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BeccaDay 10 years, 5 months ago.
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Ok. I will be the first to post in this forum.
I will start by giving a little background to what needs to be done.
When I first heard of the “Whereigo” cache it was the one Team Blackcat did in Shawano. It sounded like fun, so I made sure I put the cache into my whereigo capable Garmin GPSr. With much anticipation, Rick Blick and I arrived at GZ in Shawano and nothing happened. What the heck. Luckily TBC was home and I phoned him. He asked what I did and I told him. He asked, “Did you download the cartridge into the GPS?” I responded, “The what?????” After realizing this wasn’t going to work, we went “normal” caching for the day. I went home and spent several hours researching and going to the “Whereigo” site and signed up. The moral of the story…DO YOUR RESEARCH! It requires more than just the cache page coords.
oh yeah… FTP!
Found my first WHERIGO today … West Bend, WI in Regner Park … I loved it … wish there were more in the area. Pharmgirl did an excellent job on it too … including how exact the final coordinates were (I literally got my GPSr down to about 3 feet, looked up and there it was).
Took me a bit of time to get it all figured out … but my problems were with my GPSr (not being patient when I’d press a button to wait for the results to be calculated I guess). I thought it was locked up a couple times, causing me a couple false starts. When a person is just caching, clicking the buttons on an Oregon 400t is pretty quick … but some of the steps on a WHERIGO seem to cause a pause of 5 or 10 seconds, but they came prodictable after a while .. I think the unit has to think pretty hard because of the complexity happening behind the scenes.
My biggest suggestion … After solving a view steps (maybe when walking to the next), exit and then SAVE the game … then come back in to your saved game. If you lockup or power down by mistake (I did the later while crawling under a tree) you lose what you’ve done so far (retracing your steps takes away the joy a bit). So save, save, save.
Completed our first Wherigo yesterday, Trolling Mt Horeb, for our 10th find on 10/10/10 🙂 [after reading that GC wanted lots of accounts to log a find, and we had family plans that didn’t allow us to attend a 10/10/10 10:10 event, decide it would be fun to make 10 cache finds.
We had started the wherigo earlier in the week while walking the pup, and trying out the features of my new phone, Android based HTC Desire. Too bad it doesn’t yet handle the download of the cartridges itself. But I did my homework before hand and already had it loaded. We started a bit too late to have completed it during our walk, gets dark pretty fast this time of year.
After hitting a few DNFs on our quest for the 10th find, we decided to finish out the wherigo for #10.Reminds me of the old time computer adventure games 🙂
Yesterday we did a great whereigo located just SW of Milwaukee. GC4JY6M was hidden/adopted by Youngins3/Froggerz and is rather unique because you can actually do the whereigo in your own back yard, or anywhere or in any town. The actual cache container is in Greenfield, but the whereigo coordinates can be solved from anywhere. What you do is this: When you start the whereigo, from wherever you currently are, it creates a grid about 270 feet x 270 feet, and you stay in that area to solve and get the final coordinates. We had the amusing misfortune of starting it at a car dealership parking lot while our car was being serviced. I think almost every car salesperson that worked there approached us thinking we wanted to buy a new car as we kept wandering through that 270 foot square!
“No, we’re not looking for a new car, we’re playing an online game while waiting for our car to be serviced.” Anywhere? Like from Eau Claire? 😉
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
Yep, especially Eau Claire! However, even though you can solve it in a 270 foot by 270 foot area in Eau Claire, the cache container is still just outside of Milwaukee in Greenfield.
Maybe I’ll do the whereigo part today and pick up the cache tomorrow after church.
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
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