GHAGAGAP VIII

2trux & candlelady attended GHAGAFAP VIII – The OctoFab 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.