ClayJar
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I've been told I look like lots of things, but I think I just look like the ClayJar guy... oh, wait... I guess I *am* that ClayJar guy.
Well, in that case, I don't look like anybody, do I?
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I've been told I look like lots of things, but I think I just look like the ClayJar guy... oh, wait... I guess I *am* that ClayJar guy.
Well, in that case, I don't look like anybody, do I?
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Originally posted by infosponge:does it cache the WAAS corrections even if the fix on the WAAS bird blinks out for a while?
Yes. The WAAS corrections are good for several minutes (I vaguely remember the number six coming up a long time back), and IIRC, the unit should at least keep using them for two minutes or so (again, according to my vague memories from back when none of our receivers had WAAS).
As for WAAS helping, it hasn't hurt me down in Louisiana, and it appears to help.
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Originally posted by rbdupuy:I'd like to see the site be marked as a "virtual." Unlikely as it may be to attract repeat customers (at least the hard way) it was a great adventure, and quite a experience once we got there.
Well, um... now that I've done it once with someone, I'm thinking about heading back out there sooner or later to try it again. (Apparently, I'm just about as crazy as some people here have been thinking.)
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Originally posted by rbdupuy:I'd like to see the site be marked as a "virtual." Unlikely as it may be to attract repeat customers (at least the hard way) it was a great adventure, and quite a experience once we got there.
Well, um... now that I've done it once with someone, I'm thinking about heading back out there sooner or later to try it again. (Apparently, I'm just about as crazy as some people here have been thinking.)
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Since this has been covered so long the trees have grown through it, I'm simply going to express my extreme distaste as seeing it yet again and let someone who cares enough post links to the previous seven bazillion threads.
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Originally posted by The_Mariner:Did you bayou cachers make your water trip?
Yep. Sure did. (It was quite fun.)
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Originally posted by The_Mariner:Sound like you guys enjoy hydro-caching as much as I do.
Hehe, I found 7 of 8 on my trip to Georgia (including 6/7 in one day). *That* was fun.
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Originally posted by The_Mariner:Did you bayou cachers make your water trip?
Yep. Sure did. (It was quite fun.)
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Originally posted by The_Mariner:Sound like you guys enjoy hydro-caching as much as I do.
Hehe, I found 7 of 8 on my trip to Georgia (including 6/7 in one day). *That* was fun.
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Originally posted by DisQuoi:I hadn't thought of this until now but I might even suggest that the difficulty levels be abandoned and replaced with difficulty icons (or no difficulty at all). As an example, Scooterj's icons include about ten icons that provide you with an idea of what to expect regarding terrain (wheelchair, walking, hiking, hiking up grade, climbing steep grade, climbing vertically, marsh, etc.) This would address the problem of the wide, arbitrary difficulty scoring that people complain about.
Hmmm... interesting idea. I think I'm in favor of keeping the star ratings for now, but if the cache attributes work as well as their potential suggests, I'd certainly be open to revisiting the possible deprecation of star ratings at some point.
One thing that may make deprecating star ratings much more difficult is the *vast* number of caches that already exist. It would likely be very hard to change *all* the caches to having attributes instead of star ratings. With that in mind, however, might I suggest a possible solution to that problem?
Basically, if we take the star ratings and create attribute icons based on them, then all the existing caches will have at least attributes for their terrain and difficulty. If, then, at some point in the future we decide to do away with star ratings for new caches, we simply have to remove the star selectors from the new cache report page (and from the edit page, except for caches which already have star ratings). Existing caches would retain their star ratings as cache attributes, unless the hider edited the cache page to remove the stars and add attributes, but future caches would be based solely on attributes.
Anyway, as I said, I am not *at this point* advocating doing away with the star ratings, but as you can hopefully see from this suggestion, it *is* indeed a feasible possibility for future discussion.
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Originally posted by Scott Thomason:Look out, Markwell! Your tenure as Cheif Historian of the Geocaching.com forums is in jeopardy!
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Well, if you don't find a program that can convert your Garmin waypoints to Magellan waypoints, I'm sure we can help. ***Somebody*** here must have a Garmin receiver and a few minutes. They can just upload your waypoints to their receiver and then download them with EasyGPS or anything else that will work with both brands.
It's an "If all else fails..." type of thing, but if all else *does* fail, I'm quite sure we've got a helpful enough comunity here to be sure that your waypoints are still usable. (I like us that way.
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Well, if you don't find a program that can convert your Garmin waypoints to Magellan waypoints, I'm sure we can help. ***Somebody*** here must have a Garmin receiver and a few minutes. They can just upload your waypoints to their receiver and then download them with EasyGPS or anything else that will work with both brands.
It's an "If all else fails..." type of thing, but if all else *does* fail, I'm quite sure we've got a helpful enough comunity here to be sure that your waypoints are still usable. (I like us that way.
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But... but... I mean, but Bacon Quest II: Water You Looking For? is this weekend! Oh, well.
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But... but... I mean, but Bacon Quest II: Water You Looking For? is this weekend! Oh, well.
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Jeremy, are you going to include this in the weekly cache notification e-mail? I was talking to someone this evening who doesn't read the forums, and he noted that he wouldn't have heard otherwise.
I assume you've already thought of it, but just to be sure, I figured I'd make a little note here.
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Look at the third paragraph on the top of page 11.
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Originally posted by scooterj:Wow, I didn't intend to start World War VII.
Actually, this is World War VIII. We decided that World War VI ("login to view cache coordinates") was really two separate wars -- World War VI, which covered people who loot caches, and World War VII, which covered people who cache but don't log online. I guess the memo must have gotten caught up in committee or something, but I'll check into it.
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I just finished going through all the Georgia caches looking for hydrocaches. I may have missed some (I looked at the list, not at all 330+ caches), but I found nine.
Lake Rabun Geocache (GC621) Shifting Tides Geocache (GC24A1) Isles of the 'Hooch #1 (GC25DE) Isles of the 'Hooch #2 (GC276A) Kayak~Kache (GC276C) Kayak Cache (GC2EB8) Cypress Safari (GC38E8) Hidden on the Hooch #1: Robin Hood's Gold (GC412F) Lake Jackson Cache Hide (GC5680)Oh, and at least until we get cache attributes, I've added "- hydrocache" to the end of the name on all my hydrocaches. Now if you do a keyword search for "hydrocache", there they are.
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I just finished going through all the Georgia caches looking for hydrocaches. I may have missed some (I looked at the list, not at all 330+ caches), but I found nine.
Lake Rabun Geocache (GC621) Shifting Tides Geocache (GC24A1) Isles of the 'Hooch #1 (GC25DE) Isles of the 'Hooch #2 (GC276A) Kayak~Kache (GC276C) Kayak Cache (GC2EB8) Cypress Safari (GC38E8) Hidden on the Hooch #1: Robin Hood's Gold (GC412F) Lake Jackson Cache Hide (GC5680)Oh, and at least until we get cache attributes, I've added "- hydrocache" to the end of the name on all my hydrocaches. Now if you do a keyword search for "hydrocache", there they are.
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I tend to prefer the most interactive type of virtual cache rating. How does it work? Simple.
- Look at the logs on the caches placed by the hider.
- If there is still a question, ask in your regional forum or e-mail a finder from geocaching.com.
- If you really need to discuss it, come to the chat on Monday nights at 8:30pm CDT in http://gcchat.clayjar.com/. (Bring the URL of the cache.)
- If even that doesn't help, well for the love of Pete, go out and try it. If it's good, log it online. If it's bad, log it online. No matter what, log it online. (Then the next person may not even have to go past step 1.)
I know it's far less concise than seeing a nice sanitized "rating", but you're far more likely to get real information from real people. In fact, I would venture to say that "ratings" on the cache pages would be almost equal parts information and disinformation, if I can be so optimistic.
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I tend to prefer the most interactive type of virtual cache rating. How does it work? Simple.
- Look at the logs on the caches placed by the hider.
- If there is still a question, ask in your regional forum or e-mail a finder from geocaching.com.
- If you really need to discuss it, come to the chat on Monday nights at 8:30pm CDT in http://gcchat.clayjar.com/. (Bring the URL of the cache.)
- If even that doesn't help, well for the love of Pete, go out and try it. If it's good, log it online. If it's bad, log it online. No matter what, log it online. (Then the next person may not even have to go past step 1.)
I know it's far less concise than seeing a nice sanitized "rating", but you're far more likely to get real information from real people. In fact, I would venture to say that "ratings" on the cache pages would be almost equal parts information and disinformation, if I can be so optimistic.
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My what a big mouth you have, Ozarktroutbum.
Seriously, though, you've got it *quite* wrong, here. The "cache attributes" are not just so you can look at a cache and tell whether you can hunt it with a nearly broken ankle. More importantly, can you tell me any other way of doing a search for hydrocaches within 150 miles of Bacon County? (I'll take that as a no, which is only logical, since there currently is no way to do that search.)
Having cache attributes is going to make my life a *whole* lot easier. (Do you know how many caches there are between Texas and Georgia? I've spent *days* looking for good hydrocaches.) Oh, and as for your question about whether stars are enough, I say, "Well, of course not!" for the reason stated above.
2002 Chicagoland Geocaching Picnic
in Midwest
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Just wondering... Will there be any *bacon* there?