View From The 49th Floor
The 6:25 AM train ride to Grand Central Station was uneventful, although I have to admit that it was hard not to think about the possibilities on this September 11. A short walk lead to the security desk at JP Morgan Chase on Park Avenue. Then a bag check (no temperature was taken as in Singapore) and up to the 49th floor […]
End Of Summer: Cache Found
Geocaching is definitely habit forming. The first hike to find the Tobyhanna Lake Trail Cache ended in failure as previously described. It would have been easier to just forget about it, but that was not to be. Knowing that others had found the cache made me feel I should be able to find it too. […]
Cache Not Found
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 […]
Kleinhans Trail
The photo gallery for Kleinhans Trail can be found here and some information about the trail here. In addition, below I have included some information about the Magellan SporTrak Color. Magellan SporTrak Color SporTrak Color provides superior tracking and accuracy, showing your position to within 3 meters, even in difficult environments such as cities or […]
Geocaching Hike
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. […]
