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You can recharge them by cooking them in an oven for several hours. Because they are so small and are designed to remove only a tiny bit of moisture from a sealed package, you will need to recharge and replace them in your caches every few days for them to be effective.

remember to include the price of the additional mapping software into your budget in order to be able to effectively use the autorouting features... .. . And while you are at it, you'll need some sort of kit to mount your gps in your car so you can see it while driving, so add that into the budget too Garmin's automotive navigation kit will include both the mapping software and your mounting brackets. I got mine at gpsnow.com

Don't forget to throw a retirement party for it and hang it's jersey number on the wall! I'd be happy if some of my bugs would just move, much less reach their goal or retire!

You can buy some of those rather expensive lithium batteries that operate much better at cold temperatures.

My fiancee told me that she would not go caching with me if I wore an antenna on my head. Otherwise, I probably would in dense tree cover

My fiancee told me that she would not go caching with me if I wore an antenna on my head.

Perhaps the discarded cigarette butts were part of a CITO "breeder" cache?

A slight modification of the previous definition: Barometer: an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure Altimeter: A barometer calibrated to measure altitude My 60CS has these and I rarely look at them because I am too lazy to calibrate them correctly. . . .

The first "travel bug" I ever found was actually a Traveler Tag. It took me a month and several emails to the owner before I was able to successfully log this thing in. The website is difficult to use and the owner had made a mistake with the ID number of the tag, making it impossible for me to log it. After that experience, I decided to ignore all Traveler Tags for the sake of my sanity. I would only take a Traveler Tag if it was a geocoin or something especially interesting or meaningful. Perhaps what is happening with your Traveler Tags is that finders are having similar experiences to my own?

Alabama Geocachers Association

I found a super tiny micro cache that had been attached to a string and tossed over a wall. Unfortunately the pill container became unscrewed and the log and half of the container fell about 30 feet down into a very very very thick patch of thorny bushes. I hiked down, crawled through a couple hundred feet of these prickly bushes to search for the cache. i actually found it and was able to restore the cache. I guess it is not all that outrageous, but I sure went through a lot to sign the log.

I prefer to use a more old-school approach. I use an astrolabe because I don't trust those new-fangled sextants!

The real Johnny Appleseed was quite the scoundrel. He collected seeds from cider makers and planted them in groves. He then sold these apple seedlings to homesteaders Apples are not true-breeding, and the seeds from an apple will rarely create a tree that produces good fruit, much less a tree that produces fruit the same as the parent tree. The vast majority of seeds from a good apple will produce trees that produce a tart and nearly useless dwarf apple. Johnny Appleseed knew this, but he also knew that the homesteaders would not figure it out for several years after they bought the trees. A fantastic book called "The Botany of Desire" gives a great review of the botany of apples, potatos, and other desirable plant products. One of the best books I have read. But back to the subject of this thread: In my opinion, a McToy that has been handled by a french-fry eating child probably has more food smell on it than a packet of wildflower seeds. Humans carry a lot of various scents with us and nearly anything we touch in a cache is likely to attract animals.

Some people think they should just continue to move forever. Others are probably keeping them as souveneirs now that the contest is over.

If you are going to upgrade to a powerful mapping unit like the 60C, you really need to buy the mapping software to go with it so that you can take advantage of the autorouting and other features that require good maps. The color screen is fantastic on the 60C Satellite reception is the best I have had with the 4 units I have owned. It calculates routes very quickly, much quicker than my streetpilot III

If I am carrying a TB and I visit microcaches or caches I don't think are suitable for leaving the TB, I will log the TB in and out of the cache to give it some mileage.

I have a Travel Bug that was recently arrested for monkeying around the cache! Hawaiian Honeymoon Monkey

Is there a "use with GPS off" option? That would probably do it for you

I'd love it if someone went out of their way to return to a cache and move my TB hundreds of miles!

I would say "If logging a DNF bothers you, stay out there until you find the cache"

A few sets of NiMH rechargable batteries and a charger and you will kick yourself for buying alkaline batteries all these years. The mAH (milli-amp-hours) rating is more important than the voltage. when I first started buying them they were rated at 1200-1600 mAH. Now the ones you buy are usually over 2000 mAH.

An address label stuck to the case will work without any need for the finder to put fresh batteries in the gps that you dropped in the woods while it was on. . . .

Those apron strings might make a great travel bug

Yes, they will really only be able to help with minimal condensation, but that could be the difference between a dry and a damp log book. If you have been saving these packets, they are likely already saturated with water. They will need to be cooked in an oven to remove the water and then sealed inside a closed container. When I worked in pharmaceutical labs, we used silica gel to keep some chemicals dry. We used some that had a color changing indicator to let us know when to change it. After cooking in the oven for a couple hours, it was good as new. Even though we were indoors and in the dry climate of Colorado, the silica gel had to be replaced every few weeks. My guess is that they would definitely help for a short period of time, but long term these little packets are probably not going to make much of a difference if the container is not absolutely airtight and is opened frequently. Also, consider the cost of heating your oven for a few hours. . . .

I like to leave neat natural items like seashells, fossils, petrified wood, etc. I have a bag of old foreign coins and currency that I leave. I also leave the standard unwanted but good junk drawer items, dollar store stuff, etc. I also think that those squished pennies from museums, zoos, etc are great and love finding them so leave them in caches for me!