+Trekkin' and birdin' Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 This seems to be the rarest of the rare combos needed to qualify for the original Well Rounded Cacher, aka Fizzy, in California. There is one below the Mackinac Bridge near the Straits I'm hoping to find in another month or so. I know there is also one in Duluth MN, but the ratings change with the seasons. I found one more in the San Diego area about a womb. Any others out there in the US or Canadian border areas? I'll have more travel opportunities soon, and others might like to know what's still out there, too. Quote Link to comment
+CanadianRockies Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 (edited) For Canada, I found five that meet the requirements. In British Columbia: Hmscherlic Speaks (GCZV20), although I suspect it might not be a "true" 5/4.5. In Ontario: ACT 277 (GCGF14). In Quebec: 117 Hot Wheel (GCWNG1). In Nova Scotia: Our APollettgies (GC15C0). In Nunavut: Not the north pole, but you can see it from here (GCHC2E). Edited March 20, 2011 by CanadianRockies Quote Link to comment
+Viajero Perdido Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 There's an app for that. http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/ Quote Link to comment
+Trekkin' and birdin' Posted March 20, 2011 Author Share Posted March 20, 2011 I use that app all the time, but it doesn't seem to allow me to cover all of North America, so I was hoping folks from other areas would share their knowledge and I can build a bookmark list for the D/T lovers among us! Quote Link to comment
+Ecylram Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 There's an app for that. http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/ I believe those searches are limited to 500 miles. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 (edited) I use that app all the time, but it doesn't seem to allow me to cover all of North America, so I was hoping folks from other areas would share their knowledge and I can build a bookmark list for the D/T lovers among us! It's not just North America. There is a proximity limit (500 miles) that you'll run into with pocket queries that I've had to work around when searching for caches in very sparsely populated areas. You could probably come of up with a rough estimate for center coordinates that could be used to create pocket queries which covered North America. Here's something I found that might help: "A degree of latitude is approximately 69 miles, and a minute of latitude is approximately 1.15 miles. A second of latitude is approximately 0.02 miles, or just over 100 feet. A degree of longitude varies in size. At the equator, it is approximately 69 miles, the same size as a degree of latitude. The size gradually decreases to zero as the meridians converge at the poles. At a latitude of 45 degrees, a degree of longitude is approximately 49 miles. Because a degree of longitude varies in size, minutes and seconds of longitude also vary, decreasing in size towards the poles." You could also just do a PQ for each state with the specified D/T ratings. Edited typo add: When I did a PQ for California, any type, with D/T 5/4.5 I got 24 results. It looks like when searching by State the results are sorted by cache type. Only four of them were traditionals. Edited March 20, 2011 by NYPaddleCacher Quote Link to comment
+CanadianRockies Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 (edited) There's an app for that. http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/ I believe those searches are limited to 500 miles. You can search entire countries or states/provinces. No 500-mile limit there. Edit: If Groundspeak has divided a country into states/provinces, however, then you cannot search that entire country. Edited March 20, 2011 by CanadianRockies Quote Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 I use that app all the time, but it doesn't seem to allow me to cover all of North America, Just select all of the states. Quote Link to comment
+terrkan78 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Here's a few in the Pacific Northwest: GCN32R GC1192 GCD71 GCQ6YZ Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 (edited) Per Lil Devil, select all US states. It's a bit tedious (select alaska, +control select alabama, control/select arkansas/ control/select....), but you only have to do this once, then keep that query. I set this up for myself when I started tracking all US Wherigo FYI, in the US there are currently 180 caches that meet your criteria: active 5/4.5 caches placed before 4/7/2007 Edited March 20, 2011 by Isonzo Karst Quote Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 And here is a template you can use. All the US states are already selected for you. Just set up whatever other limits you want, and save it. It will be added to your own queries. Quote Link to comment
+CanadianRockies Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 And here is a template you can use. All the US states are already selected for you. Just set up whatever other limits you want, and save it. It will be added to your own queries. Cool. Using Lil Devil's template, you'll find 32 qualifying caches scattered across the United States. Quote Link to comment
+CanadianRockies Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 FYI, in the US there are currently 180 caches that meet your criteria: active 5/4.5 caches placed before 4/7/2007 Interestingly, I only came up with 32 qualifying caches using Lil Devil's template (including the District of Columbia). Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 (edited) yep, it's 32. I assume I forgot to set the date range, or set it wrong.... good thing I don't need that particular combo, yikes. Edited March 20, 2011 by Isonzo Karst Quote Link to comment
+Trekkin' and birdin' Posted March 20, 2011 Author Share Posted March 20, 2011 Lil Devil, Thanks for sharing that template, it's pretty cool. I'm working on that bookmark list as I have patience for the speed of gc this afternoon. What I've done so far is available as an incomplete bookmark list. Quote Link to comment
+entogeek Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 For Canada, I found five that meet the requirements. In Ontario: ACT 277 (GCGF14). Act 277 was originally published as a 5.0/5.0 and was only changed to a 5.0/4.5 in the fall of 2010. Quote Link to comment
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