Guest peejay Posted October 23, 2001 Share Posted October 23, 2001 What a fun weekend! Thanks to Mark we had 3 caches t find this weekend. Have been playing with the GPS ver of NZ Mapped so fired up the lap-top, Etrex and EasyGps and downloaded the waypoints then transferred to the Etrex and into NZ Maped. I could now see the location of each cache, great start. Next step was to throw all the gear in the car and use NZ Mapped live tracking function to display our position on the map, courtesy of the laptop. Our first hunt took us right to the cache, zoomed in on the map and drove to within 3 m of the spot, congrats Mark, accurate points! After locating 2 more caches we ditched the high-tech stuff and spent an hour in abysmal weather scaling a rather high point here in Whangarei to place our hardest cache yet. Pouring with rain, gale winds, poor sat lock, cutty grass, mud, rocks, Ah, what fun! Why do we do this? :-) Cheers, peejay Quote Link to comment
Guest Adman Posted October 24, 2001 Share Posted October 24, 2001 Sound like you had the perfect weekend Note to self: Get laptop Cheers Adam Quote Link to comment
Guest Adman Posted October 24, 2001 Share Posted October 24, 2001 Sound like you had the perfect weekend Note to self: Get laptop Cheers Adam Quote Link to comment
Guest embi Posted October 24, 2001 Share Posted October 24, 2001 quote:Originally posted by peejay:Pouring with rain, gale winds, poor sat lock, cutty grass, mud, rocks, Ah, what fun! You should have done it at night to make it hard!! ------------------ It's out there...let's go get it! Quote Link to comment
Guest embi Posted October 24, 2001 Share Posted October 24, 2001 quote:Originally posted by peejay:Pouring with rain, gale winds, poor sat lock, cutty grass, mud, rocks, Ah, what fun! You should have done it at night to make it hard!! ------------------ It's out there...let's go get it! Quote Link to comment
Guest HunterGatherer Posted October 24, 2001 Share Posted October 24, 2001 Peejay you bastard i was in whangarei at mark's place in the weekend... as soon as a arrive back in auckland i see you AND mark have added a few caches each... if you'd written your reports a bit sooner i'd have had a look for them... the new toys sound great... i gotta get me some map software... i'll worry bout the laptop latter Quote Link to comment
Guest HunterGatherer Posted October 24, 2001 Share Posted October 24, 2001 Peejay you bastard i was in whangarei at mark's place in the weekend... as soon as a arrive back in auckland i see you AND mark have added a few caches each... if you'd written your reports a bit sooner i'd have had a look for them... the new toys sound great... i gotta get me some map software... i'll worry bout the laptop latter Quote Link to comment
Guest peejay Posted October 27, 2001 Share Posted October 27, 2001 Originally posted by HunterGatherer:Peejay you bastard i was in whangarei at mark's place in the weekend... Hahahaha, you will have to come back soon, my latest two caches are a challenge and one has a really good item. Quote Link to comment
Guest peejay Posted October 27, 2001 Share Posted October 27, 2001 Originally posted by HunterGatherer:Peejay you bastard i was in whangarei at mark's place in the weekend... Hahahaha, you will have to come back soon, my latest two caches are a challenge and one has a really good item. Quote Link to comment
Guest tgsnoopy Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 Originally posted by peejay: Pouring with rain, gale winds, poor sat lock, cutty grass, mud, rocks, Ah, what fun! Well U missed a couple of my favorites... Bush Lawyer and Blackberry (OUCH!) I've encountered both in the last week in addition to your list's contents, Thank heavens I hadn't put on the gore-tex when that horrible stuff found me, ah what fun, if only the weather would co-operate with good conditions while I'm not working, still it beats sitting at home [ ] ------------------ Quote Link to comment
Guest tgsnoopy Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 Originally posted by peejay: Pouring with rain, gale winds, poor sat lock, cutty grass, mud, rocks, Ah, what fun! Well U missed a couple of my favorites... Bush Lawyer and Blackberry (OUCH!) I've encountered both in the last week in addition to your list's contents, Thank heavens I hadn't put on the gore-tex when that horrible stuff found me, ah what fun, if only the weather would co-operate with good conditions while I'm not working, still it beats sitting at home [ ] ------------------ Quote Link to comment
Guest Adman Posted November 1, 2001 Share Posted November 1, 2001 quote:Originally posted by tgsnoopy:my favorites... Bush Lawyer and Blackberry Ah yes the Kiwi Favorites, but you can't forget the other Kiwi classic ... Gorse Cheers Adam Quote Link to comment
Guest rediguana Posted November 1, 2001 Share Posted November 1, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Adman: Ah yes the Kiwi Favorites, but you can't forget the other Kiwi classic ... Gorse Well, have I got great news for you! We have some awesome prickly caches down here in the South Island Come on down, you'll be so glad you did LOL! Cheers Gav Quote Link to comment
Guest rediguana Posted November 1, 2001 Share Posted November 1, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Adman: Ah yes the Kiwi Favorites, but you can't forget the other Kiwi classic ... Gorse Well, have I got great news for you! We have some awesome prickly caches down here in the South Island Come on down, you'll be so glad you did LOL! Cheers Gav Quote Link to comment
Guest tgsnoopy Posted November 1, 2001 Share Posted November 1, 2001 Originally posted by Adman: Ah yes the Kiwi Favorites, but you can't forget the other Kiwi classic ... Gorse Mt Pirongia between Kawhia and Raglan on the West Coast of the North island got cached today. Quote Link to comment
Guest tgsnoopy Posted November 1, 2001 Share Posted November 1, 2001 Originally posted by Adman: Ah yes the Kiwi Favorites, but you can't forget the other Kiwi classic ... Gorse Mt Pirongia between Kawhia and Raglan on the West Coast of the North island got cached today. Quote Link to comment
Guest Nemesis Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 quote:Originally posted by tgsnoopy: Originally posted by Adman:Give me gorse over Bush Lawyer or Blackberry any day... Yeah, Bush Lawyer is the worst! At least you can eat the Blackberries while you are trying to escape. Down south, we grow both as well as anywhere else in the country. Cheers, Donovan. Quote Link to comment
Guest Nemesis Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 quote:Originally posted by tgsnoopy: Originally posted by Adman:Give me gorse over Bush Lawyer or Blackberry any day... Yeah, Bush Lawyer is the worst! At least you can eat the Blackberries while you are trying to escape. Down south, we grow both as well as anywhere else in the country. Cheers, Donovan. Quote Link to comment
Guest Adman Posted November 4, 2001 Share Posted November 4, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Nemesis: Yeah, Bush Lawyer is the worst! Have to agree there. Bush lawyer certainly trashs hi tech clothing (goretex etc) (as well as skin) Cheers Adam Quote Link to comment
Guest Nemesis Posted November 4, 2001 Share Posted November 4, 2001 Stuff the clothing, the skin is what gets me. At least with other prickles you get stabbed and that's it (except, maybe, when you walk through a patch of blackberry). But, bush lawyer always seems to want to come along for the ride. Cheers, Donovan. Quote Link to comment
Guest Nemesis Posted November 4, 2001 Share Posted November 4, 2001 Stuff the clothing, the skin is what gets me. At least with other prickles you get stabbed and that's it (except, maybe, when you walk through a patch of blackberry). But, bush lawyer always seems to want to come along for the ride. Cheers, Donovan. Quote Link to comment
Guest tgsnoopy Posted November 5, 2001 Share Posted November 5, 2001 Na, I'd rather it attacked my skin. Some of my Gore Tex stuff is worth over $600, if it attacks it, you often don't relaise immediately and it can do serious damage. At least if it attacks your skin, you relaise immediately, it heals itself, and you don't have to spend a fortune repairing or replacing gear. Quote Link to comment
Guest kaimaikid Posted November 12, 2001 Share Posted November 12, 2001 Get hard guys- wait 'till you've encountered good old fashioned "ONGA ONGA" or STINGING NETTLE, I know of whole valleys fulled with the darn stuff and it's fun... Quote Link to comment
Guest Adman Posted November 12, 2001 Share Posted November 12, 2001 th the darn stuff and it's fun... Fun? ... struggling to make a conection there Quote Link to comment
Guest tgsnoopy Posted November 12, 2001 Share Posted November 12, 2001 Hmm, knowing how KaimaiKid likes to let me wander into Bush lawyer without warning me if he sees it before I do Quote Link to comment
Guest tgsnoopy Posted November 12, 2001 Share Posted November 12, 2001 Hmm, knowing how KaimaiKid likes to let me wander into Bush lawyer without warning me if he sees it before I do Quote Link to comment
Guest kaimaikid Posted November 13, 2001 Share Posted November 13, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Adman: Fun? ... struggling to make a conection there One particular trip, just wearing shorts, singlet, heavy pack and rifle, I slid down this this bank and did a lovely swan dive, head first, into a thick bush of the stuff. Sure was a wee bit itchy for a hour or two... Quote Link to comment
Guest kaimaikid Posted November 13, 2001 Share Posted November 13, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Adman: Fun? ... struggling to make a conection there One particular trip, just wearing shorts, singlet, heavy pack and rifle, I slid down this this bank and did a lovely swan dive, head first, into a thick bush of the stuff. Sure was a wee bit itchy for a hour or two... Quote Link to comment
Guest tgsnoopy Posted November 13, 2001 Share Posted November 13, 2001 Stinging Nettle, horrible stuff that I don't recall encountering since I was a kid (not that it doesn't mean, I haven't, perhaps I'm a bit harder now, and just ignore the rash) . Apparently the plant has lots of small sharp prickles with an acid on them that break off and irritate our skin for a few hours (more or less depending on how sensitive your skin is . For more info, try reading: http://www.naturepark.com/snettle.htm Pictures of the horrible stuff: http://www.rce.rutgers.edu/harmfulplants/images/stingingnettle.jpg http://telemedicine.org/Botanica/bot19.jpg http://www.rce.rutgers.edu/harmfulplants/images/stingingnettlestem.jpg http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/fa01/fa01065.jpg http://kaweahoaks.com/html/stnettle_inflower.jpg The cure apparently is to crush the Dock Leaf freeing up it's alkali (base) juice and rub it on the affected areas (some people use salivia to make the juice go further), this neutralises the acid and effects releif. This Dock Leaf apparently grows nearby Stinging Nettle in most areas. Others simply take baking soda with them, mix it with water and use the resulting paste . A couple of Dock Leaf Pictures: http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/croplive/cropprot/weedguid/51d.jpg http://www.turf.uiuc.edu/weed_web/curleddock/dock_leafcurl1.jpg Quote Link to comment
Guest tgsnoopy Posted November 13, 2001 Share Posted November 13, 2001 Stinging Nettle, horrible stuff that I don't recall encountering since I was a kid (not that it doesn't mean, I haven't, perhaps I'm a bit harder now, and just ignore the rash) . Apparently the plant has lots of small sharp prickles with an acid on them that break off and irritate our skin for a few hours (more or less depending on how sensitive your skin is . For more info, try reading: http://www.naturepark.com/snettle.htm Pictures of the horrible stuff: http://www.rce.rutgers.edu/harmfulplants/images/stingingnettle.jpg http://telemedicine.org/Botanica/bot19.jpg http://www.rce.rutgers.edu/harmfulplants/images/stingingnettlestem.jpg http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/fa01/fa01065.jpg http://kaweahoaks.com/html/stnettle_inflower.jpg The cure apparently is to crush the Dock Leaf freeing up it's alkali (base) juice and rub it on the affected areas (some people use salivia to make the juice go further), this neutralises the acid and effects releif. This Dock Leaf apparently grows nearby Stinging Nettle in most areas. Others simply take baking soda with them, mix it with water and use the resulting paste . A couple of Dock Leaf Pictures: http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/croplive/cropprot/weedguid/51d.jpg http://www.turf.uiuc.edu/weed_web/curleddock/dock_leafcurl1.jpg Quote Link to comment
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