CheshireFrog

Admittedly I don't have that many caches found, but there was never any question in my mind that I would log my DNF promptly. If I placed a tough cache I would want to know that people are looking, even if they're failing.

The 310 does support data transfer according to the user manual. And it has 4 contacts on the back. Have you tried kicking the baud rate down? EasyGPS defaults to 9600, but most Magellans are set to 4800 out of the box.

The new etrex basic is WAAS enabled. Data cables for the etrex line can be had on ebay for around $12 dollars including shipping, look here. That's where I got the cable for my 76, and it's as good a unit as what Garmin sells. They're drunk if they think I'm paying $40 for a serial cable. Used etrex basics can be found well below $50 for just the unit, but that likely won't be one of the newer WAAS enabled unit. For that it will run you $90+. Wal Mart has this model on sale a lot. I still have my trusty old etrex yellow, can't bring myself to part with it. No mapping, no cursor, very few icons, but it gets the job done. True, it loses the signal in heavy cover, but combined with a Bushnell digital compass I can back up to my last good signal and take a sight bearing. Trust me, you'll do fine with whatever you decide.

Actually, it is not totally wrong, as I know that the police around here have GPS receivers that let them track each other. Each of those GPS emits a signal so that its location appears on the other GPS's maps and on the computer at the command center. Pretty handy. Of course, the cops here do realise that it doesn't let them track people who are using other kinds of GPS receivers... and they don't use their guns much, or threaten people with them all the time. One of the advantages of Canada over California, I guess Just for the record, consumer GPS devices receive signals and do not radiate them. What the police use to track themselves and others and what OnStar uses to track your vehicles is a different system altogether. The only way for someone to track you using your GPS is visually.

I don't know if it's too hard to solve or not as I haven't really spent much time thinking about it. But the fact that you are getting questions about it DOES puzzle me because Nereus doesn't answer questions unless he's caught and changes shape to avoid being caught. Old Man of the Sea seems like a good place to start in Hawaii (as a nickname), but I don't know any Hawaiian legends relating to an "Old Man of the Sea"... Although the bay or lake next to your phony co-ords does sort of seem to resemble an old man if you use Google Maps to view it. He has sort of a long nose. Now it would be interesting if you had started a Nereus travel bug somewhere that kept changing caches to avoid being caught. I haven't checked that out though. It would have also been a cool play on words "Near us" or something like that. I won't be able to pick it up anyhow even if I am on the right trail (I doubt it, but maybe it will key in someone who is) because I won't get to Honolulu any time soon The film version of Hemmingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" was partly shot in Kona, but that doesn't narrow it down too much.

BlueTooth is a short-range wireless standard allowing devices to communicate when they get in proximity to each other. An example is BlueTooth wireless headsets, which allow hands-free operation of compatible cell phones without the wires. Geoniche can be used without a connection to your GPS, but to do so would be to ignore a lot of it's features. If you have a non-BlueTooth enabled GPS, you can get a cable to connect your GPS to your Palm/Pocket PC device, but that all gets a little tangled in the field. Being able to upload coordinates from a database in your mobile device vs. entering coordinates in your GPS by hand makes this a very attractive option.

Bears, mountain lions, lynx, they're up there, but I don't personally know anyone who's had any trouble with them. You're obviously not looking for a bunch of drive-up, grab and go caches, and I'm right there with you. For a good list of caches that are both mentally and physically challenging in the Pikes Peak region, take a look at this. Have fun, this a great area.