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As the newly appointed administrator for the COTM system, I plan on posting the winner, and the 4 runner-ups in the forums here. Haven’t decided whether to put them in the “Announcements” or the “Milestones” sections. That way the winner (and the runner-ups) will be published.
I’ve already done this for April’s COTM: http://wi-geocaching.com/forums/Forum1/HTML/000508.html
Chatted with a couple of fellow geo-crazies last night. Very cool!
Congrats!
So…. what are the new “individual” team names?
Where is everybody heading to?
Last fall my wife had a wood tick which attached itself. I removed it by using (believe it or not) a soda straw and a piece of thread.
You take the straw, and place it over the tick (more or less parallel to the skin) then slide a piece of thread over the straw, then over the tick, and tighten a knot around JUST the mouth parts of the tick.
You remove the straw, then with a steady constant pull (it took more effort than I ever thought possible) keep “outward” pressure on the tick’s mouth parts, which will (if you’re lucky) completely disengage from the site and the tick will become un-attached.
**** WARNING **** DISGUSTING PARAGRAPH **** SKIP IF SQUEAMISH ****
This method keeps the tick from barfing into your arm (or wherever) and pulls out all of the mouth parts too.As a matter of fact, the tick we removed from my wife lived in a jar for over 2 weeks after I removed it.
At the campout, my wife found one (unattached) tick on her, and she found an attached one on me, just above my ear. She used the aforementioned method and removed it on Sat. morning, right out in front of the shelter (Geo-Central).
The nice part about the straw and thread technique is that you can very easily carry that with you while in the woods or camping.
My wife saw her family doctor, and he said that ANY tick can carry Lyme’s disese.
We just signed up for a new internet service provider (Road Runner Rocks!), so links to the “Family Friendly” cache page soon will not work. I did not have many people report back to me that they were using the logo, so I couldn’t include their cache pages. I also have noticed that a number of cachers are using the logo, which is perfectly fine by me.
Anyhoo, the family friendly page will be out of service shortly, and the logo has been moved to geocaching.com. The new link for the family friendly logo is: http://img.groundspeak.com/cache/fa017a5d-d268-46db-8441-a138d24bb425.jpg
-Brian
[This message has been edited by Buy_The_Tie (edited 04-21-2004).]
I had the honor of getting a preview of these caches. It looks like a cool series and that they found a bunch of cool spots for them. Good Luck!
If you want your cache un-archived, just shoot an E-mail to one (or both) of these e-mail addresses:
Look for something inexpensive on E-bay. In a thread just below this one, a cacher purchased a Palm III for $35 bucks. It is a GREAT way to start. You can download the PALM software for your desktop computer for free of the internet.
I regularily cache with a Palm IIIx, which has more memory than the III, but your III should hold at least 500 caches. I think this is a great for geocaching for 2 main reasons: 1. You have $35 invested. If you smash it to bits or drown it while seeking a cache, you aren’t out much. 2. A set of AAA batteries lasts about 2 months in mine.
I think you’ll be very pleased.
If your GPSr has waypoint averaging, I would recommend setting it in place for about 15 minutes and letting it average. If it does not have that feature, I would return to the spot of the cache several different times (and at different times of the day) then average your readings. This is probably more than a lot of cache hiders do, but should improve the accuracy.
I have a pair made by “Lowa”, that I bought at the REI store on Capitol Dr. They have a little place to try out the boots (Terrain 1.5 stars) and were very helpful. They were the most expensive pair of shoes I had ever purchased, but they were also the sturdiest I have ever purchased. They are also very comfortable.
I used to work at the establishment in question. I have also found the covert box inside of said establishment. I can share information with you only if you proove yourself trustworthy and discreet. We can converse via secure electronic mail.
I have done some geocaching in other states, and what I’ve found is that the “star” rating system seems to be a function of the regional terrain. I hunted some caches out on the plains of Oklahoma that to me seemed WAY overrated. I’ve also hunted some caches in a canyon in Texas that seemed WAY underrated to me.
I really liked the place, and one of the reasons I went here was that there were two caches I could find in the same park. (More caches, less gas) I say you should leave it in, all the more reason to attract geocachers to this park.
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