bushwhacking stick

[+Too Tall John]

Contrary to popular belief, the earth will not shrivel up and blow away if a few seasonal weeds are bushwhacked...

Even if I were 100% sure you were correct I'd have to take issue with your statement. Since we are dealing in "popular belief" if geocachers start going around beating bushes with sticks, the perception (popular belief) of geocachers will be that of hack-and-destroy tree killers. Let's not give landowners any reasons to ban our little game.

 

Bushwhacking - the #1 way to cause unnecessary wear & tear on a perfectly good hiking staff.

[knowschad]

If you mean to literally whack bushes back with a stick, I think you should come up with a better idea. That's all we need is for a park ranger seeing a geocacher doing that. We try to make this a low impact sport - or at least we should.

 

Oh, but it is okay to steal sticks from beaver dams !

Yes, I can see that, after all, there are many more beavers and beaver dams, than there are bushes and leaves...

 

The rangers go out with dynamite and blow up beaver dams. I don't think they'd mind someone taking a stick or two from one. Besides, ever hear of the phrase, "busy as a beaver"? There is a very good reason for that phrase.

[knowschad]

I'm not so sure that it's truly bad for nature. Nature is resilient. The damage caused by one person whacking bushes with a stick is minimal and temporary.

 

It certainly is bad however for perceptions about our sport.

 

Amen to all points! Nature can literally eat up a city in 100 years, as anyone that's seen a ghost town can attest. One over-critical environmentalist can eat up geocaching in a second, as anyone that's been around geocaching for long can attest.

[+GClouse]

I am preparing an hiking staff using a wooden flagpole. I need to add a set of reticulations to it so it can be used as a range finder. I think the range finder function will be useful for caching. it is used like this: hold the staff horizontally with both hands at arms length. Close your left eye and line up the right side mark with a target object. While holding the stick steady, open the left eye and close the right. The target will line up with a mark to the left of the original, indicating the approximate distance to the target object.

 

Various uses for a hiking staff include pushing aside thorny vines. providing extra stability pm slippery and uneven surfaces, checkin the depth of small streams and of course, as a walking stick.

[+Too Tall John]

Various uses for a hiking staff include pushing aside thorny vines. providing extra stability pm slippery and uneven surfaces, checkin the depth of small streams and of course, as a walking stick.

I think my hiking poke came in most useful the time the bear charged me. I waved it around over my head to try and look bigger. I guess it made the bear think, 'cuz it sat down and watched me for a couple minutes.

[knowschad]

Various uses for a hiking staff include pushing aside thorny vines. providing extra stability pm slippery and uneven surfaces, checkin the depth of small streams and of course, as a walking stick.

I think my hiking poke came in most useful the time the bear charged me. I waved it around over my head to try and look bigger. I guess it made the bear think, 'cuz it sat down and watched me for a couple minutes.

 

Must've been a black bear. A grizzly would just think it made you look more like an hors d'oeuvre.

[+Too Tall John]

Various uses for a hiking staff include pushing aside thorny vines. providing extra stability pm slippery and uneven surfaces, checkin the depth of small streams and of course, as a walking stick.

I think my hiking poke came in most useful the time the bear charged me. I waved it around over my head to try and look bigger. I guess it made the bear think, 'cuz it sat down and watched me for a couple minutes.

Must've been a black bear. A grizzly would just think it made you look more like an hors d'oeuvre.

Thankfully, there are no grizzlies in NH.

 

In response to GClouse's post again:

 

They also make great probes when you're looking for a cache in a hole.