Panther&Pine

I think the state ones are more than sufficient.

This is a global forum, you'll have better luck contacting specific owners or regional groups.

My encouragement is that you keep finding caches and then maybe in the spring after a hundred or more finds you start thinking about hiding a cache.

Go with GC12345, or keep reading, learning and doing before trying to place a new cache. There are some things that can be learned just by reading, geocaching isn't one of those things.

Groundspeak is a listing service that many of use are already paying for. I find it unbelievable that a service that provides access to a couple of million records doesn't consider a robust working search mechanism to be their number one priority. IMHO it's been broken for over two years when the "search by name" only allowed searching for caches with start with a character sequence. I'd love to see it integrated in to geocaching.com but for now I'll use what is available and if that means a second site then it does.

The etrex line is a good starting line. What number/style do you have? We can give you more specific guidance knowing that.

http://www.geomidpoint.com/ I've never used it, but it was the first google hit for "Find the midpoint between two gps coords"

It really depends on your needs. A phone with the app and a PM might be all you need (10$ for the app and 30$ per year for the PM), or you might spend $800 on a GPS, PM, maps, GSAK and Project-GC. I have yet to regret any of my GPS upgrades (I've done one every 2 years on average with a 200$ price upgrade, I had one of those amazing clearish blue ones for a while and now have an Oregon 650t that I plan to keep with until a stand alone device can work without a desktop). Keep using your phone for a few months, save up and decide later.

And there's the answer. I've just looked through and discovered that the one I'd really noticed is a series that contains - at last count - 96 caches. Thanks for your help, folks - don't you just hate newbies? Glad we were able to find the issue. Actually you were willing to answer questions so we don't mind.

Can you sort by Name/Distance? I think you can sort by GC code as well, that is really the unique identifier that the computer (yes the GPS is a computer) should be looking for. Your PQ shouldn't have duplicates in it, and I think EasyGPS can sort them out as well as the GPS being able to sort out duplicates.

It seems unlikely that you've got that level of duplication. Do you have only one PQ? How are you loading the PQ?

I think the good faith clause applies here. You might send a very polite note to finders letting them know what cache they found including a link to it would be very nice and suggest they log that cache instead.

No, it's available as a freebie http://project-gc.com/?wildsearch=Sudoku%20switzerland Oh good to know.

Project-GC can do this for you. I'm not sure if you need a paid membership over there to do it, I have one in both places so I don't know.

That would be a perfectly acceptable use of the codes. I've got one for each of us and one for each of the VW's.

While I don't mind sending an offer to help (or receiving one) what I don't like is getting an unsolicited email with a spoiler. Especially when it isn't their cache.

I have a 650 and the only change I needed to make to take full advantage of the 650 was to do a paid upgrade of GSAK.

The doohickey used to work. Why doesn't it now?

I got trackable drops and a will attend today

I think you're missing the point of the responses, there is nothing to say you can't be creative with those logbook containers and clever/cute camo. Glass just doesn't do as well as plastic when dropped,.

You don't have to try to find them. If it doesn't appeal to you, don't do it.

I rather enjoy finding caches with clever camo, but really the cache I can find without dying is the kind I like.

Well, I think you've got a few things that you'd need to straighten out. One being who's owns the right to see those coins? Just the ones I own? Just the ones I've moved/discovered? Ones in the same batch as my owned coins? All coins made by a specific mint? By an artist? I think Project-GC does your coins and maybe the ones in your inventory. I've never really bothered to look.... hum should do my semi annual trackable location check.

Nah. The newsletter lists all events by date of the event. I'm not really interested in driving to Rhode Island for an event! Now, if they listed them by distance rather than by date, the list would be useful. Well that idea is shot. I haven't opened the newsletter in a while, notifications work okay for me. There are downsides to living where you don't get 4G on your only internet enabled device.

Sure, Hide/Seek a cache, Advanced search, pick event out of cache types, pick your country, pick your area. Bayern, Germany as the place you've held events in (I'm assuming that's the area you live in). Notifications will also work for you, and I think the newsletter is supposed to include that (I haven't opened one since it went to html...)