Renegade Knight

If I ever get a travel bug, if I can help it in it's mission I will, if not I'll stuff it in another cache (probably one of my own since they are handy. As for mine, the mission would be clear. Ultimatly they would need to return. If it took me a week or a month to move it on, that would not bother me at all. Are you in a rush? I'm not going to get a burr in my butt to place a Travel Bug just because I happened onto one. No offence intended. And no I may not even log it right away until I knew what I was doing with one. As of now there are no travel bugs within 100 miles of my home area, so this isn't likely to be much of a problem for a spell.

Here is my 2 cent's. I've had my gps for about 6 weeks. A cover is a good idea. I'm using an old sock for stuffing mine in the glovebox or my bag to keep the screen from getting scratched up. Maybe they have Cellphone type covers out there somewhere. A PC cable. If your's comew with it, great. If not, it's a must have. Toposoftware. City maps are nice but getting lost in the city is harder to do. Good topo software to set up waypoints etc. and to help you with trails is next on my list. City software. My GPS has mapping and came with it, it's nice. Can't say how nice if your's doesn't do mapping. NiMH Batters. I got kids, we have rechargable batteries. After we got the GPS, the kids god the NiCAD's and we got the NiMH batteries. These things eat batteries faster than Gameboys and flashlights. (ok maybe not Gameboys) Anyway, that's my list. In order. 1) GPS, hey it all starts here. Make sure it has a wrist strap. 2) PC Cable. 3) Rechargable Batteries. (Alkaline seem to be harder and harder to find.) 4) Mapping software of whatever type you need. 5) A cover. Why no. 5? Cause an old sock works until you get the 'more important stuff'. By the time you get all this stuff, you will know what you want in accessories.

Here is my 2 cent's. I've had my gps for about 6 weeks. A cover is a good idea. I'm using an old sock for stuffing mine in the glovebox or my bag to keep the screen from getting scratched up. Maybe they have Cellphone type covers out there somewhere. A PC cable. If your's comew with it, great. If not, it's a must have. Toposoftware. City maps are nice but getting lost in the city is harder to do. Good topo software to set up waypoints etc. and to help you with trails is next on my list. City software. My GPS has mapping and came with it, it's nice. Can't say how nice if your's doesn't do mapping. NiMH Batters. I got kids, we have rechargable batteries. After we got the GPS, the kids god the NiCAD's and we got the NiMH batteries. These things eat batteries faster than Gameboys and flashlights. (ok maybe not Gameboys) Anyway, that's my list. In order. 1) GPS, hey it all starts here. Make sure it has a wrist strap. 2) PC Cable. 3) Rechargable Batteries. (Alkaline seem to be harder and harder to find.) 4) Mapping software of whatever type you need. 5) A cover. Why no. 5? Cause an old sock works until you get the 'more important stuff'. By the time you get all this stuff, you will know what you want in accessories.

I found Black Wolf on eBay on accident. This was when the Best interet price was 407 before shipping. I sent BW and one other a question. BW took my stupid question seriously. The other was an idiot. Ended up winning one on auction (from BW) and the total was 402 after shipping. It sounds like street prices have come down a bit since I got mine about 6 weeks ago. Such is the nature of things.

When I found Geocaching I didn't have a GPS at all. Found my first while looking up everything I could find. Decided on the GPS V and since I don't know about any others this one seems about right. There are a couple things I wish I could do though. I'd like to be able to toggle between "Find it fastest, find it shortest, and off road" easily. I wish it had a compas but I suppose that would take different electronics. I also wish it had a NiMH sensor. Other than that I don't know what I'm missing. I'm impressed overall at how easy it has been to figure out and use.

When I found Geocaching I didn't have a GPS at all. Found my first while looking up everything I could find. Decided on the GPS V and since I don't know about any others this one seems about right. There are a couple things I wish I could do though. I'd like to be able to toggle between "Find it fastest, find it shortest, and off road" easily. I wish it had a compas but I suppose that would take different electronics. I also wish it had a NiMH sensor. Other than that I don't know what I'm missing. I'm impressed overall at how easy it has been to figure out and use.

My 2 Cents, get one with a cable, you will want that. Other than that, you will learn what you want after you learn what you can do. Go cheap, get a cable, upgrade later when you have more money, or keep what you got cause it works.

I'm in agreement that you need to maintain your cache. Visit it once in awhile to see if the area is being trampled and a trail is forming. Re-hide it like you intended if it's not up to snuff and move it or archive it if there is a trail. On occasion a cache will get plundered. then it's up to you to re-set it or archive it.

quote:Originally posted by peter: Seems to me there's been much more improvement than that article indicates. Just a few years ago the only rechargeable AA cells available were NiCds with a capacity of about 600 mA-hr and rechargeable alkalines with very limited cycles. Now we have NiMH cells with 1800 mA-hr capacities that perform about as well on a single charge as disposable alkalines (and even better in high current devices like digital cameras). If consumers are still throwing away lots of single-use batteries, it's not the fault of the manufacturers who have greatly improved the performance of rechargeables in the last few years. Of course a reporter who thinks that people were using lead-acid cells in their flashlights prior to the invention of alkalines may have missed a few other facts as well. Interesting. So the lead acid battery that is currently in my flashlight is an anacronism? Actualy it's a 1,000,000 candlepower light I picked up for 16 bucks. The battery when it wears out will probably cost me more than that.

quote:Originally posted by worldtraveler: A cache I'm currently working on will be a multi. There will be an ammo can hidden, chained to an immovable object, and locked with a combination lock at the final waypoint. Clues to each of the numbers to the combination (not the numbers themselves) will be posted at three of the intermediate waypoints. The cache will probably end up rating a 3/3 or higher, so lazy would-be thieves (the majority, I think) will likely give up before finding the final cache. Anyone who does locate it and tries to steal it will have to do some work - hopefully more than they will think it is worth. The cache will also be on private land (with permission), so thieves could face criminal charges, if caught. No guarantees, but I hope the extra effort on the front end will result in less maintenance/replacement later on, and also provide a more satisfying geocaching experience to those who are honest. ------------------ Worldtraveler I like this idea.