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For me it’s the phone with c:geo and google maps. I also load my much-repaired Explorist XL. Two opinions are better, and gloves-on works better with the XL, but the phone gets used to check on logs and hints…
Last year some group had a fund-raising brat sale outside of a meat market. We stopped and had a few. Pretty good and I think they were made right there.
I’m a geek about backups.
I have a text file for every find that mirror my log entries. All my caches could be re-submitted from my files I used to prepare them, and don’t get me started about all the GPX and Pocket Queries I have never deleted!
I hope everything comes back up. I mean, all this stuff is on hard drives somewhere?
This is draconis (the son) finding something out from twitter. Not sure if this is old news or not, but:
nicco: RT @echoditto The ETA for power to be online is 19:30 PDT. Power loads for cooling will be carefully restored in stages. #fisherfire
There was a fire in a seattle data center electrical panel, which caused the generators to be immersed in water, which basically knocked out the primary and backup power supplies for the servers, on which geocaching.com is hosted.
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/07/03/major-outage-at-seattle-data-center/
I have a little tackle box that travels and you can put lures in and out of it – “Wishing for Fishing”.(TBKCW5)
I also have a bug encased in a clear plastic key chain – “Lame Pun Intended”.(TBG9AJ)
Not sure how weird they are, but I haven’t seen any like them.(my limited experience)
Hey, it may be a bit off the mark, but my ‘Crossing Franks Path’ (GCGJ73) went missing sometime near May 2005. Then on Christmas 2006, hillardr found it 200 feet from where it should have been. The only explanation was malicious intent, as any grounds keeping wouldn’t have moved it.
I went out and retrieved ti and intend to recycle it, as it was a good container.
I couldn’t reactivate it, as there were other new ones nearby too close.
Thanks LostBy7 for the compliment of using my log as an example.
I read all the logs that show up in my e-mail for my caches, but, I have to admit that I get behind on the mail sometimes.
I really like to be creative with my cache logs, but not to excess. If a cache has an interesting theme, or a great spot, I’ll be more elaborate with my cache entry, following the theme or making a wry comment.
I think that Jthorsen has to be the most consistent wry comment-er out there.
Heck, I even was on a poetry stint that inspired the next finders to follow in the same vein. Sometimes I chuckle to myself when I think of an interesting log, or about a log that I wrote.
Draconis Dave
When you go out to check on one of your geocaches only 1 day after gall bladder surgery. (really did this!)
Or…….When you go out to geocache on a day that you wouldn’t go out if you were out fishing. (or golfing)
0 to 60 (two finger typing speed) in *deleted* seconds!
Everthing looks good.
Good one! Congrats on the 2K!
Makes me feel like a slouch, but in a good way….
The maps are great!
If you don’t like to sneak a peek, you still have a simple map similar to the old one, and if you like to search, there is more stuff to check than I have time for!
It was really absorbing and I almost forgot about what I was doing on the GC.com site!
I said ‘almost’!
[This message has been edited by draconis dave (edited 05-06-2006).]
We(jd and I) went out and checked on our caches in the area of the ‘kettle’ near the town of Eagle. We checked Knots 2 U, and Pain in the Cache – Painless, and we were amazed by what we found. The area by Knots 2 U was undamaged, same as usual, and we made a maintainance check.
But near PITC-Painless, we found some burned up areas, and these had the look of a controlled burn, as it ended right at the edge of the road and at the edges of the trees, with no burn off into them. This area came within 6 strides of the cache.
This area was inside the turn as Hwy N goes past Paradise Springs and heads north west. Along further, we saw another area to the west of the road across from Wilton road.
We drove around and looked at a lot of areas, just out to scout and enjoy the scenery, but no other areas seemed damaged.
I’ve been out caching with 3 people with 3 different GPSs, two Garmins: a GPSIII and a E-trex legend, and Magellan: a 315(fairly old).
The GPSs all seem to read different bearings and distances while approaching the cache, but if we all stopped, we would come up to match within a decent margin of error eventually. I don’t think it is the machines, I think it is the way the programming processes with the information it gathers.
Maybe try what I do: I stand still, until the reading settles down, then head off in the right direction using a compass.
Maybe I should just look harder. LOL..
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BTW, has anyone experienced a complete blackout? A year or more back, I had 2 GPSs tracking while driving. Then both of them lost lock with NO signal strength. One was connected to my laptop, tracking on a map, and it ‘jumped a gap’ for about 1/4 mile. There wasn’t any cover, we were riding along a 4 lane divided highway. What happened?[This message has been edited by draconis dave (edited 04-30-2006).]
Good job and congratulations to the founder. A great category, I’m looking foreward to visiting some and maybe creating some.
Did a few WM’s and created one. I’m in Kenosha and there aren’t too many to find, but there is a lot of room to create some. If you know of some interesting spots that would be a great virtuals, sign up and create some WMs. This could be a great way for people that like ‘to go to a place’ to do it. Also, these places will not compete with regular GCs, as the .1 mile rule on gc.com doesn’t come into play with the waymarks. Think of this a a site exclusively for ‘virtual caches’!
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