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Just saw this other article about it, it seems that they found it after being lost.

http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/oregon/stories/NW_011508ORN_mt_hood_climbers_LJ.253cb5a0.html

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I’m sure the supplies ran out by now. They first opened up requests on June 15th. Your best bet is to find one in a geocache now.

I know we placed one in a Madison cache recently… 🙂

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I believe we ran into some around caches near Horicon Marsh a few years ago. There were posted signs warning of it before entering the area. Neither of us rubbed up against it to experience it first hand but I was pretty sure we spotted it along the trail.

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We got one as well.

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One Paddle Short,

I completely respect your point of view with this but I disagree with it.

I think if a cacher is unconfortable doing a cache they should just -not- do it. The cache owner is not hiding the fact that the cache is up a tree. They even have a mark to indicate which tree it is up.

I’m a hunter and I climb trees to get in stands and I have been in a stand that has collapsed. Climbing anything has risks and you -don’t- have to do it. There are some cachers that would like caches/hides like this.

Just because there are caches that someone personally thinks is too dangerous doesn’t mean it should be archived for everyone. There are caches underwater and I’m sure there are people that are afraid of water/swimming and think those caches are dangerous due to drowning concerns. Should those caches be archived as well? When do we draw the line?

Hogrod,
As for the type of tree and the damage that could be done to it, I agree that is a concern. I have been in many pines that are very sturdy as well as not so sturdy it’s hard to say what that tree’s condition is through a picture or two. If this was on public land I’d be concerned that the tree will get damaged and require replacement at some point costing tax payers money.

That’s just my opinion on it as I’m seeing it,

Nick

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I assume so. You just ‘found’ it in your mailbox 😉

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I don’t know, there isn’t really anything that says yes or no. We’re just requesting one for our family. I figure there is a limited number out there so it’s only fair to let others get them too 😉

(That and I’m worried about our chances being ruined if we entered both our names in w/ our one Geocaching.com username hehehe)

🙂

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Our tivo has it scheduled for 6/1 at 12AM on Charter in Madison channel 11 WHA.

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I want to say it’s airing on the 1st but I don’t have anything infront of me to back that up. I’ll check out our todo list when I get home tonight and post the date/time.

Nick

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I noticed our Tivo scheduled it to be recorded the other day. I’m looking forward to seeing it 🙂

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One would think that Triple-A would by now train their dispatchers on how to search with coordinates.

I know I rely on our GPS’s to make sure we’re never lost and to be able to give that information to those who we pay(be it taxes or for other 3rd party services) to help us if need be. If I ever need to call Triple-A I’ll have to ‘test’ them out with giving them coordinates and see what happens 🙂

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This story was hilarious. 🙂

I’ll have to make sure I don’t accidently drop an old computer motherboard on the sidewalk when moving equipment. It might get mistaken for a bomb because it has circuits on it. 😛

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I would think you could state that permission was granted by the private owner. And then in the notes to the reviewer give the reviewer that information if they need verification?

Just a thought on it.

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@Toecutter wrote:

Would you want our local law officials sitting behind a computer looking up where our caches are when they could be sitting at a Dunkin’ Donuts???? 😀

I’d never hear the end of it if one of my caches were to be called in…. 😯 😀

I guess I’d make it on the news though!!! I guess what really needs to be done is more exposure to geocaching…that’d be one way to make the muggles aware that not everything is a bomb…

Later
Phil

Definately not. However if officals get a call about something in X area wouldn’t it be cheaper to say “lets check to see if there might be a geocache in that area and then see what the coords are for the item suspected to be a bomb”. I don’t see that being too difficult of a thing to do prior to calling the Bomb Squad in.

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@Toecutter wrote:

Well, I’ve decided to inform the police in the areas where I have geocache containers placed where they are located. I’m hoping this will keep from having the bomb squad called in from Green Bay or Milwaukee if one of my containers is found by a concerned muggle….being a firefighter, I’d hate to be paged out for a bomb scare to find out it was one of my geocaches that had been discovered….that’d be a bit embarassing…the police in both areas that I contacted said that it was fine, and to let them know if I set any more out and what the locations were….

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Phil

“They’re all listed here at http://www.geocaching.com, easily searchable!”

Wish it were only that easy.

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