{"id":1435,"date":"2011-02-26T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tom-nan.com\/2011\/02\/paperless-geocaching-works\/"},"modified":"2011-02-26T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T22:00:00","slug":"paperless-geocaching-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/26\/paperless-geocaching-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Paperless Geocaching Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*** Note: Christmas 2021 update &#8211; This post was written long before the Geocaching app came out for cell phones.  We used GSAK to do the paperless stuff and lugged around a netbook to do what you can do today (2021) with a cell phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aside from a few technical issues, we spent a few hours on the hunt today.&nbsp; Searched for 10 and had 2 DNFs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#1. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/images\/icons\/icon_smile.gif\" \/>&nbsp;<a title=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1Z49A\" href=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1Z49A\">http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1Z49A<\/a>&nbsp; <br \/>#2. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/images\/icons\/icon_smile.gif\" \/>&nbsp;<a title=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC23BTG\" href=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC23BTG\">http:\/\/coord.info\/GC23BTG<\/a> <br \/>#3. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/images\/icons\/icon_smile.gif\" \/>&nbsp;<a title=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1ZBQ4\" href=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1ZBQ4\">http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1ZBQ4<\/a> <br \/>#4. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/images\/icons\/icon_smile.gif\" \/>&nbsp;<a title=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC14PMW\" href=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC14PMW\">http:\/\/coord.info\/GC14PMW<\/a> <br \/>#5. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/images\/icons\/icon_smile.gif\" \/>&nbsp;<a title=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1DZ0P\" href=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1DZ0P\">http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1DZ0P<\/a> <br \/>#6. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/images\/icons\/icon_smile.gif\" \/>&nbsp;<a title=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1FMQ4\" href=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1FMQ4\">http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1FMQ4<\/a> <br \/>#7. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/images\/icons\/icon_sad.gif\" \/>&nbsp;<a title=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC2JC2T\" href=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC2JC2T\">http:\/\/coord.info\/GC2JC2T<\/a> <br \/>#8. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/images\/icons\/icon_smile.gif\" \/> <a title=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1DX14\" href=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1DX14\">http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1DX14<\/a> <br \/>#9. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/images\/icons\/icon_smile.gif\" \/>&nbsp;<a title=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1JVQ2\" href=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1JVQ2\">http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1JVQ2<\/a>&nbsp; <br \/>#10.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/images\/icons\/icon_sad.gif\" \/> <a title=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1JVQ7\" href=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1JVQ7\">http:\/\/coord.info\/GC1JVQ7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nan took a couple of pictures on her phone, I\u2019m putting them here for everyone to look at\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/183658_1843035673178_1159178824_2189347_7829196_n.jpeg?w=720\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4011\" \/><figcaption><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/183658_1843035673178_1159178824_2189347_7829196_n.jpg\">Tom and Jordan at Little Marler Park Cache<\/a> &#8211; At: <a href=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC14PMW\">http:\/\/coord.info\/GC14PMW<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/184393_1843214277643_1159178824_2189713_6113449_n.jpeg?w=720\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4015\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/184393_1843214277643_1159178824_2189713_6113449_n.jpg\">Our first DNF today, HEar, See, Speak no Cache <\/a> &#8211; At: <a href=\"http:\/\/coord.info\/GC2JC2T\">http:\/\/coord.info\/GC2JC2T<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the way\u2026 these are actually the the first pictures of ME geocaching\u2026 The pictures we used to take on our adventures were of her\u2026 I forgot to bring the camera so I got to be the subject rather than the photog\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On our two did not finds\u2026 Hear, see, speak no cache is in a pretty busy area, There was too much traffic and we attracted some attention of Uptown Station Security.&nbsp; This spot looks like it\u2019s right on the edge of the uptown station grounds\u2026&nbsp; I explained what we were doing and he said to have fun and that he hopes we find whatever it is we were looking for\u2026 we gave up after a while and will look again someday soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last one, Where Eagles Serve #2 was a busy spot too\u2026 There were a LOT of people playing frisbee golf today\u2026 must be a weekend. This cache was definitely an interesting location, but we didn\u2019t stay too long because we didn\u2019t want to get hit in the head by a frisbee disk; the area we suspect as GZ is slightly out of view from the tee-off area for the nearby \u201chole\u201d. Speaking of holes there are a lot of potential hiding spots for this cache\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As far as going paperless, we did it.&nbsp; We were out for about 3 and a half hours today.&nbsp; There were a few technical issues when the netbook couldn\u2019t browse Geocaching.com, but we did make attempts at more caches than we\u2019re ever done in one day. We usually go after about 5 or 6 and then quit\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*** Note: Christmas 2021 update &#8211; This post was written long before the Geocaching app came out for cell phones. We used GSAK to do the paperless stuff and lugged around a netbook to do what you can do today (2021) with a cell phone. Aside from a few technical issues, we spent a few &#8230; <a title=\"Paperless Geocaching Works\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/26\/paperless-geocaching-works\/\" aria-label=\"More on Paperless Geocaching Works\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geocaching","category-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}