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Sandy · Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 1004 Location: San Diego, CA

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chihuahuak94me · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 9:25 pm Post subject:

You mean I am the first to download this show? How did that happen?

batsgonemad · Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Posts: 491 Location: Northern Ireland

Damitt!!!!!!!! ..........Time Zones. Oh well back to bed, will download for my Drive to Dublin
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Electric Water Boy · Joined: 22 Oct 2008 Posts: 400 Location: Selma, Tx

Got it early yesterday and listened to it on the way to a nice power run and a few other caches. Nice drive through the Texas Hill Country. Lots of bikers out early (both pedaling and motorized). Bet they were all gone by the time the showers started blowing through.

As usual, another great show!

Sonny · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 6:46 am Post subject:

Even though it was a 3 day holiday weekend here in the US, it was too busy for us to go caching. Sad

Also starting to run into the "Sean is becoming a picky eater"' challenge as well. Grrr.
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ChildOfAtom · Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 368 Location: NY, NY

Okay Sonny, with your love of Macgyvering... I have two things for you:

1) The Ready Made magazine Macgyver Challenge. ReadyMade is a sort of more youthful version of Better Homes and Gardens geared towards 20 and 30something urban crafter/maker/builder market. Every month they run what they call the Macgyver Challenge. They present an item that people commonly have around (old VCR tapes, Scrabble tiles, a slide carousel) and you have a few months to come up with your best solution on a way to reuse and recycle the object. They don't keep a deep archive unfortunately, but the most recent 6 or so are at the link above. They've done some cool ones in the past a clock made from a VCR tape, a magazine rack from a broken umbrella, an awesome table from wooden clothes hangers (I'll have to see if I can wrangle that one up somewhere...) But you should definitely check it out.

and 2) a cache that is a Macgyver Challenge itself! GC1915Z Happy Hiker #1: The Ten Essentials. The basic concept here is to take the 10 "essentials" that you are supposed to take with you on every hike (water, first aid, a topo map of the area, extra clothes, etc.) and figure out how to use one of them at each stage of this 10 stage puzzle multi. For instance, when confronted with a large U shaped pipe... do you use your water to float out the cache at the bottom? Or do you use a stick and some medical tape from your first aid kit retrieve it? Or can you pull your piece of extra clothing through the pipe on a rope and use that to pull the cache upward? It's a great cache, and I had a lot of fun when I did it.
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Team GeoRangers · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:04 pm Post subject: Re: Macgyver

saltercreaserangers · Joined: 23 Aug 2010 Posts: 167 Location: UK

Not that I believe that the Terrible Two's would ever happen this badly to S&S, but ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vu0WqGYw7M

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Dorsetgal & GeoDog · Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 165 Location: Dorset, England

Anyone who feels just an itsy bitsy teeny weeny bit envious of the Garmin / Merrell / GC competition in the UK should just cast their mind back to all those fabulous Jeep contests that we weren't allowed to enter Laughing

Enjoyed the show and as always really appreciated, thank you.

Going to d/l the next in the morning and save it for a long plane ride ...

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Chief_Osceola · Joined: 06 Sep 2010 Posts: 1

Thank you for including my cache in your podcast! If anybody outside Central Ohio wants to try to do a cache like this in your area, I'd be more than happy to help - what I specifically asked from each participant, what went wrong, what could be better, etc.

Keep on Cachin'!

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