Kosher to me these days to be walking the grounds with a gps. I hesitate posting this though as I'm not looking for the cache to be pulled. Timing just isn't right these days....but I'd love to have an excuse to wander the grounds there someday. Haven't been there since I was a kid.
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Garbage bags give me the overall desire to trash out the cache.
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If you contact the owner of the Travel Bug they should be able to retrive it then log it into the cache. Good Luck!
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I agree that it doesn't really matter to me whether or not I have a copy tag....as for design though I would like to see clearer directions for logging written on the tag.
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4.75 here ..Good Luck...hope you find the problem.
I went away for the weekend... left at 5 pm est on the 23rd and the forums were ok then... sometime after that the problem started.
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Found it interesting to see this topic today.Let me start this by saying that I had seen this cache in the catskills back when the rangers first lifted it. The talk in the forums back then was leaning towards caching being illegal in Catskill State Park.
This past weekend I was up North around Oneonta area checking on the very first cache I had placed a year previous at Gilbert Lake State park. I spoke with the ranger while I was up there and he filled me in on some interesting NYS parks history this past year with geocaching.
I believe the cache that Brian Snat is speaking of here may be the cache the ranger told me about. It seems there was a cache placed in a restricted area on a cliffside that the parks people got upset about. My ranger then received a notice from the state for all state parks to check the geocaching site to see if there were caches placed in their parks. That is how my cache was discovered by the ranger. It was the first cache I'd ever placed and I didn't know better at the time. Since then I've been trying to go the authorization route but it's not a quick or direct road.
The ranger at Gilbert Lake State Park told me that my cache caused quite a stir.... there was talk of fines being issued and he spoke of a special permit but did not ask me to apply for one. He said that at the time he told the state that the area this cache was in was fine and he saw nothing wrong with it remaining. He actually was the first to sign into the cache log book, and checked on the cache again on Labor day weekend, he enjoyed reading the logs and I saw genuine concern on his face when I told him the cache had disappeared since his last visit and was in a new location now.... "but that log book was priceless" he said.
Well it was Memorial Day weekend this past weekend and the office was a mob scene as we were trying to discuss this so I plan on following this up with a letter to the ranger to try to clear up the special permit question.
I have currently got a request into the state parks regional office here in the Hudson Valley and they have had me on perpetual hold now for a couple of months. I would like to try to work with them to help support the sport but they don't offer a clear avenue for communication. I am going to try to send a letter out tommorrow to my cache friendly ranger and try to get more details from him if they have a policy in place in other areas of the state maybe I can use their info to help speed things along down here. I'll keep you posted about it here in the forums. For the time being though I would consider the Catskill area open for responsible caching requests... they had definite issues with the cache in question. I think the talk back last year may have put some people off the idea of hiding there...I know it did me.
[This message was edited by Ttepee on May 28, 2002 at 06:54 PM.]
Party Bug vs. Travel Bug
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Could this be it? It sounds like it is a dog tag attached to a can opener...ring any bells?