Thot
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It just bugs me that I cant find it, but I will come back to it.
Oh how I know -- drives me crazy. If I can't find one I put a watch on it to be sure others are finding it. Then go back again and again.
By bad luck, when I started I immediately ran into a string what I now know were hard ones. But, I’d had no positive record to keep me going. I got discouraged and almost quit after two or three weeks. Fortunately I kept going just a little longer and things improved a lot. I’ve gone back and cleaned ‘um all up except a couple that are too far away – finished the last one within range a week or so ago.
The other advice you got was excellent.
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Works great! Thanks much!!!
Hi drag-racer
It was your request for a copy that made me clean it up enough to give to people. Glad you like it.
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Pass on these and try the next on the list. Come back to them after you've found 10 caches. With experience you learn the patterns and how to find them. Also, some caches are just crossways with certain people. They try again and again to find caches everybody else says are easy. It's the nature of the game. Also, some micros are very hard even though micros are very freqiently marked one or one-and-a-half stars.
Move on.
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I notice some logged vists in the gallery have image added. How is that done?
Look around on the page that appears immediately after you save the log. You will see a link for upload image or something like that. I think it's in the upper right.
If you've already submitted the log click the View/Edit log link, or he add picture link.
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Well, it's Tuesday morning and it's been failing for the last couple of hours. I haven't been able to look something up for a friend, because I can't get to the page. I've tried about 5 times spread out over time.
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I assume the administrators are aware, but I thought I'd mention it just in case
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To be a true 1/1 (and you're right, a lot of 1/1s aren't 1/1s) the person should be able to wheel right up to it in there chair and get it. That means that it should be placed between 24 and 36" above ground (give or take a little).
I'd say almost no terrain 1s I've seen meet that criteria.
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I just read a log where someone was upset because he thought the 1 rating means wheel-chair accessable. We're more into finding than hiding, but we have placed 2 caches which we rated with a 1 difficulty. We certainly don't to mislead anyone into thinking a cache is wheel-chair accessable if it isn't.
I’ve wondered quite a bit about this.
As someone pointed out, the guidelines say a terrain of 1 is “Handicapped accessible,” whatever that means. I have read a couple of places it means the cache is wheelchair accessible, but I don’t think I’ve seen more than one real cache (not virtual or webcam or locationless, etc) out of 10 -15 that could be accessed by a person in a wheelchair. I’ve seen several rated 1 where a person in a wheelchair could get within 5-10 feet (often with difficulty). But, they would have to get out of the chair to actually reach the cache. I confess I don’t understand the degree to which wheelchair bound people can navigate outside the chair.
I’m sure there are some and I assume I’ll get a reply from someone who does this, but I’ve thought about the wheelchair requirement since I began caching and I almost always assess terrain 1 caches against this criteria.
Edited to add the following:
Okay, I just reviewed the questions asked to determine the terrain rating. One of them says:
“What is the terrain elevation like?
Basically flat --Only slight elevation changes. Easy to do in a wheelchair, stroller, bike, etc."
If you choose the next more difficult condition on this and only this question you come up with a terrain rating of 2. So, it appears a rating of 1 or even 1.5 must be wheelchair accessable. I don't think many people follow this guideline.
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I’m not sure this is helpful, but here’s another idea.
Put the log and the swag in the container that seals better. Put this container in the location closer to the official coordinates. Put a note (either laminated or in a well sealed ziplock) in the other container at the other location. In the note give good coordinates to the real cache, and a vivid hint explaining exactly where the real cache is. Sort of a quasi-unofficial multi-cache.
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What is the correct setting for the position format? I am on hddd mm'.mmm'....what do these letters mean anyways?
I don't know what the h is but the ddd is degrees, the mm is minutes and the .mmm is decimal (fractions of) minutes.
That's the typical setting for geocaching
Maybe the h is for hemisphere which is indicated by a plus or minus sign.
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[*]Use the 2nd container for a new cache
Can he get a new cache approved that close to another? He said it was only something like 50-60 feet away.
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Yup, they work for me.
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I’ve written a utility that makes using EasyGPS more convenient, at least for me. It combines .loc files downloaded from geocaching.com. This lets me just click the mark all, download the 20 on a page, go to the next page repeat, and do this again and again until I get as many waypoints as I want.
For example, if I'm trying to get caches around Cheyenne, Wyoming I begin by entering a zipcode (or lat/lon) near the center of town into geocaching.coms cache finder and click the “Check All” button. When downloading, I name the first 20 Cheyenne1, the next 20 Cheyenne2 . . . Cheyenne10, etc. Then my program combines these individual sets of 20 into one .loc file that loads into EasyGPS. If you want to be picky you can select all 20 on a page then go through and uncheck any you don't want, such as 5 star terrain or micros or virtuals or whatever you don't want before downloading each set.
The program is free. If you're interested, email me and I'll send you a copy.
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new avatar - interesting.
I have three that I rotate, but they are all the same character -- Thot
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After 600+ finds it happens to me more than it did when I was new at this.
Is if possible you aren't as driven as you were in the beginning? Before you had 600 finds and missing a few isn't as big a deal?
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As a premium member - paying to play - you can set up up queries to email you every day about new caches. It's one of the perks, to be a paying player.
Ah, that must have been what I saw -- Thanks.
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Speaking of New Cache Notification, how far out from your location does this go?
I receive the weekly emails but I'm not sure it's ever listed a new cache.
Also, it seems like I read somewhere that as a paid member I would get these new cache notices more frequently, like maybe daily. Did I just dream that?
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Years ago they sold them at Radio Shack. Haven't checked recently.
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Lame
in How do I...?
Just because it's easy to get to doesn't mean it's lame.From my perspective difficulty doesn’t have anything to do with lame.
Lame is like when the cache container won’t seal; the contents or logbook are wet and there’s mud, worms and other critters living (or dead) in the cache.
Lame might also include micro caches a half mile into and off the trail of a densely forested area with lots of fallen limbs and undergrowth. Where dense canopy has the GPS thoroughly confused and where, in the still 100 degree heat, while constantly wiping the sweat out of your burning eyes you decrypt the hint to find it says, “Hey, you low life cheater, this one’s too easy. No hints.”
Or maybe where after walking a mile to it, the coordinates put you on the wrong side of a large creek.
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It's much more powerful than EasyGPS and more powerful than Utopia in that it allows you to export GPX files to your PDA in the CacheMate format, which is so much better than MobiPocket Reader (for eBooks).
If I had a PDA I'm sure I'd feel different.
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The other suggestions are probably quicker, but my method is to Google search for a town and choose a hit that probably contains an address. I take the zipcode from the address and enter it in geocaching.com.
In this case I didn’t immediately think of a town, so I entered Alberta Canada. It yielded this page: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-...G=Google+Search
From this list I chose the second link, the University of Alberta and found this zipcode -- T6G 2E1.
Entering this zipcode in geocaching.com gave me this list -- http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?zip=T6G+2E1
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I’m not sure what you're setting, but if it’s the bearing and you use a compass I’d say you need to use degrees so you can set the bearing on the compass.
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When I use Easygps to upload, I left click the first waypoint , then hold down the shift key, then left click the last way point. Then upload.
You can just click the "Send" icon on the toolbar if you want to send the entire list.
Significance Of Antenna Sizes
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I have to ask this naive question. How do you know if you’ve “lost lock?”
I use a Magellan SporTrak Pro and if I’ve ever lost lock I didn’t know it. I check the EPE regularly when the target is wandering, and I’ve seen it quite large in heavy tree cover (forest). But, the distance to target (which I use the most) never stops changing as I move. Does some kind of warning (beeps, notice on the display, etc) notify you that you’ve lost satellite signals?