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Alabama Area Geocaching Groups are: Alabama Geocachers Association = Statewide ALGA GEO = East Central Alabama & West Central Georgia (Randolph, Chambers, Lee, Cleburne, Heard, Carroll, Troup, Meriwether, Coweta, Harris, etc...) Coosa Valley Cachers = North East Alabama & North West Georgia (Anniston, Piedmont, Gadsden, Rome, etc...) AGA - Birmingham Area Cachers = Birmingham Auburn Opelika Geocachers = Auburn Opelike area East Alabama Cachers = Phenix City Area and west from there. Alabama River Region Geocaching = Montgomery Alabama Area Dixie Cachers Southern Geocachers Association = Huntsville but not specific to that area. South Alabama Geocachers = Mobile area Chattahoochee Valley Geocachers = South East Alabama and South West Georgia (Columbus, GA & Phenix City, AL area plus all surrounding counties.) There may be others in the area, but I am only aware of these.

So yesterday went to look at where a cache was on the mini map on the page and it has some junk on there but no map. Hmmmm! Today I go to log a cache and guess what? When you go to "Show on Map" the coordinates you entered. The same JUNK comes up! What is wrong with the site? When will they fix it? Why hasn't anyone else posted about this on the forums? Is it just Me??

That is great, but it is not a FIND . You could post a NOTE though if you just really felt like it.

What you might not realize is that some people paperless cache and NOT all GPSr allow you to see the description. You just download the pocket query and off you go. Our current GPSr allows us to download thousands of caches, see description and hints. Our previous GPSr only showed a mark on the map with no information, description, hint or anything. Don't hide your cache based on your GPSr, hide based on the true spirit of the game. DEAD ON ACCURATE COORDINATES! The game is about how good you can get the coordinates and how good a person can find the coordinates. Creativity is the key to difficulty not ones lousy ability to read a GPSr, so they just post anything. Or intentionally leading someone on a wild goose chase and then calling it a traditional. Call it what it is "Mystery Cache" and TELL why in the SHORT DESCRIPTION. That would be "Coordinates get you within 600 feet of the cache, because I don't have enough creativity to hide it in plain sight.

I have a Dakota 10 and a GPSMAP 60csx. You have to load one GC to the unit by pressing the GPS button, one at a time. I tried downloading GSAK with no success in getting it to work correctly. I was going to use Pocket Query but it does not work on emails that are at yahoo.com. Suggestions?