gallahad

I've done some hunting, but this represents slaughter. Utterly disgusting.

I STILL keep running into Cach-u-nuts, 2 or 3 more encounters, the latest about a week ago when he zeroed in on me way up a canyon on an icy, snowy mountainside in the dark no less. Freaked us both out. It's been about a dozen times. Oh, I also continue to find drug paraphenalia, the latest a MJ pipe found in a jungle in Tahiti. UtahJean And how long will it take you to find a new neighborhood in which to reside? I'd move my trailer out of that park pretty darn quick.....

Jeremy, and crew, I too extend my thanks for the feature. I must admit that I am completely exhausted from figuring out how to make it work but the reward (like finding an evil cache) was worth the effort. Gotta love these folks....

Well, in about half an hour, it'll read intoxicated swordsman. If I can still hit the keys on this keyboard.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Another winner! Any of you moderators care to make this thread sticky so we don't get a dozen of these as people start to discover the stat button? Hey, thanks a bunch. I'm still tryin' to figure this thing out and it's drivin' me nuts. If this = page A, then this should = page B - "fun" suffix nothwithstanding. But it don't. OK, f i n a l l y - - - Now I believe I'll sit back and enjoy a glass of Johnny Walker Blue while I admire this. Thanks for the challenge.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Another winner! Any of you moderators care to make this thread sticky so we don't get a dozen of these as people start to discover the stat button? Hey, thanks a bunch. I'm still tryin' to figure this thing out and it's drivin' me nuts. If this = page A, then this should = page B - "fun" suffix nothwithstanding. But it don't.

Must concur with Tahosa and Sons. Anything hanging on the front seems, in my experience, to be in the way. The larger it is, the more it's in the way; and not simply for reaching across one's self. Accessories worn at the waist line interfere with bending and the larger they are the more the interfere. If I didn't use a back pack, I'd probably try something that I could sling over a shoulder and connect to my belt to prevent it from swinging. An old military gas mask carrier comes to mind, but I haven't seen one of those for longer than I care to remember. Take a look at a surplus store in your area and see if something in their inventory strikes your fancy.

We can't say "GPS" and "45" in the same sentence here in California. That'd generate an investigation and subsequent GPS registration laws. I got my GPS holder on eBay for five bucks, including shipping, and works quite well. I modified it by turning a cylinder on a wood lathe and mounting the holder to the top of the cylinder at a comfortable viewing angle. The cylinder fits in the cup holder. It's a double cup holder so it leaves room for the beer - errrr... soft drink can. Pretty neat.

Thank you all for the warm and informative welcome. I've obviously got a lot to learn. I used the MapSend Direct Route software. It must not have enough detail of 4wd or trials on it. I going to p/u a magellan topo. Do you if that will have the detail I'm looking for? Not sure we actually helped you very much, but if you got anything at all out of this I suppose it was worth the time. I use Mapsend but I haven't had to use it for off road yet. I'll be doing that in 29 Palms in April. Hope I have enough experience after that trip to provide a better answer to the next inquirer. Good luck with that Meridian.

I like it - and I'll take the pledge. Great idea.

Listen!!! Are those dueling banjos???? And to think that I left my Robinhood archery set at home.

Sorry Keystone, I musta read over that part. My apologies as, it is now apparent, such a feature would be essentially redundant.

Practical jokes? What a waste. Just imagine - a saute of shallots, a half dozen of them eyeballs, a little cumin.... The ayes have it. In an effort to remain on topic, I have found a few hypodermic syringes at or near cache sites, but I understand that this doesn't necessarily indicate criminal activity. Some of our geocaching associates are diabetics and, inasmuch as the syringes I find are generally capped, it is possible that a diabetic dropped the syringe while digging through their back-pack for a trade item or other goodies. (edit offered to remain on - or at least near - the center of the topic)

I couldn't look at this for any appreciable length of time without experiencing motion sickness from the gang of oscillating pencils. But I certainly do like the idea.

Try this site. It has a pdf file of the extrex manual.

Try this site and see if it has the manual you need in pdf format.

I'm not flush enough to afford the color model, but my Platinum should function fairly closely to your model. After you ignite your Meridian, press "menu" and select "map setup" from the next screen. Move the cursor to the section "detail" and see if you can set it to "high". Let me know if that doesn't work for you.

With full credit to the fact that a member can communicate with the cache approval authority to make certain special arrangements, it would seem that including a "cache release date - not earlier than xxx" would save a lot of email exchange and, perhaps, thereby reduce the workload of the approver and the member. I like the idea. Ya got my vote.

Wow!!! Thanks for the lead, Keystone. It's always great to learn creative new ways of using the vast number of files available on this site. I had been opening a "find" for a the user, then linking from that to the user page. The method you describe makes it much easier and allows for the inevitable misspelled name. Great tip.

Hmmmm. That doesn't work right. I have more finds than caches within 100 miles. I'm at 105%. Great gadzooks, beatnick; your stats make you look like a world traveler (or a truck driver) so it's no wonder you've come up with a number like that. What would happen if you eliminated all the finds outside the 100 mile radius before setting up the equation?

That's a fine description of a great hint. They make you blush with embarassment and dramatically raise your spirits. It's a beautiful thing!!

I prefer no hint at all. That's why I rarely decode them unless I've already failed after a couple of attempts. I enjoy cryptic hints, but I expect the hint to be somewhat specific and meaningful once I've figured it out. "Straight away from the tree" is, IMHO, neither cryptic nor specific. Unless, of course, there's only a single patch which leads "straight away" from the tree. I prefer not to see a hint that is so specific that it leads me directly to the cache. I consider those spoiler hints and they tend to spoil the inevitable find.

Boy, am I glad that some of you don't see where this kind of stat would prove to be very meaningful. With 2128 (minus my 4) caches within a hundred miles of me I'm running at about 4.28 percent. That's certainly not competitive. If you'll excuse me, I've gotta get the heck out of this forum and grab my GPSr. See ya...

Assuming that's the hubby standing next to you in the pic, I'd suggest you consider taking him along on your geocaching expeditions and let him carry the extraneous equipment. You can carry the GPSr in your hand, or even a pocket, and realize full and complete geocaching enjoyment with that level of freedom.

Whoa there. If English wasn't so screwed up and used consistant rules like "i before e" and there was no exception, we might stand a chance. Edit. Forget and I agree with you. I have studied several languages (Spanish, Japanese, Latin, to name a few) and I find the English language to be the most difficult of all to master. Just when we believe we're doing well, someone throws in a monkey wrench by introducing "politically correct" terminology or "like" some colloquialism that shatters the foundation of our language. Well, shucks, ya gotta figure that sum of the, like people, well - they're just not interested in talkin' like they sposed to. Perhaps we should cede from society and establish a new culture where we can seed a new language. If we could sell the idea for establishing this new cultural cell, we just might find ourselves using plain english upon an as yet undiscovered plane (that's like level ground, not like a genus of trees, nor the tool used for shaving wood, nor the kind you might see in the sky) Go figure.... (edit to correct one of them typo things)