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    August Souvenirs

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by Diemanca

    If people want to stick to the rules verbatim that's just fine. But you have to remember that not all cachers live in an area with a heavy cache density, so to have them go for a cache-a-day is asking a bit much. I myself live in a rural community where the nearest cache to me now is about a 30 minute drive, and getting further. Driving an hour each day is unreasonable, expensive and not very environmental friendly.

    I myself have been splitting the difference and going out every few days. Yesterday I picked up 4 caches, I'll wait until I've logged them and then go out again and pick up a couple more.

    I'm happy in doing that, I try and keep to the spirit of the game as best as I can, and the best part. . . it's getting me out of the house a lot more. ;)

    Forest Green Camo Tape

    in Canada

    Posted

    Anyone from Ottawa know where i can buy forest green camo tape?

     

    Thanks in advance for any help.

     

    Rob

     

    Try TSC, they have some in the hunting dept. I don't know if it's shiny or not.

     

    Ray

    Is it possible to glue plastic to plastic?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Any glue that is used on this plastic will fail after a while I'm sure. The problem is finding something that will chemically or physically bond to both surfaces and maintain that bond through rain, sun, heat and cold, Oh yes, and heavy handed finders. The lock'nlock plastic is a "non stick" variety so it has no bonding capabilities.

     

    If I were to do this, I would be looking at a mechanical connection such as a couple of screws into the dog and then sealing with silicon. You could also use wire to anchor the dog to the top, again sealing with silcon.

     

    Without seeing the dog it's hard to be more specific.

    Canadian Geopub Quiz

    in Canada

    Posted

    The Fraser River when it passes through Hope BC has an average depth of _______ above sea level?

     

    Lorne

     

    Does that mean, depth of the river, or height of the river above sea level?

     

    I don't understand "average depth of _______ above sea level'

    Co-ordinates to a cache within a cache

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Thanks everyone for those thoughtful answers. For some reason known only to me, and then even I'm not sure why, I had the idea that a stage of a multi couldn't be connected to another cache. As in having the cords inside the first cache container. Now I know. :blink:

     

    I'm keeping everyones suggestions in mind as I develop this further, it's such a beautiful old woodlot that I want their experience to be a memorable one.

    Co-ordinates to a cache within a cache

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I've just discovered a woodlot near me that hasn't been cached yet. I explored it yesterday and was very impressed with the almost pristine state of it, it's away from any concentrated habitation. It seems a shame to just place a single cache here so I was thinking of putting down two, one at either end and somehow linking to the nearer one from the most distant, so that you have to get the far one to find the location of the other.

    This would increase the difficulty rating for both caches because there are no trails here.

     

    Can I put the co-ordinates inside the cache container? If not, how can I link a cache to a cache?

    4 the "Bomb Boyz"

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

     

    People join the bomb squad because they like to blow things up. If they are called out, there is a pretty good chance something's gonna go BOOM! Caches placed with permission and caches placed without permission get blown up. I wouldn't expect the bomb squad to stop and check with us before doing their job, which is to protect citizens, and blow things up safely.

     

    Exactly, it's a given that boys will naturally gravitate to, fire, water, dirt and things that go BOOM!.

     

    Even if you were to open the container, dump all the items out and then show the bomb squad it empty, they would have you fill it back up and proceed to destroy it with a BOOM, and you, being the boy that you are would just LOVE it. :)

     

    I can only speak for the 'boys" of us, other sexes may see this differently.

    Canadian Geopub Quiz

    in Canada

    Posted

    ...but I'm feeling lazy at the moment).

     

    Dale

     

    OK, this is what I do when I am feeling lazy. :lol:

    Someone is going to know this!

    Two words, fill in the blanks...

     

    ______ ____ is an imaginary line joining places with zero declination/variation.

     

    Don't ask me what it means, I only know the answer. :laughing:

     

    Let's all pitch in and recycle! :)

     

    My joblist. . oh sorry, that's zero inclination :)

    Canadian Geopub Quiz

    in Canada

    Posted

    Yes, you got half the answer, and the other half is *very* close, relatively speaking. I'll fill in one missing word from your answer to help out with the second half.

     

    Special Relativity causes time to run slower on the satellite.

     

    I have been trying to guess what the other half might be.

    A lucky guess would put me 3/4 of the way there.

     

    I'll go with General Relativity.

     

    If this is right, because wavector wrote more words than I did, it's his win, plus I don't have a question :ph34r:

    Oregon v. 2.80

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    I ran into a problem tonight running 2.8 that I'm hoping some other people can try who are using City Nav (I'm using CN NA NT 2009)

     

    When I do this the unit powers off. I have pretty standard automotive and geocaching settings. In automotive I have both CN and Topo 2009 enabled, in geocaching just Topo. Routing and mapping settings include the obvious differences.

     

    I have the same problem, I did the update on Saturday and then drove quite a distance using Automotive. On the way home I switched to Geocaching and the unit shut down. It did that everytime I tried. Although when I got back home and tried, it worked fine.

     

    When I read your post I tried it again, and it shut down. So I tried it once more and it was fine, go figure??

     

    For Geocaching I use TOPO Canada V2, and for Automotive I have MetroGuide Canada V4.

    New Oregon Firmware 2.70/2.58

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    I had an issue with the unit on the weekend. I have 2.80 installed and is working fine for the most part, however when I tried to change modes, from Automotive to Geocaching, the unit shut down completely. It did that a few times when traveling, but when I tried it again at home it was fine, and has been since.

    My Major Problems with my Oregon

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    There does seem to be some sort of problem with the unit reacquiring satellites.

    I had mine in the dash mount and it was working fine, the satellite signal was really strong in this area. We stopped to go into Best Buy, so I put the unit into my carry pouch, I just left it turned on.

    When I came back out I put it back into the mount and waited for it to get back on track. But it didn't, it just sat there. Some of the satellite icons were flashing and there were a couple of short hollow bars, but that's all that happened.

    I waited a few minutes and then powered down. When I turned it back on the satellites showed up within seconds. It worked fine all the way home.

    Everything is up to date.

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