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    muggled + not picked up = no fun

    in Trackables

    Posted

    I'm sorry for your wee coins. My travel bugs never went real well - a bit like your coins.

    They can get stuck an awful long time either in unvisited caches or in backpacks - I've had more than one just sit for up to a year. ( I think it is actually something to do with the individual coin itself as well - some just roll - mission be damned, they go anywhere they like! Once you get one or two that have that knack for travelling it is really fun. )

     

    on the bright side i notice you have 10 - which is a good number. Suggest you post out one or two overseas. There's a list for safe drops on here somewhere. Make sure you have a mission card with it.

     

    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

    Garmin 200 Nuvi owners

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    I wish it had a better compass. But it's GREAT for paperless if you use GSAK with it. I mean you get so much information on the screen.

     

    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.

    Garmin 200 Nuvi owners

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    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.

    muggled + not picked up = no fun

    in Trackables

    Posted

    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...

    Vacation cache

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    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.

    Is this a 5/5 rating?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    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...

    Is this a 5/5 rating?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    for your reference here is the clayjar rating system which is endorsed by geocaching.com

     

    The system basically consists of 7 questions.

     

    Questions 1-6 help you determine the terrain rating. If you answer yes to question 1 (is special equipment required?) then you automatically get a 5 terrain rating

     

    Question 7 determines your difficulty rating...

     

    How easy is it to find the cache?

    1. Cache is in plain sight or location is fairly obvious.

    2. Cache could be in one of several locations. Hunter may have to look for a while.

    3. Cache may be very well hidden, may be multi-leg, or may use clues to location.

    4. Cache likely requires special skills, knowledge, or in-depth preparation to find. May require multiple days or trips to find

    5. Finding this cache requires very specialized knowledge, skills, or equipment. This is a serious mental or physical challenge.

    ***Please consider visibility, accessibility, and relative signal strength due to tree cover or other obstructions when answering this question.

     

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

    Is this a 5/5 rating?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    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...

    Is this a 5/5 rating?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    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????

    Cache stats and GPX files

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    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>

    Cache stats and GPX files

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    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?

    Placing a cache and approval

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    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....

    Cache stats and GPX files

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    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 :antenna: . Just wanted to drop a quick line before I go to bed. Any help for a cache noob would be awesome! Thanks!

    Download an entire county at one?

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    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!!!

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