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re: Tie’s Comment
It is important to realize that virtually ALL geocaching has a tourism component. After all, how many people go to a location to geocache and end up spending money on food, lodging, gas, and other miscellaneous items in the area? I would think virtually everyone who geocaches more than 10 miles from their home. When we place geocaches, we are acting to promote tourism for the area of the hide, intentionally or not.
I don’t see this situation as “a commercial cache”. Its not like they are talking about putting caches in stores and restaurants, or even on the property of local businesses. They are talking about using the presence of Geocaches in the area to promote visits to the region. IMNSHO, this is a perfect way for us to ingratiate ourselves with the local PTBs, so that they percieve geocaching as a net plus for their community. These positive impressions will go a long way toward averting problems (and outright bans) when some knucklehead reports a match holder as a potential bomb or when a hider mistypes the coordinates in their listing and we have a half dozen people searching for caches on private land. For my money, anything we do which makes a positive impression on the local community is a plus for geocaching. If someone sells an extra hamburger or rents an additional motel room in the process, no harm is done.
I suspect that Team Lich did a query for caches hidden by Genius Loci and Hutt and then manually added each cache to a bookmark list. You could also do a regular radius search and manually pick the BoB caches, but that would be a little more aggravating.
If you are asking how to generate a PQ from a bookmark list, just scroll to the bottom and click the “Create Pocket Query” button.
@Team Henzlik wrote:
I may be up for this run.
Any trick/shortcut in downloading all these waypoints?
The way the guys named these caches (BoB) throws off the GC.com search engine’s “case insensitive” searches. Apparently its not really case insensitive. I’ve seen this problem before with other “odd” capitalization names.
The hot ticket is to create a bookmark PQ from this list.
Alright, Rick! Great work! Thanks for all your caches you have placed and keep up the good work!
I looked into these a little. It seems like it is essentially a cellphone GPS which is networked to GC.com, so you don’t have to download waypoints. I never got a straight answer as to how they work if you need to download coordinates (like at an event), so I’m guessing it isn’t very easy. At that point, I just forgot about it.
Seems like the only way you meet anyone is to “talk to strangers”. Lately we seem to be spending a lot of time caching with muggles. (“Whatcha doin?”, “We’re geocaching”, “Oh, I saw that on the news, can I watch?”, “How bout if you help us? Its a 35mm film can somewhere around here” “Sure, whats a 35mm film can?”) Maybe we should change the sport so that you can only claim a find if you get some random person to find the cache for you? (Ok, maybe not…)
@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:
That is a good log. But had read on one of the BoB pages that they will delete logs that have a sticker on the cache log. So i’d think a short team name would be good.
Jim, what is says is that you have to sign or label the logsheet, rather than some other part of the cache (such as the outside of the container, apparently a common practice when people are trying to set speed caching records.) I’m sure you can use your normal label or stamp.
That said, while I haven’t done this series, I guess I don’t really understand the point. It sounds like just a bunch of drive ups in less than spectacular places, which happen to be located the minimum distance apart to maximize cache density (and finding speed). Am I missing something here? I’m sure some of them might be clever hides or nice spots, but that doesn’t seem to be the priority. For my time and gas money, I’d rather find a handful of caches which are scenic or puzzling or educational or physically challenging or even just tricky hides, rather than trudging through the suburbs looking for one film can after another in the same spots. If people like doing this type of series(and from the numbers, it looks like they do), I guess thats fine for them. I just don’t get the attraction.
@seekers8711 wrote:
Just to get some discussion on “cache containers” going, IMHO, any type of AMMO CAN, unless completely painted to cover the military wording, “AND” having Geocaching decals, should not be approved.
While I don’t disagree with your sentiment, the approval process does not include a review of container, hide type, labeling, cache contents, environmental “appropriateness”, common sense, or any other item other than the specific physical location(s) of the cache. They are lucky if they can screen out caches in SNAs, caches too close to each other, and caches where the description specifically mentions violating the rules.
I suppose the approvers could ask each person if their hide meets GC.com guidelines, but we all have to check that box when we submit a cache anyway.
Strangely enough, the ammo cans don’t seem to draw any more police attention than other types of containers. Of the four issues I have heard of, 2 involved PVC pipe, 1 involved an ammo can, and 1 involved a 5 gallon bucket. I can’t imagine anyone building a pipe bomb would actually use PVC, but that doesn’t stop people from worrying about it.
Did a little research. According to their website, the driver is not required for this unit. With no driver, the GPS should act like a normal USB flashdrive. The driver is only required if you want to use a serial port instead of USB.
Anyway, this means that your PC should connect to the GPS when you plug it in, even if you install no software at all. Try plugging it in, and then after your PC links up, see if it shows up as a drive on the “my computer”. If not, repeat the process on a different computer. If it still doesn’t work, your GPS is probably defective or otherwise broken.
Nice work!
@notmuch wrote:
Congrats…..think you can bag another 300 today in the rain???
Ummm….We got 7 this afternoon involving 6.5 miles of hiking around Nagawaukee Park and no driving (other than getting there). Does that count?
And thanks for the kind words, everyone.
I forgot one!
“Six Aunties Naeing!”
(I couldn’t resist!)
Well, if it was 12 days of climbing, it could be “6 ropes belaying”.
Maybe 6 coyotes baying?
6 children playing?
6 gaspumps paying?
6 burros braying (oops, wrong state!)
6 thorns a fraying?Should be easy in Hotmail. In the attachment section of the email, there should be a button for “save to disk” or something similar. Save the zip file and then import the file into your GSAK database.
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