BajaNomad - Looking for GEO CACHING People in Mulege area

Looking for GEO CACHING People in Mulege area

Bruce R Leech - 3-5-2005 at 08:52 AM

Looking for GEO CACHING People in Mulege area. also Cashes. I am new to this Hobby and would lick to talk with any one about it. maybe there is a group in Mulege .

[Edited on 3-5-2005 by Bruce R Leech]

Geocaches in Mulege area

Tim - 3-5-2005 at 03:42 PM

How far are you willing to travel? According to one of the geocaching web sites (www.geocaching.com) there are 7 caches between Santa Rosalia in the north and Loreto to your south. Four of these are at Bahia Concepcion, one is at Mision San Javier, one is just NW of Santa Rosalia and the other just south of Loreto.

So I guess the closest to you would be the 4 at Bahia Concepcion.

Bruce R Leech - 3-5-2005 at 06:37 PM

thanks tim. do you Geocach?

I think there will be some in this aria soon.

[Edited on 3-6-2005 by Bruce R Leech]

bajalou - 3-5-2005 at 06:49 PM

One of Tim's claim to fame is placing the first cache in Baja I believe.

:biggrin:

claim to fame

Tim - 3-5-2005 at 09:13 PM

Yes, my friend and I placed the very first cache -- not only in Baja, but in all the country of Mexico.

Unfortunately, when we went to Baja in late-January we found that particular cache had been stolen, along with two others we had placed on separate trips.

Subsequent reports have come to us that the cache log had been found but the cache box and contents were gone.

Our thinking was that the caches were too big and the contents too nice to pass up for someone who happened by.

It's actually kind of funny in a way -- if someone happened by with no clue about geocaching and found this big tub in the middle of the desert. Like what is it doing there?

bajalou - 3-5-2005 at 09:22 PM

I placed a cache at Coco's Corner a couple years ago. It was reported found a few times then Coco told another geocacher that a Mexican had found it and liked the items and was keeping it. Coco tried to explain what it was but the finder said "No - I found, I keep"
I had the Ceocache instructions in it in Spanish as well as english - but their always a temptation.

:biggrin:

WOW, didn't know I was part of history!

Debra - 3-5-2005 at 09:55 PM

I was among the finders of the first geo-cache in Mexico!

Here we are at Tim's (Mexico's first) geocache

David K - 3-6-2005 at 12:22 PM

We were the first to find it... here see Miguelito Humfreville, Desert Rat, El Camote, and my son Chris with his hand in the geocache bucket...

[Edited on 3-6-2005 by David K]

Bruce R Leech - 3-6-2005 at 12:28 PM

Thanks David that picture says it all .

Bruce R Leech - 3-6-2005 at 01:34 PM

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Originally posted by Pompano
Count us in, Bruce...we have some trekker/guests coming from Boise soon and we would love to get involved. How do we begin? I probably have already inadvertently 'geo-cached' some items around here over the years.

Sounds like a good Baja thing to do! :yes:

I'm still learning my self but the firs step is to sign up on the website. I Will get and post the URL.

I see on the site that Wornout is vary involved with this maybe he can give us some pointers.

David K - 3-6-2005 at 05:15 PM

Do read my post on the other thread by Bruce called GEO CACHING.

Make sure your GPS is set at Map Datum WGS84 (the way it comes from the factory), since we Baja people usually reset them to NAD27 because the Mexican Topos and Baja Almanac use that datum.

Print out the info sheet for the geocaches you wish to find... there are sometimes hints to help you find the cache in the info. page.

Correction: Baja's/Mexico's First Geocacher

Frigatebird - 3-6-2005 at 05:46 PM

Let's hope this is one cache that eludes all hunters.

:biggrin:

wornout - 3-6-2005 at 08:32 PM

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Originally posted by Bruce R Leech

Quote:

Sounds like a good Baja thing to do! :yes:

I see on the site that Wornout is vary involved with this maybe he can give us some pointers.

Well, here goes attempt number three to add some information about geocaching, Lou tells me one has to be logged on to post, duh!

OK, hopefully by now you have been to http://www.geocaching.com and have become familiar with searching for caches. Once you get a free account (free to start with, then pay when you become hooked and want some of the advanced features) you can do pocket quarries for download, a much better way to geocache. You can print the cache pages and enter the coordinates but a download file is much easier to work with. Now on to the tool you need.

You next need to go to http://gsak.net Here you will find a free program called GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife). It is a waypoint manipulator and you can sort, delete, add, etc waypoints. Then you can send them to your GPSr. In addition you can export them to your favorite maping program like Street Atlas, Streets and Trips, Ozi Explorer, and even a Palm Pilot when you want to do paperless caching. I like to overlay them on a map before I head out and cache.

I did a lat/long search from Guerrero Negro to Cabo and found 37 caches. About three of them were on the mainland but the rest are down there.

I am going to quit the information dump now and let you absorb what I have written. When you feel comfortable with the geocaching website and running the GSAK program, let me know and I will put out so things I have learned while geocaching.

bajalou - 3-6-2005 at 09:10 PM

I actually got to the Nomads from Geocaching. A couple years ago on a buggy trip to Guerro Negro via BoLA etc. we found some of David K's VivaBaja caches - in each of which was a VivaBaja bumper sticker. It had the David K. web address so, trying to learn more about baja I looked it up and one thing led to another and here I am.

:biggrin:

Cache Rich Environment

wornout - 3-6-2005 at 09:49 PM

Here is an example of a little caching in Central Baja

wornout - 3-6-2005 at 09:57 PM

Did someone want Loreto area waypoints? How about on a satellite picture? Well, of course we can do that.....

Geocaching

Ken - 3-6-2005 at 09:59 PM

Sue and I are avid geocachers and will be in Mulege after Thursday. Look for us in a white Dodge Minivan with a kayak on top. Ken

David K - 3-7-2005 at 08:01 AM

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Originally posted by bajalou
I actually got to the Nomads from Geocaching. A couple years ago on a buggy trip to Guerro Negro via BoLA etc. we found some of David K's VivaBaja caches - in each of which was a VivaBaja bumper sticker. It had the David K. web address so, trying to learn more about baja I looked it up and one thing led to another and here I am.

:biggrin:

What a great addition to this forum you are Lou! Here is what you were after...

and now, the newer sticker with my new web address...

[Edited on 3-7-2005 by David K]