mocha java man

Any update on this? I found this thread immediately after I went out and splurged and bought a Legend Cx (my excuse was that the wife and kids kidnapped my poor eTrex yellow and took it to Indiana with them for a week). Had I seen the thread earlier, I might (maybe, possibly) have dug a bit deeper and gotten the 60Cx. I've only been to six caches with the new unit (five of them with a fellow cacher wielding a 60C), and it seems mostly OK so far....except that it lost accuracy when I enabled WAAS. Without WAAS, it hung right with the 60C (we did four caches that day that neither of us had ever found before, and I found three of them...the one he found first I didn't look for because that was the moment I decided to enable my WAAS and power-cycle the unit). With the WAAS on, the cache was outside my 'circle of accuracy' by about 25' (I was standing at the cache, with the unit saying the cache was 39' away and that it had 15' accuracy). On the next cache (which he had found, so only I looked for it), the unit once again had the cache outside my circle of accuracy with WAAS enabled. I disabled WAAS and re-circled, and it immediately 'zeroed' me at about 10' from the cache location with 12' accuracy. When my little yellow comes home, I plan on doing tests similar to the one done by T&J....and I'm hoping fervently for a firmware update that will fix any bugaboos. BTW, T&J, are y'all not logging online any more? I recognized that cache you took the video at because I was in that park twice for the old cache that was there (took me two tries to get it), and three times for the new cache (once to find, once to restock, and once to bring my daughter to find).

I have mixed feelings about yard caches. I'm a pretty shy person by nature, so the thought of going into a stranger's yard for a cache is something that gives me pause. However, I am the owner of a yard cache (GCNR00), which I placed in my own yard; not to meet other cachers (although that has happened a few times), but to draw them to see a unique feature of the neighborhood. I also used the opportunity to place something larger than a micro Before I placed the cache, I talked to the neighbors to let them know what I was doing, and they have been very supportive. They were already used to having strangers cruise the neighborhood taking pictures, anyway, so what's a few extra people with GPSr's? One thing that I've noticed, though, is that the area's 'old hands' at geocaching have been considerably less thrilled by the cache than the new cachers. It's usually cachers with hundreds (or thousands) of finds that make remarks about not being comfortable going on private property.

My moniker is pretty basic. I'm a coffee aficionado, so when I signed up at GC.com, I tapped one of my favorite Yahell IDs to use over here, too. Kudos to anyone who already knew that mocha java doesn't mean coffee with chocolate.

My $0.02 . . . I go paperless when I'm caching on my own or with my wife and kids (aka the Java Beans), especially since most of my caching is of the opportunistic variety. BUT, when I'm introducing somebody new to the obsession, I print out cache pages. The pocket PC screen is small and hard to share and some people don't like to be confronted with new-fangled gadgets; paper is familiar to everyone, and lets them see the full layout of the cache page.

I just browsed into this darn thread, and now I find myself defending my two little placements. OK so one of them is on public land and is beyond reproach (except for the fact that it's generally lame ). The other is on private land and I do have explicit and enthusiastic permission for it to be there (wanders off to do something more constructive than browse the threads)

We, too, are a family of cachers and budding cachers. At one point, I considered a 'team' ID for the family, but I like having my own finds, escpecially since I do about half of my caching alone. When I'm out with all or part of the family, I'll note it in the cache log and in my log online. Our family rule for online logging is that anyone who wants a GC.com account to log finds can have one, as long as they do all the work to maintain it. With that comes the ability to sign for themselves in the physical cache logs. So far, only my teenage daughter has decided to do create her own (and she's currently a little behind on her logging). My pre-teen son will probably be the next one to be ready. My wife, who rarely comes out with us (even though she loves it), may never create her own account, simply because she doesn't feel like she has time to sit at the PC and log the finds (I know, it doesn't take that long....but have you ever seen how quickly four kids can get into mischief?) As was said above, the account is a priveledge, and with it comes the responsibility to keep it up to date.

I didn't think to get a pic of it before placing ...but my first cache container was (and still is) a highlighter pen with a log inside. The movie 'Office Space' was the inspiration for the cache hide ----> Office Space I'll do a maintenance check sometime this week and take along the camera....

Well, I'm glad to finally see an answer on why FL isn't included in the contest. The official rules simply state that FL isn't included, and my two e-mails asking why have gone unanswered Obviously, it's disappointing that we Floridians can't partake in the contest; but, seeing the disclosure law, I now understand that it's on the books to protect one set of our imported citizens from another set of our imported citizens

Yep, signal bounce. I'm still mostly caching in urban/sub-urban areas (cleaning out close to home first), so I get bounce a lot with the eTrex I just got for Christmas. The funny thing is, the old, borrowed Garmin GPS12 that I used from 12/1 to 12/24 never seemed to bounce. I'm thinking it's because it didn't update fast enough to catch the bounces happen. So, if you really really don't want the bounce, you can go to old equipment