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@labrat_wr wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
i thot you wood!
that has punctuation
You’re right. Sorry, it’s so hard to try to be stupid. I just don’t know how some people do it. Must come naturally.
On the Left Side of the Road...i thot you wood!
On the Left Side of the Road...@-cheeto- wrote:
What do the various color pins mean anyway?
Red pins = Dangerous caches
Green pins = Green light! Go get it before Dave revisits it.
Yellow pins = Caution (summer) or “don’t eat the snow” (winter)
Blue pins = Caches that Deejay is sad about
Purple pins = Theme trading caches for Tinky Winky or Barney figurinesOn the Left Side of the Road...@-cheeto- wrote:
So it seems that the technology that made us “lazy” (PQ’s) has come full circle with better devices with more storage space and now allows us to actually read the information while experiencing the location.
Absolutely. In our experience we became much more likely to read the cache page once we had a full-fledged field-ready paperless device.
Otherwise, with your average PQ and a planned run, it was such a waste to print all the pages (even the consolidated GSAK summaries) that we rarely did it, which made it incumbent on one person (me) to read the pages online ahead of time and then remember to convey the basic information from memory (not reliable).
Also for all the times when you’re driving by a cache you hadn’t planned to visit, it’s all right there at your fingertips. But I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know.
I know you’re a big fan of the Nuvi approach and it sounds like a great setup, but it only took us about a week to get super-comfortable with the Oregon 400, and now we think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread. Which is saying a lot, because sliced bread is pretty amazing stuff. Only two more weeks till the Oregon 550 arrives at my door and we will be in geo-geek heaven.
On the Left Side of the Road...8) x 3,200
On the Left Side of the Road...@SammyClaws wrote:
I guess I would have to disagree on your comment abou the Oregons. Now that we acutally have the cache page at our fingertips we read the cache page on our drive to the next cache. In the past, it was too much trying to juggle a palm and a GPS as the same time.
Yep, this echoes our experience as well. It’s just a tap away, and the navigator in the car reads it to the rest on the way there, or if it’s a decent walk to the cache I usually give it to daughter-cacher to read to the group on the trail. Gets the kids more involved.
On the Left Side of the Road...@peach107 wrote:
being in a dnr park (which needs approval) and not listed on gc.com, is this legal?
Might be against the DNR rules but who knows? The only reason geocaching gets singled out is because it’s the big game in town so it got on the DNR radar.
Most other stash games don’t have the review process of geocaching.com. In fact, none that I’m aware of. Neither does letterboxing (though it obviously was not a letterbox you found).
Unlike gc.com, most stash games run under the premise of “better to ask forgiveness than permission.”
In fact, there was just a big hubub on the letterboxing boards about the merits of specifically NOT asking permission. Lots of…uh…interesting viewpoints in the letterboxing world about geocaching 🙄
On the Left Side of the Road...@redrusty wrote:
am extremely peeved when a cacher types only “tftc” in their log.
This used to bother me but it’s become abundantly clear based on some recent logs that some people have not yet evolved opposable thumbs, which makes it very difficult to operate a keyboard, so this is actually preferable to an incoherent string of unpunctuated babble.
On the Left Side of the Road...We read the vast majority of cache pages on the way to the cache using paperless caching. In the past it meant taking along the Palm, but now it’s all nice and handy right on the GPSr (Oregon) screen so there’s no excuse not to read it. The only place this does not work is if pictures are integral to the description, such as in certain field-solves or your WSQ quest series, which is why it would be nice to have a detailed description of the photo requirement needed. (Yes it is optional now but I consider it a requirement.)
As everyone knows, sometimes a careful reading can make the difference between a find and a DNF.
With that said, we know that caches pages do not get read, but since most of our caches do not lend themselves to quick parking and grabbing it’s not an issue.
And we have been known to build some…instructions…into the cache name itself… GC1E5CM
On the Left Side of the Road...Well ya I know I was just saying I liked it. The color pushpins are mesmerizing and I like seeing what Deejay found by looking for the red ones. What can I say, I’m bored a lot.
On the Left Side of the Road...I like the map. Could live without it, but I like it.
On the Left Side of the Road...@marc_54140 wrote:
The Puzzle Tour comes later …………
Are you touring them before you request them to be archived or after?
On the Left Side of the Road...@seldom|seen wrote:
I hope all of mine are findable!!!!
I don’t see why not. I just print off my Google map and expect to cover a 256′ radius circle, per usual. If there’s water it usually cuts down the search area. Usually, but not always. 😈
On the Left Side of the Road...@zuma wrote:
The point here is that there is no way a hand held gps is going to cause a problem in a plane, but I suppose if the airline thinks it does, ya gotta do what they say.
Actually I usually hand the GPSr to the right seat occupant and tell them “Hey, watch this so I don’t get us lost, ok? There ain’t no road signs up here…” 😯
On the Left Side of the Road...@Mathman wrote:
I have had only one airline pilot tell me I couldn’t use it of the 4 flights that I have taken with a GPSr.
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I’m assuming there’s at least one of them he’s using up in the cockpit somwhere. Oh well, don’t argue with the pilot if you want to stay on the plane!
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