jtbrady01
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I grew up in Kokomo and have cached in many of the cemetery's in Howard Co. If I'm not mistaken all of the caches are marked no night caching. Not too many of them are in the ISQ series. I have three cemetery caches myself. One is an ISQ and two aren't. I don't want anyone to cache in the cemetery at night because to much mischief goes on at night with vandalism and I don't want it to be possibly linked to a Geocacher. Not that any one of use would ever do anything like that. Also, like I've stated before most are all posted with regulated hours for visiting. It's just a common courtesy to respect the wishes of a cache owner. If a cache was placed near a business and the request of the business owner was to not have anyone hunt for the cache during business hours. Would my request on the cache page to limit caching between the hours of 8am-6pm be out of the question and left up to the cache hunter to arbitrarily violate? I don't think anyone here was implying that you were violating any rules or laws. Just trying to help clarify things a bit.
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I was going to even add in that some of the smallest cemetery's I've been to have had signs posted that they close at sundown. Which is why the most of the cemetery caches indicate no night caching.
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JTBrady has created the first Wherigo ISQ in Ft. Wayne Indiana!
HAPPY VETERANS DAY!!!!
Those things are not easy to make. Please provide feedback.
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Happy Veterans Day to all Veteran GEOCACHERS IN INDIANA!!
Welcome Home all Nam Veteran GEOCACHERS IN INDIANA!!
GO GATOR GEOCACHERS!!
If the headlights aren't round, it's not a Jeep Cachemobile!
Every day should be Veterans Day.
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Yay! The Fall Picnic. More fun than the Geobash and you don't have to drive as far!!!!
I don't know about the more fun than the Geobash thing. Then again I don't have the fancy camper.
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I'll just copy the main information from the email I received this morning. Plan your caching accordingly.
17 state parks to close for deer reductions
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Selected Indiana State Parks will temporarily close to the general public for controlled deer reductions twice in the coming weeks.
The reductions will take place Nov. 17-18, and Dec. 1-2. The participating parks will close the evening before (Nov. 16 and 30) each of the reductions and re-open the morning after (Nov. 19 and Dec. 3).
The parks that will be closed for both sessions include Brown County, Chain O'Lakes, Charlestown, Harmonie, Indiana Dunes, Lincoln, McCormick's Creek, Ouabache, Pokagon, Shades, Spring Mill, Summit Lake, Tippecanoe River, Turkey Run, Whitewater Memorial, Fort Harrison and Clifty Falls.
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The dogs are cruizin down to Nashville to pick up a few virtuals on the Campus of Vanderbilt U. Go Gators!
They be leaving me here
Jerks!
I love GEOCACHING IN TENNESSEE, don't they know that?
I know exactally how you feel Patrick . The Tiggers are heading to Florida to go GEOCACHING at Disney World and they arent taking me either !! Its Not FAIR!!!
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
See Patrick and Mystery Dog are both travelers. My dog doesn't travel well. He gets sick just a mile or so down the road. So my question is why aren't they taking you? Is there another dog that they are visiting? Something for you to think about.
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I'll be there.
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Fantastic ! Some INDIANA Geocacher('s) made it over to Canada for a great International event this past weekend ... Good to see you made the trip JTBrady !!
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It was well worth the trip. I couldn't stay long enough to get all the Last Chance caches. And I only got 13 of the 29 new caches. So, I guess I have an excuse to go back for next years event.
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Can't wait
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I didn't think I would be posting yet another milestone so soon - but after Amber's birthday run of 3 states and 60 caches in 24 hours only a few short weeks after hitting 200 - I hit 300! I finally got 300 on October 18 after the A to Z cache run!
1000 here I come. My goal would be to get 1000 at 2009 Midwest Geobash. So, do we have a date, a place yet?
Congrats on the milestone. Since I was there I took a photo of the celebration.
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When you use Google Earth to plot a route and save it as a .kml file you can upload it and run it as a Pocket Query. The only control you have is telling it how far off this route do you want the caches to be. The default is .5 miles. So, you are correct in that the Pocket Query does not know what you really want. Now, you can go and look at the results of the PQ and look for the caches that came up. The only draw back is that not all Rest Stop caches will be named "Rest Stop". Normally when I do my travels I will run a PQ for my route and then as I'm traveling I can see what comes up on my GPS at the rest stops and interchanges. That's always an option. As with my prior post doing the hunt and peck method is another option.
I created a public Find Caches Along a Route for you. You can use Lacrosse, Normal, I-90, I-39 as keywords. The route is named "Lacrosse WI I90 to Normal IL I39". Looking it over leaving the default .5 miles and giving it the max 500 caches it is pulling up 105 caches. At a quick glance looks like there are a few that are rest stop ones by the names. However, like I said not all are named such.
Three on the query I've already found
Good luck on your search.
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By far the largest, most influential, and prestigious organization in Indiana is BAGO. It has over twelve thousand loyal members, but membership is by invitation only, at recommendation of three Senior members and voted on by the Membership committee with one year probation. Dues are kinda steep at $300.00 per year, after initial initiation fees, but that includes two free tickets to the annual Hot Dog Bash.
Currently BAGO has about a nine month waiting period, so we would suggest contacting one of the lesser local organizations... Ft. Wayne GEO perhaps. There , you can network (Suck up to) BAGO members.
Still trying to collect dues from me. Born in Wabash and most of my family is buried in Lagro. I know all about BAGO.
Did someone mention Hot Dogs? When are we doing another caching run? I have less than 500 til I hit the 2k mark.
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Oops. Double post
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Here's my $0.02. If all you're wanting to do is the rest stop caches a Pocket Query may not be the best option. Not all caches in rest stops will be named "Rest Stop". Granted you might get the caches to pull up in the PQ if the cache along the route works good for you. My option is pull a cache near by and select the Geocaching.com Google Maps option under Online Links. Then just zoom out a bit and track your route and see what's along the Interstates you are traveling. It might take a little while to do it however, you will be able to narrow it down. I know some of you will say this is to tedious. However, I did this for someone driving from NC to Pittsburgh and it only took about 20 minutes to find rest stop caches.
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what is an ISQ?
Not to step on anyone's toes. Read the Indiana Spirit Quest profile link. It should explain it for you.
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Congrats to caching partners and friends, SixDogTeam, on their 600th hide! Check out GC1H1GM, appropriately named, Number Six-Hundred.
Thanks for all the fun the past few years.
I guess I have another puzzle to ponder. Congrats SixDogTeam. Keep hiding them.
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As far as I can tell the Mad Reviewer only get's this way once the "sauce" get's flowing.
We also have to remember the do other things besides just review our cache submissions. -
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Heading out for my annual birthday cache run, with good caching friends. Hoping to hit 3 states, starting in Indiana of course!
We did it! It was a great time. We even survived Chicago, regardless of what was shouted out the windows. Yes, I know I suggested the comment
. We ended up in Wisconsin. So, I left the Fort at 4:45am Saturday and returned 8:30am Sunday. Pretty crazy but, fun time. To everyone who went thanks. To Amber, thank you for letting me tag along. Now, off to Windy Rock this weekend.
In your defense, JT, the shirt WAS ugly!
I'd also like to thank everyone that tagged along. We had a GREAT group, and the trip was a BLAST! Starting in Indiana, ending in Indiana...just a few states between there!
Jeff, I'm glad you tagged along. It wouldn't have been the same without you there. Besides, who would have been my backseat model for all those pics I "tried" to take!
Any time.
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Also, I HATE HATE HATE to read the logs and find something like:
We drove right up to it and hopped out. My four-year old found it within minutes! TFTeasyC!!
That translated means it will take at least 2 hours of searching for me.
Don't always take these logs to heart. Sad to say this isn't always the case. I have a cache that is still getting logs from a recent MEGA event. I have the log book on my coffee table. No way someone is logging it. Like some of the recent post have said look for something out of the ordinary. If you are caching in the woods more than likely the cache is cover with something or place in a stump or downed tree. Look around. If it was placed in the Summer chances are the tree cover might have interfered with with the coordinates some so, expand your search from ground zero. Urban caches around tall buildings??? Good luck, leave them for a while until you get some more experience under your belt. Best thing, attend a couple local events and see if you can partner up with a cacher and go on a caching run with them. You get the opportunity to meet some fellow cachers and also learn some tricks.
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Heading out for my annual birthday cache run, with good caching friends. Hoping to hit 3 states, starting in Indiana of course!
We did it! It was a great time. We even survived Chicago, regardless of what was shouted out the windows. Yes, I know I suggested the comment
. We ended up in Wisconsin. So, I left the Fort at 4:45am Saturday and returned 8:30am Sunday. Pretty crazy but, fun time. To everyone who went thanks. To Amber, thank you for letting me tag along. Now, off to Windy Rock this weekend.
. We ended up in Wisconsin. So, I left the Fort at 4:45am Saturday and returned 8:30am Sunday. Pretty crazy but, fun time. To everyone who went thanks. To Amber, thank you for letting me tag along.
Puzzle caches are not necesarily puzzles anymore...
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I have the 400t as well. One of the issue I run into is a cache page that is loaded with graphics or is written so long that it is truncated and doesn't fit onto the 400t. It is listed as a Traditional cache. I go out find the cache get home log it. Then get the delete log notice because I didn't take a photograph of myself on some stupid playground toy. When I go back and read the cache page the owner posted a note at the bottom of the cache description stating that they decided to add this additional requirement of the photograph. So, regardless if we have you take a photo or write a specific type of log. Once the review signs off on the cache page the owner can go back and change it up. So, if you're like me and don't always get the benefit of seeing the whole cache page you end up with these delete logs.