Seeing as Southern Oregon doesn't have an active Wherigo due to the Almeda fire taking out the previous area, I figured I would move and repurpose this one. It is a small mini quest Wherigo that hopefully will be a nice introduction to the type of geocache. This wherigo has been created on earwigo and thanks go to sTeamTraen for creating the coding environment. If you have a choice between a GPSr and a smartphone, I'd generally recommend the smartphone as the cartridge has been optimized for those.
The entire Wherigo takes place in the park and there is no driving necessary.
If you completed the first version of this at Blue Heron Park and still have that file you will want to delete and re-download the updated version. There's also this nifty new geocache to find ;)
For those new to Wherigos:
- Download the Wherigo app for iPhones, or WhereYouGo app for Androids
- Sign in and download the cartridge from www.wherigo.com (your regular geocaching.com account login, no new account creation required):
-- cartridge link --
If you're downloading for iPhone or Android, choose the "Pocket PC Device" option
- Click the downloaded file and open in the app from above.
- In the app click the cartridge and hit "Play"
- iPhone specific. Once you've downloaded the cartridge I find it easiest to load the wherigo app, click the "share" icon in the top left, "Import Cartridge from iCloud", and choose the file downloaded in steps 2-3.
Once you're logged into wherigo.com you can download a cartridge in less than a minute. After your first wherigo they become pretty intuitive.
The goal for this first one is to introduce geocachers to moving to different zones, talking to characters, and retrieving a virtual item to finish the quest and get the coordinates for the final physical geocaching container. You should expect about just over 1/2 mile of walking on flat surfaces (~1 mile round trip), and about 30 minutes total walking and stopping as you work through the adventure. The goal is to keep it an easy short introduction. It is bikeable for the most part, which will get you to the finish much more quickly.
Remember that is you're in a "zone" screen, for example, you can select the back button on the menu to see the full list of zones, characters, items, and tasks. If you want to talk to a character you need to click on them specifically.
The final item in the wherigo should take you right to the geocache.
I've done my best to test and troubleshoot it in any way I can think of to break it, and have walked through it myself multiple times on an iphone, but if you find something going wonky please send me a message so I can fix it! All coding should be safe for iphone/android/GPSr and I've taken care to try to not include commands that don't work on garmins. That said, I'm new at this type of coding ;)
There are FTF and 2TF tokens in addition to some swag. Container is small. Please replace the lid snugly and container out of obvious view. Thanks in advance!