AirborneSurveyor

Great advice.... And for all who get Garmin Colorado and Oregon, EDIT your startup page with your name, phone number and Email address. (and forget all the warnings about putting your phone number on it. Your GPS isn't likely to be used as a tool to determine when you aren't home) How do you do that with the Colorado?

Cool video, took me over 2 hours to download (not bad given my location). Welcome to Geocaching.

If I looked and did not find the cache I log a DNF. I have been known to log a DNF a few times on the same cache only to have others find it before and after my vist. Them are the ones that eat at me.

I received an e-mail that my cache was damaged. Went out to retrieve it and stumbled around like a a** looking for 20 minutes and had to go back to the GeoTruck and get the GPS. Found the cache at the exact coordinates, but the fallen tree was gone. More recently I had to "find" my bonus cache that was repaired for me wile deployed when I was home on R&R. They did a good job hiding my cache.

If a cache falls on a state line and no one is around, does it make a sound?

This is my only gripe about the Colorado 400t so far. I just down loaded and installed the 2.96 beta OS for it. The big reason I installed a beta OS was it has a Averaging Waypoint feature. Great for marking new caches vs. the old way of looking at the coordinate screen and writing down the cords every few minutes to get a good average of the spot you are placing your new cache.

That is the issue. You can't delete a Geocache on the GPS wile out in the field if it was loaded in a GPX file with all your other cahes, only with your computer back home or with your laptop. How many of you lugg your laptop with you when you are going out caching or are going to be gone with out access to electricty for a few days? Having to unload the entire GPX file, edit, then have to reload using a computer is like using a macheaty to give a hair cut.

Warren, I bought a Geomaet.jr when I was home on R&R and I procrastinated and did not order it in time to arrive before I had to leave. One of the things I saw about the update kit “Load complete list of Geocache locations for other countries.” Let’s say I am in Afghanistan and I might be making stops in Kuwait or Kyrgyzstan and will not know until the last minute can I load more than one country ahead of time? There are so few caches in Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Kyrgyzstan I can just do a PQ for each country and load them all on my Colorado 400t with GSAK. This is a moot point as I do not have my Geomate.jr with me. But what if I was station in Germany and was going to travel to several countries in one trip? I am looking forward to using the geomate.jr for the first time when I return state side in November as I will be making a road trip that will cover nine states.

that's cool. good to know that only 50 or 100 geocoins is an option now. i take it your geocoins are all trackable and also have a unique icon? All are trackable but I did not go with the unique icon. This was a Military Team Coin/Geocoin. 16 coins for the team. 20 reserved for future care package for deployed goeocahers (I recived a care package of 5 geocoins myself and wanted to help out with the next care package that gets put togather), 10 to cache with, 10 to trade for other military geocoins. A number were sent to close friends. I have sen't an e-mail to every cache owner that placed a cache in Afghanistan, Kuwait and Kyrgyzstan afther I found their cache as a thank you for placing a cache for other deployed geocahers to send me their mailing address and I would mail them one of my geocoins. I have very few coins that are not earmarked to someone now. None of them were or are for sale.

I recently had 100 coins made; I could have gone with just 50 with a few different venders. But the cost of going with 100 was not much more then going with 50. I sent an e-mail to every vender on this page click on the Geocoin Manufactures & Resellers tab, and asked them for a quote. It helps to send your artwork and tell them a little about what you are looking for. Some were very helpful others seemed like they could not be bothered. I almost went with one vender and we were sending e-mail back and forth with revisions to my artwork, then they simply stopped responding. The one that did win the bid to make my coin did a fantastic job and I could not be happier with how the coin turned out. The process took about a month and a half from first e-mail sent to final approval to send the coin to the factory for production.

You can't You can delete waypoints that were loaded using mapsorce, but you can not delete geocaches that were loaded in the gpx. You can load geocaches using mapsorce, but they are just waypoins with the cache open or closed icon. If you do this you lose paperless caching as only name and cords are loaded on your gps.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/ It takes up 1/4 of the web page on the right side.

e-mail sent for 2nd order take 2.

Warren, I bought a Geomaet.jr when I was home on R&R and I procrastinated and did not order it in time to arrive before I had to leave. I just clicked on the link for the update kit that was listed on Amazon. One of the things it said was “Load complete list of Geocache locations for other countries.” Let’s say I am in Afghanistan and I might be making stops in Kuwait or Kyrgyzstan and will not know until the last minute can I load more than one country ahead of time? There are so few caches in Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Kyrgyzstan I can just do a PQ for each country and load them all on my Colorado 400t with GSAK. But what if I was station in Germany and was going to travel to several countries in one trip? I am looking forward to using the geomate.jr for the first time when I return state side in November as I will be making a road trip that will cover nine states.

Is that a land mine? That is what it looked like to me. I gave the MP's the grid and a few pictures of the area, they said they would get EOD to check it out. I would have gone directly to EOD, but I did not know where their office was. I was just passing through Bagram on my way out of the country going home on R&R for 15 days.

I will give you one guess what this is about 30 meters from GC1C7JQ East on Bagram, Afghanistan.

I tried a “Cache Kit” cache and it did not work out so well and changed it to a regular cache. When I placed it there were very few caches locally. It was to generate more caches within 50 miles as the crow fly’s and I stocked it with two ammo cans and two large match box holders (held about 4 match boxes). I would list their cache on my cache page to help generate interest in “their new” cache. The FTF was a father and son that robed the cache of all four cache kits then only sent me an e-mail about one of the caches and placed it outside the 50 mile limit. I re-stocked it a few times, but most were taken and not reported and just cost too much money to continue supporting. I even DNF the one cache they told me about and later they deleted my log. The father was the FTF, how ironic is that? A different guy did give me back an ammo can he took after sitting on it for a few months. Said Geocaching was just not his thing after a few finds. This cache gets the most traffic out of all my hides, so I was more then happy to recently repair it and keep it going.

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Just place another order. Love this coin!

You know you’re a Geocacher when… On your day off you hop on the Mail Run convoy going to another Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Afghanistan because it has a Geocache on it, just so you can log another find. You know the line from Apocalypse Now: Charlie Don’t Surf! Well…. The Taliban might hide caches’ but, The Taliban Don’t Geocache!

Coins went out in the mail today. Of corse I waited until my last day of leave to do this task, it was a race to get every thing labeled and packaged before the post office closed.

Thanks a Million, I have always hated lugging those CD every where I go.

I'am in. A coin with a little history does not de-value it as far as I am concerned.

Yes do you have a military Geocoin and will not sale the one I trade with you latter? http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=226237

This is for Paktika Jingle Cache (GC1GRGF) Afghanistan: February 16 2009 DNF, May 25 2009 FTF. It's February and cold in Afghanistan you know. I hunted high and low, but there was still snow. Another DNF log then I had to go. I'm in the U.S. Army as you know. CaptMorgan2 a false logger - all the time. Edit your fake find. Or I will have to drop a dime. In May I return. This time, not to be burned. A First To Find is always swell! But it is Memorial Day as well. So let's all honor those who fell.