Roland_oso

Actually which ever way you have it set is how it is going to appear. Yours is set to nearest so it shows the 50 nearest. But, Once you switch it over to find by name, it will stay that way until you change it back. In the find by name mode it will list all the caches in order by name, numeric first then alpha.

Multi-Cache! Multis Rock!

What happens when pathtags become more popular than geocoins purely because they are more economically feasible for more cachers to design, produce, and collect? Then can we talk about them?

The main thing to consider and take care of through contact@geocaching.com is to make sure there is not an auto renewal for premium membership set up. The last thing his wife will need is a $30 charge popping up.

Yep, a multi would have been the ticket. More multis need to be placed IMHO.

I understand the concerns of the reviewer and there are ways to place such a cache without digging a hole, but I seriously think you underestimate your fellow Texas cachers when you state that it will get less than 12 finders a year. Even if it's in the middle of nowhere TX, lots of cachers in Texas cover a lot of ground playing this game. Just saying......... Cool hide by the way!

Wow, I have wanted to see this for some time. I sound like such a snob just after 8:00 min into the film when I confess I like to cache by my self during the segment talking about the community aspect of caching. But it is true, I prefer to cache alone. It's my "ME" time.

That unit will work fine. I teach Geocaching for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept and that is the same unit that the they have for me to use. I however would strongly suggest looking at the GPSMap 60CSx and see if you can find a comparable deal.

Tree growing around a pipe!

Sweeps Weeks on Groundspeak?

I would suggest individual listing for each project. It’s a little more work that way but each project deserves its own cache page. Have a look at my pages I have created thus far and I think you can see what attention each project deserves. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...d9-8d0cd310a9a3 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...12-9496b0e444c8 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...87-4c78445f3745

60CSx will provide turn-by-turn directions if you get the additional maps. I think the current map software is City Navigator® North America NT Available Formats: Download ($ 99.99 USD) microSD™/SD™ card ($ 99.99 USD) DVD ($ 99.99 USD)

I've never had any problem with the camo tape sticking to any container I've put it on. Plastics Metal Wood All worked just fine.

There are currently 50+ caches in the park now and there is an active effort to make sure those caches are maintained for the up coming 2010 Texas Challenge to be held on March 13th. You should have plenty to choose from on your visit.

Upcoming Houston area caching events: November 9 You Can't Tie Your Alligator to a Fire Hydrant!!! November 11 Club UFO: Veterans Day December 1 HGA: Happy Holidays

The problems I have been seeing with getting projects to highlight in a Cache to Eagle series is the proximity to existing caches. In one case the pavilion erected for the project already had a cache hidden on it! LOL

The main thing to consider is by placing it this time of year, what will the foliage be like in the lush of Springtime? What would be a clear line of sight from point to point might not be so later. This is something I have learned from setting up night caches.

In our modern world of lawsuits and liability, the first reaction of most muggle landowners and organizations will be to ban and prohibit geocaching. The only thing we can do is to use existing examples of organizations that have embraced our hobby and show them that caching can be beneficial to their cause.

I did this myself at the beginning of the month. Pulpy Mess

Same here. When I first started caching I used to get a rash but now I can wade through the stuff in shorts and not get it. Go figure. The only true test is to wade through it nude. Do me a favor though. When you do the test, warn me so I can stay far far away. I've already posted my find for the Nude Geocacher Virt on Terracaching.com, so my days of caching in the nude are over, so you are safe.

The PI in North Texas this year is a bumper crop. I was at a cache the other day where it was chest high! The best bet is to wear long sleeves and long pants. Watch out for the hairy vines on tree trunks as that is PI as well. The word is that you do not become immune to it, but I feel that I have over the years, because some of the PI that I have dived into, I can not but think that I was exposed to it, yet I come away with no outbreak later on. I’m talking I’m in shorts and short sleeve t-shirts! It could be that I’m better at avoiding contact, but still I know I have to brush up against some while entering and exiting the area. Generally if I know I have been into it, I strip my cloths off and they go right into the wash as soon as I get home. I then hit the shower and wash first with grease cutting dish soap. Another thing to consider is that you may have gotten some on your shoes as well. You can get a secondary exposure by putting on your shoes after they have been contaminated. Ways to get around that are dedicated caching shoes or washing you hands after putting on you shoes each time.

While connected to your computer turn your GPSr off and then back on. Let windows search for drivers when it finds new hardware. Complete the driver install and the Mapsource will see the GPSr.

Sounds like a great idea for an event. I would go to Houston GeoCaching Society for help in that part of the State. The Texas Geocaching Assoc would be glad to help out as well as far as promoting the event.

I have hidden a few, well the same one re-done a few different times. Best advice I have is scope out the area and find the starting point and end points first. When you are ready to place the tacks or what ever you use, start by placing the tacks closest to the end and work your way back to the starting point. Keep in mind while placing the tacks, especially this time of year, as next spring vegetation may grow to obscure your tacks. It’s also a nice touch to provide a reverse set of tacks to guide cachers back out of the area. I usually try to use different color tacks for the reverse route and state that in the cache description. As JohnE5 stated, if you use the fire tack brand instruct cachers to hold their lights at or near eye level as they are designed to reflect directly back to the light source. Before you publish the cache do a dry run to make sure the reflectors guide you to the correct location. Take into account if the trail has forks where one has to choose between left and right and place tack accordingly. I have tried using some of the reflective paint and did not like the results, but your mileage may vary. Using reflective tape is an option, but usually involves cache maintenance later on, as it tends to not weather as well as the fire tacks do. I would recommend spending the little extra on the fire tacks as in the long run it will save you time and money.

Go to the cache page in question and in the upper right hand corner click on the log your visit just like you do when to log a find or dnf. In the pull down there is an update coordinates option. Select that and enter your new coords. If the difference is not very much, you will be good to go, but if the difference is greater than a certain amount (I’m not sure of the amount) then the reviewer will have to re-evaluate the cache listing, I think.