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*grin*
Yep, Geocaching.com has setup http://wap.geocaching.com so you can use your phone to browse/log/find caches where ever you are
Generally what we do when we need access while on the road is find an open wifi spot by using some software on the laptop to ‘sniff’ for open wireless networks
If you get a wifi card and need access, go near hotels. They tend to have open access for their guests That and head down a pretty dense residential neighbor hood, you’ll eventually find one. (We even found one out in the middle of the country once!)
Nick
of The CacheseekersWow! I’ve never seen someone log their own that many times.
I could see how they may have done it by accident with what they say in the logs. Kudos to them for keeping an eye on the cache and area around it though.
I guess I should clearify what I saw. I had seen a cache that someone placed themselves, had been logged by the owner after about 10 or 15 other logs were logged. Now, I can’t say i’m 100% sure they placed it, but the first ‘notes’ written in the log area were by the owner of the cache so I assumed they were the original owners. I believe their log stated “they were in the area and decided to do their own cache.” Something along those lines.
I wish I would have written down the specific cache that made me ask this question.
In either case, it’s not very important if someone does or doesn’t. It’s not like we get prize for having 1000 cache finds or something. We recently surpassed the 100 mark late last month after over 2 years of caching and sometimes find it hard to comprehend how people have time to get the number of finds that they have. However, now that our lives have settle down some we have found it is much easier to go find a cache here and there through out the week. Previously we had to make special plans for hunting 😛
Our goal was 100 by the end of the year, we reached that goal before September. So we jokingly made another goal of 200 by the end of the year, we’ll see where we get This will be our first year doing caches in the winter, and I am looking forward to it!
Nick
of The CacheseekersWow, we just looked at what is in the possible awards for grand prizes and what the first finders of the previous missions this year are set to recieve. It’s hard to believe the prices that Magellan is giving away with this. We didn’t know that this contest was around last year. Hope to see more of these
Garmin needs to kick it in gear and start competing with contests
It was well worth the drive and climb
Congratulations to Uncle_Fun on being the FTF on this.
Nick & Katrina
of The CacheseekersWe decided to take a drive from Madison into Milwaukee to see if we could find it as it seemed only 7 finders found it by 1PM today. We arrived onsite and found it around 3:30PM. We’re kind of confused as to how many found it before us. Because we didn’t find a ‘coupon’, atleast that we think we assume the logs in the log book were contained multiple people. Anyone have a picture of what the coupon thing looks like? Or what the first finder all found in it?
It’s in a great park. A lot of people were near by and had us scrambling (literally) up a very high sand ‘cliff’ in hopes of finding it a head of anyone that may be searching Didn’t run into anyone though.
Took some time to find some near by caches too. One that I think we’re going to nominate as a cache of the month
Also, a little side note.. They wouldn’t hide it in a building would they?
Otherwise a spy’s favorite hang out would be The Safe House
That’s in the area I discribed in my last post too I believe….
The newest clue makes me think of the summerfest grounds where they have all of the bridges. The 7th bridge may be refering to the 7th street exit. That area is also near to the breweries…
Man, I wish I was closer to Milwaukee than being stuck here in Madison 😛
Good luck!
Nick
of The CacheseekersWe’ve only had one chance encounter (at least that we know of ) while out caching. We were doing our rounds in Peoria IL and we spotted someone near the area where we thought that the cache may be. We waited away about 100 yrds away until they headed out and greeted them on the trail. It was pretty exciting being we had started Geocaching that year and were still fairly new at caching.
Also when we were caching at the end of July on the west side of Dane county it seemed like someone was following us to a few caches. They’d drive into the spot where we were parked and wait a few minutes and then leave. We’d leave the cache with said car no where in site and get to our new cache spot. A few minutes after that the car would pull in also, then leave. Almost like we got there first so they didn’t want to do the cache.
Probably all coincidence. But it was kind of amusing.
Nick
of The CacheseekersHow interesting that this is going on. We just got back from our 1st Anniversary weekend up in Door County. On the way up there we discovered these caches and loved the idea. We put it on our ‘To Do’ list. We’ll have to see what we’re able to do for that weekend.
Nick
of The CacheseekersWe currently use GPS III, the older model of this Garmin. We love it I’ve got a buddy that uses the GPS V and loves his dearly also. I would suggest getting the firmware updates from Garmin’s website. The newest version is 2.50 and can be found on here: http://www.garmin.com/products/gps5/ in the software updates tab.
That’d be my best suggestion.
Nick
of The CacheseekersYeah, I’m not going to be responding to it. I deal with thousands of e-mails a day with scams etc for some of the clients I have. (I’m a IT Consultant) I was just curious if anyone else is getting any of these. If a lot of people were getting them I’d almost say that some sort of warning for people should be made. *shrug*
One solution to eliminate junk getting install on your computer from spam is to not use Windows Or to use a text based email application. FreeBSD + Pine or Evolution rules all
It’s almost like a newbie opening a webshop and trying to get referal links.
I love seeing all of these new phishing techniques…
Nick
Well hey, look at that. I’ve always downloaded the waypoint information in LOC format. When I imported those into the GSAK I noticed how it didn’t have much info for the caches and required me to be online to get the webpage to load up with info. After futsing with it for awhile I set it aside and was disappointed.
Low and behold I found a .gpx file I had downloaded previously to import that in. And wow, look at all of the extra information those contain Say goodbye to my ‘little script’ and hellow to gpx.
In either case, thanks for making me a little more curious to look at the software again
Nick
arcangl7,
Looks like it’s broken again. It worked earlier this afternoon but now it’s getting the same error message that I was receiving yesterday.
Cathunter,
I’ve checked out GSAK but I wasn’t greatly impressed.. I didn’t spend much time on it though. We also haven’t had a chance to work with cache pages on a PDA yet. For the most part I download the cache pages and keep them on our laptop. I have worked out a script that systematically sucks the cache pages down however it’s not as ‘nice and easy’ as I’d like it to be. One of those outstanding projects of mine I don’t think i’ll be posting instructions on how to do this because I don’t want someone hammering at geocaching.com’s website w/ it. I do it to our watchlist when I need to at times.I’ll have to check out the GSAK some more.. Hopefully the geocaching server is just receiving alot of requests and isn’t dying.
Nick
Thanks,
I got the pocket query already We just like to have a print out of the caches before we go so we can write on them when we find the cache and peak at hints
Thanks though!
Nick
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