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Plucker, Spinner, Mapsource. I thought it couldn't get any better, and now you're telling me I need Watcher? Be still my beating heart

Congratulations Now, don't tell me it was a 5 star difficulty and 5 stare terrain or I'll start to cry

OK, ethical dilemma question. I carry a handful of geocaching.com stickers around in my cache pack when I go out. When I see an unlabeled container, whether it's tupperware or ammo box, I slap a sticker on it. So far I haven't done this to a container with any sort of artsy cammo job on it, but I'm wondering if I'm altering the find experience for people by doing this.

Couple of points on your "wish list". They make a dual PC/Car Adapter cable that I highly recommend. Just a personal thing, but I get tired of sorting out the myriad of cables that litter my house. The installed 8 mb card is sufficient to start out with. The only purpose of the card is to store more maps. The onboard 8 mb is sufficient to probably cover your area unless you live in a highly detaile metropolitan area (i.e. Chicago, LA, NYC). If you do upgrade I wouldn't bother with the nickel and dime approach of just 16 mb. I went for topping out the unit at 128 mb. I can download all the Central Coast and Sierras with that much room. Also, the upgrade on memory has no effect on the number of waypoints you can download; it still tops out at 500 (which is still alot). When you're ready for the "next level", get yourself a cheap PDA (like a used Palm Proffessional) to download the cache pages. Pure caching bliss with that combination .

quote:Originally posted by Cupajo:Yay! Another thread about priates! Thank God! It's been, what, a whole fourteen minutes since the last one? What's a priate? Some kind of fish?

Wow! Great deal on the emap. You can probably turn around and sell it on ebay for twice that amount if it's working. I've got the emap and it's held up great. If you decide to keep it, you can probably pick up the PC cord pretty cheap on ebay. The external antenna and data card will set you back though. I've never seen those items for very cheap.

Where did you guys have these thing minted? Or maybe I don't want to know. Wooden nickels sound cheaper

I've had good luck with eBay and Paypal on two occassions. Usually the threat of closing a persons account is sufficient, but they do offer additional guidance for legal action.

It says .37 cents in the post title, but .50 in the actual post. Did the USPS raise their rates again

I had a similar thing happen to me with Road Kill TB. There was a gap in the log, and it had been, I don't know, a few weeks, so I just logged her in and figured that we'd sort it out later. No word from whoever placed it in the cache that I found it in.

The needle in the cork thing I've seen used before. The drawback is the needle is not very secure in the cork and can slip out. Wouldn't recommend cutting the syringe (that comes from OSHA regulations) Coke bottle OK, Chlorox bottles a bit thicker, but not foolproof. Screwtop Nalgene bottle would probably be thick enough. If it's just the little diabetic syringes you're talking about the first two will probably work. If it's a standard needle in the 25 gauge or larger, then you risk having the container punctured in transit. Not very realistic carrying Sharps Container around for a couple of reasons. There's no way to temporarily close any of the containers I work with. They are designed to close once and lock down. And they're extrememly bulky. Throwing needles in trash a pretty big NO NO! OSHA regulations on the personal disposal of needles is not addressed directly (they only pertain to medical offices/hospitals etc). My buddies at our local biomedical waste hauler tell me though, there'd be heck to pay if a garbage collector got a needle stick. On the issue of how long virus's and the like survive in the environment: my take on it is I don't know how long the syringe/needle has been sitting there and besides, there's stuff in everyday dirt that can kill ya (i.e. tetanus). The bottom line: Universal Precautions when collecting any kind of trash.

Still the same way, it looks to me. From the homepage, pull down the State, press go. At the top of the next page for that state is a link to the State map. Is that what you mean?

Great news! Hard to imagine what Mom and Dad were going through (not to mention you).

Boy, let me know if you find it. I was out caching on Friday at Ft. Ord, CA (abandoned by the Army a few years ago, now BLM) and was trying to navigate off my old Topo CD stuff. Problem is that so many trails have been constructed since the CD came out that it was getting hard to know where the trails went.

The fake sprinkler head I've heard of and have been considering for a multi I'm conjuring up. But how do they keep it from being removed by the maintenance type people?

Put the #13 on it with a black cat and release on Halloween

quote:Originally posted by Doc-Dean: quote:Originally posted by Kealia:We've also done iron on t-shirts for FTF and a few Kealia Geo-Shrinky Dink keychains. Geo-Shrinky Dinks???? How cool!! I didn't know they still make shrinky dinks! Come leave some in Florida, will ya? --------------------------------------------------- Free your mind and the rest will follow http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung/aktion/action-smiley-076.gif what does your shrinky-dink stuff look like? Don't you have to bake that stuff? Does it smell up the house pretty bad?

quote:Originally posted by Team DEMP:The http://www.garmin.com/products/emap/spec.html doesn't list WAAS as a feature on that GPSr. Bummer Then again, I didn't know what I was missing before reading this thread. Ignorance is bliss, which is the way I cache most of the time .

LOVE THE MAPS! They are way cool. Three thing though: 1. It would be nice to loose the archived caches. Not much use to have the icon for something that's not there. 2. On the "identify" part of the program, it would be nice to be able to have the download checkbox like on the search pages (in GPX format for my PDA). This feature would also come in handy if I Pan a route and download sections along a Hwy or trail. 3. Also would be helpful to identify my caches as "mine" so I don't download something I've already been to; or conversely just remove them altogether. Even without the above, I'd still use this feature alot. Mucho Gusto to Jeremy and TPTB

Woa! Some seriously scary looking avatars on this thread! Kealia, I saw the change on another thread and thought, "What the heck is going on with that?". I do identify alot of the posts with the avatar's. I'll skim through the threads just to find those avatar's I can trust to have the pithy comments. Bring back Gollum! The other one (and I know whom you mean) was pretty lame anyway. BTW: Jr. T and I are going to hit a few of the S.C./S.V. caches today so we'll be looking out for the much sought after Kealia signature items. Unfortunately, don't have time to watch "Amy" to decipher your puzzle cache

On a related idea....Are you supposed to move signature items on like TB's when you find them? We found one of BladeCarvers cool signature ceramic animals in a little burlap bag. It's currently camped out on our mantle, but I was thinking of starting a knick-knack shelf of the signature items we find. I have to admit, it's pretty cool to find this stuff.

This may sound like a stupid question, but how do you tell if you're picking up the WAAS signal? Someone mentioned the icon bars on an eTrex. I've got an eMap, would the screens look similar?

I echo the above comments. I have a Palm Professional that I got from my Brother-in-law when he upgraded. I use Plucker and Spinner and it works great. The only limitation that I've run into is the memory requirements for the cache descriptions. I can only get about 200-250 caches loaded on the Palm at a time. Still pretty neat to whip out the Palm and buzz through the description at a moments notice. Sure beats carrying around a bunch of paper.

"Look at this detail - Wow!" I'm impressed!

Yep! You sure can find the unexpected on the cache trail. I came across a little shrine when out caching once on the east side of the Sierra. Didn't know who or what it was, but it was obviously cared for and much loved. Nice to bump into stuff like that and pay respects, even if I didn't know who it was.