+LECTRAGLIDE Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Whats the closest you have come to a cache . I was caching and kept losing satellite. Finally got it and walked closer and closer till my gpsr said 5 ft . I sat down to look for the cache on the other side of a stone wall and my gpsr read one foot . I had my hand almost on the cache . I thought that was amazing . Thanks Quote Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 During my caching trips to Nevada, I've always been amazed at how good the satellite constellation and the cache coordinates can be, out in the wide open desert. Frequently my GPS would read "0 feet" and I would look down and the cache would be right in front of me, under some rocks. That's not true in canyons, of course, but in wide open, flat areas it's a piece of cake to get to "ground zero." That rarely happens back home in the hilly terrain of Southwest Pennsylvania. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 I've seen 1 ft standing next to the cache. Happened maybe 3-4 times. Quote Link to comment
+Langly Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 0 feet several times. Quote Link to comment
+The Pathman Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 3 Feet is the closest so far and I had A FTF the first time I looked for it. Found it today Quote Link to comment
+Rattlebars Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 My old girl still works so well, I feel like I'm cheating sometimes. It too depends on the hider, but I've not had a single post of "My coordinates were this or that" in logs of my hides. antique and now unsupported (as if Magellen ever had support!) Magellan Meridian Color Quote Link to comment
+boda Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 0, rarley, but it does happen. 1, more often. Quote Link to comment
+TeamGumbo Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 So weird that I see this thread today...earlier I was looking for a cache with my kids and it read 0.6 feet, which I can't recall it EVER being that close (or I never noticed it). Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Whats the closest you have come to a cache . I was caching and kept losing satellite. Finally got it and walked closer and closer till my gpsr said 5 ft . I sat down to look for the cache on the other side of a stone wall and my gpsr read one foot . I had my hand almost on the cache . I thought that was amazing . Thanks My GPS read 0ft on a cache I found about a week ago. I was still in my car at the time. It still took me a good 20 minutes to find the cache. It was a nano hidden under metal siding on a building. I also found a cache in a gorge when the best I could get was about 30', with over 90' accuracy. Quote Link to comment
crawil Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I've gotten 0 feet a handful of times with 1 foot on maybe 10-20 searches. It doesn't always help me find it, though! Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 My 3rd find. It said 1 foot away and there it was at my feet. Only happened about 4 or 5 times since. Quote Link to comment
+HaricotVert_52 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Whats the closest you have come to a cache . I was caching and kept losing satellite. Finally got it and walked closer and closer till my gpsr said 5 ft . I sat down to look for the cache on the other side of a stone wall and my gpsr read one foot . I had my hand almost on the cache . I thought that was amazing . Thanks Depends. Sometimes I lose the satellites and have to outthink or just hunt. to find it. But I 've had other occasions where walking with the GSPr got me to zero and lliterally nearly standing on top of it. Quote Link to comment
shootingstar7 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 8-10 feet in PR Quote Link to comment
+mm_dancer Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 wow this thread suprizes me! i can consistantly get mine to say 0 (mine is metric) but consistantly i can get 0, .34, .5, .94 and stuff like that, although it is not always right where the cache is, i can get my gps to read those small numbers! Quote Link to comment
Neos2 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I actually hit "0" on one of my first few caches but didn't see the darn thing anywhere near there. I knew enough to know that just because it said zero didn't mean I was near the cache. When I (eventually) found the cache, lo and behold, it actually was within about 4 inches of where I had zeroed out (it was a sneaky hide). I've zeroed out many times since then while standing at the cache. My GPS frequently shows 2-3 feet. Quote Link to comment
GPS-Hermit Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Several times I have been so close - if I had been looking at the GPS I would have realize it was right there. Made me feel silly! Quote Link to comment
+Miragee Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 There is one cache hider who must have the exact same GPS unit as mine because consistently, when I am looking for one of his caches, my GPS unit will read .0 and there is the cache. Quote Link to comment
dagger dog Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 it was a hundred degrees in the shade and the humidity was so high you alomost had to cut the air so you could walk. lookin' for this cache in a large pine grove, breeze was dead calm noseeums and blackflies buzzin' an bitin' sticker vines wrapping round your ankles, i stumbled fell foward over a downed log, liked to poked out my right eye! if i didn't wear glasses i would have. picked my self up unwrapped the vines off my feet pickin' the stickers out of my ankles got po'ed pulled off my pack threw it on the ground reached out to get in the pack and i had THROWN THE PACK ON THE CACHE! Quote Link to comment
+Night Stalker Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 The very first caches I ever found read 0 when I was at the cache. I thought to myself back then that this was going to be easy. It didn't take long for me to change my mind about that. Quote Link to comment
+BoredKitty Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 0. I kicked the darn thing cos it was right out in the open! Quote Link to comment
+Too Tall John Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 The only time I ever hit 0 (and it was actually at the cache) was my first LPC. The GPSr hit zero, I rolled down the window, and grabbed the cache. Quote Link to comment
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