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If you’re looking for a cache that had some recent finders (and they didn’t “clean up” after themselves) you’ve got some nice tracks to lead you right to the cache.
The ‘Safe House’ isn’t one of them? That’s just not right.
Haven’t hit the other spots yet, we don’t do much caching in Milwaukee. But we did the cache at the Safe House as our 100th. It’s here: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=e5afec9f-fad7-4ef0-a7ab-26d52d22b281 You want to talk about an “oddity”, that’s your oddity!— the bear watches will be black and furry. But they won’t run during the winter months!
As far as regional discussion groups, that sounds interesting. Obviously, the peole down in the south deal with different issues than those who are way ‘up nort’. Those who hunt caches in urban Milwaukee area are different from those facing the people in rural farm areas, etc. etc. etc.
Overall, sounds like a good idea!
Thanks to all.
I’ve been in touch with LMcGisme and we’ve e-mailed back-n-forth a bit. Looks like I may have this thing figured out now.
Thanks again to those who replied!
Oh I do use GSAK for waypoint management. It works beautifully. Combined with Cachemate it works nicely to get info to/from my PDA.
What I’m looking for now is a newer mapping program that . . . .
1) is more up-to-date than my current version of Mapsource
2) is affordable
3) can put maps on my PDA (it’s color and a bigger screen than my GPS)
4) can work with a bluetooth GPS (eventually)I don’t know that I’d actually be using this combo for caching much. The PDA is not as tough as my Rino so I think the Rino would still be the one I’d use for in-woods navigation. What I’m mostly looking to do is have a good in-car navigation setup.
We’ve met several cachers at events, but only a very few on the trails.
This weekend we ran into Galaxy Finder at a nearby cache. We were approaching “Ground Zero” and a voice came from the trees! The voice was right where we were headed so we stopped.
After a short conversation, we realized he had not yet discovered the cache and he invited us to join in the search. Minutes later, cache was in hand and we were all signing.
Very nice to meet him and put a face with the name.
Oh — how did we recognize him as a cacher? Basically, it was a disembodied voice coming from where we figured the cache to be. Really no other reason for a person to be there so it just made sense.I, too, had to archive a cache after just three months.
It was a multi-cache in the woods that had two stages that were micro-caches. One stage was about the size of a AA battery and was hidden in a stump.
We made several trips out there because the micro stages were not found. In two cases the containers were actually gone. The other times the people just didn’t look hard enough, gave up, and told us they were gone. That got old pretty quick and we got sick of trying to keep it going.
That cache was a bit of a “project” or “statement” if you will. There had been much talk of the appropriate-ness or correct-ness of having a micro in anyplace other than a busy urban setting. My opinion was that a micro is fine anywhere as long as the seeker knows they’re looking for a micro.
I still believe that, but I’m not going to try to prove it again cuz the upkeep is just too much.
Of my other active caches, the one that’s been in place the least amount of time is a year now. The others have been in place for 3 yrs, 4yrs, and 4yrs. At this point, I don’t foresee pulling them out. But if, at some point the area starts getting trashed, or something else changes, I could see me removing them.
In fact, one of them has me thinking. It’s on our land and I’m thinking about removing it to put something new there. Something very, very different in nature that would make a more interesting hide.
So I don’t see why cache placements have to be considered “permanent” things. The game itself keeps evolving, so why shouldn’t the caches themselves.
Please bear in mind, with all of these online speed tests, that you are not only testing your speed, but the speed of the entire connection between you and that site, as well as the speed of the site itself.
If there is a lot of traffic on the routers between you and that site, or there are a lot of people hitting that site at that time, your speed may not be represented terribly accurately.
The only way to test your actual speed, is if your ISP (Charter, etc.) has a speed test loaded on a computer near the “entry” into their system. That way the test does not include traffic thru that ISP, thru the internet’s routers, or at the site in question.
Using a speed test located out on the ‘net will give you a real-world speed, but don’t use that information if you wish to complain to your ISP that you aren’t getting the speed you’re paying for.
We found several of MiMX Rider’s caches last June with no real problem. We found the coords to be as close as any.
So either his GPS went kerflooie or that particular finder is having trouble.
I’d have to put my money on the finder (or his GPSr) having a lousy day.
My first contact came from my boss at work. I had just started and I saw his cases of trade items on the wall. Asked about it and he explained. I had a GPSr and thought it sounded like a LOT of fun.
and it IS!This was discussed a while ago on the GC.com boards http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=49005&st=0
I had suggested it should be a “Wander” of cachers. There were a lot of other great suggestions.
Since I have a Garmin Rino, my FRS radio is on pretty much all the time I’m caching. Problem is, we rarely hear any traffic on it.
We take it to geo-events and, of course, there’s lots going on there. But out in “the wild” there just isn’t much air traffic to have it be worthwhile having it on.
Have to agree here. After doing many caches over many years, it’s too easy to over-think the hide.
You start looking where it could be instead of where it probably (and obviously) is!That’s a shame. We did that one in Aug. of ’03 and I remember it being a very nice cache.
Glad you could recover some of it, at least.this all sounds pretty great.
Cheesehead Dave wrote:
“It might be nice to have some incremental incentives as well… Rescue five caches, get a WGA bumper sticker. Rescue ten and get a t-shirt, etc.”Now besides racing to get FTF’s, we could generate a race for LTF’s (LAST to find) !
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