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A lot more FTP, that’s for sure!
Almost didn’t get the souvenir today, but something caught my eye just as I was about to give up. Sure was better spending 30 minutes looking there than driving all the way to Medford or beyond.
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Everyone must be getting their souvenir this morning.
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My other vice: Chocolate milk
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What, are we trying to wait as long as possible to get to page 700?
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Funny you mention virtual caches. I was just thinking the other evening that it would be interesting if GC.com could use an engine similar to the one in the latest craze (Pokemon Go) to create virtual caches in places that do not allow geocaches (i.e. national parks, national monuments, Disney, etc.). I am sure it has been discussed.
Lava Beds National Monument seems to allow caches. I was there last Friday, and there is one inside the boundaries and they know about it. They have been working on making more earthcaches there too, they just added the first two in the past few months with ideas of making more. There are a couple just outside the boundaries that mention not being able to place them inside, I wonder if there was a change in management that knew about the rules whereas the current chief doesn’t care? The cache isn’t close to anything that is “special,” just a small rock upthrust that can be found almost anywhere around here – not far from a dirt road going through sagebrush.
Anyway, there is talk about turning the area into a national park. I wonder if that would change things?
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Kids checkup gave them both flying colors. Best part, the doctor was upset about our story going to visit his colleagues in Portland and will connect us with a different Pediatric Gastroenterologist that makes visits down to this part of the state! If this works, no more doctor trips back to WI.
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Taking the kids over the mountain for their annual heart checkups. No causes for alarm that we’re aware of before we go, good feeling!
Projected caches found total = 0
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Same as always: Coke
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Sunrise
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the easy :ftp:
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Guess I will take
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I almost forgot my mini-rant! It’s crazy reviewer time again.
The same guy that gives us headaches out here is at it again. He keeps archiving caches that newbies can’t find even after someone else goes back and refinds it, because the CO didn’t do maintenance to verify it is in place. One of these COs is deceased, most others have just moved on from the game to other things.
This particular cache was placed in an undeveloped subdivision (tons of those in KF) and was a PVC pipe stuck in the ground. The cap for the tube had the cache dangling from it. Very clever because there are other things sticking out of the ground due to unfinished building plans.
It got archived. I stopped by to see if it was still there (after someone else confirmed it was while it was still active) and, yes, it was there. So, I turned it into a puzzle cache and relisted it. In my notes, I mentioned how it was the same cache (new log sheet) and how clever the original hide was. The reviewer nixed it, even though it was an existing cache, because he wanted to verify that it wasn’t buried. I said it isn’t buried, the end of it is in the ground to keep the tube vertical, but the cache itself isn’t buried.
No good! The container of a cache cannot be buried in any way. You may not dig any hole to help hide a cache, even if you didn’t dig the hole yourself.
To expedite this, I had someone put a new container in a bush next to the cache. But seriously, reading this the way it was written, any GRC, road sign, etc. cache would be forbidden. There are a whole series of caches out here that are PVC pipes in the ground with the container inside and rocks on top of them, much more buried than this thing is…
The advice I received from others in this area is just say, “It’s a plastic container with a rock on it” and leave out the other details.
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We live in an area where flip phones are still the dominant phone, if people have cell phones. I understand. I guess being in this remote area, we don’t have the tech driven caches that are more common in more civilized area 🙂 I’d like to make a Whereigo cache, but we’re Mac people and everything I find about making them is PC based.
Once again, this is post #13, so I’m setting someone up for an easy FTP
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I guess I don’t understand the distaste for the game opening up to technology beyond the original handheld GPS devices. I started with both, but quickly moved away from the GPS because the phone could load caches on the fly without prepping and has accuracy that competes with the GPS everywhere except for very remote locations (and I’ve found plenty of those out here). The apps give me more functionality than the GPS we could afford at the time, and we sure don’t have the spare cash to sink into something that would be comparable to what I already have on my phone.
Anyway, time to go endure some of the 90+ degree heat again and see if I can find/shoot some more chipmunks. 3 this morning, 6 yesterday and a dozen before that. Yet, at certain times, I can see as many as five of them chasing each other on our hill. They’ve learned to scatter as soon as one of them sees me, up to 500′ away. Makes it a challenge to shoot them with a pellet gun.
Third puzzle solved, and already have a target picked out. There are only two qualifying caches within 50 miles of home. One is a night cache and the other may or may not be able to be found – hope the CO gets back from his tour of Europe before the 27th.
Happy early International Geocaching Day!
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Still in the 90s here, but at least I’m not getting mauled by mosquitoes in the middle of the day now. We watered the lawn all day, so they may be back with a vengeance tomorrow.
Got the new bell schedule from our principal through email. The heading for each day of the week is wrong – Monday‘s instead of Mondays. I wonder how many copies he ordered for everyone to pass out to students on day one.
Over halfway to level 22 on Pokemon Go. Placing more caches than finding this summer, but I haven’t placed many either. Too hot and not much spending money after getting all the animals cared for.
Need to go back to Medford on Tuesday to get the kids’ annual heart checkup. Pretty sure any caching will be rejected out of hand, but you never know.
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