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On the Left Side of the Road...8) x 500!
On the Left Side of the Road...@thepharmgirl wrote:
That’s cool too… Perhaps you’d like to help out the WGA by training newbies at the morning class or flipping pancakes Sunday morning? 😀
Hey, I wasn’t watching this thread but someone just brought it to my attention.
I wasn’t aware of the extent of the festivities since we had no intention of going to the Ba$h itself. Our family team is not into “power caching” (the topic of this thread) but many obviously are and more…power!…to them. It sounds like everyone had fun.
But now I am aware, so I have no excuse not to volunteer in some useful capacity next year. 😳
On the Left Side of the Road...They need more hamsters.
On the Left Side of the Road...@seekers8711 wrote:
IMHO, nothing hurts Geocaching more than someone having MANY, MANY caches out there, and seldom maintaining them, even after many DNF’s. Personally, we dislike spending time, gas dollars and preparation searching for a cache that may have been missing for months. We think caches should be “fixed” and back on line ASAP.
I agree–but I’d also add that most of the maintenance problems, at least in this area, come from people who hide a few and then fall off the radar, or school “projects” that get abandoned.
I can think of one notable exception in the area, but otherwise owners with large numbers of caches around here do a good job of staying on top of them, and I hope we fall into that category as well.
Now, how many is “enough?” As many as you can maintain well and reflects to some degree what you have taken from the game. Caching relies on the welfare–of both time and money–of owners to keep the game going. I know, I know–all the good spots are taken, I can’t think of any ideas, I’m busy, etc etc etc. Bottom line, if you have the time and the ability to go out every weekend and find caches, you have the time and ability to place some caches and give something back to the community.
On the Left Side of the Road...@Team B Squared wrote:
Easy to answer this one, I already answered this earlier in the thread. :l
Yeah well it was easier for me to ask you to repeat it! 😛
On the Left Side of the Road...Yeah, that’s what I thought. It makes sense and shouldn’t be too hard to do.
And besides, we have found many instances where archived caches are actually still there 😡 , so it’s helpful to have a record of that over time so that the geo-litter can be cleaned up.
On the Left Side of the Road...What I mean is that if you are building a database over time as B squared suggests, you will not know if an unfound cache in the database is archived unless you physically go out on each unfound cache and look on geocaching.com because PQs do not pull archived caches. So unless you are dumping and rebuilding your database with each query this is a problem, and part of the benefit of just updating the database versus rebuilding it is that you get a greater history of logs.
The only workaround to this I could see would be filtering any unfound remaining caches by GPX date. That is, if it is an unfound cache in your current working database and the record does not get updated with the new PQ, it would have an old date. Filter by dates, then take a look at any old dates to see why they were not updated.
On the Left Side of the Road...Hey B Squared, how do you clear ARCHIVED caches from your database using your method? Archived caches won’t show up in the PQ so how do you know to drop them? Are you filtering by “last GPX date” or something?
On the Left Side of the Road...Well I’ll repost it here and expand on the story.
So I’m in college and in need of some wheels. I know nada about cars so I ask my dad to look for one for me, buy it, and I will pay him back. He asked what I was looking for and I said I didn’t care as long as it wasn’t a station wagon with wood paneling.
A few weeks later he calls me up. Good news, son, I have found a car for you, low miles, good condition, low price of $750.
Get home and in the driveway is a 1978 Ford Pinto station wagon, copper color (ok, let’s call it “rust”) with…wait for it…”wood” paneling.
I got a picture of it here somewhere…I’ll look…
On the Left Side of the Road...@Lostby7 wrote:
My daughter is still about 2 years from a car but the search is already on…I saw a really nice red Mitsubishi Eclipse yesterday
Is it too late for you to adopt me? My first car was a Pinto station wagon. Copper color with wood-grain “paneling” and plaid seats. I kid you not.
Two words: Chick Magnet 🙄
On the Left Side of the Road...Heard on the news this morning that the program has pretty much blown through the additional $2 B cache…I mean “cash” infusion.
Who knew that giving away money would be so popular?
On the Left Side of the Road...Having had some time with the 550, we essentially concur with LB7s assessment of the unit. It is virtually identical to the 400 with a few key upgrades–screen brightness and camera among the most notable.
The “upgrade” price of $100 over the 400t is well worth it for the included camera, battery, charger, and hardware tweaks. Of course you do not get the topo maps, but I have found them not necessary and they don’t work for autorouting anyway.
The camera is not only a great feature, but the size of the viewfinder makes it very easy to use and very easy to respond to the inevitable “let me see!” requests from the kids after a picture is taken.
As far as the functionality of the unit, it shares the strengths of the 400:
-Incredibly fast lock-on (seconds) and outstanding signal lock in cover
-Fast and reliable routing. I know this is probably just a regular feature but this is our first foray into autonav and it’s great, especially for solo caching. Having it all on one unit, versus using a Nuvi/handheld approach, is a big plus.
-Great performance on rechargables with decent battery life–a full day in always-on mode, haven’t had to recharge yetThe main drawbacks relate to Garmin-specific “features” which I’ve already mentioned in other threads; namely, the lack of any robust device-level geocache (GPX file/waypoint) management.
But for what it sets out to do–get you to a cache and give you accurate coordinates to find it–it does so very well. And as an all-in-one device, it only needs a phone. (Sorry, I’m still not sold on the iPhone given its GPSr limitations and overall limitations if you lose the network.)
On the Left Side of the Road...Oh lordy this thread is gonna get ugly(ier?) real quick….
On the Left Side of the Road...Well, I had a little inside info that he was going to try again and this time he was successful. Another 4-mile trek to the end of Long Tail point for zoesbrother, and of course a four-mile return. And I would estimate about half of that trek is done through a combination of waist-deep water and 8-foot-tall swamp grass.
GCXHNH
After doing these caches–TWICE–by foot, the pair of SSSS caches should be a cakewalk! I vote to award honorary LCG credits for this one.
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