[GeoStL] Re: Our first day caching
- From: "Mark Coppersmith" <mscopper@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 08:21:02 -0600
-
Hello,
I am fairly new here also. I got my Garmin Etrex a couple of months ago and
have been geocaching ever since. I have found a number of geocaches and
still struggle with RGS's ST caches (oh well, you know what I mean). I have
also hidden a couple of caches and plan to hide additional ones in the
future. Looking forward to more hunting....
Mark (topomo)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy Hunt" <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 2:16 AM
Subject: [GeoStL] Our first day caching
> -
> OK, I'm new here, so some introductions are necessary.
>
> A good friend introduced Karyn (aka ruthie44) and me (aka timotab) to
> geocaching. We bid for, and won, a Garmin eTrex on eBay, but we just
> couldn't wait for it to arrive. Firstly, I headed out to find a local
> cache to me, just using the maps of the cache to find it. Incidental note
> here, I found the cache needed some maintenance, so tried to email the
> owner, but the email bounced, and he had not been on the website for
> several months. I emailed this info to TPTB and offered to look after it.
> SO, for now, it's in my name, until the real owner speaks up...
>
> Anyway, today (Jan 2) is my wife's birthday, so we planned to go
> caching for the day. Problem - the eTrex was not yet here. A quick
> call to the friend, and he lent us his very nice Magellan Meridian GPS.
> So, Thursday eveing, I looked at how to use it, and set up some waypoints
for
> our visit. By hand, as he doesn't ahve a data cable. We wanted to be
> out of Metro St Louis, so I decided we'd go to SPringfield IL. I set up
> a total of 15 waypoints, so we'd have more than enough to do. We gathered
> together some trinkets for swapping, and set out. First Karyn tried the
> cache I "own", and found it with little difficulty. Then we went for it
> and headed out of town.
>
> We didn't really make it to Springfield proper - a large amount of our
time
> was spent trying to find the park a particular cache was in, and
> failing miserably, as we didn't know the name of the park/reserve. We
kept
> getting close, but with lots of lake in the way, it was difficult to get
> there. Oh well. However, we did find 7 caches of the 8 we actually
looked
> for. THe other 7 we discarded due to time constraints or because the
location
> would have been closed by the time we got there. On our travels, we
picked up
> three TBs, and dropped off one of them. The other two were both turtles
> (male and female), and I have yet to drop them off anywhere. Are there
> any TB hotels in the StL area? I did a search on hotel, but failed to
> find one. Surely with 70, 55, and a hub airport there should be one
somewhere
> here?
>
>
> One cache not too far from St Louis that I highly recommend is
> Ringing in Agriculture [GCGA1T]. It's a great cache, and one I will
> be returning to. I don't want to spoil all the fun, but do go and check
it
> out.
>
> One last thing, if/when you meet me, you might notice that I come from
> a little bit east of St Louis :)
>
> Timothy
>
>
>
****************************************************************************
> Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com
> Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching
> Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html
>
****************************************************************************
> To unsubscribe from this list:
> send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in
the Subject field
>
>
>
****************************************************************************
Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com
Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching
Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html
****************************************************************************
To unsubscribe from this list:
send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the
Subject field
Other related posts:
