YuccaPatrol

One cache I visited yesterday was very small and was stuffed with a crummy spiderman action figure that was hogging what little room was in there. I took him and placed him in the next cache so that there would be room for someone to leave something next time. . . . And I didn't feel bad one bit about taking something and not leaving something since I was doing something good for both caches. . .

I've thought the same thing that carrying my bag of trash makes for an excellent excuse if questioned by muggles or the authorities. "I'm just picking up some of this trash. . . . want to help me?" should be enough to make any suspicious individual leave before I can hand them a garbage bag of their own!

Today I found a cache with 3 TB's in it: 2 personal TB's and one YJTB. Is it considered greedy to grab all the TB's and move them along, or should I just take one and leave the rest for others to move along? I just took the Yellow Jeep since I had not seen one before and thought it would be a good thing to attract cachers to my first cache I am placing this week. Now that I think about it, the law enforcement related police motorcycle one that wants to travel to see police officers might have been a good thing to carry with me for a while to keep as an ice-breaker when the next friendly officer asks me what the heck I am doing in the bushes over there. So is it better to leave a TB for the next cacher to be excited to find or is it better to keep the TB's moving even if it means picking up several of them. If it is a bug that I cannot help, I would leave it where it is.

I thought that case looked nice enough to order and did not think it appeared cheezy at all. . . . I'll know in a couple days when it comes. . . . .

To end the curse, go back and sign the log!

I've been considering a bloodhound for my next dog! He should be able to smell a McToy inside an ammo box from a mile away!

Are you saying that if I pay some amount more than $3 per month, I will get better access?

I found one and thought it was a stupid thing to put in a cache. Although at least it was a useful item instead of a complete piece of total junk that I see way too much. . .

I wondered about knives when I found a big honkin hunting knife in one of my first caches. My best guess was that it was not a safe thing for a child to stumble across and so I took it even though my toy car keychain was not quite an equivalent trade. I also took a condom out of a cache without mentioning it anywhere since I thought it too might not be a good trade item. Anyway, as a noob here, I really appreciate the open and welcoming atmosphere of this board. As a moderator on another very active MINI Cooper related site (www.northamericanmotoring.com), I have a good bit of experience with how forums function, and I always feel that it is a good thing to allow continuous discussion of topics that may be viewed as beating a dead horse to those with multi-thousands of posts.

My girlfriend and I are coming to Nashville tomorrow, and will have a few hours on Friday to go caching. She hates micros, so we need to find some good and fun caches. We know we are going to opryland, bluebird cafe, and might head down to Lynchburg as well. . . . . Thanks!

I have an old Garmin 45 and a newer Garmin Streetpilot III. In the trees (which is where I always seem to be), the old 45 rarely gets a lock, and when it does, it is imtermittent and accuracy varies severely. My SPIII is so vastly superior that the old unit is now just a backup. for instance, in the trees the other day, I had both of them side by side and the SPII displayed better than 20foot accuracy when the G45 showed accuracy of 289 feet when it could get a signal. Although I have been playing with GPSr's since they became available, I am new to geocaching and just ordered a new Garmin 60CS. I'll keep the STreetpilot in the car where it belongs!

Look like this old iPaq 3630 is running Windows CE Version 3.0.9348. I am assuming that this is an earlier operating system than PPC 2002 since it is copyright 1996-1999. Best guess now is that I need to upgrade the OS or I need to junk this and get a different pda (which I really can't afford since I just spent my $$$ on a new Garmin 60CS. . . . I am so excited to go paperless if I can get this working as it should. . . . Thanks for the help! Sent you an email with more details. . .

I am attempting to load the exact same .gpx files that appear correctly when I open them with GSAK. All data fields appear in GSAK as well as the html cache page, but disappear when loaded into GPX Sonar. These are definitely NOT .loc files that I am trying to view on my Ipaq. . . Any other ideas?

My sister gave me her old iPAQ 3630 and I want to run GPXSonar. I have it installed, but it is only displaying some of the gpx file information. Here is what it is displaying: Type: ? for all caches Waypoint: blank TB: shows TB's Note: blank Found: blank name: "geocache" for every file (this is the same name as the folder in my iPAQ) Difficulty: displayed correctly Terrain: displayed correctly Distance: displayed correctly Bearing: displayed correctly Owner: blank Last Found: displayed correctly When I click on a geocache, and it is showin in Internet Explorer, all of the cache information is blank except it does show the difficulty and terrain stars. Everything else is gone. No descriptions, no cache codes, no coordinates, basically NOTHING! I really really really want to be able to use this program, but I haven't a clue where to look for info. Can't even find a user guide that addresses much of anything. The gpx files that I have loaded come from pocket queries and display everything correctly when I look at them on my computer using GSAK. . . . What am I doing wrong here? I know it must not be too hard, but it's got me stumped. Is there something I need to do to the pocket Query gpx files other than put them in a folder to be transferred to my Ipaq? Thanks for any help!