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Hrethgir

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  1. I have a 1 liter Nalgene bottle underwater, about 8-10 feet deep, never had a leakage problem. For the record, a 1 liter Nalgene bottle takes about 8 pounds of weight to keep it submerged.
  2. I recently logged an "almost found", but commented that in my DNF log. I found the cache container (a metal fencepost cap), but it was wedged in place and I didn't have the correct geotool (previous find used a small rock hammer) to get to the log. No Sign, No Find. I still need to go get that one, it's only like 500 feet from my place!
  3. I tried using my Legend HCx for navigating on my bicycle, and just the wind and road noise were enough to make it uttery unhearable.
  4. Yeah, I signed up on Twitter a month or two ago, then realized that unless you have a smartphone, it's pretty useless. And i don't have a smartphone.
  5. Sometimes you just gotta wait for the order to get processed before you can DL it, just be patient.
  6. As far as I know, you can't enter new waypoints yet, but there is supposed to be an "update kit" coming out eventually. There should be a big thread around here about the Jr., should have lots of info.
  7. Meh, not a very accurate quiz. I don't even know what a carpoolcache is, so that was a hard question to answer. Not really asking around for help on the forums, either. And just recently had a big cache run where I was out in the woods, climbing up and down stuff, driving all over logging roads, and went 14-0, so I'm past the beginning to discover the world of geocaching, and I'm higher on this game than ever. I just don't go out very often.
  8. Yup, this is exactly what I've done. Bugs are made to move, so go ahead and help them!
  9. No physical container + no logbook to sign = not a real cache. Technically, that should be a Virtual cache, shouldn't it?
  10. I get lost pretty easily. As soon as I make a couple turns, I lose track of which direction is where. Me != mediocre navigator.
  11. I have one underwater off the side of a dock, a 1L Nalgene bottle connected with cables and a weight. Just for the record, it takes about 8 pounds of weight to hold a 1L bottle underwater.
  12. Best justification for the extra money of the Oregon: paperless caching. I LOVE the paperless on my PN-40! The bigger screen and shaded topo are other nice things too.
  13. I bought my PN-40 in December, right after they came out, and it's been completely problem free for me since day one. I think that the DeLorme forums give a place for people to talk about their issues directly with the manufacturer, which is a good thing, but it also give a single place for those complaints, which can make it look like there are lots of issues. Sure, not every unit shipped is going to work perfectly, but that goes for Garmin, too. Just because 100 people have had issues doesn't mean that 100% of the units shipped have issues.
  14. Yup, about the only way to paperless with an eTrex is with a separate PDA, he eTrex just isn't really able to show enough info. Or just get a newer unit that supports paperless caching out of the box, like the DeLormes or an Oregon. I tried using my PDA for paperless once, and I didn't like it; took a while to get all the info onto the PDA, then having to juggle between the GPSr and PDA out in the field was just no fun, either. But I have a PN-40 now, and I love having everything I need right there in my hand.
  15. For battery, what Garmin claims is pretty accurate. I ran a windowsill test with my Legend HCx once, and I got about 25 hours out of one set of AA alkalines. As for the 24k topos requiring a "x" series, I can believe that, because the internal memory probably can't hold enough to make it of any use, so you would need a memory card to hold the data.
  16. LOL, I know what you mean, I've chimed in on cachers laziness in a few of those threads, I pretty much HAVE to say something now or I run the risk of being called out as a hypocrite! As for the FTFs, it would have been nice to get more than the 3 letters, but I didn't even know they were FTFs until we were there and saw no sigs on the papers, and I checked the listing on my PN-40, and there were no finds on there, either. So I got 2 accidental FTFs, so it's all good. I've only hidden 2 caches myself, but I put an unactivated TB dogtag in one, and a pen with a flashlight/laserpointer built into the end in the other, plus some other decent swag.
  17. I did this recently, I used to post under the name HondaH8er, but that name never really fit me here, so I got it changed to what it is now. It was nice and easy, just do the search and send the e-mail if the name is available.
  18. I tried to say something unique about each cache, and only mentioned how many finds I had that day on the last cache. And the only acronym I used was FTF on the two we had. Those were kind of odd caches, the whole series they were part of (the "lemke#00xx caches if you look at my history), usually a decent sized container (one was one of those big squarish plastic laundry detergent buckets like you'd get at Costco), but all they had in them was a Ziploc baggie with a printed generic "Congrats, you found a geocache, intentionally or not!" sheet. No real logbook (just signed the printed sheet), and no swag at all. Kind of a bummer, our first 2 FTFs, and we didn't get an FTF prize or even a real blank logbook to sign. Oh well, the areas they were in were cool places, so it was all worth it. I left some swag in the first one of that set, bu after finding another one empty, I couldn't keep that up! But in the area I was in, there are still a TON of caches to find, so I'll be back out there!
  19. The worst hide I've run across was a Bison tube in a tree by the area that semis/RVs park in a Walmart parking lot. The coords where soft, so wasn't sure which tree to look in, and there was crap all over the ground. And I mean crap in the literal sense. And not dog crap, unless dogs have learned to wipe afterwards with paper towels. I posted a DNF, left a nasty comment, and will never look for that cache again, it was in such a disgusting area.
  20. Those are the kind of cache locations I really enjoy, ones with nice views in the middle of nowhere! It is true that there are some more urban caches that are just as fun, and that you don't really have to go very far to find a cache that gives you something neat to look at. I'll have to upload the pic I just took the other day, went out and found several caches out off of some logging roads, I think we covered about 30+ miles to find 7 caches, but they were all good times.
  21. I've never really looked, but I really doubt that you can have it display different units in different areas, I'm pretty sure that it's a global setting. You could have it in KMs for most of the time, then change it to feet when you want to, but I'm not really sure why you need to do that, seems meters should work fine, especially since it should show tenths of a meter, that should be plenty good enough.
  22. I was brought into geocaching a little over a year ago by a coworker I carpooled with, he caches under the name "soup". He doesn' have a ton of finds, but he's been around for quite a while, has an active cache placed 2/17/2001 (Quarry Glory, GC313), and has put on lots of events, including "Broken Arrow", which was talked about in the book "Complete Idiots Guide to Geocaching. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...74-20192a78bb1d By the way, Voss Piety, the guy on the right in the Broken Arrow logo is my friend Soup. He's almost kind of famous, sort of! Not sure how he got into caching, but he's been in it for quite a while. Notice the GC code of his old cache, GC313, that was back when they just numbered them in order they were submitted, so he's got one of the first few hundred caches ever published.
  23. That is cool, never heard of anything like that! They should do something where if you check out Geocaching for Dummies or The Complete Idiots Guide to Geocaching, the GPSr checkout is included automatically!
  24. If you'd had a Garmin, you would have went 28-0 in 4.5 hours.. I've got a Garmin, I keep it in my backpack as a backup! If I had been using my Legend HCx, I'd have been 13-1 because I wouldn't have the paperless function that saved our butt on the one with the bad coordinates. And the aerial imagery on the PN-40 actually helped us find the right area to look in, it worked great! Although, if I had used the Garmin, I probably wouldn't have had to change batteries like I did once in the PN-40.... I also have a KML file that you can DL and open in Google Earth so you can see the terrain and area we were in, and why it took so long to only get 14 caches! Let me know if this works, I've never really tried sharing a file like this, so not sure how this host is: http://www.filesavr.com/cacherun
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