Froboz

So I am looking at doing this again, I used my gamin gps, a palm tungsten and cachemate in the past. My geo bag was stolen from my car a few years ago. I still have my garmen and a smart phone but what I used to do was download a pocket query and create routes in cachemate usually a 2 or four mile loop so I could get a good walk or hike while geocaching. So so my question is getting started how would I accomplish that now? Okay update my garmin is dead so I ordered a new garmin 64st. Also just remembered gsak which is what I used for routes. What at I would like to do is use my garmin in to find, phone to log as I find, and some software or app that makes it easy to plan routes like I describe above.

This was a funny thread. I say throw all the dirty socks in Non premium caches as FTF prizes, and the clean ones into Premium member caches only. The price of one year premium membership is not really all that high. I think it is worth it. Even when I stopped Geocaching for a year or so because of work and school I still kept up my membership. Why? Because I equate it to a fishing license I am supporting an activity I enjoy. The government doesn't give Groundspeak its operating budget so they have to get it by charging fee's and selling merchandise. It's funny when people think they are entitled to certain things just because they exist. Hey I can't afford an Iphone 4G and all my friends have one, so Apple should give me one for free because all my friends are elitist jerks with their Iphones. Premium Caches are great for things like sensitive areas. When I was new I didn't really understand the stay on the path, I thought the path was 10 feet on either side. I didn't actually bushwhack because my boy scout training kicked in and I was aware of the sensitive nature of the area I was in. New members with a free account make mistakes like I did. They also don't understand things like TB and Geo Coins. Sometimes when I am moving a coin for someone I try to drop it in a "Premium" only cache to help reduce the chance it will dissappear. Now If I said I only go caching with Premium Members you can't come with me cause your a free account, then that would be Elitist. Froboz

I released a simple bug the other day just to randomly move around. This is only my second release my first one which I thought was pretty cool disappeared pretty quickly after release. So I thought I would try again with another item that would less likely wind up in someones collection.. Here is a link to Little Blue Brick http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=1665768 Froboz

That's absolutely right! I think that CITO is a great program for the environment and the world! I used to pick up trash when I saw it before I was a cacher. Now I go out of my way to pick it up. The guys at my work are always telling me, "hey picking up the trash in the parking lot is not your job." Now I smoke and I like the smoking area to be clean while I am out there, so I pick up cigarette butts and other trash. I figure if I don't pick it up when I see it then others wont. When I cache if I find a cache in a park, and I see little I spend extra time walking around the park and picking up trash, why not I get to enjoy the park a little more and maybe if people see me doing it they will think about picking some trash up as well. I love caching because I like to walk, and I like to think that I leave each place a little better when I leave for the next person. I love when I find a cache and go to log it and see that the reason the area was so nice when I got there was another cacher was there before me and did a CITO. Froboz

I post a DNF if I look for it and can't find it. I post details if it is just me and I made a reasonable attempt. If I have some reason to suspect the cache is no longer there then I add those comments in. I track my DNF's and determine how I want to proceed. Sometimes its watch listed so I can attempt again after someone else finds it. Sometimes I mail the CO for a hint since I am still a new cacher. (Yes I registered in 2008 but I didn't catch most of 2009 and 2010. Froboz

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Okay mine might be a little odd. I am new to geocaching and my goal is to lose 20 lbs geocaching. I look for caches that I park and have to do a bit of walking to, of If I am doing urbans I park and walk my route. So far it is much better than the treadmill! Froboz

Roped Cattle? Rode a bull? Drove a Herd?

I need to work on my force skills... I love these coins they are beautiful! Congrats to all the new Jedi!

Hey wish I had the money to bid on the coin in the auction, it is beautiful. A very nice thing for you to do! Good luck! Fro

Does the drilling really cut down on the theft of coins? Or do they still disappear as much as other coins? I am curious I would like to buy a few for release, but am afraid they will just disappear out of the first cache, and I might as well just put the money in there.

Sweet Thanks RSFISH, funny I just was looking at some of your wooden signature items in a cache yesterday!

I am new as well, but the one thing I didn't have on my first hunt I grabbed for the second. Gloves.

I work in the airport security business, and I echo what the others have said it is just another piece of electornics. If for some reason they do ask you why you have it on carry on you say, it is expensive so I don't want it in my checked luggage. For more information on what you can and cannot carry on a plane, check out the TSA website, they have a list of do's and dont's.

FWIW - some TB/GC owners are ok with snail mail hops. I just wouldn't do this without express permission. It's funny I found a travel bug with a see as many states as possible, by Xmas 2006. So I nabbed it, gonna check to make sure it hasn't been to California, and I will take it there, if it has I will put it back in an Indiana Cache today.

Okay so it wouldn't be bad to do that.

Say I find a travel bug in a cache in Indiana tommorow. It's mission is to travel as far as it can or to see the ocean. I am flying from Indiana to California on Monday. Would it be okay to take that bug with me on the plane, or should it travel overland. I am unsure about TB's taking large jumps or if taking them on a plane ride is okay. This is all theoretical but I just thought I would ask so I don't make a Gaffe. Steve

We went out again today to a nearby park. My kids wanted to play in the playground so we did that for a bit, then we went out treasure hunting... And found 3, which was a lot of fun, and couldn't find another but it was just a little two close to a steep hill and water... Hill + Water + 2 and 4 year old = Wet kids. Going to get my wife to go next. Froboz

Just figured out there is an easy menu command to do that with GSAK.

I have a premium membership and am using pocket searches but I would like to know if there is a way I do searches based on a 50 mile radius of my house. What I would like to do is be able to do a search that is say around a specific cache, so I can find all the listings in say a specific park. Is there anyway to do that? One way I thought of was to put the location of one cache in the park into Gsak, then do a search with that as the centre point and look for caches really close to that one. Hmm maybe I just solved my own problem. Is there and easier way?

So I made my first find today, was very exciting. Here is the log I left. My First find! I picked up my son from Preschool today and we went treasure hunting. We were tromping through the woods, the only other people around was a groundskeeper. We looked at the compass, and passed it, then we walked past it again, then we came back and there it was, right under our noses. We just started geocaching and my son (4) was very excited to find it! We went through the cache and looked at all kinds of interesting things. I examined the travel bug, but since I am heading to California not Ohio I left it there. My son loved a the little plastic lizard and worm, and was willing to trade an oil tanker hot wheel for them, I think the cache got a good deal on that one. Thank you for the hunt and find. T lizard and worm, L Oil Tanker Hot Wheel, SL. Froboz This was a lot of fun and he really enjoyed it, as well as I. I am so glad I bought a GPS instead of a PS3! Forgot here is the link to the cache I found. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...72-fc85b67e860c

Wow this is very cool. I am just getting into Geocaching, still waiting for my GPS to arrive from Fed ex! I am reading about all these wonderful coins, and I am looking forward to getting into collecting them! I love this Jedi coin it is very neat. I remember Star Wars when it first came out, so I guess I can share my Star Wars story with you... I was a freshman in high school when Return of the Jedi came out, my mom let me skip school and I went with some older friends that worked at the Arcade I hung out in, during the 80's. We went to the shopping center where the theater was the night before at about 2 am. They wouldn't let us on the grounds until 8 am. At 8 there was a mad dash of about 100 people to get inline, one of the people I was with was first in line, and I got in line with them and was the 7th person in to the first showing, at the Pruneyard in Campbell, CA... Thats my Jedi story! Congrats to all the people that have that beautiful coin, maybe someday I will be worthy, but for now I am still just a wet behind the ears cacher! Froboz aka Steve

It was either this or a PS3, and I figured I would rather get some exercise instead. I play enough games, and I think that my son will like this a lot as well. He is 4 and still likes to be outside, rather than inside playing video games. Fed Ex says I will have my GPS on Wensday at 7, so I plan to hunt a few in Indiana before I head back to California. Froboz aka Steve

Froboz... there is a very active group of cachers in the Bay Area come find out about us at: Geocachers Of The Bay Area The Bay Area is positively thick with caches, and if you're up for it Geo-Woodstock VI is being held near Sacramento the weekend of May 26th! Hopefully we'll see you at an event sometime! DCC I signed up for the forums there, but no validation email. I have trouble sometimes with my Yahoo address. Maybe you could drop a line for someone to validate my account there. I used the same handle Froboz. I would love to find some people to Cache with in the Bay Area, because my wife and kids are stuck in Indiana, while I am working there. I am in zip code 95118, San Jose.

Just wanted to say hello, and that I am new to caching. Just checked my GPS order on GPScity and my new GPS unit has shipped wooo hoo. Currently in Indiana visiting the wife and kids, we are relocating back to California Bay Area, but haven't sold our house yet. Just wanted to say hello out there, and I am looking forward to becoming part of the community. I expect I will be asking lots of questions soon. Froboz aka Steve (Froboz is from the old computer Game Zork, which was my first "Adventure" treasure hunt, and this is my new Adventure! It's also my World of Warcraft Char)