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Mozilla 1.7.3 is what I use now. Was using FF, had problems with it crashing alot.

Caches can be tricky to say the least. Caches,and cache locations are limited only by the mind of the hider. There are some creative hiders out there!! I have also looked right at a cache but expecting to see something else I missed it. Sometimes you have to think outside the "Cache" box. Enjoy your new hobby.

Our team tends to wear street clothes as we cache, however we are considering changing our caching wear. Please post pics of you, or your team, in your uniform of the day for caching . Thanks GT-5

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Our kids love small animals, they will be happy to find one of these. Thanks for the new cache type!! ------------------ GT-5

quote:Originally posted by CacheCreatures: What I'd like to know is 1) do you use WAAS? 2) If so, why? If not, why? 3) Has anyone tried an external antenna on the GPS V? Any improvement with WAAS reception (or for that matter general reception?) 4) Is there anything that can't be done if you don't decide to use WAAS? As in, are there caches out there that require the use of WAAS? _CacheCreatures are spreading... They can hide, but they can't run!_ 1. No 2. It does not seem to work well here in Utah. 3. No 4. No ------------------ GT-5

We love to collect all kinds of sig items, but cards are great. We also try to collect as many as possible, trade them, etc. I don't personally see a problem with leaving more than one. The more the better. ------------------ GT-5

Ditto on the Criminal Page He's got some great ideas. Good Luck

I have also had great luck with the container. I have one that has been out through a winter, snow, rain, no leaks yet. ------------------ GT-5

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Here is the link: Salt Lake Tribune Newspaper Article I have copied the article here, as I believe the link dies in a week. _____________________________________________ Geocaching mixes high tech, outdoors and adventure By Brooke Adams The Salt Lake Tribune There is treasure in them thar hills -- and parks, ponds, trails, mountain passes and alleyways. Just ask UtahJean. UtahJean is the moniker of Jean Carlsen, one of Utah's elite geocachers. She has discovered close to 900 caches hidden around the state since taking up the scavenger-hunt-style game two years ago, giving her a lead over the state's other geo-treasure seekers. "I represent how to have fun in your old age," said Carlsen, 64, of Farmington. Geocaching is an adventure game -- or addiction, as Carlsen will tell you -- that involves a handheld Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) unit, the Internet, a yearning for the great outdoors and a passion for hide-and-seek. According to the official geocaching Web site, the game took off in May 2000 after GPS technology restrictions were eased and handheld units available to the public became more affordable and precise. That allowed anyone with a GPS unit, which indicates direction and distance from a pre-programmed location, to pick up the satellite signals. The game was on. Within days someone in Portland, Ore., had hidden a cache, a tacklebox-size container of various sorts filled with trinkets and doodads, according to geocaching.com. Mike Teague found it. Teague, along with Jeremy Irish of Seattle, realized the technology had sporting potential, particularly as a family activity. The two came up with the name "geocaching" and developed the predecessor of the Web site that now registers cache locations worldwide. The site, which uses volunteers to review and register caches, lists more than 61,000 containers hidden in 177 countries. The hiding spots varying in difficulty -- from a walk in a park to scaling a mountain peak and deep-sea diving; some can be found on a lunch break, while hunting down others can take a day or more. Occasionally, a well-planted cache is carried off by people who don't recognize what it is or mistake it for something else -- a potential bomb, for instance. One of the most infamous caches drew a SWAT team to I-15 in Utah last October after a passerby reported a suspicious red tackle-size box on a freeway overpass, said avid geocacher David West of Centerville. Once opened, the box turned out to hold a couple of golf balls, a "Men in Black" plastic wallet, a few other trinkets and a log book. A cache left in north Salt Lake City caused a similar false alarm on Sept. 10, 2002, and in June, searchers looking for missing toddler Acacia Patience Bishop near the Snake River in southern Idaho stumbled on a box full of trinkets that momentarily seemed linked to the case. It wasn't. To avoid such problems, people planting caches are advised to get permission from private or public landowners before hiding a container. The National Park Service bans caches on its properties; they are banned in public wilderness areas, too. At the geocaching Web site, you can search by city, state, country, ZIP code or even cache name. The site includes a description of the cache, GPS coordinates and links to map directions to the site. Encrypted clues also help pinpoint the cache's location. Despite all the guidance, finding a cache isn't as easy as it sounds. Each listing indicates who placed and maintains the cache, terrain and difficulty rankings and sometimes a description of what was originally in the hidden container. Geocaching etiquette requires that participants register their visits in a log book included at every cache and that any item taken be replaced with something of like value. Some caches contain "travel bugs" that are designed to be transported from cache to cache. Heather and Adam Merrill and their three children, who go by GT5 in geocache circles, placed a travel bug -- Butterfly the Dalmatian, a plastic key-chain-size toy -- in one of their four caches on May 5. As of July 6, Butterfly had traveled 1,305 miles to the Hudson Heritage cache at Lakeland Shores, Minn. Hiding caches is as much fun as finding them, according to the Bountiful family, which has found nearly 100 sites since taking up the game in February 2002. "In this day and age of Nintendo and the Internet, it gets us out seeing some new places, getting some fresh air and appreciating the outdoors a little bit more," Adam Merrill said. Eight-year-old Madison, the oldest of the Merrill children, likes "finding the places because I would never know they were there and sometimes the caches are really fun." The items she's found make for good show-and-tell at school, she said. One of the family's favorite sites: the Rainbow cache near Ogden, which Heather describes as a "neat little hike" up a mountain. Everything in the container has a rainbow theme. Speaking of rainbows, geocacher West, a k a Aim High!, hid a spiffed-up ammo box, painted by daughter Tiffany in appropriately '60-ish colors, recently in the Uintas near the spot of the Rainbow family gathering. The container features a scrapbook of the event and other items that "50 or 60 hippyish people would like," he said. Carlsen, a former Holiday on Ice skater and costume designer/set builder, got hooked on geocaching two years ago after reading a newspaper story about it. The game appealed to several of her interests: the outdoors, technology and the thrill of treasuring hunting. "Most attractive of all, you're connecting with people in a totally different way," she said. "They are hiding something and you are finding something. "It gives added incentive to go on that hike, to see what's around that curve," said Carlsen, who often leaves hand-carved wooden chesslike pieces in caches. Carlsen has placed about 20 caches around the state -- including one of the most popular, the Lagoon Trail cache. She has drawn her husband, Jay, into the hunt on occasion, and turned her son Jon ("Missing Link") into a bona fide player. "We manage to have a lot of fun," Carlsen said. "I probably spend more time with my son than most people would [as a result]." Of course, all that trekking through Utah's nooks and crannies sometimes leads Carlsen to unexpected discoveries. Once, near the top of Mount Olympus, she stumbled upon cremated human remains. Carlsen has found drug stashes, discarded porn magazines, a portable meth lab and a grave with something that looked like a human form buried in it. "I took the coordinates and the Orem police checked it out and it was a dog that someone had buried," she said. Carlsen said she loves that caches are popping up in "everybody's neat little spot, where you played as a kid or nobody else knows about. "I appreciate that so many people have put those out there for me," she said. "It's almost embarrassing when people ask how many I have. There is no earthly reason to do it, except it's a totally nonessential thing. I'm not accomplishing much but it has gotten me in good shape." badams@sltrib.com No cache shortage There are 61,087 active caches in 177 countries, according to geocaching.com. The Utah Association of Geocachers counts close to 1,800 active caches stashed around the state. David West, known in geocaching circles as Aim High!, says Utah has more caches per capita than any other state. Here are the names and general locations of his 10 favorite caches: 1. Financial Fizzle Inc. (we are FFI), Orem area 2. Extreme Ant Farm, near Kennecott Mine 3. Lagoon Trail, North Multi-Clue Cache, Farmington 4. Salt Lake State of Mind, Salt Lake City 5. Where the Antelope Play (Utah MegaCache #1), Antelope Island 6. Cocklebur Canister, Vernal 7. Crocodile, north of Kanab 8. In the Chips, Wendover 9. Rainbow Gathering 2003, Uintas, Elizabeth Ridge area 10. Yogi's Water Fall Cache, Logan For more information, coordinates and descriptions for these and other caches, see the official geocaching Web site, http://www.geocaching.com. Also, for more information on the Utah Association of Geocachers, visit http://www.utahgeocachers.com. -- Brooke Adams GT-5 [This message was edited by GT-5 on July 25, 2003 at 09:18 AM.]

You might try these folks. Southern California Geocachers GT-5

GT-5, short for Geo Team Five. Our five family members make up GT-5.

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quote:Originally posted by Buttons Brigade:I have TLC show on Worlds Best Treasures that has Jeremy and GeoCaching in it if anyone wants a copy on Windows Media Video format.. Opinions based on experiences with eTrex Vista... Please send me a copy or a link as well. THX, GT-5

I have seen your run of the mill tree caches, but what about a cache hidden just a "little" further off the ground perhaps 100 ft or more, might prove a challenge to some. What do you think a 5, on the terrain? Check this out. I wonder how many takers we might get on something like this... http://www.treeclimbingworld.com/Climb2.htm [This message was edited by GT-5 on February 14, 2003 at 10:27 AM.]

I know on the Venture, which we have, you can delete by icon. Mark all the W/P's you want to keep with the Geocache not found icon, and delete the rest or the ones you want to delete. Main Menu> Find> Waypoints> Nearest> Clickstick left> Clickstick Enter> Delete By Symbol

Those little hamsters would look real cute with a little tank on their back. And just think of it a hamster wet suit. Actually hamsters are great at most Extreme sports. Hamster bungee anyone?? Disclaimer - (No live hamsters were actually harmed in the typing of this e-mail)

A former LEO here, there are a few good men out there.

I picked up an E-trex Venture from Target some months ago for $84.90. It was on the clearance rack. I guess they were discontinuing the line in the store. I thought that was a pretty good deal. Kudos to Target.

GT - 5 (Geo Team Five) has been known to search for caches in knee deep snow (we hope to remidy this by aquiring a few pairs of snow shoes). We also frequent some of the more accessable urban caches.

GT - 5 (Geo Team Five) has been known to search for caches in knee deep snow (we hope to remidy this by aquiring a few pairs of snow shoes). We also frequent some of the more accessable urban caches.

Mike, The ETREX Venture is a nice GPSr, we really enjoy ours. To set a destination, pages 27 - 29 of the owners manual, explain in detail, better than I can, marking, editing and creating a waypoint. If you don't have access to the manual, you can download it on the Garmin web site at this address: http://www.garmin.com/products/etrexVenture/manual.html Another alternative,is to use the software program EasyGPS, or the like, and download waypoints from Geocaching.com and then load them onto the GPSr by way of the serial cable. Good luck and enjoy!