kbootb
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I have a PQ set up that shows any cache that is within 50 miles of home that has been found in the last seven days.
I never get it to download but view it on line by clicking preview. This then gives me a quick way of seeing who has been caching in my area in the last week.
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The astute thief will watch the approach path. If the car gets to the destination by a series of minor roads, doubling back at no-entry signs, being led into housing estates that have no way out, screeching to a halt a roundabout that has been added in the last five years, then they can probably be sure that it was guided there by GPS.
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ooh - time for some gratuitous cache promotion
The Only Guy in the Village - cache in the grounds of the house that Guy Fawkes and crew planned the famous events.
The World's First Cash point Cache- The site of the first cash point in the world. ALso a play on the words cache and cash. Also the title looks like somehow the cash point is involved in the finding of the cash (cache).
Forty Hall, into the woods - well you have to go into the woods, but named after one of the best musicals I have ever seen.
Whitewebbs, the holly and the ivy - hidden in a tree with ivy growing on it, next to the obvious holly bush
Flash Lane Aqueduct - err next to the aqueduct in Flash Lane
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Of course, you would hope that a responsible cache setter had tested the signal avaialbility in all seasons
To be fair, most of the forest bound caches I have done are close to clearings so I have developed a 'clearing hopping' method but the last bit is circling the area trying to get closer and keep the signal and then finally it's down to cacher's instinct and the clues.
Final solution is to pack a chain saw and create your own clearing.
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Madness if you ask me (which of course you didn't).
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I can't see any forums either. I just came in straight from an outside web site and i only found this thread by going into the "view new posts" button.
Exactly the same for me
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As the original poster can I thank people for the answers so far and clarify and amplify? I wanted to avoid adding to the discussion as it would colour the experiment, but the point of the thread has been lost somewhat. Although the answers are useful/on topic etc, I really want people to try this and post results.
I'm an experienced cacher and know how GPS works, its limitations, averaging etc
However, I wanted to explore the results obtained in the field with real humans doing things in a real human way.
Many people using GPS in 'hobby mode' will simply mark a waypoint en route sufficient to help them return later on, either back tracking the route, or 'that's an interesting thing - I might come back again'. They don't take the care that we would in setting a cache.
100' out probably doesn't matter in most circumstances. But there are time when 100' out would mean over the edge of a cliff - but I would suggest these are pretty rare.
However, for cache setting 100' out is pretty poor and people need to think about averaging - which is the point I wanted to get to if the results panned out matching my hypothesis. When I set a cache I average the readings over about an hour at the site, and make a number of return trips on other days and do the same to arrive at a final average.
My experiences the last few days were based on - having the GPS switched on during the drive, leaving the unit on top of the car while putting my boots on and on my return leaving the GPS on the car while changing out of my boots.
It's a Garmin summit which does not have the averaging feature that the Magellans have. If others prove to have similar hour- to-hour variation it would serve to remind people of the need to average when setting caches.
If every one is reporting more accurate results than I am getting then perhaps it's my unit that needs replacing!
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Can I propose a small group experiment?
The last few times I have created a waypoint for my car, gone for a few miles caching and then used the GPS to get back to my car it has read somewhere in the region of 100 to 150 feet still to go when I know I am in exactly the spot I was standing in just a few hours earlier.
Next time you go caching and mark your start point, could you post the reading you get on your return?
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Yellow etrex's with v3 have a slightly different chipset to the older models with v2. This change was made to enable the yellow to receive and use WAAS. unfortunately those with v2 can not upgrade to v3, much to my annoyance
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Same with my etrex summit. Version 2.50 I believe (writing this at a place where I don't have my GPS available
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Excellent photos. Now I remember why I used to have an SLR. Ditched it a few years ago for the convenience of a digital that I could stick in my pocket. Takes good snaps but no control over shutter speed, depth of focus etc.
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Had a ten minute heavy downwall this morning at about 7.00 in North London. Could hardly see 50 ft but it didn't settle.
Some really impressive clouds on the horizon now about 4.30 p.m.
Looks like something is going to happen.
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Sounds like a coal post like this one
They marked the area within which tax had to be paid on coal.
Around my part of north London someone has been researching them and placing caches as near to as many of these as possible.
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Thanks guys, I never spotted that one.
Found the list of DNFs (now got to find them for real)
No wonder my memory wouldn't work. They were caches near an airport that I had to pick my daughter up from. I had a couple of hours to kill... but I had forgotten I had even been there.
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I thought I would spend a little time having another go at caches I had failed to find. I could remember a few of them but there are about 5 that were in an area I don't know well and for the life of me I can't remember the cache names, or for that matter where abouts I was. I can remember a few (visual) details but it could have been when I was on holiday or just a part of London/Essex I don't normally visit.
It doesn't seem possible to search for DNF entries you have made.. unless you know different.
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I have created a gmail account specifically for putting into cache details. So if the cache gets muggled and they do something nasty with that e-mail address it doesn't affect my real addresses.
It should also provide a very quick alert if someone finds the cache and wants to contact me as I don't expect to receive any other mail into that account and it won't get lost in the hundreds of other mails I get each day.
So far, over a year on and I haven't received a single real e-mail but it gets about 15 spams a month.
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I had a TB that was meant to go to Austria. And I was going to Austria skiing. I didn't think there was much chance of getting near a cache as there isn't one for 20 miles and that takes a 4 hour walk in summer but I took the TB anyway and took some pics to show it had been skiing.
SO now it's back in London and will have to resume its journey.
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I'm sure I've got it. I'm going skiing in a few hours. Am I packing, no I'm on the forum, I'm loading up the GPS and the PDA, running spoilersync.
I must be mad as the nearest cache to where I'm going is about 20 miles and is a 4 hour hike in summer.
But I'm taking it 'just in case'.
We might get snowed off and take a trip to the city (Salzburg). I might get time at the airport to race off and find the airport TB hotel. You just never know.
But that's another charger (for the PDA) on top of the mobile phone charger, the DV camera, the rechargeable batteries the MP3 player.
My hand luggage is just about 100% electrical items.
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Nice 'feel good' article with a decent amount of time given to it.
Couple of spoilers there though.
Loved GAS. 'Have you got GAS?'.
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Yet another 'enjoyable' thread to read - starts off as a question with a smile by the topic and descends into more rants & arguments about an extrememly minor question.
Not the fault of the OP, just what happens on the forum these days.
Yes, interesting to note that the OP made no further comment after the first post. I assume they were content with getting the information they requested.
I'm getting a bit bored with the 'rant boys'.
As with just about every other internet forum I have used there seems to be a time where you think, 'not as good as the old days' and 'where has xxx gone, they've not been here for ages'.
Do the groups really deteriorate, or is it just the natural way of things. Once you have been in a group long enough you have been helped, helped others and heard all the jokes. Is that the time to move on?
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Looks like I've got clearance for a Wednesday night. Doubt that I'll be there before 7 though.
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Not helpful I know, but it's working fine for me.
So, it's not a complete system wide problem. Either a problem on your machine or with your account at GC.
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loads of effort in that page. And my favourite Green Day vid. Not seen that for a while.
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As I see it, geocaching guidelines are guidelines not rules.
The cache is owned by the person that set it. They set the rules for success. These are published in the cache description available before you go and hunt. You enter into that agreement when you hunt, find and log.
However, I can't see the point of some of the extra challenges needed to qualify your find. It shouldn't matter how you found it, so long as you found it. If the idea is to bring people in by a particular route there are many tried and tested methods of offsets and multi's to do that.
Some caches are themed so you can only leave an object if you can justify its link to the theme. But that doesn't stop you logging a find, just restricts what you can leave.
As I said, that's my personal take on the matter, but not really too bothered. Plenty of caches out there still to find, if one doesn't look to be worth the effort GSAK filters it out quite nicely.
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You know, that's really tempting. One of my favourite musicians in the world, Elena James (was Fremerman) plays from time to time in the Continental club. If I could get to see her there it would be fantastic.
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Rubber Gloves
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As a sufferer of a potentially fatal allergy (in fact 2) that are triggered by inhalation I think I ought to post here.
A severe sufferer of such an allergy just has to assume that a cache is hazardous to them. The number of rubber items that could be there will make this a certainty. Travel bugs, balloons, erasers, the rubber seal, whoopee cushions etc etc.
Even if the items were not present, it is fairly certain that in time the cache containers will have been in contact with it. What about a cache container that has been handled by someone that has been wearing gloves?
My particular allergies are cheese and shellfish. Even walking past a Pizza Hut can make me ill. Try to explain to our caterers that cutting through a pile of sandwiches with the same knife means that I can't eat any of them!
So I spend my life being careful. Seems to have worked for about 46 years. I've been pretty ill on a few occassions.
The worst was that I always got ill at parties and a) it was hard to explain to people that it wasn't the drink, and
the fact that I always blamed it on the amount of cheese in the air was wrong. I had a liking for twiglets and it wasn't until about 10 years ago that I actually bought some and read the ingredients that I found they had cheese in them!
So, I can't ban the use of cheese, even in my own home. But the family act sensibly, read ingredients, use cooking utensils wisely and take advantage of the times I am out to cook the more cheese rich dishes.