powercatjeffy

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The buttons along the right side of my Garmin 60csx have quit working. They have stopped working previously, but came back in a fairly short time after that. Currently, they haven't worked for a couple of days. To me, it sounds like something on the board and something that will need to be fixed by Garmin. Anyone else had this problem?

How about a minimum number of finds before anyone places a micro cache? I say about 100 finds.

Here's me using a real GPS: And me at my most beautiful.... completely covered:

I was thinking 8330 instead of 8310. After reflection, I'm pretty sure your 8310 will handle the 900MHz GSM/GPRS and1800MHz GSM/GPRS networks in Europe just fine. Use that to access gc.com (roaming price may be a whopper, though - keep usage light or you might pay as much as a netbook will cost!) and you can leave the netbook at home. I screwed up too.... It's an 8330.

I think one of my caches say it's a tupperware container when it isn't. It's a little white lie thats designed to be insurance. I don't think people will be upset if they are looking for tupperware and find a MUCH better container. I'd probably assume that the original had been muggled and subsequently replaced by another container - and the description hadn't been edited.

I'm heading on a trip to Europe next summer (London, France, Germany). I want to cache a bit in all of those places, but I don't know how best to go about it. My hardware: Palm Tungsten, Garmin 60CSx, Blackberry 8330 (Verizon). I'd like to avoid carrying any more devices with me than absolutely necessary. Since I'm not taking a laptop, it may be nearly impossible to download caches on the fly. So I'm looking for suggestions. Some questions as well: From what I understand, a standard cell phone won't work over in Europe. Correct? If that's the case, does that mean any app would be blind as well? If I can make it work, are there any apps people would suggest? Is there anything I'm not thinking of?

The icons are customizable to a point. You can upload all of the current geocaching symbols into it. I don't have the link here on my laptop, but I'm sure I got it from these message boards someplace - or a google search. Then you can have the ghost and the green treasure and the smiley face, etc.

I seem to recall North Korea and Iran as two that didn't have anything. There's all sorts of "cache" off the coast of Somalia.

I'd just call the cops and report a suspicious item found deep in the woods miles from any humanity.

I do like that. I think it is still there from the pooh episode earlier in the month, but it really needs maintenance now. Should I call in an anonymous tip about a suspicious item found 50 feet from there (a letterbox)?

I had already planned on billing them for a new can, a box of pens, a waterproof log book and a ziploc bag. Great idea to bill them for a training exercise as well. I think MS Word has some decent invoice templates. The one thing that has disappointed me about this whole thing is that there hasn't even been an inkling of a news story from the local press. Heck, the rest area on I70 was closed for several hours with 5 hiway patrol cars blocking the ramp. Surely that should tell SOMEONE that it isn't just a water leak in the bathroom!

I would question the bill. You didn't phone it in. You didn't place anything hazaradouse. You didn't creat a panic, or shut down roads. You didn't authorize the responce. Every single decision was beyond your control. Including the "act like it's a bomb" decision. Other things get phoned in and get no responce, or if they do it's the narcotics side who bring out their dog. Again that decision is beyond your control. By sending you a bill they are doing nothing more than pawning off the collateral damage that having a bomb squad creates just by existing. They (gubimnt) accepted this risk when they created the bomb squad to begin with. Especially when they asked Joe Public to start phoning in everthing that looks funny to them. And on top of that, the cache was placed by another cacher. I essentially adopted it when he retired for health reasons.

I got to talk to the bomb dude. It wasn't blown up, per se. The can is no longer usable, but I can get my mctoys back if I want them. Sounds like I may get a bill for this, but who knows. I found out who found the cache. It was a DOT worker. Ironically, I know all the people in the office in which that employee works.

He heard about it from his brother, who I believe caught wind of it on the scanner or some such. His brother went out to try and stop them. It was hidden within a small evergreen stand. It's hard to say exactly how hidden it was at the time since some cachers don't seem to get things back where they belong. Ironically, there is a letterbox within 50 feet of it that is easily visible when walking by.

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One of my caches blew up. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...4d-b73849efd0ca The cache died today, the KHP Special Response Team blew it up. It was apparently found by a non-gecacher and reported to the Highway Patrol. They X-rayed the container and did not see anything hazardous inside, they blew it up anyway.... If you decide to submit another here, be sure to clearly mark the container and maybe we should use something clear for this one. It was an ammo can marked with Geocaching and my email address. I'm betting, being in the middle of Kansas, the boys were just a little antsy. I'm sure they have less to do than the Maytag repairman. Today I got an email through geocaching website. One of the troopers signed up for an account and emailed me through it. He wants me to call him. I figure my days of freedom are numbered.

So what happens if real bomb makers start wrapping their bombs in McToys?

It had been coming for quite some time. My old etrex Legend had been showing its age, and likely it had been left in a hot vehicle too many times. Slowly it was dying. Lines crossed the screen at times. Sometimes it just shut itself off. Recently the screen had been going blank, first only when I turned the light on, then at random times. A nice thud onto the dash would usually bring it back up. Yesterday, it wouldn't come back on. A single blue line traversed the screen from top to bottom. I couldn't shut it off without removing the batteries. That process worked to reboot a couple of times, but kept going off. Another gentle bump on the dash more closely resembling a Mendez Brothers family gathering than a trip down a dirt road told me that the GPS had seen the last of its days. This morning, with money I had been saving (thank you Dave Ramsey) and a Best Buy gift card, plus a monetary nudge from the wife for my birthday, a brand new Garmin 60CSx entered my life. She's a beauty. I will love her and cherish her forever.... until I throw her against the dash again.

Anyone care to borrow my Enigma machine?

In some locations, look for geotrails.

In an odd sort of way, I'd like to be an owner of a cache that gets the squad called on it. I'd love to walk up upon hearing that the bomb squad had been called, walk right past the cops and the robot, pick up the cache and open it, perhaps letting out a horrific scream as I do so.

Well, in the true definition of an FTF, they would get it since they were first to find it. However in the spirit of the game, most of us don't count FTF finds if the cache listing isn't live on the GC.com site. Everybody likes to play this game their own way, so I wouldn't make a huge issue about it. Claim your FTF and move on. I have claimed FTF on several caches that weren't published on gc yet. Here is why. They were all caches placed by the Kansas Wildlife and Parks. Their coords were posted on the KDWP website for all to see when announcing the game. It took the WP awhile to get them all registered with GC, so there were several that had been found, some by non-gc members, prior to publishing. Of course, I think the difference in this scenario to the one above is that these coords were released to the public, so everyone had a fair shot at it.

Call the cops and report a theft of personal property.

I appreciate the suggestion. I will definitely work on modifying them once I get an opportunity.