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I had an offer last night via email. I told the person that unless a better offer comes along by tonight, they get it. To keep things fair, email me an offer at [email protected]. If it is higher than the other persons, you can buy it. Also, I have a MAX that I would accept… if you go OVER the max, I will lower the price to the max.
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Originally posted by Trudy & the beast:
I believe it would be preferable to obtain permission before the cache is actually put into place. I have made the necessary changes suggested in brackets below.
Actually. Item 2.1.1 already indicates that the cache placer should obtain permission before placing the cache:
2.1.1 Step 1. Before you place a cache, contact the park manager to obtain permission to place a cache in that park. This can either be done in person, in writing, by email, or by telephone.
No takers yet. Didn’t surprise me seeing as I posted it the night before the picnic, plus, most people there were already owners of a GPSR.
Were you interested?
The best people to ask would probably be those who granted permission for you to do that cache… I’m assuming they are the owners of the establishment. They’d be most familiar with the laws in question, plus any additional rules of their own.
If access is restricted to minors, you can just explain this in the cache description.
Item 4.2, which reads:
4.2 If a geocache hunter finds inappropriate items in a cache (such as food, drugs, alcohol, hazardous materials, knives and other weapons, etc.) he or she shall remove these items from the cache.
There may be a slight issue with this item. Should somebody come accross illegal drugs in a cache, I don’t know that the proper action would be to remove them. Obviously, they can’t be there, BUT, from a legal standpoint, I think that if you remove the drugs, you are now in POSSESION of a controlled susbstance. In the unlikely event an officer catches you, I think you’d be in trouble.
I have never found any drugs in a cache, but it could happen. I just don’t think it is wise to take possession of the drugs from a legal standpoint.
I bought a Magellan Meridian. So far I really like it. Yesterday, in the evening, I took it to Natureland Park and hunted “Beyond the Pines” to try it out, and I was impressed. It has a very eager signal lock, the oversized display is great, and it has scores of features. When I found the cache, the co-ordinates were right on. It didn’t loose the signals even under dense cover.
It does have a few drawbacks. Namely size; it is almost as large as a small elephant, and the array of front mounted buttons, although well designed and easy to use, really don’t stack up against the Garmin eTrex’s for single-handed operation. I really wish Garmin would release the eTrex with a quad-helix antenna and maybe widen the unit by a quarter inch to facillitate a larger screen. Magellan does have the SportTrak sreies, and I did play with the SportTrak Map for a while and almost bought it instead. It is a sleeker, slightly smaller version of the Meridian, but lacks one feature: the ability to pop in SD memory cards. My meridian can be expanded to a huge capacity of memory for maps using SD cards; with the sportstraks you are limited to what is built into the unit.
One other thing that annoyed me: My eTrex faithfully reported to me the calculated error. If it was accurate to, say, 30 feet, it would always tell me. The Meridian DOES display this information, but not always. If it is not averaging, and WAAS isn’t working, it displays the range of error. But otherwise, I can’t see this information. The manual says very little about this.
I guess we’ll see how I like this unit after the picnic today. So far, I love it, even though I find myself missing the thoughtful physical design of my eTrex.
[This message has been edited by Thraxman (edited 08-25-2002).]
My point of view on this is quite simple. I am not a German-American. Therefore, there are no Arab-Americans, no African-Americans, no Asian-Americans, no hyphenated-Americans. Only Americans.
Does this mean I can honestly say that I am color-blind, that I have no predjudices? No. What it means is that when I meet someone, if I sense that I may be influenced by the color of their skin or the accent of their voice, I just simply remind myself that this fellow American deserves better than to be subject to some irrational negative thought that was ingrained in me 25 years ago. And you’d be surprised how automatic that becomes. It requires no effort to simply remember that one common thread we all have. And it ticked me off during the days following Sept. 11 that many decided to boycott businesses owned by those that recently moved here. They didn’t hijack those jets, just as I wasn’t running concentration camps in WWII.
The sad thing is that this country has reached a point where we often can’t enjoy our strongest feature. The melting pot theory is largely wrong. Our diverse cultures don’t eventually blend together seamlessly to form one American Culture. Rather, the USA acts more as a salad bowl. If you toss a green-pepper into a salad, it may become smothered in dressing, and you often won’t taste it by itself, it’s flavor will be experienced with that of the tomato and the cucumber. But it is still what it was before it was harvested, a green-pepper. Every ingredient in the salad adds to and improves the salad, but its identity is largely unchanged. So it is in the USA. People from around the world come here. We don’t blend into one race, we don’t all celebrate the same holidays, we don’t seamlessly flow together. But we SHOULD be enjoying our differences, not regretting them. But, for that to happen, the whole country has to be of the same attitude. That can only really start by building on that common thread: We are all Americans, here together, for no good reason other than that we happen to be here.
I know what you’re saying, sbukosky. But, we live in an age where kids are expelled from high-schools for bringing a kitchen knife to school to cut open an onion for a presentation in science class (seriously!).
hmm
I just turned mine on and walked myself through step by step to see how I did it.
Initially, it didn’t show up on my list of books when I first synced it, prolly cause I synced it to a different folder. Near the top of my library screen is a browse option. I used that to browse to the actual .prc file, and opened it that way.
I noticed that it does now show up on my library screen, so I won’t have to do it again that way.
If this is what you are doing, I don’t know what to tell you, other than maybe your file is bad(?)
The only problem I’ve run into with the whole new system is the fact that geocaching.com doesn’t always send the files to me as schedualled. I was thrilled yesterday when one finnally got e-mailed to me
I successfully downloaded the file to my PDA. I am using Mobipocket Reader, and it opened it no problem.
Actually, Because I sync to a different folder than my default Mobipocket folder, I do have to do a quick browse to open the file, which I probably wouldn’t have to do if I just moved the file to the correct folder.
Excellent newsreel Cheesehead Dave! Good to see an in-depth update on Sgt. Thrax and his men. It appears the mission is going quite well!
I’ve seen this whole “elitist” debate before at geocaching.com. When Jeremy started selling the “charter memberships” along with the ability to list a cache as a mocache (members only cache) some people started screaming elitist. It seems that people throw the elitist label on just about anything they don’t like or that may be too difficult or time consuming.
Heck, one could consider Geocaching itself elitist, because unless you own or purchase a GPSR, you would have a heck of a time trying to participate
I personally don’t see anything wrong with the “worked all counties” concept. I don’t really see the point to it, but I find nothing wrong with the concept itself.
My philosophy is simply this: If I don’t like the concept behind a cache, i simply don’t hunt it. But I certainly don’t want to stop others who might enjoy it from going out to get it.
Sam. Please. Your paranoia is getting worse.
Please note the evidence:
-Water’s Edge cache: Cache was fine while they were there. They leave, and weeks later the cache is rendered useless.
-Nobody broke into your house the two weeks you had them there.
– The poker cache has had numerous visitors, and is becoming quite the huge stash. Nobody has plundered it. Sgt. Thrax and his men are there.
How ’bout we just assume they are innocent until, well, something suspicious (at LEAST) happens?
Um…
A couple weeks ago someone dropped off my Travel Bug “Sgt. Thrax and the Cache Patrol” in the poker cache. They are guarding it right now, but I am concerned that the cache will be retrieved with them still in it.
Team Rusch, could you please check for it when you go to retrieve the cache? If it is still there, can you make sure it moves on? Thanx
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