Several weeks ago a Memphis cacher placed a link about Project GC on the GOWT Facebook group. At first, I didn't find the site easy to use. After more research on the site, I am amazed of the capabilities.
For example:
1) Anyone working towards the Well-Rounded Cacher can do a search under the Maps section to view what caches they need to color in the 81 D/T grid. The profile stat also documents the caches en-route to the 81 grid.
2) People working on county challenges can bring up a map of caches in a certain county. That would take out the guess work since the map on geocaching site does not include county lines.
3) If one is working on a team cache run; there is a feature to compare what caches team members have already found.
For now, I have discontinued my GSAK stats on my geocaching profile and using the Project GC stats.
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Monday, September 2, 2013
Getting the kayak out
There have been two caches near my home that require watercraft and has usual with 5-terrain caches, teamwork is needed and logistical support. Since the purchase of a 2013 Nissan Frontier and no longer have a topper to hold my kayak, I did manage to secure the boat in my short bed pickup.
I teamed up with pcsenn and met at the E.W. James parking lot in Dresden; from there we headed to Hydrology 1. We arrived at the cache owner's grandfather's home to place pcsenn's kayak onto my truck. We traveled the short distance to the launch location. We had to park a couple of hundred feet way and carry the boats to the water. We selected a launch area, I got in OK for the most part. Pcsenn was not as lucky, he turned over going face first into the water. He re-grouped and found the cache a few minutes later, being FTF. We returned to the launch location and the cache owner was at the bridge to give us a hand. We selected a different area to recover and no one tipped over.
Then we set our sights onto Carroll Lake Multi; which was much easier in launching and recovering of the kayaks. Multi was a few stages, couple of the stages were very difficult being the cache owner placed the containers while on a john boat and we were not able to reach very high from inside a kayak. At one stage, I pulled a limb down and brought the container down to within reach. At the final, we debated how to retrieve the container. Finally, I secured my kayak, got out and walked to the container with water being knee high. One reason, I wear dive boats!
I teamed up with pcsenn and met at the E.W. James parking lot in Dresden; from there we headed to Hydrology 1. We arrived at the cache owner's grandfather's home to place pcsenn's kayak onto my truck. We traveled the short distance to the launch location. We had to park a couple of hundred feet way and carry the boats to the water. We selected a launch area, I got in OK for the most part. Pcsenn was not as lucky, he turned over going face first into the water. He re-grouped and found the cache a few minutes later, being FTF. We returned to the launch location and the cache owner was at the bridge to give us a hand. We selected a different area to recover and no one tipped over.
Then we set our sights onto Carroll Lake Multi; which was much easier in launching and recovering of the kayaks. Multi was a few stages, couple of the stages were very difficult being the cache owner placed the containers while on a john boat and we were not able to reach very high from inside a kayak. At one stage, I pulled a limb down and brought the container down to within reach. At the final, we debated how to retrieve the container. Finally, I secured my kayak, got out and walked to the container with water being knee high. One reason, I wear dive boats!
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