[Az-Geocaching] Why I live in Arizona (reason #57)

[Team Tierra Buena]

I just noticed the URL I posted before was so long it got broken up. Try
this one instead: http://tinyurl.com/3ah9. Should get you to the same
thread.

Steve
Team Tierra Buena
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness". -- Dave
Barry



> -----Original Message-----
> From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com 
> [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On 
> Behalf Of Team Tierra Buena
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 3:20 PM
> To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Why I live in Arizona (reason #57)
> 
> 
> Oh... THAT one.
> 
> This has been beaten more than the Cardinals in this 
> Groundspeak thread: 
> http://opentopic.groundspeak.com/0/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=175097355
> 3&f=300091
> 7383&m=5040909045. Net of it is (from my perspective): There 
> are about a gazillion different ways "Geobuster" could have 
> handled this situation that would have been preferable to the 
> way he or she did handle it, but that cache should never have 
> been placed in the middle of a National Park to begin with.
> 
> Personally, I'm more interested in how the geocaching.com 
> application took an "invalid" cache waypoint (GCBO49) and 
> turned it into a valid one. The cache you wound up looking 
> at, Trisha, was actually GCAF49, and the site modified the 
> request in some manner. It looks as though it treated the "O" 
> in the waypoint as a zero, and then subtracted 100(hex)from 
> it. Fascinating.
> 
> Steve
> Team Tierra Buena
> There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental 
> illness". -- Dave Barry
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com
> > [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On 
> > Behalf Of trisha@brasher.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 2:53 PM
> > To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> > Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Why I live in Arizona (reason #57)
> > 
> > 
> > Well...OK, so I was a bit confused for a few minutes. I went
> > to see what Rob was talking about with Denny's 402'nd 
> > find....I went to GCB0
> > (zero) 49 and found myself in Minnesota. Hm. 
> > 
> > OK. So I tried GCBO (letter O)49 and.....geez, y'all better
> > go and see what is going on in California!! The Left Coast, 
> > the Granola State (land of fruits, nuts and flakes), the 
> > People's Republic of California (where, by the way, I grew 
> > up. Now I am in Arizona, Enough said) has people over there 
> > who take tree-hugging (and "littering") to the extreme.
> > 
> > Anyway, I did finally figure out, from a previous post, the
> > Rob meant GCB0F9 for the Silica cache thing. Sneaky, Denny.
> > 
> > I think the California deal is more interesting. Anybody see
> > anything like that before?
> > 
> > Trisha "Lightning"
> > Prescott
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, "Bell, Robert" wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I'll congratulate Tres Hombres on their 400th cache find
> > too, and have
> > > had the privilege of being on many of them.
> > > 
> > > Its his 402 cache find (GCB049) that I wasn't on that I'm still 
> > > irked about!  :D
> > > 
> > > Rob, Team CHUMP
> > > "Gotta find them all!"
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Scott Nicol [mailto:arizcowboy@hotmail.com]
> > > Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 16:54
> > > To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> > > Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Congrats
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Howdy,
> > > 
> > > I too would like to send my congratulations to Tres Hombres
> > for their
> > > 400th cache find! I also would like to congratulate AZSaluki for
> > > winning "the
> > > prize" on Puz-zel's challenge for the most of his caches found!
> > > 
> > > Scott
> > > Team Ropingthewind
> > > 
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