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Also, Validation Emails for new accounts are not being sent out. I am trying to get my brother set up as a christmas gift, and the emails are not coming.

The Gimp It's easy to use, very powerful, and it's free.

I asked for a compass, i got a compass and a half! My little brother got a GPS from my parents and a year of premium membership to geocaching.com from my wife and I. He took my father and brother in law caching that afternoon. Anyone else have a merry caching Christmas?

Since when do we allow advertising on the forums? BTW, an external antenna does the same thing.

I use a Palm Tungsten T3. And no, no case. I probably should get one. . .

My Caching shoes of choice Best part is i got them for half price through my employer.

The external antenna that came with my globalsat bt308 pulls in an even stronger signal than the unit itself, which is impressive anyway. Since the unit gets adequate signal just sitting on the dash, i don't use it in the truck, so the external antrenna is taped to the shoulder strap on my caching backpack, and the unit chills inside the pack when i'm out caching. having the external antenna sit on top of my shoulder gives me great field accuracy. (the bt308 is a bluetooth gps, it streams coordinates wirelessly to my palm pilot, which is why the gps itself is in my backpack) actually, the external antenna is so good at picking up signal, once when my backpack, with external antenna attached, and gps inside it were behind the seat in my truck, i turned the palm pilot on on the dash and found that i had a 3D fix on my location. in short: it's been my limited experience that external antenna do better in all situations

Best combo is using a gps that connects to the palm pilot itself, then you never have to load it with waypoints. Even better is when your gps connects to the palm pilot without wires, like mine does using bluetooth. My gps doesn't even have a screen on it, it has an on/off switch and that's it. It sits in my backpack while i cache. I pull up a cache in CacheMate on the palm, then hit the nav button for the cachemate nav plugin. The palm pilot becomes the gps screen.

True, I doubt the Bible will help if you find yourself lost in the woods. But I also doubt your GPSr will help if you find yourself lost in life.

Well, here it is. A quick and easy way to donate to this worthy cause. Please click the link below and enter for a chance (or many chances) to win: Hiking Staff Donate Page I've already tested it and ordered 2 chances for myself. El Diablo: Shoot me an email if you would like the source to this page to host it on your own server, but I would be more than happy to leave it up for you on my server.

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I am working on a little page for this cause where people can select the number of chances they want to buy, complete with a paypal "buy it now" button. I will send the link when it is complete

Cool! I wish I was a dog. . .

Would you prefer those caches not exist?

This brings up a question I have been thinking about for quite a while. For such an oversized cache, seems to me that the best way to hide it would be to partially bury it. If you left the top x inches sticking out of the ground, covered with rocks/sticks/the usual, then no digging is required, so it's okay, right?

LOL. You need to learn Patience. Take a lesson from NFA, hider of Rupert's Cash Cache

I am going to mirror the files on my server. It has plenty bandwidth, you can expect to download them at the maximum speed your internet service allows. The Video Blooper Reel (won't be fully available until about 11:00pm tonight)

Wouldn't the average ratio of finds to hides for the average cacher be equal to the average number of finds for the average cache?

That's AmeriCans, thank you, and nice stereotyping. If you wanna continue politicizing, go to the Off Topic forum. Dunno, it sounded pretty close to the mark to me.

I have seen my GPS tracking as many as 10 satellites at once. Sometimes only 3. Is there any way to predict when you will have more satellites to get a more accurate signal? For example, I wouldn't try to place a cache with only 3 satellites if I knew I could wait 6 hours and have 7 or 8.

Doubt it, my mother's wife's sister doesn't let me touch her stuff

My Humble Opinion: If you find the cache intact, and sign the logbook, you should log a find. If you get close and didn't find it, that is a DNF. If your GPS zeroes out, and you think you see where the cache was, but it's not there, that is a DNF. If you drive 1500 miles and come within 200 feet of the cache only to find that it's in a park that closed 20 minutes ago and you don't go in, that is a DNF. If you find the cache destroyed, muggled, or strewn about, and you can't repair it yourself, or if the log book is destroyed, that is a "needs archived". If, after logging a needs archived, the owner of the cache emails you to tell you it's okay to log the find, you can. If you have found the cache before, and went to find it again, and you did, that's a note. Anything else, it's a note. I cannot understand people logging finds without actually finding the cache. What in the world do they think is the purpose of logging a DNF?

Snagged my 50th find today at an awsome multi in Buffalo, NY: Trick or Cache? Had a great time finding this 7-legger, which had us running from one side of the small cemetary to the other over and over. Dropped off a travel bug who wanted to find cities named Buffalo. Also, took a friend who had never cached before, and he had a blast!

Mapopolis.

I would tell you what i think, but I can't read the document. Sorry.