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The DNR has already bought GPSr kits for some of the properties. I had a chance to work with these units (I don’t remember what they were), but they had the “good” antenna and worked well for geocaching.
You could probably contact Jackie S. at the Ice Age Center and she could tell you what they already have bought.
Maybe it was the Fisher Creek Cache?
Ask Korpl… it came from his personal WGA photo album.
@seldom|seen wrote:
…because your name is widely known throughout the state and your position on the BOD does carry some weight when you are expressing your PERSONAL opinions about what YOU consider to be a quality cache. I’d expect your position, being in that position, to be neutral.
Being on the BOD does not require somebody to be (or even post) neutral on every subject. Always assume that the BOD member that is posting is giving his or her PERSONAL opinion. (including this post)
How about a stamp?
@gotta run wrote:
99.9% of the time our caching “team” is our family, so our experience is pretty straightforward. While walking to the cache, the kids argue about who is going to walk in front. When that is sorted out, the one in front complains about getting sticks kicked on him/her while the one behind accuses the one in front of passing gas (often true).
To divert the tension, we give the older one a GPSr to look at (that’s why we own 2), whereupon she promptly walks off the trail in the wrong direction and then comes back in a huff, exclaiming “I don’t want to do this.”
Back to the trail and the chorus of “Are we getting closer?” queries begins, to which I usually respond, “No, I thought we’d walk in the opposite direction of the cache today.”
Eventually, the adults with the GPSrs get to GZ and call back the children who have charged 100′ down the trail in their quest to be first. They come back and “look” for the cache, meaning that if it is not a 50 cal ammo can sitting on top of a stump, daughter-cacher declares “it’s not here” and son-cacher goes off to stomp bugs or look for bright shiny objects.
When the cache is found (usually by Mrs. gotta run), a literal “Hoot!” call is made, whereupon the children rush over and commence arguing about, you guessed it, who gets to look in the cache for swag first. Then it’s back to the trail for the choruses of “How many more of these are we going to do?” to begin.
At least that’s how it works in our team.
Yup. That’s exactly what its like for my family too. We’ve found we are able to avoid most of the trouble by hunting the micros as part of the Battleship series. No swag = No Arguing, yet everybody still has plenty of fun.
Chill out… Jeez….
Remember, hindsight is 20/20.
If it was spread out all over the lawn, it was more geo-trash than geocache.
Plus, if the finder didn’t know where it was supposed to be, how could he have put it back?
If you are a local, and you don’t know where to put it back, it might be best to take it with you then get it back to the owner.
Conversely, he could have just walked away and let the park maintainence people throw everything away when they found it.
This is a picture of my son, taken about 6 years ago. The DNR is using it on their web page.
Geographically. We will try and pick up all of the caches in a given area. We take whatever “hits” and “misses” we come up with. I suppose once we get the grid filled in a little bit more, we might make some strategic strikes.
The blank page looked bad, I agree.
I put up a fall geocaching picture that is in our photo album.
If anybody has pics that would make good front-page viewing for these slow-news periods, please either post a link here or PM me.
@hogrod wrote:
I use Malwarebytes (free) to clean these types of infections off most PC’s I fix. The software is very simple to use, does a great job, and since it’s free I highly recommend it. I’m posting a link so if anyone goes looking for it they don’t get fooled by another fake program/website.
http://www.malwarebytes.org/This software offers no real-time protection unless you buy the pay version. I have the full version and find it doesn’t catch as much as my Antivirus software so I’m not sure it was worth the money. As a removal tool you use periodically to scan your PC to remove these types of infections, There isn’t much better.
In full agreement with this. I’ve seen malwarebytes clean up some pretty infected systems.
@seldom|seen wrote:
an anagram of the acronym… you want me to spell it out for ya? Sheeeshhh.
Yes, because I really don’t care enough to work that hard on it.
I have created a “grid” with the approximate location / city / road / landmark at the top of each cell.
These are only approximations, and some of the places may only be known to somebody who is from the area.
I have included a PDF Version.
I have also included the Microsoft Excel version.
You may need to right-click, then “save as” to get at these files. If you have changes or a better description for any of the cells, please feel free to PM me and I can update it.
Hope you find this at least somewhat helpful.
I use my bicycle headlight. It is small, light, waterproof, runs on 4 AA batteries and has a *very* bright and *very* focused beam. It is a Cateye (Link).
I was using it on my bicycle one day and I could see a reflective road sign off in the distance that was being illuminated by this light. With the GPS that was also mounted to the handlebar, I measured that I was almost 1/2 mile away.
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