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I placed a cache in a park and i wanted to place another one but it is only 276 feet away from the first. Is is possible instead of having it published to just add it as a special find on the first cache i had placed. Does anyone ever do this or do I just have to find somewhere else alltogether?
You could make it part of a multi, otherwise you'd have to archive the first one and place the second one.
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No strength required, just ingenuity 2 - GC11AT5 Here's The Link
4/1.5 - Incredible...not like anything I've ever seen before.
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Yea, I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio and I'd say most of my cache finds have been in Dayton, Ohio, just because I enjoy the caches there more. A lot of people hide caches in trees, and tunnels, and just have ideas a little more outside of the box. Check out this cache for example, my #1 favorite cache.
No strength required, just ingenuity 2 - GC11AT5
I can't figure out how anyone hits 1000 caches in so short a period of time. I cache almost every day in the New Hampshire/Massachusetts area and think I'm flying with 172 finds as I write this. I really started going out faithfully around July 1st of this year and because of New England Winters, don't expect to go out that often when the snow starts to fly. Now of course it's easy to find untapped clusters of caches around your house and place of employment when you're first starting out, and in July and August I did OK, averaging a few per day. However, there is no way I can sustain this pace as I am already starting to burn out my home turf my goal by year's end is to hit between 250-300. Next year I hope to start a little earlier in the season, but with fewer caches left for me to hit, still anticipate only hitting another 250-300 for the year. As such, I'm expecting my 1000th to be hit in just over 3 years. How does anyone do this in a matter of months?
That's exactly what it was for me, a little over 3 years. This wasn't a perfect 333/year average though, there were much less caches around when I started, I know I made 200 in the first year.
Oh, I can only speak for the handful of people I've seen from my area, but they accomplish this feat in a few months by going out on cache runs with other "numbers orientated" cachers from the area; usually finding 50+ caches every single weekend, and they obviously start doing this very early in their caching career. I'm sure if you stalk errr, I mean surf the profiles, of some of the people who've said "1,000 in 4 months, 2,000 in 7 months", you'll see the same thing.
Uhmm...excuse me, but I started caching rapidly very early on by myself, not with some "number oriented" cacher from the area. It wasn't until I was at around 800 finds that I held myself to a specific standard. I enjoyed the game, and had a quick find rate before the idea of a "number run" came into my head. I have my share of caching in dense cache populated areas surrounding my milestones, but if you would look at my stats you would see it ISN'T about number runs every weekend, but that I hold a specific caching standard throughout my work week as well. I cache just about every day, and have had at least 1 cache found for over 100 days now.
No need for the "excuse me" response.
I did pull your numbers as an example, but that was only because they were the only ones I could see while typing a response (you can only see the last 10 posts). Hopefully that will explain why my post seemed to be about you specifically, whereas my post was really about people I've observed personally. If you did most of that alone, that's quite impressive. I'd have to think there will come a day when you run out of "local" caches though. -
I can't figure out how anyone hits 1000 caches in so short a period of time. I cache almost every day in the New Hampshire/Massachusetts area and think I'm flying with 172 finds as I write this. I really started going out faithfully around July 1st of this year and because of New England Winters, don't expect to go out that often when the snow starts to fly. Now of course it's easy to find untapped clusters of caches around your house and place of employment when you're first starting out, and in July and August I did OK, averaging a few per day. However, there is no way I can sustain this pace as I am already starting to burn out my home turf my goal by year's end is to hit between 250-300. Next year I hope to start a little earlier in the season, but with fewer caches left for me to hit, still anticipate only hitting another 250-300 for the year. As such, I'm expecting my 1000th to be hit in just over 3 years. How does anyone do this in a matter of months?
That's exactly what it was for me, a little over 3 years. This wasn't a perfect 333/year average though, there were much less caches around when I started, I know I made 200 in the first year.
Oh, I can only speak for the handful of people I've seen from my area, but they accomplish this feat in a few months by going out on cache runs with other "numbers orientated" cachers from the area; usually finding 50+ caches every single weekend, and they obviously start doing this very early in their caching career. I'm sure if you stalk errr, I mean surf the profiles, of some of the people who've said "1,000 in 4 months, 2,000 in 7 months", you'll see the same thing.
Uhmm...excuse me, but I started caching rapidly very early on by myself, not with some "number oriented" cacher from the area. It wasn't until I was at around 800 finds that I held myself to a specific standard. I enjoyed the game, and had a quick find rate before the idea of a "number run" came into my head. I have my share of caching in dense cache populated areas surrounding my milestones, but if you would look at my stats you would see it ISN'T about number runs every weekend, but that I hold a specific caching standard throughout my work week as well. I cache just about every day, and have had at least 1 cache found for over 100 days now.
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I can't figure out how anyone hits 1000 caches in so short a period of time. I cache almost every day in the New Hampshire/Massachusetts area and think I'm flying with 172 finds as I write this. I really started going out faithfully around July 1st of this year and because of New England Winters, don't expect to go out that often when the snow starts to fly. Now of course it's easy to find untapped clusters of caches around your house and place of employment when you're first starting out, and in July and August I did OK, averaging a few per day. However, there is no way I can sustain this pace as I am already starting to burn out my home turf my goal by year's end is to hit between 250-300. Next year I hope to start a little earlier in the season, but with fewer caches left for me to hit, still anticipate only hitting another 250-300 for the year. As such, I'm expecting my 1000th to be hit in just over 3 years. How does anyone do this in a matter of months?
Lately I have been averaging about 13-14 caches a day, which is around 100 a week. I have milestone'd weekly for about 14 weeks now. It actually took me 2 weeks over 4 months for the first thousand, and the second thousand was in about 2 1/2 months.
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I reached 1000 in 4 months.
I reached 2000 in 7 months.
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Similar to the Baker's Dozen Challenges, I just recently put out: The "Lost" Challenge - GC1F5WR. Same style as Baker's Dozen, but goes through the numbers in the Tv Series "Lost" - 4,8,15,16,23,42.
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I swear by Leki trekking poles. I use the Super Makalu CORE-TEC AS HERE
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This is a good question and rather innocent in nature. I don't see any issues with one person signing for ALL THOSE WHO ARE PRESENT AT THE CACHE SITE. Let's address another side to the question, though. Let's say you have a group of 4 (or more) cachers. 2 go to one side of town and 2 go to another side of town. Each sub-group finds 15-20 caches on each side of town. Then all 4 names get signed to the logs and all 4 people in the group log a find on the website. If you aren't at the cache site, and you don't see the cache, is it a find??? I know of a group who does that. Opinions?
Very interesting insight. I believe only those present should be signed/sign. If you are in a family team and one family member finds one and another family finds another (different state, different part of town, etc.) then that too is fair, for the family caches as a team and logs as a team. If the members had individual accounts, the finds wouldn't transfer the same way. Same thing with any other group. If the members were there, they can individually log. If several went one direction, several went the other, you would think only those who found the respective caches would log those caches found.
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I see it as everyone has a hobby, and for me this is it.
I just bought a Garmin Oregon 400t (600 bucks) and also still have my 60CSx. I spend quite a lot on gas to get around, getting about 100 caches on average the past 10 weeks. It is expensive when you think about it, but atleast I'm getting out, moving, and staying somewhat fit.
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Are there any 20 or younger cachers out there. That go out solo not with there parents?
There are many, personally I'm 23, wow... time flies, I started in '01 when I was 16 and have been caching since.
I wish I had started when you did. We're friends on Groundspeak, but didn't realize we were the same age.
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I'm 22 and I cache solo. I do have other caching friends I team up with sometimes too, on some runs or milestone events, but I do lots of solo caching, and am present for all my caches (not working with a team and getting credit when I'm not actually present).
I am approaching 2,000 finds, and I've only been caching since Dec. 27th (that's 07...yes...only 7 months). I go to as many events as I can. Check my profile, most people know me for my pictures I post at caches.
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Just posting for opinions.
I go out caching with several other cachers. Sometimes we pass the log book around and sign our own names, other times one of the people sign us all. We don't go by a TCC (for ex. Tuesday Caching Crew) on the logsheet and then individually log it online, but that is one aspect that could be discussed also. All of our names will get logged, but sometimes by one signature. this person isn't always the person who finds the cache. Sometimes someone is looking through the swag, another is logging on the Colorado, someone else may be writing down trackables tags. What are your opinions on it?
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I'm pretty sure the colorado does it too, but you can set up the oregon to go into offroad (if in onroad) when you get within a set distance (you set it up yourself)
so If I'm going to a cache, if I am within .3 (i have it set to 1500ft actually) it will then switch to an offroad and I can go to compass mode.
It exists on the CO as well but I was never able to get it to work. That would be great if it did work on the OR -- have you tried it?
GO$Rs
I tried it and am pretty sure it worked, but I'll test it some more in a little bit to verify.
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i do have a question, however.... in the colorado, when you are selecting a cache, and you select
"go to cache", and you are using CN 2008 NT, you get turn by turn directions to the cache.
do the same thing on the oregon, and you just get a line of sight line going to the cache... how
can you get the oregon to give turn by turn directions like the colorado does?
Do you have it in automotive mode (i.e city nav maps selected and routing set to On Road). It works on mine. And the nice thing about the Oregon is when you arrive at parking you can hit WhereTo->Recalculate off road and you'll get the straight line to the cache.
I'm pretty sure the colorado does it too, but you can set up the oregon to go into offroad (if in onroad) when you get within a set distance (you set it up yourself)
so If I'm going to a cache, if I am within .3 (i have it set to 1500ft actually) it will then switch to an offroad and I can go to compass mode.
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double post...sry.
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Is the screen vertical only orientation, or can I change it to horizontal for, say, driving along a route? Like the nuvi's...
[] versus [__]
Vertical only.
This is one reason I thought about waiting...I have a feeling this feature would be added...
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So, I've heard talk different ways, how many geocaches CAN the Oregon actually store? Can it really store 2000?
I'm assuming it inherits the 2000 limit from the CO but I haven't tested it yet. Where did you see that it supports less than 2000?
GO$Rs
My buddy was laoding queries with his Colorado and eventually they stopped loading as the icons with the cache page and some loaded as closed treasure boxes with no cache page. he wasn't sure, but thought that might have something to do with it. I am just used to the 60CSx having 1000, so I was just checking. I'd love to have 2000, that way I could keep the different queries I run depending on where I go, on all the time. I also need to run POI loader and load the caches I've found for reference in hiding.
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So, I've heard talk different ways, how many geocaches CAN the Oregon actually store? Can it really store 2000?
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G O, How do you have your 2000 finds in your found total? did you upload them as POIs?
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I'm just glad I don't have too many quarks with it.
- Figure out why my found totals don't match the listed found caches
- Bubble prompt arrival disappear
- Prompt for On/Off Road
- Compass view similar to colorado with size and D/T
I don't think that is all bad. Those would only help ME in how I cache, but are not necessities. I know how to manuever to the screens I need, it would just be nice to bypass it.
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Okay...i lied...I do have another pet peeve with the Oregon. Maybe G O can help me, but I love on my 60CSx that it would ask me when I'm routing to a point if I want On road or Off road. with the Oregon, it looks like you have a standard method it defaults to, and if you wanted to change it mid travel you would need to go into Where to? and the select reroute (insert opposite way here).
Is there no where to turn on a prompt for that?
Also, I wouldn't mind turning off the bubble prompt telling me I arrived at a cache site or whatever, simply to touch okay and have it go away.
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Did I hear there was an update (2.2) somewhere?
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So is that what happened? As soon as you mark that they are found it will switch over to waypoint? I saw that some of my finds included the caching symbol still and the open treasure box under it.
The GPS game my cache logs a total of 22, but when I looked through the find list it only showed me about 17 of them. I'm a little confused.
I did pull your numbers as an example, but that was only because they were the only ones I could see while typing a response (you can only see the last 10 posts). Hopefully that will explain why my post seemed to be about you specifically, whereas my post was really about people I've observed personally. If you did most of that alone, that's quite impressive. I'd have to think there will come a day when you run out of "local" caches though.
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