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Sandy
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Chat about the show here...
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Papa EGTH
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| Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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First to post?! Grabbing the iPod and hooking it in...
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Team 57
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| Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:17 am Post subject: |
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Downloading now. I will need it for the drive to work today. A couple of new inches of snow and apparently there is a sheet of ice on the highways... Always fun! |
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batsgonemad
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| Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:59 am Post subject: |
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Still to catchup so will listen to this a little later on today
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Sonny
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| Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Team 57 wrote: |
| Downloading now. I will need it for the drive to work today. A couple of new inches of snow and apparently there is a sheet of ice on the highways... Always fun! |
Hope we can keep you company on your commute. Stay safe out there!
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DudleyGrunt
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:52 am Post subject: |
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Finally got to listen to the show this morning. Thanks for the "hat trick" - intro, "evil LPC" reference, and milestone call. Another great show!
I just wish I'd gotten around to submitting a TB story.
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ePeterso2
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Location: 26.1ºN 80.1ºW 98.6ºF
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Lake Guntersville is pronounced "GUN-terz-vill" ("Gunters" rhymes with "Hunters") (not Gunsterville!). Only reason I know is that my wife's stepmother lives in a house right on the lake.
In fact, the closest geocache to her house is at the end of an abandoned rail line that used to run out into the lake in order to transfer cargo to/from ships on the river. Here's the link:
Come By Land or Water
Lake Guntersville State Park is indeed a beautiful location loaded with caches. We were there this past summer. And if anyone is in that area, I'd recommend this cache (which is not in the park, but is only a short drive away):
A Cathedral of Speleothems
-eP (3rd from the left in that image)
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CoronaKid
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:56 am Post subject: |
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Great show as always. Congrats to the contest winners. I enjoyed listening to all the TB stories.
I did have a comment on the Sweden/Denmark Powertrails caching record. Are powertrails allowed in Sweden? It looks like MercedesBenz hid all of them and they were all published on 10/18/2009. I thought they were no longer allowed. I also took a look and it looks like a lot of the caches were closer than 528 feet. I'm guessing the reviewers in Sweden are much more lax in this area.
I think EMC/VenturaKids record is much more impressive for a lot of reasons. They had to do much more planning (i.e filtering, mapping it out, etc.). The caches they found were hidden by a wider variety of cachers who probably had slightly different hiding methods. The caches they searched for were a lot older and hence more susceptible to being missing. I just don't really think it's that impressive to find a bunch of similarly placed caches along a brand new powertrail. Granted it still takes a lot of energy/endurance but the the difficulty is far less. JMO. |
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batsgonemad
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Calling
all 60cs users, is your GPS broken? would you like to get rid of it,
well i can help, i am in need of the circuit board as mine is fried,
would you like to donate it to me, please
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Team GeoRangers
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:29 pm Post subject: Power Trail Feedback |
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| CoronaKid wrote: |
Great show as always. Congrats to the contest winners. I enjoyed listening to all the TB stories.
I did have a comment on the Sweden/Denmark Powertrails caching record. Are powertrails allowed in Sweden? It looks like MercedesBenz hid all of them and they were all published on 10/18/2009. I thought they were no longer allowed. I also took a look and it looks like a lot of the caches were closer than 528 feet. I'm guessing the reviewers in Sweden are much more lax in this area.
I think EMC/VenturaKids record is much more impressive for a lot of reasons. They had to do much more planning (i.e filtering, mapping it out, etc.). The caches they found were hidden by a wider variety of cachers who probably had slightly different hiding methods. The caches they searched for were a lot older and hence more susceptible to being missing. I just don't really think it's that impressive to find a bunch of similarly placed caches along a brand new powertrail. Granted it still takes a lot of energy/endurance but the the difficulty is far less. JMO. |
There's really now way for us to know which power trail is harder unless you do both. And, no two courses are alike and they will always change with time so tough to compare and judge. Keep in mind the Euro teams did it in below zero temperatures too. Getting in and out of the car 500+ times in that weather is very impressive! How do you know the Mercedes hides are all identical? With our nice weather and Socal desert with miles and miles of nothing, it would be fun to set up a course of 600 caches so cachers from all over the world could come and test their ability, for one memorable day. Caches would have to comply with the guidelines (>528' apart), vary the hides, which is not easy given 600 and not much to work with in the desert, and place them all on the right side of the road for a giant rectangle pattern. Road must have easy pull off to minimize going back and forth across the road, for safety reasons. Maybe a geocaching group could solicit cache hides from the community, then go plant them all under the group name? Would have to organize a periodic event to "maintain" the hides too so no one cacher was stuck with maintaining 600 hides.
Since groundspeak won't allow commercial caches, there's no way to set up a geocaching theme park that could facilitate such an endeavor either, including maintaining the course, independently checking your track file to authenticate your total number within the time period, etc. To be a legitimate world record, need independent verification. One can dream ... and maybe, someday, Jeremy will make it a reality!  |
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Sonny
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Warning obscure Star Wars reference ahead:
Maybe someone could create a standard set of 600 caches somewhere, call it the Kessel Run and see if anyone can find all of them in under 12 parsecs.
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asromzek
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CoronaKid
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 8:33 am Post subject: Re: Power Trail Feedback |
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| Team GeoRangers wrote: |
There's really now way for us to know which power trail is harder unless you do both. And, no two courses are alike and they will always change with time so tough to compare and judge. Keep in mind the Euro teams did it in below zero temperatures too. Getting in and out of the car 500+ times in that weather is very impressive! How do you know the Mercedes hides are all identical? |
Okay, you make some good points but the fact remains that they were able to break the record fairly easily with only really 18 hours of caching. This says a lot. Besides the low temperatures, I think it has every other advantage: new caches, same hider, powertrail in a straight line, etc. Besides, perhaps the low temperatures were actually an advantage because they moved a little faster to get back to their warm car...lol.
I'm not trying to take away from what they accomplished. I still think it is very impressive. It's just my opinion that what the VK crew did seemed more impressive given all the factors.
I like Sonny's Star Wars take on your 600 caches idea. |
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ePeterso2
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| Sonny wrote: |
| Maybe someone could create a standard set of 600 caches somewhere, call it the Kessel Run and see if anyone can find all of them in under 12 parsecs. |
PARSECS ARE MEASURES OF DISTANCE, NOT TIME! DARN YOU AND YOUR FAILED SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE, GEORGE LUCAS! *shakes fist*
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fcemsa18
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| Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:50 pm Post subject: Thank You |
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Hey Gang,
Thanks so much for the opportunity to share my story with everyone. As a special surprise I sent the show to my mom and asked her to listen to it. Of course I got a twit as soon as she had listened and wow was she super excited!
We are hoping for some good weather while she is home so we can spend some time out in the cache-mobile and on the trail together.
(*whispers* the bad part is, she isn't allowed to drive over there, so she is usually a little out of touch with those skills for a few days. hehe. shhh)
To S&S you made me feel like a winner on Monday. I thank you very much. A big geocaching high five to you both.
Be Well
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