[Lander Lancelot]

The challenge as I understand it is to complete one cache find on every page of the Delorme atlas of the state.

I found nothing about it on the Delorme site. Where should I be looking?

[Lander Lancelot]

So you mean we have to hunt down an older version then? May be okay for this year, but could become an increasing problem in years to come.

Problem is they aren’t letting me cross BECAUSE I’m a white, anglo saxon with a husband in the states. Been coming and going happily for over a year, but suddenly they won’t let me back. I’m thinking of becoming another nationality. In Canada they let anyone from Pakistan and China in. What are the accepted races for coming into the states so I can dye my skin and change my name to accomodate them?

[Lander Lancelot]

Thanks for posting the article for us to read. You must have just bust your buttons on that one. And rightly so.

[Lander Lancelot]

Last autumn we attended our first cache event at Navarino. We were told by those running it to multi log in order to get credit for all the temp caches the R & R WAnderers had worked so hard to put together for us. They did a terrific job and in no way did any of those caches not meet regular caching guidelines. We did as we were told.

By the end of the event, Navarino Tim told us that in order to have every cache hidden at the event, you would have had to walk 25 miles. Well, we calculated it to be more like 18, but the fact is, WE DID IT. We worked hard to get those caches. Lander lost 4 toenails and had blisters on her blisters, had several asthma attacks, and ended up spending 3 weeks in bed recuperating her health. No way we would have done all that if we knew they weren’t going to count anyway.

To me, a cache is a cache. It takes time and planning to hide, and time and planning to find. I don’t see that a temp is any different from a permanent. If it is, I’m sure we’ll just spend our days going after the “legal” caches and not attending events any more. Case in point as was mentioned in another thread – Rock Island. The PTB won’t allow any more permanent caches to be placed there. Ergo, if you already have them all, why are you going to keep attending year after year just to revisit those same ones which you can’t relog? I think attendance at a lot of events will drop as members opt instead for just playing on their own so their finds count..

Just my humble opinion. Not asking anyone to agree.

[Lander Lancelot]

We have had 3 Magellan’s thus far. My Meridian gold only lasted me about 70 caches before it DIED as in DEAD. We quickly sent for a Magellan 300 because after all, the weekend was fast approaching and it was an emergency situation. Can’t cache without a gizzy. Soon after, we got a letter from Magellan offering to exchange our dead machine for a brand new 500 (plus a few dollars on our part.) Add to that the fun of caching with someone who had a really nice Garmin that is not fluctuated by cloud or canopy cover and I can quite emphatically say that we have learned that even though the specs may all say the same thing in regards to accuracy, 100% of the time the more expensive machines got us to the cache far more quickly and accurately. So, since the M300 also only lasted about 8 months before dying, our next purchase is going to be some really expensive Garmins. Hopefully we will get a much longer life out of them, too.

[Lander Lancelot]

Does this mean if there is something already out there with a screw that it needs to be refitted some other way asap?

[Lander Lancelot]

thanks for posting the link. Wish I had been there. I love the way it was filmed. I found the link for the event I attended listed also in Georgetown, Ontario. I’m in a pink jacket at the end of the front row with granddaughter in stroller and Mighty Boy in the bright yellow coat next to me.

[Lander Lancelot]

I guess Zuma is known in my Waterloo, too. I have a house in Kitchener-Waterloo where I dropped off an infamous Zuma geocoin.

[Lander Lancelot]

I guess that I’m lucky Lancelot and I go out as a team. I play with the maps and gizzies while he drives.

So glad the car was the only thing murdalized, Cheeto. Hope the insurance gets you a new one soon.

[Lander Lancelot]

Yay Justin!! We’ll have a party when you hit 2000.

[Lander Lancelot]

I would propose that you could keep the Membership requirements as they are. But instead of someone outside the nucleus simply being able to call themselves a friend – we offer something different. It’s an idea that you see in numerous other organizations. AN ASSOCIATE MEMBER. They still get to be a member, but without the voting privileges. Seems to me that this new title is something that everyone could live with and wouldn’t take the skin off anyone’s nose to put in practice. Think about it before your next board meeting. I think it will work.

[Lander Lancelot]

And what about those of us who have houses in two countries? We are members of both associations.

[Lander Lancelot]

I actually found the videography of this film to be disconcerting. I know it was trying to keep up the pace and add tension, but the camera was swinging around so quickly, so often, that I often lost what it was they wanted me to see. Even in the fight scenes, I’m not sure if I ever actually saw a punch carried through all the way from extension to connection.

[Lander Lancelot]

This cache write up is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. I nearly wet my pants laughing. And you know, Lancelot and I just invested in ten of those little creatures to torture the people in Canada with.

I must say, I’ve only ever come across 3 nanos, but when found, you really feel you’re clever.

[Lander Lancelot]

I think my favourite was our Christmas cache – St. Nichols comes to Camelot. I tried to be very consistent in carrying the theme throughout and sometimes it just made me laugh putting it out there. Sagasu was the first to find it and he said each waypoint made him smile. That’s exactly how I felt too.

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