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I won't be traveling overseas anytime soon as we are building a new house but I will try a TB hotel or something soon. And, the last coin I dropped was the 1st I did with a mission card in a bag... I just didn't like the idea of that, just thought it would be cooler to find a coin in the cache and I assumed that GCers would know what to do. Oh well, live and learn... thanks for the input

So there is a way to get cache info from GSAK on the 200? I just downloaded GSAK yesterday and played with it a little. And, I guess I'm not real familiar with the term 'paperless caching'. Does that just mean having access to GC info on the trail (cache size, hints, logs, etc)? That would be cool to have and I thought you could do it with GSAK somehow but I haven't found how to yet.

I don't have anything to compare it to but my Nuvi 200 has worked well and I'm wondering how others feel about geocaching with it since it is the cheapest GPSr I can find. It can be a little jumpy sometimes abd some of the options are limited but you can't beat it for the price. I have found the POI to be a useful tool but can't seem to figure out how to do a mass delete of caches without doing a hard reboot and erasing everything. I know we are only limited to 500 and I don't know if that is low compared to better GPSr's. Overall, I am happy with my 200. It does everything I need it to from road trips to GCing in the woods on my mountain bike.

I have tried to contact anyone listed as discovering it etc and no one has replied... and also contacted some people who recently went to those caches to see if it was still there and haven't had any positive resonses yet.

I had some coins made and have placed 3 this year... 1 of them has moved a couple times. The others have either gone MIA out of their original caches or the person who picked it up has held onto it. I was so pumped to track these coins and thought I had some really good ideas for goals for them but have been really disappointed so far. I love to pick up trackable items and move them along so I guess I thought more people would feel the same...

cure for boredom....

I placed one by my in-laws vacation home and if something comes up either they can take care of it if they are down there or I go a couple times a year. And, fellow GCers will help out too. The log got a little damp and they new I was 1000 miles away so they added a new one and put it in a ziplock baggy.

Well, I scoped the island a little better last night and I think I have a pretty good idea for a few stage multi within the island. I don't want to give away my plan on hear in case there is someone from my area reading these posts. If anyone from out of state is interested in hearing my general idea please email me. I would still like some feedback on difficulty from it b/c I think it sounds pretty difficult but fun... not a needle in a haystack, just some decisions and a surprise or two...

Now THAT'S what I've been looking for, TY! I guess a boat IS special equipment....

Wow! Lot's of good responses/ideas. Thanks everyone, this is the info I was hoping for from veteran gc'ers. I wasn't sold on the fake rock thing either and there isn't like thousands (or even hundreds) of rocks on the island, just a few here and there. I like the locked ammo box that is well hidden idea. Maybe provide riddles to reveal the combo??? I need to explore the island a little more and look for some different options. And it looks like I'm looking for of a 4.5T / 4D rating, huh? Just want to do it right...

I have a good location for a cache and think I have a 5 star rating for both difficulty and terrain, but I'm fairly new and want some expert advice so I don't let anyone down. The cache will be on a small island on a lake that is about 3,000 acres so you will need a boat or some thick ice to get to it. On the island there are some random piles of rocks. I'm going to put it in a hide-a-key type of fake rock and set it with the other rocks. What kind of rating does this sound like to you????

Ok, now I got it. I have been away from my work email for over a week and that is where all of these "my finds" emails were coming to. I loaded the gpx file and everything is working great. Sorry for wasting everyone's time...

Ok, this is becoming a pain... I waited the 7 days.... clicked 'add to queue' and then what???? I ran another pocket query and tried to load it once I got the email and it said that it wasn't a 'not a my finds query'..... now I have to wait another 7 days to try again?!?!

I could have swore I clicked the correct file of the two after I unzipped it and I remember even thinking that the other one was only waypoints but after looking at it looks like I did only save the waypoints. I had had a few Captain and Cokes that night... hey, I AM on vacation! Well since I deleted the other (thinking THAT was the waypoints) I guess I'll wait until it runs in a few days and give it another go. END: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...32</link> </waypoint></loc>

Everything is up to date... and my gpx file is about 3.5kb

Yes, I unzipped it. I'm pretty pc savvy and I figured this would be easier to manage....

I'm using your basic Garmin nuvi 200 but that's not the problem. I did hit the "add to queue" but when I tried to load the gpx file into CacheStats it said "Index was outside the bounds of the array" ???? And, I guess you can't run it for another week, right? Is there something else I'm missing here?

Thanks everyone, I'll look into who would own the land where I want to put my cache. I'm down in Florida usually twice a year and my father-in-law has agreed to check on the cache for me from time to time.

I'm fairly new to caching and am wondering about the permission for placing a cache. I've been to some far off cace sites and was wondering if EVERY cache has been approved by the land owners before the cache is published or if it's kind of a formality. I would like to place a cache down here in Florida while I'm visiting the in-laws down the street off the side of a road by some powerline poles but wouldn't even know who to contact. I mean, how do you track down who owns the land and try to explain to them what geocaching is and why it's OK to do it???? Just find it hard to believe that EVERY cache I've seen has been approved by someone....

I just dowloaded Logicweave's Cache Stats program and I can't seem to get it to work right. I just became a premium member and tried to create a pocket query for the first time to include all of the caches I have found so far (34). I have found them from central Ohio to Key West and can't seem to get them all in one query even when I switch the search radius to 2000 miles, and I can't save the query as a GPX file, it only saves as a LOC file . Just wanted to drop a quick line before I go to bed. Any help for a cache noob would be awesome! Thanks!

WOW! Quick responses! Thanks, I'll check that out. I wasn't particularly looking for a county anyway, just more than one at a time. This appears to be a great forum with lots of participation so thanks again... I'm sure I'll be posting another questions soon! :-)

I just started geocaching a couple weeks ago and am already hooked, found 17 so far! Anyway, I'm just using the basic Garmin nuvi 200 I already had which is working pretty well so far, I was just wondering if there is a way to download say an entire county of caches onto my GPS at once so I don't have to hit "send to GPS" hundreds of times on the website to transfer all the caches I plan on getting. I apologize if this is already posted somewhere on here but I don't really have time to search right now and wanted to throw it out there before I forgot!!! Thanks in advance!!!