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Printed cache pages with notes all over including in my truck, bedroom, desk drawers, etc. I don’t keep track of past solve coords and usually trash them over time which haunts me later.
@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
Has anyone here read a kids’ book called “Frindle?” You could read it in an evening, but it’s a great book. Kid decides to call a “pen” a “frindle.” Strict teacher won’t accept it, because it’s not in the dictionary. The use of the word snowballs anyway (ha ha) until the kid makes national news.
I won’t spoil the ending for anyone who might want to read it. It’s a fun book. The author has written several more, but this one’s been around awhile, cause I did a read aloud with our own two boys who are now 20 and 23.
This whole business kinda reminds me of the book.
Apparently this inspired kids somewhere to start saying “Meep” all the time which resulted in a school changing their school rules banning “meep” from being said in school and many kids were suspended. Heard about this on the radio one morning.
He said Meep meep as he dropped his frindle into the craphas!
@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
The unit will ask if it’s traveled more than 600 miles. If so, you have to start it up again so it can read the more “local” satellites, I guess. Maybe this just happens with Garmins, I don’t know. Whatever it is, it walks you through it, so you don’t really have to think.
Correct me if I am wrong but this is more a side-effect of traveling great distances with the GPS unit OFF then it is about traveling great distances. If you left it on the entire trip I do not think it would “recalibrate” anything.
This thread is easy for me to respond to. We don’t vacation. 😥
@CodeJunkie wrote:
A little different twist, but still winter related. I did my first cache in the snow today and here are some things I learned along the way (and posted in the log). No they didn’t all happen, but some did (and I’m not telling which ones).
1) Always wear your gloves (i.e. snow is cold when it’s 5 degrees outside).
2) If you’re not wearing gloves (see #1) then make sure you don’t touch anything that’s metal (i.e. moist skin freezes instantly to the metal in this weather)
3) Caching in the snow is a little like caching in the dark (i.e. you don’t always see the hole, stick, etc. that’s going to get you)
4) Hang on to the cache (i.e. dropping the container into a foot of snow can make for an interesting day)And I will add, the snow might definitely be deeper than you think! Last winter I attempted one in the Greenbay area and g.z. was a creek at the bottom of a hill. I thought no big deal so I trudged through and descended and wound up buried in a snow drift up to my shoulders (I’m 6′ 6″ tall) that had “climbed” the hill over time. That was fun.
Oh and no matter how cold it is there’s never safe ice… and the water’s always cold underneath.
Ah the joys of winter.
After 3 “attempts” my driveway is cleared.
After my back couldn’t take it anymore I borrowed the neighbors blower.
As zuma would say, “I coveted thy neighbors snow blower”.
It only cost me doing the end of their driveway after the plows came through.
I bet the snow bank across the end of the drive was 5 feet tall. Taller than 2 of my kids.
Snow was drifted over our entire front porch when I first ventured out and you could not see the front of either vehicle at all.
I’ve had enough craphas for the year!
@gotta run wrote:
I would not disable a cache for a particular season of weather. By doing so you’re essentially taking on greater responsibility for the safety of the cacher–now it’s ok to hunt, now it’s not ok to hunt. Seems to be a much greater chance of someone claiming “well you said it was ok now” if something goes wrong.
Not too play devils advocate but you disabled a bunch during deer gun. Isn’t that taking on safety of the cacher?
A slightly different reason for disabling for the winter might be to protect the container! If it gets frozen in place and damaged due to careless winter cachers that might be another good reason to disable during Winter.
Congrats! Looks like a real fun puzzle cache for a milestone find.
Awesome… Congrats!
If I had the money and time I would dabble in this as well but I’m short on both… sounds fun in a dorky kind of way just like geocaching.
@seldom|seen wrote:
Works for me too. Plugged in my master S|S file and wow, that’s some serious saturation!!!!! I will likely use this for new caches where I know proximity is an issue (that’s about 99.99% of the time). Nicely done!
Can you send me a print screen? 😆
Congrats!!
Congrats!!
I’ve moved:
2 Yellow
1 White
3 Green
11 RedOne of the yellow one’s I found only had 3 logs on it prior to me finding it in a cache 🙂 It was released in 2004 and I found it in 2009.
Only 1 I’ve moved is now marked in an unknown location.
@marc_54140 wrote:
Perhaps ….. someone needs to put out a Milestone Cache.
So, only those cachers at 1000 can claim the cache. Hmmm, now that might make some ‘older’ cachers a little upset. Hmmm, anyone want to stir the pot?
Would be considered an ALR which are banned.
I am pretty sure you can’t require a cacher be at a specific number of finds to log a cache any longer.
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