GPS Hide and Seek

A nadir in preparation. Forgot that I deleted GPS Essentials from the Pixel. Couldn't get GPS Essentials to switch location format either offline or online. The interface was being balky. Rainy day. No umbrella. Forgot the problem isn't wetness. It is typing in the rain. Sheesh. Umbrella a must for inclement conditions so I can type without raindrops firing off random letters or apps.

The view from my hide was nonexistent. The hide was drippy wet in continuously passing rain showers. I had walked into the forest on a rebuild of the old river run trail but had no signal down the slope. So I circled back to the east and upslope until I reached a curious mound. 

I was inside a Hibiscus tiliaceus thicket. I had trouble setting up the mailing list, I hadn't preset a mail in drafts for sending. And the Moodle app cannot send to an entire class. I had to come out to the browser version. In the rain. Messages were not sent until 12:01 with the Moodle message not going out until 12:07. This year I sent follow-up messages during the hide. 

Around 12:24 I heard voices upslope of my location but they did not try to come downslope and moved off to the west. I sent a message via email to all that someone had come close to my position.  At 12:38 voices were east of my location. I caught a glimpse of a face through an opening in a thicket, but the person couldn't see me inside the thicket 

At 12:38 a first glimpse of Marvin on point.

And Matuita.

Marvin would start to punch west into the bush trying to get the longitude down.

Behind him were Matuita and Cathleen feeding him coordinates as they followed.

The group also included Shyann and Gaynor.

N 06° 54.588', E 158° 09.324'

Coordinates. All's well that ends well. This exercise once again showed no hide is too tough for a determined team.

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