ToonAl

What is L&A as the link goes nowhere.

If you get an answer from CN saying anything other than "No you are not allowed anywhere near them." Please warn me before posting as I think may go into shock. Never mind whether there is a train running or not. Someone walking down the tracks somehow injures themselves, CN is going to be looking at a lawsuit. I willing to bet a small sum of money that the answer will be "No we don't lease them go ask someone else." or "Stay off our property." Just saying but good luck with that.

I was saying this to someone. I hate half the caches in the city. I am "acting strange" to people and then they see you place something back and we have a "suspicious object." Rather go for a long hike in the woods with the dog.

This is making me think of a good challenge cache.

I hope they don't think they can claim a find with out signing the log.

As I said to my cop buddy. Everything now is either a suspicious package or a potential bomb. But it is not like there have been bombing of random streets in the middle of west end Toronto. Or arguably anywhere in Canada. Yet it is the first thing people thing of now. Here is what I am guessing we will see. Someone found it. Someone saw them signing the log and putting it back. That person calls in a potential bomb!!!! And yes I know I am about to start a debate that will rage for days. Sorry Paul.

LOL you don't get a smiley for that you know. The cache is this one...GC3H5Y0 I am waiting for it to be disabled.

Sorry my amazing typing ability the subject should read "Does anyone else do this" But I am sure I will get a lot more views from people wonder what "fo" is.

Does anyone else do this? And then hold their breath hoping not to get bad press. Right now in the Toronto Star are reporting a "strange pipe" attached to a lamppost a certain intersection. Sure enough a quick look on the map and there is a geocache at that intersection. Now I have not done it and don't know what it looks like so why am I imagining we are going to hear a "geocache blown up by the bomb squad" story?

I am out of town April 21-25. BTW I am wondering what someone does wrong to get sent to Woodstock/Straford twice. Its a joke folks...relax.

Hey I am not sure if people listen to this podcast or not. But this week I notice they mention the license plate project. You can find it here. http://www.podcacher.com/

I am looking for a constructive discussion about what people do in a certain circumstance I have come across a couple of times. It is the circumstance where you see on line a log but you do not see the corresponding signature in the actual logbook of the cache. Do people write the owner or just ignore and move on. ps. To make this fit the Canadian forum I am looking for at least one Canadian response.

Will you be down to Toronto at all. I have a bunch I have been gathering for a trip I am going on but could easily give you mine to go one way and take yours the other way. toonal

One thing to note about the Toronto Island, usually you can take the ferry to Wards ir Hanlan`s, do the caches all the way to the other end and get a ferry back to the mainland`from the opposite end. This is not possible in the "winter months". Which is until April 14. Until then you will have to do the ferry to Wards Island, walk all the way to Hanlans and back to get the Wards Island Ferry agin. If you have a car and you can drive then I wouyld recommend coming out to the Rouge River, it is not a power trail, just a nice area with lots of caches and plenty of places to walk. Look at this cache for one trailhead:GCT1C7 On a sunday it is probably a 20 minute drive.

No it will show you geocaches no matter how far away. An example: last month I took a trip to florida with a cruise to the Caribbean thrown in. I loaded the GPS at home (I am from Canada) and then started the GPS up and to test I look for a geocache and it will show the same closest cache just it will say 2000 km away.

I don't agree with you that all challenges "change the way I cache." Meeting the requirements of a Monthly Fizzy may cause me to think "I have to cache on March 7th" but there was nothing that said I would not have previously cached on that day anyway. You specifically have the ROT challenges which to meet the requirements I have to have x% of Unknown cache type. My current number of caches found today is 2067, I have 66 current Unknown finds. To meet the criteria of the challenge I would have to find somewhere near 140 Unknown caches without finding any other type of caches or attending events. That would have an big affect on my caching habits, based on the 60 caches I find a month I would have to for at least the next 3 months not find any other caches than unknowns. I say at least because I think I would be finding a lot let caches overall. For example I just ran out at lunch and grabbed a guardrail (my bad ) but now I would be spending my time finding the fewer unknowns around. So the Rot challenges most definitely change the way you cache. Saying that when I saw these two Rot caches come out I did two things. Thought, "I hate unknowns and puzzles, not good at them don't enjoy them. Guess I won't be getting this one." And moved on to the other thousands of caches in my area. But to KDot's credit I actually started to look at the unknowns more and try to figure them out. Now I work with statistics everyday so there is no way I have a belief I will ever meet his challenge but hey I can trick myself into doing some Unknowns to try and get away from so many LPC's. And that is a good thing.

I just posted what i think is the issue in another chain. But I figure if I keep saying it enough people will believe me like some crazy guy. When you reboot your 450 BEFORE looking for caches, ensure that you have a gps lock. That is the bars at the bottom of the main menu showing GPS accuracy some green bars. I bet if you do this you will never face the issue you just have.

Sorry after my last posting I have to other questions that I hope someone can explain to me or show me where I could get an answer since I have looked everywhere and not found the answer. If I take a GPSr, turn it off and move it a long distance it seems to take the GPSr a long period to "find where you are". An example of this is to get on a plane and use it at my destination. I am giving the GPSr a clear view of the sky but it is almost as if the device is thinking "Wow really we moved that far, hold on I have to check the satellites one more time." I have noticed this with both the Oregon and the NUVI. Can anyone explain this. On the Oregon side I am wondering if it has been documented that Garmin have changed the way an Oregon handles too many geocaches. I know I used to get a message saying there were too many geocaches and it would not load any. Now it seems that it just drops caches from being loaded. I think I did this yesterday and it was funny. i drove into an area where I was sure there were caches but the map showed none. I turned of my GPS because I thought I would not use it. Then a few minutes later turned it back on and sure enough there were quite a few around. ToonAl

I know that there has been lots of comments on the Garmin (Oregons) having issues reading in GPX files. I put the Oregon in brackets only because I have seen the issue with my Oregon but I do not have experience with other types of GPX files. I see a lot of people backing out a version for their software and this was recommended to me but I want to put out there something else I have found. People are going to think I am crazy but I am pretty confident because I have tested it over and over again recreated the issue. After all that here is what I think and what I am trying to understand. I have loaded new gpx file(s) on my Oregon. I am at my computer in the house and so I have disconnect and turn on the GPSe, waited for it to boot up and then gone to see if the geocaches were there. I get the "No Geocaches Found" message. It confounded me because I could see the files on the Oregon. SO (and call me crazy but it works) what I did is go outside, restart the GPSr and wait until it a got a satellite lock and then looked for the geocaches and sure enough they are there. Now I work in IT. I am think I have a pretty good understanding of technology. I am not sure why this would work unless there is a step in the load coding that is causing the GPSr not to read the files accurately. But I have tested technology and I pretty much can recreate this. Toonal

I believe this one will: GC2EXYA i find a lot of earth caches cause this issue. What they are trying to teach you takes so much verbage that when you load it on your gpsr it gets cut off. This is not "break" per se but you have to print this out before you cannot figure what it is you need to do at the cache.

Ummm is it possible for someone to say 'Hey folks, we are at 190. All we need is 10 more to make it." That may make some people on the fence climb off. Man where is Jerry Lewis when you really need him. Come on folks lets do it for RCA777's kids.

Hilarious. I am not sure who is stranger, your husband for writing that or me for finding it so funny.

Looking at your picture. I am thinking you might be more of a radio type.

Near Uxbridge there is this series: http://coord.info/GC2TEBB And further north and west this nice series: http://coord.info/GC2ZBCH

And the quote from last year's identical event, which went by unchanged, was: Keith, the links to the two different events in the quoted posts..the underlined words are the links. So the line hasn't been removed from the 2012 event? It's still there in the cache listing for GC370WE ReGift-O-Rama 2012: I got stopped by a cop a couple of months back and he let me go because it was the end of his shift and the sun was shining or some other reason only God knows and is not telling anyone. I am pretty certain it was not carte blanche to drive like a maniac from now on.