GeoSnippits - HHH's Great Geocaching GPS Experiment Flash Mob Event

GeoSnippits Geocaching Tutorial Videos hosted by our very own lovable HeadHardHat shows you how to create your own geocaching flash mob event. Then follow along as HeadHardHat and many of his fellow geocachers partake in a geocaching experiment to see how different GPSr units fair trying to find a predetermined ground zero. There are a lot of laughs as the geocachers do what they do best and this gives you a great example of how a geocaching Flash Mob Event can be. Geocachers with little or no experience will enjoy these episodes as much as the more experienced geocachers will. GeoSnippits is an ever growing series of geocaching video tutorials geared for geocachers of all experiences to enjoy. You can also visit our GeoSnippits home web page at www.geosnippits.com.

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[larryjsimon]

The "spread" verified my suspicion ... when someone says *good co-ordinates* that means their gps is exactly as far off as yours. Awfully glad you did this experiment to illustrate very graphically why geo-sense is just as important as a quality gps.

[headhardhat]

@larryjsimon Oh I couldn't agree more.. Thanks for chiming in..

-HHH

[madmedicdoc]

Hey Andy, how did you determin what ground zero is? Use your own GPS and see if any one comes close? Just wondering

[headhardhat]

@madmedicdoc We had a survey crew scheduled to officially mark ground zero but they backed out the very last minute. I used my GPS for the final coords, we were much more interested in the spread rather than the actual dead center.

[kmatts14]

I have a Magellan GC

It's really good!

I got a question, what was one of the most clever caches you have ever seen?

[headhardhat]

@kmatts14 Ooooh, way too many to count. Any geocache that was blended so well into their environment that you had to actually touch them to know they were geocaches. There are some really clever geocachers out there.

Thanks for asking..

-HHH

[ClUbPenGuIn0wNz]

Hey HHH I really liked this idea and it's very helpful! Just one question, I'm looking for a GPS with a camera so I can take pictures while Geocaching and I was looking around the market for some GPS' with cameras and they all had fairly bad reviews for the actual GPS. What GPS with a camera do you recommend?

[swampsexrobot]

How did you know that the coordinates were the right (exact) ones? Meaning, HHH's coordinates that were at the centre of the X.

[binaryflow]

This was a great event, thanks!

[mhuska2000]

Nicely done video (and I'm not just saying that because I won! ;-). Now where do I go to pick up my $1,000,000 prize?

[headhardhat]

@iluvchocolate0606 Not bad at all.. Was a very interesting spread for sure..

Thanks for watching...

-HHH