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07/18/2008 at 10:04 pm #1726818
😕 With gas prices so high, it sure would help if folks put the trail head/parking coordinates on their listings. ❗ Caching out of town a few weeks ago, this drove me nuts trying to figure out where to get to the cache without cutting through someone’s back yard, etc…. My autorouter almost drove me crazy with it’s beeping and recalculating!!! With not being able to find the trailhead quite a few times I just had to give up and move onto the next one more times than I would have liked. 🙄
k, I feel better now… 😆
07/18/2008 at 10:17 pm #1892397Wow Dove, my auto router does the same thing. I took the mature response of mocking it and a certain gesture, seemed to help but she just continued “recalculating”
07/18/2008 at 10:37 pm #1892398Here is what I think I should invent. A GPS navigation system that is a total smarty pants and if you make a wrong turn, it tells you off! I could come up with a million funny things for it to say when you would make a wrong turn or not listen to the constant “recalculating or OFF ROUTE”! 😆
07/19/2008 at 12:26 am #1892399When mine speaks, my only response is, “yes ma’am”.
Ok, once in a while it’s “Blow it out your…” 😀
07/19/2008 at 12:43 am #1892400Trekkin’ was JUST discussing how fun it would be to develop an autorouter like that. It would never get off the ground, he works with the naughty kids and his concept of what’s okay is warped!
But we hear you on your concern, we’ve encountered a lot of the same. I realize part of the game is using your navigational skills to find places, but it does get frustrating to drive all over trying to find the access points, especially with the gas prices what they are.
07/19/2008 at 12:48 am #1892401A few weeks ago when Rick Blick and I went caching, My “lady” got me as close as possible and then she says, “Continue offroad!” Rick and I just started laughing.
07/19/2008 at 1:16 am #1892402When we were caching in Myrtle Beach, there has been a lot of construction due an old Air Force base been scraped, this caused our GPS to start stuttering, trying to say recaluting fast enough to keep up with the road changes
07/19/2008 at 1:55 am #1892403Sheila, and her predecessors, all route me to the closest road by the caches.
While in the Phoenix metro area, that means she takes me into neighborhood enclaves – there are subdivisions with one only entrance, several loops roads inside the enclave, and no pubic access to the washes and trails outside the enclaves.
So one time she tells me to turn into one, and I ignore her. Turns out to be public access at the back of the sub-division, and that entrance is where I needed to be. Drove over 5 miles to get back around to the entrance I bypassed.
07/19/2008 at 2:33 am #1892404It is just so helpful to be able to know where the trails start, where to park, etc… For instance if anyone has done the bugline in Sussex – where the heck do you park? I want to go for GCXKV1 and a few others on that trail, but there does not seem to be an easy place to park and I don’t know where the trailheads are. At one point, it says .61 in or something to that effect, not that I mind walking – but I drove all over trying to find a short cut in, if there is none – that is cool too, but it would be nice to know. Not trying to call one cache out or cache hider, but this happens all the time – at least to me, maybe I listen to that crazy autorouter entirely too much or something! 🙄
Our GPS is known as the GYPSY because she makes me wander around like one…
07/19/2008 at 5:06 am #1892405@LDove wrote:
It is just so helpful to be able to know where the trails start, where to park, etc… For instance if anyone has done the bugline in Sussex – where the heck do you park?
The Bugline is only 12 miles long so if you took your bike and parked at one end you would only have to ride 24 miles to grab all of the caches. That would solve your autorouting problem, now all that would remain is what to do about your sore #*@.
07/19/2008 at 11:33 am #1892406@LDove wrote:
… My autorouter almost drove me crazy with it’s beeping and recalculating!!!
I hear you! New routes [US10] drive our unit nuts too. We just turn Barbie’s volume down and go about our business. Then Trudy & I reason it out without the constant interruptions from that tiny mindless [insert derogatory term here]. ~tb
07/19/2008 at 1:51 pm #1892407@Mister Greenthumb wrote:
@LDove wrote:
It is just so helpful to be able to know where the trails start, where to park, etc… For instance if anyone has done the bugline in Sussex – where the heck do you park?
The Bugline is only 12 miles long so if you took your bike and parked at one end you would only have to ride 24 miles to grab all of the caches. That would solve your autorouting problem, now all that would remain is what to do about your sore #*@.
12 MILES 😯 😮 Now that would be a long ride, but at least I could get them all even with a sore hiney 😀 . Too bad my bike has no gears to make it go or any way to haul it right now 🙁 I guess that a bike is the best way to attack those though, I will have to try for them next summer.
No kidding about routes close to a highway! If the cache is close to a major highway the autorouter thinks it is ON the highway so it sends you around and around and around. I tried to find the Potter’s Field in Green Bay – ha! The GYPSY got turned to off after a few circutaneous driving motions and I had to use my brain and common sense (what there is of it anyways) 😛
07/19/2008 at 2:01 pm #1892408My favorite is when mine kept beeping and telling me the cache was “right off road”, as I was in the middle of crossing a bridge. 😕 I still get a kick out of thinking I should have parked on the bridge and jumped off into the trees below. 😀
07/19/2008 at 3:21 pm #1892409@LDove wrote:
Here is what I think I should invent. A GPS navigation system that is a total smarty pants and if you make a wrong turn, it tells you off! I could come up with a million funny things for it to say when you would make a wrong turn or not listen to the constant “recalculating or OFF ROUTE”! 😆
LDove… you didn’t get the e-mail with the link to the You Tube for the New GPS did you?? They took my idea…similar to what you are mentioning here.
Also…for the Bugline, I think they want you to park at the most convenient spot then tkae you bike or hike to them all. I have done some of them and Digital Dan and Bushwhacking Queen did a whole bunch more. Dan might know where the best places to park are.
07/19/2008 at 3:30 pm #1892410FU – I would LOVE to see the video, you got the link? Thanks for the tip for DD, will have to e-mail him.
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