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I found the old edition on Amazon, just FYI.

I don't understand something. Isn't a cemetery private property? I ask, because I've had caches rejected for being close to, or adjacent to private property.

You do not have to alter anything. If I see a Challenge I do not find interesting, I just don't do it. I really don't care if there's a 1000 day streak cache down the street from my house. Why do people feel they need to find everything out there. There are plenty of lamp post caches around here that I dislike even more. I don't sit here and bitch about them. I simply ignore them. Exactly. I have never understood that argument. You don't have to find everything. There is a great mechanism in place...the ignore list. Sorry, but the ignore list isn't as great as advertised. Caches can only be added to an ignore list one by one. In one of these threads someone mentioned that they had 700 challenge caches within 30 miles of their home location. Why should someone that doesn't want to find a certain type of cache have to go through the process of adding each cache, everytime a cache of that type is published? An ignore list doesn't stop notifications of new cache of a type one has no intention of finding from getting sent their email. Not only does someone have to go through the process of adding these caches to an ignore list they have to delete the 700 email message from their inbox. Then there is the simple fact that ignoring something doesn't make it go away. Ignore a cache only hides it from pocket queries, displaying on the map, etc. It doesn't stop it from impacting the game in general. Challenge caches definitely do have an impact on the game, even when some people ignore them, and that impact is not always positive. Finally, it's really easy for someone that likes a certain type of cache to tell someone else to just ignore them. However, that completely dismisses the concerns someone has about said cache type. Although on an entirely different scale it's sort of like a rich person telling a poor person to ignore the fact that they have no money and can't afford food. Your "rich person" analogy is completely false... A poor herson HAS to eat... no one HAS to seek ANY cache they prefer not to...

PQs are limited to 1000 caches, and a Premium member can only do 10 a day... so you're effectively limited to 10,000/day, at best... At that rate, it's gonna take you a considerable amount of time to load them ALL. What I've done, it use GSAK to break down the caches within 500 miles of me, into 1000 cache chunks, by the date they were hidden. Then I downloaded all those, which proved to be a much more useful list. If I plan on going further than 500 miles, I just do PQs for that specific area.

We had no idea what a "buffalo" or "bison" was when we started... thank goodness for Google! lol Also, we started with the caches all around our house, and worked outward from there when we started... now, we're trying to keep a streak alive, and we wish we had ventured further away, and left some of the closer ones for days when it's more difficult to travel...

Have you ever geocached in another country? Unless you have paid for a data plan with roaming from your service provider you're going to run up some serious data roaming charges if you attempt to use the app as you do locally. A few days of geocaching without a data plan in another country and the data roaming charges might exceed the cost of a mid range handheld GPS. An international data plan is, of course, not free. The basic plan with my carrier is $30 a month for only 120MB of data. Exceed that and you pay another $30 for every 120MB. Of course, that is on top what you pay per month already. With a handheld GPS, there is: No monthly service fee. You don't have to pay for an additional app Better battery life (almost all run off replacable AA batteries) More rugged (without having to purchase an external case) If you have a Garmin, you can get free OpenStreetMaps for just about anywhere in the world. Smart phone fans will tell us battery life can be increased with an external battery pack. Of course, that's an additional expense. A smart phone can also be made more rugged, again, with the additional expense of an external case. I have an iPhone and a Garmin Oregon and I use both for geocaching. The iphone works fine for most caching in places where I don't have to use data roaming. I will create PQs and download cache listings to the phone when I travel but I won't turn on data to download additional caches and map data in real time. When I've geocached in other countries (20 different countries on four continents so far) I use my Garmin. I download the routable open street maps for Garmin, which have worked everywhere from China, Malaysia, Europe, and Africa, and transfer pocket queries and I'm good to go. No, I have not had the pleasure of caching in another country... yet... however, I AM well aware of the added costs of using my cell in another country, so I would, in that case, most likely use my Oregon 650. I don't have to pay an additional fee to use my phone to hunt caches, it comes with the phone plan. I also didn't have to pay for an additional app, the free apps work well enough. Battery life is nearly a wash, I can run my cell all day without charging, but I also DO have an external power pack that can charge my phone as well as my tablet, which I bought for purposes other than caching. More rugged? Probably the Garmin, although I wouldn't want to drop it OR my cell on a rock, however my Galaxy S5 is fairly sturdy AND allegedly waterproof for a period of time... however, I wouldn't want to drop either into a lake to try them out. As far as maps go, I have all the maps I need pre-loaded into either the apps, or through Google on my phone...again, all free. All that being said, even though I use my phone for 95% or more of my caching, the Oregon DOES come in quite handy when the phone falls short.. IF I have the caches loaded into it! Use em both... there's no right way, or shame!

I'm 6'9", and my wife is 6'4"... which is why we hate digging through low shrubs... lol

I managed to do a 5 state road trip with no defined route with my gps. I have an Oregon 650 and used project GC and GSAK to quickly load 50,000 caches onto it. The 650 holds up to 4 million caches. I, too, have the Oregon 650... and I live in South Florida... while I know the 650 can hold 4 million caches, if I do a PQ here, with the GC limit of 1000 caches, it barely covers a 10 mile radius, or less... I'll have to investigate Project GC, and GSAK, and appreciate the tip, but it STILL sounds a lot more cumbersome than just popping on the app on my Galaxy S5. As they say, that's why they make chocolate AND vanilla...

The main advantage my Galaxy S5 has over my GPSer is that I don't have to load caches into it! I can start caching anywhere I happen to be, in any town, county, state, or country without planning ahead and running PQs and loading them up. If there's a way to avoid that with my GPSer, I'd sure like to hear it, then I would use it instead of my phone...

My wife and I use our Galaxy S5's almost exclusively, and find them to be extremely accurate under almost all conditions. We've made 99% of our finds using them, and only break out the Oregon 650 when we find ourselves downtown, or in the middle of a mass of tall trees. We've only hidden a few caches ourselves, and have used both phones, and the 650, to confirm the coords, and they've never varied by more than .002 of a degree... Love the 650, but there's nothing like the convenience of the S5 for searching, locating, logging, and adding pics to caches, at least for US.

We use both all the time! 'Murrica!

Same thing... only 2WD... and no topper...

This thread is just begging for a beaver joke...

If I can't see it from the truck window, I don't even get out and look, it gets an instant DNF... it's hot down here in Miami...

Finally... an opportunity to find out, once and for all, if a wild bear really DOES 'poop' in the woods...