RS67Man

Did anyone notice his joined GS date? it is not as recent as I expected........

I have no way to connect the 76 to my confuser, it is borrowed from my dad, he lost the serial cable. I am afraid I am not techie enough to figure out the serial cable thing anyways. My dad uses it for nautical navigation, so he has no need to connect it for anything. I am not going to spend $$ on a borrowed unit, and my Dad is 81. He has gone out on hunts with me, he really prefers the ones that are easy to get to. He has no plans to GC on his own. I am putting off the member upgrade until I get my own GPSr, I heard select models like the Oregon come with a 30 day premium member tryout. When that is about to expire I will then spend the $30 for a year. I am also going to wait to download any additional software until then as well. By then I will have a better idea of what I need/want.

The 76 works great, but I am getting tired of manually entering every WP, and wasting ink and paper printing out the cache descriptions. I do find the paperless capabilities of the Oregon plus being able to connect to my confuser to download the caches appealing, and I will get to try out a friends this weekend!

Sorry to 'interrupt' here since I don't have one to add, but what's the GCXXX for that cache? I enjoy cemetery caches. A quick search yielded this cache: GCNB3Y

New GCer here, thought I would say howdy to my neighbors. I was introduced to this hobby by Squarepeg, tagged along on one of his hunts. Been using a GPSMaps 76 GPSr borrowed from my dad, hope to get a Oregon 300 soon. As of this moment I have found 21 GCs, been having fun with caches near my home, but I did get one in Vancouver BC last weekend while at a festival. Does that mean I have already gone international? Hope to see you out there looking for the next one.

Are you sure you did not use one of the new Harry Potter Muggle proof boxes? You know, it disappears after you hide it. If you are sure you are looking in the exact same spot you placed it, then it is highly likely it was muggled.

You Know.....

In this case, lets add the qualifier of urban/suburban with short suburban hikes in the woods.

Or just remove the period after the N38 and the W092 and add a space. That is the culprit. It should read: N38 06.644, W092 37.093 That worked for me!

I am new to this, got introduced to it by a friend. Been using a GPSMaps 76 borrowed from my dad, and have had some pretty good success. I am curious to see what the more experienced geocacher takes with them when they go hunting. Lets go beyond the obvious, we know we need a GPSr and a pen, maybe a few cache descriptions to go looking for. What else should we have, and what do you use to carry it all in? A list would be nice, maybe in order of importance.

My knee jerk reaction as a newbie is make it a multi if the puzzle requires you to find a cache at WP1 to be able to solve it. If the solution only requires you to look for specific things/numbers at WP1 to figure out coordinates for WP2, using a puzzle key in the cache description, but not a physical cache, it is a puzzle. I read a cache description on a multi that required you to look at specific objects at WP1 and count rivets in metal beams, a date on a plaque and the like. These numbers were used with partial coordinates and puzzle key kept in a small cache at WP1.

Although I am very new at this, I have only had one DNF out of the 15 I have looked for so far. It took 4 tries to get that last one, I logged a DNF on the first two attempts, posted a note on the third, then smiley faced it finally on the fourth try. I will at least post a note if I get close to the cache, that way the CO knows that people are trying to look for it, even if I am just saying why I could not do a proper search.