LandRover
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I was just wondering if this would be a good cache container for where I live (it rains 9 months out of the year here)..
It's a Hot chocolate powder container. It has a metal bottom and a plastic lid, the container itself is made out of cardboard (thick paper).
Please alllow me to reply here as a research scientist and as a former electrical and materials engineer. Your choice of container is excellent, for the following reasons:
- they are food containers, and thus will retain some food smells even after you empty and clean the container. This yummy smell will invite procupines, raccoons, possums and bears who will be willing to act as full-time guardians of your cache to guard it from muggles, priates, thieves and marauding space aliens.
- using my super-powerful scientific vision, I am able to see that although the containers you have pictured are indeed made of rolled cardboard, the cardboard container has been rendered entirely waterproof and watertight and also entirely resistant to microbial decay for at least 50 years by the special advanced compounds to be found in the bright red, orange and brown label material. The same treatment gives the cylindrical walls and the ends of the container the strength of a four inch thickness of a specialized SAE grade titanium vanadium stainless steel, and renders the container entirely watertight and waterproof at submersion to depths of 4,000 feet for over 400 years. Thus this container will be more durable and hardy than an ammo box.
- Although there have indeed been reports in the past that the plastic lids on containers of this type often do not seal well nor remain in place securely, using my special scientific knowledge and my special mechanical engineering software to analyze the pictures you have provided of these containers, I am able to determine with over 99.999982% accuracy that the lids on these containers are made of tri-layer bonded teflon and Kevlar fabric, with an outer layer of Gore-tex impregnated with titanium iridium shielding, and thus the lids on these containers which you propose will provide perfect service and an entirely watertight and reliable and robust seal for over eighty years.
You have chosen your container type amazingly well for your environment, and you should be proud of yourself! I wish you the very best of caching experiences with your most excellent cache placements!
WooHoo--
I'm going straight out to get one of those containers to replace my tin foil hat. With that kind of shielding they will never be able to scan what little bit of grey matter I have left.
- they are food containers, and thus will retain some food smells even after you empty and clean the container. This yummy smell will invite procupines, raccoons, possums and bears who will be willing to act as full-time guardians of your cache to guard it from muggles, priates, thieves and marauding space aliens.
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I memtioned some thing about bringing chili earlier but I'm hoping to be able to make it back in time to catch the N48 event in Mount Veron for dinner.
I had thought about trying to make it to that event also, depending on if we gout back to the area in time and since it looks like I will be driving up to Mt Vernon by myself I don't have to worry about what any passanger want to do.
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Mr. Garmin tells me that it's a 90 minute drive from Federal Way to Mt. Vernon, not sure I beleive that but I will be leaving FW at 0600 just the same. Anyone coming from the South end want to meet up to car pool to Mt. Vernon.
FYI I have room for 5 including myself.
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didnt see the free trial but I still wouldnt mind hearing from someone who uses it Ive had GSAK for about a year and still learn something new every week and I didnt think asking for some feedback was complaining
I have been using Geobuddy for a couple of months now but use it in a limited fashion. I mainly use it for viewing scanned and calibrated Greentrails maps. I like that I can scan and calibrate a map then display WPs on the scanned map. I am dissapointed that color aerial photos are not supported, although I understand that those will be added in a future update.
I probably would not have bought the program but Dan had a sale late last year and was selling the program for $20 or $30, don't remember which but felt it was worth what I paid for it for what I do with it.
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Go into into your map setup on the etrex and make sure your Topo maps are turned on.
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I'm in.
That being said Mt. Baker is a 300mile R/T for me so I'm hoping that we can set up a car pool to help off-set some of the fuel expense.
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I'd love to use this, if possible, please. I looked into getting one online, but it would have to be mailed to me, and I won't get it in time.You'll need a FS parking pass and I'll bring mine in case anyone doesn't have one.Us two will be there.
You can buy a FS pass at REI, and several other locations, unless something has changed this year.
Can I use a Sno-Park Pass in place of a FS Pass??
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I don't know this for a fact but I'm guessing bad knees and snowshoes don't mix.
but i thought your knees were brand new.
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Add me to the definite maybe list.
Santa was also very good to me this year in addition to the kayak he dropped off on Christmas he also stopped by on the 31st with a pair of new snowshoes too.
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Power just came back on here about 10 minutes ago. It will probably be an hour before the furnace shuts off.
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Regardless of whether a ‘hike’ is 20 miles or 2 miles, or even if you never leave sight of the city, it’s important to know and practice the skills that will enable you and your companions to survive. To that end, if anyone wants to discuss getting together somewhere to collectively pool our knowledge and practice things like firecraft in a real world environment, let me know and we’ll plan something.
I've watched Man vs Wild on the Discovery Channel so I'm pretty sure I could easily get myself killed following that guy's advice, so some real world survival skills would be a good thing.
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The key here is that the Groundspeak Reviewer team cannot and should not get involved in removing geolitter.
The WSGA promotes our membership as being responsible and self-policing. I cannot suggest a specific course of action, but many othere geocaching communities have ways of handing abandoned caches such as this one. It is generally something that is monitered through their club websites.
I still think that creating an icon for cleaning up geolitter would take care of the problem tout de suite. Lots of cachers like icons and watching their numbers grow, so it would motivate active cachers to clean up geolitter (after a cache is archived) without any involvement from reviewers.
So not only will we have the FTF Hounds, for which there is no icon, but we would have the LTF (last to find) Hounds for which there would be an icon.
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Set your GPS up to it prompts you whether you want to auto route or go off road. Yours is obviously set up to default to auto routing which will always bring you to the map page. If you choose off road it will go directly to the compass screen.
This was true with the non-X models but with the CSx it goes to the map page even after selecting off road. Some people like it going to the map page some people wish it would go to the compass page, I fall into the wish it went to the compass page group.
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Same thing happened to me today but I didn't have power to the cable when I was connecting the cable to the GPS, I'm using a Garmin cable that I have been using for a couple of years.
Did you ever have this happen before? And are you on firmware 2.90?
running 2.90 and I can't remember this happening in the past. I will be wathing for it now though.
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Also, when I hit FIND\waypoints and then chose a cache, I get the first cache page with the name, coords, note, etc.. but when I hit GO TO, it goes to the map, I want it to show the directional compass, distance to cache, etc.... How do I fix that?
Also, somehow, I lost the "found" button so I can mark a cache found. What am I doing wrong?
Hit the page button and page through the screens until you get to the page you want. You'll also see the found button there too.
El Diablo
Also to get the "found" option you have to select FIND/Geocache not FIND/waypoints
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Same thing happened to me today but I didn't have power to the cable when I was connecting the cable to the GPS, I'm using a Garmin cable that I have been using for a couple of years.
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I think I will try to make it this time.
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Starting to get deep in Federal Way too. Even for a GLRTB!!
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7 Puget Sound and one of each of the other 3 Chapters
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Your "F2" button will toggle the split screen view. When the split screen is open you will be able to see the cache information, including logs at the bottom of the GSAK window.
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For those of us who did the Wonderland/Carbon River geohike in September:
"In the northwest corner of the park, the Carbon River Road suffered so much damage it may not get rebuilt."
That's the road we took to Ipsut Creek campground, our start/end point.
From this story on all the damage to Rainier NP:
Looks like I might have to find a new spot for my 3rd Annual Mt. Rainier Virtual Cache Hike.
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I haven't specifically looked at the sat. page (will have to do that next time) but I did get more than few "lost reception" prompts from nRoute while hooked up to my 60CSx.
Any GARMIN POI loader GURU in the house?
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I don't have the answer for you but people over here are having the opposite problem so there must be a way to change from feet to miles and miles to feet.