va griz
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Anybody. I'm not sure that I understand the question. Is there some concern about permission or eligibility? It really is open to anybody who can get to the website.
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That works for me too. I found an antique store once, and when I made it back she wasn't even halfway finished!
Something about seeing junk antiquities that I threw away five years ago selling for 100 time what I paid for it.....but I digress.
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Silmilar problem here. She doesn't mind finding a few easy ones, but isn't really into it. She does like to visit nice places, so I can usually work it out if there is a cache in a scenic spot. She can't see the point at all in hunting a difficult micro or even a tough one in the woods that takes more than a few minutes, so these are solo efforts. It works out. She enjoys seeing places we never would have found without geocacing, and I remember that it's about the trip, not finding a nano to the exclusion of the sights.
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There is a mode that follows roads, and it sounds like it is on. You need to turn that off. I think it's in the setup page.
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Looking at the cache page, it looks as if the cache owner had some help hiding it and they claimed it as a find on a date before publication. And I noticed Team Eagle was congratulated on the FTF too. All's well that ends well?
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It is frustrating when the cache is a long way off from where GZ "should" be. I try to remember that my visit to the cache site (at least the first one) is only one reading with my GPS. So it is at least possible that the owner took multiple readings over days and my reading could be the fluke.
Most of the time the coords put me within 5 to 15 feet, but until it gets over 30 I consider it normal noise.
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Even when it remembers my login, www.geocaching.com takes me to the home page that has no caches on it at all. It has events and search options, but no caches.
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The compass doesn't lag behind under tree cover. Tree cover doesn't affect the earth's magnetic field. You're making the usual mistake of confusing the navigation arrow (the red arrow) with the compass (the rotating ring).
I stand corrected. I made the mistake of believing what I had read (on the internet of all places
) about it using its signal for compass info. Just proved to myself that isn't the case by turning off the reciever part, and of course the compass still "works".Works is in quotations for two reasons.
First, I'm not convinced it is very accurate. Even right after calibration, if you turn the GPS 180 degrees in your hand the compass doesn't seem to return to the same point. I don't have a good way to measure it, and maybe it’s just this unit or my incompetence, but I have a problem relying on it for that reason.
Next, I am not confusing the arrow with the compass. What I was seeing as a lag was the jumpiness of the compass. You called it the electronic compass making the error more obvious, and I think I would agree with that description. It may well be that I just don't know enough to be comfortable with the compass moving around. But an ordinary cheap compass works fine for me, so I just leave the 60's compass turned off.
Please don't interpret these comments as anything but mild criticism about a minor point. The 60CSx is an outstanding unit and I wouldn't be without it. I just don't use the compass much
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I got a CSx (used) thinking I would use the compass and ignore the altimeter. But the compass is more trouble than it's worth to me. Admitedly you use the GPS's recommendation to know which way to go, but you don't have to worry about the magnetic compass lagging behind for 10-15 seconds when you are under heavy tree cover.
In contrast, I have found the altimeter to be at least fun and useful, even if not a requirement. It's interesting to be able to measure steepness.
YMMV, they're both good units.
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No. Geocaching is like a get out of jail free card for yard work.
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You would have to rate the difficulty pretty high. Lots of people can't list 3 or 5 gallons of water over their head even once. While I realize not all caches are for all people, they should know of the phyisical requirements before they head out.
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Very good info, thanks.
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I think they would have to throw out the very obvious outliers such as getting the sign wrong and shifting the point literaly to the other side of the world. And If I was running it (I wasn't of course) I would also rule out transcription errors (the entries were on paper) that ended up being outside the park. But that still leaves the possibility of somebody being several tenths of a mile off, and even with dozens of readings that would shift the "answer" a lot.
What I was really wondering was if there would end up being a core of readings that were so close that averaging those together would give a very exact answer. The contest was just for fun, not accuracy. So they might have even included coords that were miles off. I might email the cacher who ran the shoot and see what the results looked like.
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Went to the GeoCaching Hampton Roads Picnic last weekend that had a "turkey shoot". To quote the description:
Use your GPS to mark a waypoint at the pre-designated spot. 2 minutes max time will be allowed for marking the waypoint and one entry per geocacher. All entries will be averaged together. The geocacher that is closest to the average, wins a prize.
What I was wondering is how close the median coordinate would be. I suspect there would be a cluster of coords all within about 5 to 10 feet of each other, and another batch much further away and scattered around. I didn't get to stay and hear the results, so I don't even know if they threw out the obviously wrong numbers. This is just the numbers geek in me wanting to know how close the average cacher would get. Has anybody seen the results of one of these games?
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Maybe it's a puzzle cache where the finder is lead to that log to get the message and decode it? If you could get the name of the cache, or who logged it last you could check that way.
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Thanks CoyoteRed and Wigglesworth for the hints. It hadn't occured to me to try repeatability tests where I could easily test it over several days. I will do some experimenting and see how it goes.
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a technique that I started using and was able to get readings repeatable ±0.001 minutes
If that's repeatable over the span of days I would like to try it. Can you direct me to a copy of the method? I average over a couple minutes, and a week later the same GPSr will say that waymark is 10 feet off. I try to average the averages over time, but that's not always possible. Thanks, Griz
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Can You See Me Now? is a cache outside the window of the owners office.
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Well I found the cache in question yesterday. It was about 80-100 feet off. Surprizes me a little as I have found a couple other caches by the same owner that were pretty much right on. There was a fair amount of tree cover which might account for much of it. It might be a transcription mistake too as there didn't seem to be much error in longitude. Anyway it kind of threw me since the GZ was outside the fence of a playground and the cache was well inside. On to other caches! Thanks, Griz
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I DNFed an easy cache yesterday. When I logged it I read all the logs, and buried a couple finds back was one of the "used coords listed by..." notes. Apparently it's about 80 feet off. I don't really look more than 50 or so feet away from where the GPS says it is. (although I have wandered off more than that and not realized it
) But it is apparent from the logs that others have expanded their search area quite a bit to find them. What is the farhest away from the listed coordinates that you have found a cache? -
To me it makes sense to TRY and hide the kind of caches you would like to find. In my case that means the "hidden from muggles but findable by cachers" sort of hides. I consider those clever even if difficult to find. Of course it's up to the finders to really be the judge of the hide.
So are your caches the sort you would like to find? The reason I ask is you mentioned that you found all that you have looked for. It seems if you were looking for the difficult challenges you would bump into the occasional DNF. And last, please updat the listed coords, not just note them in the description.
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I can think of a few ways:I've got a question for BMXer. Not trying to be critical, I just don't know. How does a cacher who has been a member since Aug 1st have finds in July? Thanks, Griz- Originally found cache as part of a team. Since decided to create own account. Logged any finds made with team to this account.
- Originally dragged along on cache hunt by geocaching friend. Caught the bug. Created account. Logged original finds.
- Stumbled into cache as muggle. Caught bug. Created account. Logged find.
- Hated old account name, but couldn't change it. Created new account. Relogged old finds.
Thanks, I didn't realize you could predate finds to before you were a member.
- Originally found cache as part of a team. Since decided to create own account. Logged any finds made with team to this account.
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I've got a question for BMXer. Not trying to be critical, I just don't know. How does a cacher who has been a member since Aug 1st have finds in July? Thanks, Griz
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We had a similar case of "you can't be serious", except it wasn't an attempted theft. We we're coming home in my Father's truck, which was old, had a camper shell, no tailgate, and a plywood door on the back. It looks VERY home made, one of a kind, or as I call it, just plain ugly. Sitting a stop light in a little town, a guy gently taps the back bumper with his truck (also ugly). We get out to see what the problem was, no damage because everything was already beat up. As soon as we get out the guy starts saying "I'm sorry, I thought you were somebody else". OK, I guess he needs glasses. Laughed about it all the way home.
) about it using its signal for compass info. Just proved to myself that isn't the case by turning off the reciever part, and of course the compass still "works".
) But it is apparent from the logs that others have expanded their search area quite a bit to find them. What is the farhest away from the listed coordinates that you have found a cache?
Alter Ego - The dark Side
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So a large portion of the threads here are schizophrenic people talking to themselves?
HEY…who said that???
Shut up !!!
Psssssstt, did any of you hear that?