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Every cache is findable in winter, somehow, and danger is relative. I say deep them active.
On the Left Side of the Road...It has been a rather drastic change in running gear! And like you I had the Kayak out just a few weeks ago, and on the Bay no less!
On the Left Side of the Road...@Team Honeybunnies wrote:
My fear with Wherigo is that the learning curve to program the cartridges is so high that the novelty will wear off before it becomes well established. Especially at historic sites I think there could be a lot of mileage in a GPSr tour guide.
Heck yes! I’m sure for the hard-core coders out there this is child’s play, but the Wherigo builder is FAR from inutitive, and there are bugs and workarounds you have to learn. I guess you can use other editors to program in the scripting language but I wasn’t going to go there.
On the Left Side of the Road...@amita17 wrote:
Can anyone post a short definition of what wherigo is? From what I have gathered reading the forums, is it some kind of geocache that uses a specific type of GPSr?
Or if it is too complicated to explain briefly, is there a website that is a good resource about it?
Basically a Wherigo is a virtual game that’s played out in the real, three-dimensional world. So rather than interact with objects and characters solely on a computer screen, you interact with those things that exist virtually at various real locations. i.e., rather than use your mouse to scroll to an area on your screen that contains an object, you might physically walk to a set of coordiantes or a set distance to “find” the object.
That means you need a device that can play a Wherigo game (a game is called a “cartridge” even though it’s not a physical cartridge). Those devices are currently Pocket PCs and a handful of Garmin GPSrs, although I have heard that Garmin is not building Wherigo support into its next models. 😯 .
A Wherigo geocache also involves a cache as part of the game. Typically after you complete the game, you get the coordinates to find the physical cache. Not all Wherigo games involve geocaches, and the “play anywhere” games on the Wherigo site are a good place to start.
I still think this concept is pretty high on the dork-o-meter but the kids get a bang out of them. It’s a little extra wrinkle to the game.
Perhaps as the game evolves it will become more than just completing virtual tasks in the field. I could see it having a natural application for puzzles where you need to physically visit locations in order to obtain the information rather than just Googling it. But I digress…
On the Left Side of the Road...8) x 1500!
On the Left Side of the Road...8) x 1,000!
You may have taken the silver, but you have set the gold standard for cache logs!
On the Left Side of the Road...8) x 1,000!
On the Left Side of the Road...Yup, I’ll get it started somehow. The Cubmaster is a geocacher here too (Ike80), I’m just a lowly Den Leader, maybe we can get the Den to join in the fun…
On the Left Side of the Road...…Bump?
On the Left Side of the Road...Yep, that’s exactly what I got too. So if anyone is both a cacher and a Scouter, it’s a good opportunity to make sure that the program ends up with quality caches in the field.
Also, the Bay Lakes District has some overlap with the southeast WI forums here, so it might be worth pointing a link from there to here.
On the Left Side of the Road...One hour is pretty aggressive…I would say take your time and enjoy the Wherigo but if you’re really set on it….
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GCV96QOn the Left Side of the Road...8) x 1,000! Your milestone was a good one, we remember it well 😈 . And thanks for all your great hides.
On the Left Side of the Road...In a meeting with council folks on this program, a few things came to light that are interesting, particuarly in light of Deejay’s comments about placement problems.
First, it looks like there is a tighter partnership between groundspeak and BSA. Groundspeak is offering a free premium 30 day membership and this is advertised on the BSA site itself.
Second, the powerpoint presentation given by the council, which was appparently produced by the BSA, included references to things to include in the cache that definitely promote membership—information cards, etc.
At this juncture, the council is in the process of planning cache placements, so if there is any information that should be taken back to them, now’s the time to provide it.
AstroK…is that your takeaway as well?
On the Left Side of the Road...@Averith wrote:
Here’s where I get mine from:
These sheets could be improved with the addition of number lines. This doesn’t fully solve the multi-line-micro loggers or the sideways-sticker poeple but it helps.
I do have Word files made up for the sizes bison, matchstick, and small if anyone wants them.
Printing a sheet of lines on the back is also a good idea. I’ve tried to include a similarly-numbered strip of lines but can’t get the pages to match up. Just printing a page of blank lines should be an improvement however, and should make a bison log last for about 100 finds.
On the Left Side of the Road...@Lostby7 wrote:
@Frizz wrote:
Wow, you are braver than me to take your Oregon into the water! I’m impressed.
Ditto. 😯
Well, it’s rated IPX7, which supposedly gives you protection against “accidental immersion in one meter of water for up to 30 minutes.” It’s been completely dry inside after those…ahem, “accidental” immersions. I wouldn’t take it SCUBA diving!
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