beegirl13

I, too, have read of this one. I also know of one in the Scottish Highlands, near Inverness.

Looks like the cache owner disabled the cache for the winter. It will probably be back soon. Did you try asking the owner if the TB was in the cache when they took it out of commission?

Didn't find the cache In my log I did ask if anyone in the area could move the bug for you. Sorry I couldn't be more help. I guess I could try again next time I go by there, but it might be about a month with final exams, etc. Hopefully someone will come along in the meantime.

Still planning to try to rescue this TB on Thursday. I'll try my best, but there are 2 problems that I am seeing right now: 1. I have recently discovered that I am actually quite bad at caching when alone. I never realized how much I relied on my caching partner until he wasn't nearby. 2. From what I have seen on the news, parts of Crossville don't really exist anymore. Bad storms (possible tornados, haven't heard anything official yet) hit the area last Friday. I guess I'll see when I get there if the cache is accessible and present. Cross your fingers for me!

I had a cache approved in a similar situation. At first it was not approved, because I had neglected to explain it properly to the reviewer (and had forgotten to change my zip code after I moved 700 miles south!). My parents live about 100 miles from me and I visit them at least once a month. I explained this to the reviewer, pointed out that I had found some caches nearby, and assured him that if I was unable to get to the cache within a reasonable amount of time when alerted to a problem, my dad or brother knew where it was and could check on it. He was happy to approve the cache after I clarified the situation. YMMV, especially since Hershey (PA, I assume) is a lot more than 100 miles away from MI.

Looking at my handle, I am obviously not male, but my boyfriend shares this account and he became an Eagle Scout in 1997. I always thought since he was a Scout, he'd know things like knots and stuff. So when I saw him tying the canoe to his Jeep I asked what knot he was using. He said he had just made up the knot and they didn't really learn stuff like that from their leaders. From the stories he tells, it appears that his troop were the delinquents of the area (though not as bad as some others) and mostly spent their time at large gatherings being pyromaniacs and running underpants up flagpoles. It all sounded like great fun, and somewhere along the way he did pick up some good outdoors skills. His Eagle Scout project was restoring an old cannon in one of the parks in our small town. The hole would have been great for a micro or small cache. Alas, in his restoration he was forced to close it up because people had been using it to stash drugs in.

I'm going by Crossville on my way west to Middle TN (an hour east of Nashville) for Easter. I can try to swing by there if nobody's gotten it by then. Have you tried contacting the cache owners? There's an event tomorrow and Sunday (yeah sort of short notice) in East TN and lots of people will be exchanging TBs to take in all directions there. Not sure if the cache owners will be in attendance, but it's worth a shot.

Thanks for the input so far. One bump back up to the first page and then I'll let this one go. I'll probably end up taking the whole shebang to the event this weekend to see if there are any technical people there that can help me figure this out or just tell me to get a different cable.

Thanks for the continued help. I got this laptop (Dell Inspiron 600m) specifically because it has all the old connections. I have a lot of old equipment (parallel printer and zip drive, for instance). This is indeed a true serial port, no converter used.

According to the computer, Com3 is the modem, Com1 is serial (I'm assuming this because Com3 is called a virtual port, and Com1 is called a serial port by Easy Gps, and under device manager in Windows Com3 is the only port indicated as being "in use" when looking at advanced com port settings). I tried using both Com1 and Com3 on EasyGPS and both said the serial port could not be opened when I selected "display GPS information".

I’ve read and searched everything I could get my hands on in the forums, and it seems a lot of people have had this problem but none of the solutions that worked for them have worked for me. I have an Etrex Camo and had been entering waypoints manually until recently when a kind geocacher showed me that that funny flappy thing on the back was hiding a cable connection. Yay! No more painstaking manual entry! I got a cable on Ebay (9-pin, not USB) and downloaded GSAK. Tried to send newly downloaded waypoints to the GPSr, and kept getting an error (ERROR CreateFile: access is denied. GARMIN: can’t init COM1). After some playing with settings, nothing. Researched in the forums and did the Hyperterminal test. I got the error message “Another program is using the selected telephony device”. I’ve never used this port before except for this GPSr. No PDA, nothing. Brand new Dell laptop running Windows XP, device manager says the port is working fine. The only other COM port on the system is COM3, used by my internal modem. I also tried detecting the GPSr with EasyGPS, but that couldn’t open COM1 either. GPSr is is Garmin mode (except when testing with Hyperterminal), port set to various settings, both default and settings suggested in the forums. I also tried cleaning the cable and GPSr connections with a pencil eraser. I’ve restarted the computer numerous times with GPSr both on and off. 1. How do I find out what other program, if any, is using this port? 2. Could it be the cable? I've been pretending the cable is fine all this time because I don't want the hassle of trying to exchange it. I don’t have another computer to test this on, but it seems unlikely that the port is bad. Thanks for reading this, and I will check back in whenever I can to get feedback and answer any questions.

Why were you digging in the dirt? No such thing as a buried cache, you know...

23, still in college. Why I put myself through all this school, I don't know. Boyfriend is 26 and has the sense to work at an actual job. I got started by a friend in undergrad who is also 23, who got started by a geography grad student who was about 24 at the time. Sometimes I take my brother with me. He's 20. There, now you have your young people

I'm not from Colorado, nor do I download waypoints (I'm a simplistic kinda gal), so I don't quite know how to answer this question. But to help others figure out which caches Skye tried, I plugged them into Google Earth to match them up to cache pages. "N 40° 02.941 W 105° 02.720 UTM: 13T E 496133 N 4433198 W 1mi from your home coordinates. or convert to NAD27 at Jeeep.com 45 minutes at that one." This one is here "N 40° 01.034 W 105° 02.456 UTM: 13T E 496506 N 4429670 S 2.5mi from your home coordinates. or convert to NAD27 at Jeeep.com 30 minutes at that one" This one is here "N 40° 00.546 W 105° 16.405 UTM: 13T E 476664 N 4428803 W 13.3mi from your home coordinates. or convert to NAD27 at Jeeep.com Literally hours on this one." And this one is here. Looks like a wide range of difficulties, from a 1/1 to a 4/3. Sorry I didn't use the "real" quote thingy, but I think you can tell which are things Skye said and which are things I've said.

Good! Our profession needs more of those. I'm a veterinary student. That doesn't really support my geocaching habit- the student loans do. I'll have to pay it all back someday

I thought geocaching was the real purpose of GPS technology

I don't know about anyone else (stickmonkey included) but I read your log as I got it in my email, as the bug is on my watchlist. I read it before stickmonkey even placed his reply. In your log you said something to the effect of "I will remand this bug to a dark corner". This, to me, is the part that hinted that you didn't intend to move it along anytime soon, if at all. In disbelief, I pasted your reply to my caching partner over IM, and he read the same into it. Even if you never expressly said it in those words, it appeared as if you were just going to toss it aside and if you got around to it, maybe you'd set it free, maybe you wouldn't. I thought maybe I was reading it wrong, but I think stickmonkey (and possibly others) read it that way too. I never saw the part in your log where you said "even if I don't agree with the philosphy behind this TB I will move it along anyway because it's part of the game". It was all very ambiguous and just going by your original log without all the replies or quotes by stickmonkey, things did not look good for the bug.

I'm glad things are (sort of) working out for your bug. Hopefully the next person to pick it up will be more hospitable and move it far, far away.

My second cache, The Other Side was hidden over Labor Day Weekend 2005 and hasn't been found yet, though I have had one inquiry about where to rent a boat in the area. I think it's a better quality hide than my first. I just can't wait for someone to find it so I can see what someone without a biased opinion thinks.

A lot of people like to watch the caches that require the logs to be tall tales or creative lies. After logging one of these cache's I've had someone from across the country who never visited the cache email me and comment on the story I told. Watching one of those caches is like getting a surprise short story in your inbox every time the cache is found. Great fun for all!

I got my very first GPSr- the one my mom got my dad for Christmas a couple years ago and he never used. No more borrowing. It's mine now! I also got my ferret and I a nice retractable leash so he can be my new caching partner. He should provide for good cover if muggles are around, since he loves rooting around in piles of leaves and sticks anyway.

I've been caching about 2 years. I have 2 painted turtles, some guppies, a cat and a ferret. I just got the ferret in July, and plan to start taking him caching now that I got my own GPS for Christmas. I moved far away from my hometown and my caching partner in August, so now maybe Zorro the ferret can be my new partner!

If people like to make fires nearby, maybe rocks are better than sticks for camo. I hid my first cache under a nice piece of bark and some sticks, but then some pyromaniac teenagers came by looking for things to make a fire with. Of course the bark looked great to them, and presto! they found the cache. Ended up burning the log book and scattering the contents of the cache everywhere, stealing a TB in the process. I had seen signs of fires in the area, but they looked old and I never would have thought about people hunting for firewood. I guess sometimes you have to think like a muggle to protect your caches.

Though I don't have many finds, I have a couple favorites already. My favorite cache is Multiplicity because it led to my first hide. I had never heard of a cache like this before and thought it was pretty cool. My favorite cache experience was on my second find ever. I was hunting Royalton Ravine with my two favorite people in the whole world, and we got "lost" (more like off track) like we always do. Then, of course, a sudden rain/thunder storm came along as SV and I were climbing up a steep drainage ditch and Joe was nowhere to be found. He thought he had found a better way, so we yelled back and forth and finally found him across a creek. There was no bridge nearby, so we (being soaked by then anyway) walked across the creek and found the cache on the other side. Keep in mind that this was not in the wilderness but in a town park fairly close to civilization. Come to think of it, my favorite memories with these two people always seem to involve sudden rainstorms...*sigh* Now I miss them both- we all live in different states now.

Hey, sometimes those electrical outlets can be useful!