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We were just in spencer on the 5th!! Its about 3-4 hours from us, so we don't make it too often. There's a book about him? *heads to a search engine....* Sure is, and it's a very good book, the title is simply "Dewey", and has a great picture of him on the cover. Heck, the Spencer Public Library website still has info about him on there, and even prints you can buy. And I mapped it out, Spence is a little over 1700 miles from me, so me getting out there to place something would be... unlikely. I would like to see the library now, though, although I'd probably cry and look like an idiot, but I'm used to that!

Just went out and did a 12-mile round trip ride around town on my bike, went 6-3. Biking is a great way to cache, especially since you can use "I'm resting and having a drink of water" as a cover for looking for a cache!

Either become a member so you can see where the other cache is, or move yours, resubmit with the new coords, and hope you guessed the right direction. Might take a couple tries doing it this way, but not many other options, really.

Only thing to think about is how long will the rubber o-ring last in the wild before it breaks down and stops sealing? Sure, it says it's good for 100,000 opens/closes, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't take into account sitting outside through an Iowa winter, which will be a bit harsher than the inside of a purse! By the way, you live in Iowa, you need to get out to the Spencer Public Library and place a cache there in memory of Dewey Readmore Books, the library cat! I just finished reading the book about him, and if Spencer wasn't 1700 miles away from me, I'd hop on the motorcycle and do it myself! Heck, I might just do that anyways! I have 10 days off coming up in a week or two....

However, after doing some research on the DeLorme, I've had a 90% dissatisfaction rate among people I've asked (24 people). That says a lot... Who are you asking, and what do you call "dissatisfaction"? I've had a PN-20 and currently have a PN-40, and I love that thing, works great! And 24 people isn't a very large sampling group. Go ask what people think about the DeLorme GPSrs on the DeLorme forums, and I'm sure you'll get an equally skewed positive response. But I say get either a DeLorme PN-20 or a Garmin eTrex, and of those as long as it has an H in the name. I have a Legend HCx, and it's a good unit, I have no complaints with it.

Also, th cache coordinates could be off, too, maybe the hider used an old yellow eTrex with a less-accurate chipset. Remember, the hiders GPSr error is a part of it, too.

You can't rely on people to do what you want with a cache, only way to keep this from happening is idiot-proofing it somehow so they can't help but put it back like you want it. And also, like others have said, it may not have been the fault of the last cacher, especially being out in a parking lot. Suppose some hippies where out there playing Frisbee, and one of them missed it and the disc hit your cache and knocked it loose? Well, then the hippie probably looked at, realized how he could make a bong out of it, and took it home. You just never know.

My best day was 14-0, spent about 9 hours from getting out of the car for the first cache till we found the last cache, and covered about 44 miles. Here's the KML file of the trip if you want to see it in Google Earth: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=30794b4...95965eaa7bc68bc That was a fun day, way more fun than the urban micros I found today.

I got Nevados Alpines, more of alight-duty boot than hiking shoe. Comfy, light, waterproof, and good grip, I'm very happy with them.

Get the Ibycus street maps too. They are free, and while not routable, still nice to have. I have them on my Legend HCx, and I like them. And the price is right! http://www.ibycus.com/ D'oh, just checked, and the downloads aren't there on his site anymore, guess the bandwidth costs where too high. But he has instructions on where to find them, definitely worth looking into.

I have 52 finds, and just recently had my first 2 FTFs, but they were both accidental, never really set off to be FTF. But my accidents ended that streak at around 40.

i am willing to bet that sometimes it is DURING a rain. Not when I'm caching, if I can help it! I don't like being wet, and I don't like being cold and I REALLy hate being wet AND cold!

I was out once after a rain (durp, this is Oregon, it's ALWAYS after a rain!), and one of the caches ended up being on the back side of a tree near a park, but on the side with a pretty steep grade and wet leaves all over it. i got the cache, but my DC skate shoes did NOT do well there! Now I have some Nevado hiking shoes, and I put them through the wringer on a recent cache run off of logging roads, and they worked great, a definite must have for caching!

Isn't that a contradiction in terms? It is here in Oregon!

Don't worry about how many finds there are, you don't get points for them, so just hide something you would enjoy finding, and then let others enjoy finding it. I have 2 hides, and they don't get visited often, but the logs have all been very positive, and I'd rather have a few nice logs where people remember the find than than a bunch of generic "TFTC"s. But that's just me, play the game the way that makes you happy. Especially since there is no scoring system, your happiness is really the only thing that matters.

True, Fry's has all their stuff tethered down, and they won't untether it, so if you want to see how they feel in your hand and stuff, Fry's is fine, but for outdoor testing, keep movin'.

Correct. As for where to put the files, I think putting them in the GPX folder works fine, but you can also open them with Mapsource and export them from there to the GPS.

I recently went out and found 14 caches in a day, and 4 of them, all a part of some series by the same hider, where completely empty except for a Ziploc bag with the generic "Congrats! You found a geocache, intentionally or not!" sheet in it. And one of those containers was a 5-gallon plastic bucket. And 2 of them were my first 2 FTFs. Talk about lame FTFs; no special prize, and not even a real logbook to sign, just the back of the "Congrats!" sheet. I left swag in the first one, but I didn't bring enough to stock all of them. I'd have rather found a 4 year old Blue Jays ticket, at least with that, I could have gone back and looked at the box score for the game. Maybe something important happened in that game, like a no-hitter, or someone hitting 3 or 4 HRs.

Sale ends tomorrow.

I've heard about your cache! We haven't found it yet, but people have said that they enjoyed it... -Rozie For reals? That's awesome to hear! Here's the listing for it so you can send it to your GPSr http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...52-8e7486daeb80 I should make a run out there and check it for moisture, but I know from last year, it was bone dry inside after 3 months in about 8-10 feet of water.I think part of the reason it stays dry is the way I have it all connected, it's floating in the water upside down about 2 feet above the bottom, so having the lid on the bottom helps the air inside keep the water out. But I do have everything in Ziploc bags and a waterproof log, so it's ready for problems.

Most I've found in 1 day was just earlier this month, found 14 caches, 7 of them out in the woods off of logging roads, and the other 7 in a park along a river. Covered 44 miles and about 9 hours, and had a great time, no DNFs and my first 2 FTFs, even!

Fry's Electronics has all their GRSrs out to finger, pretty much. I know they had Colorados, Oregons, 60CSxs, eTrexs, and all the automotive units, too.

Just saw their ad for the week, and they have the Hi-Tek Caldera hydration backpack on sale for $20, regular price is $50: http://big5sportinggoods.shoplocal.com/big...89&offerid= I went and picked one up, gotta love that price! It's not a huge pack, but should hold plenty for a day trip caching, and has a 2-liter water bladder with a drinking tube. Seems like a pretty nice pack, thought I would pass this along while the sale is on, which ends on 7/19. Happy caching!

I had a PN-20, and sold it to buy my PN-40. TOTALLY worth it! I liked the PN-20 enough that I sold it before the PN-40 was available, but after reading about it, I took the chance and ordered one of the earlier ones (it was a Christmas present to myself), and I've been EXTREMELY happy with it. The faster redraw speeds makes the imagery much more useful, and the reception and accuracy is great, can't go wrong with a PN-40. Paperless caching + aerial imagery + great reception = serious tool.

I don't think the rubber coming off is an issue unless you mistreat the unit - leaving it on your dashboard on a 90 degree day, mishandling it, etc. I've had my Venture HC for 10 months now and it still looks like new. I use a neoprene window case with a caribiner for my cache hunts and that seems to protect it very well. I've had my Legend HCx for over a year, and the rubber is still firmly in place. I use it for caching (carry it as my backup now that I have the PN-40), and also as a speedometer/trip recorder for my bicycle and motorcycle. Also took it on a couple trips. And I don't have any kind of cover for it, by the way.