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I have an old Garmin eTrex Legend, which has worked well for me so far

I would never have thought that altoids and coffee latte went together! Whatever floats your boat! I like jerky. You can chew on it for awhile, so it's not like you just down it quickly (because there isn't that much jerky in a bag sometimes). I don't always carry jerky, but I always carry energy bars, like Power Bars or Clif Bars. If I do a lot of hiking (I haven't gotten that many geocaches yet) then I like to have the energy bars to snack on. If it's a hard hike, then I like the "recovery" Power Bars. They're supposed to do something for muscle repair and I think they might actually work I always have water with me. If I feel like I've done some exertion, then I like Gatorade. Other favorites for when I've gone out: Licorice, suckers, sunflower seeds, cashews, and cheese & crackers Gotta make sure the crackers don't get smashed though Cheese & crumbs kinda sucks.

You could save money in the long run if you built a mini trebuchet, instead of buying catnip. Plus, a launch mechanism would be safer than trusting an herb. Catnip tends to go stale over time, releasing its enticing compounds, till it reaches a point where it loses its ability to attract kittens. You could sprinkle it to your heart's content, and get no more reaction from your kitten than a "Meh". But with a trebuchet, you could stand back a few hundred yards, dropping those kittens right on top of the dreaded device. Naturally, you'd need to practice, so your aim would not be affected by cross winds or inconsistent kitten weights, but like you said, the world is full of kittens. If one lands on the top and nothing happens, go find the cache. If it turns into a charred hairball, post a NM. If you want kittens because they are plentiful, then you will need the trebuchet. Kitties may not react to catnip until after 6 months of age, and some kitties will never respond to catnip as it is a genetic thing (like litmus paper or being able to roll your tongue). Trebuchets FTW!

we've alawys had tons of Nalgene bottles over the years, and none of them have ever been injured from the dishwasher! maybe we're just lucky I have like... 5 or 6, counting the 2 that didn't quite make it unscathed. They seem pretty tough, but I think it something gets bumped up against something hot then a bit of melting occurs. Or so I figure anyways

No it's not. It's satellite science! Yeah, that sucked Weather here that day was perfect. No clouds, no breeze, probably in the 50's.

I've have 2 nalgene bottles messed up by the dishwasher, but not nearly that bad! Holy cow! One had the little piece of plastic that holds the cap to the bottle melted through, rendering useless for using with my kayak (I put a carabiner through the thingy and clip it to a bungee cord that is attached to the kayak). The other one just had part of the cap melted through, but at least it was really minor (*really* minor)

Y'know, I made the comment to someone that the GZ I was looking for was jumping back and forth between two spots about 40-50 feet apart every few minutes over the course of an hour and a half. Between 3 and 4:30pm EST, 1/1/12. Not what I usually see. Clear view of sky. Pretty flat land. Even for a sticky Garmin Etrex20, it should (and usually does) get pretty solid locks in a situation like that. I wasn't going to comment until someone else did -- my wife already thinks I blame too much on the GPS. No way! Mine happened somewhere between 1 o'clock and 2'clock Mountain Time. I've used mine a lot in hiking and marking waypoints (like camp or petroglyphs) and it only acts up when I'm by a cliff wall or in a narrow canyon. I'm actually kind of happy this happened to someone else because I was a little worried that my GPS was trying to fail and need to be replaced More than mere coincidence? The truth is out there!

I've been this rather willy-nilly, but a game plan would be nice. Get an idea of what caches are in what area, which ones you wanna do, then go do them. I would print out a map or draw one, or use a smart phone/tablet/laptop/PDA. With notes, same as above: paper/smart phone/laptop/tablet/PDA. Write down the size of what you're looking for, the container type, and any hints or relevant information. I've searched for 16 caches, and have found 10, so there are 6 I haven't found. I have a less than 50% success rate. I'm still new and a lot of the ones I found, were actually found with my dad, so someone else was helping. Just takes time, so all we can do is keep looking!

I've only accessed the beta maps off my laptop and the desktop, but it's worked well so far. I like it

That has been said many times. However, I have my doubts that international terrorists are most likely not really aware of our little game. Not saying that it *couldn't* happen, but I'll probably win the lottery before you see that scenario come to pass. While I don't believe someone would post a cache on this site that was a bomb, I still think caution prevails with the bomb squad. I mean, some dude in Afganistan might not know or care about geocaching, but maybe someone like Timothy McVeigh would. Again, totally unlikely, but just because it's so impossible doesn't mean we should write it off. It would be nice if someone had enough time to look and see if the cache has a listing, but that's probably the last thing on their minds. I would guess that they're probably bound to do something once they're called in First, thanks for taking the time to try to understand my horribly convoluted sentence! But as for checking the cache listings, Moose Mob paints a slightly more hopeful picture in his post above: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=287832&view=findpost&p=4933173 I'm not gonna lie, I am impressed that they would check geocache listings, and applaud them for doing so! Yay! I dig it! I love flow charts

Oh honey, lol. I would hate to be so in need of tupperware that I'd have to wander around and take them out from under bridges and bushes. Just, wow, lol. Yesterday I went caching and had a non-caching friend along. He was at the bottom of this giant sand hill talking to people and I went up top to look for the cache. When I came back down, the people were like "Oh! What was it?" and so I told them about the container and stuff and they were like "That's it? For all that you should have gotten 10 dollars!" which was like, well, yes I would've liked 10 bucks for climbing up there because it was hard for me, but that wasn't the point.... I had challenged myself to climb up to the top (granted, if the cache wasn't there I might've turned around, lol) and I made it and saw some cool things! I want to climb back up and look around some more (even if it does wind me quite badly)

As a newbie and rather doubtful in my skills, I'm not entirely sure I would've opened the eggs to find the cache. If it was in the cache description, then yes, I would have opened the eggs. Hopefully you can get someone to pull a favor and help out with the cache. Kind of the downside of having one so far away

I've never taken notes, like with a notebook or anything. I would take pictures, and think I need to take more pictures Would be interesting to save my route of looking as a track log or whatever it's called, and then save it with easyGPS and upload it here so people can see how inept I am Right now, I don't find very many, am I'm so excited that I found something that I come home and log it when I'm done being out and about. After hearing how some cache owners like to read about experiences and not "TNLN, SL, TFTC", so I've been trying to write decent logs

I don't think it's really going to take you right to it. You should be close though. I've always heard that you get to point where it tells you you're there, then look within a certain radius of that point. Sometimes that radius is bigger than you'd want You just need more practice (I do too!). I keep looking in all these places to hide things and I'm completely wrong. Micros and nanos are pretty hard too when you start out. The last micro I found, I somehow skipped over it for about an hour before I found a spoiler picture. Then I zeroed in on it. The cache I found yesterday, I actually walked around the silly thing multiple times before I noticed it. It also depends on other people. How accurate is their unit? Has someone moved the cache, or even stolen it? Good luck!

Mine acted weird yesterday too (Garmin eTrex Legend). I didn't check the accuracy, but I'd get the arrow right on top of where the cache was supposed to be, start looking, not find anything, then try to get the arrow on top of the geocache again and end up in a different spot. The was acting was like I was up against a canyon wall and the signal was bouncing, but I was on top of a hill in a pretty open spot. I feel a little better knowing someone else's unit was acting funny. I am interested to find out what it could be (or if just coincidence )

I have a Garmin eTrex Legend. I'm not sure how similar it is to the Legend H (they sure do look similar!) but mine had a 9-pin serial. I got a converter to make it into a USB and it works fine. Took me a minute to figure out how to get it to work, but I figured it out all by myself and it works fantastic. I think if you get a good converter cord, then you're set. I think if you're willing to either use paper, have a smart phone, have the converter, or are willing to enter everything manually, then no, there isn't anything wrong with buying a discontinued unit. Mine isn't fancy, has no maps, only has major roads, doesn't have a memory card, but I love it. If you're good with old school, then go for it

Wasn't really a CITO thing, but I found a nice safety whistle once. One of the metal ones that screws apart. I found a nice plastic compass at the boat ramp after the end of a river trip too. Today I actually did a CITO and found some whole glass bottles, but they weren't that old, so they weren't worth keeping :/ The Swiss Army knife would've been pretty sweet!

Google is your friend. Google early, Google often. Something like this? That is amazing! I love it I like this too! How fun! This one is good too. Not really fun, but a good idea! Curious people won't think you're trying to locate your lost stash of crack or something

I think there are few advantages to an actual GPS unit. Battery life for one. Using my phone in the sunlight, I can't see it unless the brightness is all the way up, and that drains the battery so bad. Especially if I'm using the phone to wander around looking for something. Durability for a second. My last smartphone fell a couple of times. The (almost) killing blow was when it fell like, 2 feet max off a low nightstand onto a hard floor. Luckily, my dad is awesome with electronics and fixed it. With my Garmin, I fell out of a kayak and was in the water and the thing worked fine. Until it fell off my Camelbak and I accidentally ran it over I think my dad could've fixed it, but I thought it was hopeless and got rid of it Last of all, accuracy. I'm not saying the phone is going to suck all the time, but sometimes it will just be off. I used my phone for a cache once and the coords on the phone were way off. Sometimes the GPS will be way off or do something weird, but I've never had it act out so badly or unpredictably that it ruined my day. Finally, as for something uncomplicated, gander through the manual and then just play with it some. You'll figure it out, you just need to trust yourself

I have called Magellan and was told that they know all about the problem. It has been an occurring problem for over a year! They don't seem like they are ever going to fix anytime soon. The call taker told me to just use some 3rd. party software and the problem will be solved. I couldn't get the person on the other end of the phone to understand that this isn't how the dadgum thing was suppose to work. I told the call taker to read the box and the way they advertise the product. Blah, Blah,Blah..... They just don't care at Magellan, just like any company now days... Just buy what we sell and then it's your worry to make it work the way we {the company) intended it to. I guess that what I get for buy "Made in China" products. To bad we have to depend on the Chinese for our technology. I like the product and just wish I did have to take the extra steps to transfer the Cache information to the GPS. That is all I am asking of Magellan, fix the problem and make everyone including myself happy that we bought your product and helped to pay your salaries! That's so ridiculous of them. I'm sorry that it didn't take you anywhere Sounds like they need a far bigger kick to get them moving. Laaaame.

That has been said many times. However, I have my doubts that international terrorists are most likely not really aware of our little game. Not saying that it *couldn't* happen, but I'll probably win the lottery before you see that scenario come to pass. While I don't believe someone would post a cache on this site that was a bomb, I still think caution prevails with the bomb squad. I mean, some dude in Afganistan might not know or care about geocaching, but maybe someone like Timothy McVeigh would. Again, totally unlikely, but just because it's so impossible doesn't mean we should write it off. It would be nice if someone had enough time to look and see if the cache has a listing, but that's probably the last thing on their minds. I would guess that they're probably bound to do something once they're called in

If there was something I wanted to see, then I'd go on a drive for it. There are a lot of caches you'd have to drive for here (and a good number that you wouldn't have to drive for!). I'd go to Thompson Springs for a cache (maybe like, 45 minutes or so from where I live). My dad and I went to Green River (about an hour away) to do a couple of caches by Crystal Geyser, but seeing the geyser made it way worth it (as did going to Arby's, haha). So I guess about an hour's drive is the farthest I've gone. I guess if there was something neat to see and not just a cache, then I'm willing to go out for a drive. Mostly I just like getting out and going somewhere

Not when it is on company/private property without permission. ?? I'm not entirely sure I understand.... If it's on company property without permission, and you are a part of that company, then it should be okay to remove it if it is somehow interfering or otherwise offensive and notify the cache owner. If it's your property and you didn't give permission, then same deal. I'm not trying to be argumentative, I just don't think I'm really grasping your comment (I seem to be having a rather difficult time this morning!) Thank you

Just go for it. When you go to a cache page, there is all sorts of information. Look at what other people posted. Is the area sketchy? Are there creepy people about? Lots of weird trash? How many people (if any) had some sort of negative encounter with someone meaning them harm? You can also check for a google map of the cache and see if it's in that "bad" part of town. Honestly, I think the vast majority of people using this site are good, decent people. They hide caches so others can find them. They have no intention of people getting hurt. If it makes you feel better, you can have some pepper spray. You don't need a permit and some people think it's good to have anyways. There's going to be an urban legend horror story to just about everything. Taco Bell, panty hose, wigs, sewers. Grain of salt and proper precautions. Good Luck!

I think that should be okay, as you're trying to care for the cache. If it falls into a state of... well, trashiness, then it becomes more like litter. Especially if multiple people note that the container is no longer appropriate and no one does anything. I guess you try to shoot an e-mail to the cache owner and see if they respond or not. If not, then you should go for it. Better than letting it and everything in it get dirty and rot :/