GPS Stashes & stuff, opinions please
TomTom
GPS that you can just type in the coordinates of the stash & navigate your way
there.
There's got to be a way to make these things a little more challenging. I'd like to
set up a stash where I'm at, but I want it to be at least somewhat challenging.
Anyone have thoughts on how to make it a little more difficult than just "Hey, go to
these coords"
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-Tom
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Dave
getting to your coordinates. Navigating the roads, dodging
traffic, the distance, the time, the money. After all that, it
would be a relief to find the stash easily. Much of the fun in
stash hunting is in the travel, what you find at the end is just
icing on the cake.
There are infinite ways to make the process harder, like by
having the first coordinates simply point you to the next and so
on. You could have them project new waypoints etc. Solve clues,
math games, find landmarks, lots of stuff. For now KISS, if you
get too many visitors,, make it harder.
Dave
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Jerry L. Wahl
TomTom wrote:
> I like the idea of GPS stashes, but to me, it just seems too easy when you've got a
> GPS that you can just type in the coordinates of the stash & navigate your way
> there.
Plus, this doesn't require GPS to find. Reasonable map reading skills can get you close
enough to find something visible.
>
>
> There's got to be a way to make these things a little more challenging. I'd like to
> set up a stash where I'm at, but I want it to be at least somewhat challenging.
What about something like a field full of signs or buckets at 10 foot spacing. Each
with an Id on it or in it. I give you the coordinates of one. See if you can find the
right one. Alternative, penalties for wrong one. Sort of like battle ship with a
twist, you don't know how accurate your perception of the coordinates are.
sgptrader
you've got a
> GPS that you can just type in the coordinates of the stash & navigate your
way
> there.
>
I'd like to
> set up a stash where I'm at, but I want it to be at least somewhat
challenging.
>
"Hey, go to
> these coords"
You're assuming they're easy to get to; he might have his next stash on the
peak of Everest for all you know...
Hans-Georg Michna
>There's got to be a way to make these things a little more challenging.
Tom,
put the stash up on a mountain that requires a little strenuous
climbing. Put it on a small island in a lake, so the searchers
have to swim. Put it in a ravine where it's difficult to find a
path down.
I guess I'll put one up somewhere in the Alps, around the corner
from my place, the next time I do some mountain walking.
Hans-Georg
N 48° 03.778', E 11° 41.667'
N 48° 03' 46.7", E 11° 41' 40.0"
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Sigurd Humerfelt
I think just dropping the last decimal in the coordinates will make it
harder to find the stash.
Sigurd
N 59°56.2' E 10°41.6' (WGS 84)
Size and shape of the Earth (WGS 84)?
See http://home.sol.no/~sigurdhu
TomTom <pfutjsjo...@proxymate.com> skrev i
meldingsnyheter:01bfb7a4$7c66e1a0$11a60618@cx470186-b...
> I like the idea of GPS stashes, but to me, it just seems too easy when
you've got a
> GPS that you can just type in the coordinates of the stash & navigate your
way
> there.
>
> There's got to be a way to make these things a little more challenging.
I'd like to
> set up a stash where I'm at, but I want it to be at least somewhat
challenging.
>
> Anyone have thoughts on how to make it a little more difficult than just
"Hey, go to
> these coords"
>
Paul Edwards
> >meldingsnyheter:01bfb7a4$7c66e1a0$11a60618@cx470186-b...
> >> I like the idea of GPS stashes, but to me, it just seems too easy when
> >you've got a
> >> GPS that you can just type in the coordinates of the stash & navigate
> your
> >way
> >> there.
> >>
> >> There's got to be a way to make these things a little more challenging.
> >I'd like to
> >> set up a stash where I'm at, but I want it to be at least somewhat
> >challenging.
> >>
> >> Anyone have thoughts on how to make it a little more difficult than
just
> >"Hey, go to
> >> these coords"
Suggest you send a message to cli...@whitehouse.gov and suggest that
S/A be switched back on. If we get enough people together, we might
be able to swing the vote! BFN. Paul.
Alan Hennessy
That EXACTLY what GPS stashes or GeoCaches are SUPPOSED to be !!!!!!
I can suggest a more challenging way to get to a GPS stash.... leave your
bloody GPS at home.
Duh !!
Alan
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Dan Jacobson
that what you
folks are doing, putting marijuana in containers and playing hide and go
seek?
As Austin Powers would say, smarmy, man.
Now but seriously, I found it more interesting to find the corners of pointy
states and
countries, and there's often nice monuments, like the one at the
Sask.-N.Dak-Manitoba corner. Why, last time I extended my fun with a border
monument intensive trip along the 49th parallel from Lake of the woods to
the continental divide.
Plenty of unguarded dirt road crossings to play Rambo at etc. Naturally I
stocked up on International Boundary Commission treaty maps beforehand, at
least I could say I
was doing research and not looking for a stash of ... if questioned. For
more excitement I took along my wife with plenty of visas in her Taiwan
passport.
Anyway, if you get a kick out of borders, from the landmined[?] Mongolian,
to the municipal mosquito abatement commission's, there are several WebPages
out there...
just use keyword border/boundary in your search engine... even webcams...
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