Skunked!

Skunked!

Last weekend was an unfortunate disappointment. My wife and I went out try do two cache’s in our area, Jay Rec Area and French Falls with ketchup, and we came up empty handed both times. It was an overcast fall day and we were having a hard time keeping a good signal on my Garmin Etrex. I can honestly say that this has never happened to me before. My Etrex has never let me down. Was it the weather? Does having it be overcast really make that big a difference? It seemed like it was working fine until we were within 30 feet or so of the cache. Once we were within the 30 foot mark thing took a turn for the worse. It seemed like with every couple of steps it would change directions and the distance to the cache would change. This was driving us crazy! At both caches’ we tried we eventually gave up after searching in vain for what seemed like hours. This had never happened to us before. The only factors that were different was that it was fall and overcast. I am curious if the fact that it is fall has anything to do with the accuracy. It seems a little far fetched that a change in the seasons would have such an effect on the GPS satellites and such, but you never know. The most logical conclusion that I could come up with was that it being over cast was the cause of the inaccuracies.

I am certainly curious to hear back from you all with your input!

Until next time,

~Matt