PeterVZ1

Isn't covering a propane tank without venting considered dangerous? That is not a propane tank, it is a pressure tank for water. Note the well head right next to it. I thought it was a giant pill bottle painted blue and set upside down. That would be so much fun to hide one under, then hide under it with the cache right after the hide was published, with a lawn chair, stick up light, and a cooler full of beer, waiting for the FTF hunters to arrive! FTF prize is a beer!

Most of the time I use my 255w to cache. I bought a legend, but the Nuvi is easier for me. Touch screen, road maps, etc. I use it set to fastest route until I get to where I'm going to park, then switch to off road. Touch on the line at the top of the screen twice to zoom in more and see distance to cache. You can't do projections with it, or average coords when placing a hide (at least not that I know of.) and it doesn't work for paperless caching unless you use a POI program. Most of the time I read the cache pages ahead of time, and if I need to review the info, I use my cell phone to look at the cache page. Since the last upgrade, I can't decrypt hints on my phone anymore, but other than that, the combo has worked great.

I really hate that I can't decode hints in the field anymore. When I try (using my Palm Centro) to decrypt, I get the message: "TypeError:isString is not a function" Personally, I would rather wait the 20 seconds for the page to reload on my phone, than have to manually de-crypt the hint (since the Key doesn't line up on my phone correctly either and I have to count the letters)

As a cache owner, I like to know if someone is looking for my cache or not. I have one cache that I placed back in November that has only been found 8 times and it is just off a main road, and for the most part, a pretty short walk. It is a 2 stage multi and I hope a little tricky. There has not been a single DNF logged, so for a while I was wondering if people just weren't interested in finding it or if they weren't logging DNFs. After almost 2 months of being there, and only having 3 finds, someone posted another find at the end of January, saying they can't believe they missed it last time they were there. Well, at least I now know that someone was looking. Since then, I have made a point to try to log all my DNFs, no matter how hard or long I look. It lets the cache owner know that at least someone is still interested in the cache. Especially if it hasn't had a find in a while. I'll even posted a note recently saying I didn't even look for a cache because the road to get to the cache was partially flooded. The cache was still accessable, it just would have involved wading and walking a ways. The other nice thing about logging DNFs is that you can then go back and look at which ones you couldn't find easier to see if anyone else has found it since, rather than trying to remember which ones you need to avenge.