Central Valley Cachers

2.6k · November 6, 2002

Jesture is Red Neck spell'n fur Gesture. It's not unlike ''Almonds'' and ''A-monds''. Of course, the difference there would be if they're on the tree or not... 'cause to get them little things off, you have ta knock the ''L'' out of 'em.

[taking out my Bubba teeth...]

Hey! Here's a new point on contention. Why is it that Manteca has zero caches?? Look it up. Zip's there are 95336 and 95337. Now I know where my next cache will be planted. The only thing I need to locate is a Black Berry patch in the middle of a dry wild field with ivy taking over... look in the middle [that's a spoiler]. LOL

Congratulations on 5 cachers now sucessfull on the Centroid of the Tracy Triangle! WHat do you think will happen in Manteca? I can hardly wait!

Bill of Green Achers

"Happy Trails make Happy Tails."

November 6, 2002

Just planted a new cache and lookie where it is. Do you think giving it a hint like "It's very near the posted coordinates" would be pushing it?

If a little Brute Force doesn't work, try using a lot!

1.2k · November 6, 2002

Brute Force is evil ! Evil, I say, evil!

It took me two tries to find his rather ordinary Beyond the Sunset cache, and today his Pump House cache (his first I think) eluded me. I've emailed him about it.

I think Brute should be limited from this point forward to hiding only 5 gallon containers. They must be painted day-glo orange and they need to be sitting on the surface of a black coal field. Putting a flashing yellow light on top would help me too.

Now where's that Manteca cache ?!

Ron

I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

1.2k · November 6, 2002

...this one is just a daily recap...of a bad day!

It all started when my golfing buddy called at 10 am to tell me our 1 pm game was off! Since he knew that yesterday and didn't tell me I was TICKED !

On the other hand I got to go caching! I should have stayed home. I couldn't find Red Dot the second time, I couldn't find Pump House. I burned up all kinds of daylight looking for those two!

I think I have been trying to squeeze too many into a day's time, but getting a late start doesn't help either...before you know it, it's 5 pm and dark.

Still, that new Brute Force cache nearby DOES have some appeal...proving that even a bad day doesn't deter a nutso cacher!

Ron

I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

November 6, 2002

LOL! Much too funny. Yet, the one that I purposely try to make nasty is the one he nails right away.

If a little Brute Force doesn't work, try using a lot!

2.6k · November 6, 2002

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=42333

this one just went out...

but you need this too complete the find...

http://www.geocaching.com/track/track_detail.asp?ID=11147

Probablly approved tomorrow, but I still have the key with me.

george

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

1.2k · November 6, 2002

....since the first finders scored at King Tut's Treasure.

It required cachers to find the two coordinates which were contained in other Egyptian related caches.

Only the GeoCrickets and George of Georockers succeeded. They actually found the coords in two caches and then went on to the other two just to not tip off future cachers. Kudos to them for that!

Anyway, not that many committed cachers around I guess. Several have one of the coords, but not both. So, the priests have revealed all...the coords at this site

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=19913

are the REAL coordinates...go for it if you live in the bay area and are used to hiking.

Ron

Edit: This wasn't originally a members only cache (for 6 months), but it is now, so if you want to see the description you have to be a member.

I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

[This message was edited by Ron Streeter on November 07, 2002 at 02:46 PM.]

5.3k · November 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by Brute-Force:
I knew someone would have a better solution than a whine.

Apparently I am unable to make any point here without being called a whiner.

Perhaps I am one.

Either way, it's not worth it.

[This message was edited by fizzymagic on November 07, 2002 at 01:48 AM.]

1.2k · November 7, 2002

I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

November 7, 2002

Looks like a fun cache George, I'm off to go find it before I have to work. I hope everyone has a dry day. Mike

If it's got wing's, I can fly it!!

November 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by Ron Streeter:
http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/19913_300.gif

__I've never been lost. Fearsome confused so

metimes, but never lost.__

Ron, WHo's this???

If it's got wing's, I can fly it!!

1.2k · November 7, 2002

...wrote a book entitled...How To Win Friends and Influence People.

I bought a numbered copy at a used book store years ago. Today there are Dale Carnegie workshops aimed at the ordinary Joe and at people in business who need to *schmooze* customers into buying. It has some good points.

I know I include myself in needing to re-read it!

Ron

I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

1.2k · November 7, 2002

...I'm confused. See my post at the cache page.

Do I go to the coordinates listed to find the bug, then go from there to the actual cache?

If that is the case and Mike Morris gets there this morning and grabs the key, then I arrive 20 minutes later, the keys are gone and I can't go for the actual cache...like I said, I'm confused. Someone enlighten me.

Ron

I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

November 7, 2002

Sounds interesting. Are you working tomorrow? I have it off. I would like to go caching. You Interested???

Mike

If it's got wing's, I can fly it!!

2.6k · November 7, 2002

So I read an article about a guy that has over 1,000 cache finds (and hid 9 - in his spare time I'd guess). When interviewed, he said he was at something like 1,250. After reading this, the challenge of numbers has long left my already too busy mind.

On the other hand, ''clever'' may never loose my interest. Both George and Ron quickly come to mind when I think about clever. Above is George's Key cache and Ron's King T. Maybe the find frequencies will/have been low but both these guys, along with several other CVCers and thinking outside the box.

My thinking cap off to everyone planting clever caches.

Bill of Green Achers

"Happy Trails make Happy Tails."

November 7, 2002

OK George!!! Where's the bug with the key?????

Mike

If it's got wing's, I can fly it!!

2.6k · November 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by C&MMorris:
OK George!!! Where's the bug with the key?????

Mike

If it's got wing's, I can fly it!!

I have the key still.... You're going to have to wait. I'm going to be placing the bug in another cache in the next couple days, depending on the rain.

Once you have the key, the key contains the coordinates to the first stage.

The first stage has the coordinates to the final cache.

george

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

November 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by georgeandmary:

I have the key still.... You're going to have to wait. I'm going to be placing the bug in another cache in the next couple days, depending on the rain.

Once you have the key, the key contains the coordinates to the first stage.

The first stage has the coordinates to the final cache.

george

http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/39570_500.jpg

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

But did you have to use those coordinates for the cache since it is not at that location? It comes up on our (LO, Mike and mine)first page.

My wife says put a coordinate on it and I'll find it.

2.6k · November 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by Fattuhr:

But did you have to use those coordinates for the cache since it is not at that location? It comes up on our (LO, Mike and mine)first page.

My wife says put a coordinate on it and I'll find it.

It does?? Oh my, how ever did THAT happen?

george

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

November 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by georgeandmary:

It does?? Oh my, how ever did THAT happen?

george

http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/39570_500.jpg

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

Remember two can play that game, for that matter on my PDA your Lovers Leap shows up as well.

My wife says put a coordinate on it and I'll find it.

1.2k · November 7, 2002

...I thought I understood your cache properly, but when I clicked on the link for the bug and saw you still had it, I wondered. I guess I thought you would have placed the bug BEFORE you published the cache page.

Another thought has occurred. It is POSSIBLE (not necessarily LIKELY) that a person could persue this bug and never catch up to it.

Ron

I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

[This message was edited by Ron Streeter on November 07, 2002 at 03:38 PM.]

2.6k · November 7, 2002

I had to publish the cache page so that I could link the bug page to the cache page.

Without the cache page being submitted, I could not have the link on the bug page. I needed the GC number.

Now, the only thing left to do, is decide which cache to put the bug in.

Anyone have a suggestion. I thought about putting it in Test of Genius.

george

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

November 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by georgeandmary:

Now, the only thing left to do, is decide which cache to put the bug in.

Anyone have a suggestion. I thought about putting it in Test of Genius.

george

http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/39570_500.jpg

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

How about putting it in California Redwood

My wife says put a coordinate on it and I'll find it.

2.6k · November 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by georgeandmary:
I had to publish the cache page so that I could link the bug page to the cache page.

Without the cache page being submitted, I could not have the link on the bug page. I needed the GC number.

Now, the only thing left to do, is decide which cache to put the bug in.

Anyone have a suggestion. I thought about putting it in Test of Genius.

george

http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/39570_500.jpg

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

George, How about the Manteca cache that I'm placing this weekend... Black Berrys, Ivy, Dry Grass. LOL

If we had the coordinates, we could just have a lock smith open the lock. But the only way to get the coordinates would be to get the key.

Maybe one of your students has a Geocaching dad that you could give it to and then it would be out for this weekend... Oh, that's right... you do have a student like that!!

Bill of Green Achers

"Happy Trails make Happy Tails."

November 7, 2002

Check out this thread re: the cache that we both recently found. Does this look sorta like something you saw there?

http://opentopic.Groundspeak.com/0/OpenTopic?q=Y&s=1750973553&a=tpc&f=3000917383&m=6540963835&r=8340973835#8340973835

Just Wondering.

My wife says put a coordinate on it and I'll find it.

November 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by georgeandmary:
I had to publish the cache page so that I could link the bug page to the cache page.

Without the cache page being submitted, I could not have the link on the bug page. I needed the GC number.

Now, the only thing left to do, is decide which cache to put the bug in.

Anyone have a suggestion. I thought about putting it in Test of Genius.

george

http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/39570_500.jpg

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

Do it!

If there is something to B17ch about I'll make sure you're the first to know.

November 7, 2002

Is it just me or are there no more cache sizes on the GeoCaching webpage anymore?

If there is something to B17ch about I'll make sure you're the first to know.

November 7, 2002

They just all came back.

If there is something to B17ch about I'll make sure you're the first to know.

1.2k · November 7, 2002

...Durn, aisle half to git out my Buck Jones Roket Sigh-ence 101 book agin!

Jeb (a lowly dum cluck of a vali casher)

I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

2.6k · November 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by Ron Streeter:
...Durn, aisle half to git out my Buck Jones Roket Sigh-ence 101 book agin!

Jeb (a lowly dum cluck of a vali casher)

__I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.__

It's getting kind of old.

george

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

1.2k · November 7, 2002

...it may be old, but some people still appreciate it as witness the emails I get about it. But, as I said America is great, freedom of speech is great and everyone has an opinion.

Ron

I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

2.6k · November 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by Ron Streeter:
...it may be old, but some people still appreciate it as witness the emails I get about it. But, as I said America is great, freedom of speech is great and everyone has an opinion.

Ron

http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/42095_400.gif

__I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.__

Everyone's gone one........ etc etc.

george

Just expressing a little freedom.

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

1.8k · November 7, 2002

Nice LITTLE cache you placed there in Livermore, I like um close to home . So when ya coming back?

Pepper

Horizontals where it's at!

1.2k · November 7, 2002

...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms-- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost.

November 7, 2002

Soon, real soon. I pass through your area quite frequently. May even be there tomorrow. Did I at least make you wonder about that thing?

If a little Brute Force doesn't work, try using a lot!

November 7, 2002

I thought that's what they say about excuses. If opinions are included, that make 3 things we all got.

How about placeing that bug in Merced? I'll be gone other directions both days this weekend and won't get the chance to find it. Get some activity going on down here. If fact, Sat afternoon, I'll be up at Don Pedro. Going to use my GPS to test my buddys boat speed. It's a V drive, I'm guessing 80 and yes, it does scare the heck out of me. Hmmm. Treasure Island.....Anyone stopping by and sees the boat might get a lift across.

If a little Brute Force doesn't work, try using a lot!

2.6k · November 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by Brute-Force:
Hmmm. Treasure Island.....Anyone stopping by and sees the boat might get a lift across.

If a little Brute Force doesn't work, try using a lot!

It's a short boat ride or a long walk. I stopped by there last week and found a hole in my kayak. The lake level is really low. It might be a little higher by this weekend.

george

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

1.8k · November 7, 2002

Well if it makes ya feel better to know, I didn't just walk right up the cache it took a minute. That's the first time I have seen that type of cache done, good job.

Pepper

Horizontals where it's at!

2.6k · November 7, 2002

The key goes out tomorrow.

george

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

5.3k · November 7, 2002

No one has mentioned what I think is the best plan for it yet...

Put it in Black Box.

2.6k · November 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by fizzymagic:
No one has mentioned what I think is the best plan for it yet...

Put it in Black Box.

Or the coding cache. I'm surprised you haven't hit that one yet.

george

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

5.3k · November 7, 2002

We were going to hit it last Monday, but it got dark and Jim and Pepper revolted. Next time. I think it's a cool cache.

I got the answer by getting the code to compile. I hear you did it the hard way. I am impressed.

November 8, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by georgeandmary:
The key goes out tomorrow.

george

http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/39570_500.jpg

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

George, Let me know when you go! I'll go with you . Hey!!!! We can do some Muddin also. With all this rain It could be real fun trying not to get stuck in the mud. I will have to use my little 4 cyclinder jeep to pull out your bad @ss bronco

Mike

If it's got wing's, I can fly it!!

2.6k · November 8, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by C&MMorris:

George, Let me know when you go! I'll go with you . Hey!!!! We can do some Muddin also. With all this rain It could be real fun trying not to get stuck in the mud. I will have to use my little 4 cyclinder jeep to pull out your bad @ss bronco

Mike

If it's got wing's, I can fly it!!

I never got the top on the bronco before the rain started. I have it covered with a tarp right now. I'm not man enough yet to do a lot of driving in the rain with no top.

george

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

November 8, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by georgeandmary:

quote:
Originally posted by C&MMorris:

George, Let me know when you go! I'll go with you . Hey!!!! We can do some Muddin also. With all this rain It could be real fun trying not to get stuck in the mud. I will have to use my little 4 cyclinder jeep to pull out your bad @ss bronco

Mike

If it's got wing's, I can fly it!!

I never got the top on the bronco before the rain started. I have it covered with a tarp right now. I'm not man enough yet to do a lot of driving in the rain with no top.

george

http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/39570_500.jpg

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

If you need help with the top. give me a call. Mike

If it's got wing's, I can fly it!!

2.6k · November 8, 2002

I just can't seem to remember where I left my key.

george

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

November 8, 2002

Thanks for putting it so close to me George. I just went and got it. No cops were around. I took Carolyn with me So nobody would think I was cruising. I will get the rest of the cache tomorrow. Mike

If it's got wing's, I can fly it!!

2.6k · November 8, 2002

I just came to the grand realization that the it's no use making it a members only cache since if you follow the bug you'll get to the cache. You just can't log the find if it's members only.

george

Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more.

November 8, 2002

Is caching in the dark with a flashlight while the rain pours down and getting soaked to the skin and then slipping on my butt and taking a mud slide ride down a hill and laughing the entire time a sign of addiction?

If a little Brute Force doesn't work, try using a lot!

November 9, 2002

Brute-Force

Of course it is not an addiction, we are normal and the others are not. Altho, my wife is thinking

about starting a GEOCACHERS ANONYMOUS group in our area. At lease they do not throw us in jail for this addiction. All we do is bore every one around us.

Don

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