[GeoStL] Re: Our first day caching
- From: "Susan Ring" <susanmring@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 11:08:03 -0600
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Welcome, Tim and Karyn and Mark,
You've taken up a great activity and you are going to meet some fun and
interesting people. And Mark, we ALL struggle with the ST's-but isn't it a
fun kind of struggle?
Susan, who is really bummin' because she's too sick to join the group hunt
today. Hmmm, probably wouldn't feel so bad if I hadn't gone out caching
yesterday when I was sick :-) Come on, it was 70 degrees-how could I stay
home and rest?!
PS I guess this should serve as a warning to you new folks-caching fever
does erase one's common sense now and then.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Coppersmith" <mscopper@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 8:21 AM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Our first day caching
> -
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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