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Hey, Team Deejay–Great news on Find #1500! Caching, publishing, the Lonely Cache Game…multi-tasking to the nth!
Congratulations on your 800 finds! Here’s to many more!
Too many nice days ahead to refrain from geocaching. We’re coming up on 100, too, but haven’t even thought about what we want to do for that. Just looking ahead to the next one . . .
Any encryption on the back?
The thing is, it’s almost getting to be like “Whatever” when we go to fill up. $3 a gallon is nothing now–remember when it was so terrible? Will we get used to $4 after a while?
It was only a little over six years ago that we last got gas for 99 cents–but that was for a brief time and it wasn’t in Wisconsin.
We took a trip to Colorado in September of 2006, and we paid $1.99 in Des Moines. And don’t even get me started on the 29 cent gas and the gas wars of the early Seventies!
Wonder what the price will be in 2010 when someone bumps this thread up on the forums again?
We didn’t want too many bells and whistles, so we opted for the yellow etrex H when we finally started looking for caches. The H is supposed to lock on to the satellites faster and works better in cover, and I suppose it does, and it takes us right to the caches, for the most part.
We enter coordinates manually, but we haven’t gone on any big cache runs yet–probably won’t. We use the DeLorme for a map source to see where we’re going initially.
BTW, my 88-year-old uncle has a newer handheld Garmin (not sure which one) that he uses on trips, and he and my now 90-year-old aunt wanted to try out geocaching with us at Thanksgiving. I couldn’t figure out his unit in the short time we had (he thought he would understand it better if he read the manual first). Found a couple of caches, though, and we’re going out with them when we visit them in May (urban caching).
I didn’t like the new deal for topozone either.
I’ve been a fan of the paper topo maps for years–nothing like a set of contour lines to set one’s heart racing–and the direct link on a cache page let us know what terrain we were getting into or do some fine tuning, even if some of the maps have info that is out of date.
The new site linked here has been loading slowly for me (dial-up), so I’ll be checking it out more thoroughly later.
Thanks for the info!
Just got through checking for logs, and the cachers were busy today! It’s great to see all the little *s in the area lately after no logs on a lot of caches around here since way back in November and October when we did them.
T&B did more around here today than we’ve done in six months! Maybe because it’s our back yard we can go pick them of a few at a time, which is all we seem to do whenever we go out to cache anyway.
The weather was great today (what was that yellow ball in the sky?), and the week looks super! Caching or yardwork? Hmmmm-mmmmm…
Whining…Whining…Whining…I’m doing it!
Just glad we’ve had rain instead of snow, and our basement and yard are not flooded.
Next week sounds awfully gooooooood!
Are those really marshmallows or are those the hands of cachers who searched and made finds during this winter–all covered with snow?
Hope it’s balmy and sunny in May.
We always check to see who’s finding what in our neck of the woods, and we see that TE was knocking them off left and right here over the weekend! WE haven’t even hit all of those they hit!
Glad to see you got #2800 around here, and we hope the snow melts back home for you soon.
Hey, the ticks must mean the snow is finally melting (sorry to those of you up north)! And the melt waters must mean great places for mosquitoes to breed! First three months of that deep snow, and now this to look forward to. Can’t wait!
We first learned about the WGA by clicking on the WGA link on someone’s cache page. We plan to put the link on all our caches (when we get them up and going–waiting for permission).
When we started, we were looking for the answers to some of our questions in the groundspeak forums, but those are so wide-ranging, and they didn’t address what we wanted, so we were glad to find the forums on WGA (we lurked for a bit first).
Even though participants are from all over the state, it’s still a lot more informative than talking to someone from Sweden, Australia, etc. The issues are more relevant, and everyone here can relate to the snow depth gripes!
A handout wouldn’t be bad–even one with just the web address on it (and emphasize that there is no cost).
Those are just the piles where the shoveling and plowing were. We’re seeing lots of bare ground now, but the woods still have plenty of snow. It’s a lot better than it was a couple of weeks ago, though. We just did some caches we were waiting all winter to find. Your knees should stay dry now, but wear your boots!
Hope they’re right about the diminished snow “threat” for Thursday. Here’s a photo from a house a block over from us. Does anyone want to do an earthcache on the striations in these snow piles? Act fast!
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