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@kbraband wrote:
On the map at the DNR site, I don’t see any trails marked for mountain bikes. Do you know if any trails are open to mountain bikes?
Not sure Ken. None of the trails I hiked on had signs that said bikes were either allowed or prohibited. Maybe they are allowed on the horse trails? Most of the hiking trails in the park are such that you probably wouldn’t want to take a bike on them anyway (too narrow and dangerous!).
Bump.
Has anyone made arrangements with Trekkin’ and Birdin’ to pick up the turkey decoy that they have available and bring it to the picnic?
The5Xplorers, if you buy your $5 flat bird, will you be able to bring it to the picnic by 9am on Saturday morning?
Boy, who would have thought that finding a turkey would be this tough… always seems easy to find them around Thanksgiving time. 😀
@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
Trekkin’ has one, but wanted to know if he needs to get it there by a certain time. He wants to grab some other caches we haven’t done in the area before coming to the picnic.
We would need to have the turkey decoy early, definitely before registration opens at 9am (8:30 am would be best).
Sounds like what you have will work fine, now we just have to find someone to get it to the park early enough so we can use it…
(Is this a collapsible decoy that would perhaps fit in a motorcycle saddlebag? Because I would need very little incentive to visit West Salem for a chance to make a couple runs through the Mindoro Cut on Hwy 108…)
I also agree that this seems to be a great cache in an underutilized area. I found waypoint #1 after the cache hiding for the Geo-Picnic last weekend… it was getting too dark to go for the final, but I will definitely get it the next time I am in central WI.
Note there is over 150 square miles 😯 of public land in the Sandhill-Meadow Valley Work Unit, and I believe this is the only cache on that huge expanse of land.
http://www.dnr.wi.gov/org/land/wildlife/reclands/sandhill/wcwafacts.htm
@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
As for that stretch of highway—yup. It’s a yawner.
I’ve always kind of liked 173. In my youth it was a good place to try to set “land speed records”… I’ve had several vehicles into the triple digits on it. And I’ve never seen a cop or heard of anyone getting a speeding ticket on it, at least on the section north of Mather to the junction with 80.
@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
I’m trying to figure out if they have an original use; in other words, if I wanted to buy some locally, where would I look? TIA
The manufacturer of the tubes has them listed in the “keychain accessories” category on their website (Bison Designs). It sound like they expect people to put them on their keychain and use them to store stuff (microfilm, poison suicide pill, maybe a tracking device? :))
Use this capsule as the container for your survival kit, there’s even more room than before.
Note sure who would have “keychain accessories” like this… maybe a hardware store or locksmith shop? You can always get the waterproof match containers (plastic and metal) at a hardware or outdoors store, but it sounds like you want something smaller…
@lagrac wrote:
I don’t really understand the binding versus non-binding thing.
Non-binding means that the results are only advisory… i.e. the bylaws wouldn’t automatically change based on the results of the referendum. The Board of Directors would still have to vote to change the bylaws, and they would not have to follow what the membership wanted.
Note that we need the majority of the Board to approve the referendum before it can be held. To change the definition of “WGA member” (which requires a change to the bylaws) would require a 2/3rds vote of the Board.
I’d be in favor of a referendum (non-binding), which would hopefully settle this issue once and for all. Maybe word it something like this:
“Do you approve of granting WGA membership to a limited number of individuals who are not residents of the state of Wisconsin? WGA membership would only be offered to individuals who meet some criteria that show they are firmly committed to geocaching in Wisconsin. The criteria used for non-resident members would be determined later by the Board of Directors, but may include completion of the Wisconsin DeLorme Challenge or finding 1000 caches in Wisconsin. Non-resident members would have full WGA membership rights, including the right to vote for and serve on the WGA Board of Directors.”
Note that I believe only WGA members (per the current definition) should be allowed to vote on this referendum. It doesn’t make sense to ask those who are currently not members if the definition of member should be expanded (of course they will say YES! :))… and if the Board approves such an extension of membership, it is the current WGA members whose “power” would be diluted.
@bnb wrote:
The event page says to bring something based on your last name. The registration says both last name and geocaching name.
I’m so confused! 😕 😉
It should be last name… we realized some time ago that geocaching names are not well distributed (too many “Team”s and “The”s, probably 50+ per our member list) so we stopped using that as the basis to split people up.
The registration page has been corrected to say ONLY last name…
@GrouseTales wrote:
We definitely need more helpers for cache hiding day. Pretty please….. 🙂
You can put me down for helping out. I promise I won’t hide another doorbell cache…
@kbraband wrote:
Back when I started geocaching, we used a Garmin AM1. It was actually a modified tube-type AM radio receiver with a 4-ft-long piece of twisted aluminum foil attached to the antenna…
Ah, the good old days back when it took days to make a single cache find.
Actually, for a time your best bet was to use the old Russian GLONASS system. Step 1 was to get someone to smuggle a receiver out of Russia through an Eastern Bloc country… they usually could be had for $500 US and a case of vodka. Step 2 was to crack the encryption used on the signal (sort of like a puzzle cache, only tougher) which changed weekly. Step 3 was to strap the receiver to your back (it weighed 30 kg) and attach a really long cable which ran back to your car… you needed to keep your car running to provide power and hook a cable to the chassis to use as an antenna. You were now set to go find caches! Some of the difficulties included a constant need for conversion of coordinates from some weird Russian geodetic model to WGS 84, and frequent breakdowns due to the fact that the electronics were hand soldered by peasants in Siberia using rejected components made in China. You also didn’t want to use this rig in the rain…
Seriously, a couple weeks ago someone asked me if they could borrow a unit or two… I took a mini inventory and realized I have 8 GPSrs (and this does not include other units I technically own but on long-term “loan” to family members). A lot of these are units that most would be considered obsolete today… Garmin 45, Garmin 12, Garmin eMap (sorry Ken), Garmin GPS III, etc. although all have been used to find caches over the years.
Maybe we should start a GPS donation program… kind of like the cell phone donation programs. You’d send in your old GPS and we’d get it to some needy person… but who really needs a GPS? (Cachers who have fallen on hard times, struggling college students using it for some sort of research, kids/muggles who could use some help locating (and then destroying) caches in their neighborhood, etc.)
@hogrod wrote:
Here is a screenshot of the error in Opera….
Wow, Opera definitely gives a better error response than Firefox in this case.
It explains to you why it is giving the error (signed by an unknown certificate authority) and hints at the fix (need to change the certificate chain on the server). You almost don’t have to hire an overpaid consultant like me to figure out and fix the problem. 🙁
Jeff, it looks like you have your security certificates improperly chained. The root of your chain is godaddy.com. But godaddy.com is not a trusted root CA in Mozilla/Firefox… which is why you get the warnings.
Looking at the SSL traffic for a known good site (http://www.robotcow.com) using a security certificate purchased from godaddy, the root certificate is from Valicert, there is an second certificate from Starfield Technologies, and finally the Go Daddy certificate. So it looks like you are missing some important pieces. You probably didn’t install one of the intermediate certificate “bundles” which are available in this Repository.
You might also want to check out this topic on howtoforge, call the number mentioned there (480-505-8852), or follow these steps carefully based on the web server or web hosting package you are using. If all of this makes your head spin, I am available for consultation after paying a nominal fee of $197,451 or one BILLION waytags. 😈
Bob, what it is saying is that if you wanted someone to create a Pocket Query identical to one of yours, you could just give them the link to one of yours. The link to the query would be of the form:
http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/gcquery.aspx?guid=xxxxxWhere xxxxx is the identifier of your Pocket Query. You can figure out the links for your Pocket Queries by clicking on the name of the query in the My Pocket Query page and then looking at the contents of the address bar in your browser.
When another person goes to this link/address, they will get the Pocket Query setup page with all the same criteria (number of caches, center location, types of caches) that you originally selected. When they hit “Submit information”, they will create a new duplicate Pocket Query of their own.
Kind of a nifty “feature” that I didn’t know about. Of course you could also send them the GPX (Pocket Query results) file, but that is probably technically in violation of the terms of use of the site…
Didn’t you already ask this question last year: 🙂
Help identifying a plant please?
A three leaved plant with “seed pods” on the stem? Maybe box elder, and you are thinking the buds (where new stems/branches will appear) are “seed pods”? Pictures of box elder are here:
http://www.cnr.vt.edu/DENDRO/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=3
This is a good article on poison ivy and the differences between it and other similar plants:
http://home.alltel.net/medbow/article_ivy.htm
My poison ivy flow chart also has some look-a-likes based on how they differ from PI:
Poison Ivy Flowchart 1.0 (PDF)
And yes, the five leaved plants you are seeing are likely virginia creeper. Apparently some people are slightly sensitive to virginia creeper in the fall when it is has berries. But it does not produce urushiol oil, the stuff that PI produces that people react strongly to.
About a half dozen members have emailed me about the same error. I had to explain to them that we only link to the map on geocaching.com… it is not something the WGA put together.
I know at least two of these people contacted geocaching.com (this was a couple weeks ago) obviously with no luck. If they aren’t going to maintain the maps, the least they can do is take them down so people don’t get frustrated…
Your best bet is to use the newer (and cooler) Geocaching Google maps, like this:
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