I hid my newest cache on Friday – Exudation named after the original cache Effusion5 that I found on 5/5/05. Whilst out caching with Plook I also managed to find his Maized and confused cache that was supposedly missing – and all without a gps too!
Ohio Historical Markers
Although there was a locationless for Ohio Historical markers, I’ve noticed that the Ohio Historical Society now have a geocaching page detailing some caches they’ve placed and a policy too.
Caching update
I won a Legend C with North america maps on ebay last night which is great – the autorouting should come in very handy for work too – and if the route just so happens to go past a cache – well “I am only following directions gov” 😉
On a slightly similar note, the weekly notification of caches arrived today (the uk cache notification!) but it had the interesting news that you can now get a query of caches along a route. If this works, it’s going to be great news for geocaching. Firstly there will be great rejoicing from the caching community and secondly this seriously reduces the need to horde cache information in gsak. Now I can get live cache data from a route online rather than having to download all of ohio into gsak, export all the caches as streetmaps pushpins, import them into streets and trips, create the route and then show caches within .2 miles.
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Newport Kentucky
Kristen and I had the day off so I tried to find a couple of geocaches – but unfortunately one was unreachable as they were doing work on the bridge, and the other one was just hidden too well (or missing).
I did manage to find the virtual peace Bell, but then as its about 30′ high it is a bit difficult to not be able to find it. We originally heard the bell chiming at midday but when I went to see the bell later in the day they were actually testing the bell so I got to see it in action and heard it chiming and chiming and chiming – I feel sorry for anyone who actually worked in the vicinity, especially if they were working nights. I did manage to get a video with the camera of the bell which I’ve uploaded to YouTube
On the way home from Cincinatti today I had the gps on the dashboard of the car tracking our journey. I turned around to get something out of the back seat and there was a bang – the gps had fallen off the dashboard to the floor – I didn’t think that was a problem as it has fallen on the floor before. However, as we got out of the car I picked the GPS up and the screen had cracked AND it had also damaged the LCD crystals so I now have a functional gps but no screen that I can actually use.
I’m going to be looking for a new gps now – the garmin autorouting ones look great (but expensive) – in the meantime I’ll just have to cache with some buddies and use their gps.
400!
Found my 400th cache yesterday – a great day out caching – thanks for the company Team Lefor!
1st cache of the year
I got out to do some real caching today – although almost all of them were urban, it is another 7 more cache finds. I’ve not got out to do any for ages so I really enjoyed these ones. 2 caches I couldn’t find – i suspect they’ve been muggled. I’m waiting for a response from the owners to confirm that the cache is there still.
New geocoins arrived
The new UK geocoins arrived in the post yesterday and they look really nice. It will be interesting to see how long they last in the wild. They are trackable on the geocaching.com website too so will give you a new icon to your statistics 🙂
The thriving geocoins community have really come up with some stunning designs – I am very impressed.
Cache planning along a route in Autoroute
If you export your gsak caches into Streets & Trips/Autoroute, create a route and then use the Show or Hide places option you can get a list of caches along your trip. I’ve made a rough tutorial online
2 caches placed this morning
I placed 2 micros this morning, Crock of Gold? and Lake Placid Haiku. Currently pending reviewer status, these two micros are slightly different than the normal ones. The first cache needs a su doku solving to get the coordinates, and the second cache requires the online log to be written as a haiku.
I don’t normally put out micros if I can help it, but as I’m short on cash a micro is a cheap alternative and I have tried to put them in fairly nice locations. One is in a playground and the other has a nice view at sunset.