[GeoStL] Re: Perfection is hard to achieve
- From: "Gale R. Nie" <showme69@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 18:45:46 -0500
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Since Stephen seconded those comments, I'll third them. It's the number one
thing that I always tell people when I'm explaining how to find a cache and
have passed along to several newbies on the trail. Looking for the
unnatural looking surroundings is many times your best clue.
Gale
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Martin" <faery_generic@xxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:08 AM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Perfection is hard to achieve
> -
>> Once they get to the area, they should put the GPS down and start
>>using their eyes and brains to look. Look for things out of place like a
>>pile of sticks or leaves that would not have fallen there naturally. Look
>>for little nooks and holes that might hold small containers. Look high as
>>well as low since some of those devious cachers don't always place their
>>caches on the ground.
>
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> This is the way to do it. I just feel some folks (newbies and oldbies)
> rely too much on the technology of the sport and not the down and dirty
> sport of the sport. I personally haven't changed my coords because just
> from caching with others whose machines are different than mine, I know it
> is impossible to get acurate coords for everyone. I am not actually
> having any sturggles with "off" coordinates on my hides right now. I
> recently found one which is having some "off by 20" feet logs. The coords
> were adjusted and were still off by 16 feet on my device, on that day, at
> the time and on a very wooded and tough terrain. I have many scrapes and
> scratches(and tick removals) from this difficult search. I cussed a
> bit... ok alot, but I kept searching and found it using the hint and doing
> a search AROUND the zero, not just on top of it.
>
> A homecooked meal is often more tasty, but a little more difficult to
> serve than a mass produced drive through dinner.
>
> Stephen
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