Friday Night Meet & Greet [GW7]

2trux & candlelady are in town for GeoWoodstock VII and attended the Friday Night Meet & Greet event this evening.  After finding a place to park (just before the downpour), we headed over to the registration line.  Got it done and then chatted with cachers we’ve met at other events over the past six years.

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.