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GrnXnham

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  1. Side 1---tumbleweed Side 2---telephone pole Now THAT'S North Dakota. BTW, I'm from Montana.
  2. I'm sure this has probably been answered here somewhere but I haven't seen it. Why are some states coins trackable on the geocaching.com site and others not. I just got a few Alaska coins. Apparently they are not trackable on geocaching.com. Now I see that the Maryland and New Jersey coins that will be coming out soon ARE trackable on geocaching.com. I followed the design of our Washington state geocoin closely last year. I remember that someone (Moun10bike I think) talked to Jeremy about making the WA coin trackable and it was decided that none of the State coins would be trackable because there are too many of them and it would be too many for the servers to track or something like that. What has changed? Are all State coins from now on going to be trackable? Why some states and not others? I even saw some coin called the Geowoodstock coin that's trackable. I'm guessing that must be some event coin. How about personal coins--are they trackable? Like I said, this must have been discussed earlier but I just missed it. Any info on this? Thanks
  3. I have version 3.10 Should I upgrade? It doesn't seem to have any problems or bugs. Do I get any new features going from 3.10 to 3.70?
  4. I prefer to use "Roads and Recreation" software on my Legend. The Legend only has 8MB of memory and no auto routing and R&R takes up less memory than Metroguide or City Select. It is however older and less accurate but by comparison I can only get about three counties on the Legend using City Select but I can get 1/2 the state of WA on the Legend using R&R. R&R is also more accurate than City Select on the back roads like Forest Service roads but worse in the city.
  5. While I agree that the cache owner is a *edit*, I would never steal someone's cache to "get even." This just leads to the breakdown of the integrity of our game. It's always good to be a bigger person than the *edit* who deleted your log and simply forget about it and move on.
  6. So how do I create a GPX file of all of my finds?
  7. Good choice! We've had a Legend for a couple of years now.
  8. The eTrex Legend is the best value for under $150 IMHO. It's also one of the most popular models these days. It seems like about 50% of other geocachers we run into own a Legend.
  9. I just did a search and there is no Project Ape cache in Atlanta or even in Georgia for that matter. The only three I could find are in Washington, Maryland, and Illinois. What did you find in Atlanta? Is it a Project Ape cache that has been archived?
  10. It appears that there are only three Project Ape caches left that haven't been archived or changed to traditional caches. My brother lives near Chicago and he plans to go looking for the one near there soon. He already found the Ape Cache out here in the Puget Sound area when he was visiting us last summer. I think the third Ape Cache is on the East coast. Just curious: Are there any cachers out there with 2 Project Ape caches logged? Does anyone have all three?
  11. A dab of dielectric compound on each contact cured this problem for me.
  12. We have purchased both of our GPSr's from getagps.com No problems. Great prices.
  13. How about just putting a smiley face on each printed cache page as we find it? Seems simple enough. It's worked so far.
  14. I have a 100% proven fix Dielectric grease I put a dab of this grease on each battery terminal before installing the battery. It has never turned off due to vibration since and that includes having the GPSr mounted on my quad and dirtbike and riding on bumpy trails. I use dielectric grease on my Garmin 60C also. Wrapping black electrical tape around the batteries helped some but it was not as good as dielectric grease. You can find it at any auto parts store. Cheap too. Also called dielectric compound or terminal grease.
  15. 1) True. My quad helix outperforms my patch 2 out of three times. 2) True under tree cover. Can't verify the canyon thing. 3) not sure 4) not sure
  16. I have the 60C and the Legend (grayscale version) The quad helix antenna inside the 60C is superior to the patch antenna in the various legend models most of the time especially in heavy tree cover. Also, the processor speed is much faster in the 60C than the Legend. However, I am unsure if the processor speed in the Legend C is faster than my grayscale Legend.
  17. Geocaching has brought my wife and I closer together.
  18. What about the fun of NOT knowing whether it is an ammo box or whether there is a great view associated with the cache? Haven't you ever found a cache and then went "Wow! I didn't expect such an awesome view!" or "What a cool container! I thought it would be an altoids tin!" Doesn't the mystery make it more fun?
  19. A couple of weeks ago, after a full day of geocaching in the woods, I pulled a tick off of the back of my neck. It had it's head dug-in fairly well. I was very surprised, given the fact that February in western Washington is not the tick season. I guess you can get them any time of the year and we had walked through a lot of thick brush that day. Plus, the weather has been warm. Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up that ticks can be out there right now and it may not hurt to check each other out after a day of geocaching in the woods even this early in the season. Go here for info on prevention and removal of ticks: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/rmsf/Prevention.htm
  20. I found a tick dug into me a couple of weeks ago. Is that a bad injury?
  21. Nah, animals don't like peanut butter, and the thiamine mononitrate found in most peanut butters actually masks the odor completely to all animals other than humans, chimpanzees, dolphins, and most birds. So unless your cache is underwater, or in an area with chimps, peanut butter is a perfectly safe food to leave. Its the one exception to the "no food in caches" rule. Okay
  22. Totemlake When I asked if you were joking, I meant when you were actually trying to justify the three "hints" that I listed as actually being helpful hints. I thought you had to be joking because I don't believe anyone would seriously think that those three hints provide any useful information to help you find the cache. We have just as much fun out there as the next guy. We've been doing this for two years now and we would have quit long ago if we weren't having fun. It's really just a minor irritation. It doesn't ruin our day or anything. Like I said in my original post I wasn't looking for a solution to this. The solution is obvious. I'm just trying to understand what people are thinking when they leave a hint like this. Someone suggested that the cache hider might be trying to be humorous with a hint like this. I think this is the answer exactly. Many people might think that others will laugh when they decrypt a hint with no useful info. They probably think they are being original by having a hint that isn't a hint. I have noticed that newbies are more likely to have hints like this. They don't reallize how common these non-hints are and, of course, everyone would LIKE to be a comedian, right?
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