Arrow42

I'd like to cache/camp Yellowstone. I haven't been there in years and it's a great place to visit.

You could just set your home coords further from the boarder.

bought magellan triton 400 . accuracy ? was about two miles off . Took it back and bought triton 1500 ....which was even worse . about three miles off . now that i am cured , i bought garmin legend hcx . works perfect !!!! : I think it's fair to say that your experiences do not represent manufactures specifications or the practical experience of many people on the forum. While it's posible that you got two flawed units in a row, I suspect that it is a user-error caused problem. If I remember right, the out of the box configuration is different then the defaults on the geocaching.com website. Inputting the coords in the wrong format could certainly cause a 3 mile error - I did exactly the same thing.

I would like to emphasize that a "DNF" is not a failure and should not be taken as such. Don't be embarrassed! The cache owner needs to know if people suddenly can't find their cache - it might be a symptom of a problem. It's also useful to keep track of caches you might want to visit again at a later time, etc.

Anakerose, I had a similar problem with my T400... however, when they released the firmware patches about 4 months ago it became a lot more stable and since then it's been working great. I don't regret buying it - it's a great deal at the price point. I'd prefer the Oregon, but it's a lot more expensive.

Here's how I do it... I have one PQ that runs twice a week... That one covers the 500 caches nearest to my home... this extends out a few miles. I have this one running automatically because if I'm doing some spur-of-the-moment cacheing, It's usually near home for at least some of the day. I also have 20 or so PQs set up for specific tasks. Two types I will run occasionally on an on-demand basis. Since I hardly ever run them they are high-priority and get run almost immediately. -Many are for nearby areas -some are for trips ...and a few are for complex searches that I always use in "preview" mode and never actually run. I have one for "Hardest caches", "Large Caches" and "Never found caches"... I might have a few others I can't recall. Some people like to get their 75000 caches per month... That's just not useful for me. Especially when Groundspeak will send me the PQs in less then 5 min every single time I ask for them.

A "Dip" option... Yeah, sounds like a good idea. I don't get "dipping" personally, but lots of people do it and currently the way it's done is cumbersome.

I'm not sure I get why the second person is even needed? Why wouldn't the first person just print out aerial photo?

There's an app for that...

Yeah, like any good parent they sent me here. No one seems to have a definitive answer. Meh. Have you tried it? If so and it doesn't work, then I'm sure it's specifically designed to not work. I think they want to make sure each copy sold required a premium membership. Just guessing however. Maybe a lackey will come along and say "No, Arrow is a fool! This is how you do it..."

I've been thinking about doing something similar for quite some time. Only issue is that I'm having a hard time finding any open spots for a ammo can!

Against the guidelines? Well, I'm not so sure. I can't recall any guideline that specifically addresses this issue. How can they even call it a team? A team is a group of people who work togethere. This is a group of acting individually. What does "Team Cacheaholic" get from this? I don't get what their motivation in all this is. Unless it's only about the find count? But then... it's so meaningless. He (or she?) can't really take credit for those finds.... not in their own subconscious. The only real accomplishment is convincing a few (dozen?) people to put your names on little peaces of paper. *Shrug* Oh well, cache on. Please don't log any finds on my caches, Team Cacheaholic.

That would be the cache-seekers responsibility, not the cache hider's. Blaming the cache-hider is the easy way out and doesn't address the real problem.

Umm... Errr.... I dunno. I just don't see what this adds to the sport.

I know of at least one cache where the owner expected seekers to pick the lock, and thus listed it as 5-star difficulty ("requires specialized knowledge, skills, or equipment"). Sounds like a neat idea. There are some bike locks that have become notorious for being easy to pick. Might make for an interesting series of caches...

For some reason google links to the "outline" version of the page. If you follow a link to this forum from google (and perhaps other search engines) then your default choice for page display it switched to "outline". The way to switch is back is a drop down menu near the top of the thread on the right hand side - it's marked "options". Select "standard". Don't worry... It took me two days before someone pointed this out to me.

And this is done for a purely pragmatic reason. If they made it easy to keep an offline database then they would be giving away their only asset. More flexibility in PQs would be nice. The ability to keep an offline database would be useful for some scenarios... not me, but I can see where it might be useful.

You might want to convert your page to "simple" html. Free bump in any case.

Your best bet would be to ask in the geocache navigator forums. Geocache navigator isn't maintained by Groundspeak.

This is between you, your IT department and your boss. I work with a content filter regularly(*)... Domains are categorized internally in a database... at-lease in the filter we use. The only time we ever change that database is if we receive a request from someone with a good reason. (*: Yes, it's pure coincidence that geocaching.com is not blocked... )

It might last if you soak the whole thing it in lacquer. It would make it shiny however, so maybe not so good?

I wasn't able to find specifics for each type of fall, but I did find two interesting statistics: - there is an average of 392,000 deaths from falls annually world-wide. A bit less then 1% of all deaths. (WHO) - Falls are the second leading cause of work-related death in the U.S., 717. (NIOSH)

It might not be "chickening out" - it could be that they felt they had a conflict of interests, previous entanglement or something similar. We can only speculate at this time. If your cache has finds, then it's hardly the same circumstance. I don't think the sky is actually falling, Mr. Little.

Tell that to the University of South Carolina, United States Department of Labor, and Washington State. Might seem silly... It's a little bit like a gun - it's just easy to use dangerously wrong. There are around 100,000 hospital visits attributed to from falls from ladders annually (source).