Slick Rock (McCall, ID)

After hiking today, we stopped to try to find Slick Rock (N 44° 57.111 W 115° 56.638). Unfortunately, I had failed to download the waypoint into the GPSr, so we just navigated using the lat/lon coordinates. Not too hard since it was clear it was across the road from Slick Rock.

Four of us […]

First finds (McCall, ID)

Most of our days in Idaho (when it wasn’t raining) were spent getting the kids ready, driving to a trailhead, and hiking. By Thursday, we were ready for a little downtime (well, actually, the women wanted to go shopping), so I loaded up the eTrex with a couple of close-by geocaches and went to try […]

Hunting stuff with a GPSr

Having purchased a Garmin eTrex GPS receiver before our vacation to McCall, Idaho, I thought it might be fun to try to find a few geocaches in the McCall area.

There is more information here at Geocaching.com

A geocache is generally a container that is located at a specified latitude/longitude. You might think, “What’s the […]