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That the way my boss thinks. He has ten bicycles!

I use a BlackBerry Curve on Sprint with Trimble Geocache Navigator. As others pointed out, you can't use this type of app on Verizon since they lock you out of the GPS functionality.

I was in marching band in high school and in college at Cornell. I love watching DCI competitions. Was bummed that the finals competition was dropped from television. Used to be on PBS each year, then on ESPN2, and now nothing.

I think the geocaching community should immediately remove all LPCs from all KFC parking lots. That'll teach them to tow our cars!

Fall Creek suspension bridge? When I went to Cornell I lived a few blocks from that bridge. Loved walking across it. Nope, but there is a cache there two. It's actually a multi cache that requires counting features on the bridge to determine the final coordinates. It you ever get back this way there's a new puzzle cache that requires you to visit at least one cache in 8 different gorges in the area. It's rated a 4.5/4.5. Well, that suspension bridge doesn't have any lampposts that I can remember, so I should have thought of that. I'll be back in Ithaca in June 2011, so I'll try that multi cache then.

Now that's an interesting image. Even more interesting is that it seems to turn you on!

Fall Creek suspension bridge? When I went to Cornell I lived a few blocks from that bridge. Loved walking across it.

I wonder if the lamppost in Narnia has a LPC under it.

When I read the topic this is what I pictured as a scooter. LOL

Never mind. I hit refresh and the form came up. ...puzzling...

Is there a problem with that survey site? When I clicked the link the only thing there is: "Geocachers, Tell Us Your Age Please, only vote if you're a geocacher and please don't vote more than once" There is nothing else but that text.

I get it. I thought greenworldfeather's post was the original post. Deleted posts must be "fustrating." LOL

Are you asking a question? I'm not sure what you're even talking about. What is a "visual code"?

Oh yeah, that's the wave pool at my favorite water park.

It's my understanding that that does use the tower triangulation. I know it was true on my last cel, which was wa-a-ay short on any kinda other GPS capability. I think it depends on the phone and the carrier. Some use true GPS and some use triangulation. Here's an article from May 2008 Popular Mechanics that talks about this. Cell phone carriers trace you via GPS

Technically, it's not the phone that doesn't allow other apps to use the GPS. It is the provider that blocks access to the phone's GPS function. Verizon blocks apps access to the GPS; other providers may block the GPS as well. Sprint does not block access to the GPS.

I have the Trimble Geocache navigator on my BlackBerry (Sprint) and it does in fact use the GPS feature of the phone, not tower triangulation. When searching for a cache using the phone the distance to cache is as accurate as on my Garmin GPSr. The Google maps feature on the BlackBerry also uses GPS reception for map positioning, although when it can't acquire a GPS signal it resorts to tower triangulation.

You might want to think about going to a Sprint store instead of Verizon. Verizon seems to lock out the GPS functionality of a BlackBerry unless you pay to use one of Verizon's own applications. If you want to use Trimble's Geocache Navigator it will work on a Sprint Blackberry, but not on a Verizon BlackBerry. I suspect that same thing may apply to Cachemate as well.

With my BlackBerry I use both the geocaching mobile site wap.geocaching.com and the Trimble Geocache Navigator application. I far prefer the Trimble app.

Nah, not too bad. Cheap actually, as I used to buy them in bulk from Macedonean and Croatian soldiers who found them while sweeping the local areas for landmines after the Balkan War. Plus I put several hours each into cleaning them. Kind of a diversion from the standard buying cleaned coins from shops/collectors. I used to make good money at it until the advent of fleabay and cruddy coins flooded the market from eastern Europe. But I've never had anyone complain to me about leaving a Diocletian follis instead of broken McCrap. Leaving a fellow cacher with a sense of awe and the drive to cache even more is my reward. That is very cool. Thanks for posting the details on your coins.

You are actually leaving coins that are 1600-2000 years old in caches??? How valuable are these coins? Sounds pretty cool, but expensive.

Why is the Japanese monkey giving us the middle finger?

Even knowing about a regular satellite pass to point out during an observing session is fun. I was at a star party once and the host who was pointing out the different stars mentioned that U.S. satellites go north to south and that Russian satellites go south to north. Everyone went "Ooooo" and the guy said he was just kidding. It was a good joke, though.

Of course, I should have figured that acronym out myself. Duh! Last summer I found one of those. It was a magnetic number on the side of a utility box. I looked all over the thing before the "eureka" when I realized that the cache was in plain view. I thought it was a very cool idea.

I was wondering the same thing. A Google search came up with several entries that defined it as Inactivated polio vaccine. Hmmm, don't think that applies here.