Y2KOTA
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I have a few programs that i could use for finding geocaches, at first i had used google maps and blackberry maps, but apparently their only accurate to 100m... then i found a program called Nav4all, and i used it but i wasn't able to find a geocache in the area. but i am a newbie, so it may just be that. lastly in my toolbox is a program called BlackStar but i haven't used that one in the field just yet. what i was wondering is is the blackberry devices useable for geocaching? and do any of you use it? if so, what programs are you using?
thanks,
Jeeb2001
Trimble makes a product called Geocache Navigator. I use it on my Blackberry curve and have found several caches with it.
Same here but change the several to many!
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Cool idea. to bad I'm less then 500 miles from one.
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Nothing as fun as some of you others, just poison ivy on the arms. Hope thats it for me.
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OMG That's creepy!
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GREAT thread! Wish I had some shots like that to share from finds.
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Does it have a fuse on one end
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I was thinking the same thing. You beat to the request. I see how it would help.
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I use my GPS to waymark my car when I've parked at a big event - saves me having to remember where it was!
I do this quite alot!
Thats a good idea!
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Thats how I started out. I got a used GPSr for $60 after about 30 finds they same way your doing it. Its all about having fun
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Hallo friends,
last week we started this game and went to 4 places with our new gps. But we didn`t even found 1 . So we went home very disapointed and we don`t know what have to do in a better way. We hope to get help here. Please give us a hint.
Slow down and smell the flowers
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Great shots! Anyone else have any?
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Leave the info in your will on what and how you want it done. I need to redo my will and I was thinking about this topic myself.
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So I was searching through some of the store links from the GC adverts and saw a container that they called a big micro (or something like that). Looked like it was a painted soda bottle cap.
As so often happens when I see stuff (like when I go to craft shows), my first thought was, "I could make that."
So I headed down to the laboritory (I know...sp...but it's almost Halloween!) and let the mad scientist juices start to flow.
This first one is pretty close to what the one on the site looked like except theirs is painted flat black. I cut the bottle off at the lip just below the cap, sanded the bottom flat and then glued on a piece of plastic I cut from the center of the bottle. I glued a little rare-earth magnet inside and then painted the plastic bit silver figuring I'll put it on the base of a guardrail or other silver sign post type thing, hopefully the base will blend in and it'll just look like a bottle cap laying there at first glance.
This next one I cut the bottle off a little lower, made a metal bottom for it and glued a galvanized roofing nail to it.
Same idea, I'm hoping it gets overlooked as litter, just a bottle cap on the ground.
Having to cammo the bottoms was bothering me though. No matter how well it blends in with the surroundings, it's still not quite right. So I decided for my third try to see if I could remove the offending plastic completely.
Not sure how I'm going to place this one. I think I finally got the idea right with it though so I'll probably make a few more like it. Magnet in the bottom to put on metal, just tossed down somewhere or placed in some kind of hidey hole, or what I think I am going to do with this one is glue it to a rock and then place the rock somewhere...I think that's the best way to avoid having it CiToed. I was going to just glue it to the rock without a bottom but I figured a layer of plastic between it and the rock was probably a good idea to keep moisture out.
WOW great work! Oh, by the way..... the Devil will get you for those
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Before you get caught up in all the "gee whiz" hardware out there, remember that for geocaching the most important tool is yourself.
How do I upgrade that?
- Elle
Hey, I have the GPSr in the photo, Its a great little old timer unit
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I had a Garmin III for about a year, stepped up to newer one, Garmin V a few months ago. Old tech but it does the job!
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Thanks to the fixer guy!
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Now I'm not sure who is to blame, but PLEASE fix it!
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hits home here
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I have (had) a micro under a park bench, The bench just a disappeared one day. A few weeks later it was back. Someone rebuilt it, minus my cache. So I replaced the cache. That was about 2 months ago. 3 days ago its gone again. I'm working a new hiding place for a new cache.
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bought used, I have a Garmin GPS V. Works for geocaching with all the bell and whistles. Its teamed up with my Blackberry 8330 Curve loaded with Geocache Navigator. The 2 work out OK. But I'm afraid to look at the new GPSs out now. Just cause then my old one would need to be upgrade.
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Take a look down the right side.....http://www.geocaching.com/seek/ Hope this helps.
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Issue solved.
The site was plowed down due to the nearby construction at GZ. Had to temporarily disabled A needle in a pine needle stack till they open the bridge. -
Good question, I want to know also.
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This just in ...
Baldy & Goldilocks with friend near Skagway, Alaska.
Not bad for really old people huh?
OMG I had to take a 2nd look!!
What difficulty level are you looking for? You need to look for something not in place.
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WOW lots of work in this cache!