[Talk-lv] lost in Latvia Or: like geocaching?

[Viesturs Zariņš]

Jē! Apsveicu ar atradumu.

Viesturs

On 2010.07.18. 23:06, Jānis Ročāns wrote:
> Atradu to viņa ierīci, bija redzamā vietā zālē pametis 29. jūnijā. 
> Vakar ar draudeni bijām pie jūras, pie reizes arī pameklējām, bet 
> bijām uz nepareizā meliorācijas grāvja. Šodien viens pats, braucot uz 
> Rīgu, izmetu līkumu un pēc negaisa ielīdu mežā pa citu ceļu. Izbridies 
> cauri dubļiem un peļēm atradu 400 metrus no jaunbūvējamā ceļa (vai kas 
> tur top). Nosūtīju viņam trekus.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:00 AM, malenki <osm at malenki.ch 
> <mailto:osm at malenki.ch>> wrote:
>
>     Recently I made a trip through the baltic states, not at least to do a
>     bit of mapping outside my country.
>     One day I went along bad and then worse tracks badly in need to find a
>     place to make a camp. Return because of bad ways was out of question.
>     After the worse tracks I went a way which is probably to to be a track
>     some day. At the time being it was a "lane" in the forest, marked here
>     and there like this whith read-white plastic strips on a pole¹.
>
>     Besides there lay cutted branches and trees crisscross. I only went on
>     since otherwise I would have been eaten alive by million manic
>     mosquitos (I put on long clothes in this wood, pulled the Buff up
>     to the
>     eyes and the hat as low as possible), the sun was setting, I was
>     running
>     out of water and the way back would have been sucking the same plus I
>     knew there was no place to camp.
>
>     Somewhere on this parcour² the Garmin left the bike holder as the
>     bicycle dropped down one of the many times it stuck in a pitch or on a
>     branch. Though I searched half an hour in the fading light
>     (exhausted as
>     I was) I could not find it in the scrubs.
>
>     Here is your chance to go there and get it yourself. I'd only ask for
>     the logs stored on the card.
>     If the to-be-finder would like to return the device to me I'd reward
>     with 170 EUR plus shipping. The device was operated with two of these³
>     accumulators (in case you want to use a metal detector).
>
>     To have some coordinates to start with, use these link:
>     http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlesat&lon=24.39556&lat=57.43676&zoom=16
>     <http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlesat&lon=24.39556&lat=57.43676&zoom=16>
>     If you go there don't forget to
>     *use a vehicle sufficient for that terrain
>     *take enough water with you
>     *take precautions for the mosquitos
>
>     Have fun! =)
>
>     Best regards
>     malenki
>
>     ¹
>     http://malenki.ch/OSM/lost_garmin/dscf038895.jpg
>     ²
>     http://malenki.ch/OSM/lost_garmin/place_garmin_lost_overview.jpg
>     http://malenki.ch/OSM/lost_garmin/place_garmin_lost_detail.jpg
>     ³
>     http://www.google.de/images?um=1&hl=de&client=opera&rls=de&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=gp+2700&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
>     <http://www.google.de/images?um=1&hl=de&client=opera&rls=de&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=gp+2700&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=>
>
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