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Flash Intro-"Geocaching"
6 minute Movie-"Searching for a cache"
Basic Info
- Buy or borrow a Global Positioning System receiver. A basic unit is the Garmin eTrex GPS or Magellan GPS 315. Both cost about $100 and can be found at stores such as Wal-Mart, Best Buy or online at http://www.amazon.com
- Find a cache near you at <http://www.geocaching.com> Enter a ZIP code and the site will list nearby caches. Select a cache, such as "Geocache by Ray" or "Arboretum One" and click on its "details" button. Write down the cache's coordinates and print out the description. Use the online mapping site link at the bottom of the page to get driving directions to the location.
- While still at home, enter into your GPS receiver the coordinates of the cache as they are listed on the Web site. Coordinates -- such as N 39 degrees 24.661; W degrees 094 14.86 -- describe the latitude and longitude of the site.
- Follow the driving directions until you can drive no closer to the cache and park your car. Follow the arrow on your GPS receiver as it leads you to the cache. Be aware that heavy tree cover can block the GPS signal. Once you leave your car, it could take anywhere between 15 and 45 minutes to find the cache.
- The GPS signal will fluctuate once you are within 100 feet of the cache, so from that point on, you're on your own. Check around stumps and under rock and leaf piles. Remember that almost all caches are placed above ground, so no digging!
- Congratulations! You've found the cache. Take an item, leave an item and record your experience in the logbook. Reseal the cache and put it back exactly the way you found it.
When you get home, e-mail the person who hid the cache and let him know you found it. Also, post a description of your experience on the cache's online page at <http://www.geocaching.com>
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Nice, did you make up a stamp for it?
I'm considering doing one of those myself, but I'm not good with poems.
Ian....
I know you collect a records....but I'm wondering....you don't "play" anything do you???
you don't "play" anything do you???
yeah, I have a turntable with my stereo and a portable in my garage. Why?
oops...
I was thinking like a guitar or a piano....
oh hell no
:D
I play guitar
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hmmmm....something is just wrong with a ground rat that plays a guitar.
not as long as you look the part
the "cache her if you can" what you need to find!!!
Get out there and find the damn thing!!! I want a coolerhead to find this soooo bad!!!!
I keep waitin for the coord to pop up. Think if they do, I'll see about sneakin out of owrk for a few mins if it's close.
You guys think it will be at Harriet Island?
It's that or somewhere near Lake Harriet....
I got a GPS, if anyone is interested in quickly meeting up after the coords are posted (I have no idea when that'll be). I'll let you know where to go and we can meet up. It'll have to be really quick though.
I have no gps and I have to work at 2. I would wait out near one of the parks if someone wanted, but I don't think there's really time now. Plus it's hard with me not having a gps.
we're a lot harder than the chipmunks
Well thiswas fun. Thanks Ian
NICE job on that find CM....i'm glad you had fun!!
Nothing like finding sweden, virtually :)
Hey CM, you should get the ISS locationless one, really easy too.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=49993
There's a link on the site to tell the next time it passes over. Just get a pic of the printoff map, your GPS, and a watch at the time is passes over and you get credit for the find.
Driving in Dallas sucks.
Rules of the road:
1) Drive FAST
2) Drive reckless
3) KNOW where you're going, or see 1) and 2) above
4) Do NOT look at, or talk to the corner "sign" people
5) Do not expect street signs at every corner
6) Do not expect signs to be lighted at night
7) Do not expect restrooms at service stations
8) Stock up on motrin, anacin, cafergot, herbs, alcohol, mushrooms
Was out caching in Bayport last evening. A new cache popped up out there Bayport Cutoff
The foot trail to the cache runs through the biggest patch of poison ivy I've ever seen!
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Wow! - Do you think it was intentional?
Nah, if you read the cache page it said beware of poison ivy. Luckily I've never had a reaction to the stuff, but I try to mess with it as little as possible anyways.
Just odd that a used foot trail goes right through it, like lots of people have done it.
I'll take this JOE.
WOW! thanks for the warning!
http://www.mngca.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=894
http://www.geocachingtoday.com/MagArchives/darkpassage.htm
WHAT my name is an international geocaching story???
1 in como, not yet approved
1 in burnsville, submitted today
1 in eagan, submitted today
1 in orchard...submitted today.
This is why you shouldn't reach into trees:
I don't get it... what am I not seeing?
I'd put my arm in there....so what's up???
I don't see it either.
IAN's just being a wuss again...........
geo-joe!
So if I go to Mounds tonight to get the rehide, will I have any trouble with kids breaking into cars? I'll have to make sure to take anything of any value with me.
Is that an Owl in the top hole?
owl makes more sense, I was thinking raccoon. scared the shit outta me when i touched it and it moved up.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=337af283-21f6-4516-bc5e-c7115df9890d
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better photo's here..
who's that guy on the right ;)
[Edited by on Aug 30, 2004 at 07:27am.]
What's that from?
http://www.mngca.org/articles.php?strArtType=9&strArtID=78
Yeah just a geocaching booth at the science museum I helped with.
Today's Cacher:
http://www.todayscacher.com
wants me to do a Halloween article about my Warrior Women travel bugs. Hmmmm
[Edited by on Sep 2, 2004 at 04:10am.]
PLEASE do not go to these caches.
I had a pleasant conversation with the Land Manager today. She describes herself as the "lowest rung on the approval ladder"
She has standard answers that are not definite answers. In other words, bshe's not the one who rejects proposals. Hope is dim, but there IS hope.
I have a meeting with the Director and Land Manager, tentatively on the 15th or 16th, in the afternoon. If you'd like to accompany me, let me know.
RE the links provided above: a permit is $500.00 and a $500,000-$1,000,000 insurance policy is required. Do I think this kills it? Probably,
but not necessarily. When I asked about waiver (for a major CITO) or discount, she said "I'm told to tell you that isn't done."
For whatever reason, DNR does patrol the area, and she got a report from the agent mentioned in one of the logs. She tried to look at the website, but never found the caches listed. Hasn't heard a thing more, until I called this morning.
Attn: Legal Eagles
Does the standard disclaimer on each cache page, or the one I included, have any real weight? Is it enough to argue the insurance is not necessary?
A bunch of you probably have no idea what this is about. Here are my two caches:
Gopher Munitions Plant
The Concrete Forest
Anyone who has been there, anyone who would like the opportunity to go there, anyone who would be willing to participate in a CITO event there:
PLEASE post your thoughts, ideas, etc. here.
Yes, it may appear that I'm being selfish, trying to protect my two caches. Actually those would be archived because with approval, I have far grander ideas.
I would rank the chance of permissible geocaching, whether it's a one-time CITO event or something on-going, as slightly better than with the DNR.
A slim hope? That's all there is for now.
PLEASE post ! Fill up the cache pages with "notes"
Thank you.
I wonder why DNR patrols that area??? Must have a histroy of poachers....
Hmm.. they actually sound like interesting areas, Doh! Now I'd like to go do them, but I can't...
cachers are sooooo cool....
I asked somebody to help just send my TB on its way home..
turn out they offered to mail it....
I said ok..sure gave them my addres.....
they over night it....wow!!
I would have been cheap and sent it ground...
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