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And isn't the event for the dinner. The dinner doesn't require a boat.

Hmmm, was that your gold Rubicon that I parked by at the gate yesterday?

What, no one has mentioned rocketbiker's 2000 and MoonTaner's 100th at Cherry Lake Falls? Congrats guys!

Snohomish county GIS viewer King County GIS viewer Also King County static section maps

Speaking on Lord Hill and maps guess what area Delorme chose for their screen shots for thier new pn-20 GPS?

I don't get it, the Fry's salesboy told me the same thing as Best Buy. That the update is the full version. How can that be right when they are selling it for $70 and everyone else is buying it online for over $100? My 60CX came with nothing but Base Maps so I need a full LICENSE, not an update license.

I think it was $109 at Best Buy today. Then the guy tells me it was on sale last week for $79 or $89. I'm waiting for the next sale! Update: That price was for the update. After reading through the forums, contrary to what the salesboy told me, means you have to already own an older version of CN to use the update.

How about topo? I also have a 60cx and just got Natl Geographic's Topo! When I read the box it says you can download to a Triton and says you can print geocaching maps. However, it doesn't say anything about downloading the topo maps to a Garmin. I don't want to open the box until I know I can download maps to my GPS. Anyone know if you can?

Dear Editor— I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there are some bad geocachers. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, are geocachers good? Virginia O’Hanlon Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, geocachers are good. They exist as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no geocachers! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in good geocachers! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No good geocachers! Thank God! they live and will live forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, they will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"

Boy, before I got to your last statement I had a really wierd image of your friend in Iraq without pants. I wear nylon zip-offs for hiking for the reasons already stated. For crashing through the brush I simply cover them with gaiters. They're like the half-chaps but also protect your shoe laces and keep stuff from getting in the top of your boots. For example sand, dirt, pine needles, pebbles, and water to some degree. I am in an organization that is a little behind the times and thinks that rubberized rain gear is for bushwhacking. Wrong!

It's also very popular, you better make reservations now.

For the teckies that care: Nowadays corporations, at a minimum, have to protect themselves against hostile workplace lawsuits and to try to prevent pornography form being downloaded onto their computers. Many also want to keep their computers operational and their data confidential so they have to address malicious code coming from the web. The next level is trying to limit employee productivity loss by limiting web access to business use only. Since it is expensive to maintain the filters used to this end companies out-source the filter list management to firms like Websense. Websense categorizes web sites as best they can and sell the lists to corporations. The corporation then decides which categories to block. I think most will block the Malicious site category. Like Vinny said GC.com got into this category because Websense somehow detected it contained some exploitable code and Elias was going to check into it. So Websense must have re-checked the site and put it back into it's normal category. I don't think it will matter much if that category is hobby, game, sport , or travel since most companies do not take filtering to that level.

It depends on the method and schedule that your proxy server uses to load the black list from WebSense. Like admo1972 said give it a day for your proxy to get the updated blacklist without GC.com included.

I think this is a great atitude and I appluad Ohjoy! for offering! One thing about the parks email, that was probably just a slip, still bothers me. The park is owned by the citizens of Seattle, not the parks department. They only manage the resource. Sorry I just had to say that.

Yeah, but recently the hometown folks are bringing in water for the cattle and the dear all have blue tongue. We just need to shift some of this rain back to the midwest. Just not too much.

I wonder what the WebSense guy was smoking? I guess I'll ask for our guys to whitelist GC.com Perhpas some big account pressure will result.

Actually, I did. I bet you're in Heath, Ohio. BTW, our employer lets us surf from work on our own time (e.g. lunch). I think that we use websense too.

I can't find the A650 on the Costco site. What are they asking for it?

I work for a very large northwest aerospace firm (that I won't name ) and got the message below today. I don't think we blocked any new categories so it must be some new code that was added. ACCESS DENIED The external Web site you have requested is blocked due to additional virus filtering. URL: http://www.geocaching.com/my/ Filter Category: Malicious Web Sites;Security PG Company name blocks web site categories that contain inappropriate content, those that contain malicious code, and those that provide services that may be unsafe to the Company name network and or its resources. Virus filtering is implemented any time a website has been compromised. When the site is no longer infected the block will be removed and access to the site will be restored. If you think this site has been blocked in error, please contact Security Monitoring and Response via email:Click here, explain if business impacting.

There is a "cool" outhouse up on Granite Mountain. It has a great view too.

I also heard that the fire hydrant and ladder were removed. Anyone got an extra one of those? You probably should use a metal post with a concrete base. Still up for it?

my bad They looked the same and were constructed the same. I put the dang thing there and it sure looked like the bridge to me. First I'd heard about a road closure further back. But it does remind me that I have some cache page updates to make.

Well there's always the WSGA Christmas Party. Oh crap not PC, make that the WSGA Holiday Party.

Updated the calendar and added the Cache Machine. Thanks for the heads up. Dec 29 is a WAGA event? Haven't heard about it and don't see it on the events calendar. Someone want to clue me in? Official event or just a get-together? WSGA Christmas Party

So far I've been loving these two points. And the bugs. Lots less of them too. =) And don't forget about being able to walk on top of the snow right over those nasty bushwhacks.