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It seems enough people have had situations where the police were jumping the gun…so to speak…and threatening to tow a vehicle despite the fact that the vehicle was parked legally.
So just based on that alone, the idea of having this type of sign in the window has serious merit.
As far as people breaking into your car, going to your house, stealing your identity–that seems tremendously overblown.
Think about it. Anyone parked in a park and ride, airport parking lot, etc., basically is saying “my car is going to be here for a while.” A car parked along the side of the road, not so much.
Is it a possibility? I suppose. But you have to leave the house sometime and not live in fear.
The only problem we have ever had while caching was when we were parked IN a parking lot, and local hoodlums did the baseball bat treatment to the back window of the van, to the tune of $400 (with a $250 deductible 😡 )
On the Left Side of the Road...I’m guessing this idea fizzled?
On the Left Side of the Road...“Remove Before Driving”
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On the Left Side of the Road...It seems with your interest in “birding,” that a field component would be a natural part of making this a challenging puzzle.
On the Left Side of the Road...Hi T&B;
The difficult part about creating an enjoyable difficult puzzle is giving people a sense as they go along that they are on the “right track.” In other words, cypher-type 5/5 can be just maddening, because you don’t know if you’re even on the right track until you find the key, at which point it all falls into place.
More difficult to create, but more enjoyable to solve, is a puzzle that lets solvers know that incrementally they are on the right track. And for that, a story would work perfectly and is a great idea. I came across a cache a while back that was pretty much a novel, and I’ll try to find it.
Anyway, another component of a D5 puzzle is one that requires ‘special knowledge.’ This is the basis of the rating behind our D5 music puzzles, as was suggested by the reviewer.
Therefore, could you take your ability in story telling, and somehow marry it to your “special knowledge” in birding? Some sort of treking and birding “adventure” that would involve identifcation of species…including pictures…that sort of thing.
Turn it into a nifty PDF “ebook” type thing, and you’d really have something.
Maybe???
On the Left Side of the Road...Congratulations to the GB-major-metro-puzzle-cache-FTF-masters!
On the Left Side of the Road...@-cheeto- wrote:
Especially when you’re hunting s|s caches…
Oh yeah!!!!
We quickly learned not to discount locations because “it can’t possibly have been hidden there!!!” 😯
Just adds to the excitement…
On the Left Side of the Road...It seems like you can use “searchable” coordinates if they take you to somewhere reasonable to search–like the entrance to a park. Otherwise the goal is to alert cachers who try to go to the dummy coordinates that “this can’t be right.”
I agree that when you put them in the middle of the interstate it could potentially cause trouble, but it’s what’s done. I’ve seen logs posted on caches where neophyte cachers have searched in vain in the middle of a parking lot, so I suppose it’s possible someone could walk out to the middle of the highway.
I think the ideal way to handle this would be to set up a two-tiered system. The dummy coordinates on the cache page would be something like the north pole or the middle of the ocean somewhere. But in order for it to show up in local searches (and track trackables correctly, etc.), there would be a “actual proxmity” coordinate. But that’s a whole level of complication and programming we’re not likely to see.
In letterboxing, this works more cleanly because you are typically searching by city.
On the Left Side of the Road...I guess the LCG admin would arbitrate this, but it certainly seems like you should get points for it. The purpose of the game is to check up on lonely caches so if they’re not where you know they were it’s valuable info. Probably more valuable than a “regular” DNF since you’ve actually been there before.
But…how to score? Is it a “Revisited and checked a lonely cache I’ve already found” or “Attempted to find a lonely cache but was unsuccessful.” We’re talkin’ a point difference here!
On the Left Side of the Road...@Team Deejay wrote:
Or maybe this…My kind of nano!
Well, I do have one of those Uber Ammo Cans from fleet farm, just to balance things out. I’m pretty sure I’ll need to charter a helicopter to lift it into the woods somewhere.
On the Left Side of the Road...@lone_gunman wrote:
this what you’re looking for?
http://www.cacheboxstore.com/microcache/Nano/aenanocache.html
Yes! Danke.
On the Left Side of the Road...T&B;
I am a HUGE fan of Expert GPS, but it does carry a price tag. Also, both the sat and topo maps are somewhat outdated.
You can use Google Earth to do this, which is free so long as you trust Google or don’t mind that they’re probably spying on you. 😯
Using Google Earth, just choose “Add Placemark” from the “Add” menu and enter waypoints. When you’re done, print your map.
Or, you can upload a .kml file or a GPX file to Google Earth.
If you don’t want to use Google Earth and don’t have Expert GPS, I’d be happy to make a jpg satellite or topo map (or both) for you. Just send me a list of waypoints.
On the Left Side of the Road...Lisa would like to mention…”What do you mean, ‘HE’ wins?” 🙂
Thanks, it was a blast.
On the Left Side of the Road...I find it interesting that the oldest cache in Alaska (from 2000) has been found a whopping 5 times. And there are other caches w/in a few miles of it. 😯
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