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Car54

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  1. Hello from an Indiana geocacher. I apologize in advance 'cause I suspect this has been asked a bazillion times but my attempt at a search turned up nothing. I've heard there is a cache located at or near Garmin HQ in Olathe, KS. We're going to be in Overland Park over Thanksgiving and would like to do that cache - if it exists. Can anyone confirm that for us and maybe give us the waypoint? I've searched for nearest from the Olathe zip code, but none of them appeared to be at Garmin HQ.

     

    Thanks for the help!

  2. CR,

     

    Now that I think about it....that's a very good point about virtuals. Since we live only half an hour from the cache, and since the area is so beautiful in the autumn, it won't be any hardship to revisit. :anibad: However, if we can't answer the question after our second visit, we'll probably go ahead and log the smiley.

  3. As part of last weekend's caching activity, we posted a DNF on a virtual. We were most definitely in the area, but it wasn't until we got home and read the hint that we realized we hadn't seen what we needed to to answer the question. So I logged a DNF.

     

    One of our finds for that weekend was a traditional cache by the same owner. We logged a find on it, although I admitted in our log that I was kind of ashamed to do so. Yeah, we found the ammo box, made a trade and signed the log, so technically it WAS a find. However, we did the cache as night was falling and rushed through it, never seeing the view for which the cache was named.

     

    Guess which of the two caches was the better experience for us? Yep, the DNF. The cache owner e-mailed us about the DNF and said we could log it as a find since their intent was to take cachers to a specific area and we had obviously been there. I've left it as a DNF, though, 'cause IMO we didn't meet the requirements stated on the cache page.

     

    I did really appreciate the e-mail from the owner, though. In a few weeks, we're going back and try again on the virt and we'll also try to right our geo-karma by visiting that one find again so we can experience the beauty of the area, not just the satisfaction of finding the ammo box.

  4. Notjustjay,

     

    Oh yeah, I'd hide the ammo can on the premises. Although we are in an industrial park, it is somewhat rural and we have a wooded area on our property that would be a perfect place for the ammo can. Just wondering how to get them to take a picture....

  5. This topic has me really thinking.....I work at a food bank (non-profit, of course!) and coincidentally, I have an extra ammo can laying around just waiting to be born as a cache. If I just "suggested" a canned food donation, and had a physical cache with normal trading items as well, all would be well, right? Any way I could work in the desire for a picture to be taken by our building or our truck? I know I could ask on the cache page, but without an incentive, will people do it? Perhaps by offering "extra credit" of some sort, like a certificate I could e-mail or something? Any ideas?

  6. We live very near Indiana's newest state park - Prophetstown SP in Lafayette, IN, and we want to place a cache there. Since most, if not all, of the other IN state parks have caches, I assumed the IN DNR policy was to allow caches. Nevertheless, I called the local park office before placing the cache. For one thing, Prophetstown is different from all other IN state parks in that it is a prairie restoration park. Therefore, environmental concerns about off-trail activity is very real.

     

    3 weeks ago, I talked to the asst. park manager, who said he was familiar with our sport, having come from another IN state park. He didn't sound too thrilled with the idea and stressed that IF they allowed it, they'd want to know the co-ords in advance so they could check the suitability of the location, they would want to be contacted for permission for each and every cache in the park, etc. I agreed to that and I talked up the positives of the sport - more visitors (& $) to the park, CITO, public use of public land, etc. He said they'd discuss it and he'd call me back.

     

    Today, having heard nothing, I called back and this time got the park manager. If anything, he was less thrilled than his asst. I volunteered to be a local contact for them, stressed that I would emphasize on the cache page that ALL caches required PRIOR approval, that I'd come to retrieve any unapproved caches and contact their owners, etc. He said he'd discuss it with his regional supervisor when he comes to visit in a few weeks.

     

    I've also e-mailed our local approver to let him/her know not to approve any caches in this park yet. I'm getting the feeling that permission is going to be denied. Is there anything else I can do? Would it help for someone else more experienced (we've only been cachers since 4/04, 180+ finds, 1 hide so far) - like maybe the local approver - to contact them? I'm open to any advice.

  7. I could remove the Groundspeak extensions to GPX (which IS an open format) from GPSBabel in about 10 minutes...

    A lot of things would come to a screeching halt and remove the reason that many people get PQs--and thusly pay their $30 a year.

     

    Whatcha think?

    This is the post that had me confused - it seems to imply that GPSBabel could get "broken".

  8. I am just your basic, non-techie geocacher with only 6 months of experience in the sport. But just like DeViDe, I am concerned that all this legal mumbo-jumbo disagreement is going to impede our ability to download our PQ's, use GSAK to convert them and put them in our PDA. Didn't an earlier post indicate that GPSBabel might be in violation and that GSAK depends on, or at least uses, GPSBabel? I'm probably (no, definitely) over my head, here, but this whole discussion sounds like a tug-of-war which could result in all of us falling down.

     

    Rochelle

  9. Thanks, Eartha and strikeforce1. I did a fair amount of reading on the site and the forums before taking a TB, so I did know about making sure the TB tag # didn't show in any pictures. I understand that you can use the TBG # to search for or reference the bug, but how is that any better than searching by the bug's name (which is much easier to remember)? The reason I ask is because when I'm logging a bug and the "found it" page tells me this bug is TBG # xxx, I wonder if I should write that down for future use of some sort.

     

    Car54

  10. Another TB question: is there a place to post "stories", for lack of a better term, regarding a TB other than logging a find, or a note, on the TB page? The reason I ask is this past weekend, we picked up the Hummer to the Rescue bug (I'd put a link here, but I don't know how and I freely admit to being too lazy to search for the thread that tells me how - ^_^ ). His mission was to gather stories, so I posted one in our "found it/picked it up" log, but I noticed there were no other stories. Am I missing something?

  11. Actually, yes, I have seen a "didn't sign log". OK, so it was me that didn't sign it (of course I am referring to the physical log located in the cache container). It was our first ever FTF (on Geodogger's Adventure in IL) and I mentioned in our on-line log that I was so excited about finding it that while I wrote in the log, I failed to actually sign the log. To date, we are the only finders on this cache and there were no hints available when we went after it. (A little shameless chest-thumping here - helps me feel better about the "easy" 1/1 caches we've had to log as "DNF.")

     

    Rochelle

  12. I can vouch for the fact that in a vehicle with those windshields referenced in the link posted earlier that an external antenna is vital. We have a 1999 Pontiac Montana and until we got the external antenna, the signal to our Garmin GPS60C was forever being dropped. I had to hold it next to the passenger window (and sometimes out the window) and relay the info to the driver. I know it's not our GPSr's fault because we don't have any problems with it in our 2003 Impala.

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