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There is a great app for the iphone for geocaching..I use my G1 with cachemante and it rocks. I would like to get a nice GPS though to save on battery life.
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Geocaching
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There is a great app for the iphone for geocaching..I use my G1 with cachemante and it rocks. I would like to get a nice GPS though to save on battery life.
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This is my favorite.
http://www.geocaching.com/
If you join you can download 1,000's of caches to your GPS and meet lot's of knowledgable folks --- Like being in the Rat Pack
http://www.geocaching.com/
If you join you can download 1,000's of caches to your GPS and meet lot's of knowledgable folks --- Like being in the Rat Pack
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This is my favorite.
http://www.geocaching.com/
If you join you can download 1,000's of caches to your GPS and meet lot's of knowledgable folks --- Like being in the Rat Pack
Yep thats the site I use and it rocks!
Here is what we found when we stumble across the geocache:
http://www.icixsound.com/vb/nationpicture.php?pid=30302
http://www.icixsound.com/vb/nationpicture.php?pid=30303
http://www.icixsound.com/vb/nationpicture.php?pid=30302
http://www.icixsound.com/vb/nationpicture.php?pid=30303
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good call the on battery life. most new BlackBerry's have serviceable music/gps/camera functions, but I burn the battery down so quick I carry the other gadgets
I too got tired of worrying about my blackberry pearl's battery life, so I did some shopping around for replacement batteries. I found a great vendor on Amazon.com that sold extra batteries at a fraction of the retail price, so I bought 4 for less than 3 bucks each. I have a pearl, so they're cheaper than other models, but I see most batteries costing no more than 8 bucks on the site.
Two of the batteries were DOA when I got them. I emailed them and two quality control-inspected batteries were shipped out immediately with no questions asked. They just told me to discard the dead ones. At first I was irate about the situation but after that, they totally redeemed themselves. For all they know, I could have been lying!
Super Deal
It's also not a bad thing to have a couple of extra batteries for emergencies.
Hmmmm....was just thinking how cool it would be to have a Rat Pack geocaching contest. Maybe an Izula or two as the prize.
_____Rat Pack #106_____
That's exactly what the TAD Gear company would do. They would have hidden gear placed somewhere remote, and whoever could find it, kept the item(s). I'm not sure what the exact details were though and I'm not sure if they still do it. It would be very cool if the Rat Pack did the same thing. I think it should be a bit more challenging than providing us coordinates to an easily accessible point on the map. Of course it would be very hard to satisfy everyone that wants to participate in this type of contest because I can't imagine someone traveling out of state or outside of 200 miles of said destination for an easily obtainable Izula or comparable prize. Fun idea though!
You are right, it would almost have to been done in several locations.
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Geocaching is a sport I used to do a lot! With gas prices going up, and the dollar not stretching like it used to, a tank of gas for an afternoon of geocaching in the northwoods doesn't go as far as it used to. While I haven't done it for a bit, I still watch for new ones in the area I hope to get to someday. The greatest thing about it for me was that it was an excuse to be able to get out in the woods...
Many GPS' have a ton of features, and for some people they are just complicated enough to not be able to grasp some of the features and navigation methods. WHat I find Geocaching does is gets me decent enough practice with the GPS receiver that come times of emergency or whatever I would otherwise use it for, I am able to quickly set it up for what I want. I've been able to do it to land helicopters, set up tracks while doing LE woods work, and a bunch of other things. It would work the same way for sportsmen when it comes time to set it up for when they follow a blood trail, or set a waypoint to get back to the vehicle at the end of the night.
Geocaching has two points of fun with it. #1 is the sport of using the GPS to navigate towards the cache and figure out routes and the best way to it. Since GPS' have varying degree of accuracy, none of the common commercial units will get you within more than a few feet radius at best. So the goal of #2 is to figure out how it is concealed. Then you have regular caches that are sized to hold items like you'd find in Grandma's junk drawer-you never know what you're going to get (Rule, one of the few:If you take an item, leave an item!)! Micro caches are the other common type, and these are more common in urban or areas where there are a lot of people around. Stealth is the goal with cache placement, and some people have fun with the stealth of a secret agent looking for a drop with these. Some of the placements of the micros are purely evil... I prefer the regular ones myself that have more of a woods/wilderness theme.
I worked as a Deputy for a rural county for a number of years. I got to know the ins and outs and trails pretty good, and my goal was to have a number of caches throughout the county at some of the awesome -out-of-the-way places people don't normally get to find. Some were easy enough in a park, the toughest involved a 50-yard belly crawl under the branches of a pine plantation for one and a two mile hike with river crossings for another. I tried to create different ones for everyone to enjoy. Its a sports that anyone with a GPS can do, and it is just a matter of finding which way of doing it that one enjoys the most. I encourage anyone interested to go out, give it a try, and don't quit.
Many GPS' have a ton of features, and for some people they are just complicated enough to not be able to grasp some of the features and navigation methods. WHat I find Geocaching does is gets me decent enough practice with the GPS receiver that come times of emergency or whatever I would otherwise use it for, I am able to quickly set it up for what I want. I've been able to do it to land helicopters, set up tracks while doing LE woods work, and a bunch of other things. It would work the same way for sportsmen when it comes time to set it up for when they follow a blood trail, or set a waypoint to get back to the vehicle at the end of the night.
Geocaching has two points of fun with it. #1 is the sport of using the GPS to navigate towards the cache and figure out routes and the best way to it. Since GPS' have varying degree of accuracy, none of the common commercial units will get you within more than a few feet radius at best. So the goal of #2 is to figure out how it is concealed. Then you have regular caches that are sized to hold items like you'd find in Grandma's junk drawer-you never know what you're going to get (Rule, one of the few:If you take an item, leave an item!)! Micro caches are the other common type, and these are more common in urban or areas where there are a lot of people around. Stealth is the goal with cache placement, and some people have fun with the stealth of a secret agent looking for a drop with these. Some of the placements of the micros are purely evil... I prefer the regular ones myself that have more of a woods/wilderness theme.
I worked as a Deputy for a rural county for a number of years. I got to know the ins and outs and trails pretty good, and my goal was to have a number of caches throughout the county at some of the awesome -out-of-the-way places people don't normally get to find. Some were easy enough in a park, the toughest involved a 50-yard belly crawl under the branches of a pine plantation for one and a two mile hike with river crossings for another. I tried to create different ones for everyone to enjoy. Its a sports that anyone with a GPS can do, and it is just a matter of finding which way of doing it that one enjoys the most. I encourage anyone interested to go out, give it a try, and don't quit.
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Folks like this are always leaving stuff in our distribution tunnels at work, books, notes, grafity, you name it. I think thats called "urban exploration" though. Fankly I am amazed that they fair so well down there, I got lost for hours one day, with no help desk around, and had to resort to popping my head out about 1/4 mile away from where i started and walking back on the surface.
If you guys like that kind of thing I know another tunnel system that dates back to the prohibition days and old man Bradburry used it to smuggle liquor across the street from the grand central market to the apartments in the bradburry buidling downtown Los Angeles. The scene kinda reminds me of "The Cask of Amantillado" story. if you stand in front of the brandberry building and look at the circles in the sidewalk, they are actually large glass chunks that allow light into the tunnel from the street.
If you guys like that kind of thing I know another tunnel system that dates back to the prohibition days and old man Bradburry used it to smuggle liquor across the street from the grand central market to the apartments in the bradburry buidling downtown Los Angeles. The scene kinda reminds me of "The Cask of Amantillado" story. if you stand in front of the brandberry building and look at the circles in the sidewalk, they are actually large glass chunks that allow light into the tunnel from the street.