CheshireFrog

I think you mean the main non-story was about Jon Benet Ramsey.

Yes, you can do paperless caching on it. There is a PPC version of Cachemate. No, GSAK will not run on a PPC. Maybe someday...

If you start to question yourself, you're thinking too much.

Agreed, but I also understand Ghengis John's point about not wanting it stolen en route.You also don't have to wait several minutes for it to 'find itself' after you jump into the rental car. ME TOO! When that happens, I'm going to start being more selective of my companions on business trips. Good point. I might find myself back in coach, all alone.

Agreed, but I also understand Ghengis John's point about not wanting it stolen en route. ME TOO!

That's true, he didn't threaten to muggle other people's caches here in the forum. You did. Back on topic, it's a thankless job. I'm glad they're doing it, because I wouldn't want to.

Well, that's just disingenuous. I've never met her. Never attended an event she was at. Never done one of her caches. Don't know what her find count is, or how she racked it up. More to the point, I don't care. But when you wrote: based on a full logbook and having a log deleted, it was about her the person, now wasn't it?

I don't know much about the 210, but I assume it doesn't autoroute. If that's true then I'd say Topo 3D would be the better package. I had Topo 4.02 (is that right?) on my MeriGold and was pleasantly surprised at how complete the maps were. By comparison the street mapping on even the latest Topo product fom Garmin is miserable. Of course, if Garmin brought the street mapping in their Topo package up to date it would kill sales of MetroGuide.

CheshireFrog's Pin-Up has been found 33 times since it was published May 23rd. It's a Puzzle/Multi in Ute Valley that involves a hike of ~1 mile out and back. One reason for the relatively high find count is the cache density and fabulous views the valley offers. Helena's Deadwood Foreign Exchange is a traditional cache at the end of a quarter mile hike that ends on four-star terrain. It was published August 9th, and, not surprisingly, has only been found four times.

While I don't disagree with this idea, there's no telling what this would do to my stats. On the one hand, while my find count is low, my hours spent is fairly high because of the hikes involved, like the caches on Mt. Herman and up above Palmer Lake, (you probably know the ones I mean, Sax). On the other hand, when I mark a find in Cachemate I just set the start and finish times to the current time, so according to Cachemate my caching time can be measured in nanoseconds. Meh. The stats are more reminder than score anyway.

Here in central Colorado, this is how you get to the cache: Sure, I could have got a Hummer or a Land Rover, but then I'd still need a friend with a jeep to pull me out when I got stuck.

Playfair Cipher: Playfair's Extreme Geocacher Test Vigenere Cipher: Vigenere's Right to Bear Arms (Now sadly archived) Pictograph Substitution Cipher: The Dancing Men. These are basically letter subsitutions, they just don't look like it. But don't limit yourself to alphabetic encryptions. Since coordinates are already number strings they lend themselves readily to numeric encryption. I've seen coordinates expressed as ASCII code, binary, octal and hexadecimal, as well as number strings that require mathematical functions be performed before the coordinates are revealed. Morse code has been popular, but is a little obvious, but I've also seen hiders apply a rotational or substitution code to text before converting it to morse code. Physical manipulations are among my favorites. One is a ribbon with a long list of numbers that has to be wrapped around a container of a specific size before the correct numbers line up. Rotating wheels are a variation on this; they are just random numbers until aligned just so. Another is a sliding tile puzzle that reveals the coodinates when solved. Finally, there's more traditional puzzles pressed into service as cache clues. Crossword puzzles, anacrostics, word searches and word jumbles have all been done, but recently sudoku puzzles have gotten very popular. Sorry to ramble. This is a bit of an obsession with me.

Playfair's Extreme Geocacher Test is rated as a 4/4, but many finders question that rating. The cache was placed in February of 2003 and has only been found 27 times since then, and most of those logged at least one DNF before scoring the cache. It misses being a 5 terrain only because there is one, and only one, approach that does not require climbing equipment, and that route is well hidden, requiring some spelunking to balance out the climbing.

Doesn't a 5 by definition require special equipment to reach?

I wondered about the context of that post, too. I've never seen Jhawk accused of cheating, or even championing any any of the behaviors that generally bring that sort of comment.

Nothing to do with milestones, but my most memorable find was Vigenere's Right to Bear Arms. However, my most memorable outing has been any of my three DNFs on Playfair's Extreme Geocacher Test.

Never mind. I reread your post.

To expand on that, while on the map screen hit the menu button, select Setup Map and hit enter, select the Information icon and hit menu, the scroll down and hide the dominant map, in your case the Metro Guide. There's no need to hide the topo maps or base map, like Centex Trekker said, if you select Show Metro Guide it will be the one shown no matter what else has show selected.

The TB number is all that's required to log a TB on-line, so you could conceivably cut a standard tag down to just a number and it would still be loggable. Have you seen the micro geocoins? They're trackable, and will fit into anything film cannister size and up. I haven't looked lately, but there used to be quite a few on ebay. Just a thought.

More to the point, this is a stationary antenna, and will only report the position of the antenna no matter how long the cable is.

Sorry, missed this back in January. 21 Years USAF, 12 of those in a combat unit. Veteran of the first Gulf War, Bosnia and evacuation of US civilians during the first Liberian civil war. Retired from Cheyenne Mountain January of '99.

I went out with a friend two weeks ago who has an XL, and I got the opportunity to use it for a while. Seemed like a great unit; sensitive, stable, intuitive, and you have to love the display size. The only minus I saw was the form factor. This thing is HUGE. Almost too big for me to one-hand while punching the controls with my thumb, at least I wasn't comfortable doing it for fear of dropping someone else's receiver. I would say if you intend to press this into service doing double duty in the car and on the trail that it's a great choice. If it will be primarily used in the woods, however, I'd go with something smaller.

Site unavailable. Anyway, what did it show?

Hoo lordy, there's a man that lives dangerously.

You hook this up to an Etrex and you'll never have to worry about signal strength again. Of course, you'll need several miles of RG-56 to get to a cache.