MountainRacer

Well, they do allow muzzle-loaders during a short part of the season. So if you want to hunt with a rifle, you only get one shot and then you have to take a minute or two to reload, 1700s-style. Down with King George!

If your dad wanted to cache often, when the two of you are apart, he would need his own account just to be able to see the coordinates. (Try logging out and then viewing a cache page; only registered users, free or premium, can see the coords.) So for him to be a viable player on his own, he'd need an account just to play. Of course, this doesn't mean he's responsible for logging all of his finds; I know of several players who are in it just for fun, and don't log finds online. There are no rules about it.

I've run across so many snakes at one of my caches that I named it after them, and people still find snakes there all the time. Check out the gallery. Nothing poisonous though, fortunately.

Really, really far. A firearm's "dangerous" range can be much further than its "effective" range, or the range at which it can accurately hit targets. The .30-06, a popular cartridge for an average-sized hunting rifle, will accurately strike targets over a thousand yards away in the hands of a capable marksman. 12-gauge 00 buckshot, one of the most common sizes used when deer hunting with a shotgun, has an effective range of thirty to forty yards depending on the choke, after which it disperses too widely to reliably take game.

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Neat concept, but the rules are pretty clear: to be a cache, a container must have a logbook. You could make your haiku idea an added-on feature of the cache, but it would be considered an additional logging requirement (ALR), and there was recently a rule passed saying that logs cannot be deleted because the finder did not comply with an ALR, effectively making them optional. So if you're OK with adding a logbook and the haiku concept getting skipped some of the time, go with it. If that would insult you, or if you feel it's too far from your original idea, you're out of luck.

There really isn't a reliable way to do what you're asking. Premium members can use pocket queries to search for caches that have the 'off-road vehicles' attribute, but there's no guarantee that cache owners will use these when appropriate. The best advice, as the Dawg said, is to look at the cache map for an area where you know you're allowed to take your Jeep on the trails, and see what there is.

On most caches hidden in New Jersey Wildlife Management Areas, the seeker is warned to wear blaze orange during the fall and winter hunting seasons "or go on Sundays, when hunting is not allowed". This information is no longer correct. While it's obviously a good idea to wear blaze orange in an in-season hunting area to distinguish yourself from a deer, going on Sundays now carries the same risk as any other day of the week, at least during bow season. NJDEP Division of Fish & Wildlife -- 2009-2012 Game Code Amendments Most of that blurb is about the new vote to allow crossbow hunting, but the relevant information appears at the beginning of the third paragraph. So from September through February (bow season in the most permissive zones; see this PDF for exact dates), if you're caching in a WMA, wear your blaze orange seven days a week.

They can, yes. Some people use them to store coins they've activated but not released, as a way to manage their collections without having a personal traveler inventory a mile long. Usually that doesn't happen with TBs, though. More likely, the holder put your TB (and maybe a few others too) into a cache they've just placed. I do this frequently when I hide caches, and it's great for TB owners because it virtually guarantees a rush of seeker traffic to the cache and thus a good chance for the TB to quickly move along.

Hey gang! I'm thinking about throwing another road-trip event, as a spiritual successor to the smash-hit original (if I do say so myself) NNJC Visits Pennsylvania! event. This time, instead of two-hours-plus to West Hazleton and Centralia, the prospective destination is Hamburg, less than 90 minutes from Middlesex County via I-78. Reasons for wanting to go include: -A quick 20+ caches to get your numbers' worth for the trip -The nearest Cabela's to Central Jersey, which I've always wanted to poke around -This travel bug, which would look hilarious sitting outside Fudd's (and which I can't lift to take by myself ) -Lunch at Cracker Barrel, which sports a cache of its very own -For the really daring, the chance to grab a few more caches on the way to this one, at a spectacular vista on the AT at the Berks County highpoint. I'm contemplating a Saturday in early September. Opinions?

You can already do this. It's on the long list of pocket query options. You can search for caches above, below, or exactly at any T/D rating you specify.

Just look at the current "Waiver Priority" column on our main league page, where the standings are. None of use has made any claims yet, so if you were first pick in the draft, you'll be last (#12) in waiver priority.

GC72B8, a virtual cache down the Jersey Shore. Lucy the elephant is six stories tall -- somewhat larger than most ordinary elephants -- and has lived in Margate, NJ, all her life. A few years ago she celebrated her 125th birthday.

Yep, it's you and me in the opener! I picked an unusual tactic this year and skipped RBs in the draft... so by design I got scrubs at running back, but good luck against Brees and Rodgers at QB!

I've seen them in many caches. I would say they're fine, as long as they're unused and still sealed in the packaging. The rules are designed to keep cachers (especially small children) from potential injury via dangerous objects in caches. The ones I've found were in small, sealed plastic packs of three to five, just as they would appear on the shelf of a sporting goods store.

No one bothered to check this guy's numbers? Minimum cache separation (radius) = .1 mi. = 528 ft. Area of a circle = radius x pi. 528 ft. x 3.14159 = 1659 sq.ft. occupied per cache That's such a far cry from "one single cache takes up over 89,000 square feet of space" that I'm inclined to dismiss the rest of his reasoning as grossly misguided. (Yes, I know that circles don't tessellate, so each cache would realistically require a bit more space than the figure I produced, but not fifty times as much space.) There are still an awful lot of nice places out in the world -- which is rather large, after all -- that aren't quite saturated yet. Oh, and it may be viewed as impolite to say this, but maybe he should find a bit more than twenty caches before he goes off making judgements about the state of the caching world.

Wow, talk about dragging one up from the depths.

Not sure exactly what you're asking... you do get more GPS-downloadable information per cache file, thanks to your Premium upgrade (GPX vs. LOC), and the search function with PQs is much more powerful and specific than a non-PM search. If, say you want the GPX files on every cache in your neighborhood -- and it caps you at 500, so you'll get a good many more besides -- run a PQ and put in your home coords as the only constraint. It'll mail you a file that you have to unzip, and then can be placed on your GPS to upload all of the caches returned by the PQ.

Done! Age 22.

If you're a free member, scan down the list of nearest unfound caches to your home coords. You can quickly develop an eye for the bright yellow "NEW" badge on new caches. With a little practice you can tell by the spacing whether or not it appears on the page, so you can choose whether or not you have to scroll down or skip to the next page at a glance. Sadly, yes, I did operate this way for quite a while. If you're a paying member, and you have Verizon, you can do one better than having new listings e-mailed to you: they can come as text messages! PM me if you want the procedure.

I'm in!

Depends on where you are. There are AT shelters, so they definitely allow overnighting there. The site says that "hours vary according to area", and advises you to give the Palisades Interstate Park Commission a ring at (845) 786-2701 for current info.

No one's holding out! We're good to go as of this morning. Excellent. Since everyone's anxious to get going and see what their players are going to be, I might move the draft up to around Wednesday night.

I'm going to set the league to "Draft Ready" status at the end of next week, at which point the computer will run the draft automatically with whatever modified lists the team owners have come up with, or else with the default list. We can't tweak it while the draft is in progress; it's fully automated and once started, you'll only be able to make changes once it's done and you have your initial set of players. Here's the big list again of who's in. If you're on it, you've been sent an e-mail with the league info, so go set up your team! If you didn't get the e-mail or are having technical issues, let me know right away.

Yep! You're the 12th and last to express interest, so the last spot is now yours! Check your e-mail for the link and password. We are now full. Thanks for your interest!