GPS stash hunting
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Started on 2000-05-19
GPS stash hunting
From: Randy Hall (randy@mapsurfer.com) |
Date: 2000-05-19 21:20:40 UTC-04:00
[received on the Orienteering-net today (edited RH). PS, They already
know about what we do]
I recently invented a similar sport that I call the GPS Stash Hunt. It
started as a result of the U.S. government removing the errors from the
GPS navigation system. Now, someone with a GPS can actually find something
from posted coordinates.
The basic rules when you find a stash are:
1. Take Something
2. Leave Something
3. Write about it in the log book
That's all....
Since the game is only two weeks old, it is already evolving, we now
have different kinds of stashes based on how you find them. i.e.:
Stamped offset Stash, and Circle offset Stash, these are methods of
making the find a little more difficult. I'm sure you orienteering
folks could also add some interesting difficulties.
Please visit the stash hunt website at:
http://www.triax.com/yngwie/gps.html
for more information..
Your suggestions and insight could be helpful in evolving the game!!
Thanks,,
Coordi
Re: [LbNA] GPS stash hunting
From: (mohmers@aol.com) |
Date: 2000-05-20 07:25:40 UTC-04:00
In a message dated 5/19/00 6:21:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
randy@mapsurfer.com writes:<<
I recently invented a similar sport that I call the GPS Stash Hunt. It
started as a result of the U.S. government removing the errors from the
GPS navigation system. Now, someone with a GPS can actually find something
from posted coordinates. >>
HI, This is interesting. My husband is an avid hunter and uses a handheld
GPS to navigate through the woods ( to be very honest I think he mostly plays
with it after he is finished hunting). He suggested hiding a few letterboxes
that are merely coordinates with a few clues right at the end. We have held
off, thinking very few Letterboxers have a GPS yet. What is the GPS count
out there?
Mohmers
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randy@mapsurfer.com writes:<<
I recently invented a similar sport that I call the GPS Stash Hunt. It
started as a result of the U.S. government removing the errors from the
GPS navigation system. Now, someone with a GPS can actually find something
from posted coordinates. >>
HI, This is interesting. My husband is an avid hunter and uses a handheld
GPS to navigate through the woods ( to be very honest I think he mostly plays
with it after he is finished hunting). He suggested hiding a few letterboxes
that are merely coordinates with a few clues right at the end. We have held
off, thinking very few Letterboxers have a GPS yet. What is the GPS count
out there?
Mohmers
--------------------Are you Y2K compliant?
-----------------------------------------
What about the Year 2000? According to the Bible there was approximately
4000 years between Creation and Jesus' Birth (approx. 1000 from Creation to
the Flood then 3000 to Jesus' Birth)... There is a lot of hype about the new
millennium; can we expect the apocalypse? Check out this site to answer
these questions and calm any unfounded fears:
Is There
Any Evidence that Christ's Return is Imminent?
More information:
Who or what is the Anti-Christ?
Wars and Rumors of Wars
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and False
Re: [LbNA] GPS stash hunting
From: (cptaubrey@aol.com) |
Date: 2000-05-20 21:24:33 UTC-04:00
Yes, this IS really cool! We were just talking about this around the campfire
last weekend in Connecticut: Sarah from EMS is a GPS-weenie and has been
getting coordinates for already-placed letterboxes. She's thinking of doing
some GPS boxes with waypoints and such herself. As to count, that is one cool
toy, and we use our friends' fishing on LI Sound (have a great waypoint for
bluefish named "Ned's Hole," after my son), but haven't got one yet ourselves.
Jay
<< He suggested hiding a few letterboxes
that are merely coordinates with a few clues right at the end. We have held
off, thinking very few Letterboxers have a GPS yet. What is the GPS count
out there?
Mohmers >>
last weekend in Connecticut: Sarah from EMS is a GPS-weenie and has been
getting coordinates for already-placed letterboxes. She's thinking of doing
some GPS boxes with waypoints and such herself. As to count, that is one cool
toy, and we use our friends' fishing on LI Sound (have a great waypoint for
bluefish named "Ned's Hole," after my son), but haven't got one yet ourselves.
Jay
<< He suggested hiding a few letterboxes
that are merely coordinates with a few clues right at the end. We have held
off, thinking very few Letterboxers have a GPS yet. What is the GPS count
out there?
Mohmers >>
Re: [LbNA] GPS stash hunting
From: Lucien Van Elsen (lucien@prodigy.net) |
Date: 2000-05-22 10:28:09 UTC-04:00
I actually came to letterboxing through the 'Degree Confluence' project,
where people use their GPS's to go to every intersection of integer latitude
and longitude - www.confluence.org. My first experience with a GPS in the
woods, actually, was locating and flagging some old survey markers, where I
had the coordinates of the marker, but not much else.. I had a lot of fun
poking through the woods doing that, and I think it would be a lot of fun to
do something similar, but with a letterbox at the end.
-Lucien
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Subject: Re: [LbNA] GPS stash hunting
> HI, This is interesting. My husband is an avid hunter and uses a handheld
> GPS to navigate through the woods ( to be very honest I think he mostly
plays
> with it after he is finished hunting). He suggested hiding a few
letterboxes
> that are merely coordinates with a few clues right at the end. We have
held
> off, thinking very few Letterboxers have a GPS yet. What is the GPS count
> out there?
> Mohmers
where people use their GPS's to go to every intersection of integer latitude
and longitude - www.confluence.org. My first experience with a GPS in the
woods, actually, was locating and flagging some old survey markers, where I
had the coordinates of the marker, but not much else.. I had a lot of fun
poking through the woods doing that, and I think it would be a lot of fun to
do something similar, but with a letterbox at the end.
-Lucien
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From:
To:
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 07:25
Subject: Re: [LbNA] GPS stash hunting
> HI, This is interesting. My husband is an avid hunter and uses a handheld
> GPS to navigate through the woods ( to be very honest I think he mostly
plays
> with it after he is finished hunting). He suggested hiding a few
letterboxes
> that are merely coordinates with a few clues right at the end. We have
held
> off, thinking very few Letterboxers have a GPS yet. What is the GPS count
> out there?
> Mohmers
Re: [LbNA] GPS stash hunting
From: Thom Cheney (tcgrafx@imagina.com) |
Date: 2000-05-22 08:10:41 UTC-07:00
mohmers@aol.com wrote:
>
> We have held
> off, thinking very few Letterboxers have a GPS yet. What is the GPS count
> out there?
The very first letterbox placed in Oregon (Brown's Camp), WAS placed
with a borrowed GPS. The only way to find that box is with a gps. Now
that the accuracy is a little better, I should prolly go back out and
recheck the coordinates and see how close they are to accurate.
The clues are on the LBNA web site.
Dan'l bought a GPS and was loaning it out at one time. A few 'boxers
placed, or at least contemplated placing a box using it.
--
Thom Cheney
tcgrafx... among other things
>
> We have held
> off, thinking very few Letterboxers have a GPS yet. What is the GPS count
> out there?
The very first letterbox placed in Oregon (Brown's Camp), WAS placed
with a borrowed GPS. The only way to find that box is with a gps. Now
that the accuracy is a little better, I should prolly go back out and
recheck the coordinates and see how close they are to accurate.
The clues are on the LBNA web site.
Dan'l bought a GPS and was loaning it out at one time. A few 'boxers
placed, or at least contemplated placing a box using it.
--
Thom Cheney
tcgrafx... among other things
Re: [LbNA] GPS stash hunting
From: (mohmers@aol.com) |
Date: 2000-05-23 07:44:39 UTC-04:00
Great! If anyone makes it to Illinois (Metro-East Saint Louis area) after
the summer you can expect a few GPS letterboxes to be hunt up....this is a
great way to get my husband involved.
Thanks
Mohmers
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-----------------------------------------
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4000 years between Creation and Jesus' Birth (approx. 1000 from Creation to
the Flood then 3000 to Jesus' Birth)... There is a lot of hype about the new
millennium; can we expect the apocalypse? Check out this site to answer
these questions and calm any unfounded fears:
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Any Evidence that Christ's Return is Imminent?
More information:
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In Defense
of ... the Bible_
In Defense
of...Christ's Church
____________________________________________________________________ HREF="http://www.apologeticspress.org/rr/rr1995/r&r9511a.htm">Prophecies--True
and False
the summer you can expect a few GPS letterboxes to be hunt up....this is a
great way to get my husband involved.
Thanks
Mohmers
--------------------Are you Y2K compliant?
-----------------------------------------
What about the Year 2000? According to the Bible there was approximately
4000 years between Creation and Jesus' Birth (approx. 1000 from Creation to
the Flood then 3000 to Jesus' Birth)... There is a lot of hype about the new
millennium; can we expect the apocalypse? Check out this site to answer
these questions and calm any unfounded fears:
Is There
Any Evidence that Christ's Return is Imminent?
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In Defense
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In Defense
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and False
Re: [LbNA] GPS stash hunting
From: Eric Mings (elm@ao.net) |
Date: 2000-05-23 09:55:11 UTC-04:00
>Great! If anyone makes it to Illinois (Metro-East Saint Louis area) after
>the summer you can expect a few GPS letterboxes to be hunt up....this is a
>great way to get my husband involved.
>Thanks
>Mohmers
Yeah, all it takes to get us guys involved in something is to have a
great electronic toy involved in the activity ;-)
I wonder if anyone has recently found the boxes that were originally
placed using Dan's gps way back in the beginning of US letterboxing
(seems forever ago).
Regards,
Eric Mings Ph.D.
.~.
/V\
//.\\
/( )\
^^-^^
>the summer you can expect a few GPS letterboxes to be hunt up....this is a
>great way to get my husband involved.
>Thanks
>Mohmers
Yeah, all it takes to get us guys involved in something is to have a
great electronic toy involved in the activity ;-)
I wonder if anyone has recently found the boxes that were originally
placed using Dan's gps way back in the beginning of US letterboxing
(seems forever ago).
Regards,
Eric Mings Ph.D.
.~.
/V\
//.\\
/( )\
^^-^^