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“Have kayak, will travel.”
Cool. Looking forward to this.“(8 of the 13 you need a boat, and we don’t own a boat. Imagine that, we live near the world’s largest freshwater chain of lakes and only have a 2 man raft.)”
We have all 8 of those caches to do this summer and we have an extra canoe (or two) that fit(s) on our homemade boat trailer with the yaks. Just say the word and we’ll pick a day and paddle!
We spent the last three days caching in the Eau Claire area and we did nearly 20 of the Chippewa trail caches. We were puzzled, amused, entertained, informed,…it is just a very impressive piece of geocaching work. Our only regret was that we didn’t bring bikes so we had to keep hiking back out the car and moving ahead. It would be so much fun to be able to just bike ahead to the next cache. The trail itself is blacktop and goes through beautiful country. Plan to take a bike trip this summer and enjoy Zuma’s work on this one. It’s worth the drive.
Thanks Zuma!
(We may come back to pick up the ones we missed and bike the trail this summer!)
No problem with the wait. It doesn’t take much looking around at the site to realize that reviewing caches must take up a bunch of time- and volunteer time at that. This one has math puzzles that would drive me crazy (my son and wife put this together). I never thought to provide solutions to speed up checking through the cache. We’ll do so in a couple of hours. (I’m the only one up this early and I have no clue how to solve some of ’em).
Thanks to the reviewers for all their work!
Oh, and yes- I’ve seen a ton of the “server too busy” screens. Both logging finds and trying to input caches. And when it goes you lose everything you’ve done (I’m with Zuma= copy and paste from something that doesn’t go ‘poof’}.Later edit: Okay- have added solutions to make the review easier. Thanks again!
[This message has been edited by ForeFeathers (edited 04-01-2006).]
We hid five caches this week and four of them went through within a day or so. But the puzzle cache has been sitting. Do those take longer, or did it just get missed? There’s no note on the page or anything saying something is wrong…
The topo maps work fine. Just with no autorouting. I had no problem with maps or getting waypoints in. Exported them as a Mapsource file and loaded into the GPSr from there. Running around last night I was getting +/- 17 feet and +/- 30 or so in the house. Turned it on inside the house this morning and about 30 seconds later it had a lock. My son’s Legend managed a lock in the house this morning too but lost it very quickly. It is only working with three sats and weak bars. The CSx has 6 pretty strong signals and three weaker ones. I’m just reading the information off the sat screen- don’t know how much it means. We’ll get them out in the woods this weekend and I’ll be back with real-world side by side.
1,404 unfiltered
1,228 with filternearest unfound cache 32 miles away
This is a little off the thread’s topic but what map software are you using? I have a copy of MapSource United States Topo from a Legend package but I’m guessing that I’d need to spend bucks on software as well as the money for the 60 CSx? I would think that what I have would work but would not allow autorouting? Correct?
I remember reading somewhere that there may be issues with downloading waypoints with GSAK? I’ve been holding off until I knew that most of the issues were worked out. No problems with this? If not, where do you find the best price on one of these?
It was so cold this morning…
the thermometer was scratching at the door wanting to come in.I’ve ordered at the drive-thru, paid, and arrived at home only to realize that I pulled away without any food.
More than once too…
I hate it when that happens.
I’m guilty of asking this question a few months back.
I am now using GSAK and Cachemate with a Tungsten E2. Very nice. I like it!
I was surprised by how much interest there is when you explain exactly how to go about getting involved. I had many people come up to me in between sessions with more questions and comments. Talking about actually using a GPSr is a good thing too. My presentation was less about that and more about geocaching. But I had a number of people show up with their GPSr in hand asking questions. If I was asked to do something like this again I would suggest doing a workshop on using a GPSr. I had folks there that were in the “I bought one but never figured out how to use it” group. The PowerPoint worked great because I had quite a few photos of some of the beautiful areas geocaching had brought us to over the summer.
I felt it was worth my time and effort. Good luck with your presentation!
The Scout presentations went well. 37 folks attended the two 50 minute presentations. I had many people come up to me afterwards and later on in the day and say they’d always wanted to try geocaching but never got around to looking into how to get started. I’m sure there will be at least a few more folks out in the woods soon. I also ran into four people who told me that they picked up a GPSr for Christmas after the last presentation and some of them have 25 finds already.
They were setting up for a snowmobile race in the park. I think they will be charging entrance to the park for the race this weekend- January 28-29. Folks may want to put off visiting this cache as there will be a LOT of muggle activity in addition to the possible entry fee. I don’t know if they charge the fee upon entry or as you go over to see the races on the nearby lake.
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