TheLoneGrangers
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wow thought this was a new thread...2007? LOL
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the maps I downloaded where .img files, the tutorial said to use gpsmapper to convert it so mapsource or basecamp could read it. It was one click, it searched my computer for the files and it was done in 10 seconds, I then was able to pull the maps up on mapsource and basecamp whereas before I couldn't
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100 dollar bills yaw
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Well you can't beat free! went to gpsfiledepot...and got topo maps of south carolina (where I live)....so so so so much better improvement. I am so glad I read this thread..Thanks!
I had to install mapsource, cgpsmapperfree, and went ahead and installed basecamp while I was at it. LOL A little bit of a learning curve but I figured it out
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double post sorry
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Seriously you guys have no idea what you just taught me, my wife and I have over 500 finds, and we have been using the dakota 20 with just what it came with, a arrow with a pink line towards the cache, with only main highways identifable. I seriously had no idea I could put a topo map on it WOW THANK YOU...i feel dumb right now lol
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i found a cache at a pole NOT attached at the base, it looked like a your normal cable TV cables, coming out of the ground and spliced together, you unscrew the cable and the log is inside the adapter.
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Congratulations!
Tip.
Sometimes, if you find yourself 'Bushwacking' through the undergrowth, just look around... There may be another way in, along an easy path.
Yes, very important lol, I found my self on some of our first finds making a 2 terrain difficulty into a 4 lol, one example that comes to mind is that a me and a buddy went after a cache that was a 2 terrain, we bushwacked down a very steep hill, and then traversed a 12 foot wide creek that was a foot deep in a swampy looking area....total trip was about .5 miles not counting the hiking to the other caches. Got to the 2 terrain cache and it was 100 feet off a very well marked trail, and all I had to do was go back to the vehicle and park in a different spot. LOL
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I heard my two coworkers having a conversation about caching or geohunting, they didn't know exactly what it was, but they were interested in finding something to do when thier kids get alittle older. I talked to them about it and decided to google "caching". And found geocaching.com. I thought this would be something my wife and I would enjoy. My boss offered me his old GPSr from 1994 (its Oct. 2010). I went home, created a account that night and loaded manually the 6 closiest caches. I explained it to my wife, which she didn't seem very interested and thought it was dumb, but that sat. morning we went out to find the 6 i loaded in this ancient GPSr. We only found 3 of them, with DNFing the first one we searched for. (we looked for that one 3 times and its a 1/1)
My wife and I were instantly hooked, but not 100% convienced we went to Best Buy Sunday and bought a car NUVI 1300. We thought if we didn't like it, we would at least have a car GPSr. We been caching ever since, she bought me a dakota 20 for Christmas and we love it. Geocaching has changed my life. I traded in my 2010 Camaro SS for a 2007 Jeep wrangler. I've taken up mountian biking because of it, we have started camping to find them, and are slowly gathering gear to backpack to find them. I am also wanting a Kayak.
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To me, spiders are worse a billion times
+100....and snakes and bears and humans, but I still get out there!
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go ahead and place it, you will get tired of replacing it with in 10 days. If you even know it's gone, since it's a cache for muggles and not geocachers, it will never be reported as missing. So yeah GREAT idea go ahead and do it.
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I enjoy the current virtuals because they are rare. Thats the only reason, I don't want to see them return. This new "challenge" although sounds like fun, and will probably be, I have no intentions of finding any of them, if I don't get a smiley or a number there is no point IMO, just like benchmarks.
I think you said a mouthful there! Well put.
Thanks knowschad
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This new "challenge" although sounds like fun, and will probably be, I have no intentions of finding any of them, if I don't get a smiley or a number there is no point IMO, just like benchmarks.
I find it a little sad that your desire for a number outweighs your desire to even try something that you say sounds like and probably would be fun.
I intend to "wait and see" what the product looks like before I pass judgement one way or the other.
Given that both the "bring back Virtuals" and "Virtuals aren't Geocaches" crowds both cling to their beliefs with near-religious furor, makes me think a solution that makes both sides equally angry might just mean Groundspeak got it perfectly right.
One of the coolest things is to log into the site and pull up your local map and see all those containers turn into smilies. I am not competing against anyone, I enjoy watching my numbers increase, and seeing all the smilies on the map. If the new thing doesn't show that, again I don't see the point. It's hardly sad, it's just a game and we all play it our own way.
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I enjoy the current virtuals because they are rare. Thats the only reason, I don't want to see them return. This new "challenge" although sounds like fun, and will probably be, I have no intentions of finding any of them, if I don't get a smiley or a number there is no point IMO, just like benchmarks.
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thanks for the log entry, enjoyed reading it, and I highly suggest a bike helmet if you mountain bike, the only ones who will see you wearing it, are other riders, and they will be wearing them as well. LOL. One wrong turn or slip in the sand, or navigated a obstacle wrong, and your head may meet a tree
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We are at the beach near Charleston, SC. and are 4 away from 500. We plan on finding http://coord.info/GC2MK1K for 500. it looks to be a 1.5 mile hike up the coast where its very secluded. Should be fun as we already solved it.
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congrats! I remember hitting a 100...it wasn't that long ago lol. We are 4 away from 500 now been caching for 8 months.
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like benchmarks if the new virtuals don't count in my find count I won't be finding them.
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I hate micros in the middle of the woods, but I feel the need to find every cache around my area so I don't filter them out, I just don't spend long looking for them, unless I went far out of the way for it.
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lol....i personally hate logging a DNF when I am the only one to DNF, specially when the find count is over 50 or so.
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Committed? YES! lol...I traded in my 2010 SS Camaro for a 2007 jeep wrangler...to cache, and we are about to purchase 2 kayaks or a canoe...to cache lol
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It's hard because I want to put out a fun one, or one with a great view, but I don't think there are alot of cool enough places around my location that I may be forced to place a guard rail or LPC or something simuliar. I have a challenge in mind, but do I want to place a challenge as my first cache??? I think the regulars around here would just appreciate another cache nearby. But I want something that earns favorite points...thats what I want for any cache I place. I want people to see my CO name, and can't wait to go find my cache because they know it will be awesome...Maybe I set to high of standards? lol
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Now, I don't have 2 or 3 hundred caches out there like some people. I have a couple that I think are enjoyable. However, I've noticed that there are some members that "carpet bomb" an area with caches. Most don't even put any thought into them; they're slapdash affairs and often no more than a film canister. In a nutshell; boring.
The result of this though, is that the casual cache placer can't find any decent areas to place a cache. The geocacher themselves too suffer, because all they can find is "RIdogz5, RIDogz6, RIDogz7"...just one lame cache after another after another for a couple of miles sometimes.
Should there be a limit on the amount of caches placed by one member in a small amount of time in the same general area?
I think to suggest that the hider didn't "even put any thougth into them" is unfair and insulting. I bet the CO put a lot of work trying to find locatins that were available, making log sheets, purchasing cache containers etc. I think more cachers need to be happy that there are caches to find. And if you don't like them, there are plenty more or there to find.
This ^^
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My wife and I said we would place a cache at 100, we are almost at 500, do you think its time? LOL
Finding Treasure in the desert...
in General geocaching topics
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I am a jeeper and visit another forum jk-forum.com, just joined the site there actually and they have a geocaching section. This thread was posted in 2008 and I apologize if it made it over here already, but it's so good it's worth sharing.
Finding Treasure in the Desert