2009 LoCo NEOGEO NWO Fall Fling

2trux & candlelady attended the 2009 LoCo NEOGEO NWO Fall Fling in Lorain, Ohio today.

Swing For The Seats

2trux & candlelady attended Serenity Now & Finding Fraggle Rock’s annual “Grand Caching Event”.  This year it was called Swing For The Seats and was held in Independence, Ohio.

nüvi caching – test #2

Erased the caches in the nüvi and reloaded them, using 1000 feet as the alert distance.

Went to brunch today and took the GPSr with us.  Found 3 “park and grab” caches along the way, using just the nüvi to find them.

nüvi caching – test

2trux downloaded his standard pocket query for 500 easy and unfound (by us) caches within a 26 mile radius of our house.  Then used the pilotsnipes macro to upload them into the nüvi.

Mounted the GPSr on the dashboard using Garmin’s portable friction mount (new design), then took off in the vicinity of the cache.  Since we live in the area,  we have a pretty good idea where it’s located.  Once we were within 750 feet (user definable number), an alarm went off, and a popup appeared notifying me that there was a cache nearby.  Selected the cache and let it route me to it.  Parked very close to it (parking lot micro) and found it, without resorting to our handheld unit.

S2009CNDBDSK

2trux & candlelady attended S2009CNDBDSK in Genoa Township, Ohio today.

Caching in Murfreesboro, TN [GW7]

2trux & candlelady checked out of the hotel today and decided to visit some nearby caches, before starting the trek home.

Had a wonderful time, no matter what cache we visited, we ran into other cachers.  Spent time chatting on the trails as well as at the parking area.  After doing the Fields of Fire virtual and the nearby Behind Fortress Rosecrans traditional cache, we teamed up with 2 other cars to do some caches we hadn’t visited yet.  Our group included MathSeeker and Team TALL (Trevor and Kate, Antiqueman and Lookout Lisa).

candlelady and 2trux enjoy group caching.

GW7 and a FlashMob and some SOS Y’all!

Decided to beat the rush leaving GW7, so we headed out early and cached our way towards GW7 and a FlashMob and some SOS Y’all!

Got there early enough to find parking along the side of the road.  Chatted with friends and then lined up for the video “logbook”.  This is the largest flash mob event we’ve been to.  My guess, is that it should have achieved mega status.

Caching our way to GW7 [day 2] – GPSr problems

2trux encountered some serious problems with our Garmin 60CSx today.  We first noticed it acting up, while we were in the Cave Hill Cemetery.  There were times when it seemed to freeze up.  With it set on a particular waypoint, the numbers didn’t change.  Since we’d been here before, we knew where to go – even if the GPSr wasn’t being cooperative.

After we left the cemetery and started heading for GW7, we had a few occassions where the screen would fade and then the unit would turn itself off.  2trux would turn it back on, reselect the waypoint in our “recent finds” and continue on our way.  We tried changing batteries, removing and reseating the memory card, but it didn’t resolve the problem.

2trux was a bit concerned, since we had left our Magellan Meridian Color GPS at home.  Travelling to a major event with a broken GPSr will be a bummer!

Caching our way to GW7 [day 2]

Got up this morning and decided to do some caches in the Louisville area.

Revisited the Cave Hill Cemetery.   Last summer we visited this cemetery, but missplaced our answers.  Visted many of the locations again – but I still need to get the pictures off candlelady’s camera.  Looking at the geocaching.com Google map for The Spring virtual cache, one can see that there are a number of caches in this cemetery.

candlelady enjoys cemetery caches – this is one of the nicest cemeteries we’ve ever visited.

Caching our way to GW7 [day 1]

2trux & candlelady headed out on today, to begin our cache trip to Bell Buckle, TN (home of GeoWoodstock VII).   Today, we are headed for Louisville, KY where we have a reservation at a hotel where we’ve stayed in the past.  Since we got a late start, we weren’t planning to “cache along the route”.  As we got into southern Ohio, we started to play leapfrog with a car with New York license plates.

2trux thought “they must be geocachers, also headed for GW7″ considering the number of handheld GPSR’s on the dashboard.  Decided to visit the next rest stop (Do or DIE on 71 EYE) and the other 2 cars stopped here too.  Met MickEMT and the rest of the cachers from the two cars.  We headed over to the cache and found it as a group.