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Congratulations from The Fugawi! We’ve been following your caches, too, since the original Tool Time was first posted and are looking forward to many more.
Ootek and Sherpa Girl
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Would it be feasible to develop a contact list for obtaining permission to place caches in various state, county and municipal parks, forests, trails, etc.? As members get permission, post the contact on a separate contacts page on the Web site for others to reference.
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GBP, we hope your suggestion catches on! We enjoy winter hiking and camping and want to include caching in our winter travels. Maybe a metal detector would help, too. Hmmm… I wonder if I can talk Sherpa Girl into another electronic gadget.
AstroD-Team, what have you tackled that’s taken 15 hours and not half-finished? Sounds interesting.
The Fugawi
403 for us. We have our work cut out!
The Fugawi
Ootek and Sherpa Girl[This message has been edited by Ootek (edited 08-29-2004).]
Miata, I don’t think the Garmin II, III or V offer an electronic compass feature. The 76S, 76CS and 60CS do, for example. Calibration is an option in the compass page menu and involves selecting the option and rotating the receiver on a level surface through two full turns.
Ootek
I had been disappointed with the performance of our GPSMap 76S. Even knowing that receivers are flaky, especially approaching the destination, I felt ours was worse than it should be. I researched a bit and found that having WAAS enabled but not receiving it can cause the receiver to be less accurate. The two satellites Cathunter speaks of are low on the SE and SW horizon. The chances of getting them in our part of the country are slim. so, I turned off WAAS.
I reduced the speed at which the electronic compass kicks in to below 1 mph and also discovered, after reading the manual, that the compass needs to be recalibrated after every battery change. I disabled Battery Saver mode, too, so the unit updates once per second instead of once every 5 seconds.
It seems that, since doing this, the receiver fluctuates less. I guess we’ll just have to go caching more to test the theory.
We’ve volunteered to bring charcoal and starter. We haven’t been to a picnic before and we’re wondering how much to bring.
The Fugawi
EnergySaver asks an interesting question – if they’re called multi-caches, wouldn’t that imply multi-finds? A little-bitty tag with coords on it stapled to a tree is usually a lot tougher to find than a 50-cal. ammo box in the only suitable stump in a 50-foot radius.
Three Bad Ribs is a three-part multi that has a logbook in each of the intermediate caches. Is that why it’s acceptable to log that one, for example, as three separate finds?
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We’ll bring charcoal and starter.
The Fugawi
We’re camping Friday and Saturday nights. Anyone who wants to stop by campsite 31 is more than welcome. We expect to arrive around 8pm Friday night.
Ootek and Sherpa Girl
The FugawiThe one I picked up Monday from Schoen me your Laufen is going to the Wausau area in a couple of weeks. We were going to take it to Minneapolis, but they probably have quite a few over there.
Ootek
The FugawiSadly, we’re tending to agree with kbraband lately – “I’m really beginning to dislike travel bugs. Seems like you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t move them along”.
It seems TBs have gotten awfully complicated lately. Two of the three we’ve moved are missing in action. One was picked up and is being hung on to and the other was picked up with no log entry.
Four caches we did last weekend were supposed to have bugs in them, but none did and there were no online log entries documenting their fate.
We can assure any owner whose TB we pick up that it will be moved expeditiously and logged promptly. If we can’t, we either won’t pick it up or we’ll contact the owner to make a mutually agreeable arrangement.
We recognize others feel differently, but our philosophy is that Travel Bugs were meant to travel; if they weren’t, they’d just be called Bugs.
Ootek and Sherpa Girl
The FugawiI think the plot might go something like this:
Binky and Buffie of Team CacheforCash can never agree on whether to go for the hike or the hide. Binky wants the hike; Buffie wants the hide. Their marriage is deteriorating. The tension builds as week after week it’s hike, hide, hike, hide… One night Buffie can’t take it anymore and beats in Binky’s brains with his own Garmin Map V (she wouldn’t think of wrecking her Magellan).
Now the dilemma – where does she hide the grisly cache? She goes to her lover, Casanova from Team Lothario, a veteran with over 5000 travel bugs to his credit; none of them moved. Together, they turn Binky into a 6-part multi-cache spread over 3 states. (It doesn’t get listed on geocaching.com.)
They try to build a new life for themselves. They both agree on caching for the hide. They both use Magellans. They become Team Sympatico.
There is terror in their idyllic life. No matter what the waypoints, their GPSs invariably lead them to the horror of Binky’s parts.
What do you think? Should I pack my bags for Cannes? Sundance?
Ootek
We’re going to camp at the park Friday and Saturday nights. If you need help with anything, just let us know.
Ootek and Sherpa Girl
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