Friday, June 27, 2008

Geocaching

Today I went geocaching. I used to go often, last summer, but since then I haven't gone hardly at all. Back then I went with friends who had gps's, then they all went to college, and a didn't have access to a gps. Now that I have the N810 I can start geocaching again. I upgraded to a premium account at http://www.geocaching.com so that I could use the gpx waypoint files with the gpview application on my tablet. I downloaded about 30 caches from the Internet, and headed out on my bike. I used the map from the website to get close, then used the stats from the application to find the cache. It worked pretty well, the only issue was that the compass never pointed in the right direction, but as long as you know which way is north it works great. I'm very excited about this and plan on doing it more and more.

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