October 26, 2004, 8:52 pm Magic Trig is a puzzle cache. It has 4 satellite caches that contain only the distance to the actual cache. You have to find the satellites and then compute the location of the final cache.
That meant I hand entered the waypoints into the mapping program I use, MacGPS Pro. To my surprise in the field, the waypoints in the GPSr weren’t correct. Perhaps this is why I found only 1 satellite (apparently one other satellite is out of commission because of new construction).
Turns out the map coordinate systems of the Livermore map I am using the MacGPS is different from what the GPSr uses, so there is a coordinate translation that occurs when the waypoints are downloaded to the GPSr. I’ve corrected the waypoints in the GPSr and will try again.
October 24, 2004, 8:47 pm Went out with Dan and Janet (Geodanimal) this afternoon to Shadow Cliffs. After they found Henry’s Hidden Box and C Monster, we headed for Cache Cow. I had looked for this one on two previous occasions. Dan handled the GPSr, which took him to exactly the same spot I’d been to before. Luckily, I was the one to make the find (within just a couple of minutes). I know I had been within inches of it previously, but it was well hidden.
Passarella iliac (located in Pleasanton) is named after a Fox Sparrow. This was the second time I’ve looked for it, and this time had Dan and Janet looking too. We couldn’t find it. Some of the log entries indicate people have spotted the cache from 20 feet away, and others have had a very difficult time finding it. I don’t know what to think. It’s been over a month since the last logged find.
October 22, 2004, 8:36 pm Pleasure Island is a park with some very nice play equipment (7 or 8 slides). I had gone there earlier in the week but hit a large kid’s birthday party. I believe it is impossible to hunt for this one without stirring up the neighbor dogs, so between all the kids on the playthings and the yapping dogs I didn’t go searching where I should have.
Today I took Cortnie to play at this park. She had a ball. While not brave enough to try the tallest slides, she found a couple of favorites. “I wanna do it again!” After an hour or so, I gave her the GPSr and asked her to follow the arrow. She took me right to the yapping dogs again. But being down on her level, I quickly spotted the micro-cache. This was kind of a disappointment for her since there were no goodies in it.
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