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The eTrex Legend isn’t a street navigator, so pretty sure there is no way to key in your home address into it directly. When you set up your gc.com account, you DID enter your address, and they used it to figure your 10-20 so that they could let you know distance and direction to caches in your area.
So, what to do? If you want to figure distance from your home, find the coords of your house (I just stood outside my front door and marked it). After you have entered in other coords, use the “Route” feature. Each leg will have a distance and bearing associated with it.
I haven’t used routing too much, since the Legend has minimal street mapping. I often find that the routes that I set up are not consistent with roads and trails. It would be usefull to figure proximity to nearby caches, and also figuring total length of a big multi that you were setting up (“Poof!” by spiderjugs over in Bong comes to mind).
Hope that helps.
The Brits surveyed the entire Indian subcontinent with rods, chains, and optical levels over a 160 ago.
BTW, a rod is 16-1/2 feet, about the length of a canoe.
WOOT! This subject really gets the emotions going!
OK let me get this straight — cache owner gives me coordinates (maybe lots of coordinates), I go out in the woods, find stuff, log my find. Sounds like a smiley for each to me! It should be up to the owner what counts, IMHO.
The thing about events. Say you go to the camp out. You show up, drink some brews, sleep off your hangover, eat a few dogs, roast smores, drink more brews, sleep off another hangover, wake up in time for a pancake or two, and then head home. Yea! You get a smiley. Good for you. Meanwhile, the guy next to you gets up early, and hits the trails hard. He foregoes an extra smore to do the night caches. He searches the next morning to help haul in temps. And he gets….one smiley?
I understand that the temps at events started out that way because the DNR originally prohibited permanent caches in the state parks. They are legal now (due to the efforts of the WGA!), but it is not necessarily a good thing to set up dozens of permanents for events. Even when they meet the criterion for a legal cache, events are often held in remote locations, and it would be unlikely that all those caches could be properly maintained as permanents. Best to do ’em as temps and haul them in, maybe leaving some of the better ones as permanents.
Would I go to an event if I couldn’t log temps? Of course! The camp-out’s have been a blast, and I have really engoyed Auntie Nae’s Halloween Shin-digs in Greenfield. And geocaching inspires enough of my OCD personality that I would probably look for a temp or two. But I suspect that I would not be getting up as early…Peace and Love Everyone!
Don’t expect the platbooks to go away. They are required by the Land Ordinance of 1785, which, to my knowledge, still is very much in force. Surveyors using modern equipment of course use GIS and GPS (along with military stuff, surveying equipment is significantly more accurate than anything you would use for geocaching) but the old platbooks are still sometimes needed for tracking down titles.
03/13/2008 at 4:12 am in reply to: Ferris Wheel Competitions-Where are Some Really Big Ones? #1886154The largest in North America is the Texas Star in Dallas — it is a mere 65 meters. For comparison:
The Wheel at Navy Pier in Chicago is “only” 46 m. (I have been on it and it is plenty big!)
The original ferris wheel at the 1892 Chicago World’s Fair was 80 m.
The London Eye is 135 m
The Chinese are building what will be the worlds largest in Beijing: 208 m, or around 650 feet high.Most of the bigguns are in the Far east: China, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore.
I am a structural engineer — I design buildings, mostly in SE Wisconsin. I basically make sure that stuff doesn’t fall down or otherwise behave badly.
I think I see the problem — 2007 was at Hartman Creek!
Definitely planning on camping — not sure how many of my guys I can hoodwink into coming along. Fortunately, there are non-geocaching activities nearby
Hey, Roger! Eureka still makes the Timberline. It is a fantastic tent — really durable, inexpensive, easy to set up and take down. What more could you ask?
My son’s scout troop (Troop 21 in Tosa) soldiers on with BSA Voyageur tents — WOW! Those were old school when I was a Tenderfoot!
We have a 13′ x 13′ Coleman 3-room tent (it is actually an 8’x8′ tent with two 5’x8′ pull outs, for a totqal of 144 sf). Sleeps 5-6 easy including gear, sets up reasonably easy, and has served us well for 10 years (3-4 weekends per summer plus the occasional extended trip). There have been some issues with the poles (needed to get a couple sections replaced last year over at Sherpers) and the bug netting has a tear from the kids running in and out without unzipping the doors. 😕
We picked up ours at Target, and I am guessing they have a similar model still around. Not perfect in the water-proof category, but enough room to avoid the corner that gets wet when someone doesn’t close a flap. Best of all, I don’t recall the Coleman wasn’t too expensive (I recall it being in the $150-170 range). A couple of ground cloths seems to do the trick in all but the nastiest weather. You do have to seal the seams, a nice way to pass a rainy afternoon.
I do love the Eureka products, especially the Timberline. If you have the money, I would not do the Timberline and do another Eureka product, since it doesn’t have a lot of volume. I sense that you may be looking for a tent where multiple folks can hang out, read, play games, etc while the weather is crummy. Last time I was at Sherpers, they had a huge two-room Eureka cabin dome — one room was totally closed in and the second room was a sort of attached screen house. The cost was a little out of my league, but didn’t seem too outrageous (around $300 for 200 sf).
Sorry — not trying to take the heat off of BP and the regulators who are permitting this nonsense to continue.
The reality is there are a lot of things creating grief for the Great Lakes. So many are difficult to control: ag runoff, sewerage overflows after a heavy rain, mercury from coal-burning, and legacy pollution (especially PCB’s.)
Until the regulatory climate changes (curerently based on Reagan-era approach requiring that regs be justified with a cost-benefit analysis), don’t buy BP.
Lateral Thinking is definitely available in winter — with the snow we have around here, I think the average person would have a hard time finding and retrieving.
I remember going to get the Island last winter — the ice creaked and groaned the whole way there and back.
Covert Cache (downtown Milwaukee) and LP009 Cache (west State St)can be enjoyed anytime. 😉
Lateral Thinking isn’t much of a hide, and not winter friendly, but you will burn up most of winter figuring out the puzzle(s). 😈
Lost? Boyscout should be fun this time of year — it is a pretty good sized multi in an area a lot wilder than you might expect. The waypoints are winter friendly. Same goes for Country in the City, and Fast Action Response Team.
I realize that Pewaukee is a little bit of a ways from Tosa, but now is the time to do the Island. 😈
Finally, I Can See for Miles is an absolute trip — bring oxygen and walking poles and pretend you are Sir Edmund Hillary!
😯Sad to say, coal burning puts a lot more mercury in the environment than BP could. That said, completely ridiculous to allow any mercury to be dumped into the water we drink.
I know folks love to dump on MMSD. The reality is that the Milwaukee TARP works REALLY well. The few times a year they open the system up, almost all of what gets dumped is rain water — the waste is dilute enough to break down without crashing the dissolved oxygen. Ideally they wouldn’t dump at all but it is impractical to build a TARP that can handle all possible rain events.
The alternatives are to either allow sewerage to back up into basements and streets, or separate the sewers, which would require every single mile of street in the city of Milwaukee to be dug up during which time Milwaukee would continue to dump after every other rain event (like they did before the TARP was constructed.)
Sue MMSD if you wish, but they are not the problem.
Waiting for shameless Navicache plug from Rogheff 🙄
Listing on Navicache would, of course, eliminate the problem of proximity. It would also eliminate the problem of people finding it.
The circumference of the earth is approx 24000 mi (40,000 km), so 1 degree north to south is approx 67 miles (111 km) , 1 minute (1/60th of a degree) is 5870 feet (around 360 rods or 1850 m), and 1 second (1/60th of a minute) is 98 feet (6 rods or 31 m).
East to west depends on how far north or south you are. If you are at the equator, a second is 98 feet. In Wisconsin it varies from 65 to 75 feet (4 to 5 rods or 20 to 25 m). At the poles, the distance goes to zero.
This is all estimate — the earth isn’t exactly round and smooth.
My Garmin lists lat/long in terms of fractions of minutes — the third digit (thousandths) is about 6 feet (2m) north-south and around 4 feet (1.5m) east-west.
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