This sounds familiar! What kind of injury/surgery did you have? I went through two hand/wrist surgeries recently too. Not fun!

 

ok, i thought so. but where do you get cordinates or find out about them? some people here were talkin about anza borrego shutting them down.

 

Carpal Tunnel. In my left hand and I am right handed...go figure that one out.

 

I geocache quite often. When one geocaches you get coords from the web site go out and find the cache. You don't take or move the cache, you just sign the log and log back into geocaching.com and log the find there. The idea of taking something and leaving something (trading swag) is not by the way of a rule. It's an option. The unwritten rule is that you leave something of similiar value..usually less than a buck.

Now as far as Anza not allowiing caches. Just like all groups you have good and bad. Damage was done to something of importance and geocaching was blamed. The problems is are various. One of which I mentioned and another is the coords get you in a general area sometimes less than 9 feet other times much more. From what I heard a cacher started digging because they used the wrong datum. Nad 27 instead of WGS84.

I am sort of stuck in bewteen the 2 schools of though.

I don't like to see areas closed for geocaches because the next step would be to close the area off for all including off-roadiing.

Secondly I also believe in the preservation of ancient ruins...if in fact that was what was damaged.

I think there could have been some middle ground to avoid a total closure.

Ken


EDIT: Sorry about going OT. I thought I was in an different thread. I apologize.

 

Well I think i'd be down for alittle wheeling / caltrans trail work on sat

 

Woods,

I am tentitive for Saturday... depends on Grandma's schedule.

 

Anyone heading to Big Bear this weekend? Looking to join up on Saturday .. little snow run/exploring ...

 

Is "Grandma" code for something? Or is your Grandma just really good at road building?

 

WELL, Grandma did single-handedly build Route 66... No, I don't want to take my girls this weekend, so I am hoping that Grandma can watch 'em!

 

The most popular website for geocaches is geocaching.com. You can get a lot of good information there (check out the forum thread for beginners), and you can have a basic membership for free.

There are two other main geocaching websites.

The next biggest is terraching.com (which was set up by people who wanted the sport to be more competitive, so you earn points based on how difficult the terrain is on hides, and you earn more based how difficult your hides are - few people find it over a certain time range, etc.). Then you can awards for finding the most difficult terrain level that week or that month...I played there for about a year, but it got too much to try to keep up with two different websites, and geocaching.com is more popular.

The third one I am aware of us navicache.com. I'm not familiar with them; the database is much smaller.

I don't want to hi-jack this thread any more so feel free to pm me if you have any other questions.