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stacyspace
09-05-2006, 12:29 PM
I did four yesterday with my SO :rock:
One was at a park, hidden under a fallen log that you had to roll over to get it. Great hide.
Two were in a reservation near my apt. It ended up being over 3 miles. We ended up with little green triangle things stuck to our jeans. Weird.
The last one was at another park near my apt. I've driven past this park since I was a kid and never stopped. I love geocaching because it makes me stop :D The cache was hidden in an old birds nest and the micro was a plastic egg. That was one of the coolest hides we've come across. It was eggcelent *groan* lol
What have you been up to?
Sonny
09-05-2006, 12:46 PM
We did two (found one, attempted another) up north last weekend, I wrote about them in my vacation thread...one was a little scary.
We picked up a travel bug in one, so I am going to find a cool one around here to drop it in tonight.
It feels like geocaching season! :rock: I just couldn't get into it when it was HOT out.
stacyspace
09-05-2006, 12:59 PM
yesterday was perfect weather for geocaching! mid 70's and breezy
the bugs didn't come out until we were deep in the woods.
Last time we tried we got rained, no, poured on.
Maybe this weekend.
I did 2 easyones this past weekend and taught my out of state nephews how to cache.
It was fun, but I want one that requires a good hike!
Sonny
09-05-2006, 06:39 PM
The site is down, and I need to find a cache to drop Slow-go in tonight! :cry: Anyone else having trouble, or is it my computer?
Nope. It's down.
I have some for here printed though. Wanna come here?
Sonny
09-05-2006, 06:49 PM
Yes.
*calls in excuse to the school*
*packs kids*
stacyspace
09-07-2006, 12:39 PM
I just figured out two wicked hard puzzles that have bugged me for weeks!!!
I hope to get out there tonight to get them :D
Here they are if you're interested....
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b4a8692a-ab16-40ed-a9c8-361afea05bf8
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=88c7ff59-b1b5-4ecd-abd9-7b9ccaf5dcc8
:eek: those look tough!!
we don't have many puzzles around.
so-- tell me how did you figure out the first one?[/clueless]
stacyspace
09-07-2006, 03:47 PM
the first one took me a while
Thomas Beale hid a treasure and encrypted the directions by using the words in the Declaration of Independence. Each word was assigned a number.
The cache used the link he provided:
http://www.geocaching.com/articles/finding.asp
like the Declaration, each word was assigned a number and using the first letter of each word (I needed help with that - he emailed me the first letter) it spelled out:
North forty two degrees twenty sI point one seven three decimal minutes west seventy one degrees zero seven point one nine seven decimal minutes
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
N42 20.173, W071 07.197
:)
stacyspace
09-07-2006, 03:54 PM
thanks :) I'm good a googling - lol
the alphabet one was great! that took me about 9 hints though. If you solve a suduko you get the next word.
Sonny
09-10-2006, 11:44 AM
Great Job Stacy! :clap:
We are doing this (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=564bdf4a-1718-4465-8c4f-b6e371dccfcc) one today. It's near Minnehaha Falls, and even though we live here, neither of us have ever been there. Very Excited! :D
Sonny
09-10-2006, 09:51 PM
Well, we hiked all over the park, this was a very fitting puzzle for it's name, as Minnehaha means 'laughing waters' and the person who hid this cache was certainly laughing at us. Each clue was on an opposite side of the park, down the stairs, up the stairs, down the stairs, up the stairs (one clue consisted of counting the stairs--133). We could have been a little smarter and avoided the back and forth, but....at least it was a good workout. It started POURING halfway through so we stopped at a restaurant right in the park and ate and watched the Twins game, then we went back to it.
We didn't find the cache, it requires offsetting the waypoint by x meters, and we didn't no how to do that, or even that a GPS could do that. :blush: We guestimated, but we didn't find it. We will figure out the coordintes and go out again.
We have lived her 15 years (17 for Pat) and had never been to Minnehaha Falls, the water fall was just beautiful, and we really enjoyed hiking around a park that felt like it was in the middle of no where but was actually right in the middle of the Twin Cities! I got pictures of the falls, I will post them tomorrow. :)
sounds like fun!
I don't know how to off-set either :blush:
Hey, I released that Sonny Travel Bug yesterday in a cache we hid. I need to submit the cache and get it approved.
Oh-- we found 5. none were fantastic. they were just ok. We found our first jeep. (it was a white 2005 jeep)
We also hid one. I am going again today-- picking up the kids and going after school
Sonny
09-11-2006, 09:26 AM
sounds like fun!
I don't know how to off-set either :blush:
Well, I found the 'project button' but I still have no idea how to do it. I am going to google the unit of measure equivlent to the lat/long sec. and just do the math...
Hey, I released that Sonny Travel Bug yesterday in a cache we hid. I need to submit the cache and get it approved.
Can you give me the number of the travel bug again? I would love to track it's progress. When it gets here, I am going to send it to Amy, when it gets there I am going to see if she will send it all the over to Stacey, then she can send it to Red, and then back to you! :D
http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=1c8d7e71-db66-482b-aa89-1d7f8e673983
don't forget Mac and everyone else that caches! this could be fun, hope he doesn't get lost too soon.
Sonny
09-11-2006, 10:15 AM
http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=1c8d7e71-db66-482b-aa89-1d7f8e673983
don't forget Mac and everyone else that caches! this could be fun, hope he doesn't get lost too soon.
I forgot that Mac caches! Red can send it to her, then she can send it back down to you. :D Who else caches? We need a route, like Pups had. :D
Doing it my way caches.
someone else-- let me think
wow-- I just submitted a cache 15 min ago, it was already approved and listed (the one with sonny in it)
Sonny
09-11-2006, 10:53 AM
Yay Kate!
I would love to have a geocaching gathering. I was thinking about it yesterday when we were at the falls, and I was thinking about how much you would have loved it. We should plan something for next spring...maybe half way between here and there, we could bring the families. :D
Who caches on their 4 wheelers? :scratch:
I want to go do this again. I still have all the ones printed out from when we got rained out. :mad: But I'm not allowed.
Even if the doctor said it was ok, Cliff wouldn't. He doesn't even want me to walk around the block yet.
Sonny
09-11-2006, 12:08 PM
Who caches on their 4 wheelers? :scratch:
When we were up north, we did a few off road caches. We did it in our Explorer, but a 4 wheeler would have worked great.
I guess out west there are tons of 4-wheeler caches.
DIMY did one on 4-wheelers I think
No no no. Someone on here uses the GPS on the 4 wheeler to do the caches.
I didn't mean that in a smartassed way.
I just can't remember who it is. They went somewhere on vacation and did the cache that you had to be in front of the camera to "sign".
Am I :birthday:
I guess out west there are tons of 4-wheeler caches.
DIMY did one on 4-wheelers I think
Ok. I was thinking it was someone else, but I didnt know who.
:stars:
Sonny
09-11-2006, 12:13 PM
No no no. Someone on here uses the GPS on the 4 wheeler to do the caches.
I didn't mean that in a smartassed way.
I just can't remember who it is. They went somewhere on vacation and did the cache that you had to be in front of the camera to "sign".
Am I :birthday:
Ohhhh! :laugh: I'm pretty sure it was DIMW Karen.
I went to do a webcam cache, but my cell phone died so my sister couldn't get a screen shot for me.
Hm. I guess I am :birthday:
My memory seriously sucks.
stacyspace
09-15-2006, 04:22 PM
any big caching plans this weekend? I have a couple in mind, but I've been obsessed with a crazy hard puzzle!!!
I actually learned morse code to crack some of it ;)
here it is....
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=3399488f-3fca-449d-9b86-d0d65572b97f
I am going Sat to grab 4-- but they aren't that thrilling, 4 cemetary caches and one I think is hidden at a playground center.
Sonny
09-15-2006, 05:11 PM
I need to get back to the one we didn't get last weekend. I couldn't figure out how to do the projection thing with my GPS, so I figured out the distance between degrees, changed the meters into degrees and subtracted them from the clue waypoint, and I'm going there. If it's not there :indiff: :getyou:
I bet Stacey does. PM her.
Someone picked up our Travel bug :dance:
But Manda found the laminated tag in the van yesterday. /the one that explained to move this bug to MN. :cry: I forgot I was adjusting it to make it tighter and left it off. I just hope they check the TB page.
stacyspace
09-15-2006, 05:41 PM
i'm not too skilled in the projection thing either.
depending on the distance, I make a new mark and walk it :)
i've used google earth to plot larger ones. It has an option to draw and measure a line.
Sonny
09-15-2006, 05:44 PM
i'm not too skilled in the projection thing either.
depending on the distance, I make a new mark and walk it :)
i've used google earth to plot larger ones. It has an option to draw and measure a line.
I'll try google earth.
They just gave us clues to figure out how many meters east and south of the 'scenic waypoint' the cache is. I transferred the meters to miles, the miles to degrees, the degrees to seconds, and subtracted the resulting seconds from the relative waypoint seconds. *fingers crossed*
Sonny-- you ever nab that one?
:bang: we had a frustrating day!
We went to our favorite park-- it is a nice huge 400 acres park with steep cliffs and 12 caches hidden there.
Well, we had found all but 3 of them--
So we went off for 2 of the 3 (the third had really hard terrain and I wouldn't let the kids try the steep cliff)
At the van it showed were were .7/mile away (but the trail really winds a lot around one central river valley)
There was bad storm there this summer and about 1/2 mile in the trail was re-routed, we followed it for another 45 min until I realized we were almost back to the van. :bang: I didn't even notice we were walking in a circle.
I couldn't talk the kids into going back-- but they talked me into doing the really steep one.
Turns out it was steep, but it was do-able.
(you know it is bad when it is called "Heck, you have to be a crazy mountain goat" :D http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=3f457b16-1e04-4878-9c20-b9eace36980a)
Well, the kids were great on it-- an we found it with very little trouble.
So, with that and a cemetary cache we nabbed 2 today.
Kids climbing back up the hill
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a101/kateiam/sonny010.jpg
Me in front of the cache
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a101/kateiam/sonny011.jpg
oh-- ignore the mom jeans, I saved these for hiking :D
Sonny
09-25-2006, 09:29 AM
Sony-- you ever nab that one?
Not yet. :( :nono:
We got two geocaches when we were visiting Pat's dad. It was raining the whole time, and we came back muddy and wet, but it was still fun. :D
At one point, while we were trompping through the woods, Anna and I had gone one direction and Pat and Max had gone another direction. When they caught up with us Max said, "Don't worry girls, the boys are here now." :dunno: :rofl: Am I raising a
little sexist? :indiff:
:heart: you are safe once Max is there to protect you!
Michele
09-26-2006, 01:09 AM
You look gorgeous, Kate.
I haven't been geocaching since our camping trip...which I never told you about, but wast the most gorgeous geocaching ever. Tall pines, ferns and wolves.
wolves?? :eek: and :love:
do tell.
I just loaded some caches for this weekend. We are going here...
http://fortworden.org/
We're going to do the first three of these...I think. (I'm not positive that the link will work right)
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?lat=48.13135&lon=-122.762683
that first one looks like fun
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