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264 Part IV — Playtime<br />

Search Patterns<br />

You might find it very hard to get a good fix so you will need to adopt some search patterns.<br />

There are two that can help:<br />

Spiral pattern search: Get to a position where you are quite close to the location given<br />

for the geocache (say, within 25 yards or so) and work your way around the area in a<br />

spiral pattern, checking possible hiding areas. This method gives you a good way to be<br />

methodical (see Figure 11-5).<br />

Crisscross or grid search: This is for areas where you can’t get a good signal close up.<br />

Get to the general area of the cache (say, within 50 yards) and start walking up and down<br />

past the area where you think the cache might be hidden. If this doesn’t reveal the cache,<br />

try again, but this time work across the area instead of up and down. Again, work<br />

methodically and take your time (see Figure 11-6).<br />

FIGURE 11-5: Spiral search pattern

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