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Being from New Hampshire there is no chance for me to do a large number of caches in a single day locally. That doesn't mean that I can't hop a plane to Nevada and do the E.T. highway or RT-66 in California. If you check Project-GC you can find that there are a large number of people who have a large number of finds per day. My caching buddy and I found 877 in a 13-14 hour day on the E. T. highway and there are 490 cachers in the U.S. who have found more per day than we have. There are about 375 who have found more than 1000 caches per day and the top number of finds per day is 2485. Using some of the logic presented in this thread, I know what I have done and doubt that others can do more, so the 490 cachers or teams above me must have lied or cheated. It could also mean that I'm either too lazy to put in the extra time and effort to accomplish finding more, or that I just like to complain about other cachers and the way they play the game. Maybe being over 70 years old is slowing me down. ;-) As a note, I personally know a local cacher who did more than I did per day on the E.T. highway, and he was alone.

I'll give the A-Team a grade of A+ for those instructions.

Arthur & Trillian are correct. For finding the caches in a state, from newest to oldest, use http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=18 where the = 18 is for Kentucky, 30 is New Hampshire, etc.. Once you figure out your state's number you can bookmark the search and forget about the new confusing search mess at least for finding the newest in your state. There are other work arounds to do other searches but for the life of me I can't see why Groundspeak screwed a working system up so completely. I really like the geocaching app I have on my Samsung Galaxy S3 so I'm not against everything Groundspeak does, only the truly dumb things.

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That's the quickest way. I used TopoUSA the other day and the intersection of the 3 circles, while not exact, should get you within about 3 meters. This method works best over relatively short distances.

We have a saying: “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inadequate clothing”, as some other posters have mentioned. If you know what you’re doing and are dressed properly you can be pretty comfortable and safe going out into what some would call nasty weather. I worked for four winters in what most people would call one of the most inhospitable spots on earth and really enjoyed it. The Mount Washington weather Observatory (NH) has some of the worst weather in the world (https://www.mountwashington.org/experience-the-weather/current-summit-conditions.aspx ) and winds over 100mph and temps of -30 degrees F are a common occurrence in the winter. I never was concerned going outside up there. As to caching, I’m over 70 and have to be a little more careful but still get out there.

We went out for a few hours this morning on a hike in 0°F temps to get some caches. It wasn't that bad and we got some FTFs.

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If the cache isn't archived it still owns that spot even if it is disabled.

Quite often if you are active in your local geocaching area one of your fellow cachers will place a cache in your name for having found a certain number of caches. While this is nice, it isn't required.

Charging is enabled by depressing the black switch between the 2 batteries. If you use the Garmin pack designed for this or if you use another means to keep the black button depressed with NiMh batteries installed, the 64 will charge the batteries. If it is depressed with regular alkaline batteries that would be a serious problem so only use the Garmin pack or NiMh batteries if you use something to keep the switch depressed. I use NiMh with a couple of pieces of thin plastic cut from a blister pack and it works fine. If you no longer see the charge icon maybe the switch isn't being depressed.

If you copy and paste either 33 1 2.5896 -96 59 32.9748 or N33° 01.043 W096° 59.550 into GoogleEarth you will see the location as a satellite view. GoogleEarth will understand either format as long as the “:” isn’t used between the numbers you got. If you don’t specify N for north and W for west you must use the “-“ sign before the 96 to indicate that the longitude is west of the prime meridian in Greenwich, England. I always use GoogleEarth to double check the coordinates I have taken for any cache I’m placing.

I have the location east of highway 121 in a wooded area near Timber creek.

I assume your coordinates are N33° 01.043 W096° 59.550 . The format you have shown is DD MM SS.SSS for degree, minutes, seconds. To convert to the DD MM.MMM format on the cache page take the 2.5896 of north and divide by 60 to get .04316 minutes and round that to .043. Your format doesn't show leading zeros so 1.043 should be 01.043 to be in the same format on a cache page. You can also use the FizzyCalc calculator to convert formats.

My keypad had worn way beyond any of the pictures posted so far before I decided to replace it. I bought one of the replacement keypads on Ebay from the Russian Federation seller and it worked well. The only problem with this fix is you have to be comfortable with dismantling your GPS. For some that wouldn't be an option although I found it to be straight forward and easy.

I just wondering how many time someone will start a thread complaining about some part of geocaching they don't care for but that others enjoy. Please give it a rest.

My first hide (Cathedral Ledge GCJRH7) is a traditional cache, has been active for 10 years, has 725 finds, and 59 favorite points.

If you’re not trying to emulate a creature that lives under bridges and just trying to cheapen the game for the benefits for some lowest common denominator cache seeker, then your double premium membership is neglecting to add any benefits for the cache hiders. To make it fair, an added benefit for double premium member cache hiders should be that other members can’t see the final coordinates of their cache hides without actually doing all of the cache, just like normal cachers have to do. Your premise that the goal of geocaching is just the smilie would appeal to many who already have logged the APE cache and ISS cache from the comfort of their own homes, but there are those who feel the quest is an important part of caching, not just the goal of a smilie. Where I have about 1700 puzzle finds, having those solutions handed to me would certainly have made my caching life easier but it would have lost some of the important ‘stuff’ that I and so many others enjoy. It would be like being born and then dying without any of the ‘stuff’ in between.

As others have said, once you see one number, the rest are much easier. As the pictures are now I got the numbers fairly quickly and was #23 on the geochecker. The difficulty is probably correct judging by the average of the replies to this thread and the fact that there are a number of cachers getting the OK from the geochecker. The difficulty rating on puzzle caches is kind of hard to gauge, especially on your own puzzles. I know a lot of cachers curse my puzzle caches!

If it were even possible to create a pocket query of 1 million caches, what would, or could, you do with it? The limit on distance is 500 miles and the limit on number of caches is 1000.

check the shell1fish profile page for a pretty good but somewhat dated list of challenge caches in all states. http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=92ceee60-5648-4432-b2aa-10069fb40ac7

I’m assuming the question about 6 other continents was rhetorical as there aren’t any good routable street maps of Antarctica that I' aware of. Also the Garmin Topo maps you mention probably don’t work well as routable maps either. The example I gave of CN North America was a method I use for the area I travel in and would avoid the long download delays you mentioned. Obviously if you want to travel to Europe that would be another map set whether you use Garmin or selected OSM map tiles, as you already know. If you choose to pay for map sets that you don't have to download, the Garmin City Navigator series is excellent but if you don't mind waiting 5.9 days for downloads then stick with the OSM.

As to having the Garmin CN maps micro SD card preventing me from using the memory in the card slot for anything else, I still have over 3Gb of unused internal memory on my 64s that I would have a hard time filling up, so for me this is a non-problem. If you own a GPS with little internal storage, this might be a concern. FunnyNose’s concern about map drawing speed isn’t a problem on the 64s which is MUCH faster than my old 62s in every respect (including battery drain). Being able to recharge the NiMh batteries in the unit helps cutting down on battery changes, losing the SD card, and recalibrating the compass.

I didn't say it was totally unreadable just if you compare it to a non-touch screen GPS there is a noticeable difference. This isn't a sentiment, it is what I have observed many times. If you try a side-by-side test instead of stating an opinion without doing a test maybe you'll agree.

I bought the latest genuine Garmin North America City Navigator micro SD card on the auction site for under $30 to use in my 64s and don't have to worry about having the correct maps downloaded. This was well worth it for me.