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@sandlanders wrote:
Milestones were celebrated by the hundred, not by the thousand. And what is even a thousand or two these days? 🙄
I still celebrate my milestones by the hundreds. Heck, I have just 90 finds total just for this year so getting to 100 is a big deal for me. A good day for me is 10-20 finds. I HATE power trails. No imagination to it. Find one film can in the woods and repeat 300 times. No thanks.
And happy geo-versary, Sandlanders. Mine is in April.
If you have Android, C:GEO is capable of adding waypoints in multicaches.
@sweetlife wrote:
less than 4 months Todd, they expire at the end of the year
That’s what I thought so I’ll just get a day pass for the WGA picnic as I’m not sure when I’ll be at a state park again.
Do annual stickers renew on the anniversary date the sticker was bought or if I buy a sticker now, it is only good for less than four months????
We talked about this a couple years ago, but I have not been there since.
I thought the Governor Thompson State park cache got published. I got the notification for it on my phone, but the GC code says it is unpublished so it must have gotten retracted.
Experimented with my Samsung Galaxy III today just to try it even though I also had my Varmint Etrex Venture HC with me.
My Varmint Nuvi died at a previous cache. I think it is bricked.
And I needed to be able to drive to the next one. So here is an excerpt from my log for that.
I remembered I also have both C:GEO and Google Maps on my phone. And both programs are linked together.
So I looked up the cache on C:GEO and used it to tell Google Maps to get me there. It led me right to the parking lot easily. I decided that since I still had C:GEO running on my phone, let’s experiment with it to see how accurate it is compared to my Etrex Venture HC. To my surprise, it led me right to the cache.
Ok, I admit my Samsung Galaxy III did good in leading me to the cache.
BUT…I will not use it as a full time GPSr. For one thing, it is too fragile for caching. I drop it on the ground, it will break, even with the tough cover I have on it now. My Etrex, however, has survived several drops and even went into the mud once and still works.
Plus for a whole day of caching, the battery will die quicker than FTF’s following publications in the Fox Valley 😉 Whereas for a typical dedicated GPSr like the Etrex Venture, it can last me 10 to 14 hours on one full charge.
To sum it up, my phone with C:GEO and Google Maps is great to use in a pinch if I want to do some spontaneous geocaching. But when it comes to some serious geocaching, I’ll always stick with my Etrex Venture HC and Nuvi.
Only 3 days this month.
Just keep this in mind:
Drop a smartphone and it is likely damaged. Drop a “varmint” and it likely will survive.
Even though I missed last year and will probably miss this year, I support #3 – paying a small fee to enter the race. This will also help support the WGA.
Chat560,
See my FTF logs from these two caches.
GC3Z3H0 GC4033E
Both of them were placed with IPhones.
I wish people would use an actual GPS receiver to place caches. But that’s not always the case.
I posted coordinates for both caches using my GPSr. The CO updated the coords on one, but didn’t update on the other.
I’ve used the Print Shop from Broderbund in the past.
I’ve always bought older versions because they are usually cheaper. But current versions are still cheaper than Microsoft’s Publisher. About $50 right now.
I think they have a trial option so if they do, it’s worth checking out.
Sorry, but I voted for Marquette, MI.
If you have never been there, go visit there. Then you’ll see why.
They’ll do this on the 1000 power trails that we have in Wisconsin alone 🙄
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