trailpuppy

Don't forget the Oregon 400t......

This is not necessarily correct. A friend and I found 240 in 24 hours without extensive planning and without a driver who knows the area. We were actually on a better pace (200 finds in 18 hours), but then everything fell apart the last 6 hours.

........you see an unblemished Altoids tin at the checkout stand and yell FTF!

Hmmm, guess we'll never find out the specifics regarding why this cache was Retracted. The mystery continues....... What a strange coincidence - a black van with no license plates has been parked across the street ever since I opened this Topic.

I found a cache called N (GC183BR) on 12/31/07, which is now Archived. When I access (click on) it from "my logs" under my Profile, no cache details show up. When I access (click on) other Archived caches that I've found from "my logs" under my Profile I don't see this kind of problem and am able to see the full cache page. Does anyone know what's going on with this cache?

It was 103-degrees Saturday in northern California, but that didn't stop me from caching all day long. Except for a 3.5-star terrain cache, I did easy caches from an air-conditioned car and had plenty of water on hand. Don't forget the sunscreen!

I wonder if your son will delete your find??? :-)

Did the cache owner read the 4/1/09 log??? Good job on the cache page description, but parking/trailhead coords should be added ASAP.

in my opinion, good caches are a combination of interesting location and challenge of the find. I don't mind picking up a lamp post hide or a key box on a fence or something that doesn't fit those descriptions, because I do like to find hidden things, but I appreciate it more when it is clear the CO put a little thought into the hide. Historic sites like you've mentioned are good. I learn something about the location that way. But I've also found a very difficult hide in a parking lot of an abandoned building recently. The site was nothing to the hide really, but the container/hide was extremely clever and the camo tied in with a bit of history. It was a challenge. Finding the magnetic mint tin on the bottom of the newspaper dispenser, not so much. Again, not saying these hides are worthless. Just I find them to be less satisfying than other types of hides. A little over a week ago a friend and I were so pleased to find more than 70 caches in one day WITHOUT bumping into 1 single LPH. I wonder if that's some sort of obscure record? Anyway, lot's of great replies in this thread.

A bit off-topic, but.......shouldn't a birth canal be called a birth tube? A canal is open on one side afterall.

Mine is cut like a diamond, so it has many facets. The top is roughly the size of a quarter (coin), and it's about a 1/2 inch tall. They are quite attractive and come in a felt drawstring pouch. I got mine as a FTF prize in a cache at Lake Tahoe.

I thwart I taw a putty tat....

Looks like you've already received some good advice, so all I have to add is THANK YOU for pointing those cache logs out to me, they were very amusing to read. Latvians really tell it like it is (which is refreshing)!

These people sure would be handy to have along in case I forgot my pen!

I've found hundreds of caches with mine and its accuracy is phenomonal (equal to a 60 CSX in field comparisons). I really like the paperless features and the ability to "type in" coords and other info instead of using a rocker switch. Both of these features save A LOT of time. I'm very pleased with mine.

It's a micro.

Coons are excellent swimmers. Might want to rethink your plan. And isn't MN bear country? Grizzlies, black bears or both? Heck, if I have to be careful about them in New Jersey, I imagine you're practically tripping over them out where the real woods are. Don't forget about the Minnesota Spotted Chupacabra......

Sometimes I hold my GPSr in my lap or on the seat between my legs while driving between caches. Has there been any studies done regarding if this practice could be dangerous to a man in this, ummmm, sensitive region? I own a Garmin Oregon 400t.

Check out my 11/7/07 log on GC1726E - I was mistaken for an escaped prisoner from Napa State Hospital, which is a prison for the insane!

Quote: "...so I became a computer programmer, Now I only have to know a dozen words or so." LOL.....Drooling Mongoloid, you made me spray my computer monitor w/ coffee this morning. Thanks for the quote of the week!

Quote: (sic) "If noone is commenting about your cache its probally because its boring." That's one reason, but unfortunately I've seen unique/interesting caches with short, generic, cut-and-paste logs. To some people your cache is nothing more than a set of coordinates and a smilie.

A related question, if I may: Earlier this week, I went after a newly-published cache in a small town south of where I live. I realized when I parked the car that I'd been to this park in the past, and the closer I got to GZ the more I got a feeling of deja vu. It turned out that I had found a previous cache in that park more than two years before, and it had since been archived. In the meantime, someone had hidden a new cache, with a new GC number, in almost exactly the same spot as the archived cache. I felt a bit guilty about logging a find, since I had been there before, but I claimed a find anyway because it technically was a new cache. One reason I claimed a find was to remove the cache from future pocket queries. I could also have just put it on my Ignore List, but that didn't seem right. My Ignore List is intended to include caches I simply don't care to go after (like ultra-stealth urban micros, which are no fun for me). Would you claim a find under these circumstances? --Larry Yes

Is there a better/faster/easier way to navigate to a cache using Garmin City Navigator North America v7? Here's what I do: In the Geocaching Profile, click the "Geocaches" icon, then click "Find a Geocache". Select a Geocache, then click the "Go" button, which auto-routes me to the cache by street. When I'm near the cache and want to navigate by compass, I click the "x" in the lower left part of the screen, which takes me to the main menu in the Geocaching Profile. I then click the "Where To?" icon, and then click "Recalculate Off-Road", which takes me to a street map. From there I click the "x" in the lower left part of the map page, which brings me back to the main menu in the Geocaching Profile. Then I click on the "Compass" icon and I'm ready to hunt for the cache. I haven't experimented long, but this is the best way so far that I've come up with. It's really easy to mess up using the Compass mode if you're not careful. A few times I got confused in the process and found the Compass was giving me the distance to the next turn/intersection and not the cache. It seems like there should be an easier way. Can anyone explain when/how to use the "Guidance Method On Road For Distance" feature and the "Off Road Transitions Distance" feature? Thanks for the help!

I like my new Oregon very much, but twice now I've hit goto for a waypoint I've entered by hand and the distance shown on the compass screen was off by about a mile. When I hit "stop navigation" and then hit goto again to the same waypoint, the compass screen showed the correct distance to the waypoint. Anyone else experience this?