Starligh

OK. Since we have a bunch of Geocachers and scouts here, are any of you a Geocaching Merit Badge Counselor in the Sycamore, IL area? My son wants to earn the merit badge, but we don't have anyone on the list (which is not new) for Geocaching. We also have very limited experience with this topic and could use the help. If you are a counselor in our area, please contact my e-mail: Starligh@comcast.net. Thanks.

I'm as frustrated as some of the other newbies. I've been out three times looking for Difficulty 1 caches to no avail. I even printed out the maps and took them with me. This last time I went looking for three supposedly simple caches. I had two cub scouts with me as well. We had a great time exploring, but didn't come up with anything. The biggest confusion seemed to be my GPS. We're using a Garmin eTrex Legend. It seems like every time we got withing 15 to 20 feet of the waypoint, the whole compass would spin and send us in a different direction up to 200 feet away. It became really frustrating when we were bushwacking through some woods. We were looking for : Don't Fence Me In - says you can see if from the road, but we weren't able to find anything close to a cache. Beautiful property though. DaToad's 1000th - was the one that sent us bushwacking. It's near the new firehouse, but the only thing we got were misquito bites. Randaddy's #6 - A Real Jewel - is set up near the new Jewel Osco. Unfortunately, the only thing we found was their box shredder. Anyone know an experienced cacher in Sycamore, IL willing to train a newbie? I really need help. Thanks.