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Becca, iBirdPro is available for the iPhone, I know. That’s the one I have. It is a more expensive app, but I got it half price for $15 and they’ve sent a couple of really nice updates for my not so inner bird geek!
I have been looking for a good wildflower and tree one, but the ones I’ve found have not been well reviewed.
Just another trick for aging brains, LOL. Photos are what I may forget until weeks later. I know, not required anymore, but if the location calls for it…usually they do…I like to post one or two.
There is one EC owner with caches in Michigan, I cannot remember which one, but when I was logging finds from a trip up there, I received an email from him not more than two hours post my log….I was logging many from a few days trip…telling me it had been X hours since I’d sent my answers and logged my find and my photos were still not up! That is one vigilant cache owner!
As an amateur naturalist, what I love in addition to what others have said about geosphere (which is quite cool), is that I have some apps for bird and butterfly id. The bird one even includes the audio files of calls. I have learned to warn Trekkin’ when I start one of those, though. So many times we’ll be out looking for caches and some critter catches my eye or ear. It’s nice to be able to narrow it down right in the field.
Also the geosphere does show attributes, which can be helpful at times. I know I’m supposed to be able to get those to show on my Oregon, but i have never been able to accomplish that.
And I just downloaded a nice free app from Whole Foods. So now I can plan what to pick up for dinner after a day of caching based on the recipes in there. LOL
We’ve tried to be generous with these non-responders. We wait a few days, and if nothing happens, send a nicely worded, “thanks so much for stopping, now take a few moments to…”
A few more days, we send a reminder with the EC stuff that says that logging requires answers, and a request to give it a try.
At this point, some people do get back to us. Sometimes they apologize but never follow through. Others, they do get us some kind of answers and an explanation of the circumstances, which is completely acceptable to us.
Many more just blow it off. That’s when they get the “I’m trying to work with you here, but….” and a deadline for some kind of response or log deletion.
I think many of those we’ve deleted are people who visit a spot, get home and realize there was an EC there, look through their old vacation photos and pop one in, hoping to get a find. Most of the time, if they at least write back and share the circumstances, enough to show they at least realized they were supposed to learn something, it’s good. Most of the time, they never, ever write back.
And we delete the logs. I hate doing it (Trekkin’ is the EC enforcer here), but it sets precedent for a bunch of armchair logging if we don’t. Same thing with the virtuals we’ve adopted, although those haven’t been so problematic as the ECs. We’ve logged a considerable number of ECs ourselves, so we understand that it takes some effort and that sometimes life gets in the way before we can send them. Usually I send the answers ahead of logging any finds. That way I don’t forget later.
Dave, What’s interesting in that rating system is the fact that “less than two miles’ from parking is rated a 2. I’d agree with that as well, if the terrain is otherwise easy movement. Yet, I’ve had complaints from people on something that ends up being a little over a half mile on flat terrain. We rated that a 2. Like becca said….all relative, I guess.
What I’d be curious to know is the different perceptions based on length of time geocaching. Since it has become a game of “get lots” more and more, the half mile hike seems like a waste of time for some. I wonder if “long timers,” like Hot Dogs, would think differently about these ratings.
Though I will confess that yesterday, while caching around Milton between dulcimer workshops, I did dump a half mile hike. We hardly ever do, but it was hot and I wanted to stay sort of fresh for when I went back to the concert in the evening. My travels yesterday were more about music and less about caching. Horrors, I know! 🙄
Also, the diabetic test strip containers are nice. About 35mm size, but much more watertight. It has a ‘lining’ of sorts that seems to make all the difference. The lid snaps back rather than screws on. If this sounds like something you can use, let us know and we can get you one. We have a large supply of them, courtesy of my dad.
Awesome location for a milestone. Congratulations. You “rock!”
Will you be able to get to 2000 before the newest little hippie comes along? Congratulations, both on the milestone and even more importantly, on getting the boys out to enjoy the big wide world outside!
You do have to buy the chirp thingie and place it somewhere so it can broadcast your info, too. We have yet to do one of them ourselves.
There are many variations of “handicapped,” just as there are many variations of caching styles. Someone posted an excellent video here some time back showing a caching couple trying to hunt for a 1/1 cache. Had it just been the husband who was in the wheelchair, he never would have been able to claim the find. The placer had all good intentions, but not being in that situation themselves probably didn’t realize the barrier they’d created.
That said, there are indeed nice locations for such placements. Not as numerous as a curbside series, though. We recently placed one at an overlook in Perrot Park, and as long as there’s not snow or windstorms, most handicachers should be able to find it, though depending on their level of disability, might need help opening it (it’s a stinking nano).
A person can choose to ignore some caches, and we do. What we may not enjoy might be the cat’s meow for someone else. Placements at curbside in a neighborhood, unless it’s the cache owner’s home, aren’t my favorite. Dead ends in neighborhoods, same thing. Sometimes they’re just really close to the homes. Basically anything close to homes are not favorites. Having a grandson to take caching helps with some of these, but if it were solely up to me, we’d skip those altogether! 😉
Way to finally tie the knot, guys! One day after our anniversary (but we didn’t go anywhere like Tahoe).
Way to finally tie the knot, guys! One day after our anniversary (but we didn’t go anywhere like Tahoe).
Also a big congratulations to the newlyweds
What? When? You should have made this more public! Congratulations.
(There is hope for my sons and their girlfriends after all! LOL)Here’s what I discovered through trial and error. Using the xzing site, I clicked on the QR and saved it. There is an option to find the file on your machine and upload it to xzing, and doing that, it worked just fine.
The “decode one you find with its url” apparently doesn’t work with the amount of stuff on a normal cache listing. I’ve used the barcode site for….barcodes. Didn’t know it would work with these, too. Good to know. Thanks!
Becca, I know what you mean. I did an excellent cache in Killarney Provincial Park in Ontario this past May that sounds much like what you describe. The last .25 was straight up over rock piles, basically. I think it was rated a 3. It was at least a 2.5 mile hike one way.
I didn’t do it for the ratings, though. It is in my top five favorites. I don’t think I stopped smiling the whole time (which was about half the day!)
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