JBigBoy

Most violent crimes are random. Almost none are premeditated. Almost none of the premeditated crimes are against strangers. Except in stupid CSI shows. You're asking us to believe in a perpetrator who takes great care in luring his victim into a specific spot, but he doesn't care who the victim is, as long as it's a geocacher? Is he avenging a series of DNFs? Most violent crimes are not random, on the contrary, they are premeditated, and they are generally perpetrated by someone the victim knows. "Random" violence is generally a product of mental illness, drug/alcohol abuse, etc. With that said, I agree that someone who is searching out a random victim to hurt will not go through all of the trouble of posting something in an obscure hobby website, and then hide for a period of hours to days to wait for the unsuspecting cacher. The person would be too unstable for that kind of discipline. Sounds a bit ridiculous. I guess I am saying chill out and enjoy your life. You have a better chance of getting hit by lightning while flying in a space ship on a leap year.

Cachers are not, I repeat, NOT, like trekkies. I am sorry, but I have gotten quite a ration of crap from my friends who think I am an uber-nerd for geocaching. Those friends, of course, are only the ones that HAVEN'T come caching with me yet, haha. The ones that have, are all converts. Trekkies watch a TV show. Cachers explore places they have never seen, solve puzzles, hike, swim, dive, climb, repel, and look absolutely ridiculous at times to find some crazy fake treasures. Sounds pretty different to me, and the sills learned while geocaching (using a compass, GPS, following trails, etc) can actually have some pretty good use in muggle life. Which leads me to my next point, people def think we are nerds for using fricken Harry Potter slang in our hobby, lol.

Can't go wrong with the Skeletool. I have owned many other multis, but always end up not using anything except for the pliers, wire cutter, and the knife.

WEGwegv

If you're concerned about "skewing the numbers", then don't delete/convert your DNF logs after you find the cache. As an example, consider a cache that takes a typical geocacher three trips to find. It should have at least twice as many DNF logs as Found logs. For each Found log, there should be a couple DNF logs. Plus there should be DNF logs from those who haven't found it yet. If the DNF logs are deleted/converted every time someone finds the cache on a return visit, then the cache will have fewer DNF logs than it should. That could cause some to underestimate its true difficulty. Alright, I am converted. I will just do new logs from now on instead of editing. I will just have to find a better way to keep track of prior DNFs that I need to re-visit. thanks for the advice fellow cachers

Let the DNF log stand and create a new log for the find. Oops! I have been going back to my previous DNF logs, and changing them to Finds and updating the dates. I do it this way so I can go back into my profile and see which caches I need to re-visit. If I just do another log, the DNF is still there, then I have to search my finds to see if I have re-visited and found it. I feel like it makes things more organized and cleaner to do it this way. Plus, I think it skews the numbers to have multiple logs on one cache. It makes it look like more people have DNF'd a cache, when in reality it could be a few cachers who just keep logging DNF's everytime they visit and cannot find. Any advice/thoughts on this? Does the cache owner receive notification if someone changes/updates a log?

Just finally got a chance to head out today for a few while visiting family in Sacramento. Found both that I looked for, hooked 2 more people to this obsession, and found a really great container. good time was had by all

Hi this is my first post, so apologies fr any part of this that isnt helpful. I recently got a PH-40 as well , about 2 months ago. The learning curve on this thing is pretty steep, and the manual is zero help. Go to the Delorme forum, the people there are very helpful and there are topics for any questions you may have.