
denali7
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you know, i love snow, and i can never get enough. i wondering if you have a lot of snow, and have found that you've had enough! just a thought, eh?
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brian's right--the vista c supports autorouting, so even if you could use the metro maps (i too have heard that you must go with cityselect, but i wasn't 100% sure), you would be shortchanging yourself with it. autorouting is a great feature, i use it every day, but i also load the topo maps i'll need for the cache area once i get out of the truck. i make map sets using topo and cityselect for each area i go to, and i can always make the 24 mb stretch to cover what i need. these two maps are the perfect complement to my vista c, i absolutely love them. you bought a gps that can create a route for you, now go with the map series that will allow it to work. just my 2 cents! -another satisfied garmin addict
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You Know You've Been Geocaching Too Long...
denali7 replied to LeoGeo's topic in General geocaching topics
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go to amazon.com to the pages to buy these units. there are many buyer reviews there, and some are very detailed. i found them to be extremely helpful (when i bought my vista c). good luck and enjoy!
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local hobby stores (the places that sell uniform items) usually sell badge books for each step. i'm not sure about brownie badges, it's been a while since flyensquirrel was a brownie, but later on there are orienteering and other outdoor badges with you could certainly tie in caching skills. you have to do several activities to earn each badge, so i'd get the brownie book and check out all the outdoor badges. they give you a bunch of suggested activities for each badge, and you have to do a certain number, but i forget how many for brownie badges. you could introduce caching easily with any navigation, mapping, environmental, or even geography or learning about other places badge. you have to do the right amount of activities per badge, but you can be a little creative about your approach--that's what makes each troop unique! have fun.
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thanks! as always, your assistance is fast and helpful. i can finally see the OT and the avatar sig change, now i'll go back and try the ignore list again.
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yeah!!! i see the premium member!!
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well now i'm completely confused and frustrated. now my profile seems to say i'm a premium member, but when i try to ignore a cache it still comes up, and i still can't see the OT forum. someone please remind me why this is worthwhile...
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thanks wh, i'll do that. it's still not working today, close to 48 hours now. -denali
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thanks, lep's. i did check, but everyone seemed to have their membership active within about 24 hours. even the site says to allow for one 1 business day. i paid by credit card, and i thought that would be as fast as paypal. now i guess i'll just relax and stop looking for another day or two. i was just beginning to wonder if i did something wrong that i hadn't heard anything in a day. thanks again! -denali ed. 'cause i'm dum and kant spelll
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i took the plunge and bought the premium membership yesterday. now it's been well over 24 hours, and i don't know where to go to ask about the status of my account. anyone know where i should go to ask? thanks! -denali
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fairbanks, i love my vista c! i researched this a lot back around christmas, and found the best price at gpsnow.com. i love the size, the mapping capability and space (i use topo and city select),autorouting, the color screen, and everything else. if you want a unit you won't outgrow in a year or two this is a great gps for the price, esp compared to the other garmin units you mentioned. amazon.com has great prices on the mapping software, too. i was replacing a really old magellan unit that served well in the past, but was a real relic. i didn't have a real hard time getting used to this garmin, most things are laid out very much like a computer. when i did have ques, the online community here was very helpful, i think there are many satisfied garmin users out there. the size factor of the unit still blows me away--pictures on a website just don't do justice to how small, light, and easy to carry this thing really is!! you'll love it, too. -denali p.s. amazon.com's site has really good and informative reviews on the pages when you are looking at specific units. good luck!
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i'm almost always alone, and that's why i'm... -denali and nugget (woof!)
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Eric K Posted on Feb 16 2005, 01:41 PM Sounds like a good way the local organizations could do some positive PR. Maybe they could have 'newbie' training days or something. As cheap as the old Etrex yellows are going for on E-bay local orgs could have a few extra for training newbies. this is the way many outdoor groups, such as fly fishers or trap/skeet shooters, introduce new members to the their sport. it's the same problem for newbies there too--where to learn the skill, and how to practice it a little before investing in (the right) expensive gear? it works well, particularly with a little word-of-mouth or local advertisement. one fly fishing group i belong to has a "stable" of entry level rods, and they even go to schools or scout groups when invited.
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yup, briansnat, those are the names i couldn't think of--fleckstone and great stuff. i'm disappointed that it didn't work so well, i thought i had a great idea. while you dig up those pictures, i'm going back to the ol' drawing board!
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thanks to this thread, now i really "get" the bookmark thing. i'll definitely use it for a "to do" list. i'll also do a summer list for the outer banks and a winter list for the pa mountains. unfortunately, i may need to make one of those dnf lists, too. thanks for making this concept more clear to this terminology-deficient cacher, and thanks for the great ideas on how to use it! -denali, the slow
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i haven't tried this yet, but that spray foam insulation called great stuff or neat stuff or something like that seems like a cool way to make a fake rock. it dries hard and weatherproof, can be trimmed with a utility knife, and is paintable. i'm thinking of spraying it around a form (maybe balled-up newspaper, so i can rip it back out when the "stuff" is dry) similiar in size and shape to my cache container (but just a bit bigger), then painting it with the spray that people are using on outdoor flower pots to simulate stoneware. i'd hide the container up underneath it. if you're looking for a cheap way to make fake rocks, i'm thinking a couple could be made with one can, and everything is easily available at lowe's or home depot (or your local hardware store). just an idea! -denali
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somehow, i just have a feeling he's anti-that, too. hunters are always the antichrist with those types.
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BEER... it isn't just for breakfast anymore.
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i feel really bad about myself now. i must confess: **stands up** my name is mary, and i'm a snowmobiler and a geocacher.
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thanks to all who've replied!!
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would you feel differently if the needed equipment poses a threat to the physical environment of the cache site? it would never occur to me to bring anything that would, say, leave a tree scarred. how about such damage over a summer's worth of caching?
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for caches with high difficulty ratings, would specialized skills or gear normally be noted in a cache descriptions? i'd like to search for, and hide, difficult physical challenges, although i don't have specialized skills and gear such as for mountain climbing or scuba diving. scuba caches seem to be very clearly noted as such, but should i expect that other such special skills would be noted? i've had my first truly disappointing cache experience lately, resulting from what i feel is a misleading cache description. for an example, you read a cache description that lists the cache as difficult, demanding, and requiring forethought and planning. you do your homework and bring extra gear based on what you find on the scouting trip. when you finally arrive at the cache, however, you find that to access it you must do something else that requires specialized skill and gear, such as scuba diving, or rappeling. if a cache requires scuba diving and a person can't dive, they can avoid it; if a cache requires 4x4 and a person doesn't have the right vehicle, they can avoid it, but should i always expect the cache description to alert me to these things? how up-front should i expect them to be, and how up-front as to these type of requirements should i be when placing caches of my own? a related question would pertain to large caching parties searching for such caches. if only one or two people are able/qualified to actually access the cache, should all the others be logging the find also? those log entries are also going to add to misleading future cachers searching for this cache. how much truth and accuracy is the norm for cache descriptions? thanks. -denali