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For a cache with lots of zeros, you can check out my "Lots of Zeros -Part Deux", GCTXBV, located at: N43° 00.000 W071° 00.000 For more information on degree confluences, check: The Degree Confluence Project, http://www.confluence.org/

All S3 phones lack the hardware. As I said you have to add the USB OTG adapter cable and the Suunto ANT+ module at about $40. Some other brand phones have the hardware built in but the S3 is the most popular phone out there and it needs the additional stuff added as described below. http://fun2code-blog.blogspot.com/2012/08/cache-beacon-beta-introduction.html

Not so many as you might think are excluded. I can do them on my Garmin 62s and also on my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone. (yes, there is an app for that) Most Droids can do it with perhaps $40 for a simple cable and an ANT+ antenna module from Suunto.

I believe we all can read and for me to point out that I am a premium member who does award favorite points, and why, is germane to the discussion.

I haven't given out a favorite point since yesterday. The cache I gave the point to was an extremely well done puzzle cache with a long hike to GZ. Everything about the cache was top notch and all finders have awarded it a well deserved favorite point. YMMV

Certainly this one does. Attention to Detail

Neat idea. I just may steal it without giving credit.

The original coordinates for this cache were 70 feet off and had the cache in the middle of the old road. I found it after searching for a while on 7-8-2011 and posted corrected coordinates which are now being used. If I recall the cache was up a slight bank from the old road and just outside the right rear corner of what would be the boundaries of the very overgrown cemetery. The listed cache owners have only 3 finds and appear to not be active but this is actually an account for a couple of very active cachers who have about 33,000 finds between them. On a positive note, this cache has shown this old neglected cemetery to many people who otherwise could walk right by and never notice it was there. I believe around 1900 NH was about 90% farms and today it is 90% forest, or something like that. Knowing this it is easy to see why you will run across old cemeteries, stone walls, and foundations in what now is totally overgrown forest.

(deep sigh) If only you'd exercised just a little more restraint and spared us from this thread.

I just got a big success from the geochecker. Nice math/logic puzzle. Check with the cache owner for hints.

There may be some areas where the regulations differ so you would have to go to the official site for that federal land manager and check the rule and regulations. In 2005 a new forest plan made one of my caches in a Federally Designated Wilderness Area in the White Mountain National Forest in NH illegal and it was removed. The USFS also removed all blazing and markers from an unofficial trail that had been there for years so geocaches weren't targeted. The end result was I worked with the USFS and our local reviewer for a while to screen submitted caches that could be in non-wilderness areas of the National Forest to see if there were any concerns. The Wilderness Supervisor was very willing to help in reviewing potential locations and this process worked well for all concerned. Brian, check http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5363715.pdf in the upper right of the 3rd page for "The following restrictions apply to each of the six Wildernesses on the White Mountain National Forest:" where it states: "No storing of equipment, personal property, or supplies, including geocaching and letter boxing." Note that these regulations and rules apply to Federally Designated Wilderness Areas and not just areas that may be called 'wilderness' but aren't designated under the act. The 'abandoned property' phrase is generally applied to geocaches if they aren't specifically mentioned. The New England Wilderness Act of 2006 ( https://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/laws/109/publ382.109.pdf ) describes the areas in NE and the Wilderness Act of 1964 ( http://www.wilderness.net/nwps/legisact ) describe the background of all areas. National Parks are entirely different and their policy is basically a blanket prohibition of all geocaches. Note that some of the regulations did specifically prohibit both physical and virtual caches.

Shellfish1 has an extensive list of challenge caches in the U.S.. To see the approximately 75 caches in KS look at page 5 in the list at the following link. http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=75c2d471-3bb5-4615-8834-a466f040bb9e

>The above indicates that you are one of the "most people" who do not understand how GPS uncertainties work. Well "most people" can sometimes be correct. As a simple experiment place your GPS outside with a clear view of the sky and leave it for an hour or so and observe the track. Even under good conditions the track will wander all over the place but the average will be quite close to the correct location. The screen shot I just captured on my Garmin 62s took 1 hour and shows how the GPS wanders in the vicinity of the correct location with the scale set to 20 feet. If you were to place a cache, there is a possibility that your reading could be on the edge of this area where the correct coordinates are (this is the reason why you should take multiple readings or use the average feature on your GPS). If a cacher is looking for this cache you placed, their GPS could possibly be on the edge of their circle of uncertainty, adding to the error. The antennas on handheld GPS receivers are prone to multipath signals in real and urban canyons and this will degrade the accuracy as well. The dipole moment of water molecules (which acts like little antennas absorbing certain signal frequencies) has minimal effect on the 1575.42Mhz L1 frequency used by handheld GPS receivers. I have several GPS timing receivers in my workshop with fixed antennas on the roof. These receivers use information from the satellite’s internal clocks to discipline my crystal or atomic frequency standards. To achieve the parts in 10E-13 accuracy, these receivers average their position over either a 24 or 48 hour period to get their location as close as possible. These specialized GPS timing receivers are used at cell towers, govt., and private labs where accuracy is of prime importance. Obviously you can’t average your readings at a cache site for 24 hours and generally getting within 20 feet is all you’ll need.

I believe your reviewer is following the guidelines which state: "If one has to dig or create a hole in the ground when placing or finding a geocache, it is not allowed." I have no idea what a star dropper is but your description of it being hammered into the ground means you are making a hole with the star dropper. Unfortunately your time and money cannot be a factor to override the guidelines. Make a base for the Gnome home or place it on a stump or rock if there are any in the area.

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If your GPS can use the 1.5V AA lithium batteries like the L91 made by Eveready those have an operating temperature of -40°C to 60°C (-40°F to 140°F). Just make sure that your device is designed to take them because the initial voltage on fresh batteries is a little higher than alkaline batteries. For anyone who wants the specs on the L91 batteries, they can be found here http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/l91.pdf . There is also the possibility that your GPS won't work in the cold so a trick I've used with digital cameras when I worked on the summit of Mt. Washington (NH) in winter at down to -30°F was to use the chemical toe heaters that you stick in you boots. Put a couple of those on your GPS and you probably could use the NiMh batteries and the GPS will work just fine. These are cheap and can be found at Walmart or almost any sporting goods store.

░▓░░░▓░▓▓░░▓░▓░▓░▓░▓░░▓▓░▓░░░▓░▓░░░ ...... Neo could have certainly solved this puzzle and the hint confirmed my guess of possible approaches.

The solution took me a few minutes of Googling but once you get to the right place the answer will be obvious.

I don't know about others but my sarcasm detector went off when this was posted.

I checked and the cache page tells you everything you need to solve the puzzle. I just did one like it recently. Please don't post any hints in the forums and spoil the cache experience for others.

I got GC400B9 on 10-22 so I came close.

If that is the case then the way to get even is to beat T.Y. at the FTF game, not put out a cache that may or may not have been in jest that can be interpreted to have one obvious meaning. T.Y. lives near the center of the state of NH where the majority of caches are placed and has a chance to get FTFs if he wants to put the time and effort (and diesel!) into getting them. I’ve been FTF on 175 in the last 9 months alone and although I’m sure T.Y. mutters under his breath when he sees my name first in a logbook, as he has several times, we still co-exist at the weekly get-together at Milly’s where everyone has a great time exchanging good natured barbs face to face.

BBWolf+3Pigs - Here, let me help you with that, you're not even close. 45 miles GC345AJ BBWolf+3Pigs - Any area where there is a concentration of puzzle and/or multi caches you stand the chance of having a new cache placement conflicts and the reviewer will let you know the problem, these Snoopy caches aren’t any different in that respect. Anyone who has hidden a few caches knows how to handle this. There is a series of 18 puzzle caches in Townsend, MA where if you wanted to place a cache, one or more of the existing puzzle cache could be in conflict with your proposed cache. There are concentrations of puzzle caches in Potowomut and Portsmouth, RI that could cause similar problems. Sounds like grousing to me.

It depends a lot of factors but in July-September 2011 in New Hampshire I had 83 FTFs in 90 days, but not one every day.

Right now there are about 150 of the total 173 needed caches placed around the State by various individual cachers. Any cacher who wants to hide a cache to help complete Snoopy’s outline can get the coordinates for an unassigned point in the outline for their cache. This project was started in September 2011 and is now nearing completion. A big advantage of putting all the fake coordinates in Lake Winnipesaukee is that they are all in one area where there obviously couldn’t be a physical cache and you don’t have the fake coordinates for this series scattered all around the State, plus you wouldn’t have the neat Snoopy drawing on the map if they were scattered. The caches are mainly simple puzzles and letterboxes. Everyone seems to be having a good time placing and/or finding the caches in this series I have found a large number of the placed caches and have first to finds on about 40 of them. With the mild winter in New Hampshire it is a lot easier to find them this year. It still is somewhat of a challenge to do them all and I plan on finishing them shortly after the last cache is placed. The series has certainly got some cachers out this winter to join in the fun of doing this series.