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We do allow cache listings in outer space such as in the International Space Station or on Mars. Make sure you can land or connect to the space station/planet for it to be acceptable as a listing. Keep in mind, however, that due to the saturation guideline you can’t place another cache on the ISS since one is already listed there.

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CSG Show #28 – But the GPS said to go that way

Art — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:35:11 +0000

Recording on a snowy Valentine’s Day. Cuddle up with your significant other and enjoy the show.

We also kick off our third year of providing you the information you need to make your geocaching experience the best.

Geocaching 101 – How to rate a geocache

Google maps Street view catches a geocacher logging a find

Southwestern Michigan Herald-Palladium atrticle on inexpensive winter activities

SPOT messenger service has competition – PLB

A new definition of ‘Be Prepared’ in Boy Scouting – from the Atlantic City Press

GPS to be effected by solar activity

Fox 31 Denver article on GPS road to nowhere

Denver Channel article on Little Buddy GPS Best Buy link

New segment – Around the Water Cooler – Do cache runs spoil the enjoyment of geocaching? Let us know and we can discuss on the next show.

Geocaching in Space Jeremy speaks on the ISS cache

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CSG Show #27 – Spuds MacKenzie

Art — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:51:30 +0000

Art has a flashback to the 1980’s as he talks about the super party animal Spuds MacKenzie.

New website is live – if you are using an rss reader to download this podcast, please resubscribe.

Karen is now the Arvada Budget Living Examiner

Geocaching 101-trackables

New website – Travelbug Rescue

Groundspeak download terms of service

Wyoming tourism Blog – Adventures in Geocaching

Secret Society Enjoys South Florida Geocaching Has Rabid Fans

Article on letterboxing from West Lynn tidings (Oregon)

Geocaching in Space -followup

Florida geocaching League – from Florida Geocaching Association

GPS based game called Terra touching

Feedback on show #26 -LORAN-C

http://www.jproc.ca/hyperbolic/loran_a.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LORAN

Official Groundspeak CITO weekend 4/24 & 4/25 – sponsored by Magellan

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Lessons Learned

Art — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:39:00 +0000

My writing focus has been toward My gig at Examiner.com This post does not fit within the guidelines, of an Examiner article, so I finally get to update the blog.

Having good weather on January day is a rare occurrence in Colorado. Karen and I had discussed making a cache run into northeastern Colorado for the purpose of completing map squared for the state Delorme challenge.

I was able to quickly run a pocket query for the route heading up I-76. We even had a few caches in nearby Nebraska. A contingency if time allowed us to ‘color’ in another state on the US map.

I loaded Karen’s GPS first. A Garmin GPSmap 60cx with the query results via Geocaching Swiss Army Knife, and also updated her GPS with the weekly local caches in out area.

I repeated the exact procedure with my new Garmin Oregon 300. I was looking forward to work the GPS through its paces. A few minutes later, we were off.

As we entered the area of where are first caches should be, Karen said, “There is one at the next exit” , my GPS showed nothing. Karen guided me to the first cache, but still did not show up on my GPS. Since we were relying on the Oregon for the cache descriptions, we thought we were dead in the water for this trip.

However, having a smartphone saved the day. I was able to use the browser to access geocaching.com and get the first cache description. Success followed soon after.

We were able to complete the map segments in a few hours. We also had time to make a quick run into Big Springs, NE. Where we found our first Nebraska cache at a truck stop just off I-80. After that, we began out return back to Denver. We only found a total of 12 caches on 12 attempts. It wasn’t the quantity, but the adventure into a part of Colorado we had never visited. I would like to return to the cities of Fort Morgan, Sterling, and Julesburg to explore their Colorado History. We met two very nice gentlemen that were operating the welcome center in Julesburg. We introduced them to geocaching, and told us about the 10K volkswalk that starts and ends at the center.

Lessons learned
Redundancy is a good thing: Having a second GPS loaded with our caches to hunt saved this trip and make it for a fun day for us.

Learn how your GPS works BEFORE you go: I figured out since I was loading two different files of GPS points, I need to give them two different names. I had overwritten the NE Colorado caches with the local caches.

Have fun: Our goal was not to kill ourselves logging a large quantity of caches, leave some to return and explore the area in depth at a later date.

CSG Nano Show #4 – Did Groundspeak violate its cache placement guidelines?

Art — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:48:45 +0000

Art and Karen discuss the geocache published today that is on the International Space Station

CSG Show #26 – I’m Andy Willoughby, and how in the world are you anyway?

Art — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:21:23 +0000

Karen at the Nebraska border

Art and Karen make a weekend run up I-76 into Nebraska. Every third commercial on the radio was from Andy Willoughby.

Flickr Photo set

CES new GPS receivers

DeLorme PN-60w

Garmin EcoRoute HD

Garmin Voice Studio

Geocaching 101 tip – smellables (Art was focused on the next agenda item and missed Karen mentioning film as a smellable. He got 20 lashes with a wet noodle after the recording.)

Our trip to NE Colorado and Nebraska for DeLorme Challenge Pages

Letterboxing: Outdoors game thrive on mystery – News article

Geocaching and tthe Vancouver Winter Olympics

Government killing off LORAN-C navigation system, deems GPS good enough

Garmin introduces Birds Eye satellite imagery

iphone and andrion apps that help name peaks – from gpstracklog.com

Rocky Mountain Geocaching Academy 2010

geocaching.com look and feel updates

New earthcache guidelines published

Centennial State Geocaching Amazon Store

Events in Colorado
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