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I checked the cache tonight for you. It is still there and in great shape. I’ve emailed a clue. The cache is a one gallon plastic container that is snow and ice free. The clue should take you right to it.
Good Luck.
I just got a Palm for Christmas and downloaded Cachemate. It is fantastic. Now we no longer are restricted to caches we printed out pages for. You just load in the nearest 500 and head out. I’m not an expert, and maybe there’s a way to load GPX files directly into the plam but I have GSAK (another program download) on my computer and use that to export to the Cachemate program on the palm. If there’s another way I’m sorry to add confusion. I hope it all goes smoothly for you!
Zuma,
I don’t have a Legend C but I helped my father-in-law with his. I only had a short time working with it but the solution I found was to export to mapsource and then into the Legend C via USB. I don’t know if there’s another solution but I know that works.
No matter what size box you build legs are still an option. The legs simply slide into the pockets on the side of the box so you can use the box with or without and it takes no tools or bolts to put them on or take them off. You’d think it might be flimsy but the angles make the legs tuck in very nicely and there is no wobble.
I just finished one up this fall. It is great to have everything in one box. And the one I built has a fold down on both sides so you can have the stove on one side and dishes going on the other. It frees up the picnic table. We really like it. It would be rather heavy to have to haul onto an island though. It is more for taking out of the truck and setting up. I have a photo of how mine turned out but no place to host it. If you’d like me to email a copy let me know. Otherwise, plans for what I built are below. I changed a few dimensions but am fairly close to this plan:
Patrol box
[This message has been edited by ForeFeathers (edited 01-10-2006).]
My method consists of not worrying about it until I have to buy a sticker for another year. At that point, I pull forward some 25 feet from Ranger station and pry desperately at the previous year’s sticker with my bare fingers. Cussing, with half of the sticker yet attached to the window, the gummy hunks of the little I managed to remove of last year’s sticker all over my fingers, yet needing the new sticker so we can go enjoy an afternoon at the park- I finally just apply the new sticker above the row of previous half-removed stickers. I’m about 3/4 of the way up the windshield at this point.
You folks have me inspired however.
I am in the market for a new GPSr. I want to replace my Summit and get something with mapping. I’m a little torn between these new models and the idea of trying to take advantage of the falling prices on the current versions. The current higher end models have quite a lot of memory anyway, so it really comes down to whether the new antenna features are worth more money. Ah, so many decisions…
Perhaps I wrote first before thinking- I’m guilty of that often (I will stop writing- …after this ). I wouldn’t say we found any caches that didn’t belong as a cache. I don’t even think I agree that anyone should go through their caches and eliminate some. I think I was more “writing out loud” my thoughts about how “a cache” is not “a cache”. There seems to be a big push for numbers amongst the caching community that I don’t understand.
Probably my real problem is that I do have a “driven” side that likes to see the numbers go up and it is in conflict with the other side that really appreciates the kind of cache that doesn’t lend itself to rising numbers. Ack, I think I’ll pour another cup of coffee and get off the computer before I write something else that doesn’t matter.
I know, too late.
Enjoy your day.
Thanks all,
We were back in the winter woods this afternoon following the little arrows on the little screens. It’s always fun to find out where they’re taking you. Looking forward to all the spots we’ll be visiting in 2006!
Santa dropped off a new Tungsten E2. In between spending some 2 hours or so getting Lego Mindstorms (Version 2.0) to work I’ve got Cachemate up and running. Oh, for the old days of a set of printed directions, a beer, and a few hand tools on Christmas afternoon. Every time we tried to get the infrared unit to transfer to the “robot” the whole computer would lock up. After 4 times of uninstalling and having the same issue I go to tech support page and there it is- number one issue is computer lock-up while communicating with the tower! ARRRGGGGHHHH.
A download later, and then a winzip download in order to open the download, then going in to update the driver- well the thing seems to be working over there (glad I have my own laptop!).
But, back to the topic- Cachemate seems very cool. I have 500 caches loaded and now we just have to go find ’em.
Thanks for all the help everyone.
I haven’t spent much time looking it over- but the few minutes I did it seemed to me to be more of an attempt to create lists of information that could later be saleable.
Wrong impression?
Congratulations Honeybunnies!
That is an amazing number of caches in a very short time.
Team ForeFeathers is knockin’ on the door of 1000 too. Heck, after I get “Marsh to the Philippine Islands” later today we’ll be 80% of 1/10 of the way there!
I realize it’s old news for most everyone, and I also realize it’s “Cache of the Month” (that’s how I found it last night). But, for all the new folks like ourselves be sure to check it out. I called the kids in and asked if they wanted to figure out the first puzzle. That was it, almost two hours later we had the coords and wished we could head out to the cache. As it would involve some 7 hours of driving we’ll just have to be happy with doing the puzzles. Very fun, very well done. Check it out if you haven’t yet!
After a search, I would guess it belongs to the letterboxing “Three Little Pigs”.
Here: http://www.letterboxing.org/BoxView.php?boxnum=11116&boxname=Three_Little_Pigs
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