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What brand of GPS?

Are you trying to find the cache using the coordinate page? You really should use the compass page and follow the arrow to the cache. Also what maps do you have installed? If you have routable maps make sure you don't have lock to road selected.

Thank you but I am looking for people. You can click on the cache pages and send an e-mail to the cache owners and see if they live nearby.

When I am traveling use wikipedia to search for places. At the top right hand corner is the lat and long of the place. When you click on that about 3/4ths of the way down the page is a link for geocaching.com That link for Sugar Creek takes you to http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?origin_lat=39.640556&origin_long=-85.913056&dist=20&submit3=Search

Working for me. You wouldn't happen to be using a GSAK macro that changes the name from the GC code do you? If that is happening it won't upload to field notes.

Google maps can sometimes be off by quite a bit in certain areas. Older iPhones use cell tower triangulation for the positioning and that can sometimes move around. Groundspeak sells an app for geocaching that might do better for you. I think it is ten dollars available from http://www.geocaching.com/iphone/default.aspx

Congo Rats!!! The first 1000 are the hardest, you are well on your way to a legitimate addiction.

Head over to pathtags.com and read all about them. They are not trackable on geocaching.com

You will find people on both sides of the fence on this one. It comes down to what do you feel comfortable doing? If you really think you need one more smiley then send the cache owner an e-mail and see what they think about logging the find. If you keep going with caching at some point you will probably start to feel like you wish you had stuck with your stated die-hard "sign the log, log the find" self ethics. At that point you will go out and find the cache again or delete your original find. That will throw off any milestones that you obtain in the future. But in the end the decision is between you and the cache owner.

I have used the maps at http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ in Crete last year. They had a few issues (one way roads not one way on the maps) but they were more than adequate to get me around. I have also used them in Japan, South Korea, Bahrain, England, mainland Greece and Italy.

Of course memory cards are pretty cheap. I have my US maps on one card and another card I use when I travel for "foreign" maps. That way I don't have to spend the time loading the US maps back on a card.

Try taking that smart phone to Kotzubue Alaska. I definitely wouldn't have found the caches I did this week if I had to depend on the phone.

When you upload new maps it overwrites the old maps.

You know you can walk away at any time without finding the cache right?

Check and see if the lock on road setting under routing has reset itself to lock on road. Mine does it all the time and causes my caching to be problematic

Perhaps a better question could be is there something about the footbridge that is interesting enough to bring people to the location? Also want to point out that size of container has nothing to do with being mistaken for a bomb. I seem to remember an occasion where a bison tube was the article of interest for a bomb squad.

perhaps it is the little boys crabbing that has folks staying away. I know that as a middle aged man caching alone, hiding and ducking down behind places while there are a lot of little boys around is a potential misunderstanding that I don't want to deal with.

I don't think the OP even talked about hiding caches but thanks for the links on hiding. As far as searching for water caches, there isn't a way to do it while being a non-premium member. If you are a premium member you can create pocket queries and select the water or boat attribute as a selection criteria.

GC21VQQ - Monument rocks GCZM4H - Pipestone National Monument GC1ME6T - Hoodoo Hideout GCZD8H - Devils Tower GC1T7NJ - Hanging Lake GC1QEBJ - Where the spirits stayed and medicine men played GCZ5W1 - Wupatki Pueblo Blowhole

Another way to look at it is to create a flat map with my home meridian in the center of the map. Anything left of center is west anything right of center is east.

How do you define "farthest east from your coordinates"? Probably the same way you define "farthest east from the Prime Meridian", only using your home meridian instead. Admittedly, if you happen to live at the South Pole, there's a certain amount of arbitrariness in your home meridian... Yes, I use a home Meridian. So I live at W 94° 24.309 Anything between W 94° 24.309 and E 86° 4.14899 if you head towards the setting sun is west of me. If you head towards the rising sun it is east of me.

Beat me to it. Maybe we need a pinned thread that contains the essential info and inside/running jokes that all newer forum visitors need. Nah, on second thought we don't....... What inside joke? This is the old school standard introduction.

Don't place a cache until you find a place that you would be happy to bring someone who has never cached to. If you wouldn't want to use the cache to show how fun and educational caching can be then it isn't worth placing the cache. My standard is to place caches in places or styles that if CBS news wanted to go caching and put a piece on national news I wouldn't be embarrassed to take them to my cache. Seems to work for me.

If you don't want to limit yourself to lower terrain and difficulty you can use the placed date at the bottom of the query to set things up. Set up the radius for 25 miles. Then select a minimum placed date of Jan 1 2000 and a maximum placed date of Jan 1 2003. Don't select a day to run the query. Save the query and then at the top of the page the pops up you can preview the query. You are only looking for the number of caches returned. If it is less than 1000 you increase the maximum placed date. If it is more than or equal to 1000 caches you select a lesser date. Once you have around 980 caches you save that query and create another query with a minimum placed date equal to the maximum placed date of the previous query. Continue creating queries until you get all the caches within 25 miles of your home. Once you have all the caches load them into GSAK and select the most interesting 1000 caches to load into your GPS. (The 60CSx only holds 1000 waypoints)

No, not at all. Plus, you don't see the "distance from home" for those caches. Interesting. For all the accounts that I know their home location for it is true that one of their farthest N/E/S/W caches is also their farthest from home. I must be an exception then The further away you live from the prime meridian, the more wrong it will be. Can you explain this? I understand that a cache can be further than one of your north-south-east-west caches, but it doesnt have anything to do with the prime meridian..... Maybe distance from the equator...but not prime meridian. If you live at the 180 degree lines your farthest W and E caches could be inches from your home. BTW this is the reason I have requested that the Findstats macro for GSAK gives the farthest east and west from my home coordinates