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It is a good one for caching. It is functionally identical to the 60CSx that is so highly regarded. You would probably still want to use a PDA or smartphone to hold cache details, since there's only a limited amount of comment space on this model. Keep posted here, however. The sale for this GPS is pending right now. There's someone else who has expressed an interest and he will be sending payment to me at the end of the week. If his payment does not clear, I'll update this thread.

http://www.krylon.com/products/camouflage_...ion_technology/ I'm using some of this to camo a 1gal plastic jar. No prep work whatsoever. Base coat of the olive, then I used leaves from my backyard as stencils to make patterns with the khaki and and black. my local wallyworld didn't have the brown, but I could really use that color for some fake bark I'll be doing later. The stuff went on easy and adhered to the plastic very well. It has a very good matte finish that will help the container hide in the shadows.

I'm working on a rather large fake log cache right now. I have the inner container and I've got my idea for giving it the shape, texture, weight, and color of an actual log. I would really like it to be good enough that I can set it out in plain sight. It's going to be the final stage in a multicache where each stage will be a different size and will be heavily camouflaged.

it's the swelling, tissue necrosis, and pain that makes brown recluse bites so bad. and someone who's been bitten will have a permanent reminder of the ordeal in a really gnarly scar (and possibly loss of extremities depending on bite location). Black widows like it where they'll be undisturbed. if you don't want it there and don't want to kill it, you need to visit the site and do cache maintenance often to shoo the spiders away. I'd recommend a stick to swish out the web and make life difficult for the spiders. They'll leave eventually. But if it was me, I'd smash it. I have no sympathy for venomous spiders. When I moved into my house, I had a small black widow problem. I smashed two, and now I haven't seen a single one where it shouldn't be in two years.

The terrain rating considers how much hiking has to be done to log the cache. In order to do the final, you have to do the amount of hiking for just the final PLUS all the hiking for each of the segments. You said you anticipate it needing to be done over the course of multiple days. That amount of hiking needs to be accounted for.

Am I correct at understanding that your series is a bunch of individual caches that give parts needed to find the coordinates of the final? And that each of your 20 caches is a separate cache? If that's the case and you need the information for all of the caches in order to find the final, then I would rate it taking all of that into consideration. To get the final, you have to hike 17+ miles to get all of the parts PLUS whatever is involved to get to the final after getting all the parts of the series. Difficulty I'd rate it equal to the hardest stage (which, for all we know, could be the final, right?).

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Any interest at all? Might be willing to entertain offers.

In most cases, more traditionals in an area is not necessarily a good thing. A good, long multi can provide a lot more entertainment value.

That's a travel bug? How many caches do you think he will fit it...? Is he just for events? He's pretty much mostly for events and random discovery. You can see on its page that it is "in" a micro right now. Obviously he won't fit in the micro, but if you are visiting said micro, it can be seen from there and can be discovered.

Yep, Aldo.

Two of mine are missing right now. http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=658644 and http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...94-4a98f2c76edb The first, I'm not holding out much hope for it turning up. The second - there's a chance someone picked it up and has forgotten about it or lost it somewhere. Someone has had this one for quite some time. http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=669603 I tried contacting them some time ago to prod them into dropping this one off somewhere, but they haven't logged onto the site since April. *shrugs*

and my response doesn't change. notify and let it go. it's up to either the cache owner or the bug owner to do anything about them.

Certain bedrock layers in my area have 4x the "global mean" concentrations of arsenic. These layers of bedrock are exposed all over the place...in public parks, navigable waterways, road cuts, etc. It happens. There's an asbestos outcrop a bit north of me, too. Spend some time in Utah and other places where uranium was mined. THAT is some nasty mine drainage. Your post is rather alarmist. It's good to be aware of these natural deposits of toxic substances, but no sense getting worked up over it. This stuff is more common than you might think, and some things (like the asbestos) isn't so harmful in its bedrock matrix.

As long as the segway tours aren't forcing people off the trails, riding the things haphazardly (like the guy who rode his off a cliff...), being discourteous, and all that, then let 'em use them on multi-use paved/crushed stone type rail-trails. I do not favor permitting the off-road types onto singletrack trails (bikes permitted or not) because they're too wide for the surface. They cannot maintain both wheels on an 18" wide trail tread and would wind up widening the trails, especially when someone needed to go around one. And yes, a segway rescue service could make a killing.

They may not promote it, but the ones that take you to fossil beds can demonstrate it. It's a word that's going to generate some awful strong opinions either way. I'm doing my best to avoid voicing my own.

If I looked for it and didn't find it, I log a DNF. Because I didn't find it when I looked. Doesn't matter how prepared I was (if I was underprepared, I will note that in my log as a possible reason). Cache owners often rely on DNF logs to hint that maybe something might be wrong with the cache. If a cache gets a string of DNF's, the owner might schedule a visit to check on it. I logged a DNF on a cache recently that hadn't been found (no logs of any type) in more than a year. The GPS sent me to a location near to an area that looked like it had been through a forest fire within the past year. I noted in my log that I looked, and didn't find it. Then I described the conditions I found. I just noticed today that the cache owner paid a visit to the site recently and found that the cache was a victim of said fire and archived it. My DNF helped the cache owner find a problem.

post a note for the TB itself and the owner of the bug or cache owner can list it as "missing". Cache owners have listed two of mine as "missing" because I'd have had no other way to know that they weren't where they were supposed to be. However, if someone contacted me to say a bug was not where it was supposed to be, I could remove it from the cache it was supposed to be in.

I just released him tonight.

nice. these things are way cool. I'm especially interested in the big ones. Unfortunately, my tool selection is pretty limited so I will probably have to figure a lot out.

no matter what google wants to make you believe, the high-res imagery they're using is not taken by satellites. the imagery the OP is talking about (re: cloud cover) comes from satellites. Sure, the high res urban stuff is from other sources. your point is? oh right...maybe I should just admit you've got a bigger wang than I do so we can get that part over with.

LOL...what started as a rant and with what appeared to be a few sock puppets is now a civil discussion. I have an Oregon. I have an ipod touch. I use any one of a number of Trimbles at work. I like the screen and functionality of my ipod touch. I use a dumb phone, though. Why? Well, because getting a smartphone and adding a data plan to it would cost me a good chunk of change. People saying they can't afford a GPS...wtf?! I can't afford a bloody smartphone! The Oregon works pretty well. The waypoint averaging function will compete with the accuracy of some of the Trimbles with post-processing. It won't get me centimeter accuracy like the best ones will, but far better than a smartphone. It's amusing to me that it's mostly the noobs who extol the virtues of the smartphones. Get out there a little bit. Compare the data your phone collects with that of some other dedicated GPS receivers. You'll see eventually that it's not the best tool for every job.

I'd just like to point out that ANY container can "look like a bomb", especially one that is made of anything round and tubular. The camo obviously was not good enough if someone saw it and thought it was a bomb. But that's beside the point. Indeed, clearly too close to the school. To the poster who questions the definition of "close" to a school, have some common sense. According to the map on the cache page, the tree it was in sits right on the property line. As we all know, the accuracy of the GPS the hider used means it could have been anywhere in the tree (for all us armchair critics can tell). So yeah, it may well have been on a branch hanging over the school property. It probably would have been fine had it been on the other side of the houses. In this case, "close" could probably be further defined as "adjacent to". Across the street might be close to the line, but considering what else was over there (and whether finders might attract suspicious attention) it may be okay or not. Case-by-case, I think.

I just got my two Chirps delivered yesterday. I haven't had a chance to play with them yet, but I will. I have a multicache placement idea in mind. I just have to scout the area and get the necessary permission.

I have a 76CSx I'm wanting to sell (functionally identical to the 60CSx). I'm including street maps and a bike mount for $135.