ThePropers

Palmetto is correct. I use these hidden child waypoints for all of my puzzle caches, and as far as I know, no one has been able to hack it. Now if only everyone would use child waypoints so I could quit having to read through every description to see if there is parking coordinates or something else in the writeup that should be a child waypoint, but I digress.

A couple things to check out: How many caches are you getting back? If you are maxing it out (i.e. returning 500) then it's possible that there is really 750 (for example) caches in your search area, and your DNF'd cache is just one that is not being returned. Also, check your other settings. Are you only returning active caches, and if so, has the cache been disabled/archived?

Well, it has been a couple of days since someone griped about it.

Uhm...I think the opposite is true. I think the majority of people report DNF if they, you know...Did Not Find it. Or at least they should be, although I know some people do not. I think the general consesus (at least on these forums) is that if you looked and didn't find it, you shoudl be logging a DNF.

Note to self: Do not leave Garmin GPS in caches, as much like food, it may attract animals. That's great that they replaced it free of charge though.

The last I heard anything from them was November 22. See this post for info (not much info, but info nonetheless). I have 5 more symbols all ready to go if they'd only fix this bug.

I wonder if we'll be able to pull a PQ of recommendations for us. I assume so of course.

I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) 1) You will need to go to your setup menu to tell it to prompt you for off road 2) You will also have to hit "page" to get to the arrow screen after choosing "off road" since it defaults to your map screen.

Is it possible to get any child waypoints to display using the Google Earth KML file? I don't think it currently is, but for TPTB, would it be possible to implement this?

Why would they put the coordinates for parking as the coordinates for the cache? Unless it was a mystery of course. I would have lodged a complaint with the geocaching police department. Or at least noted my annoyance (politely of course) in the log, and pointed out the child waypoint feature.

I already have #2 in the pocket query results, so in GSAK I can quickly look to see what the last 4 logs were (at least if it was found or not using the little red/green squares thing). I would really like to see #1 included as a pocket query option: only return those caches with watchers only return those caches with more than X watchers I think I like the second one more, since there are many co-owned caches with one watcher, so I'd probably only want caches with 2 or more. As you've said, it's not a perfect indicator, but it's not bad. There's more likely to be 5 watchers on a good cache, as opposed to 5 watchers on a lame (or what I would consider lame) one.

I too like the idea of the favorites list (does this count as a dead horse topic) but I would settle for just being able to search for caches with more than X number of watchers. Not that a lot of people watching a cache is necessarily an indicator of it's greatness, but I think it would be a simple addition from a technical standpoint.

I read this a few days ago, and I actually would have loved to help you out, but unfortunately I am a bit far away (in Harrisburg) and just don't have the time right now to do it. I've been on part of the trail up near State College though and it was a great little 2 or 3 mile section I hiked. Sorry I can't help you out. Hopefully someone can. Maybe if you mentioned some of the caches people could grab along the trail, it would inspire them. Smilies might hold more intrigue than tax deductions with this crowd...

Bookmark lists are the way to go, as The Leprechauns mention. Just be sure to make it private or you're bound to get some hate mail for giving away solutions. Right now I keep all of my solutions in a separate database in GSAK, which as the OP says, is outside of the geocaching website, but I do like the bookmark idea.

I kindof agree with Confucius' Cat, regarding domiciles and as a cacher how I'd probably avoid it. One way to get around something like this might be to make it a very obvious geocaching location. I'm not sure what you had in mind, but if you were going to set up a little pup tent or something, paint the geocaching logo on the side of it so it's noticeable from 50 or 100 feet away or so. That way it would still identify the campsite as a geocache area to those of us in the know. Even with that, I see the maintenance of this cache being an issue. It would have to be far enough out in the woods where muggles aren't going to come across it, or on your own private property. Being out in the woods that far, would mean (in my experience) that after the first 6 months or so, you'd be maintaining a cache that would only be visited every 2 or 3 months. Seems like a lot of work to me, since a cache like this would require much more maintenance than a normal ammo can cache. I still like the idea though and I'm sure it would make a great cache.

I am not too sure about the PDA you are looking at, but I use a bottom of the line one that cost me $10 and it works fine, so I'm sure anything above that will be fine. Cachemate installs on the PDA. In GSAK, you will open up the .gpx file and then go to File -> Export Cachemate PDA and then when you hotsync, it will just move the cache data over. It's pretty simple once you do it one time.

If I remember correctly (it's been a couple of months), the knob was attached to the belt clip, instead of to the unit. I seem to remember thinking how stupid that was because it looked like if I put the belt clip on the unit, that I was stuck with it on the unit. However, you can "release" the knob, so what you will have is the unit with the knob attached, and then the belt clip part separated. If I'm reading the above couple of posts right, you have not realized that the "belt clip unit" that was in the box is actually two parts....the knob that screws into the unit, and the clip itself. It sounds like you've attached the belt clip unit. What you've really done is attached the knob to the unit. If you play around with the clip (push the button on the top of the belt clip), the knob will release from the belt clip. So now you can leave the clip on your belt, and just snap the unit in and out of it. There's a button to push down on the top of the belt clip, and then the knob will be released, thus releasing the GPS from the clip. At least that's what I think you've done, if I'm reading your post correctly. Sorry if I misread that and I'm stating the obvious. This knob is also used for mounting it into the car mount and my bicycle mount, so I just screwed it onto the unit and I leave it there. No reason to take it off, really.

I've hooked up my 60CSx to my 50" plasma and surround sound system. You have not played Beast Hunt until you've played in 5.1 surround sound and 1080p resolution. Ok, I kid. I looked through them once. They're kindof on par with the games that came with my cell phone.

Before too much is read into ThePropers' post, the fact that so many of these caches are placed would suggest that many, many people enjoy them. You're right, I shouldn't have mentioned the general perception. My apologies.

Batteries leak and ruin caches. I highly advise against using them as trade items, and I CITO them out if I find them in caches.

I actually don't think that's too much to worry about. You're using two older units. Vertical elevation is pretty unreliable using GPS anyways. You should check the accuracy on both units. If both units are reporting accuracy in the 20 - 25 foot range, a difference of 50 feet isn't much to worry about. Normally I would say you would just total the accuracy and that could be the difference you could expect. Say if one is 15 feet and one is 20 feet, then you would expect that they could be reporting as much as 35 feet difference. I don't think that's entirely accurate though, so take that with a grain of salt.

As others have pointed out, you don't need map, but they sure make things a bit easier. I used an etrex yellow for my first 800 finds, and it was fine without maps. Just took a little more "home planning" and printing out road directions than I need now with the 60CSx. Another way to look at it, using an over-exaggerated example, is say you wanted to get to the Empire State Building, but you're in San Francisco, CA. Well, getting coordinates to the ESB is easy enough, but if you don't have a map and are just going to walk in a straight line following the arrow, you might run into some issues trying to get there. In fact, I could guarantee you are going to run into some issues. It would be handy to have a map that tells you which roads to use, no?

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are we allowed to lift the skirts up? the lamp post skirts... All I can say is that thousands have. El Diablo Probably tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands. Without turning into a bashing thread, it should be noted that these types of caches are generally considered the lamest of the lame, and all the other caches in the area come to life when no one is looking and point and laugh at them. I felt it was my geoaching duty to point this out just in case the OP has 100 magnetic keyholders ready to go and is thinking how cool it will be to saturate all the parking lots in his area.

I too am specific about what I trade. Well, to a point anyways. I will say "left toy soldier" not "left 3.5 inch GI Joe Action Figure with Karate Chop Action still mint in original dollar store packaging" I too think it helps keep people honest. I always wonder when someone logs something like "Took bar of gold, left something else" or to be more accurate, I will see "Took toy soldier and hot wheels car, left some trinkets" which usually means they left garbage (IMO). Of course, nothing is required (you don't even have to log your cache online if you want) but I think just saying "Traded some items" sounds fishy to me. If you're truly trading even or up (as you should be, so kudos!), then I think you should log it, as it will help out your geocaching rep.