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You could always try the area northeast of Liberal, KS and in Satanta, KS About 5 miles NE of Liberal in the SW corner of the state--very sparsely populated area mind you--there are about 28 caches within less than 1 sq mile. In the town of Satanta (pop. 1000 about 20 miles NW of Liberal) there are 16 within the city limits of less than 1 sq mile. Of course there's really no reason to go there other than that but that's another issue entirely.

I have a Garmin Legend (the blue one) and the rubber piece that runs around the outside and has some of the buttons on it has come off after the glue wore out. I asked Garmin what it would take to replace it and they sent a form letter back that it would be a flat fee of $125. This isn't worth it for $3 worth of rubber and glue. I could almost buy another unit for that amount. Does anyone have any suggestions of what kind of glue would be a good one to affix the rubber onto the plastic? I tried rubber cement once but that didn't work.

Its published! http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...53-f7d1ccc10cdd

The Kansas cache should be published by the end of the weekend.

Too bad, until yesterday I could have gotten the employee discount on top of that. That company makes Wal-Mart look good for how it treats its employees (in their warehouses at least).

If anyone is in or is going to be in Manhattan, KS in the very near future I am in need of a little help. I placed a cache yesterday but forgot to enter some info. I am needing someone to take a little time and go out to my cache and get it for me rather than me drive back over from Topeka for 5 minutes worth of work. E-mail me if you can help.

The Kansas cache is placed, but I forgot to write the code number in the can (its not published yet), so I'll have to make the 50 mile trip back or hopefully find an area cacher to volunteer. Coming soon!

Probably one of my favorite cache memories was at night. In northwest Kansas, there's an old limestone Catholic church back a few miles on dirt roads that burned down many years ago. Just rubble now with only partial walls still standing. Didn't know what was there as it was in my early days of caching (I had forgotten what the cache page had said) before I printed off sheets or got a Palm. So my brother and I took off across the pasture with our heads down looking around to make sure we didn't step anywhere we didn't want. We got within about 75' of the church before the full moon silhouetted the ruins. It was really creepy looking. Then we kept hearing random critters shuffling through the trees and grass and that just made it even creepier. Didn't find it that night but it was well worth the trip. Its still neat during the day, but not nearly as fun.

Thanks! Are you familiar with the geographic center of the USA in KS? Is there an area we can do a final there? I've been near there a couple of times in my life but its a bit out of the way for me. Probably a 3 - 3 1/2 hr drive. Also, there is already a virtual at that location. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...7a-1f08abf8cd46 It is also probably a good 1 1/2 hour drive from interstate (either I-70 in Kansas or I-80 in Nebraska). I can think of several areas more accessible (for me and other cachers) that don't have any caches near them.

Below the Root?

I can take Kansas. Live near I-70 (runs length of state from E-W). Might also be a good centralized location for the final cache. My brother, powercatjeffy, would probably also help out. My idea for a place puts it about halfway between our houses.

stuffed jalepeno's (deseeded of course)

I don't feel as comfortable doing cemetery caches as others, but I still do them. But I always make a point to walk around the area and look around. There's usually a veteran's memorial or historic figure nearby. And having an interest in history, I like the older cemeteries. Sometimes when driving down a country road I'll stop by one when I see it whether there's a cache there or not.

Let me be the first to admit that I had to click on the link to find out what a capercaillie is. Great story, BTW. Me too. And for anyone else who wonders it looks like a big angry chicken. How big is that thing btw?

It basically means its most googled in hungary. People who do it here or in the UK don't ever google it as they go straight to this site.

These are the cities where "geocaching" is most Googled 1. Salt Lake City United States 2. Seattle United States 3. Portland United States 4. Denver United States 5. Austin United States 6. San Diego United States 7. St Louis United States 8. San Francisco United States 9. Phoenix United States 10. Stuttgart Germany By nation: 1. Hungary 2. United States 3. Canada 4. Germany 5. Netherlands 6. Switzerland 7. New Zealand 8. Sweden 9. Denmark 10. Belgium http://www.google.com/trends?q=geocaching Kind of a neat little tool to see where things are most searched for.

I don't have any additional maps and do just fine. I also don't feel right paying almost $100 for a CD that it cost the company 5 cents to burn.

Could be any number of things. First, the coords have to be inputted properly. Then the GPS will only take you to the area of the cache. Depending on conditions, could be within 10-100 feet. Should be able to see what the accuracy is on the GPS. Then it will require looking. The first few are the toughest, then you kind of get a sense of how caches are hidden. Depending on the size of the container of course, but the best places to look are under unnatural-looking piles of rocks or sticks. Any little nook and cranny can be a hiding place. Sometimes you will go home empty-handed. Even the best do.

I use one for fishing and caching. It pretty easy to use (easier the more you use it). The base maps aren't terribly detailed, but aren't bad for what I need. I've seen accuracies as low as 8'. Its tough so it will handle some abuse, although I wouldn't reccomend abusing it And the price keeps dropping all the time. About $80-$100 cheaper than when I got mine

did it work/not work? Useful for caching, particularly in the US? http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...d=1&prodID=1958

Haven't run across this one before...Looked at the page for newest caches in Kansas this morning and came across a list of about 10 caches labeled as "unapproved cache." When I clicked on them, they came up with full cache names/info. Several of them are within a few miles of each other. If I had the time/desire to drive 60 miles one way today I could pick up several FTF/Prefinds. Has anyone else come across this on the new cache by state list?

"Mingo" was the first placed in Kansas and one of the first anywhere. It is currently the oldest active cache.

Just took my girlfriend out this last weekend. She's such a homebody. The first one we stopped at was a virtual on flat, dry ground with a walk of about 300'. The temp was in the mid 50's. She wanted to stay in the car while I went and got it. I told her this was about as easy as it was going to get. Finally, I convinced her to come with me and she wanted to bring her purse. There was no one around and we wouldn't be gone more than 5 minutes. I managed somehow to convince her to leave it in the car. The next one I parked along the side of the highway on the extra wide shoulder. She got out on this one and I started going the wrong direction. About 30' from the car I realized this and turned and headed back toward the car. This time I couldn't convince her to come with me. There was a small hill up a grassy slope which was slightly longer than the way I took. Neither of which were particularly long, as we had parked about 250' from the cache. She got out of the car for the next one because there was a historical bridge nearby (we both have degrees in history), and followed me about 100 feet back into the woods but didn't want to go up the easy 100' to the top of the small hill. She waited at the bottom. The last one we walked about .2 miles down a road and horse trail before I figured out I had to take the last 300' off trail. I pretty much ran the 300' feet ducking in and out of trees. She couldn't figure out how to make it past the first couple of small branches (i.e., twigs) so she stayed behind and waited. In all, I saw some pretty neat areas and a couple of nice views. She saw horse manure and the inside of a car. She may or may not go with me again. Probably some of the history related ones she would do, but not pure nature.

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