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Ohh...like a bell in the bushes! You know you're close 'cuz the bell rings! Good idea!

You can get wooden or bamboo wind chimes. Those would be ideal since they'd blend in better. Another possibility would be an aeolian harp or flute. The harp would be harder to make, but would potentially be much eerier since harp lines wouldn't need to be all in the same place. And, the more the wind blew the more notes the harp would play. For a flute, you'd only need one piece, and then it would only work if the wind blew just right. It would work great on the coast...assuming you live near the ocean. You could even buy a cheap plastic recorder, and paint it brown, and put it in a tree...that'd be cool! Oh, you've got my imagination running!!! What a cool idea!!! Of course if someone were to see a bird perching in mid-air from a harp line...it might be a bit strange...and may be seen as trash rather than music. I think with careful planning, and maybe proper permissions, it would be a very cool cache. I'd enjoy finding one like that, or placing one like that I hope it works out well!!!!

Approximately 1-2 finds each week I don't think that counts as an addiction yet, but we're glad we can find time to find caches How fun! ...I think at this rate it will save a lot of wear and tear on the GPSr too

That'd be really fun to find IF you had a lot of bottles with A LOT of different sized corks, and none of the corks needed to be used more than once What a cool uh...swiss army cork screwer screwdriver!!

Yeah, you could do it in one day. We did 10 miles in about 5 hours last winter, there was no caching involved, but if there had been that would have made it more fun...and we probably would have walked another 1/4 mile due to walking around looking for the cache I would have to work up to it...but it sounds like fun to me!

Way to find Thinka Inca!! Does the news count as logging the find?

Yep I've had the same feeling as Billy and Jeffy after climbing a hill too!

Oh, no wonder we almost never hear about ticks, we're in a low risk area according to the map! I guess that makes sense considering most of our ticks come from a clocks and are followed by a tocks! On a more serious note, I did check the map. Thanks for the link, it does make more sense now.

How big is a tick? Here in Oregon, I've only heard rumors of them, and not actually met anyone who's been bit by one. I've done tons of hiking through all kinds of brush, and not encountered them. Are they that rare out here?...or have I just not met anyone lucky enough to be bit by one? Or is it the fact that for most of the year people can wear long pants while hiking in Oregon, and be perfectly comfortable?

Hmmm...I usually ignore some posts in especially long threads...well, actually I didn't wanna read all the posts in this one, so I just scrolled down a bunch, like carleenp suggested. I usually do that a little bit most posts I read anyway, but especially the long ones. ...short attention span?...hmmm...maybe...oh well, maybe I'll try to read a whole thread another time.

Same here in Eugene, Oregon as in Indiana!

Yes, this is a silly thread, but I thought I'd ask the question anyway

Wow, no doubt about that Leica unit!...with base stations even! And, those pix are great. It all makes me glad I don't have to carry a backpack antenna, or a big battery pack with me while caching, or just going for a walk with the GPSr on. Some of these kinda remind me of old cell phones...the size of bricks and some with huge cords to hook up to a car lighter, and a base unit larger than the cell phone to charge it on!

I use a little garmin legend like so many others. But some people may have larger units. Has anyone seen a cacher carrying a laptop through the woods to find a cache???? If so, I'm sure they were rather desperate to find it and log it fast...and didn't have a PDA...or phone type dealy to log it with. Just a question after seeing all the other "biggest cache" topics posted. I thought I'd post something a little off that...but still on the "big" theme. Sorry to those of you tired of the "big" theme.

Finding new places in my backyard.

Why not wrap it in yellow paper?...and use a little magnetic compass for the bow?

I'm not sure that it would be clear sailing once you were in space. Our atmosphere filters out lots of radiation, and other bad stuff we can't handle here on earth. How would a GPSr do under increased radiation in space, not to mention space dust which makes tiny holes in sats, and the ISS every day? Wouldn't these play a factor in accuracy?

People and things do have their own magnetic fields. It's just that they're usually so small that they don't interfere with electronic equipment. Our whole bodies are run by electonics...just on a very extrememly low level. So, maybe some people do have strong magnetic fields around them???? Who knows!?!? Maybe some of us are just lucky in the opposite way as usual?...

That's a cool idea. I wish I could donat, but have probably been DQd by a couple of very large surgeries, and the associate meds taken with them.

Agreed on the TURN the unit on when you leave the house comment. Then, it can track the sattelites the whole way there, and you don't lose the lock on 'em so easily in a forest (assuming the cache is in a forest). Agreed on the Map page helps you as you drive there, especially in unfamiliar territory. BUT!!!....it's always best to have SOMEONE ELSE look at the GPS if you are driving!!! (of course you probably already knew that) True, the Navigation page helps tons more than the map page once you start walking. When you get close (arriving at destination) the compass arrow will jump around...don't worry...start looking at the number of feet left to get there. The distance you have left to get to the waypoint should drop at every step. When you get to about 20 feet start looking for a likely hiding place for the cache. Hmmm...I might have just summed up what others just said?...I hope it's not too redundudndantdunat.

I tried to do the update, and the computer gave me a message that said to the effect that my GPSr was already up to date. Apparently they did them at the factory before they released it on the web site, so I didn't do the update that I thought I needed. So, I guess it works great! Of course I didn't try out the Croatian language support, but then again, I don't speak Croation ...oops, Croatian.

That's really cool!!! I'd like to do that kind of cache!!! I can see how it would work, but I don't have the supplies. Maybe some day

We usually start looking at 20-30 feet from where we should be according to the GPS. The only things we've found to interfere with the GPS signal are: very large trees (especially conifers), forests with very large trees (in excess of 100 ft. tall), buildings, and hills. If metal were a problem a GPS would go crazy in a car. Some of the caches we've found have been 60 or more feet off from the given coords, but most are within 10 feet or so. We've only walked up to about half a dozen caches using the GPS...I assume this is due to the time of day the coords were taken was similar to the time of day we found the cache (i.e. the sats were in a similar position as to when the original coords were taken, hence good geometry). One other thing we've found is that low battery power can make the GPS less accurate. We use a Garmin Legend, so it may be different for a Magellan. I hope you figure out the problem.

Oh, it was through a link on the download page. Then I had to click, "Yes, I agree" on the license page link....BEFORE...I could see what any updates would do. Just slightly clearer than mud! If it were as clear as mud I'd probably still be lost. Thank you so much for helping me figure things out

Thanks, I'll look again, and repost