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BFL's are for wimps! When I was a kid, we used a hand-cranked generator to give us a whopping 14 candle-power glow so we could find our way home from school. Then we'd do chores by candle and/or moonlight. Yep, uh-uh. Then we'd get up 1/2 an hour before we went to bed and do it all over again.

Alas; I'm but a poor cloud drifting off from the Carina Nebula. Some refer to that picture as, "What The Universe Really Thinks About Us". Now we're wayyyyyyyy off topic. And there's no mud.

Seems kinda, sorta odd to me that you have to make x number of posts to graduate to "geocacher".

grumble, grumble, grumble. I would like to join y'all but I won't be in town on the 27th. grumble, grumble, grumble

If you were real keen, you could turn the Crossing Hayward cache into a 16km hike (an easy hike BTW). Park your vehicle at the first spot and keep on walking. (Easy hike terrain-wise I mean) Edit typo.

That would be me! It wasn't really a complaint was it? I guess I was expecting something different since the City of Mission webpage listed that hike as challenging. I meant no disrespect to 'Alleykatz' and the cache. I have 'A Deactivated Adventure' in my GPSr but I walked that road years ago (for work) and just haven't brought myself to walk it for play. Thanks for reminding me about it. As for the Golden Ears cache, you (Alsid Prime) may have difficulty getting to the top this time of year (snow!) plus it might be difficult to hide anything in the snow. I hiked up a little bit last week and the snow level was quite low. I wouldn't be surprised if there was several feet up top by now.

I really, really wish you wouldn't put any caches on Golden Ears. The last thing that poor mountain needs is a bunch of geocachers running around poking through rock piles etc. Yes I know most geocachers are respectful of the environment but it's the few who aren't that will ruin it. (There is an example on one of Hayward caches where the guy was too lazy to walk the 100 or so meters up the trail so he cut through the blackberries on a rather unstable hillside. And yes, I'm too lazy too grab the url). As for actually making it up Golden Ears during the Christmas break, I'd be very impressed. I'd be surprised if the road was even open, it seems to be closed 2-3 times a week already.

I too was thinking of putting a cache on top of Golden Ears but when I looked at the mess people were making up there recently (lighting a fire on the heli-landing pad, defecating outside the front door of the shelter, making shortcuts between the switchbacks, etc) I decided it would be best not to encourage people to hike there.

Same Stuff Different Day.

Maybe he/she wanted to include the added thrill of dodging a fast moving locomotive?

I don't even hit the head without my trusty GPSr, never mind going into the big bad outdoors

A lot of maps in Canada are still in NAD27 and haven't been upgraded to WGS84. As for your choice of unit, if you are going off a map you want to use UTM or MGRS (Military Grid Ref System). MGRS is a bit easier to use against a map because you have less numbers to worry about and since MGRS is just a slightly different way to express a UTM location there is no conversion. My sportrak map displays a primary and secondary coordinate system. I leave the primary in WGS84 DD MM.mmmm and the secondary in WGS84 MGRS. Actually, most base mapping in Canada has been upgraded to NAD83 now, not NAD27. If you pull coordinates of a NAD83 map and then try to find the actual position on the ground by using NAD27 in your GPSr you'll be off by a couple of hundred meters. It's best to use whatever the cache placer used I changed the 82 to 83, yeesh! And I call myself a professional

If you can't do what you volunteered to do (ie moderate/censor), maybe you should ask someone else to take over? (first post with the new forums, hope it works!)

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/recreation/article/0,1299,DRMN_7_2411628,00.html A bit of a blurb on geocaching it anyone's interested. I hope I posted the link correctly.

Ok, so I know it's an old model but I saw an ad for one that had them for $150 (Cdn). Any ideas/comments on purchasing and older model GPS unit? Right now I have and etrex of my own and a GeoExplorer3 that I "borrow" ;-) from the office on occasion.