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Cache Ba$h would be a good time to check out what other people think of the different units also. See them at work in the field.
@Lions Fan wrote:
I’ll be there all weekend as well, and I’m always up for brainstorming wherigo ideas.
Cool! I will have my laptop there with a nice new battery! I was wondering what software you recommend using and why? I can then have it already loaded before we talk.
In the past, I have had issues with ammo cans. To the best of my knowledge, no one has messed with my newer ones. But then again, who would want a preform.
I have often wondered if there are people out there that create an account so that they can steal from us.
I have a Delorme PN-60 that I bought from REI. I have never pushed it to the limit, but it can handle 1,500 waypoints/geocaches per file and as many files as you can fit in it. I have a 2 GB card in it and have been thinking of switching to a 16 or 32. I think that one of the best features is the compass. Less geo-dancing at GZ!
Nice thing that REI does to help sell stuff is to let you take it outside and try it.
Congrats August!
Lets see. . . 3,000 caches * 4 hippies = 12,000 smiles on the trail.
07/29/2012 at 11:10 pm in reply to: 3.2 K – We did not mind getting wet at – Don’t Get Wet! #1962818Congrats and you sure picked a nice cache to celebrate!
@smashing ground wrote:
Oh so thats team Cadogan huh?? well Wayne nice job out there and we will see ya around
Short topic did not have room to list them all and that’s how we roll! 8)
Wanted to make sure that all got credit as it was a definite team effort.
@gotta run wrote:
Nothing surpises me any more with caches that are placed and published.
Just found one a few weeks ago that was, quite literally, on the ground at the edge of a sidewalk, in someone’s front yard. I do not believe the cache owner is the homeowner. The sidewalk terminated at the corner and the homeowner put a bench there on the lawn. The cache is a duct taped pill bottle laying in the grass at the foot of the bench. I was shocked, just shocked, to see that it has gone missing already.
😥 😥 😥
According to Handicaching the best placement is 2-3 above ground, no more than 500 feet along a flat paved or smooth route with no obstructions. I would also add that this distance should idealy be measured from handicap parking. I saw a cache in IL that was rated 1, but the closest parking was down the road at a business. I do not even think that there was a bike lane along this highway.
I think that i would consider “accessible” to mean not only to the site, but to the container.
I am very glad that this is being addressed. I have always had disdain for those that do not understand the true challenges of those that cache from a wheelchair. I happen to be friends with several wheelchair bound people. One of the things that I have confirmed is that items on the ground can be sometime impossible to grab without the chance of falling out of the chair. That is why one of the guidelines is a minimum height above ground. Is that something that was considered? I remember a cache in Janesville that was a LPC. The skirt was on the sidewalk and it was rated as 1. No way in the world that was WC accessible.
I like your email that you cam up with Barry. If you do not mind, I may start using that when I get a 100 TFTC’s from one cacher.
Nice job!
The flip-side of this is also newbies that place caches and have lame 1-2 lines descriptions. Please tell me a little bit more about this place so that I want to go visit it! I think we need to see what we can do to educate them also.
Almost forgot another point:
A good number of people are using smart phones to cache. Those apps allow them to log while on the go. The smart phone allows them to dictate the log.
One less excuse to not “write” more than TFTC!
@GrannyGoesAlong wrote:
Clowns indeed! Sounds like a fun adventure. I’ll have to check where is the series located?
It is up in Mauston. Yes, clowns. We made a point that we were not going to leap frog the caches to grab them faster. I know some people do that, but we wanted to be able to say that all 6 of us were physically at each cache. It was a riot. :LOL:
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