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  1. My favorite "GPS in Movies" was The X-Files coordinates at 83°50'S, 65°47'E. Mulder gets coordinates for a secret base at this location. The cool (geeky) thing about it is that this place is known as the South Pole Inaccessibility. The geographic point that is farthest away from the sea. The Arctic has a similar pole, known as the North Pole of Inaccessibility, a point that is farthest from land. If there are any cachers brave enough to place a cache at any of these two places, let me know. "Now, where did I park my car...?"
  2. I was performing an update for my Gramin eTrex Legend and saw that a new icon for a waypoint called "geocache" accompanied by a "geocache found" icon was added to my current compliment of icons. I entered this strange word, geocache, into Google and came up with several links, including Garmin's contribution. After registering, I called my brother and sister and asked what they were doing that weekend... "Now, where did I park my car...?"
  3. Am I the only one who cannot get an avatar on the discussions? I uploaded an image and cannot get it to post. Please help. "Now, where did I park my car...?"
  4. testing my avatar "Now, where did I park my car...?"
  5. 1. Assign teams in advance. 2. Get teddy bears equal to number of teams. 3. Place ribbons on the bears with a coordinate of another bear, until all bears are found. 4. You can encrypt the coords. on each ribbon on a bear, and each team have a different code, so teams cannot get all the coords at their first bear 5. The first team with all their ribbons to return to the finish line wins. Example: Team A will have coords starting for Bear 4, when they get to bear 4, a ribbon for their team will have coords point to bear 2, then to bear 1 and so on... Ribbons can be color-coded according to team and you can have probably up to 4 per team. That's my two cents anyway. "Now, where did I park my car...?"
  6. 10 years from now, we'll have GPSr's imbedded in pens and high school kids will use the infrared spectrum to transmit coordinates of liquor stores that sell beer to them. We'll have back-talking cars telling us NOT take the highway because of traffic and the Oakleys with the HUD will only work half the time due to radio frequency saturation. Geocaching, I'm affraid, will go the way of hula hoops and cars with fins. But, not long after that we'll have chips installed in gov't issued ID cards or our brains and they'll always work for Big Brother. "Now, where did I park my car...?"
  7. testing Now where did I park my car...?
  8. I buy medical supplies. Serve in Naval Reserves. Now where did I park my car...?
  9. hopefully for the last time.
  10. Just testing if I have an avatar.
  11. I'm in the planning stages of a day-long cache hunt for Sunday. If there's no one confirmed to go by this weekend, I'll get back by Friday on this thread.
  12. We cannot allow ourselves to be shocked into fear. Sure there are sick freaks in the world but there are also nice people who place geocaches in really cool places for us to find. Caution, perserverance, and an unshakeable desire to go looking for that "next" cache is what is required to sustain not only ourselves but our way of life. Light sarcasm aside, we ought not to focus on what "may" kill us but what "will" get us through the journey.
  13. For those interested in a little off-center, Frozen Dead Guy Days is back in Nederland, CO the 7,8, and 9th of March. This little town, a short trip west of Boulder, CO, offers a little history to this excuse to have a party. For those in the area, this would be a great place to pick up some truely unique geo-swag. See you there.
  14. Great idea Googleplex! Day trips with multi-staged virtual caches guiding the way. One could use historical markers as waypoints and combine it with letterboxing to set up the day of fun. The one creating the adventure should identify the length of the total trip from the starting point and the expected time of travel. At the end, there could be a traditional cache to place geo-swag and a log book to truely identify those who completed the adventure.
  15. Geocahing like many things in life is subject to the ebbs and flows of desire. Sure it's fun, but not always, sure sometimes it's hard to find that one cache, but the other one you found was easy. I would imagine most geocachers enjoy the hunt, not just the trinkets or the just the great scenery. I took a few months off recently, not because I was tired, in fact I hiked Mt. Elbert in Colorado during that time, but it didn't seem to work for me at that time. If one wants to stop geocaching...fine. But don't QUIT geocaching.
  16. "Pikachu tastes like chicken." "If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more of you happy."
  17. While I see the fun of going to several caches within a very small area, I do see your point. Conservation issues aside, this would dilute the good geo-swag with the bad, horrid little trinkets I sometimes see. The cache I placed is in a park with three other cache sites, but due to the size of the park and each caches' relative location to each other I don't view this as a problem. If there were two other caches within a 1/4 mile along the same trail, I'd be a little upset. I don't plan on ever placing more than two or three caches at anyone time anyway. And, maybe that's what is needed, self-control. Within the sub-culture that we geocachers are, we should shun those who only place caches and do not hunt, if you apoclyptic visions come to be. Let's hope that's never the case.
  18. Lest we forget TNLN- Took nothing, left nothing.
  19. That would be a good idea to promote the sport. If you get the press involved, and promote the basic tennets of Geocaching, like "cache-in, trash-out" we'd hopefully gain some support. Maybe, it could be tied in with Earth Day. Just thinking out loud.
  20. You could make it event oriented, like those adventure-crosses. The first cache would have an oar, with a note to go kayaking at location X. The second would have a carabiner, to go climbing at location Y...so on and so forth. To really make it difficult you'd have to find the cache where your food is! This of course, would take plenty of planning and would be rather short lived because you'd have to replace the objects for the next person. Still...
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