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I don’t know how disheartening it really is. Look at the source. The list is from about.com. About.com is, in my mind, the internet’s largest stash of the obvious. If it is on about.com, most people already know it, so it follows that this list is evidence that most people already know to get outside! 🙂
06/27/2011 at 3:03 am in reply to: High Tech Adventure Tools..DIY on a Budget: DUCT TAPE KAYAK #1949436And after you dress up in your duct tape clothing, and paddle all day in your duct tape kayak, you can catch a few Z’s in one of these:
I like shiny things.
Did you figure it out yet? Would have responded sooner but I haven’t been around lately. I use MacCaching some… I may be able to help.
Mine is working.
I don’t understand why posting cemetery photos would be considered bad form. Everything in a cemetery, including headstones and crypts, were designed and placed to be seen. Walk through a cemetery and look at some of the beautiful and ornate stonework. It is clear the monuments were not meant to be ignored and forgotten, and certainly not avoided. Pictures serve to preserve the beauty of the monuments as well as spread forgotten memories of those they were placed for. There is nothing inherently disrespectful about graveyard photos. They draw attention. They say “Hey, this is interesting or unusual” or perhaps remind us of some history and the person behind that history–history which otherwise slips closer to the realm of the forgotten each day.
Posing for pictures in cemeteries: Clearly, one COULD pose in a disrespectful manner, but assuming someone just wants to be in a photo with something or someone in the graveyard, there is nothing wrong with this.
Hunting caches when someone is visiting a a nearby grave is probably not the most polite thing to do. I bet some mourners would certainly prefer privacy, while others might be perfectly fine with the activity. But we should play it cautious and assume privacy is desired. No cache is so important that we need to risk causing distress.
As for hunting caches in cemeteries after dark, I assume most cemeteries to be “closed” when the sun sets. This may not be true, it is just the assumption I operate under. Frankly, if a cemetery IS open 24 hours, I don’t understand why it would be wrong to be there after dark. It is probably the time you would be LEAST likely to disturb someone who is truly mourning. And so what if the earth is turned so that the continents on the opposite side from us are getting the sunlight?
The Big Picture view that I take is simple. If, say, 150 years from now, some people get in the habit of playing games near my grave, I’m fine with that. Completely. In fact, I’d be happy to know that a century or so after I am dead that a group of strangers will, for some unknown reason, use my gravestone as a table to play cards on. In fact, I’ve toyed with the idea of having some sort of puzzle engraved on my stone. Something to entertain those interested enough to look.
@SadowskiFamily wrote:
A question…. Do you have the ability to write a note for each cache found also mark a cache as found then go back and filter out all other caches execpt for the finds? Like cachemate with a PDA.
No. These apps simply take cache descriptions from your queries and put them into the notes or contacts feature on the iPods. They are easily searchable, and great for reference in the field, but there is no note-taking/cache marking feature (My Garmin 60CSx has a feature that lets me mark caches as found, so I don’t need another device doing that). It’d be pretty hard to take notes on most iPods anyhow, because all iPods prior to the Touch used the click-wheel for input.
This is far from a killer app… but it is an excellent way to go “paperless” using equipment so many people have laying around. heck, bring the iPod geocaching, and you can even use it to play music while driving 🙂
South Central Wisconsin: Still quite green, but a noticeable number of leaves are now yellow. Plenty of gray skies.
Funny you should mention that. I looked at the cache rescue list several days ago, and I was surprised to see a cache that needs to be rescued in my local area. I planned on getting it, but you guessed it, I forgot.
I bet other people have the same story… good intentions, but ultimately the chore is forgotten because it just isn’t all that exciting. A reminder of sorts may help. Let’s face it, the “Cache Rescue” link isn’t really the most prominent feature on the WGA website. It sits to the left of the page looking pretty much like all the other links over there. Many of those probably don’t get clicked on very often either.
How about naming the second weekend of every month “Cache Cleanup Weekend”, post a reminder in the news or in the forums, and see what happens? This would serve as a simple, friendly reminder for interested parties to check the rescue list and take care of business.
You… you DIDN’T!
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@hogrod wrote:
Since allot of WGA members have the logo/link on their cache page, I would think after having 200 finds you would have noticed this by now, guess that proves most people don’t actually read the whole cache page. 😉
Or maybe this is a side-effect of “paperless” caching. I know I see none of the links when I use my iPod to view cache pages, although I usually DO see the page on my computer when logging. But I am betting that “paperless” caching reduces the exposure of WGA links.
Handing out cards on the trail? Excellent, but very spotty.
WGA materials in a cache? Great, but the prominence of micro caches means, well, not much room for WGA swag, if anyone is even looking.
You want to make sure people are aware of WGA? seems to me that that the only good, fun way would be a series of puzzle caches that required the hunter to solve puzzles that require a visit to the WGA website for answers. Something like that.
There is a population density map for wisconsin here.
Just scrolling around on the Google map of caches, you can see that cache density is high in cities. I assume this is because of population density, places to hide, etc. But also consider where you CAN’T hide a cache. Cornfields are a good example. And how many cornfields in Wisconsin? Lots. Most private property is not an option for cache placement. It’d be intersting to take a map and black out all areas where caches CAN’T be hidden. Then superimpose a map of caches, and see what is left.
Nice… brings back memories of cheating at auto bingo on trips as a kid 🙂
But… uhg. You put the 500 traditional caches right where the “Free” space belongs.
How ’bout I dip my cat’s paws in ink (he’ll get over it)(on second thought, make it gravy so he can at least enjoy licking it off) and have him walk around on a map of the state. To complete the challenge you have to find one cache located in each paw print (figure about 60 total). No micros because you have to put a wind-up mouse in each cache you find for it to count.
I know, this isn’t an existing challenge, but it seems to make as much sense as most of the others, and my cat likes gravy. 😛
@Cachew wrote:
This thread could go in a LOT of directions…
What if one had a PC and an i-phone?
There is a free app for the iPhone called Geocaching Toolkit (iGCT).
Looks like it is packed with features that would be handy for puzzle caches. It does NOT have a means of storing cache info froom what I can tell, and I see no aps that do on a quick search. But, of course, if you have an iPhone you have access to Geocaching dot Com just about about anywhere.
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