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The way it looks from the article. We may be getting better reception. That is a good thing, but how much better can it get. I usually have a +/- 10 feet.

Watching is my way I keep an eye on the surroundings of the hometown caches. When you start making simpler charts, You can start to see caching trends by the local community. Mathematically you can find the probability of who will get FTF's and so on. But that's my little stupid stuff I do at 2AM when I'm bored. I watch local Jeeps so I can get tips on new caches and their "approximate" location. Watch some TB's, and my only out-of-state watch is the infamous QUANTOM LEAP. Which once I get a summer to do absolutely nothing, I'm going down to Texas and getting this imaginary (former thread) cache. I'm even making a Quantom Leap bound TB. Snoogans you rock!

We have a local "Log Troll". A cacher seems to find caches, or not find them in some cases, and rip them up in the logs. This cacher has well passed his "newbie stage" and is just out there to stir things up. Many local cachers have emailed him about the problems, and he'll fix some of the logs, but everyday I look through the recently found locals, and they're on there somewhere telling people how bad the cache is and why it's dangerous or this or that. What stirred me up is that I recieved an "accidental" email from the cacher, swearing about another local hider and mostly just "trolling" garbage that is meant to stir cachers up. What should I do about this nonsense?

Personally I see it exactly the opposite way. My avatar is a small version of my profile page picture. It is a picture of who I am. When you see a post from me, you see me next to it. Frankly I think "cool avatars" are in the same class of oxymoron as "cool ringtones". *DING DING DING* You are correct!

I recently purchased a North Face daypack for 2-10 mile hikes for geocaching. I am very pleased with everything about it, and was wondering what kind of daypacks other carry geocaching, and their reviews. What do you carry?

Northeastern PA, can easily be described as 10,000 micros on every street corner. The farther you get towards wooded regions you will have better hides that will get you out hiking, mountain biking, etc. I personally know a few of the better cache hiders in your area, and have some of their caches on my "to do" list.

Who cares what other "number punchers" think, they only like to follow the rules when it's not them who's following them. I you technically found the cache then log it as a "Found".

Notes are always the best way to go if you're not sure.

I'm thinking that more people have came to Where's George? from geocaching.com than vice-versa. Either way, the two hobbies can coexist without these silly arguments about what is "circulation" and what isn't. Where ever I chose to place MY money, I will place those dollars there, because Where's George? may have owned the stamps, but I own my money. That's what gets me, where does WG? come off telling me where to place my money. I understand their argument, but it's such a vast amount of ifs in the whole thing. Whoa, I got on a rant. Sorry.

Go to "My Account" and run Pocket Queries.

You will get more used to caching and bat 1.000 soon. The Vista C is a remarkable GPSr if equipped with CitSelect and TOPO's, you may want to look into those programs.

You'll climb a cliff if it saves you from doing a 5 mile hike. (Somehow I think I'm alone on this one.)

The Creek Hills. (Jacobs Creek, PA)

I searched, and it came up as well. Are you searching with the "filter finds" method?

Don't let the few jerks in the game spoil your attitude. Play the game you want to play, if they interfere, just don't give them any more attention, and make them feel like an idiot because they spent $10 in gas to go get a stuffed animal with a dog tag strapped to it. I think they are just really simple minded people that just are out there to make us mad. But don't jump to conclusions, sometimes people will forget to log TB's and they'll be gone, and 3 weeks later may be logged out of a cache 10 miles down the road.

Explain the complete situation of the geocache. If the approver still doesn't believe you can maintain it, get a local cacher to where you want to place it, email the approver that they will maintain it if needed. Several cachers have caches thousands of miles from where they live, and they have the local cachers take care of it because the emailed with the cachers before they hid it, and the cachers complied.

A laptop would be the ultimate road caching machine. Download all the points along your route, USB connect your GPS to it and synchronize, you can track your movement on the laptop and decide what caches you want to do.

Get a more updated map or take pictures of the final. If you really want to get the point across, take a picture of a GPS reading AT the base.

Whatever you do, don't put it in a geocache.

Paperless? How about cache pageless. Who needs the page? If it ain't a puzzle or a multi made like a puzzle and wasn't tagged as one, I don't see the need. If you overlook the caches before you leave and see they are not offset, hints usually won't help you any more than just looking.

Page 8. We have 99 finds, but they're pretty scattered, and we really aren't trying to fill up pages. We just try to find, fun and long hike caches that we can go on.

Best event of all time!

Contact a local approver and the owner of the cache you want to adopt. If the owner doesn't respond in a few weeks to a month, contact the approver and arrange an adoption.

I'm at almost exactly 10%.

More trouble than they could possibly be worth.