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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)
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From: "Timothy Hunt" <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 2:16 AM
Subject: [GeoStL] Our first day caching
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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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