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I haven’t bookmarked it. If you bookmark it you have to admit to yourself that, yes, you are willing to trade moments of your life to watch a small rectangle on your screen in hopes that- just hopes that- the pixels will change values of gray in relation to some fish swimming past a camera in a river too far away to matter to you in any real way. I just can’t bring myself to that kind of commitment yet…
“Oh, there’s a fishy…” 😯
I was so happy with the weed (it’s the closest thing to a fish I’ve seen after watching this thing several times a day the last couple of days), but then it happened. I SAW A FISH!!!!
But, as I attempted a quick click to make the ad go away I hit the screen instead and it shot me off to another site…
dang 🙁
Congrats Mathcrew!
Being stuck here in the freezing rain it is nice to think of you enjoying the Cades Cove area. Hope the weather is great there!
Congratulations on the achievement!
03/15/2009 at 10:59 am in reply to: Apparently a Black Cat can swim in the Triangle of Love, Joy #1903758Congratulations TBC!
Mathman,
I don’t know why I have to think of these things for you…
Buy the kid a used sewage truck eh? C’mon, think about this stuff.
😯
I remember another one.
Back when we first got autorouting and were still fascinated enough with it to just plug and go. We were in Chattanooga and decided our next location to visit would be Cade’s Cove in Smoky Mountain National Park. So, I did a search for Cade’s Cove, and did “goto-follow road” and off we went with a little too much faith in our new technology.
As we approached the park from the southwest corner we were ready to turn into the park proper as the little machine beeped a left-hand turn. But there, in front of us, were wooden road blocks with signs that said something like “Seasonal Road open only May- October”. And it was March. Dang.
It was hours to go all the way around. But we did get the chance to drive the “Dragon” so it worked out that we got to experience something we would have missed out on.
Paper maps? Wow. We had some of those a while back but every time we unfolded ’em the batteries fell out… ❓
Mathman already knows it has happened to me. Our Venture Crew went for a week of canoeing in Canada this last summer. We went to the same area we had the year before and rented our boats from the same outfitter. Last year we just followed the outfitter with a trailer full of canoes to the well-hidden boat landing in the middle of nowhere. I did mark a waypoint that year and marked a lot of campsites and so forth. I had been appointed our “navigator” as the result of having the GPS, knowing how to use it, and for having all the waypoints from the year before.
We were in a hurry. It was our goal to get out on the lake and find a campsite before dark. We had been driving since 6 AM to reach Atikokan in the late afternoon. The outfitter was in a hurry to get us out on the lake too so they could end their day. They asked if we could find our own way to the boat landing as we were still buying some fishing licenses and so forth and they were ready to go drop canoes ASAP. Everyone asked me if I could get them there. Thinking about my marked waypoint I said, “sure, no problem.”
When we all got into the vehicles I started out going the direction I had remembered from the year before. I did a “Goto” the boat landing following roads and “What the &*$(#(“, the thing is telling me to turn around and go directly the opposite direction of what I remembered. I pulled over, everyone is in a rush, I’m trying to figure this out. I look at my screen and search the route. It’s not the way we went the year before but it looks like a shortcut. Hmmmm. This thing is almost always right. I decide to trust the GPS. We turn all three cars around and start following the directions on the little screen. Things look Ok for a while. But then there were large- let’s call them pot holes- in the road. I say let’s call them that because they could have sucked up one of our vans if we didn’t carefully go around them. Then the blacktop road started having trees and bushes growing THROUGH the blacktop on both sides effectively making our two-lane road a ONE LANE road. Still I pushed onward hoping the little screen would deliver the whole crew, under my navigation, to the boat landing before the sun set. Eventually we lost the blacktop and were on dirt. It was clear our rental vans would not make it through this way- if there even was a THROUGH this way. After a mile or two there was little doubt this thing could end with one of our rental vans stuck in the Canadian wilderness.
I finally had to pull over and admit defeat. We had to turn around and go all the way back to Atikokan and search out the way we had gone the year before. We lost at least an hour- probably more- with this road that clearly wasn’t a road any longer.
In the end we made it to the boat landing. If it wasn’t for the waypoint we would have driven right by the tiny two-track road that led to the entry lake. No way I would have remembered it from the year before. We managed to get everybody into boats and to a “campsite” just as the bugs came out in droves to attack us in the fading light.
The rest of the trip went well and the topo maps never let me down lake-wise (I was running Navigator for the roads prior to arriving at the boat landing). But, things were sure looking rough for a while there on the road the forest was taking back.
Congratulations Rick,
Good to see you managed to get over the hill (again). 😉
This is what I do.
Drag PQ file from email to the desktop. Open GSAK in a window so you can still see the file on your desktop. Click on “Database” and then “new”. I usually name the database as the date- but you can name it anything of course. Then drag the file off your desktop and into GSAK. It will take it from there.
Then, you will probably need to go to “GPS”, “setup” to set for your GPS and whether you’re using a USB or serial connection. You only have to set this up once as it will save the information. If you have multiple GPS units as we do- some serial and some USB- you have to change this in order to download to each unit.
From there, connect your GPS, click “GPS”, “Send Waypoints”. It should be that simple. You can get more advanced as you go along.
I googled this up. Have no idea if it is correct information or good information. Hopefully someone who has actually done this can confirm this- I would not attempt to reset mine with this information alone.
From:http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/secret.htm
GPS 60/60CS
Hold enter while powering up to enter test mode. Hold enter and page while powering up to master reset the unit. The 76C and 76CS should use the same key strokes as they use the same firmware.
Congratulations.
Our Eagle Scout doesn’t read the forums nor does he have an account but I’ll send him a link to this thread. I’m sure he’ll be pleasantly surprised to have congratulations coming from the WGA Forums.
Our son’s project involved designing, gathering funding, and building 10 portable canoe racks for the Girl Scouts Camp Birch Trails in Irma. He ended up visiting over a dozen local businesses in full uniform and meeting with store managers to gather materials and funds. It was a great project because it involved so much planning and preparing- and then leading the building crew culminating in seeing 40 canoes snug on the racks one late November afternoon as the snow began to fall.
You may enjoy this blog on earning Eagle by Mike Rowe, host of the television show “Dirty Jobs”.
Mike Rowe on earning Eagle.
Expert GPS does this very nicely. It costs 50 bucks but you can download a free 30 day trial. Note that at first it has a “base map” that is just plain white background. But go to the view tab and you can click on topo or aerial photo. You can print them out. After they go do the caches you could also upload their tracks- they would probably think it was very cool to see their tracks heading to the caches.
The highway itself scared the *rap out of me. Imagine miles and miles of twisting highway with vertical wall on one side and just a few feet of shoulder and no guardrails on the other (because it makes plowing snow in the winter too difficult and there really isn’t enough surface to put in supports) and 500 foot plus drop offs. There is a marker at the Northern end in memorial of all the plow drivers who have ended up going over the edge. Highway 550 is also known as “The Million Dollar Highway”.
Folks drive up to this cache with jeeps but I can’t imagine it. The terrain is so steep and the road is nothing more than loose and large stone. The walk at altitude is very hard on Wisconsin folks. And, even in June we had to cross melting snow on very steep terrain across the trail/road. But, if you can get up there the view is worth a million dollars.
We also did the nearby cache which doesn’t take you nearly as high and goes past wild hot springs. By wild I mean they’re just there on the side of the mountain and you’d never find them if it wasn’t for the cache.
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