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I thought Scrappy was our mascot…
Last time I wore a bright orange shirt, I was accused of trying to impersonate a road construction sign.
The harvester is strictly a moment in time application. If it misses a log, it is missed.
Why not just enter a new waypoint? I don’t know about you, but I have made mistakes entering waypoints on multis, and needed the original location to return to. Changing the original location would never occur to me. On the standard Garmins, you press and hold one button to get to the “Mark” screen for entering a waypoint. I believe the ColOreKotas take two button presses.
I wouldn’t count on them adding Wherigo. They specifically excluded it from the Dakotas as a point of difference from the Oregon, and I suspect the same thing is going on here.
I have no idea what you are talking about regarding multis. I would think you would always need to either add a waypoint or change the existing coordinates. How else could you do it?
Looks like the same unit as the 60CSx, with added paperless geocaching functionality in the operating system. Since this unit doesn’t support Wherigo, I think most geocachers would be better off opting for an Oregon.
No one mentioned my two least favorites: trash cans and dumpsters. We found one in Tennessee on the used grease drum at a Cracker Barrel, with the name of “The Smelly Crack”. Shortly after that, Cracker Barrel banned geocaching on their property.
This is one of those “no answer” questions. The higher end Nuvis will allow you to load .gpx files and then search for the contents using “Where To? Geocaches” The limit is the limit of your units memory. My understanding is that you can only have one active GPX, but I could be wrong about that.
I’d go along with abdcm on their recommendation, rather than the Glacial Drumlin. I just did a handful on the GD trail last Saturday, and this time of year, walking that trail is like hiking down a highway. You will get passed by around 1 cyclist per minute. The Ryan property is a neat place with lots of rather rugged trails.
Another option you might consider is the Lapham Peak Unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest. Lapham is a very beautiful area with lots of trails and many caches. There are 15 caches, including 3 earthcaches and several mysteries and multis. The parkland is right off of I-94 exit 285, approximately 27 miles from the Marcus Amphitheater. If you don’t have a state park pass, you can park for free at the parking coordinates for GC11PT3 . Just don’t tell the DNR who told you about the parking! I will tell you that the hiking in Lapham Peak is no joke, and getting all the caches without using a car would be a serious day, but you don’t HAVE to do them all in one day.
Welcome. We are based in Rochester, so drop us a note if you would like to to go out on a group outing.
To quote my favorite ad from a local outdoor store: “There is no such thing as bad weather; there is only inadequate clothing.”
re: coin thieves
There are a few things we can all do to make things a little better.1. If you visit a big event and see someone selling coins without activation codes, drilled coins, and other obvious thefts, complain to the event organizers and get everyone you know to complain. Basically make the event organizers life misery until they throw out the thieves.
2. If someone shares with you their “collection” for discovery and you find that the coins are not theirs, let them know that you don’t appreciate their activities. If they continue to steal coins, out them in the forums.
3. If you buy coins on Ebay that turn out to be stolen, report the seller and demand a refund due to stolen property. Try to get the coin back to the owner if possible.
Having a collection is a lot less fun if you can’t show it off.
Actually only one fake.
Maybe remove the fake old caches on the list?
I think the “power trails” we have here are ok, as at least they are on a trail where people have to get out and motivate under their own power. Contrast this with some of the ones you find out west, where they place caches every 0.1 miles along a road or parking lot in identical fashion, where the idea is simply to have a numbers run. (In one case, the owners used power transmission towers without permission, encouraging people to drive down the private access roads. The Department of Homeland Security was not amused.)
What I think some people are trying to say is that “in the old days”, if you were traveling in an area, looking for a geocache was a good way to get yourself to something interesting in the area. By the time I started, this was no longer true, but you could (in our area) concentrate on the WGA COTM caches and recommended caches to get to some pretty nice places. Now that that list is dominated with “series caches”, which in some cases are just “normal hides along a trail”, we don’t even have that as an option. It is a little frustrating to lose that “tour guide” functionality of geocaching, but this is a result of how the game has changed over the last few years. I think you will find this as the primary reason why many of the “old-timers” have stopped playing. It just wasn’t fun for them to have to filter out all the parking lots, guardrails, etc. to find the hidden gems they were looking for.
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