Show 260

[Sandy]

Chat about the show here...
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Cachin' with my sweetie...
Sandy of Team PodCacher

[pacholik]

Downloading now. Thanks
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[TheManInStripes]

Fell asleep and missed any shot at FTP today. Looks like it wasn't much of a race anyhow.
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I am a MARATHONER!! June 19, 2010

[pacholik]

Great show. I had forgotten what date I had submitted. So it was a nice surprise. Yes the caches are on the bottom of the Power Poles not on the roads near them.

Also we did have Pie but for the 1 extra hour of daylight for daylight saving day. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=f950a2ca-5642-4e21-b4bd-93e19aff7773


Thanks for the show. The only shame is it goes by way to fast.
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[batsgonemad]

Almost forgot about this today, as I don't normally work on a Monday, so it's with me on my travels
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[ePeterso2]

A 3-month-old geocacher writes a manifesto and is taken seriously? Yikes! Do not feed the attention troll!

The most accurate and important part of that entire post is this: The author is absolutely correct that giving money away for Free Parking is unnecessary and totally unbalances the game. Don't do it!
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[addisonbr]

[sumajman]

Although power trails are discouraged in Groundspeak rules, it is in many ways like an LPC. If you want to do them, you go do them. If you don't, you you avoid the Wal-mart parking lot caches. I don't have a problem with a power trail. Most of the time I would opt for the mountain climb and the scenic view over the numbers. There are, however, some days when I would head down the power trail a little way.

[CoronaKid]

Great show as always! Thanks for summarizing the "manifesto" because there's no way I would waste my time reading that. I started reading it and couldn't make it past the first paragraph. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but I agree that someone with 3 months caching experience might not be qualified. And yes, I also agree about his Free Parking comment.

Here's my date prediction for 2 million active caches: April 1, 2010.

Why such a close date? Now that the NGA has opened up the flood gates for Power Trails I figure the world will soon be littered with them. It's also a good April Fool's joke.

[Electric Water Boy]

The Power Trail
At one time in Texas there was no limit on the number of white bass you could catch. They're fun little fish to catch. But when you're done fishing and it's time to start cleaning those guys. Argh. Who wants to clean 100 little fish? This power trail could be fun for a while, but somewhere along the way you'll realize how much work it's going to be to log all those caches. After a while you'll stop writing a few sentences and get down to TFTC, and then you'll feel bad.

If I lived out near there I'd grab a few here and there each trip. I sure wouldn't want to do them all at once. Wouldn't even want to go for a record.

The Texas Challenge
I had so much fun at this thing. It would normally be a 3 to 3 1/2 drive from my apartment to San Angelo State Park. Going up took us 9 hours and coming back was at least 7 or 8. Caching both ways. Spent all day Friday caching. The Challenge itself was 4 hours of caching your guts out. And of course we cached after that. I picked up in the neighborhood of 120 caches. Could have done more, but weren't in any big rush. Definitely different caching in that area than San Antonio. As I said in the report - everything out there has thorns.

Next year the event will be run by the southeast Texas group. Can't wait!

[JJG10101]

[detourglr]

with the geocaching manifesto and also the power trail. I think you have to tread lightly...

One is that geocaching approved it.. I do think the approver was wrong for approval this. however the proper way to appeal this is to contact some of the higher ups at groudspeak. I have done this once and was pleased on how they handled it.. eventully the person and his caches where banned with no sign of return.. Yeah it was pretty bad and that is all I will say on it.

with the manifesto I think you have to be careful. Myself I think it is a way to get people cache the way he likes to cache. Which as you know they are different reasons why people like caching.. Some do for the numbers, some do for the experience, some just do it and dont care.

Myself I rather find a poorly place cache than no cache at all. if groundspeak removed every cache that somebody said they didnt like.. We would have no caches to find. When I began caching most of the time I have drive 20 miles to an area that had a good placement of caches to find. I surely dont want that again.

Like Sonny & sandy said if we followed this manifesto all the caches would be too easy.. (though a hint for a micro in the woods I would greatly like to have), but would ruin if the person wanted to make the cache extra hard.

Also the difficulty level tells you how hard the cache is to find.. Ok I better get off my soapbox.. this is one of my pet peeves in geocaching.

[batsgonemad]

i found this interesting app called Air Sharing, its all about file sharing as it allows the iphone to read several file types, but why i got it is because i can upload all my caches that ive exported as html from gsak onto the phone and then always have them with me, cause sometimes just when you need to look up a cache you ont have signal. i used to have a 6 series nuvi and was able to upload all the caches as a point of interest with all the cache discriptions, but now i have the 1690 and it only gives you the basics of the cache, with no descriptions, so i was lost without it untill i found this app, so for now it does me good
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[ePeterso2]

[Sonny]