DesertRanger

I live near Palm Springs, Ca and am looking for partners to go play in the desert, look for caches, hike, rock climb oh yea did I say look for caches?

I shall not buy a PN-40 to replace my venerable PN-20. If I did I would be asking for the death penalty from she who is my wife. I do want one though.

Regarding the PN-20s battery life. 1. It has an onboard RTC in use all the time. The timers are always running and there's a slew of them. I remove the batts when it's not in use. 2. Disable the USB port when yur not using it. The default is on whenever you power up. That way the USB circuits are turned off. They draw a lot of power in respect to the device itself.

Thaqtnks Star. I read it it all and a lot more. My business gives me permits to operate team building programs on federal land and the permit covers Geocaching. Since I also live in a large em,pty area finding places to stash them where they won;t be disturbed it fairly easy.

OK so I'm new to geocaching. I got into it because a friend who is in the Civil Air Patrol wants to teach his cadets to use a GPS. I'm an eco-tour and adventure guide also teaching desert craft and survival. GPS to me is a tool and I teach a class on it. So Bulldog (CAP) sez to Desertranger, "Teach me about geocaching". and voila I'm now an expert geocacher because I can use a GPS and know how to find things. [sarcasm] Yeah right!! My first cache was here. Berdoo peek-a-boo an area well known to myself but not to those who went with me. Temp 108F/~46C, clear sunny. A nice day. Found it in about 20 mins. Now I'm going to hide one. Questions Looking at the satellite and topo maps; do you think this was an ambitious undertaking? Zoom thought so.