slukster

A horse themed cache near me: Giddy Up!: Within a couple hundred feet of an equestrian center.

I usually forget to mark the car but since I turn the GPSr on for the first time when I get to the parking area I can just follow my tracks back to where the tracks started. It definately is easier when you mark the car as a waypoint.

Part of my log from a favorite cache find of mine from 2008. I don't know if this muggle is still around but he has my vote.

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As a CO, I suggest to anyone who does the this that you put in that TFTC log something like "a more descriptive log to follow". I usually only read the logs from the email I received so I most likely will never see your more descriptive log. If you mean send them an email then I say yes but don't do it to every cacher who logs your cache. Only if they posted an interesting log of something that happened to them or an special experience. I had one CO who used to email me to thank me for visiting his cache everytime I visited one. I imagine he did it to everyone else, even the "TFTC" loggers. Just seemed a little weird to me and after the first email I never responded again. Which brings me to another thought. Don't expect anyone to reply. If you start emailing people expecting an email back then you might be dissappointed. If you meant post a note to the cache page, then no unless you are responding to something about the cache that might have been misinterpreted in the person's log. Example:

I love to write logs, especially after finding great caches. Even the lame caches get a decent log about my experience. I am the guy who will spend an hour logging caches with unique logs. Every once in a while I will go back to some of the caches I have favorited to read my logs and enjoy the experience all over again. Just yesterday I was very happy that I do write descriptive logs because I just opened an account for my 5 year old son who has been caching with me since he was 2. In order to find which caches I found with him I just searched for the ones that I wrote about having him along. I then used my logs to write up his logs. Here are three examples from our one trip: 3.slukster little_slukster 2.slukster little_slukster 3.slukster little_slukster I forgot that he had found 30 caches with me over the last three years. It took me over two hours tracking down the caches and then reading my logs and then logging his. I enjoyed every moment as I relived those fun times. And if you are reading through the logs you will see my log and then his log together (obvious with the usernames we are together) and it puts together a story of a father & son caching together. And to top it all off, after I finished logging my son's finds, I received an email from one CO who wrote: And after I get a nice log on one of my caches, especially a story of something funny or wild that happened to the cacher, I will often drop them a note and thank them for visiting the cache and for sharing their story.

If you have a Harbor Freight near you they have "variety" packs of o-rings which appear to cover nano's on up in size. O-rings The pack I bought has been working well for my bison tubes and beach safe containers. I don't have a nano handy to see if they will fit but I am pretty definate the smallest size should cover it.

Really?? Cuz one of the first things I do when accessing the official maps is toggle my finds off. I wish there was a way to have that setting stored. Ah, I never thought to do that. That could definately help.

I too am coming up on my 100th cache hide (three to go) and plan on making it something special. Rather than have it revolve around the number 100 I will simply make it a memorable cache that hopfully others will use for milestone caches. Now I would share my ideas but I don't want to spoil it for the locals who frequent these forums.

I think things worked out for you because I find the name "Mr.Yuck" much more memorable that "twu"

I had bought my wife a Garmin auto GPSr and while registering it online there was a link to geocaching.com. Went out the next day to the nearest cache (without the hint) and couldn't understand why the cache wasn't exactly where I was standing since the GPSr was zeroed out. Went home and read up some more on geocaching. The next day I brought the hint with me and made the find quickly but about 20 ft away from my initial search. This is when I first learned that the GPSr won't necessarily bring me to the exact spot. Bought a handheld GPSr a month later and the fun hasn't stopped since.

I am in the same boat as others that have missed caches, both on the map on the computer and on my GPS, because the coordinates of two caches were the same. I have a prolific cache hider in my area that puts out many fun puzzle caches and uses the exact same parking coordinates on many of them and I have ended up missing some of their caches. If I am looking at a map and only see one puzzle cache at a parking lot, I might pass the location over if I am looking for a group of caches in an area to make the trip worth while, all along not realizing there are three other caches with the exact same coordinates. I do plan out the puzzle caches I will seek before going out but since the beta maps no longer list all of the caches showing on the map in a list on the side of the screen, I would miss the ones under the top cache since I would just quickly click on the icon and not realize I missed others underneath. After reading this thread I went to a group of these puzzle caches and was frustrated that I couldn't figure out how to view the caches under the top one. I finally figured out that after you click on the top one and the pop up screen appears, there is a "next" button that you can click on to view the caches underneath.

My wife works in Jersey City right by the water and was able to take this pic on the fly-by:

This is a TOTT that I have been using lately, both for my hides and for this recent find pictured below. I think this is the 12ft size Telesteps. While it is heavy, it is compact enough to fit in the trunk and easy to carry.

Recommend Secaucus Panorama which is the oldest cache in the county. There is also an earth cache a few hundred feet away. Both re in Laurel Hill Park. +2 Depending on how much time you have there are enough caches in this park to keep you busy for an hour or 2 or if you just want a couple of quickies there are a few of them here as well. And you get to take a ride on the comical 15X exit ramp that goes to nowhere and back again

I have listed caches as you described as regular (small, whatever size the outer container is) since that is the size of the entire cache container they are looking for, even if there is only a bison tube for holding a log. I can almost guarantee that nobody would be dissappointed in one of my caches that I have hidden like this because it would be a unique cache that would certainly not dissappoint, even if it doesn't have room for a TB/ swag.

I tried experimenting with all different methods and the only way that worked is using GSAK. I have tried loading the GPX file to the SD card and it doesn't end up showing any waypoints or caches (the SD card is recognized when I plug it into the computer so it is installed correctly). Loaded to the built-in memory and they come up as waypoints. Maybe I need to reboot the GPS, unplug everything and start from scratch? I will have to play with it some more.

All you need to do is unzip the PQ ZIP files and copy the GPX files into the [Garmin drive]/Garmin/GPX folder. I am glad this topic came up. I had done as A-Team suggested on my 450 but the caches only came up as waypoints, not as geocaches. I had to use GSAK's interface which gives you the option of dowloading them as caches or as waypoints in order to get the GPX file of caches to show up under "geocaches". So I download unfound caches as geocaches and my hides/found caches as waypoints to work around the geocache limit on the GPSr unit.

Not to mention the frequent stories of their suspect handling practices. From what I've heard, they're well-known for making round packages square, and square packages round. You mean like this?

Give it a yank - if it comes up easily then it's a cache - if it doesn't move then water probably comes out of it. Also I've never seen a sprinkler cache that - on close inspection - looks like a real one. The look "fake" to me but then - because I know what they are - I know what to look for. About a year ago, I was in the Niagara area looking for a cache. Zero'd out at the sprinkler head. My first sprinkler find. It came out easily but looked like a sprinkler head with a big spring on it. Scared me. I thought I might be messing with city property. I put it back. Tried again. Zero'd out at this sprinkler head. Took it out again and looked more closely. Still didn't look like a cache to me, I saw no container. I figured I was supposed to twist something off but I didn't want to end up destroying property. I put it back and walked away. So I can see how a newbie who has never seen one of these before might start dismantling and then perhaps not know how to put it back together and leave it in hopes that someone else will fix it. How does someone know when they're looking at the real macoy or a fake? I would imagine that if you try pulling the whole unit out of the ground and it does not come up easily, then it might be the real McCoy. The piping connecting the sprinkler heads would resist your pulling or you will see pipes coming out of the ground on either side of the head as you pull up. If the whole sprinkler unit comes out of the ground, nothing attached to it (and no water pouring out of the ground ) then you have a cache.

Here is the log from my most memorable failure while caching:

This is what I was thinking when I asked "Do you have to pay to use the park if you don't drive in?" If not, then the question of whether there are any posted rules about the restricted area may be valid.

Wow, you guys are really doing a great job of making FTF hounds look bad! The literature in question is the literature that everyone receives when they pay the required fee to enter the park. Perhaps our FTF hounds didn't see the literature because they entered the park without paying the fee? I predict that you will claim that this is somehow still not their fault, though to be honest I can't predict what the excuse will be this time. Ah, I misunderstood who has to pay to get in. I thought it was only the "groups only" section of the park that required the fee and gave the literature about the restricted area. That brings me to a a possible similar situation at my local park. I rode my bike down this one set of trails a couple of times, always entering from a side trail, not the main entrance. I was not familiar with the park before biking there and didn't know there were any rules against mountain biking. The last time I biked there a hiker called out to me that there was no biking in the park. While it is possible that the county website has a listing of rules and regulations for all county parks, the only trail in and out of the park that I used had no signs. Now that it was brought to my attention, I no longer bike in that park. Do you have to pay to use the park if you don't drive in? Any possibility that these cachers enter the park from a side trail, not knowing of the fees and restricted area? I know, a long shot.

The bolded part made me laugh. It reminded me of a EULA (end-user license agreement) that comes with the software you buy for your computer. Many tell you that you are signing your life over to Microsoft (or other company) by downloading the software but you can only read the EULA after you buy the software. Besides the literature that you receive because you already signed up as a special group, does it say anywhere else in the park that this area is open only to special groups?

I am curious as to what the date in the logs for the FTF's were. Since the caches were published then retracted 5 days before the event, did the cachers wait until the day of the event or did they go out right after receiving the notification?