rocketmann
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I just saw an advertisement on TV that actually used geocaching, something I had never seen before. It was for a regional restaurant chain called Runza. The ad started off with "we were out geocaching and got hungry so we went to Runza." Anyway since this is the first time I have ever seen geocaching in ads, I was wondering if anybody else has seen it before. Is this really a rare accurance as I think or is goecaching really all over the place? Share your stories and tell me what you think.
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I tend to travel light whle geocaching. maybe it is just ignorance. Normally I only bring a cell phone, a compass, sometimes a pencil, and water if it is hot out.
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I'm pretty sure that a hollow bar means that your GPSr has found a satellite but isn't recieveing any information from it. A solid bar means that your GPSr is recieving information and is locked on to the satellite's position. If that is not perfectly correct, the answer should be somewhere along those lines.
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If you just change your username but still have the same account your cache finds under your old name will eventually be updated to be credited to your new name. It explains this somewhere on geocaching.com but I'm not sure where. I have changed my username before and I did not need to post any new logs for old cache finds under my new username.
Hope that helps!
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I'm 16. Been caching since I think I was 13.
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Lets see here, I have a GPS, a compass, sometimes the cache page, if it is warm out, water, and if I'm by myself, a cell phone. And thats about it.
Actually I guess this post really isn't appropriate, I don't have a geocaching bag. That just what I carry with me in my pockets.
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hehe- the finished product loooks like the firing chamber on my potato gun. Add another 4 feet of tubling to the front end of that thing and you have a potato gun.
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I always wait till the weather gets cooler to do some nice long pants caching. I hate wearing long pants in the summer. I've found that usually foilage is less in the winter anyway.
It sends us up into the mountains, where it's cooler!
I live in Nebraska. Not all of us have the privaledge of mountains.
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I don't have a name for my Lowrance iFinder yet. Sounds like fun though, I'll have to try it.
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I would say just log your find and then post a needs to be archived log and explain whats wrong with it there and let the reviewers take care of it
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Hey all,
I'm going to be visiting relatives in the central part of the twin cities, and Hudson and Chippewa Falls in Wisconsin. What are the best traditional/non-micro caches in these areas? I'd like to take my relatives to some interesting caches.
Thanks!
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I could use some sport's lube for my bike. I think it would be fine as long as it is sealed.
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only 1.1 miles away for me, GCWGJD. I've been thinking about getting that one for awhile...
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many times i'll just take my GPS and a compass. If I'm on my bike I have water bottles with and if I'm by myself I usually bring a cell phone. Well, thats about it. I like to travel light.
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I actually havn't noticed that many ticks in Nebraska this year. Don't know why not. Maybe I just havn't been getting out in the woods enough.
Ticks are nasty little creatures, but at least they don't leave horribly itchy little red welts like chiggers.
I haven't seen any ticks here in north Texas (maybe its too dry for them) but the chiggers are beyond belief.
I visited a scout camp in the Black Hills in June and the chiggers were horrid there. But yet, like in Texas, there aren't any ticks.
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I feel uncomfortable whenever I'm in any type of a residential area cacheing, none the less on someone's front lawn. I think geocacheing could go without house caches.
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I've just had 2. First one a Cobra GBS 100, barely anyone has ever even heard of that and its a horrible GPS so I sold it and bought a Lowrance iFinder with the Mapcreate software and I'm very happy with that.
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I personally would almost always hunt a regular sized traditional cache than a micro. Micros are just to close to to many people for me to generally enjoy. People always give me wierd looks when I hunt micros.
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If I looked at this right you must have pocket queries emailed to you to get the program to calculate your stats. Since you have to be a premium member to create a pocket query, is there any way for the program to track your stats if you are not a premium member?
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I like to cache in the winter when it gets cold out. There are less muggles out and about and also any foilage that might be a problem in the summer is dead during the winter months.
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I do a lot of caching from my bike and I always worry that when I leave my bike on the main path that someone will steal it. Other that that sometimes I worry about injuring myself to a point where I can't get back to the main path.
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I've never thought of relating geocaching to the da vici code but that actually makes perfect sense.
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I can't really say I feel that way. In my area most of the caches are regular sized ammo boxes. I've noticed that a lot of times in highly populated area there are many micros. This is really only because there aren't many places for ammo boxes or 5 gallon jugs.
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Thanks Impala! Thats what I was looking for.
international maps for MapCreate 6
in General geocaching topics
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Not entirely sure if I'm in the right forum for this question but I thought I'd give it a shot. I have a Lowrance iFinder GPS with MapCreate 6 software with the USA maps. Do any of you know if Lowrance or anyone else sells international maps for this program, specifically of New Zealand and/or Australia? And if so, where would I be able to get them at? I'll be studying abroad in New Zealand this fall and figured it would be useful to own maps for the country.
Thanks!