Azaruk

I downloaded the program, installed and ran it - but found it incredibly sloooooooow! 2.4GHz Celeron, 512MB memory. Gave up due to snail-like pace.

I print front and back adjacent to each other, in colour, getting 8 to a page. Slice them, fold them, laminate them. Full colour, double-sided, laminated, hard-wearing sig cards. I don't, however, staple them to the log book. I fill in the log book in pen/pencil, mentioning that my sig card has been left, and drop the sig card into the cache. I realise that the next visitor could take it, but hey - that's the game! If the cache owner specifically wants one of my cards, an email to me will result in the posting of a card to him/her.

There has recently been a major solar flare (mentioned in another thread somewhere) that would definitely influenced the accuracy of GPSr readings. Apparently it was massive (highest rating possible) and potentially disruptive to a large number of terrestrial electronic operations. I suggest you wait for a few days while the solar storm subsides, then try again.

Unless you do as we do - print them on an ink jet, around business card size, and laminate them in a plastic wallet. Moisture doesn't affect the laminated card, and it life is considerably extended.

Too popular? I wish!!! Here in South AFrica, and in particular, the province we live in, there are relatively few caches and people playing the game. If I look for caches close to my home coordinates, most of them are mine! We continually try to attract new players, which is a slow and difficult process. I don't know whether it's general apathy, the fear of something new, the expense of GPSr equipment, or a general distrust of technical equipment, but we are battling to attract people to the game here. A newspaper article a while ago which we instigated was well written, conveyed the excitement of geocaching, portrayed geocaching in a very positive light, had a readership of around 600,000, resulted in contact from 5 potential new players! The players in USA are more fortunate than they realise with the large numbers of caches placed. Don't knock it! We are frusrated in the extreme here, setting ourselves the task of placing caches to try and boost the numbers. Even then, very few hunters get out to try and locate the caches we have hidden off the beaten path, so to speak. FRUSTRATING!!!!!!

I downloaded the program, can't get the accessories yet (they're temprarily withdrawn) which would be useful as they permit caching of downloaded images for use off-line, and still need DirectX 9c to run it. Will be trying it over the weekend.

We only give explicit hints on caches that are difficult and time consuming to get to. Others, that are an easy drive or walk? You're on your own! In our opinion, there's a great amount of fun to be had trying to work out how the original hider's mind works and applying "the force" to discovering the cache.

I live a heck of a long way away from USA, but one of my dreams, as a photographer, has been to do a trip to photograph your beautiful contry and make an effort to make a few pics of the covered bridges. These, as far as I know, are unique to America, part of the heritage of the country and a fine example of the craftsmanship prevalent in the time when these amazing structures were built. That someone could even think about burning one down, let alone actually doing the deed, is completely and utterly beyond me. I sincerely hope that the perpertrators are apprehended, that they get very heavily fined, spend a good amount of time in jail and have to contribute heavily (financially or physically) in rebuilding the bridge.

www.geocaching.com uses computers that can only be described as cache machines!!! Apart from that, I have absolutely no idea, unless it's some reference to motor vehicles.

Hads one this weekend where the cache co-ords were taken over by a group of pot-smokers who were obviously there for the duration! We hung around for over an hour - willing them to move on, but with no luck. So .... a DNF was posted, with an entry explaining what the problem was, and suggesting that this particular cache would a better bet on a week-day rather than a weekend. And yes ...... I always post a DNF if I was unable to find the cache (for whatever reason) and would expect others to post DNF's on my caches if they were unsuccessful. A few DNF entries and I go to see if the cache is still in place. A very useful feature as far as I am concerned.

I have been involved in making printed circuit boards. The number of times I did exactly what you did and got everything backwards is too great to mention. Talk about embarassing!!!! Note: It became evident during these ridiculously stupid adventures that electrons are greyish-blue, travel in a fairly well organised cloud and escape with vigour when the power is applied with the wrong polarity! Some people refer to escaping electrons as smoke, but I know better!

Yup! LandRovers rock!!!! 1969 Series IIa 1990 130 Note to self - find the pics!!!!!

"Standard" non-rechargeable alkaline cells have a nominal voltage of 1.5V. Ni-CD and Ni-MH cells charge to a maximum of (nominal) 1.2V The Sportrak uses two cells. Alkaline = 3.0V Chargeable cells = 2.4V That's quite a percentage difference, and is why the battery indicator shows that the battery is not full. However, the rechargeable cells will last longer (even though the voltage is lower) due to their superior current capability. Hope this helps. (I believe that some Garmin products allow the user to specify the type of battery used, altering the battery level indicator to suit. Cool feature!)

So ........ what WAS the problem .........?

Welcome to the obsession, I mean sport! Ask any question you like - we are all here to help, the more happy cachers we have, the better! We'll all do everything we can to help you get involved with this RASH (Recreation/Activity/Sport/Hobby) All you really need to do is have a huge amount of fun and enjoy yourself!

"I'm with Stupid. I find 'em, he thinks he's clever""

We have other committments on 16th, so we did our own CITO last weekend at one of the reserves where we have a cache or two in place. 11 of us cleaned the area up, along with a bunch of volunteers from the reserve itself. Very successful - a clean trail - and we found some really cool locations to hide a new cache or two!!! It was a good day. We have also undertaken to repair bridges and walkways at the Glenholme cache, probably in August or September. We are currently trying to attract sponsored material. Will keep you all informed.

....... and therein lies the major problem. We put a good mix of adult and child oriented swag. The adult stuff disappears very quickly, (never replaced with similar adult swag, and the cache rapidly fills up with low-end goodies. We find ourselves doing maintenance runs much more frequently since we started putting quality adult swag in our caches.

Bee Em in Red

Won't the little kiddy get terribly bored while stashed in a cache waiting to be picked up?

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As mentioned before ....... IrfanView. It's amazingly powerful, full of great features, compatible with most graphics formats and is free I strongly recommend the program - I use it extensively - a very useful addition to my software library.

I took eleven interested people out caching on Sunday to show them what it was all about. They're hooked. We have eleven new geocachers!

I took eleven interested people out to show them what geocaching was all about. Cheated a bit in taking them to three of my caches and two othes that I knew of. They had a ball and we now have eleven new cachers in my area! It was a good day!

Glad to hear it! Susan is an angel though!