hurleyanne

Yesterday I tested out my phone on the highway and out geocaching. While driving, the unit sometimes lost GPS contact - once notably over a 20 km distance at highway speeds. I used c:geo to geocache - finding a cache I had previously spotted from my vehicle but couldn't retrieve due to muggles. c:geo indicated that the cache was still 4.5m away when at ground zero, so I'd say that's pretty much in line with most GPSrs. It did seem more prone to drift than my Oregon, though.

I recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy S, but have not yet had it out geocaching. I know there used to be issues with the GPS in these phones, but a bit of poking around indicates it was likely fixed in September. I'm looking forward to trying it out, and just got everything set up today to do so. There are some good free apps for geocaching out there - be sure to do a google search!

Sorry to have flaked out on this, but I never did get a venue booked. Too much stress in my life right now. I hope everyone will lift a glass and toast the anniversary on Jan. 7 just the same!

I'd like to second the vote for Edmonton, Alberta. There are a lot of nice caching areas in and around the city where you can find caches. There are numerous parks and natural areas along the river and ravines. There are all styles of puzzles - some are fun, some are maddening. And the Edmonton cachers play off each other a lot, which is also fun. My personal favourites are the puzzle caches of JBeck2 - Newby Geocacher

Aw man, hard to pass this one up (especially seeing as I would be defending champion of highest score). I've even got some high scoring caches on my radar for another cache challenge!

Like others, I had to zoom in one level compared to the original poster due to exceding 500 caches. I moved away for ~2.5 years and caching exploded here while I was gone!

I am so looking forward to this! I drove through the area a few weeks ago and found a few nice caches along the way. I also stopped to book my hotel room for the event! I had thought of camping, but I think I'd rather know I can escape from the heat if the weather turns out hot. Looking forward to being bad...

Sounds great! I'd like to include as many Saskatchewan cachers as possible (not just the usual Saskatoon crowd), so Saturday is looking like the more practical option for out of town folks. If you don't mind going the day after the anniversary, then I think it would be great to have a group head out there together. Myself, I am more interested in planning a sort of 'after party' and probably wouldn't head out to the cache again (I found it a couple of years ago). I'm leaning towards renting the Elk's Hall in Asquith and making it a potluck event. That seems like the easiest way to accomodate an unknown and potentially large number of cachers. However if the weather sucks, potentially very few cachers will come and even Saskatoon cachers might have a hard time making it out there! I still need to figure out a back-up plan...

Awesome! So far the hider and the FTF are also keen to attend!

Picasa is the one that didn't recognize the geotag automatically. Panoramio did. I keep looking for my pic on GE, but nothing yet.

Thanks for sharing this info. I'm curious what other people use, too. I have an Oregon 550 that is supposed to automatically geotag photos. The online site suggested by Garmin didn't recognize the coordinates of my photo.

I currently only have the 10/10/10 one, but anticipate that when they're all rolled out that I'll have 20: 5 Canadian provinces 11 American states 3 for the geocaching trifecta Just guessing from what I've read elsewhere...

January 7th will mark the 10th anniversary of Saskatchewan's first and oldest geocache - GC14F, Sask-cache-one. I am contemplating hosting an event in Saskatoon to mark the occasion! I am trying to determine which day would be best to celebrate on: Fri. Jan. 7/11 - The true anniversary date and have an evening event Sat. Jan. 8/11 - Saturday lends itself to more options, and an afternoon or early evening event could be attended by more out of town people If you are not from Saskatoon would you come to a Saturday event?

I enjoy many of Jbeck2's puzzle caches I enjoy the creativity, humour, and self-deprecation in the puzzles... and the containers have been fun too! And apparently the FTF prizes require solving another puzzle before you can retrieve them too! My favourites are: http://coord.info/GC1VVYX http://coord.info/GC1YNJ3 http://coord.info/GC20C77

Because sometimes my brain isn't perfect. Life is pulling me many directions right now... Here's Garmin's suggestion:

I updated my GPSr this morning and bricked it! Thanks so much for this posting! The recovery worked on the first try and I did not lose any data! Thank god! I had waypoints marked where my great, great and great, great, great grandparents farmed and are buried, as well as a geotagged photo of where my fiancé proposed to me! It would have made me sick to lose all this.... and my main geocaching tool! I've now updated to the most recent version and look forward to seeing what the multi-cache improvement is all about!

So here's the new update: 1) making slow progress on this, but hope to find a few more in Wisconsin in a couple of weeks (currently at 68/81) 2) waiting until I'm done moving, dealing with my mom's estate more, etc. 3) completed and found one more, and set out my own challenge too! Every year a cache... challenge! 4) I won that way back in January! And I also found Canada's oldest cache this week! Gotta love the oldies! 100ish oldest caches in Canada Good luck to everyone in pursuing their goals!

Woohoo! One more week! I'm really looking forward to my trip out your way!

Wow. That's a pretty rude response from someone who actually used to live in Saskatchewan. Sure doesn't paint Albertans in a good light. Wow, It was a joke, sorry it went over your head. Lighten up a bit. It's very hard to gauge the intent behind a person's words over the internet... no behavioural context. I've been on the receiving end of condescending comments about Saskatchewanians too many times... just triggered old feelings, I guess. I accept your implied apology.

Wow. That's a pretty rude response from someone who actually used to live in Saskatchewan. Sure doesn't paint Albertans in a good light.

Rest assured, the situation has improved since then.

I'm not sure if you'd really call it a goal or not, seeing as I have every intention of it happening, but I am looking forward to finding Canada's first geocache in the next three weeks. Then I will have found Canada's three oldest caches, and 4 of the 5 oldest. There probably aren't many cachers that could say the same!

I've scratched myself and even had a stick poke me up the nose once, but other than that I've been pretty good out on the trail. I'm not so fortunate to say the same about events - once I sprained my ankle going down someone's deck stairs in the dark! And no, I had not been drinking!

FYI the transcanada highway has been closed due to flooding near the AB-SK border: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/stor...oding-1006.html

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