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** My 2 cents **
I would never consider placing an ammo can without the big Geocaching sticker that you buy via GroundSpeak. I love finding ammo can caches, they are typically in better shape and have more room for stuff than most plastic containers … HOWEVER, I’ve yet to use 1 of the 3 ammo cans I originally bought, even though I have 11 caches hidden … I just personally feel better when they are placed in spots where almost no one will accidentily find one … I can totally see how they would make a non-cacher nervous if they found one.Excellent PowerPoint!
Well done!quote:
Originally posted by rpaske:
Thank you for thanking me. How about bright orange arrows pointing to the cache? There would be no confusion and cachers would have time to chat.
The park people would not let me do the arrows. But I’m thinking they wouldn’t mind if I just cut down all the trees that don’t have caches within 50 feet.
Thanks rpaske, for bringing up the “do want you want comment”. I Agree, as I plan on doing what I want … or less mean sounding, do what I think will be best for the event and the people that attend . The more I play around with it, the more I like the idea I suggested … currently I have a list of all the hints of the 50 caches closest to the event … it actually makes for funny reading and does a great job of masking my “real” hints. Actually, my biggest fear is that I screw up and forget which ones are for my hides.
Having said that, I’m still open to the opinions of others. No fears rpaske, I will have the final say, I’m just willing to let others sway my reasoning.
P.S. – If any of you are out in the woods and you see little “Reserved” signs in hollow trees, those are not the Keebler Elves, those are my hiding spots, get away from them please.
[This message has been edited by EnergySaver (edited 11-02-2004).]
See, that’s another reason to change the rules … keep people that speak geocrypt from cheating. I’m thinking that I would make just “a little work” to find the right Hint Code. Instead of just saying use Hint #47 for this one … I say if add the last 3 digits of North and last 3 digits of West and compare to the list … so N43 29.250 W87 41.212 becomes 250+212 or the Hint with code 462 next to it. Fast to solve in the field, but yet not right in front of your geo-nose.
EnergySaver and EcoRangers are planning a joint event north of Milwaukee. However, too early for an exact date yet. But it will be a full Saturday most likely early in May 2005.
It was a great event! Thanks you guys for putting it on.
An important tip … don’t safety pin hats to the front of a sweat shirt and sit in a warm room … the rash is starting to go away now.
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Originally posted by skarolek:
Sure they are… they just don’t admit it! I believe the two chains are owned by brothers who had a falling out a number of years ago.Steve K
Yes, I’ve heard that they broke up over an argument about putting the chocolate covered peanuts in the same type of bags as the tire chains and cow ear tags.
Strolling through the past would not be complete without checking out this un-official TRS-80 website …
http://skylane.kjsl.com/trs80/index.htmlIt brings back great memories … specifically 4k of memory and only having 3 error messages, on of which was “Sorry”, which meant you filled all your memory, which didn’t happen often back then. The other thing I forgot, the TRS-80 monitor, was basically a black/white TV without the TV-tuner guts … in fact when I wired 2-wires from my BETA vcr’s rca output to the monitor, you could watch The Brady Bunch on the monitor.
One of the hats I wear at my office it “IT Boy” for 25 users, so I guess that decides that. Ironically, before geocaching came along, I was totally sick of technology and was tempted to throw away my home fax machine and cell phone, and build a cabin under the freeway on ramp. By now I have an enjoyable reason to put up with technology. My first computer .. mid-70s, a good old Radio Shack TRS-80 (got to be called Trash-80), it used an audio cassette tape to upload/download the software, typically pong took about 20 minutes and 2 or 3 attempts/rewinds of the tape. I still remember my next computer and the excitment of when I upgraded it to have a 10 meg hard drive, more capacity than I could ever use. I also attend my High School’s first ever computer class, the computer was more like a calculator with 8 memory registers, paper punch tape to create/load the software and it was about the size of a desk. Makes me wonder what we are going to have in 10 or 20 years from now!
I agree with L4C … buy more than what you THINK you need now … unless your funds are very limited OR you don’t mind buying another unit in the near future. You’ve not considered one factor … this is a new hobbie/sport/occupation for you, this geocaching stuff … suddenly having an electronic map with little or no advance notice will become an important part of your life. You will see geocaches you want to go to, and will not want to bother with “old fashioned” paper maps that you print from the Internet … or worse yet, you are out doing a multi-cache, the first step sends you to another location 1.9 miles away and you have no map in your hands for that area.
We are big vitamin users … I have a collection of about 40 bottles … now I know what size they are.
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I just got word that our “dream site” for the event has been approved by the facility manager. Now you all will have to wait out the winter, while we plan the event and lock in a date … stay tuned, for the future reveal.
Any more comments and suggestions are welcome. But we’ve made it past the major hurdles regarding the facility that ecorangers and energysaver really love and want to use. Yipee!
I should have added … if you only want to have one GPSr but want road maps and like the features of the 72 … the Garmin GPS76 series seems to have all the kid advantages of the 72, plus map download potential (assuming you add map software).
Welcome to the fun! We have two daughters … 8 and 12 … the love geocaching, the 8 year old took a couple months to build up enough desire to do more than 1 or 2 on a given day, but now that she finds her share of them, the interest level is way up there. A happen to agree 100% with the other posting that suggest the Garmin GPS72 … it’s a pretty low cost unit, much larger screen than most units, easy to understand buttons … we got it as a 2nd GPSr for the kids to use AND when we take new guest/visitors (both young and old) with us … the 72 is pretty much only useful for geocaching, hunting and fishing; as you can’t download road maps into it, so don’t plan a family vacation with it. Our original unit (with road maps but less kid friendly), is a Garmin eMap, which they don’t make anymore but I love it (especially since I’ve added a after market rubber yellow case). You should check out events, especially the upcoming All-A-Glow event in the Milwaukee area. If you happen to be near the Ozaukee County area (north of Milwaukee), let me know, about 7 or 8 of my caches are very kid friendly and I can email you my suggestions and “kid rating” of each of them. Ask questions often and have fun!
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