Ry and Ny

I've found this one to be quite enjoyable: Duplicate Bridge Tournament

Also, don't hesitate to hit up http://www.wi-geocaching.com to find more people in your area to cache with and/or learn from. That site even breaks the state down into regions, although Oshkosh (where we're at) seems to be right on the map fold between Northeast and Southeast.

I started with a Palm m125 that I got on Ebay for about $20 shipped. After a while the touch screen stopped working. I moved up to a Dell Axim (Windows Moble 3SE). I prefer the looks and features of Cachemate on the Windows machine, but YMMV.

Testing for radon.

In East Central, WI, I'm seeing upwards of 15 new caches a week within 20 mi. of my location. It's getting to where I'm becoming quite concerned that there won't be a decent site available at all when I decide to hide one.

The T3 runs on PalmOS, so that's the one you'd want.

LOL...I just looked back and saw that the PQ was only "not found" so it wasn't updating the GSAK database properly.

When I run a new PQ from gc.com and then use GSAK to load it into my computer, I see that GSAK does update the status of my "Found it!" logs, but when I load it all into my Garmin GPSMap60C, all of those caches I've found now revert back to their original status. Is there a way to get it to recognize them as found?

Not sure why WSR keeps dancing around answering the question, but I have 2 things to say: 1. RK *did* answer the question and mtn-man doesn't get it apparently. 2. I'm not sure what the criteria here are for getting moderation priveleges, but every last other place that I am and have been a moderator, baiting for argumentative responses has never been one of them. Now, as this continues and the moderation here continues to bait WSR while refusing to close the topic, would anyone else care to bet on who gets the "you need to stop contributing to this topic" email or the forum suspension?

Except it was an LPC.

Also, serial connections are going to be s...l....o...w. You do have to go pretty far back, though, to find something that doesn't work with USB. The Ebay listing should tell you the connection method.

When someone's trying to give you directions and you shush them and tell them to just give you the coordinates. When you're interviewing a job candidate and you chide them for listing their college minor, accusing them of "multilogging". When someone's doing some hoity-toity namedropping at a party, you look at them with a conspiratorial smile and wink as you say "Ahhh...Terracacher, eh?" You almost get arrested before you can explain to the officer that your answer of "FTF" to the question of why you were going so fast DOESN'T involve a synonym for "fornicate".

Yes. Cheap is fine. Mine's a Palm m125 I got for less than $20 shipped to my door on eBay. I also use GSAK and Cachemate.

I got a Palm m125 for less than $20 on eBay and it works great.

It's amusing how every online community I've ever been a part of has someone who feels the need to say that--except for the ones where people truly are sticking to the discussion instead of questioning the poster. For some reason, they never feel the need to clarify this in those places. Perhaps I shouldn't have used the word "tone", as it allows you to compare it to the unmoderated kerosene pools that are out there. Congrats on rising above that.

A premium membership and Pocket Queries will allow you to do this. EDIT: It took me all of a week to buy into a Premium Membership for a year for this very reason.

Yep...only been here 3 weeks and I'm already a bit put off with the tone of this online community, always assuming that a poster is trying to push some hidden agenda. For me, I'm learning the ropes. I might piss a few people off, I might make some friends. I'll never be pushing an agenda obliquely and I'll do my best to assume others are not doing that either. Now, an honest, agenda-free question: If a commercial site is already a waymark, does that automatically exempt it from the applicable guideline or does that just weigh heavily in its favor when an exemption is asked for?

To summarize the facts, without any speculation on the motives of any players, the following appear to be 100% correct without argument: 1. Yes, the cache does appear to violate the guidelines. It's virtually impossible to argue otherwise. 2. The guidelines allow for exceptions from TPTB. 3. The owner states that an exception was made, both from the reviewer and his/her superiors. Pretty much anything else, from the OP's motivation to whether this was made as an exception or an oversight appear to be unconfirmable at this point. I'm not sure in any way shape or form whether it is normally the policy of TPTB to announce their reasoning for an exception that gets this much attention or not, but the following statement is interesting: Interestingly enough, this is the best reason to not offer up the reasoning. If those wanting to petition for exceptions of their own had this reasoning to work with, then, in theory everyone would be able to successfully lobby for an exception because they'd know the criteria to get around the guideline, thus rendering the guideline pointless. Now, all of the above being said, the only thing I'm really itching to hear is TPTB describing the situation or declining to elaborate. Not because I have any stake in the outcome or that it will affect me either way, but like gof1, I'm interested in the solution to the mystery.

Having worked in assisted living facilities for about 10 years during my younger days, I have to say it's very seldom that I have run across a person who has a cane or arm crutches due to a significant, long term loss of ambulatory ability who does not also have a wheelchair specifically for situations such as these that require mobility for extended periods of time or include terrain that is not condusive to using canes or crutches. I'm not saying it never happens, but it's pretty unusual. For those with heart and/or breathing issues, the Google Maps function in combination with the wheelchair accessible icon should give someone a pretty good idea of what is or is not going to be achievable. For the very small minority where that may be the case, the aforementioned Waymarking.com offers a good alternative.

I'm not sure what you're asking here, but there are plenty of caches out there that are handicapped accessible. There's even an attribute to select for that specific situation. That being said, it almost sounds like what you're describing is a "virtual cache", where you wouldn't even be hiding an actual dontainer, but instead would be saying something like "send me a photo of you with your GPSr next to the sculpture to log the find." Those types of "caches" are no longer listed on geocaching.com, but can be found and listed on Waymarking.com. Either way, there are plenty of ways to enjoy the hobby regardless of the personal challenges you face!

Yeah, well, with my "girlish figure" (Ny speaking, the big fuzzy one on the profile picture--Ry is actually rather petite), it's going to be some time before I play with some hardcore terrain.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to come across as belittling the perceived need for an expansion card. For what I'm guessing the majority of cachers will actually use (not load up, but actually use) on a regular basis, I think the expansion card is a luxury rather than a necessity. Your mileage may vary, of course. I just found that, for my needs, since GC.com will track what I've found or not found, I don't even come close to needing an expansion card.

You might be limited to the number of caches you can stuff yourself into. Ammo cans just won't do.

I work for a promotional products distributor, or, more specifically, a promotional products franchisor. I get swag like this coming through my office like you wouldn't believe. A number of our suppliers will send stuff with our logo as samples. If I were to place a cache and yes, I do work for the company that's on the swag, are you saying that would be bad form? It's not my goal to advertise the company (we don't actually sell the stuff, we sell franchises to people who do want to sell the stuff), but just to put some cool swag in a container.

I got a 60C on the cheap from eBay. I was somewhat concerned at first about the lack of an expansion card, but after downloading every map withing 250 miles of my location and the closest 300 caches from my location and still having over half the internal memory left over, I'm not sure what the need is for an expansion card. Sure, it'd be nice to have the entire US loaded up and ready to go on a whim, but gawd, if I ever get too lazy to reset to a vacation destination or display caches along a route, I think I'm in the wrong hobby to start with.