Posted by John Patrick on Aug 29, 2003 in
Hiking This
sounds like a Windows error (of which there are plenty) but in actuality it
is the outcome of my second geocaching expedition. Conditions were nearly perfect
– blue sky, slight breeze, 75 degrees, DEET
(N,N-diethyl-m toluamide) sprayed on skin, water bottles full, and latitude/longitude
from geocaching.com loaded into Garmin
GPS receiver. The
Tobyhanna Lake Trail Cache is somewhere along the Tobyhanna
Lake Trail near the enormous Tobyhanna
Army Depot. The first few miles of the
hike were great — a nice level trail and no bugs. The excitement built
as the GPS receiver said the cache was just 180 feet away. Long story short
– it was nowhere that I could find. I know I was close but in spite of a lot
of searching in the woods in a radius around the coordinates, I was unable to
find the cache. In spite of the frustration of not getting to the goal line,
the three hour hike was very enjoyable. It also got me thinking about the broader
aspects of geocaching. (read
more)
Posted by John Patrick on Aug 8, 2003 in
Hiking Today
was my first attempt at geocaching and I highly recommend it to anyone who is
interested in hiking. The basic idea is that individuals and organizations set
up hidden storage places (caches) in various places around the world and place
the locations (lattitude and longitude) of the caches on a web site like geocaching.com.
An interested adventurer or hiker can then visit the website, some hints about
the cache, download the lattitude and longitude into their handheld GPS
receiver, and head out on their search for the cache. Once found, the cache
may contain a tupperware container with some gifts and a logbook.The visitor
makes an entry in the logbook if they get something from the cache, they should
replace it with something new. The visitor can also go back to geocaching.com
and record their success
and upload some
pictures. The cache I visited was called Bridge
Over Troubled Water. (read
more)
Posted by John Patrick on Apr 21, 2003 in
Hiking From time to time I digress from WiFi
and Internet
Technology. In recent years I have come to appreciate hiking, even though
I have had no training and haven’t even read anything about it. Just putting
one foot in front of the other seems to work — and it is a lot of fun and good
exercise. There are many beautiful places to hike and in the hiking log is a
list of some of them I have been fortunate to experience. The details for most
of the entries here are sketchy, but I’ll capture better information from now
on and keep it in the hiking
log.
Posted by John Patrick on Aug 26, 2002 in
Hiking Today I took a kayaking lesson. So much to learn. Kayak Jane has a rental shop on Route 507 in Paupak, Pennsylvania on Lake Wallenpaupack. It looks so effortless and simple. I guess it is after you have mastered it but, like so many things, it requires a lot of practice. Keeping your arms straight and rotating your body as you paddle doesn’t seem natural at first. I have a long queue of things I plan to write about e-business and Internet technology but hope nobody minds reading about some of the diversions and hobbies along the way. I also posted some pictures of other people in the photo gallery this morning.
