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Difficulty is how upset and frustrated are you about finding the cache that is not related to how much you're bleeding, exhausted, sick, or physically trashed by the hunt. - T of TandS

Cheating is logging them without finding them. You're the anti-cheater!!! Yayyy Pigling! - T of TandS

When wilderness caching, I wear my roadid bracelet. To keep from being commercial, just do a search for it at google. It has my name, address, and my wife's phone number. Believe me, I've been in some real tight spots, boys! Glad I had it. (Body Identification) - T of TandS

Minimoose, I've found that the following strategy works well for me whether I'm using the 60CS or the Yellow. Walk steadily with purpose in the average direction of the arrow as you approach the cache. When you're within 50 feet don't stop. Keep your pace to a slow walk. When the needle swings around more than 90 degrees from the direction you've been walking, stop. Put down the GPS. I'm usually right on top of the cache when this happens. The last 4 finds of ours this happened within 3 feet of the cache location. - T of TandS

Yes run cause it is me and I am the new Riddler of Columbia, SC muhahaha Yeah, you've run me over a couple of times. And we're about even in the mutual geoheckling department. Geoheckling: Watching and 'helping' another cacher find one you've already bagged. Especially fun when the hide is yours! - T of TandS

Our cache, Scrambled, is one that we unveiled at one of our geoholics meetings. Nobody said a word except related to solving this puzzle for the rest of the meeting. Then we went for the mass group FTF. - T of TandS

Did I say the 60CS was my precious? Oooh, my precious! Friends who are 'jellin' with their 'gellans' aren't quite as obsessed. - T of TandS

I agree with AtoZ on the Yellow. We have a Yellow and we have a 60CS and it's incredible what the 60CS can do. But the yellow gets a fix and finds a cache faster. The 60CS wins overall because it really is incredible how accurately it marks coordinates when you are hiding. It is also much more user friendly in every way than the Yellow. But it's such a nice electronic device that you worry about it. The yellow, on the other hand, is gear, not fancy electronics. If it bounces into the floorboard and wants to ride there for the trip, that's cool. If someone wants to borrow it, no prob. The 60CS, however, is quick to become 'the precious.' Oooh, my precious!!! - T of TandS

Our two non-micro hides were $50 and $100, approximately. On our micros we've spent $25 on average. We host the geoholics anonymous event cache on a regular basis and that can run $50 on supplies. - T of TandS

We attended GCQAXT, Geocaching for Girl Scouts, today, and boy did we get paid. We taught a fantastic and frighteningly talented group of Girl Scout leaders how to geocache. One of the other concurrent classes was Advance Wilderness Cooking. They paid us with baked chicken, corn on the cob, dutch oven cornbread, green beans, ambrosia, cupcakes, and deviled eggs! They boiled the eggs in the coals by placing them in dixie cups filled with water. Best pay I ever got for any activity, and it was for geocaching!!! - T of TandS

yeah briansnat, get thee to the Red Cross and give of thy veins, looks as you have plenty of the gift of life. - T of TandS

Faint! Need to rate that one PG-13. Oh the humanity! T of TandS

We run into other cachers all the time. If you're going fast enough you can knock them down on the way to the coords!!! Actually, we made our first geocaching friends by meeting them while caching. The more the merrier when going for a cache we think. We all give the others a chance to make the find by moving away from the cache, waiting a random period of time while pretending to keep looking, and announcing the find. Sometimes it's nice to know that the cache is there and findable. - T of TandS

If the other cacher looks like this: Run!!!! - T of TandS

or another nut screwed down on the one already there. cachers in these parts would try to unscrew the lock for sure! - T of TandS

Go Briansnat! That's a great way to do it! We've done it other ways far less elegant. - T of TandS

We second the suggestion for gpsonsale.com. Nothing but good on our purchase from them of our 60CS. - T of TandS

They're calling for temps in the 70s this weekend here in Columbia, SC. Hasn't been that cool since... April? We can't wait to go help at the Geocaching for Girl Scouts event this weekend!!!! - T of TandS

All I can say is, it's so much more fun to hide than to find. Find a new place to make hides, get permission, and open up a whole new area to make hides. Then show em how it's done! When folks go for your hides in droves, other hiders will notice. Hiders love logged finds of their caches, and will more often than not tailor their hides to make them more attractive to the community. We talk a lot with other active hiders in the area, and we often work with other hiders to make sure everybody has a chance to place a hide in any area they want to hide in. Once other hiders know you want to make hides, I bet they'll make sure that you get the chance also. Believe it or not, the hider in your area probably wishes they had some help 'doing the work' that supports the area's caching community. - T of TandS

I thought about it, but the rogue hide was way below 5 difficulty. Too bad, I don't have any 5/5 finds yet - Actually I feel very fortunate that the cacher was so cooperative. He told me right where it was, and I went right to it. I hope to share a beer with him some day. - T of TandS

You did great. The second cache we tried for, SC Peace Frogs 7, was truly a nemesis cache, taking 4 or 5 tries. I can't remember, it was such trauma. Sounds like you and your family are naturals. - T of TandS

Deliverance, our cache, is back. - T of TandS

I use a pocketpc for paperless. While I think its functionality and power top the Palm units, it has one flaw that makes me recommend palm units. PocketPcs have terrible battery life. Their fast processor just sucks up the juice. Palm units, on the other hand, go for hours between charges. I have to remember to turn off my pocketpc, or set the auto-off function, or charge it in the car between caches. And yes, the battery isn't defective. - T of TandS

When a worker bee finds a particularly good patch of flowers, brimming with nectar, it heads back to the hive and does the bee dance. This is an alternating series of circles in both directions. Amazingly, the other bees in the hive watch this dance and know exactly where to go to get to the flowers. Believe it or not, this can communicate the correct heading to the flowers to the other bees even when the flowers are a mile or more distant. It's fitting that the 'bee dance' originated as the first BPS - Bee Positioning System - T of TandS

Had to speak up for the Yellow Etrex, at least the new one. I am so enamored of mine that I brought it to our geoholics meeting wednesday to show everyone. I turned it on inside the Shoneys, a couple of Sats showed up, and then... it got a fix! So we turned a couple other GPS units on and none of them could. I thought about marking the coords of the food bar but everyone could find it easily already. The yellows of my friends consistently hold a fix when all others fail. That's why this is my second (first for now) GPS for finding while the 60CS is the hiding GPS because it averages and gets such good hide numbers. - T of TandS