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quietbert

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  1. Not exactly a direct relative of your question but looking for these things have a lot of common threads. I have developed a little trick that works. I live in Maine and my typical hunt is in forested area. I use "go to" with the screen showing the cache as an icon until I am reading about 10+- feet, or close as you can. This is usually quite easy but no cache to be seen. I tie some suveyors tape on a bush at this point. As you move around the GPS will confuse the issue, but you can always look back at this reference point. I have yet to find one very far from my tape. Before leaving the site be sure to remove your tape. quietbert
  2. Not exactly a direct relative of your question but you will soon be on the prowl looking for these things. I have developed a little trick that works. I live in Maine and my typical hunt is in forested area. I use "go to" with the screen showing the cache as an icon until I am reading about 10+- feet, or close as you can. This is usually quite easy but no cache to be seen. I tie some suveyors tape on a bush at this point. As you move around the GPS will confuse the issue, but you can always look back at this reference point. I have yet to find one very far from my tape. Before leaving the site be sure to remove your tape. quietbert
  3. Parked in a turn out near a cache site holding my GPS out the car window. Officer pulls up and asks me "Are you OK?" He sat in the cruiser while I explained geocaching, and showed him the printout of my "victim". Well, anyway he was an outdoor guy and told me he had a birthday in about a week and now could tell his wife what she could get him for a gift. Another Geocacher is among us. quietbert
  4. I had an interesting experiance in finding a freshly killed moose about 20 feet from a cache that had obviously been illegaly shot and only the best of the meat + head taken. A feeding eagle tipped me to the finding. Another strange twist was a personal item reght next to the remains. I left the item next to the moose and called the local F&W Warden, giving him the area and the exact GPS location plus datum. The Warden was able to go directly to the site, retrieve and identify the item, which belonged to a known violator. He got a search warrant and went to the man's home. The person was in the process of preparing some choice moose meat for lunch as he entered the home. Needless to say, both the Warden and this geocacher was excited to have been a part of getting the goods on this poacher.
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