KB5VFM

Check out your local pawn shops. I've picked up 3 at my local ones lately. Got a yellow etres for $50, a GPS72 for $95, and a Meriplat for $150(was still new in the box). Best of luck finding a good deal, they're out there, just have to look. KB5VFM

This is a great idea for rating of caches. I just did "Rocky Brook Falls" today and that was after reading all the logs that had been posted to date. This one has started me off on my own personal "Top 10 List." I could have written over a page on the search and find of this single cache, but decided to let others see for themselves. I approached it via the wrong road, and that was an adventure in itself. Rocky Brook Falls

Hardware: Magellan Meridian Platinum PalmIII Software: Cachemate 3.51 CMConvert for Linux It takes a few shots at getting everything sync'd up, but once I get the script written, it should all go rather flawlessly. I've been 100% Unix/Linux since before I started Geocaching, and just recently went paperless. It's taken a while to get everything sorted out, but it all works rather well now. Dennis

Fledermaus; I've got a chainsaw and know how to use it if you need some assistance with a "plan" I drove by looking for that cache a day after you reported it missing, just couldn't find a good place to park my huge beast of a truck, so I went in search of Tower of Power, all to no avail, couldn't find any rocks in the area I was looking in, but noticed my batteries were getting very flat and didn't have any spares to use, so called it a day. Dennis

Thanks for the comments on my Green Mt Cache. I need to get back up there and add a few waypoints to make it a bit easier for the beginner. These will be hints as to exactly which trail leads to the correct summit. I know I'd really hate to take the wrong one and have to do another one. I pretty much grew up on that mountain and know it rather well, well that was before all the various roads were added. I want to make it to the Gold Mt. cache soon, hopefully it will be nice next week and then it'll be a go. Dennis