[Az-Geocaching] Why I live in Arizona (reason #57)

[Team Tierra Buena]

Oh... THAT one.

This has been beaten more than the Cardinals in this Groundspeak thread:
http://opentopic.groundspeak.com/0/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=1750973553&f=300091
7383&m=5040909045. Net of it is (from my perspective): There are about a
gazillion different ways "Geobuster" could have handled this situation
that would have been preferable to the way he or she did handle it, but
that cache should never have been placed in the middle of a National
Park to begin with.

Personally, I'm more interested in how the geocaching.com application
took an "invalid" cache waypoint (GCBO49) and turned it into a valid
one. The cache you wound up looking at, Trisha, was actually GCAF49, and
the site modified the request in some manner. It looks as though it
treated the "O" in the waypoint as a zero, and then subtracted
100(hex)from it. Fascinating.

Steve
Team Tierra Buena
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness". -- Dave
Barry

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On 
> Behalf Of trisha@brasher.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 2:53 PM
> To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Why I live in Arizona (reason #57)
> 
> 
> Well...OK, so I was a bit confused for a few minutes. I went 
> to see what Rob was talking about with Denny's 402'nd 
> find....I went to GCB0
> (zero) 49 and found myself in Minnesota. Hm. 
> 
> OK. So I tried GCBO (letter O)49 and.....geez, y'all better 
> go and see what is going on in California!! The Left Coast, 
> the Granola State (land of fruits, nuts and flakes), the 
> People's Republic of California (where, by the way, I grew 
> up. Now I am in Arizona, Enough said) has people over there 
> who take tree-hugging (and "littering") to the extreme.
> 
> Anyway, I did finally figure out, from a previous post, the 
> Rob meant GCB0F9 for the Silica cache thing. Sneaky, Denny.
> 
> I think the California deal is more interesting. Anybody see 
> anything like that before?
> 
> Trisha "Lightning"
> Prescott
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, "Bell, Robert" wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'll congratulate Tres Hombres on their 400th cache find 
> too, and have 
> > had the privilege of being on many of them.
> > 
> > Its his 402 cache find (GCB049) that I wasn't on that I'm still
> > irked about!  :D
> > 
> > Rob, Team CHUMP
> > "Gotta find them all!"
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Nicol [mailto:arizcowboy@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 16:54
> > To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> > Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Congrats
> > 
> > 
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > I too would like to send my congratulations to Tres Hombres 
> for their 
> > 400th cache find! I also would like to congratulate AZSaluki for 
> > winning "the
> > prize" on Puz-zel's challenge for the most of his caches found!
> > 
> > Scott
> > Team Ropingthewind
> > 
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