[GeoStL] Re: Competition for BruceS
- From: Glenn <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 09:43:23 -0500
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You are correct. People didn't just "load the Coords" and go.
Loading the coords was a feature that came about a little later on. I
didnt have a printer so I would just write a bunch of coords down on a
sheet of paper. I would hand load them (ofter incorectly) into Magellan
1200xl and then later on into my Street Pilot GPS which is not well
suited for geocaching. When I got within 300 feet it would tell us that
we had arived. Then we would write the last 3 digits of the lat and
longitude on my walking stick. Using my trusty compas we would then
slowly walk about until the numbers on my gps matched the ones on the
walking stick . Simple as can be once we got the hang of the
"geocaching thing". Is was as reliable as anything now a days. When I
got my Vista, with good maps and the ability to download waypoints, it
was almost like cheating. I knew what roads to go on to get to the area
(but no auto routing, we just drove on big streets in the direction that
the arrow was pointing), the gps would just lead us right to the cache
spot. No more compass fiddling or number writing.
With auto routing, I dont even have to know where I am going. (I
usually don't anyway). The whole process is much easier now but a lot
of the adventure of finding the park is gone.
Stephen Martin wrote:
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I bet people didn't load just the coords via a cord then. The cache pages were
probably always viewed prior to hunting. I wish I had known about this pastime
in 2001. I moved back to St. Louis in Aug 2001.
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