Malloc

Ok, somehow during the site upgrade, my flag for having agreed to the stipulations of .GPX files got nullified. Re-agreeing to this seemed to let my emails with the query's loose. So I guess this is a potential bug, and not a site upgrade/performance issue. By the way, the site is working quite quickly for a sunday evening, good job!

I've tried with two query's last night and one this morning, none have been emailed to me yet. Had decided yesterday to do some caching with the kids today but my gps and palm are a few months out of date. Is there a problem with the new query's being sent out? Thanks, Malloc.

Yep, I hate it when I go to someone else's cache and it's way off. A few around here are known to be 60-80 feet off. I didn't want to be one of those people either. For both of my caches I've got out (one is a 4 box multi-cache) I used the method below. (oh, and I use a 60CS as well) First I stood on site and did an average reading for 150-200 readings (depending on the numbers of mosquitos ). If my dilution of precision was too high, say >15 feet, I'd back out a known direction and distance (yes, I carry a long tape and a compass into the woods when placing caches) until my tree cover was better, lowering my DOP. I'd then do a reading here, as above, and project my actual waypoint the distance and direction to the cache. This helps overcome taking readings under big trees as we often find outselves doing down here. I always come out the next day or two, and see how close my GPS takes me to my coords. If it brings me back to the right spot, then I use them. If not, I start over as above, and compare results. Do this until you're consistent. That's really about as good as it gets.

Interesting. 5 days after initial posting, and there's interest in 70-75 coins by my informal counting to this point. All this without even seeing a design. It does reinforce the "if you mint it they will come" mantra. Makes me want to mint a coin of my own instead of just ordering some generic wooden ones to drop into caches.

We'd be interested in one silver, and two bronze Wyoming coins. Thanks for your time and effort.

I just started GeoCaching a little over a month ago. I really like my 60cs. One thing that bothers me though is that I havn't found a way to make my location (lat/long) show up BIG, like with the cheaper Garmin units. I don't know how to take a photo showing the 60cs with the lat/long actually visible in the picture. Lat/Long isn't an option on any of the custom fields either. Please Garmin, this should be a simple software fix, or I'm really overlooking something simple. Anyone with a fix for this? (besides carrying around a cheap Garmin as well)