GPS Poker Run

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The first cordinates

I'm attaching the gpx files for those of you that have software/

Here are UTM cordinates:
name/cordinates
Brin your boots/13 S 505319 4411402
Coyote run/13 S 513299 4400504
Short walk/13 S 505990 4405030
UB's back yard/13 S 480553 4422230
Under the cottonwood/13 S 518411 4378258
Yucca/13 S 488882 4411339


Good hunting pics to follow

 

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The first 5 Cache Coordinates with pics

UB's back yard/13 S 480553 4422230
Yucca/13 S 488882 4411339
Bring your boots/13 S 505319 4411402
Urbin Solitude/13 S 497053 4405092
Short walk/13 S 505990 4405030

 

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The second five

White Ranch/13 S 478761 4405426 What you're looking for at all locatons
Among the rocks/13 S 482457 4390664
River Bend/13 S 497448 4381446
Under the cottonwood/13 S 518411 4378258
Coyote run/13 S 513299 4400504

 

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The last info

Attached is the total list of all ten locations in GPX format.

Dinner is at 5PM at the Old Spaghetti Factory. Post up if you can before noon on Sunday so we will have enough seats waiting.

4 Prizes to play for so bring 1 sealed envelopes from 5 locations (and we know were they are from).

 

[Uncle Ben]

Man....you guys had a ball! Surely you didn't stash all of them today or did you split up? I snagged the one out of my back yard already......that was a biatch! You hadn't posted a picture yet so I went in from the top (closest to the location) Fun stuff! Just laid it all out via satellite image....should make it much easier!

 

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cache

It was a great day! We set them all yesterday, Took all day with a breakfast and lunch stop, we made 30 just in time. Looking forward to hearing everyones experiences with good weather! Don't forget you dog(s) if they need a run, there is parking at every location too!

 

[leiniesred]

skunked! We're out!

Lin and I are out. We're experienced geocachers but you stumped us at coyote and shortwalk. Maybe I'm using the wrong dataset.
Coyote put us at the pin for the 5th hole for example.good luck y'all.

 

[Uncle Ben]

Lin and I are out. We're experienced geocachers but you stumped us at coyote and shortwalk. Maybe I'm using the wrong dataset.
Coyote put us at the pin for the 5th hole for example.good luck y'all.

I've only hit the Marshall Mesa one so far and it was several digits away from the coordinates too! You guys should have use Lat and Longitude instead of UTM! I am not sure we will have enough time tomorrow to score 4 more either. Too far apart and you guys had too much fun hiding them! I might sneak over to White Ranch yet today....and if I do that then Red Rocks is only a blip from there. How many envelopes are in each cache? It would suck to dog down one in Denver area just to find it empty! Now that the clouds have moved in it's gonna make it that much tougher as I've noticed overcast sky's will greatly effect GPS readings!

 

[Convert]

Datum is utm nad27conusa. Coyote has nothing to do with were it is at other than we saw 3 coyote's. All locations are at trailheads/parks with parking area's

 

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lat and lon cordinates

Amoug the rocks N39 40 03.0 W105 12 16.3
Bring your boots N39 51 16.2 W104 56 16.2
Coyote run N39 45 22.5 W104 50 41.1
River Bend N39 35 04.6 W105 01 47.0
Short walk N39 47 49.5 W104 55 48.1
UB's back yard N39 57 06.7 W105 13 39.6
Under the cottonwoods N39 33 20.5 W104 47 08.5
White Ranch N39 48 01.5 W105 14 53.1
Yucca N39 51 14.0 W105 07 47.9
Urban Solitude N39 47 51.6 W105 02 03.9


See if this helps

 

[Uncle Ben]

Struck out at White Ranch! Wife and I looked a long time! I took my Gamin V also (along with my Lowrance Expedition) and it showed exact same spot! You posted the green coffee can? Is that just one of the caches? The one I found on Marshall Mesa was in a gallon Ziplock under a rock weighted Safeway bag. You guys shouldn't have hid them so well.....takes to long to find them!

Thanks for the Lats and Longs but if you used UTM to mark the spot initially then going to seconds now won't help much.

 

[Uncle Ben]

Amoug the rocks N39 40 03.0 W105 12 16.3
Bring your boots N39 51 16.2 W104 56 16.2
Coyote run N39 45 22.5 W104 50 41.1
River Bend N39 35 04.6 W105 01 47.0
Short walk N39 47 49.5 W104 55 48.1
UB's back yard N39 57 06.7 W105 13 39.6
Under the cottonwoods N39 33 20.5 W104 47 08.5
White Ranch N39 48 01.5 W105 14 53.1
Yucca N39 51 14.0 W105 07 47.9
Urban Solitude N39 47 51.6 W105 02 03.9


See if this helps

Hmmmmm...our datum is different for the Latatude!

Example. My White Ranch converts to N 39 47' 54.7" and W105 14' 53.1"

We are 50ish feet off on coordinates!

 

[leiniesred]

Lin and Stephen are back in! (We have a full hand)

So, after getting skunked, finding only kujo the dog, 6 hobo camps, 2 pairs of underpants, dead rabbit, live skunk, and a golf ball we went to lunch. (Always a good idea.)

We got to thinking, "Ya know we really don't suck this much at geocaching. Something isn't right."
Changed our map base and everything worked perfectly. It took less than 3 hours to get 5 cards and get back home.

Thanks guys! You showed us that it pays to READ THE DIRECTIONS.
Which flies in the face of me and most men. "No Lin, those are just SUGGESTED operating instructions. Just throw them away, I got this figured out!"

So, people having trouble: The only hint you need: GO READ THE DIRECTIONS! The map coordinates are all spot on.

 

[Uncle Ben]

So, after getting skunked, finding only kujo the dog, 6 hobo camps, 2 pairs of underpants, dead rabbit, live skunk, and a golf ball we went to lunch. (Always a good idea.)

We got to thinking, "Ya know we really don't suck this much at geocaching. Something isn't right."
Changed our map base and everything worked perfectly. It took less than 3 hours to get 5 cards and get back home.

Thanks guys! You showed us that it pays to READ THE DIRECTIONS.
Which flies in the face of me and most men. "No Lin, those are just SUGGESTED operating instructions. Just throw them away, I got this figured out!"

So, people having trouble: The only hint you need: GO READ THE DIRECTIONS! The map coordinates are all spot on.

Rudeboy your a genius!

"Friday night the GPS coordinates will be posted, so you will have Saturday and Sunday to get your hand. Coordinates will be in UTM format and the map datum will be NAD27 CONUS."

I didn't go back and read the beginning. Hmmm....Still not sure we will have enough time tomorrow but maybe if I find 3 aces it will be good enough!

 

[Convert]

Struck out at White Ranch! Wife and I looked a long time! I took my Gamin V also (along with my Lowrance Expedition) and it showed exact same spot! You posted the green coffee can? Is that just one of the caches? The one I found on Marshall Mesa was in a gallon Ziplock under a rock weighted Safeway bag. You guys shouldn't have hid them so well.....takes to long to find them!

Thanks for the Lats and Longs but if you used UTM to mark the spot initially then going to seconds now won't help much.

UB Sounds like you have muggled someones Geocache on Marshall Mesa all of the locations have the same camo can other than size of the can. Lats/longs to UTM conversions are pretty accurate in my Geocaching experience. Keep looking none are hidden very hard. Red rocks will be the toughest due to reflectivity We will have extra cards at dinner if you are short

 

[leiniesred]

Lin and Stephen's Experience

How we did it: We grabbed Lin's Garmin Nuvi 350 navigator and converted the UTM to degrees and minutes since the Nuvi doesn't know what UTM is.

(Our Nuvi is named, "Karen." Example: "Well I don't know where the flippin' hotel is; ask Karen!")

So "Karen" got us to every parking lot without any wrong turns. This is a good thing since my Garmin Vista Color (Wedding gift from Lin.) doesn't show many small roads since I have detailed Moab maps loaded right now. This saved us from driving in circles trying to get closer to the waypoints. Lin, my Human Navigator, hates driving around lost and in circles.

Once in the parking lot, I stuck the UTM coordinates in my GPS. From there we walked to within 5 feet of each cache. Piece of cake! These would all be classified as "Easy" geocaches. We hit 5,7,8,9,10 and all had plenty of cards this afternoon. We pulled an envelope at random from each bucket.

Here is a picture of our Toyota MR-S (Geocaching Edition) in the parking lot near the Coyote waypoint.

 

[Uncle Ben]

UB Sounds like you have muggled someones Geocache on Marshall Mesa all of the locations have the same camo can other than size of the can. Lats/longs to UTM conversions are pretty accurate in my Geocaching experience. Keep looking none are hidden very hard. Red rocks will be the toughest due to reflectivity We will have extra cards at dinner if you are short

Hmmmmm.....just opened the envelope from Marshall Mesa.... Is a Dave Dravecky SF Giants card worth anything?

 

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Muggle

That card won't get you any of our prizes(ARB, Wells, Toyota and Husky)! Our envelopes have the RS logo and the cache # . Directions I'm going to enjoy a tomorrow and await the stories!

 

[Uncle Ben]

That card won't get you any of our prizes(ARB, Wells, Toyota and Husky)! Our envelopes have the RS logo and the cache # . Directions I'm going to enjoy a tomorrow and await the stories!

Are you sure? Might be worth more than the prizes!

 

[leiniesred]

Dave was the pitcher who broke his arm throwing in a game. They re-played the video on TV for days. Then, he discovered he had cancer in that arm.