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GeoCraig

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  1. Skydiver's geocaching alert works for me. I'm not sure how often it is updated, but it is plenty fast enough for me.
  2. I have one in the Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library. It's Ex-Ex Libris. I was the only one to find the Ex Libris cache there. It then disappeared within 5 minutes of my finding it. So I placed a micro that the same location and it has been very popular.
  3. How do you go to the page that shows the number of caches in a 20 mile radius?
  4. I found a cache that was about 500 feet away from the posted coordinates. The hint said it was under an oak tree and the coordinates were on a grassy flat area. I just had to visit oak trees until I found the cache. It took a couple of visits and 2 or the 3 of us ended up with very bad cases of poison oak.
  5. Try using Buxley's Geocaching Waypoint at http://www.brillig.com Use can also run Pocket Queries along your route.
  6. Tie a string around the middle, suspend it, and it will point north.
  7. I'm not at my usual computer and I need to find the site with sat photos and maps. I thinks its USAMaps or something like that. The site is run by a guy named Cox. Any ideas where to find it? Thanks.
  8. You can also just multiply the digits after the decimal by 60.
  9. Click at the bottom of the list so that all postings can be viewed. Then click on Edit, Find on This Page and do a search of your coordinates. I usually just enter 34 or 118, my major coordinates in southern California. Then click on Find Next until you reach the bottom of the postings. If your coordinates aren't already listed, you are good to go with your new find. Happy Caching!
  10. When I stated that it doesn't matter, I guess I wasn't thinking of caches that send you off on a secondary seach based on a heading/bearing. In my close to 500 cache finds, I've only done a few that require compass work, so I wasn't thinking of those. If finding a cache requires extra compass work, the clues should state whether it is magnetic or true. But for most caches, I hold with my original answer. It doesn't matter. Coordinates have nothing to do with magnetic or true north. They are where they are. Plug them into your GPS and follow the needle to the treasure. Happy Caching!
  11. It doesn't matter. Coordinates are not dependent on where north is and we place and find caches with coordinates.
  12. A locationless or reverse cache is one that describes something and then you go and find it, take a photo of the object and your GPS to prove you were there, and post the photo to get the find. 2 of my locationless caches that have been quite popular are Painted Ladies (GCADAC) where you find a Victorian home and The Sound of Music (GCB111) where you find the home venue of your city's philharmonic orchestra, symphony orchestra, opera, etc. Some people like them, others hate them. New locationless caches have been on hold for months.
  13. I did a web search for sites relating to GPS. I either brought one or was going to buy one and I wanted to get acquainted with the resources on the web. I found gc.com and off I went.
  14. There are several ways to approach this. 1--Your GPS might do both dd mm ss and dd mm.mmm format. See if you can switch the setup of the GPS to handle the entry of the data format you have. 2--You can convert your dd mm ss coordinates to dd mm.mmm by dividing the ss by 60, then added the answer to the mm. For example, 34 08' 37" becomes 34 08.616 3--There are a number of tools that will do the conversions for you. GeoCalc is a good one. See http://home.comcast.net/~fizzymagic/GeoCalc.html
  15. 44 25' 23" 88 55' 29" Multiply the digits after the decimal by 60 to get the minutes. If you want seconds, multiple the digits after the decimal of that answer to get seconds. N44.42305 / W88.92467 0.42305 25.383 22.98 0.92467 55.4802 28.812
  16. I've been involved with scouts for more than 34 years. Eagle Scout, Vigil in OA, and like Lapaglia, a Wood Badge 4-beader who was a scoutmaster of the troop I was in as a boy.
  17. Try Maptools.com at http://www.maptools.com/index.html They have a great site, including some free downloads of UTM overlays. Also some good explanations on how to use GPS and topo maps together.
  18. I've noticed in our area (Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, West Los Angeles) the cachers that would always race to be FTF have now gotten over it. They get to them when they get to them. There has also been a general slow down of new caches to be FTF.
  19. I can see major flames in the area of eenie, Mean, Miner, WHOA. I'm guessing that at least one of them got cooked today. It seems like the entire hillside has been in flames at one time or another today.
  20. If I remember it correctly, try this: Push the Menu button until you see the Setup screen. Push enter until you see the coordinate system screen. It probably says something like Lat/Long. Push the arrow button until the screen displays UTM, then press Enter. Coordinates will then be displays in UTM.
  21. My first GPS was a 310. It's a good unit, but has most limitations. It zeros out within 52 feet (.01 miles) of the cache so you need to be sharp with your finding skills. Try walking past the cache until the needle swings 90 degrees. Do that a couple of times from different directions and you will have a pretty good idea where the cache should be. You can only enter lat/long coordinates to the second decimal place--not accurate enough from most geocaching. Use UTM instead. It worked very well and now gc.com lists the UTM coordinates without having to translate them. The third problem doesn't have a good work around. You can't connect the 310 to your PC to upload/download coordinates. You will just have to enter all coordinates by hand. Please let me know if I can offer you any more help.
  22. I have my Pocket Queries sent to my Yahoo mail account. Recently, I can't download them because Yahoo mail thinks they contain a virus. The question: what has changed--Pocket Query results or Yahoo Mail? I doubt the Query results have viruses, but Yahoo Mail thinks so now. Does anyone know what's up?
  23. Sometimes I will log a note if I drop by a cache for the second time and it hasn't been visited in a while--something like, "Stopped by cache--it's still there and in fine shape."
  24. A good watertight plastic container, like Tupperware or Rubbermaid. The cheap stuff seems to leak too easily.
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