Team Tired Boy

Rite in the Rain is great stuff. Pencil works well on it, and water just beads up on it. The National Geographic paper is also great. I've tested it by printing on my inkjet; writing on it with pen, Sharpie, and pencil; then holding it under running water. Nothing runs. The one problem with the NG paper is that it's difficult to write on with pencil. If you use it for a log, you should either include a pen in the cache or advise people to bring a pen of their own.

I travel way too much...I fly back and forth from the US to Europe every 2 to 3 weeks. I always carry my Legend in my carry on bag. I've never taken it out at security, and no one has ever asked about it in any country I've taken it to (US, UK, France, Germany, or Italy). At Charles de Gaulle in Paris they'll sometimes ask what electronic devices I'm carrying. I'll mention the GPS receiver, but they never even blink an eye.

I travel way too much...I fly back and forth from the US to Europe every 2 to 3 weeks. I always carry my Legend in my carry on bag. I've never taken it out at security, and no one has ever asked about it in any country I've taken it to (US, UK, France, Germany, or Italy). At Charles de Gaulle in Paris they'll sometimes ask what electronic devices I'm carrying. I'll mention the GPS receiver, but they never even blink an eye. Going through the x-ray does nothing to the data or the GPSr.

We were last to find on a cache that required a mile long hike to a location on the Connecticut River. When we got there, we found cache contents strewn across a wide area. It looked like the cache didn't survive a recent flood. But since we found the log book (which by some miracle was actually dry), we signed it and claimed the find. Then we picked up all the contents, carried them out, and contacted the owner to let them know about it. They promptly archived the cache. We finished our on-line log with, "Took the cache; left nothing."

Well, I don't understand the distinction between homeless person and bum, nor do I understand what Home Depot could be expected to do about the homeless. But it does sound like maybe disabling this cache was the right thing to do.

We just met some nearby cachers in a most amusing way. We were sitting on our front steps on Halloween, greeting the children and handing treats out. Along came a little girl and her father. Her father said, "You guys look really familiar. Are you geocachers?" Turns out he recognized us from our pictures in our logs, and he lives just down the street from us!

I have a four stage multi where if someone looked at the hints before heading out they could probably find the info they need to get the final coordinates without leaving home. Doesn't matter to me if they do that. I think they would miss out on a pretty decent multi, but if I design a cache that allows that to be done, how can I complain about it? On the other hand, if someone just asks someone else for the final coordinates, that's pretty lame. But I'd still allow the find. It's no skin off my nose.

No way would I do it. This isn't what geocaching is about in my opinion.

I use one all the time when caching. When we get to about 60 feet, I pause and shoot a bearing. Then I look that direction for possible hiding spots. This often leads us directly to the cache. To be honest, one of the reasons we have such success with this may be just that it forces us to take the time to stop and look rather than just follow the arrow on the GPS. The other way that I use one is when we have to bushwack a long distance. I'll shoot a bearing, then use a back bearing on the way out to find the trail again. I also carry it just in case the GPSr goes caput. I figure if I've got a compass I at least won't be wandering around in circles. I have both my GPSr and my compass set to magnetic north. You could be off by quite a bit (14 degrees in my area) if your GPSr is set to true north and you don't set the declination on your compass. For me, the easiest thing to have both set to magnetic north.

Never mind. Just found it.

I want to clear them all, but I don't want to have to go through 500 of them and delete them all individually. Please tell me there's a way to delete all of the at once.

Compass - to shoot a bearing from about 60 feet away Mirror - handy for looking under things Flashlight - for peering into dark spots Walking stick - for hiking and for poking around in places that I'm wary of putting my hands Plus a bunch of other stuff like first aid gear, camera, cell phone, sun screen, bug spray, tissues, whistle, space blanket, swag, extra zip lock bags, power bars, etc., etc.

Butterfly, your profile doesn't show that you own any caches. Is your new one active?

We put mix CDs in caches all the time. We do have permission from most, if not all, the musicians on the CDs. The musicians we use are small names in the grand scheme of things, and they're happy to have the exposure.

Not knowing anything about these, I have to ask...why wouldn't just any brand work?

I'll be at the Marriott Heathrow next week for a few days. I was there a couple weeks ago, but only had time to do one cache. This time I think I'll have an entire morning free. Anyone have some recommendations for caches for me to do near there?

Someone in CT puts small wooden bowls and plates in caches that he makes himself. They're really nice. I've come across two of them. One we traded for. The other we left for someone else.

That makes sense...especially since we're not allowed to leave at night!

I'm almost embarrassed at how excited I am. My wife says my inner twelve-year-old boy is showing.

And yet there's night caching on the schedule for the G.O.N.E. Caching event this weekend. Will we be breaking the rules?

In my opinion, you must consider the cost of a data cable when you look at the eTrex yellow. Entering waypoints by hand is tedious and can easily lead to errors. You can get cables from companies other than Garmin for around $15. This is what I use. But if I had to do it over again, I probably would have just gone for the Legend. For a little more money, you get mapping capability, although with not much memory. Bottom line: If $100 is your limit, get the eTrex yellow and a third-party data cable. If you can stretch it a little, get the Legend.

Do you have to do all the upgrades or can you keep using an old version until a major upgrade?

My usual behavior is to drive 5 mph or even completely stop while navigating, completely oblivious to other cars around me.

This is something that we've been talking about doing. Thanks for the reminder.

How durable are those hinges on the Lock n Locks?