Jabba

Hello Everyone: Check out the Great 2005 New Zealand to North Carolina Travel Bug Race. We have 30 travel bugs sitting in the Travel Bug's Wraith Refuge (GCJ164) in Wellington New Zealand. They are all racing back to the RDU Travel Bug Hotel (GCB649) cache near the Raleigh/Durham international airport in North Carolina. The race can be monitored at 2005 New Zealand to North Carolina Travel Bug Race . There is also a post about the race in the at New Zealand Forum Please help any of these bugs in their race back home, and especially my racer Jabba's Hog .

Hello: I am looking for a geocache partner to help me complete Crusso's "Wheres in a name" cache. My user name Jabba converts to 52 22.2. This can be N S E or W coordinates. I would just like to see if I can complete this reverse locationless cache with your help. Some cities that are near those coordinates are Amsterdam at 52 deg 23 min 52 23N 4.55 E

Great, thanks for your help. I don't know what i was doing wrong, but just as long as it works now I'm happy.

If this is important enough for you to place a post about it how about include the accuesed to state their side of the story. Personally i feel, as stated previousley ic you did not sign it you dod not find it.

Have you been there to take the coordinates? If not then you might as well be pulling fish out of your a??. This is a dumb idea and shows a total disregard for the basic rules of caching.

If you don't sign it you did not find it.

Hello: I am having problems converting some international coordinates. I am attempting to complete the sisters locationless cache. I had advertised on the United Kingdom discussion board for a geocache partner in England and received a response. The coordinates i received and a follow up email keep mapping me in the north sea according to mapquest. My question is do I just post the coordinates as received or can some one help me figure this out. Following is the text from the cacher in England confirming the coordinates. (My email request for clarification:) Hello: Can you confirm the coordinates? I believe the screen to say N53 44.508 W000 16.823 When I attempt to map with those coordinates I end up in the north sea. (Response) they are correct and they are of the ferry terminal in hull. they are in the format of degrees, minutes. you might be using degrees, minutes, seconds in which case they should read 53 44'30,5" N 0 16'49,3" W British national grid is TA13514 28645 hope this helps I will e-mail you a map of area comes from memory map you may not be able to open it?? I hope this all helps let me know please cheers stuart

Hello: I am looking for a Geocache partner in England to help both of us complete the Sisters ( GC47226 ) Geocache. I need someone that can take a coordinate reading and picture in either Durham or Kingston-upon-Hull. These are the sister cities to Durham, North Carolina USA and Raleigh, North Carolina USA. I am clost to both cities and can complete the cache in either city. North Carolina Sister cities listing Thank You, Jabba

Thanks for the reply Dustyjacket, As it happens often on the board I did more reading after I posted my question then before....and found out some of that already. I do however think it will be interesting to see further posts in response to my original question. Maybe the question should be have been "Have you found any like this?"....or, "show us your most interesting non USGS marks". Thanks, Uncle Jabba

Hello: I was wondering if anyone else has found marks other then USGS marks? A friend and I were hiking last year near Roaring Gap, NC out off of a hunting road and ran into a mark that said that it was part of the "USDI NPS BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY". I'd upload a picture of it but I can not figure out how, beside posting a picture that is on the web somewhere already. I sent the following note to the National Parks service, but the person who responded had no clue. Hello: While hiking last fall up near Roaring Gap, NC I happened across a trail marker for the parkway. I was wondering if I could get some more info on this and others like it. The marker looked like a standard USGS survey markers. Printed on it was "USDI NPS BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY" this was running around the outer ring of the marker in a clockwise direction. Running counter clockwise was "$250 fine for removal” in the center of the disk was "BL" in about the 10 o'clock position. Below that at about 7 o'clock was 73 and to the right of that at about 4 o'clock 11-40. The coordinates for this marker were N-36.22.994 W-081.09.913. How often are these placed on the trail? Was the ridge top trail that I came across part of the Parkway or was this some sort of boundary marker? We came upon this marker while climbing up from near Turkey cove pond up to the ridge top where this marker was found. We did not even know that there was a trail on this ridge. I have a picture of the marker and the GPS showing the coordinates if anyone would like it I can email it. Has anyone else found any marks like this or know anything about it? Thanks, Jabba

I have run across a couple of interesting names also. I wish I knew more about the reason for some of the names. hedgpeth RM 1 and apparently the other room? hedgpeth rm 2 all must have been named for this view, but where is the room Hedgpeth I have also found Mud, Sears, Barbs, Ransom, and a friendly Welcome which is right in the middle of downtown Holly Springs, NC. I have also found the Sunset mark, which was not very pretty. And I know that it is not very old, but my oldest mark was simply called R 54 but it was in a beautiful spot near the Nantahala river. A friend of mine spotted it while we were walking the train tracks back from the hardest terrain rated Geocache I have ever done, Lost Caves of the Middle Sun which is a 3.5 difficulty and a 4.5 terrain. As soon as my new metal detector gets here I will be back on a Benchmark Kick again. Its been a while since I searched for them, thanks for the thread. Jabba

Interesting threat to find last night. I won an Ebay auction last night for a metal detector (Item number: 5731925213). I have only found a handful of benchmarks so far, but have been wanting a metal detector for a while just for benchmark hunting. There are seveal that I know must be there, but the grass has overtaken them and/or erosion has covered them. I can't wait to hit some of my DNF benchmarks when the metal detector gets here.

WoW I wish a stewardess would play with my unit sometime.

I've used my GPS on several flights my wife is always amazed that I can sit there for hours and look out the window and the various GPS screens. Its good to know about the list provided of GPS friendly airlines and about asking the Pilots. I just usually keep it behind a news paper during preflight/takeoff/landing to avoid the flight attendents and then have never worried much about while at cruising altitude.

Hello; I am looking for an online mapping site that will return the longitude/latitude of a street address. Map Blast used to have a function like this. You could map an address and in the top right corner of the map image was the coordinates. Does anyone know of another mapping site with this functionality? If there was another post like this please point me towards that thread. Thank You, Jabba

Hello: I was working on tracking down benchmark EZ0638 which is listed with the following coordinates: N 35 52.083 W 78 51.05 How do I determine the last decimal point on the west coordinate? do I just put it in my Etrex Legend as W 078 51.05 or is it .005? I went to the jeep.com converstion table http://jeeep.com/details/coord/ and put in the coordinates and I think I used the correct output, but I am not realy sure which is the correct one. what is the correct procedure for determining the three decimal point coordinates that my GPSr wants?

Hello: I was working on tracking down benchmark EZ0638 which is listed with the following coordinates: N 35 52.083 W 78 51.05 How do I determine the last decimal point on the west coordinate? do I just put it in my Etrex Legend as W 078 51.05 or is it .005? I went to the jeep.com converstion table http://jeeep.com/details/coord/ and put in the coordinates and I think I used the correct output, but I am not realy sure which is the correct one. what is the correct procedure for determining the three decimal point coordinates that my GPSr wants?