Thankyou James,
Yes. I saw it too. Coordi is actually
Dave Ulmer and he's a great source of knowledge and experience.
The only challenge is that the constant referral
to stashes by NUMBER instead of Lat/Long leaves no room for sorting the stashes
by country, and by state, etc from WITHIN each country (as I've
done).
Also, if a stash ever 'dies', the whole numbering
system is useless.
Alan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 3:58 AM
Subject: [gpsstash] story
Look what I found on the news
group:
James
As the game unfolds the level of excitement
increases. Days ago I set
out
stashes 12 and 13 pitting my best stasher
talents against those of
the best
hunters around.
So far in his
first attempt, Jerry, has FAILED to find stash 12 and
will now
be back
at home re-grouping and honing his surveying skills.
Little did he know
what he was up against at stash 12, following the
GPS
as-a-crow-flies
directions in an area of deep canyons, fast streams,
muddy
bogs, what
seemed like a short distance on a GPS screen turned into a
major
ordeal
just getting to the lookout tree. I just imagine what he felt
when
he
saw that tree, duh dat m-f-ker is m-ukin tall !! So tall in fact that
there
are few places in the area that you can even see the top of the
tree,
and me
the stasher expects him to figure out how tall it really
is. Well I
figure
that tree probably rates in the top ten percent of
the tallest trees
on the
planet ! When you take the height of that tree
and use that number to
describe a circle around the tree, you got you one
big circle to
traverse
looking for the stash. I mean, friends, we are
talking a tree located
in a
dense forest with thick underbrush. When
you are at that distance
from the
tree you can rarely even see the tree
you are trying to circle. Using
your
GPS to follow a circular path
isn't easy, seeing more than three
satellites
at a time is virtually
impossible, but the game goes on...
Mike, an experienced stash hunter
is now headed out this weekend for
his
first attempts on stashes 12 and
13. He as no idea what he is getting
himself
into. Natural and man-made
obstacles abound in his path. Will he be
lucky?
Stashed on the edge
of My Seat, like a spectator at the game, I wait
to hear
about the
hunters
adventures...
Coordi
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