Sileny Jizda
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Sounds good. Will do as informed post haste. Thanks guys.
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It's not our cache. It's also located in a park in a town only 20 miles at best away where we visit at least twice a month. Our checking on it if need be isn't a problem at all. The actual location of the cache is not in an area likely to be muggled by anything other than a nefarious raccoon or determined deer. The previous dnf's on it were due to a poor container I believe and the ammo can we used as a replacement should suffice.
The original owner doesn't seem to have logged on since sometime last year and could well be MIA. Previous finders have cleaned the area and we didn't notice anything around after a good inspection.
We thought at worst we could resubmit but wondered if it would be possible to just 'turn the lights back on' so to speak.
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I was wondering what would the process be for reactivating a recently archived cache if possible? We found it today and replaced the items in question with a more durable, stable, and water tight container. We've had a devil of a time it seems sending a message to our area reviewer as he's not replied to any of our previous requests which has us wondering.
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I think it is a fine line. Some i can see as being dangerous or too much. Others if put together well, wouldn't bother me. For electrical stuff what i was thinking is that if you have to take apart stuff with tools to search- its a bad idea. Here is one that we did that i thought was especially cool. It did have a geocaching sticker on the side of the box which gave it away though.
We found this same cache the same day you did as well. I think we found it earlier on than you did judging from the time stamp. We thought it was that spot right away. The decal verified it as well. If it's a questionable looking cache and has a decal we go for it. If not we look it over cautiously before preceding. As of present date only one cache we held back on because it was part of a memorial in the area. Our personal caches that we've placed only one would make a person think initially and it does get a reaction when opened. However, we also marked it in kind in two locations on the hide to verify it's contents.
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We use Photoshop, a laser jet, and craft store nickels. After all that we just iron on.
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I've got a couple of biggun's planned for our area. One more unique than the others.
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I didn't do clicks when I was in school and I don't do them as an adult. I wore all black before it was cool and long before it was considered 'rebellious'. If I run into a similar situation at an event as you have I most likely won't let it bother me much. People like that deserve to be ignored as much as they ignore others in my opinion. We don't have high cache numbers because we do them as we can and as we can afford to hunt them down. Gas prices are a killer on a limited budget. We like a good hike just as much as anyone else but we like a cache with some originality as well. That's why we chose to place only a few and make dang sure that a person could get some kind of humor out of it. Then again some might not like our sense of humor either.
Bottom line, you can't make everyone happy. There is no sense in trying. Hang with the ones that are worth hanging with. Length of time in a something does garner a certain level of respect however, being an arse will lose it just as quickly.
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I don't get it for some reason. Walked into a heap of it yesterday to show some wood for removal. The guy thought I was nuts out of my tree.
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I agree ink jet printers are far from quality when it comes to prints. The dye-subs I've seen thus far are limited to 4x6 and run between $99-$150 a printer. Far cheaper than bail money. lol
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We had one yesterday in an attempt to be FTF. We looked high and low for the thing without any luck. We found a ton of places where one could have been placed and even one location in particular that stood out as odd and was most likely it but no find. We're waiting to see if it's actually found.
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Out in the field I typically carry either the cards, the brochures, or both. When I went to go get my pictures developed I didn't. While I have yet to be questioned by law enforcement I have been questioned by some well meaning individuals. To which I explained, showed, and even got some interest in geocaching. The guys, or in this case gals, at the lab have seemed overly cautious about other things in the past. Not just the wedding photos or the cache photo's. I have to admit people do seem cautious in this area. I can't count the number of 'suspicious vehicles' or 'suspicious activity' reports in the local paper every week. LOL Too many old ladies watching daytime soaps and court shows I spose with that one. Typically we do our caching during hours that we expect to run into the least amount of people though as well.
I may have a few more developed just to see if they say something again. I'll just remember to have a few cards or brochure on hand.
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Your concerns are valid. I don't think the tinfoil hat comment was directed at you directly necessarily. However, by the same token, you aren't going to simply be cuffed and hauled in over this incident. Worst case you'll get reported and have to answer some questions. LEO's that would handle these types of reports are largely well aware of geocaching.
We take photos in all the time of geocaching....never had an issue.
Here in the past few weeks in our county though we've had several bomb threats made and threats made against students al la WV. Granted, I'm not looking out the window every five minutes for the squad but I do think I should err on the side of caution and just print my own from now on. At this point in my life the last thing I need is jail time over a scrap book. I'd much rather explain my actions in field looking for a cache to an officer than doing so over some photos they may think is questionable. The only one I found in the lot that I would have deemed odd or out of place to have any concern over was the PVC tube cache in the Wilderness Center here in Ohio. Thankfully though, Wilderness Center and Geocache are on the tube and visible.
I do recommend picking up the June copy of Popular Photography & Imaging. The have an article about some overzealous photo lab employees and law enforcement officials. Granted things like that don't happen everyday but there is the possibility.
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To the poster up tops that asked about them having me sign paperwork in a previous incident. I was a photographer for a friends wedding. I use all digital for what I take. I also use Photoshop and have a decent eye for image composure. They assumed because I looked like an average hillbilly I must not be able to photograph work a rip. As a result they copied and filed all the photos and I had to sign a release that verified I was the original artist. They said if someone came up they would have me saying I took them when some other crack would try to take credit.
Right now we're not all that comfortable taking our stuff to the lab anymore. One of the reasons we took them in is that we don't have a dye sub printer at the moment and never really thought we would need one. The average cost of dye-sub is around 29 cents a print. Our photo lab in Wal Mart charges 14 cents a print. A might bit less expensive. However, with this last bit of stuff from them we're inclined to buy a dye-sub and print our own given the dudly dorighters in our lab.
It's not a matter of tin foil hats when your processor, in front of her manager, makes these types of unsettling comments. It's a matter of over-zealous photo lab employees turning people in for otherwise innocent activities. At the end of the day they still haul you off in shiny metal cuffs and you have to go through and prove you're innocent. After reading the article I mentioned in my first post it seriously concerns me given the nature of what geocahers do. After all we go in the middle of nowhere and in populated places hiding stuff. I know it's leagal I don't worry about that. It's the people that are wearing the tin foil hats afraid there is a terrorist behind every corner.
As for my geocaching name.... It's Czech for Crazy Horse. It can also mean Crazy Ride. It all comes down to the translation of it.
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The wife and I ran into an interesting situation in the past few days. We normally photograph and document our finds when we go out and about. When she's done she scrapbooks the entire thing on a page with all of her stuff and photo's. Normally we just used the 'print it yourself' station at the store. A few days ago we opted to let the photo lab do it in an hour since it would be cheaper. First thing that was odd when we went to pick them up the lab lady said, "Ohh your the people hiding tube's." My wife responded that we were geocachers and the photo lab lady didn't seem to have either heard it or didn't understand. The second odd thing was when we left and looked over the pictures they were completely out of order. We ended up dismissing it until I read an article in a magazine I just got from the post office Popular Photography. The article's main premise was about how you could get arrested or worse for what you photograph due to some 'dudly doright citizen' working in a photo lab.
That's when it clicked.
The article talked about local law enforcement and even the FBI has told large photo labs if they see photo's of anything they deem suspicious to send them copies and notify them right away. I began thinking pictures of odd folks in odd places with odd containers seems downright weird to those unaware of us. Some of our photos had pictures with containers like camo painted pipe and such. Now I'm pondering our fate given the dudly doright photo lab people we have. Once they had me sign paperwork to the effect I didn't steal a photo I had taken for a wedding. I do amateur photography.
Do any of you do something similar? Do you have the same concerns in light of recent events of whackjobs doing crazy carp and making videos and photo's?
We're for one seriously considering purchasing a Dye-sub printer for making our own prints.
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I wonder if anyone reading this has ever placed an LPC?
While some I've pondered placing do not have a parking lot but are on the side of the road I'm hesitant because of the attitude towards them. The locations are nice for photography I think because the views are outstanding. Using anything larger than a micro would be pushing it and difficult to hide for the locations. One we've recently adopted takes one to a parking lot of a small park but it is a nice little one that we wouldn't have known existed otherwise.
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My free two bits on this topic is this. We do caches within our physical limitations. We place caches not to hide the he double toothpicks out of them but for something amusing and different. Case in point the one we recently obtained permission for is one that will essentially stair at you and seemingly laugh do to the high traffic. Unlike others this one has eyes.
Keeping in mind the limitations of some a LPC may be the only kind some have access to find. Not everyone is built like a truck and can climb vertical walls to find a cache. Heck, If this thing was around 15 years ago vertical walls wouldn't have been a problem for me. Now a days not so much. I would hate to see something like this limited only to the physically fit. You'd be surprised at the type and number of people I've peaked interest in about geocaching. Many of which most likely wouldn't go above a two star rating. Keep in mind what the first cache was and it's difficulty.
That being said we recently found our first skirt lifter this past weekend. We didn't go out of our way to find it but it was on the way to our destination, different for us, and quick. Would we go out of our way in the future to seek similar ones out? Not likely but I do think they have their place.
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Thanks for the heads up. I guess you could say I'm getting anxious. We just adopted a cache in need of repair and look to place 3 others in the next week. Just waiting on the order to come in to wrap everything up and set them out. I started to wonder yesterday since we didn't get any word if anything shipped or not. Thanks for the heads up.
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Does anyone know any contact information for Oakcoins.com other than the email address? I placed an order last Fri (Mar. 30) and have not received any confirmation that anything has been shipped or any other additional information. I wrote an email sometime yesterday asking about it but have not yet received a response. Is this typical or maybe due to the Easter holiday? Any information is appreciated.
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So far most of the people we've spoken to about it have been upbeat about it. While they don't fully understand it I think they don't rag on us for doing it. For us we look at it as a great hike or exercise.
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How does placing a cache in a cemetery work? Does the age of the cemetery exempt it from permission or are they considered public lands? Just curious. It seems OH has a ton of them around here. I'm just wondering since I recently obtained permission to place 3-4 possible caches in my area from the land owners before placing them. One of them I even asked to place it only after they felt comfortable with restrictions such as access hours and such on the cache.
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Just picked up an eXplorist 400 last night at Wal-Mart for $150 plus tax. Uses usb cable, has power adapter and was able to purchase Mapsend software for an additional $10 online. Used it today and it works great.
One note, ask the cashier to look under the display case. We did and this one was there waiting at the same price as the eXplorist 210 on display. They never had it out because they didn't get a promo model for the case to display. Their loss our gain.
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I'm looking online and can't figure out if the 500 LE comes with the usb cable . Anyone know?
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I'm actually located in the middle of Holmes County. I'm looking at some of the ones you are mentioning as well but I'm still leaning towards Magellan as far as cost and features.
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Those are the same logbooks I've seen. Thanks for the info. ;D If the stash notes were a snake I'd been bit. Those will help a great deal. Thanks for the links.
Okay to put Purell Hand Sanitizer in cache?
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From what we've seen of both wipes and bottles I would say steer clear of it.