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@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
We also enjoy winter, anyway. Snowshoes, x-c country skis, all that kind of stuff.
If you like X-C skiing [warning: shameless self-promotion alert following], we just placed a cache designed to be X-C skied to. GC1805M. Either skate or “classic” skiing. (“Back in the day” when we started skiing everything was “classic” and the skate skiers were the ones who chewed up our nice tracks. Now we’re the oddballs.) It’s at Brown County Reforestation camp so not exactly in your backyard though.
On the Left Side of the Road...It’s the Ifinder H20C. The battery life seems to vary from 10-20 hours (depending on backlighting). Not as much as we had gotten from the switch to LI when we first did so a while ago. Certainly not worth the multiple X cost of Li versus alkaline.
We had thought that we could extend the battery by keeping it on the car charger/power, but that doesn’t seem to have any effect and the charger may not be working right. The unit may actually go dead if left on the car charger unattended for a few hours.
All in all it’s been a great unit for purposes of the game and navigation, it’s just the battery issue is a little weird. I guess we have to be doubly sure the geo-bag has a spare pack of batteries and we may just go back to alkalines when the LIs are burned through.
On the Left Side of the Road...My suggestion for safety is to go caching with kids. They don’t know the meaning of stealth. “Why don’t we ever see any animals in the woods, dad?” Well gee, it could be ’cause you’re b******g at each other since the moment we leave the car?…not that I’m bitter or anything….
On the Left Side of the Road...how would you like to be the owner of 956 caches…
Whilst caching in MN this fall, we first ran into caches by King Boreas. At that time he had abt. 1300 caches, now it’s over 1500. Even though some archived caches are in those stats…holy cow. How the heck do you even find 1500 places to put caches w/in a 100 mile radius of your home coords, let alone maintain them? That’s not a criticism, I’m just incredulous…
On the Left Side of the Road...You’re welcome. I live to serve… 🙂
On the Left Side of the Road...Is it possible for a picked scab to turn to gangrene?
On the Left Side of the Road...There is a recent thread on this in the “General” section.
Posting a link to the DNR hunting page is not a bad idea.
On the Left Side of the Road...Thanks for bringing this topic back to the top. Here I thought it would just go away.
It’s like your 5-year old picking at a scab…it never goes away.
Oh wait, did we just make a “new post” alert on this thread now too?
On the Left Side of the Road...@EnergySaver wrote:
I suggested checking out this site, that discusses this:
http://www.handicaching.com/Where on handicaching does it discuss this? As we mentioned in the initial post, we’ve been there, but all we’ve been able to find there has been their rating-code system that doesn’t really translate into a “yes/no” answer which is what we’re trying to find some basic guidance for, not being wheelchair users ourselves. Maybe we’ve just completely missed it…
This seems like a dumb question I know, but every time we consider adding the attribute we start to wonder, well, what if someone can’t reach the 4′ mark, or if the cache is deep enough in the bush that you couldn’t get it while seated. Maybe we’re overthinking it and it’s a common sense call.
On the Left Side of the Road...We went through our caches and added winter attributes to all of them one way or the other. We decided to err on the side of “minimizing griping,” therefore intepreting “available in winter” as “winter friendly.” Sort of the same philosophy we’ve taken to other attributes and ratings–no one gripes if you rate something a terrain 3 when it’s probably only a 2, but you’ll hear about it if you call something a 2 but people have to walk up a grassy knoll or step over a branch to get to the cache.
I can see the logs now…Went out to attempt this one thinking it was available in winter based on owner’s attributes, but the cache wasn’t stuck to a lamp post in the parking lot and since I was wearing only my flip-flops I couldn’t hike the trail, and anyway since I forgot my gloves I couldn’t possibly have dug through 2 inches of snow even if I had managed to get to GZ. Definitely NOT winter friendly. I’m NOT taking a DNF on this one since I didn’t really try, but I’ll post this note here to let everyone know the owner’s a moron.
On the Left Side of the Road...Is the consensus to err on the side of caution and call caches “not available” if being buried by snow will make them difficult to find? We’ve tended to not use the “not available” attribute unless it’s virtually impossible to find a container if it snows, or if the trails to the cache were not open in winter (i.e., restricted to skiing). Our thought was that some don’t mind digging through snow if the cache container is big or in an obvious location (stump, etc.).
We know it’s a judgment call, but do you consider “available in winter” to be hides that are off the ground, hanging in trees, etc., while most ground containers would be “not available?”
On the Left Side of the Road...@LMcGisme wrote:
I don’t see the difference here – the “purists” still see it as one gc.com id = one found it (or attended).
My point was that while I’ve seen various threads on the evils of temp cache logging (on the main gc boards) I haven’t run across complaints regarding mutli logging of multi-caches. In fact, it seems well contemplated by the “cache owner makes the rules” comments. Now, it’s very possible I’ve just missed those other threads because I haven’t read them all. I may have time on my hands, but not THAT much. 😉
So the point of my illustration was to “illustrate absurdity by being absurd.” A ridiculous–but “allowable” scenario. That was all.
On the Left Side of the Road...Ummmm…okay
On the Left Side of the Road...I’ve got a nice little park in mind for a mutli-cache. There’s about 20 trees with knotholes just perfect to hold filmstrip cans and, wouldn’t you know it, I have 20 cans right here. I’ll put a log scroll in each one and record them as 20 different waypoints in the cache listing. Most are just a few yards apart and, since I want people to find all the waypoints, I’ll keep the coords viewable on the cache page just to be sure. Since each can has a log I’ll allow people to log each waypoint as a find, whether they find 1 or 20.
The difference to the purists–besides permanence–is that this is published as a multi-cache and not an event. Of course, I could always archive my multi at any time…
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