What’s UP with Your Altitude anyway ?

[Sparse Grey Hackle]

So really, what’s UP with your altitude ?

We were curious one day as to what our TOP Ten caches found would be in terms of altitude. Found a GSAK macro and this is what we have to date:

GC623F Caribou Cache United States Colorado 9933 ft
GC1YFR2 It’s all downhill from here. United States Utah 9605 ft
GC15BA1 Stuck On Breckenridge United States Colorado 9598 ft
GCPVK9 C.E.R.K. United States Colorado 9524 ft
GC206DF Imperiosus Visum United States Arizona 8811 ft
GC152CX Capital Reef Grand Vista 100 Yrs of Boy Scouts United States Utah 8718 ft
GCHQN2 Bryce Canyon National Park- Natural Bridge United States Utah 8633 ft
GC1940 Teton Pass Cache United States Wyoming 8520 ft
GC15A1H Yellowstone – North America’s Hot Spot United States Wyoming 8332 ft
GC14YV1 The Lake that Drains to 2 Oceans United States Wyoming
8306 ft
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Be interested to see who went up where and how high.

SGH & BB
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“OK, just because BakRdz went up to Scout’s Landing doesn’t mean we have to climb up there. Do we?”
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[Barry Butrymowicz]

Highest GC14YV1 The Lake that Drains to 2 Oceans Wyoming 8320 ft

Lowest GCB15D “Sailed Through This Pass” Texas 0 ft

[sandlanders]

Found two on the top of Pike’s Peak (14,110′) in August, a virtual and a traditional:

Pike Never Made It! (GC659F)
Pikes Peak Summit International (GC16QMT)

August 17, and there had been snow the night before, with some patches left on the ground. 37 degrees at the top with 28 degrees wind chill.

[bugsmasher69]

Haven’t made it very high myself.

Flower Mountain GC1EAHM 6115 feet New Mexico

and my lowest is,

Gotta Go South (On the Fly!) GCVZCH 16 feet Florida

My average is 859 feet on all of my finds.

All most half of my finds have been in the 600-900 foot range.

[TheBalks]

I dont have much for height, but i have some depth.

GC27QMH Diamonds, Not Ca$he United States California -3 ft
GC1NR3G Skin Deep United States California -3 ft
GC2342P Poison United States California -3 ft
GC24VDK Cheep Ca$he United States California -6 ft
GC24K0K Quick Ca$he United States California -6 ft
GC24K0B Low Hanging Ca$he United States California -6 ft
GC251PA Ca$he Down a Drain United States California -6 ft
GC2529Y Fi$shing for Ca$he United States California -6 ft
GC1KKB6 Cashews United States California -6 ft
GC254RH Spreckles Hill United States California -9 ft

[Crow-T-Robot]

@Sparse Grey Hackle wrote:

So really, what’s UP with your altitude ?

We were curious one day as to what our TOP Ten caches found would be in terms of altitude. Found a GSAK macro and this is what we have to date:

GC1940 Teton Pass Cache United States Wyoming 8520 ft
GC15A1H Yellowstone – North America’s Hot Spot United States Wyoming 8332 ft
GC14YV1 The Lake that Drains to 2 Oceans United States Wyoming
8306 ft
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Be interested to see who went up where and how high.

SGH & BB

I’ve done the Teton Pass Cache. The “climb” wasn’t too bad and the view of Jackson was spectacular 😀

The two earthcaches also had virtuals in the same spot. I stopped doing E/C’s at Yellowstone once I realized I couldn’t keep the information straight. I kept getting the info mixed up or lost, so I opted to do virtuals instead. The Yellowstone-North America’s Hot Spot is the same location as GCGFRQ –A Butte-iful Lake View and The Lake That Drains to 2 Oceans is the same as GCH5EM –Oceans Bound. Looking back, I wish I had done the E/C’s as well, but there’ll be another time for that 8)

As for the others…those will have to go on the waiting list 😯

Bruce

[Timberline Echoes]

Okay… step by step on figuring this out please????
Mrs. TE

[geolivestrong]

My highest was Mt. Washington 9/11 Memorial cache in New Hampshire at 6189 ft. (1886.5M)

My lowest was the Wiggly Bridge in York, Maine at 2.5ft below sea level.

[Team B Squared]

@Timberline Echoes wrote:

Okay… step by step on figuring this out please????
Mrs. TE

1. Download your “My Finds” Pocket Query to GSAK
2. Download the Elevation macro from this LINK
3. Run the macro in GSAK (MACRO>RUN/MANAGE) then highlight “elevations.gsk” and click “Run”

This took awhile to run, so make sure you have some time to let it run.

Hopefully this helps…

[Curly Girls]

Very interesting! I loaded the macro and here is what it said.

Code Name State Elevation ft
GC659F Pike Never Made It! Colorado 14084 ft
GC2729 Inukshuk 1 Colorado 10436 ft
GC1QGGE Vedauwoo Rd #5 Wyoming 10m 8273 ft
GCG8WC VEEDAWOO VIEW Wyoming 8269 ft
GCGJFW From NM To OK As The Crow Flies New Mexico 10m 8183 ft
GC1AHH7 Home on the Range Wyoming 8084 ft
GC1QGG3 Vedauwoo Rd #4 Wyoming 8066 ft
GC13X8H Raton to Folsom Falls Tour, Cache #1 New Mexico 8047 ft
GC1QGFP Vedauwoo Rd #3 Wyoming 7932 ft
GC6999 Virtual New Mexico #4 Capulin Volcano New Mexico 7927 ft
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GC17DAM Just Add Water Florida 4 ft
GCQAGH Doubloon By You Louisiana 3 ft
GC19EZM MUST LOVE DOGS Florida 3 ft
GC119PB Butcherpen Cove Florida 2 ft
GC5F27 “Someday My Prince Will Come” South Carolina 2 ft
GC18BC2 Sweet Home Pensacola Beach Florida 1 ft
GC22A8 Archer & Anna South Carolina 0 ft
GCY04B fiddler crab island bald head North Carolina 0 ft
GC15NZV The Dikes of Odiorne Point New Hampshire 0 ft
GC4893 Night Attack South Carolina 0 ft

[huffinpuffin2]

BM TU2314 Mauna Kea Summit HI 13803 ft 😳 MTB final 7000′ of climb
GC1H9M0 Frederick A Coyaso [Mauna Kea] HI 8970 ft
GCGX9Q Pu’u Kalepeamoa HI 8701 ft
GC123H6 Mt Mazama Oregon 7525 ft
GC6F85 Watching For Wizardry Oregon 7525 ft

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GC1H07K It will come to you like Lightning??? Oregon 13 ft
GC1M47J Rock and Roll HI 4 ft
GC1PR24 Ahalanui Hot Tub HI 3 ft
GC42D4 Lone Palm Cache HI 3 ft
GC24EX7 Laguna Lawn Bowlers California 0 ft

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Bringing this back for an update….does anyone know if this macro somehow morphed into something else? I ask, because I had it on my previous computer and it’s gone. After our trip west I’d like to run it again, and after searching the GSAK forums and master macro index, I can’t find that particular macro.

Help!

[Northwoods Tom]

@sweetlife wrote:

Lowest GCB15D “Sailed Through This Pass” Texas 0 ft

There might be one lower. I think of the cache in Lake Winnebago (underwater) and wouldn’t be surprised if there are other underwater caches off the coast of say Florida.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

I know the lowest cache is Badwater in Death Valley. Something like 260 feet below sea level. There may be lower ones in other countries.

The link that was posted to the macro earlier in this thread no longer seems to work, and I couldn’t find exactly what I wanted in the macro index, so I asked here. Hopefully someone with more tech savvy knows the nitty gritty.

[LMcGisme]

Interesting thread. I did find the elevation macro in the gsak forums – try this link: http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=10289&st=220&#entry141556

As for my finds, the highest is GC1J8T3 “Big Horn Sheep (Eastbound only)” Colorado, 8798 ft
and the lowest is GCMKWT “At the Pier”, California, -28 ft

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