Digital_Cowboy
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Hey, don't "bogart" that j. Seriously I hope ya disposed of it properly. Uh, IF one were to find another one or something of a similar nature how would they turn it in to the cops without getting busted themselves???
Digital_Cowboy
You don't. Guilty until proven innocent. Better to just grind it under foot in the dirt than to turn it in innocently and then having to hire a lawyer to explain your way out.
Sadly, that is pretty much what I had thought. Myself and everyone I was stationed with over in S. Korea had wished that a SSG who had found one in the transit's barracks had done that. Instead he turned it in and we all got "the plastic cup detail" for our troubles.
Digital_Cowboy
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Yes look for tiny... I logged this one as a DNF the first time, then on the second trip we found it by shear luck... But we are hooked on micros because of the challenge. Good luck
Just found one like that with a friend over in Tampa, only it was a darker shade of green.
Digital_Cowboy
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So this means that just about all Geocachers have been questioned by a higher authority? Hmmm, making me feel a little faint hearted....
I wouldn't go that dar, a i 'm sure most of us haven't been stopped.
Digital_Cowboy
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So this means that just about all Geocachers have been questioned by a higher authority? Hmmm, making me feel a little faint hearted....
I wouldn't go that dar, a i 'm sure most of us haven't been stopped.
Digital_Cowboy
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So this means that just about all Geocachers have been questioned by a higher authority? Hmmm, making me feel a little faint hearted....
I wouldn't go that dar, a i 'm sure most of us haven't been stopped.
Digital_Cowboy
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So this means that just about all Geocachers have been questioned by a higher authority? Hmmm, making me feel a little faint hearted....
I wouldn't go that dar, a i 'm sure most of us haven't been stopped.
Digital_Cowboy
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My garmin also has a geocache mode. It uses geocache icons, with a found or not found mode.
But I understand what you saying. I often wonder that myself. If garmin were to come out with a program such as gsak, i'd be sure to use it. Not to knock gsak in anyway, but with garmins resources i'm sure they would be able to create excellent software.
Earlier this year when I did an upgrade to my eTrex it installed the icons for a geocache and a found geocache. What I'd like to see is an icon for benchmarks.
Digital_Cowboy
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My garmin also has a geocache mode. It uses geocache icons, with a found or not found mode.
But I understand what you saying. I often wonder that myself. If garmin were to come out with a program such as gsak, i'd be sure to use it. Not to knock gsak in anyway, but with garmins resources i'm sure they would be able to create excellent software.
Earlier this year when I did an upgrade to my eTrex it installed the icons for a geocache and a found geocache. What I'd like to see is an icon for benchmarks.
Digital_Cowboy
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When you say you post the coordinates at the cache, do you do that on puzzle or multicaches? I'd delete it as well and ask you to relog without spoilers.
Do you do that on EVERY cache? I'd think you were being ...retentive..., but would not delete it if it were not a spoiler. With the variances in GPS reception at a given point, even the same unit could read different coordinates. If what you posted was within 30', I'd DEFINITELY think you were just being a jerk by posting "my coords are better than your coords" in a log when it is clearly unnecessary, but (sans spoilage) I would not delete it.
That said, it sounds like a little gurkage is bouncing back and forth here. Either work it out with the hider, or don't pursue their caches at all. It isn't worth it to get worked up over stupid things.
Hmm, correct me IF I'm mistaken but don't ALL cache log pages warn that there may be spoilers in the various log entries? And for others to read them at their discretion? So then given that why should cache owner delete any log entry that contains a spoiler?
I would say that the cache owner who puts a "log this find this way or it'll be deleted" has control issues, and should lighten up.
Now then IF it's one of the few remaining virtual caches such as Down by the Banyan Tree . Where one has to send an E-Mail to the cache owner with a certain word or date to prove that they were really there, then that is a whole other "story."
But as I said anything else just seems to indicate that the cache owner is trying to be too controlling. But that's just me.
Digital_Cowboy
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Ok, so I'm still pretty new to geocaching.... but I'm not new to forums, chats etc..... still... I've come across some acronyms that I'm not sure what they mean. I'm sure there are others as well that I've yet to come across. Perhaps if you know an acronym that newbies are going to come across you could post it here so that we neophites could follow what everyone else is talking about.
I'll get the ball rolling...
Could someone please tell me what TFTC stands for?
Thanks!
Happy Caching everyone!
TFTC = Thanks For The Cache
TFTH = Thanks For The Hunt
TNLN = Took Nothing Left Nothing
SL = Signed Log
CITO = Cache In Trash Out
Digital_Cowboy
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Tiny cache. Think 35mm film canister or Altoid tin.
Or even a magnetic key holder as a micro cache.
Digital_Cowboy
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Human excrement. Soft, mushy and smelly. Do I win?
Clearly hard to beat, but we recently found a pair of dirty surgical gloves (with holes in them) and half a marijuana joint
Hey, don't "bogart" that j. Seriously I hope ya disposed of it properly. Uh, IF one were to find another one or something of a similar nature how would they turn it in to the cops without getting busted themselves???
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But see, this doesn't really matter because cows are not NATURAL animals like deer.
Cows only exist in the quantities in which they exist because we ignorant anti-nature meat eating humans breed the darn things in mass for our disgusting anti-environmental and evil cannibalistic carnivorous habits.
I s'pose the same environmentalists that want us to get rid of our automobiles to reduce "greenhouse gasses" would like to see us destroy all the cows and plant rainforests in their place.
Thw whackos would have us living in caves and eating defenseless grass, if indeed we are worthy to exist at all.
CC,
Where the extremest environmentalists are concerned I can't help but remember a good old saying:
Everything in moderation.
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-geo trails yes deer and other creatures make trails. However humans have the brain compasity to relize that there createing a trail and the impact it can cause. Deer don't
I'm always impressed by the intelligent use of terrain by the local deers and cows. I sometimes follow their paths when there are no established human trails available.
I wouldn't underestimate the brain capacities of "other creatures." I agree that we (as humans) don't really have good reasons to go off trail, because we tend to get lost... so much for OUR brain capacities.
In an earlier post in this thread someone mentioned something about greenhouse gases. I wonder how many of the so called environmentalists know or realize that cows are one of if not the "dirtiest" animals alive? In that they annually produce more greenhouse gases then most automobiles. I can't help but wonder what the next dirtiest animal is.
Digital_Cowboy
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I'd like to know what your permit entails too. Does it just cover you or a group?
Sometimes I wonder where it will all end.
$5.00 for swimming?
$2.00 for frisbee playing?
$8.00 for fishing?
$10.00 for picnicing?
$25.00 for hunting?
$40.00 for camping?
$3.00 for sandbox use?
You raise some very good points. Sadly in a lot of areas we are getting nickeled and dimed to death/poverty. And one has to ask when/where does it all end???
And as it's also been pointed out don't these "anti" this or that people realize the good that the majority of a given group actually do? Yes, sadly as has been pointed out there are some bad apples, but (again sadly) one will find bad apples in any group.
Digital_Cowboy
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I think the most expensive thing I've seen would $20 bill (twice) and new unactived TB tags. They weren't FTF prizes, just things left for the next finder.
So far the only thing I've found is $0.15 in a micro-cache.
Digital_Cowboy
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Where were the sidewalks with painted bike lanes?
Everywhere you go in Tokyo. Also quite a lot in Berlin although, in typical German style, instead of temporary paint they often use a different pavement surface to identify the bike lanes - more permanent
.Cool, I only flew through Japan on my way home from S. Korea a "few" years ago. Didn't have enough time to do any sightseeing.
Herman
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4 or 5 miles is a quick little jaunt on a bike
True enough depending on the time of day. Later in the day/evening when it's getting darker it can prove to be dangerous, esp. with inattentive drivers out on the road who are too busy yaking on their cell phones and NOT paying attention to their driving.
Digital_Cowboy
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Not at home but I sometimes do when travelling. I recall Brussels and Boston where I used public transport and Berlin where I rented a bike. For Tokyo I had taken a folding bike with me on the plane which worked great as you can take it on the subway and the sidewalks have bike lanes painted on them too.
Sounds like you had a good outing. Where were the sidewalks with painted bike lanes? Some of the streets here in St. Pete have 'em, but sadly not enough in my opinion. I think that it was passed that when streets are widened that they have to included a bike path, but I'm not sure on that.
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When I did my first cache I did that, had a multi where the second part was several miles away.
But, im a bus driver, so both parts were on the same route.
I'm not sure how many cachers ride the bus or bike, but I have run across one while driving.
I forget the name, but he put his bike on the rack and boarded my bus with a gps, so I asked them what they used it for. I think the response was something like just playing around, so I asked if they ever heard of geocaching and he said he was a geocache.
He also turned out to be a HAM, when I mentioned i use mine for both geocaching and APRS he showed me his HAM HT.
I know theres several caches at or around bus stops, so I too wonder how many cachers get around that way.
Nero,
Thanks it's nice to hear that I'm not the only one who caches using either or both a bike or bus for transportation to a cache site.
On the cache that I'd mentioned, had I gone out earlier in the day I might not have been put off by the distance, but it was getting close to dusk and I didn't want to be out on the rode on a bike too much after the sun had set. As even with a well lit bike we're still pretty invisible to most "cagers" err motorists. Case in point I was going to a neighborhood pub/eatery "burning" not one, or two 12 volt headlights but three. Two mounted to my handlebar and one mounted to my helmet. And this "fool" starts to pull out with ME in the road in the middle of the driveway. . .
Had I "hit" my breaks the car would have "T-boned" me, fortunately I don't give into panic. There was a gal there with her boyfriend/husband/whatever and I heard her comment (and I think she was a little surprised) that even with all my lights the fool driving the car almost hit me. Sadly I don't think that she really knows just how close that bloody fool came to hitting me.
As I would have been able to put my hand on their cars "bonnet." Or had I wanted to kick their grill I would not have been able to do so because I would not have been able to move my foot in anyway other then pedaling my bike forward.
Digital_Cowboy
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Paper towels (to dry things out), a new log book, new pencils to leave, duck tape for misc repairs, a new container or 2 for things in real bad shape. Plastic bags etc......
StarBrand,
Thanks for the list, although I think that ya meant duct tape and not duck tape. ;-)
Digital_Cowboy
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I was wondering approximately how many geocachers out there who don't drive and rely on either public transportation and/or a bicycle for their transportation? I ask because not too long ago I'd gone out on a multi-part cache, and when I got to the third part of the "local" sites and "found" the coords for the prize it was around four or five miles away.
In the description of the cache the hider said "now you have to get in your car and go for a little drive." I'm sorry, but when one doesn't drive and relies on either (or both) a bicycle and public transportation four or five miles is hardly a "little drive." Especially when stops to consider that public transportation isn't likely to be the most "direct" route to the end of the hunt.
Digital_Cowboy
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I'm sure that it varies from person-to-person, but what makes up a cache repair kit?
Digital_Cowboy
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I'd like to apologize for all of the repeated posts. I was using my PPC and even though more then 15 seconds had passed it kept telling me that I was trying to post within 15 seconds of my last post.
Digital_Cowboy
I wouldn't underestimate the brain capacities of "other creatures." 
Police
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After reading your log if it had been me, I would have insisted on getting the officer's name and badge number and filing a complaint with his superiors. You told him why you were there and what you were doing. Had you known about the fire happening before you'd gone out in the area?
Regardless of whether or not you knew about the fire he had no right/call to treat you the way that he did. Not to mention how do we know that even though he now knows what geocaching is that he isn't going to treat the next cacher harsher?
It also kind of reminds me of something that recently happened to me. I was riding home from a local seafood restaurant.when I think that I stumbled on a police stakeout. He used his hand to signal me to turn off my headlights, as I was doing a pretty good job of lighting him up. I guess IF he'd wanted to be a hardass about it he could have busted me, although I don't know on what charge.
Digital_Cowboy