Dan

This looks like a perfect example of why it's important to explain the late logging or atleast get the date right: Cummings Lake T-Bug Stop Looking at past logs, you will see that about a year ago, the cache stopped getting finds until the owner disabled it. Now, last week, Hamster101 logged a find. The owner now thinks the cache isn't lost afterall and re-enables the listing. It's my bet that Hamster101 is a member of TheFunFamily who was one of the first finders back in 2005. I'm guessing that Hamster101 just got their own account and is logging all (ten or so ,archived or not) caches they found together because those two accounts have the same "Found" list of caches. Also some of the funfamily logs mention that Hamster101 is along with them. Anyway, we now have a probable missing cache re-enabled because of a new smiley that was not explained or researched.

I like finding a place that has something so interesting or beautiful that finding the cache is the least remembered part of the hunt.

Jerky has packets usually containing a mixture of iron and water to remove oxygen. They do not use moisture absorbing silica.

Are there six other cache containers leading to the finale? If so, just attatch a permanant "letter=number" sign in each one.

I just use my name. It's easy to remember!

Hi and sorry for such a late reply. Most folks (that post) here frown on the cgeo app because it bypasses the advertising revenue among other things. The official Geocaching app or a GPS unit loaded for geocaching is of course reccomended. That being said, try this: On the opening screen, choose "Any Destination" and replace your current coords in the two boxes with the desired coords. Press Menu and choose either "Compass" or "Navigate". That should get you on the way to your next stop. Hope this helps!

Good luck!

I understand that the work-around (literally) is simple. That's not the point. A possible alternative here: http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/tr...escrollzoom.htm Thanks for the replies so far. I look forward to the "For Dummies" guide! Is it really so wrong to want to be so pro-choice?

Thanks for the pointer that it is a Google Maps thing. Apparently, people like me have been annoyed since 2007. Other forums and blogs also show a similar 2:1 annoyance vs. nifty feature opinion ratio. The newer version (3) of the Google Maps API turns it off by default. I hope that this thread doesn't collapse into the silly flame wars I've seen on the subject elsewhere.

Does the google map have to hijack my cursor for it's evil zooming purposes? Suddenly changing the wheel's funtion on mouseover is not a normal web page navigation behavior. All I want to do is mousewheel scroll to the bottom of the cache page.

I wonder if a Novus type repair could fix a star crack on one of these?

Maybe something inside the cache like the old trick with a button on a wound-up rubber band inside an envelope labled as rattlesnake rattles.

I saw a Cachermobile a few days ago near Kalama...

Pierce County checking in. I hope you don't mind. We made today's front page news on our company's CITO event in Roy. That's me in the loader! CITO wouldn't be complete without CI so, during a break, I found a perfect hiding place for Roy's Run-a-Muck cache, placed by my team Kfam. Check it out if you're in the neighborhood!

Everytime I drive through this town I think: Welcome to Tenino...Don't Kill our Hookers!

Not if 180 degrees makes any difference to you. This arrow looks like it would point where the wind is coming from, not where it's blowing to.

Did someone say RACE? Are you suggesting perhaps forming a couple of casual premier teams to represent their countries? Add this to some media coverage and we could be on the brink of something here!

I think the forums are MUCH better. By limiting page loads and postings to just a few per hour, people are thinking about what they post instead of popping off a couple dozen worthless tidbits. Quality over quantity can be a good thing. K.I.S.S.

I'm no expert on these things. If it were mine, I'd play play with the things that are different. Things like having never been in the hands of another or having never been retrieved from a cache. Search the forums for discussions about others who have used a TB as a personal track-mapper for their caching travels, see if they have had troubles. Maybe try changing things in the map link url. Good luck. K.I.S.S.

When navigating, how does your thought process work? Are you an auto-rotate or North-oriented person? When given a destination, do you prefer a route sequence or do you visualize a grid or map? Do you follow the arrow, project points with bearings, watch the numbers? Do these processes change with familiarty of the area? Is this a right brain-left brain thing? Are some traits predominant in one gender over the other? Having a profession that requires finding places many times a day, I often meet people who insist giving directions, keeping the actual address a secret. My mind doesn't do as well with 'Left at the store, up the second hill and it's the driveway after the big rock' directions. I usually have a good sense of direction. It's been suggested that the size of my nose, with all that iron rich blood, creates a magnetic field making a built-in compass. Always trying to hone my skills, more insight on how people get around certainly couldn't hurt. So tell me, how do you think? K.I.S.S.

Not long ago I asked a similar question and was given links to some interesting planning software. K.I.S.S.

Our GPS birds are not geostationary. They are on different orbits,cris-crossing overhead all the time. I'm still researching but a guess would be that there could be ,say, 8 to 15 visible on my side of the horizon, always coming and going. If planning a trip into tree cover, knowing a time when all 15 are there might make a difference in even getting a signal. Does anyone know if these planning tools go by just the number of sats that should be visible, or do they also figure optimal spread or health of the satellites? K.I.S.S.

Thanks for re-railing my thread! Those are just what I was asking about. Has anyone used them? I doubt that it would dramatically improve the successful hunt rate. I thought this might make another fun hi-tech toy to play with in my arsenal. K.I.S.S.

Has anyone thought about making prediction tables for optimal satellite constelation times? Seems like they'd have something like that along with the best time to hunt & fish accessories. K.I.S.S.

Does anybody know when the kids go back to school? K.I.S.S.