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I’m taking off Friday to play in the snow……but with 13 inches of snow even the winter friendly ones become a bit more challanging.

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@PCFrog wrote:

Old items — the NEw 550T spports it so how is that old? Did i miss something?

The 550 series is already “Old”… now there is a series of Dakotas…

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@Team Black-Cat wrote:

In my previous post, I should have said 10 ACTIVE zones instead of visible zones. Making a zone invisible does not make it inactive.

Yep, active vs inactive and visible vs invisible….it can be active but invisible or visible but inactive…or any combination thereof…enough to drive ya nuts.

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I’m taking Friday off to go in search of those with the Winter Icon….I hope to pull in about 30ish….and a few 5 Stars along the way…

…I sure hope the ones marked with the snowflake are accurate and findable in the snow.

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True dat!
Very steep learning curve.
Frequent lock-ups.
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@gotta run wrote:

There will (or at least should) be another Wherigo in Green Bay by end of week–a walking tour of riverfront artwork. The emulator likes it as does the Oregon, and I have a guinea pig testing it on a pocket PC, so stay tuned…….. 😀

Very cool. I gave up trying on my third attempt at creation…they all worked but none of them the way I wanted them to work. They sure are fun to play though. I just wish the method of creation wasn’t so complex.

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@Averith wrote:

I guess MIT won the challenge from what I’ve read.

yet…they payed folks for finding the balloons

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nope…I looked along the way geocaching but came up short on big red balloons.

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And for those who have not read their Geocaching email this just arrived in your inbox:

Fellow Geocachers, As part of the nationwide DARPA event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Internet, we’re enlisting geocachers to be part of a fun social networking/GPS technology challenge. The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of 10 moored, 8-foot, red, weather balloons at 10 fixed locations in the continental United States that will only be visible during tomorrow’s (12/5) daylight hours. The winner will receive $40,000. If Groundspeak wins the challenge with your help, we will throw in another $10,000 of our own money. The full $50,000 prize will go to schools that need GPS equipment through DonorsChoose.org. Tomorrow, December 5th, a group of Groundspeak Lackeys will meet up in the DARPA War Room at Groundspeak’s Headquarters to gather information online of the possible locations of the 10 weather balloons. We hope you will follow our attempts to win the challenge and help us along the way by gathering information both online and on the ground. Do you want to help? Visit http://www.10balloonies.com – our official web site for Groundspeak’s team. We’ll provide up to the minute updates there and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/10balloonies. Also, if you are out geocaching, running errands or taking a morning stroll and spot one of the balloons, send us an email at [email protected]. The balloons will be numbered, so we need to know what number is on the balloon along with the coordinates for the location and any additional information (such as “saw from afar.” Coordinates need not be exact, (within 1 mile of actual coordinates will do) so an address will work. Even if you aren’t in the continental US you can still help! Information will be spreading through social networks, blogs and news outlets. If you hear something helpful for us to find any of the 10 balloons, let us know! With a global community of millions of GPS enthusiasts, we believe that geocachers are ideally suited to this challenge. With our collective efforts, we can accomplish something really positive! Jeremy Irish President & Co-Founder, Geocaching.com Also one of the balloonies

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Ah Bec…ever the avid Wooter.

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I’ve moved:

7 Yellow (2 location unknown)
8 White (2 location unknown)
6 Green
5 Red

I show only 4 in locations unknown but most of the Jeeps I moved have not been logged in a number of years…several are just sitting in peoples hands and have done so for in many cases since 2005 or 2006.

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If something like this were to be placed in Wisconsin I’d certainly hunt them… 😈

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I can’t remember the last time I saw a Jeep in a cache…actually all bugs and coins seem to be in decline….or is it me?

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@Frizz wrote:

Wow, you are braver than me to take your Oregon into the water! I’m impressed.

Ditto. 😯

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Welcome. Starting out in the Falls you will have lots to do…

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