Team Red Jeep
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Ahh the old timers still like the old ways of communication... LOL :-) Honey have you seen my Gerital?
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Come to the CVC event this Saturday and meet a bunch of Central Valley Geocachers. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...dc-f7bcc0be9414
New to geocaching and slightly addicted!
Looking for some new friends to cache with! I live in the Modesto area. So far have only found 2 caches but I am determined to find as many as possible. Though I could use someone to show me the ropes and teach me not to give a darn about looky-loo's. 
I feel silly searching for some of these things - especially when I can't locate them. I need to know what I am suppose to be looking for really. So if you're up for new friends shoot me an email!
smaried@live.com25 female btw
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Hi everyone. We've been gone for a while, but have the bug once again. Amazing when I logged in and saw my profile picture, etc. Eight years ago! I'm not sure who we'd know on here anymore, but I noticed Ron is back at it.
Using the Android app "GeOrg" and it makes it SOOOOOO easy. Long gone are the days of punching in coordinates or even looking at the site much! It's all there!
Hope to get in contact with friends from the past as well as new ones!
One advantage is all the caches around me are new to us!!!!
Welcome Back! Nice to hear someone else is using a Android for geocaching. We use a couple Oregons and our Android phone with (reference to unauthorized application removed by Groundspeak) app. (reference to unauthorized application removed by Groundspeak) developer is great adding improvements almost weekly and really listens to input from users via facebook.
Happy Geocaching!
Team Red Jeep
Wow I guess ground speak does not like the app and let post the name here? Interesting.
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OK so that run in sothern calif is a little more difficult then we thought. but we did manage to get about 70 and we got to use the first aid kit a couple of times.
LMAO... Well you beat Tami and I, we only managed 1 while we were there. Hope the first aid thing did not involve and catus. They can be real mean.
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Doesn't any one come to chat on the forum any more.
I scared them away with my Jingle Bells parody...
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Caching through the snow
With an free iPhone application
Over the fields we go
Loosing signal all the way
Lids on canisters leaking
Making logs wet
What fun it is to find and hide
Not a muggle in sight
GPS dead, GPS dead,
GPS needs new batteries
Oh, no not another DNF tonight
GPS dead, GPS dead,
GPS needs new batteries
Oh, no not another DNF tonight
Happy Holidays!
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With all due respect, because I don't know either you or the person who posted on your caches, but I think you're opening a can of worms with responding like that (but it's too late to retract it now, especially if that person is "watching" the caches and gets a notification with your response).
I also would be careful about discussing your exchange with her on here, because this IS the CV thread and she IS in the "CV" so how do you know she's not reading THIS? It just seems like it has the potential to get very 90210 in here, LOL!
I'm only posting this because you seem to be asking for feedback on how you're handling it. Your caches have only been out for a day, and there are a LOT of FTF-Hounds in this area. I'm sure someone will pick them up soon!
Point taken, Thank You
I plan on making the lunch today to find out more about CV.
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My question is should I remove the post as to not scare geocachers away or leave it?
It's a personal choice. Some folks delete log entries like that as it seems to snowball on subsequent visits/log entries (e.g. usually gets harsher in tone).
I'm from the school of thought that as long as it's not a Terms of Use violation of the website (e.g. harrassing in nature, use of Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" and that sort of thing), I think it's part of the cache history and leave it be. I might be tempted in a few cases, like yours, to post a Maintenance Log saying that I checked up on the caches and made sure all the "drunk fishermen" in the area had a warm meal and a place to sleep for the night
My 0.02, which if you add with a couple of bucks will buy you a coffee at a Bistro.
Thanks for your comments and input. I posted a maintenace log. Maybe I was little harsh?
My Post
" Wow, stereotyping all fishermen as drunks? You were there November 6 and seen a fisherman? All Stanislaus river parks are closed to fishing November 1 to December 31 for protection of the fall Chinook salmon run. You should have called Fish and Game.
Yes, some fishermen drink to help pass the time waiting for the big catch but it is not against the law. I have always found fishermen courteous in the area. I also have had several occasions where I have seen Fish and Game, Stanislaus River Parks Rangers patrolling the area. As with any location in the world if you don’t feel comfortable being there alone then don’t be there.
Sorry you did not enjoy the cache."
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Placed a couple cache's yesterday and this is the first comments I got from a person trying to be FTF on both cache's.
"As with the other one in this area...PLEASE BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR PERSONAL SAFETY IN THIS AREA...attracts drunk fisherman"
"While Im excited to try for a FTF so near the home grounds...Im also familiar with this area...and after scope'g it out hoping I was wrong, had to turn this one down....PLEASE BE CAREFUL IN THIS AREA WITH YOUR PERSONAL SAFETY...while the river provides beautiful views....it also provides drunk fisherman"
I think she is stereo typing fisherman as drunks?
I to am fimiliar with the area, I would not recommend my wife goes there alone, but I would recommend the same for many cache locations.
Maybe she is just pissed she could not find them?
My question is should I remove the post as to not scare geocachers away or leave it?
Thanks
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I have the 400t and agree the 100k Topo USA it comes with sucks!
I have upgraded to the new 24k Topo West (not the old Mapsource verison, this one https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=35407 ) it has routable roads and trails. I'm amazed how many off road and hiking trails are routable in my area, Sierra Nevada range and Nevada. The 400t is now the all around awesome GPS it should have been from Garmin. I would have liked to not had to buy more software for it but it was worth it. I love geocaching and my back country adventures with it. I started several years ago with a Garmin eMap, and 400t has come a long way from that.
One thing with the 400t for navigation is you want to be sure you are in the right profile, Automotive and I think recreation mode will put you on streets with turn by turn routes, in the geocaching mode gives you only point to point straight line.
I got the 24k for about $85 on Amazon
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Does anyone know the most recent updates and where i can get them i am running 2.93 still
Latest GPS Software Version is 3.70
Select Unit Software here, follow instructions: http://www8.garmin.com/support/download.jsp
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No I did not even blow up. Thank goodness cause the event in Ripon on Saturday would not happen if I was not there. OH did I say there was an event in ripon Saturday? Just a nice get together without all the frills. just a birthday get together. Would love to meet you Team red Jeep.
We have been thinking we need to come to one of your events. We already had plans the day of Boo Bash and we have dog herding event this Saturday.
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From the Turlock POLICE LOG - 10/20/2009:
Suspicious Circumstance 0911 Markley Park 09-10211
City Crew found what looked like a pipe bomb under a sign at the park, attached to the pole with a magnet. Once the S/O bomb squad arrived, it was determined not to be dangerous, but to be part of Geo Cache, a web site where people put little treasures to be found at different GPS coordinates, and filled with signatures.
LOL they really SHOULD learn to check all bomb reports on geocaching.com first!
My last cache I placed is made from a black plastic sprinkler and sprinkler riser. I was thinking when I made it looks like a pipe bomb. I was thinking if a muggle finds it they will think it was placed by a tree terroist to blow up a tree. GO CACHN was first to find and did not blow up.
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Have an automotive profile, and a geocaching profile. Auto-route to the cache using the former profile (icons on menu set in a certain order, city navigator maps up etc) , quickly change profiles on the Oregon to "Geocaching" and automagically load up topo maps, route via direct route etc.. all in one click. Very good all-in-one unit.
I am new to the 400T and am not sure how to set up these profiles that you mentioned. Can you run through a quick description of how to set them up and then how you switch at the cache?
Profiles are already set up from Garmin. Just find the profile icon and select the profile you want. All of them can be tweaked to your likings, but Garmin did a good job setting them up.
I also use nuvi on the dash and Oregon 400t for the final approach. If we are off road or hiking for caches we just the Oregon. nuvi 750 and 765 we have just to big to fit in my hand. Also hate getting close and not having a compass.
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I have the 400T (US topo) and the map for my county has all roads off about .2 of a mile on the North/South axis and .1 East/West axis. Funny thing is landmarks and waterways are dead on. I can drive a half a mile from my home in to the next county and all roads are dead on. The map show bends in the road to line up at the county lines when in real life there is not. I contacted Garmin regarding the issue and they told me the topo maps are set up to match the contours of terrain not roads. The funny thing is my whole county is flat plus or minus a couple feet. I know for a fact they or USGS screwed up years ago when doing my county. I had the same issue with my Garmin emap and US topo 5 or 6 years ago. Back then Garmin told me it was an error in the map data. You would think they could have corrected it by now, Nope. Don't get me wrong I love my Garmin products, just disappointed to spend almost $500 on something almost useless in my county. So when I geocache in my county it's the nuvi on the dash and the Oregon compass when I get close. Good thing I can hook up both at the same time to comunicator to download GPX files to both.
Looking for some new friends to cache with! I live in the Modesto area. So far have only found 2 caches but I am determined to find as many as possible. Though I could use someone to show me the ropes and teach me not to give a darn about looky-loo's. 
I feel silly searching for some of these things - especially when I can't locate them. I need to know what I am suppose to be looking for really. 
Maybe next time!
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