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Count me in! I began working in that area. Did some work at Camp Lannon Field Farms along side the park. The park had an entrance on Lannon road back then. I look forward to visit some place I’ve been wondering about for over 30 years.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaMany years of metal detectors and pictures of people using them while probing the ground and digging up pop tops and pennies are one of the likely reasons prejudice continues. While it doesn’t sound as macho, I use the correlation to Easter egg hunt. Who is going to object to something like that?
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaDitto to what Miata said. I’ve two GPS’s with road maps in them and they are good for getting to the parking area. I’d like to get a topographical map loaded in the GPS when I leave the car though. Since I’ve got two, I should have done that by now. The darned food budget keeps robbing my fun budget.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaAww, make me feel bad why don’t you?
I found out that I had a bug in one of my ready to hide caches thats been riding in my car for a few months. Got a message from the owner wondering if I still had it. I’d forgotten all about it. Shame on me!Really, thanks for reminding us why these travel bugs need to keep in circulation!
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaDon’t know abou the Meridians, do know a little about WAAS. The key to waypoint accuracy is time. Consider waypoint averaging as another method around using, WAAS, which still requires not moving the GPSR so that things can settle down. That being said, I have not found WAAS to be of much advantage and it does seem to drain more power from the batteries. If, when hiding a cache, you can get the 3D or 2D differntial mode with WAAS, then by all means use it. For hunting, I find that the motion and lossof signal in the trees doesn’t give an advantage. It won’t hurt, but it doesn’t help as much as you would think.
I like to recommend making a reference waypoint in your driveway. I left my Garmin average all night in the car once. Took a few thousand samples. Now I use that one spot, an intersection of slab lines, to see how much my property moves around from time to time. It still comes down to plus or minus thirty feet either way from ground zero. On a cache, that radius can be larger.
Maybe when the association gets lots of money we can get a surveyor’s GPS to loan out. Those get accuracy to an inch!
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaI think the solution to such prejudice is the ”follow the money” philosophy. While some success may be gained by negotiating with managers, the real gains will be made through the political system. Such areas have budgets approved by politicians. What better way to deal with closed minded managers than through the people who control the purse strings?
That whoever wrote the press release associated geocaching with something being buried does not surprise me. ”The Beast” recently got a reply from a county park manager stating to be sure to replace the soil! Public information and education is indeed needed.
Steve Bukosky
Waukesha05/14/2003 at 2:04 am in reply to: Attention Mad City Cachers (and anybody else who’s intereste #1750201I figured that would bring out some discussion. It seems like different people interpret the ever changing rules at geocaching.com differently. I just got a brief lecture about why a microcache that I recently submitted is not according to the new rules. In the message was a quote from and a link to the rules page. From what I read, temporary event caches are no longer approved. Neither are, and I can think of no better term to relay the meaning, spam caches. To quote the rules page, “why place two when one will do?” It seems to me that much of what we’ve enjoyed doing in the past is put in jeopardy, depending on who is approving the caches for the day.
Steve Bukosky
Waukesha05/13/2003 at 11:50 pm in reply to: Attention Mad City Cachers (and anybody else who’s intereste #1750198Go for it. Last year the gang from the Racine Kenosha area had an event at Bong recreation area. That could have very well been a campout. A nice group attended and we all had a great time.
One downer to events is that in the course of having a cache archived, I’ve been notified that temporary event caches are not being approved. It seems like the geocaching.com rules have taken a strange turn.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaDittos to what Grousetails said. My Sony is a little dated but I sure have it loaded up with stuff. Pictures, spreadsheets, technical documents and even powerpoint presentations from work. Oh, did I mention a bunch of pocketbooks too? I don’t think people realize the full potential of these great little devices. I have webpages on it, the current news, some magazines. I read the books to put me to sleep and it wakes me up in the morning.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaI’ve gone to clayjar’s chat room a few time and little of interest happens, which IMO is the same with most chat rooms. Unless there is a moderated topic, they just seem to be a free for all. But, I’m open to give a local one a try. The problem with chat rooms and the advantage of BBS’s is the time shifting.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaI’m happy to report that routing wise, it performed well today. I didn’t have it do anything wierd like shutting off for no reason or anything. It still likes me to get off on hwy 100 as a long cut from I94 east to I894 south however. (grins) can’t believe I did that…
I did have the beta installed. I don’t recall any problems with that. Like Jeff, I load any beta as soon as I find one available. I think the previous one had a lock up problem. It would have happened today if it wasn’t fixed. I had Chicago loaded and that was where it would lock, during the transition from basic detail to loaded detail. Come to think of it, two weeks ago I went to Indianapolis with the the beta loaded. No problems then either. Too bad business got in the way of geocaching.
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I’m taking a trip to Chicago tomorrow so will give it a good test. So far the only thing strang that I noticed is that it kept turnning itself off this afternoon when I had it connected to the PC and Mapsource using the GPS tracking function. I don’t know what that was all about. Also, they didn’t fix the lock to road problem where it stays in that mode when in off road mode. I don’t know that it affects the off road heading/bearing function but I know it does some funky things when I page back to the map mode. Oh yes, also had it lock up once. I don’t think this beta was fully tested out! I think they just want us V owners to get P.O.ed enough to buy a Street Pilot, which I’m close to doing.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaI like looking through the logs. Usually the written log is sparse but I like to give detail on the cache page.
This is a good opportunity for me to voice something that has been gnawing at me recently. No offense intended to the unamed. I’ve met them and they are good people, but I think a good log is part of a good hunt. I’ve seen too many copy and paste logs recently. Boarrrringggg.
Steve Bukosky
WaukeshaMark, Entwive’s Tumor was one those caches that I call ”Kissing your sister”. I was with another group that ultimately found it before me. However, I did find the second stage first!
Regarding stairs, I think Stairway to Heaven was a hoot. It might be a draw with Pike Powder. I’m happy that I completed both without having a coronary!
Steve Bukosky
Waukesha[This message has been edited by sbukosky (edited 05-10-2003).]
I think the all time most challenging was Scarabadae Gibbosum Deltae..whatever Delight. Along with that would be ”Gee..I’m a Tree”. Out of 400 some caches, those two take my top honors for being hard. I’ve made return trips to those several times before I logged a find.
Steve Bukosky
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