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King Boreas
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Joined: 16 Dec 2002
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Location: Exploring Minnesota
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KC0GRN
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Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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I think I got 2 without a GPS. One when I first started, just went by online maps and orienting myself with nearby roads, and the second was a couple months ago on a multi stage where the first stage was so overrun with muggles that I couldn't find a time to successfully retrieve it. So from the cache page I was able to figure out where the last stage was.
Might have to do something similar on Silent Bob's "Stonehenge" if my luck doesn't imporve on it  |
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rickrich
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Joined: 06 Jul 2003
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| When I "took golf ball, left GPSr", we did two or three caches with a topo map and by pacing until we got a replacement. |
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15Tango
Past MnGCA Chair
Joined: 17 Dec 2002
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Location: St. Paul
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Not really geocaching, but I've done my fair share of land navigation courses in the military, using nothing but a map, compass, and military map protractor--with a land nav course, you are given a set of grids for different points and a time limit to get them. When you get to the coordinates, you find a marker on a fence-post, and you usually have a write a code-word or something from the marker on your score-sheet--no having to look for a container and having to sign a log-book.
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Kitch
Past MnGCA Board
Joined: 18 May 2003
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Location: SSP,MN
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I've done a few without my gps....and used sat. photo's....
BOB tells me my GPS is worthless and I'm way off (150+)all the time anyways.....does that count??? |
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Marsha and Silent Bob
Past MnGCA President
Joined: 02 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:44 am Post subject: |
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| Kitch wrote: |
I've done a few without my gps....and used sat. photo's....
BOB tells me my GPS is worthless and I'm way off (150+)all the time anyways.....does that count??? |
You never end up finding the cache anyway, so no
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KC0GRN
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Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 11:42 am Post subject: |
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Correction. Kitch finds A cache, maybe not THE cache  |
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