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Post by omgcrew on May 18, 2007 15:32:11 GMT -9
Any free locations? We are going up there for a few days to camp and cache. I would like to be able to log finds and check email.
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Post by ladybugkids on May 18, 2007 16:27:35 GMT -9
Noel Wien Library has free WiFi. The library is located at Library Learning #1 cache. The Westmark (10th Ave. downtown, at Scoop cache), Princess Hotel and Pikes Waterfront Lodge (both just east of the airport) also have wireless. I remember having to pay at one location during a company offsite meeting, but I can't remember which one, though it was probably the Westmark. UAF has wireless in the student center, but you need a student ID to access it. Have fun! We'll be down in Los Anchorage and Seward the next 1.5 weeks playing tourist, househunting, and maybe doing a little caching if the junior ladybugs are game.
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Post by shadius on May 18, 2007 21:33:38 GMT -9
Noel Wien Library has free WiFi. The library is located at Library Learning #1 cache. The Westmark (10th Ave. downtown, at Scoop cache), Princess Hotel and Pikes Waterfront Lodge (both just east of the airport) also have wireless. I remember having to pay at one location during a company offsite meeting, but I can't remember which one, though it was probably the Westmark. UAF has wireless in the student center, but you need a student ID to access it. Have fun! We'll be down in Los Anchorage and Seward the next 1.5 weeks playing tourist, househunting, and maybe doing a little caching if the junior ladybugs are game. And I thought I was the only one who referred to places I have been and give directions by cache. Of course muggles never really understand the directions... Just drive out toward Vintage Park cache, the street before the cache has a Safeway.
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Post by omgcrew on May 20, 2007 19:49:40 GMT -9
Thanks for the info. We are headed up on Wednesday after work. Going to stop for the night at Byers lake for the night then onto the FBX area for a few days. Then to Quartz lake for a night then back home. I am trying to catch Scobey with this trip. Yeah right. My wife would kill me.
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Post by oleruns on May 20, 2007 21:28:19 GMT -9
You'll have fun in Fairbanks. I have been up there two times since I started caching and both times I was unable to cache due to Track & Field state meet. That meet is next weekend at West Valley.
Have a good safe trip -
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Post by ladybugkids on May 20, 2007 21:55:18 GMT -9
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Post by omgcrew on May 22, 2007 16:05:32 GMT -9
Thanks for the info. We will make sure to hit those. Are there any MUST do in the FBX are? Or just as many as possible?
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Post by ladybugkids on May 22, 2007 16:51:15 GMT -9
Do you want "good evil," "good view," "good hike," or all of the above?
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Post by Malcore on May 22, 2007 17:54:09 GMT -9
Im glad someone asked the question about the WiFi because im planning on going up there for a couple weeks at the end of june. I was debating on if I should take a laptop with me or not. The bad thing is my truck has no storage place that is secure so the laptop would have to be squezed behind the seat, not the best way to carry a computer. With the posablity of WiFi I may try to get an old laptop i have back up and running.
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Post by powmia on May 22, 2007 18:14:34 GMT -9
If you are in any way affiliated with the army or dept. of defense, you could go onto Ft Wainwright and use the computer at the housing office. The room rent is not too bad either. The computer is free. I operated out of there on my cache and dash last July 4, 2006 weekend.
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Post by omgcrew on May 22, 2007 21:01:04 GMT -9
Good as in cool views/places to see. Places you wouldn't see if it wasn't for caching. Thanks.
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Post by ladybugkids on May 25, 2007 8:29:43 GMT -9
Here's a sample of caches in no particular order that will take you to a variety of places around Fairbanks. It is by no means a comprehensive list, but you can use these caches as anchors to search for nearby caches to flesh out this list.
1. Alaska Bird Observatory--Ladybug Kids' Kid Cache 2. Large Animal Research Center (Caribou & Mush Oxen)--LARS' Kitty Kache 3. Creamer's Field Migratory Bird Refuge--The Aerie 4. New Fairbanks Trail Station--Near the Rails & 1000 Copper Pennies 5. Gold Miners' Cemetery--Memorial Along the Bike Path 6. Alaskaland (Pioneer Park)--Heidi's Cache, Arctic Air Cache, Gold Rush Pioneers, Braveladd's Micro #1, Span for the Bike Path 7. Old School Building & New Police Station--Benchmark 8. Log Cabin Visitors Center--Welcome to Fairbanks!!! 9. Noel Wien Library & WiFi--Library Learning #1 10. UAF--Several Caches of which Woodriver Butte, Skarland Connection and Stumped have the best views and Not Hidden Along the Bike Path and Tiny the pig lead you to the Museum of the North 11. Alaska's Only Active Webcam--Black & White & Red All Over 12. Alyeska Pipeline--Alyeska Pipeline Earthcache and Surf the Line virtual 13. Fox Spring where locals get their water--Spring Water Cache 2 14. Chena Lake Recreation Area--Pedal Pushin's Alaska ABC Series. Flood Gate takes you to the Chena River dam. 15. Cleary Summit Views--Clear(y) View and Gold Valley 16. Pedro's Gold Discovery--Pedro's Discovery & Pedro's Elephant Ear 17. Historic Chatanika Gold Dredge--Gold Dredge No. 3 18. Murphy Dome--Blueberry Domes will put you at the end of a cache string that begins with Cache Road. 19. Chena Hot Springs Road--Lots of good caches and points of interest, some park and grabs, others requiring a good hike. There are three earthcaches out this road. 20. North Pole--Ho Ho Ho virtual will start you out right!
'nuf for now...the junior ladybugs want to go to the waterpark.
Have a good time!
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Post by themaninstripes on Jun 3, 2007 6:20:03 GMT -9
You'll have fun in Fairbanks. I have been up there two times since I started caching and both times I was unable to cache due to Track & Field state meet. That meet is next weekend at West Valley. Have a good safe trip - How could a Track and FIeld meet interfere with caching?
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Post by oleruns on Jun 3, 2007 9:25:21 GMT -9
Real easy ;D I had all the gear to put on the track meet plus I was the president of USA Track & Field in Alaska. Also, it was the first time in many moons Fairbanks hosted the state meet so there were a lot of questions. Fairbanks has done a great job hosting the meet and I am sure they are ready for it to go some place else. I think it is in Palmer for the next three years, it's a 3-year bid. I am doing more caching and less track but that is about to change again. Well, that is far more than any of you wanted to know I am sure
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