Smelly Mo Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 Hey...I found some intrepid 'cachers who made a trip to Iraq. Presents its fair share of challenges, I'm sure...talk about your testy locals! Go here to see a picture I found. Tell me what kind of GPS unit this is: http://community.webshots.com/photo/69065155/69065223soVrvk Quote Link to comment
+Donnacha Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 Iraq has now been removed from the country list, but when it was there there was one geocache in Iraq! I am not overly concerned Quote Link to comment
+phantom4099 Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 Looks like a member of the garmin gps 12 family of products (plain, xl, map, maybe a color one (doubt it)). Wyatt W. The probability of someone watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your actions. Quote Link to comment
+Moore9KSUcats Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 I don't know how many of you watch MAIL CALL, on the History Channel (I think), but recently he showed what was in the various survival vests worn by flyers, at least.. in it was what appeared to be a Garmin 12 (or something along that line)... good way to pinpoint your location behind lines, or anywhere you might get stranded. We use a basic 12, and have no problem with it.. gets us to the cache area just fine. Quote Link to comment
AlphaOp Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Smelly Mo:Hey...I found some intrepid 'cachers who made a trip to Iraq. Presents its fair share of challenges, I'm sure...talk about your testy locals! Go here to see a picture I found. Tell me what kind of GPS unit this is: http://community.webshots.com/photo/69065155/69065223soVrvk I heard that Saddam himself was an avid cacher. With caches like the "Muthanna Sarin Cache" and "Falljuah Hidden Nuclear Hideaway." I could see the log entry now: "Left AA-battery pack, took 35 grams Uranium." Fun! CODENAME: ALPHA OPERATOR daedalus://govlink/secure/majestic/12.12.12/ops/throne/AO MAJESTIC-12: THRONE G6 LEVEL AGENT http://www.forumplanet.com/gamespy Quote Link to comment
+Desert_Warrior Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 Army Scout is in Iraq right now. For the moment, he is a bit busy. However, he was hoping to find that cache, and is upset that it has been archived. He says he might place on to replace it before he comes home, which will be 6 to 12 more months as it looks now. Mike. Desert_Warrior (aka KD9KC). El Paso, Texas. Citizens of this land may own guns. Not to threaten their neighbors, but to ensure themselves of liberty and freedom. They are not assault weapons anymore... they are HOMELAND DEFENSE WEAPONS! Quote Link to comment
+Breaktrack Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Desert_Warrior:Army Scout is in Iraq right now. For the moment, he is a bit busy. However, he was hoping to find that cache, and is upset that it has been archived. He says he might place on to replace it before he comes home, which will be 6 to 12 more months as it looks now. Mike. Desert_Warrior (aka KD9KC). El Paso, Texas. Citizens of this land may own guns. Not to threaten their neighbors, but to ensure themselves of liberty and freedom. They are not assault weapons anymore... they are HOMELAND DEFENSE WEAPONS! Man, that had to be some kind of dissapointment! To go to all that trouble, the training, the equipment, the MRE's, only to find the cache has been archived???? I'd be firing off some really heated e-mails to one Jeremy Irish...LOL. But seriously, I know you are one proud pappa at the job our youngsters are doing over there Mike. God Speed to Army Scout and a safe return home after a job well done. "Trade up, trade even, or don't trade!!!" My philosophy of life. Quote Link to comment
+Salvelinus Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 Anyone have a link to that archieved cache? Some friends of mine are curious to see it and I would like to see it again myself! What's interesting to me is that many of my non-geocaching friends didn't know what a cache was until the war broke out and the media started reporting about weapons caches that have been found. Now they say "oh, is that like the geocaching you do?" My response is "Well....kinda" Salvelinus "The trail will be long and full of frustrations. Life is a whole and good and evil must be accepted together" Ralph Abele Quote Link to comment
swanlakers Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 for the archived Iraq cache try this link: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=35424 Swanlakers Quote Link to comment
+leatherman Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Moore9KSUcats:I don't know how many of you watch MAIL CALL, on the History Channel (I think), but recently he showed what was in the various survival vests worn by flyers, at least.. I saw that the other day. I liked the grab and dash survival packs that was pretty cool. I am the result of genetic manipulation of superior Geocacher DNA. Faster, stronger with superior reasoning and logic. Mokita! Quote Link to comment
+Polgara Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 Who's the hottie readin the map...oh yeah, there is a GPS there...giggle! "The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the Creator." - Louis Pasteur Quote Link to comment
+Turtletrax Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 Looks like they've got a bottle of Cutty Sark to place into the cache as a trade item. I prefer small, unbreakable trinkets, but they sure seem determined! Quote Link to comment
+LoneHowler Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 That pic would make a good caption this I looks like the Cache was archived due to the war, It's probably still there More to see, More to do Quote Link to comment
+Trailwalker2 Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 Heh when my father was in the first gulf war, some fellas from his unit buried some AK-47s and took down the coordinates, is that a geocache? -J Quote Link to comment
+flask Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 i'd like to know why that cache was archived. on the one hand, there's travel advisories. but on the other, it has significance to the community at large, and, well, there are people who can hunt it! maybe the hider is deceased? or the container was blown to bits? THE PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW! it doesn't matter if you get to camp at one or at six. dinner is still at six. Quote Link to comment
AlphaOp Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Trailwalker2:Heh when my father was in the first gulf war, some fellas from his unit buried some AK-47s and took down the coordinates, is that a geocache? -J Ah, sweet! Now they wouldn't let you take those back to the US, would they? I think customs would have a fit about them being assault rifles... but man, I heard those Kalishnikovs are pretty reliable. CODENAME: ALPHA OPERATOR daedalus://govlink/secure/majestic/12.12.12/ops/throne/AO MAJESTIC-12: THRONE G6 LEVEL AGENT http://www.forumplanet.com/gamespy Quote Link to comment
+trippy1976 Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 It's too bad that Iraq cache was archived I know of at least one geocacher from Michigan who is currently deployed. Might have been an interesting distraction for them -------- trippy1976 - Team KKF2A Saving geocaches - one golf ball at a time. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 The cache may be archived but unless the placer went there to pull it it's probably still there. ============================== Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
+MountainMudbug Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 Seems like I read that the Iraq cache was temp. archived for the duration of the war cause so many people were logging notes to the page re: the war..... Quote Link to comment
+mornin'glory Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 quote:Originally posted by flask:i'd like to know why that cache was archived. on the one hand, there's travel advisories. but on the other, it has significance to the community at large, and, well, there are people who can hunt it! maybe the hider is deceased? or the container was blown to bits? THE PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW! it doesn't matter if you get to camp at one or at six. dinner is still at six. it was archived because of all the sentiments being posted, one was a not so nice anti-war.(they retracted it) jeremy said this was not the place for those messages. i have it on my watch list. Click to subscribe to ozmtngeocachers if you cache it, they will come. Quote Link to comment
+flask Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 would an unkind pro-war message have been acceptable? it doesn't matter if you get to camp at one or at six. dinner is still at six. Quote Link to comment
+GOT GPS? Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 Weapons of Mass destruction: Wonder if this is a multicache, Virtual, a Traveling Cache, or a stolen(missing) cache? This is one cache I have been interested in awhile. Always different...Hit refresh Quote Link to comment
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