diggingest_dogg616
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Not to like, stir the pot or anything, but if you want to return it based on this, then go for it. Maybe other people have had this problem and went "Meh, not worth the trouble". I was out with some friends last week and they go to talking about how companies will do something wrong (not like, super wrong, but wrong) and they'll get away with it just because it's something rather trifling and no one wants to be bothered to correct it. It's super annoying if it's not working the way it should. Either you can get your money and get something that does what it says and maybe Magellan will fix this problem, or maybe they'll have a solution for you.
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
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It's the geocachers that need educating, not the bomb squads. Marking a container GEOCACHING should have NO BEARING on rather the bomb squad believes it's a threat or not.
Case in point... Let's say someone is a terrorist.... They want to place a bomb... So they build one and just slap and geocaching sticker on it... and the cops just leave it alone......... bomb blows up......
Enough said......
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
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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
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It might be crass to throw them out or remove them, but if they're interfering with his job.... I don't have a job where a geocache would interfere (unless it was small enough for a dog to consume, bacon flavored, and poisoned), but if someway somehow something occurred that would put myself or the pets I take care of in jeopardy, then I'd remove it. If it didn't, then I'd leave it alone.
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
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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!
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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 :/
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Search Amazon for something like this. It is a serial converter, so you can plug the 9 pin serial into a usb port. I use it with mine. You'll need to have an install driver or something too, but the computer should be able to find it (at least mine did).
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Most Americans don't really celebrate Boxing Day, so that's probably why the US site doesn't have any Boxing Week deals.
Interesting how just across an imaginary line the customs are totally different! I went to a Boxing Day party that was thrown by a couple that was originally from England. I don't how traditional it was, but they decided it was a good day for people to get together because they take Christmas off and then don't have anything to do the next day. We yanks are more about Black Friday and Cyber Monday and Christmas deal kind of things
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Just an off-topic reply. We went out yesterday for our second trip with the kids and found all 3 we looked for. A much better day!
Good job!
Sometimes you just go back and look. If I don't find one, or if I'm having trouble, then I go through the logs and see when the last time it was found and if it's ever had to replaced. Or if it has any clues, like "Oh, we walked over it a bunch of times and then my best friend found it! What a clever hide" or something like that that will kind of tip you off that maybe it's something that looks like something else
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I look at it as "Hey, if you're not comfortable chasing after something that could hurt you, leave the electrical boxes alone." There's a few I've seen pics of that I wouldn't touch without a meter. And I -am- an electrician.
But, hey, make your own decisions. Just make educated ones. And don't blame anyone but yourself if things go badly.
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I'm an electrician that works for a major power company. Over the years (before I became active in the game), I've found probably half a dozen caches around electrical equipment I was working on. I normally just threw them away as trash. Geocaches have no business around electrical equipment, especially any that would be disguised as equipment themselves. If you want to set one up on your own property and willing to accept the liability (especially since your insurance probably won't cover it), then go for it, but keep it off privately owned equipment without permission.
Now that I'm in the game, if I find them around the equipment, I will remove them, and either turn it over to Lost Property or the Business Owner and email the cache owner where to pick it up. This would also go for any lamp post caches I find that are hidden inside the equipment.
Good for you!
If and when you decide to hide any caches, you certainly won't mind if someone/anyone takes exception to them and removes them, will you?
I've found many caches that I would just as rather toss into the desert...I'm not quite sure what it is that stops me from doing so...
It might be crass to throw them out or remove them, but if they're interfering with his job.... I don't have a job where a geocache would interfere (unless it was small enough for a dog to consume, bacon flavored, and poisoned), but if someway somehow something occurred that would put myself or the pets I take care of in jeopardy, then I'd remove it. If it didn't, then I'd leave it alone.
A cache out in the desert that sucks or is poorly maintained is really annoying and some people probably do throw them out, but they're rather unlikely to cause harm to a person just sitting there.
Problem with our society now-a-days, through laws and regulations we have eliminated the process of natural selection. Is it any wonder why the average IQ is under 100? Dangerous caches? Bring them on. The world is overpopulated anyways.
lolz, Geocaching Darwinism
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Yes, always mark your containers. Whenever I place a BOMB that might be mistaken for a cache I always clearly mark it as a BOMB.
Thankyou and HAVE A BIG BANG FOR NEW YEARS!
My geography teacher told us this story of him going a mission to Northern Ireland for the Mormon Church and he and his partner had this box full of Books of Mormon, so on the tape all around the box they wrote BOM and the box was turned so it read BOMB (when it really meant BOMBOMBOMBOM kind of thing). I forget what happened, but there was really a scene with missionaries trying to get to their car and save their books
Once the police and bomb squad are on the scene is a sticker or stencil on the suspicious container really going to matter?
If it says 'dangerous' they are probably still going to blow it up.
If it says 'box full of kittens' they are still probably going to blow it up.
They are not going to add personal risk to themselves (and I don't blame them a bit) based on the writing on the suspicious package. They are going to treat it as a threat until it is not capable of being a threat.
We've seen reports here where the cache owner himself was standing right there say, 'here, let me show you', and they blew it up anyway. You're right that once the call has gone in to the bomb squad, there generally isn't much that is going to change the future. We've heard of film cans, defunct microwave ovens "plugged into" a fake outlet on a tree, and even a highway traffic counter box blown up. Nothing wrong with taking precautions, but odds are good that they will be futile anyway.
I think the bomb squad is rather paranoid about people opening things. I mean, what if (and yes, the "what if" game is never ending and doesn't ever get us very far) there was a mad bomber pretending to be a cache owner and opening a bomb disguised as a cache? It'd be a terrible snafu to have some incident like that, or to ignore something that looks like a cache and isn't and then an innocent bystander gets hurt. I don't blame the bomb squad or police officers for being suspicious or paranoid about things. It probably keeps them alive.
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I think the more things you want, the more difficult it gets to have them all on paper, or at least on only a few papers. I hate carrying a whole bunch of papers around and shuffling and sorting through them.
I haven't done this approach a lot, but I have used easyGPS a couple of times just to print something. I'll type the cache name or the GC code, then maybe copy/paste the description and copy/paste the hint. And you can't forget the coordinates!
If something gets too long, then I start running into problems.I hate having to go back and look for something, but I also enjoy trying to find it "on my own", without hints or spoiler pictures. I have used hints when I'm just not smart enough to find anything. I've used spoiler pictures too.
I guess what helps is you have cell service and 3G/4G or whatever and a good data plan. If get service, then you can look up the cache and not have to go all the way home, just to go all the way back because you think you've figured it out.
As far as paper goes, I guess just copypasta into a word processing program of your choice. Good luck!
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I agree and disagree at the same time. We started geocaching and my daughter wanted to hide one right away. We did our homework and placed some. They have all had good reviews so far and are still active. I think it depends on the person more then the number of caches found. Like they said you cant fix stupid. Someone could have had many finds and still place a cache that sux. I think sometimes the new members might have a original idea that could be fun that might burn out after finding many film cans in a lamp post. But I also agree that experience helps when placing. We are being more selective now of the caches we place and making them even funner if possible. But to limit people would make for less around and I like to have them around. If they are bad hides that will show up soon.
-WarNinjas
I'm in the agree/disagree boat with you. I have not hid any caches, and don't really intend on doing so until I find a lot more, but when I do, I want to look at the caches I've found and why I like the ones I like, decide what made them really fun, and then try to emulate that.
People shouldn't be discouraged just because they're new, but perhaps being discouraged when you're... um... polite word... too excited and distracted... that would be good.
I think it depends on the education of the person. For example I did my first hide after only having about 10 finds but none of my finds were easy P&G's for example. Also, I do ALOT of reading especially when I start a new hobby. I must have read the knowledge books beginning to end a couple times plus reading on the forums and observing other people logs. Would I recommend placing a hide after only 10 finds. No Probably not, and I might have been a bit premature but I feel it was a quality hide, albeit an easy find. I used a lock n lock, I averaged my coordinates, I picked a good location, and I keep an eye on it in case of any maintenance issues. Like I say, I think it depends on the individual. I'm a fast learner and I pick up on things quite easily, some people take a little longer to pick up on some things.
Bottom line is don't rush into hiding a cache just because you're excited to do so. Be sure you have a full understanding of the rules and the common practice do's and don't of placing a cache. Most importantly use a good container and plan on maintaining for the long haul!
+1!
Whenever I decide to place a cache, I want to make sure I can take good care of it. I think the next important thing after a good spot and so forth, is the maintenance. I don't want to hide a cache somewhere I'm too out of shape to get to when I need to check on it. There's one on a hike I've done a couple of times that's pretty mellow, but it seems the cache "container" is all beat to crap from the elements and it seems that it's been that way a long time. I'll probably go find it, but I don't know if I'm going to sign the log. I'll take a picture, because I heard there were a lot of spiders in it and... well, spiders scare me
I might poke around to see if I can retreive the log without being too traumatized But I would hate a cache that I owned to fall into that kind of shape. Poor cache. -
If this was a real global problem we would have been having this discussion before he died. Not now.
According to this logic, it's only a real issue if we had discussed it before someone died.
In another thread, about fake electrical boxes, that nobody has yet died is taken as evidence that there is in fact no problem.
Perhaps we shouldn't use an individual's death as the litmus test for whether or not a safety issue is worth discussing.
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I think safety should always be an issue. Not a we-must-wear-helmets-when-on-sidewalks issue, but an issue. Just because someone hasn't done something yet, doesn't mean no one ever will.
We all make choices. If you go mountain biking, you can die. If you go jeeping, you can die. If you hike, you can fall off a cliff and die. You can be thrown off a horse and die. You can be riding a bicycle and have someone open their car door on you and die. Or you can fall out of bed and die. Pretty much everything can have a worst case scenario attached to it.
When something tragic like this happens, a lot of people are going to want to discuss it and rethink a lot of things and figure out how to avoid having this happen again. In Northern Utah, there was a small rash of people being hit by trax trains. Obviously, the solution is to not dart infront of the train or ignore train crossing warnings, but it was all over the news forever. We want people to know and we want to prevent such events from reoccuring.
Steps do need to be taken to protect each other and ourselves, hence:
I like warnings. I think they are a good thing.
I just think the listing belongs to the cache owner and it should be up to the cache owner to post any warning they deem relevant.
It would be nice if cache owners took the warnings posted in logs and integrated them into the description. But if they don't, that is their prerogative. It just means I have to look a little deeper to glean the information.
+1 I have one cache that has a huge hole in the ground on the way there, several 100 feet from the cache. Never considered the hole a problem till someone tried the cache at night and came too close to the hole and said so in their log. I never had been there at night and never would have gone at night. During the day the hole was almost imposssible to not see, at night another story. I posted a warning for this cache ASAP.
Bravo! Someone did something and mentioned and you made sure that it was easily brought to the attention of others (at least those that will read the description). I think this is the kind of thing that should go on. Use and look at attributes and use and look at descriptions and log posts. We don't need to be neurotic about what we're doing, just informed.
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These are so neat!
To CacheTestDumbEase, I think you should definitely crochet something and put it in a little bag with something saying who made it
Even if it's like, a little keychain fob or a bracelet, it would be really cool. I think a lot of people like neat personal items, but everybody likes neat homemade items. -
I think I heard about geocaching when I was in 8th grade. We had these little magazines we had to read. I think it was something to keep us quiet, but not busy work because then the teacher would have to grade it. So anyways, one of these magazines had a short article on geocaching. I thought it was neat, and then didn't much with the information except store it in my head.
Then I went to college in a different state. The campus was out of town and 3 miles up a hill. There was almost nothing there. There were some apartments close by, an animal shelter (which was also kind of connected to the veterinary technology program I was attending), the vet tech farm, and a little gated community on the other side of road before you got campus. The rest was a scrubby sort of wood, which the school owned a large tract of for the outdoor education program.
I started walking a lot in the woods and found many things: an old worn out car, a forgotten tree house, some of the "obstacles" for the outdoor ed program, firepits from parties, a bizarre crater, frisbee golf goals, and even something that had been torn apart by what appeared to be a mountain lion (it was a neat little area, but the prospect of running into a large, powerful cat, while breathtaking, was also terrifying, so I left rather quickly).
With all my exploring, I wanted a GPS so I could find my way back (which wasn't hard anyways, if you wander around long enough you'll eventually see the main academic building through the trees and the dorms are next to that). My mom thought a GPS would be a good thing, so I recieved one as present. Through college, I just used it to mark interesting things I found (like the car). I also used it a lot to mark out where the deer seemed to bed and where the game trails were. I was hellbent to find an antler, but it never happened, despite my research and mapping.
After college, I didn't use the GPS as much, and then I recalled geocaching. Surely if I could lead friends to all the weird things I found, I could find a geocache? My dad also had a GPS unit, so I brought the idea of geocaching to him. He thought it sounded fun, so off we went. We (he) found the first cache, a small film canister by a corner store that was closed and empty back then.
We found 8 caches together, then when I was teaching a friend how to use a GPS I found a 9th. I'm hoping to do more caching now! Why did I ever stop?
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Welcome! Good luck with your hunts!
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I'm not going to have anything illegal or embarrassing in there
Dunno, the bag of silly bandz, stickers, play-doh, and other swag I carry for my kids to put in caches is pretty embarrasing for a 40 year old guy to be carrying.
Touche! One of my father's friends collected stuffed toys from all the places he's been and kept them in his car. The police thought he was luring children with them so he had some explaining to do 
I guess it doesn't have to be a bag of something-something to be embarrassing. "What are you planning on doing with that play-doh?" "It's for geocaching! I swear!" -
Explorist is from Magellen, yes?
I know someone else on here was having trouble with their Magellen unit and the "Send to GPS" function. There is another thread somewhere about, I believe the user was called "losers weepers" or something to that effect, but I cannot recall the name of the thread. I can't really recall how they fixed it either, but I know they did it a different way.
The one time I used it with my Garmin it worked okay. Not great. Sometimes it couldn't find the GPS so I'd hit "cancel" and do it again.
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That sounds really interesting!
I have been thinking of using some of my maps to get a general idea of where a cache is, but then I found the google map thing
I think it'd be easier with a GPS unit, but doing it like that would add a great twist! I don't think I'd have the patience (or the intelligence) to do it that way
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I like Garmin. Mine's old, but it's an etrex legend. I talked a friend into getting a Garmin etrex, but I don't remember anything more specific.
I'd suggest going to the Garmin website and looking around. They should have a feature to help you choose the right unit for you. It uses check boxes, so you can check "Hiking" and "Geocaching" if you want units for hiking and geocaching or "paperless geocaching" to go that route. You can choose if you want a memory card and all sorts of stuff.
Those apps are such battery eaters! Especially when you have the brightness on so you can see!
Good luck!
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Greetings from Ontario Canada.
Welcome to the addiction
When starting off, look for 3 things
Larger Caches
Low Difficulty Caches
and one's that have been found recently
THis will help you out on your first few
C3
Heed those hints!
Don't get discouraged if you don't find anything. Keep trying! Go to a different cache or come back on a different day
Welcome and good luck!
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Oooh, if it's buried under some snow then you can be like a pirate and dig for it!
Or not. If I was feeling particularly adventurous, then I'd do it, but I don't want the wait of a little shovel to haul around (I'm lazy like that). Thankfully, it doesn't snow much in town. And it usually melts quickly.
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Using a fake light switch or something seems kind of like using a fake log or a fake rock. If it's there for real, use a fake one as camoflage.
I agree people can do some pretty dumb things and that having certain people poking around live wires and such is asking for it. I do agree with previous posters that we need to take repsonsibility for our actions and those around us or with us. Common sense.
If it's straight forward and I'm not likely to screw something up (blow off my arm or shut power off to half the city) then yeah, that sounds like a fun cache. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother.
Check out the cache overseas where the guy is climbing around under a pedestrian bridge. Not my kind of thing, but whatever. He went for it and I think he had some style. Should a small child try that? Probably not, but someone's going to want something more daring and adventurous and they'll come up with something
I am totally digging the lightswitch on a tree, by the way. Suspicious, but awesome
Sounds like they need a far bigger kick to get them moving. Laaaame.
I guess it doesn't have to be a bag of something-something to be embarrassing. "What are you planning on doing with that play-doh?" "It's for geocaching! I swear!"
Is a handheld GPS a lot more accurate than using a smart phone?
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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