Sileny Jizda
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Given they took the time to register on site, pick up the bug, and leave a comment with it I wouldn't be shocked if they faxed the other cache locations to the other local authorities to pick them up as well. I guess we'll find out in the upcoming weeks. I would have thought they had permission myself given the nature of the original container being so large (3-5 gal bucket in the open) the new container was a much smaller ammo can hidden under a dead stump. The thing that got us about the cache was it was rated long before the system cause it had a ranking of 1/1 and we had to go quite out of the way and up a steep incline to find it. The wife even missed it for five minutes when we initially found it. It was one of the better hidden caches we've ever found in the area. A random muggle in the area would have had to had sharp eyes unless it wasn't re-hidden as well.
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Looks like Barney got another one thwarting those devious terrorist geocachers. Funny thing is the container, it's contents, and everything in it looked to be placed by a worker or student given the amount site specific items promoting the Arboretum. Even adding further to the deal was a typical Barney comment, "The bug stops here." for the one TB that was in it. I'm guessing it won't be long before they hunt down the others in Wayne County and dispose of them as well even though the parks district knows and approved them from the placers notes. We'll probably end up reading about it in the Daily Record soon enough. Ohh well.
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You always have two basic choices. Fight or flight. Flight is always best but fight is sometimes necessary. We're always prepared for both.
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Sweet, I had no idea I could do this. I spose I do learn something new every day.
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I use iTunes and a few rca cables to hook my notebook up the front inputs on our tv. Works great every time.
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We're planning on flying international (czech republic) and all our electronics are going with us carry on. We'll be carrying portable hdd, two digital cameras, three gpsr, two ipods, a camcorder, and god knows what else. It'd be a cold day in hell before I trusted any of it to the pick pockets under the plane.
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batteries seem to be the one area that noone can agree upon. I like the Lion's in the explorists as well, but others will make their purchasing position based soley on the use of standard alkaline batteries like the AA.
actually, the eXplorists let you (us) have both. which was nice...
That was a great option for everyone. Why they wouldn't do it for these newer models is beyond me. An led flashlight won't exactly eat through batteries. As an MP3 player it'd depend if it was flash memory or minidrive.
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I'm not digging the AA battery thing. I've become used to tossing the 400 to charge and AA's are hell to keep up with. I can't say I've had much luck with rechargeable AA's either.
I disagree. My camera, gps, & flashlight in my pack all use AA batteries and I much prefer them all to use the same power source. I used to hate rechargeable batteries too until I understood why they sucked when I went to use them. Normal rechargeable batteries loose up to 1% of their charge every day they sit.... so you need to charge them up before you head out.
The new Hybrid rayovac batteries hold 80% of their charge after 6months, so there is no need to recharge before you head out. I also still use some regular 2500mAh energizers, I just make sure they have a fresh charge before hand.
You also can't forget AA batteries can be bought almost anywhere, even at some backwoods country store.
My biggest complaint with regular AA's that can be picked up anywhere is the time they last and ease of disposal. Some just toss them out as fast as they get them leading to landfill problems. A rechargeable like the one we use in our 400 seems to last twice as long and regular batteries and can be reused. The rechargeable AA's cost a bit more and always seem to konk out after heavy use. One of my reasons why I'll never buy another digital camera with AA's. The Canon G2 I've had for years still has the original rechargeable and works fine after about 5 years now. We only have one other rechargeable for it as a backup. I'll have to look into the hybrid option for the other camera we use. However it'll be like pulling teeth to talk the wife into getting more rechargeable considering what we've spent over the years on others with poor performance.
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We've been beat to the punch on a few locations but it's all about timing. In our home county it's really wide open so it's not too much of a problem.
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We've watched him and think it's funny and informative. We usually download a few at a time and watch them on tv (notebook hookup to tv) and get a good laugh. I wonder how hard it is to make sure his head is just in the way of where the cache is hidden? lol
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I'm not digging the AA battery thing. I've become used to tossing the 400 to charge and AA's are hell to keep up with. I can't say I've had much luck with rechargeable AA's either.
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To list a Retail price that not many if anyone is going to actually charge, particularly if Magellan lists the same price Tiger is charging, is somewhat deceptive. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone that charges retail on anything these days. When it comes to retailers that use that typical type of 'advertising' I tend to shy away. Mainly because if they feel they have to make it appear that I'm getting some sort of exceptionally large savings when in fact they are charging no more or less than anyone else it calls into question everything they do from my way of looking at things.
List the rate you charge without the overinflated Retail many if any don't charge and I'll give a second look. Discount from the average charged price you'll have my attention. I shop smart with research, not by impulse on high ticket items.
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The wife is an ER RN Nurse. Soon to be a Med Surg as well. After that she has another group of letters to add to those. Thinking of calling her alphabet soup.
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LOL, I would but I'm in Holmes County.
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I've looked over the entire park rules and regs for the park we were in yesterday (Mohican State Park) and still can't find anything where it would have prohibited us in any way from entering the park to look for geocaches that were hidden there. No fees, restrictions, or concerns unless I just totally overlooked something.
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Funny how they list retail price, cross it out, then place the same price Magellan is planning to charge. Really who charges retail anymore? Charge more than Magellan you know where I'm buying.
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We had our first LEO encounter today. While going into Mohican State Park in Ohio the driver we had made a grievous mistake in his zeal to find the first cache... speeding 8 mph over the limit. Second mistake... leaving the DL in the other vehicle back home. Our third mistake, (stupid us), assuming that we as taxpaying citizens would even be allowed to go into a free (no fee) state park and of all things... hike and look for geocaches. I can understand the speeding bit, it's dangerous. A legit gripe. Not having a DL, even more legit. But when he popped an attitude and asked what we were doing there (I'm bald guess we fit the profile of a rolling meth lab), and we answered that we were going to hike a few trails and find a couple geocaches he said, "Well, now that's going to be a problem." He then asked how we even got past the gate (they asked, we told, they let us in), and said they shouldn't have even let us into the park! Then using the best Barney Fife belt adjust he could muster he said well, I guess since they let you in it's okay. The way he was acting you'd think we needed to have a permit (we didn't), or pay (we didn't), or had to be wearing black tie and slacks to get into a state park. The caches were placed with permission so it's obvious they know the locations but this LEO was trying to act like a bouncer at a high profile night club. Will it dissuade us in the future. Nope. Will I have the park rules and regs printed before hand. You bet your arse. If confronted again I'll politely ask where in the rules we're not allowed to perform a legal activity looking for legally placed items, in our tax funded state park.
As for the day of caching we got whipped something bad but it was a blast.
Just wanted to let you all know that the rent-a-cops are just as serious as the "real cops."Having had friends that have performed these duties the ones I've known and it's alot I wouldn't trust with a potato gun much less anything else. The most dangerous thing they carried was a flashlight, Barney Fife attitude, and flawed sense of the law at best. Others we've encountered tried doing the typical you look suspicious we're going to search you bit only to walk away disappointed because we've told emm you try you get sued for unlawful search. If you notice most places like Best Buy and the likes with their rent a cops have since stopped the practice due to lost cases in the court system. Show me a badge that looks like it was picked out of a cracker jack box and you'll get no more respect than any other working man on a job. Show me a bona fide shield you'll get the respect due it.
The game warden today, had the higher respect even though he gave us a Barney attitude. Unless a fellow Ohioan can point out where we messed the pooch about going into a state park looking for cache I honestly don't see his justification for the attitude. We were respectful, addressed him as sir, and asked questioned he didn't answer. To his credit he didn't ticket our driver.
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We've just started caching with our new neighbors and they are great. Since they are new to the game we've done our best to try and teach them what we learned early on and from our mistakes as well. Thus far we've walked to the cache location and normally, the wife and I find it right off but we usually tell them to look. Usually we'll tell them to look for something out of place or that doesn't seem right. Usually right away they pick it out immediately without prompting exactly where. We had fun on our first outing today except for the bushwhacking jont up a steep incline because they wanted to follow an arrow instead of a trail. I was whooped.
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In most of the situations (no-caching) where I've had a rent a cop get all Barney on me and I challenged them to call the law they either flat out refused or walked off in a huff. Thing I learned about them is they hate being made a fool of in front of an actual LEO and won't take that chance.
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You weren't leaving a sale vehicle, you weren't parking overnight, you didn't park in either the red zone or a yellow curb. I'd politely told him to call emm and we'd see how it all washed out. I'm betting he'd come up wanting. They want to get real picky about it, send someone in the store to buy a coke. Most rent a cops don't have an education high enough to spell most of the words on the paper much less read and comprehend what they are trying to 'enforce.'
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We're looking at getting something in color. We were considering the 500 from Magellan since we've had great luck with the brand. Complaints about customer service fall on deaf ears with us because most customer service comes out of India or Pakistan and sucks rotten eggs anyway.
We were thinking of the Garmin model with color,large screen, and electronic compass until we read about the Triton series. This looks like it's a good unit overall and I'm looking forward to seeing it. As for the touch screen I'm in the air on it. Durability doesn't frighten me. Having worked in an aluminum extrusion plant for 5 years, ten years ago, and working with touch screens I've seen them exposed to everything and then some. Extreme heat (150 degree), oil, graphite dust, water, humidity, dirt, grime, shock, constant vibration, and shock. If they lasted that well back then I can only imagine the improvements. Consumer models while slightly less rigorous would most likely do well enough.
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After the self-sealing pouches failed miserably for me, in early 2005 I purchased a cheap laminating machine at Wal-Mart. "Duck" is the manufacturer of both the machine and the packages of laminating sheets. For around $40, as I recall, I got both the machine and a large supply of sheets in assorted sizes, for everything from stash notes to multicache clue cards to travel bug goal cards. I'm nowhere close to running out of lamination sleeves, and I've never had a problem with anything I've laminated.
We use this as well and it works great for us. Even after getting beat up in the Librarian.
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In our larger caches we use regular spiral bound notebooks with a ziplock bag. Our stash note I made on a scrap booking program the wife uses and we laminate it. For smaller cache hides we make our own logbook out of waterproof paper for laserjet printers from Staples. We figure at least then we can make it the size we need with no waste so far they've worked great. The only exception I've seen is with gel writer pens. They do maintain on paper but they will smear if not allowed to dry.
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To classify it is fine with me. It'd clear up the difference in size between a film canister so we'd know what to expect. I know some places around my hometown that look interesting and would be to some others that would work better with a nano than a film canister. Yes, changing the logs is a regular task but that comes with anything.
Barney got another one.
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Yeap, takes class to post, "The bug stops here." playing on the old saying, "The buck stops here." I bet he laughed himself to hysteria thinking that one up. I did find the patch a twisted sense of humor as well. I never implied they hate geocaches either. Just knowing how most law enforcement in the area act, going after other locations wouldn't surprise me. Don't get me wrong we do have a couple good ones around but most seem to be on an egotistical power trip at times. I lost count how many times we were followed for having out of state plates after moving up here from Texas. Changed plates and they ignored us like most of the people running red lights in downtown.
Here's another that popped up today with a whopper of a log entry in the book...
All The Balls...
Lucky for the owner of the geocoin someone picked it up and placed it in another cache where we retrieved it. Wonder what other kind of odd log entries are out there in caches that get mugged.