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  1. Right now: Garmin 78sc (not a great deal better than the 60CSx but it is feature rich and has a better handholding position) Garmin Etrex H (back up) Have but not used in a while: Garmin 12CX (will never say die)FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BOLD! Ditto for the 12Map also Garmin 12MAP (if the world is comming to an end this is the gps i will jam in my pocket with my 9mm and a hunting knife.no gps made can outrun this monster for its ruggedness, long battery life, and end over end ability to work as a gps, and not least its got one of the best sat acquisition times for a non mil spec device, and stays locked on even when others would normally fade out. just needs some updated features and it would be on top) Garmin GPS III+ (perhaps of all the gps this is my favorite for its handhold position and features,too bad it lacks a great deal.) In The Past: Garmin GPS II+ again this is just like my gps iii+, but was for use in Australia. Garmin 12, drunk one evening and gave it away.!!!! Garmin 60CSx (nice device but too clumsy for anything but walking on the ground, in the air or moving fast difficult to use and maintain without great effort as it lacks a really good handhold. Magellan 2000 XL (talk about feature poor, this was nearly 20 years ago and if i recall correctly it chiseled the data onto a stone pad.
  2. Yes, knowing that a finger can at least be pointed, and with a snicker is pretty much enough to put me at ease. If they could go under the radar, I am sure I would be facing some legal issues of my own due to recoil on my part.
  3. Humdrum, routine! I just spent the last 4 months recovering from my second foot operation to recover from a paragliding accident, I have not been to a single cache and as soon as I am able I plan getting the geocoins that I have been holding where they belong finally. To think that this clown is trying do what he is doing only makes my efforts worth a thousand times what someone like him thinks they have achieved. I would do almost anything to be in the front row of some sort of international event where those caught making false cache claims would have make individual one on one retraction/appologies to each cache owner they stole from, and u deer a world broadcast audience. The video of the event would make a great loop screen saver or some other repeating display for everyone to enjoys until the next seasons broadcast.
  4. So, what is the real deal here. I think I am slightly out of sync with this persons actions. Am I correct to understand that the actions taken by this person is less than legit? If this is the case, why does it sound as if a couple replies here seem as if this is just some passable thing that has happened? Is this not more like something that needs to be corrected in a big way? Corrected by removing the entries or some similar action.
  5. When I saw this topic I had to read on through all the posts to see if anyone had thought of something that I have been planning to lay out for a cache in the next couple months or so. It will certainly be a night cache, as it will be completely dependant on three things that only occur at night and provided you are not the only person in that neck of the woods, sort of. Without giving the exact details of what and where I will be doing the basic idea is very good and can work for other caches as well, I have tested this idea now in 4 completely differnet situations and it always works provided you use your head. When a cars head lights travel ahead of a car going down a road the beam of the head light travels in its own curved path sometimes several hundred meters ahead of the vehical in sweeping curved paths. If you were to be standing say for example just beyond a bend in the road somewhere near Barstow California (just for the ease of the vegitation of the road) and a car were to be approaching, you would see the headlights shine on everything that the lights sweeps across as the car makes the curve. If this were durring the day head lights or not you would not see the head lights shinning. Now if you were to use you head and locate an object that would not take to the changes of growth like a fence post or a rock and in some way create a situation where that object would be illuminated by a head light going past you would have something that if placed on a very little used road would be a very complicated cache to locate if you were having to wait for a car to pass by and light up some reflector or piece of mirror carefully hidden from sight but would glow like the sun when a headlight hit it. The third item that would make this cache even more of an effort and an even bigger waiting game perhaps (unless you could get a freind to operate a car and drive by a few times) Once the small pieve of mirror is located you will then need to use that possition to look at a car driving past again to then see a second object on the oposite side of the road that will be in direct line with the headlight as it hits the piece of mirror and this is where the actual cache would be located. In my situation the road where I will be placing this cache eventually has an official reported traffic frequency of 14 cars a week driving past and the road you will be standing off of is not the same road that the cars need to be traveling down to light up the cache (this bit of info will be excluded and will be perhaps a third required car to find the cache) Thge details I have here do not allow this cache idea of mine to appear as a very good idea, this is because I have left out a great deal of info that will actually make the cache very sensible and understanding, its only puzzling element will be how to use the headlights to view the cache POI's you will be guided to the exact place one needs to be standing to see the mirrow glow, this will be the co-ods of the listing, GZ will be the second POI. It is very likely that no one will ever locate the cache on the same night as they start to look for the cache, simply due to having to wait an undisclosed amount of time for a car to pass, by the time a second car passes by you are ready to say F&C$ It and come back with the wife or a drinking buddy and provide the drive by yourself. I have two more ideas for a night cache, but until I actually figure out the final details I will hold on to them.
  6. Pfranc, home of the purple connector, these folks can supply you with as much or as little as you need. I am in Australia, I got my ready made etrex H cable from GPOZ.com.au for 25 dollars. I am sure that these folks at pfranc can get you a ready made cable as well for about 15.00 USD. I had been getting hardware from these folks when I was living in the US, and they provided me with everything I needed for all 7 of my recievers since 1994. The quality of hardware is a step above most garmin provided items. Look for a PC interface cable made using the e2Plug connector specifically, this is the special purple connector for the etrex, gecko and eMap recievers. somewhere in this site will be available for purchase the ready made cable you are looking for. One last thing, the cable for the eTrex H is available as a serial connection, if you are looking for a USB connection it seems to be an option that is unavailable for the etrex H unless you are willing to spend in excess of $129 for a cable that will offer usb support for the eTrex H. I had found one USB ready cable at one point, but it did not work very well at all, I had really poor compatibilty problems with getting the PC to see the eTrex reciever, I spent an ungodly amount of time trying get the USB to see the eTrex. On the pfranc site there are some mods that are demonstrated to provide usb support to the etrex, but since the last time I looked there were good and bad points about such mods. Maybe now there is a solid option or cable that is ready for the consumer. http://www.pfranc.com/ Here is one other site that can be of use for eTrex users in some situations, it has a few things that are good to know about the eTrex http://etrex.webz.cz/index.html
  7. Ammo in the cache? I believe that for many reasons that is wrong to place in a cache, in fact I can only think Of one good reason for such a placement. That one reason would be to load an included zip gun with the express task of orientating the weapon at a vector that would place the round within range and destination of the previous owner of the round, and releasing the hammer slug when the correct vector is made. On another note: I was opening a cache that was located near the center of Brisbane and of the dozen or so items in the cache for trade there was an expertly rolled joint, and a small amount of mushrooms in a heat sealed plastic bag with a brand label as if it came from an organized rave or something. I think that as bad as a live round can be, I think that a bag of drugs is maybe a bit worse, then again maybe they are both just as bad.
  8. No need for a long winded response. This is the correct answer. Of course, I can't resist being a bit longwinded and adding a couple of points: 1. Most cache owners (especially for urban micros like the OP is concerned about) are not likely to delete logs unless they appear to be bogus. 2. I find that often if muggles see you signing the log that you look less suspicious. Either they take it that you are playing a game or it looks like you are doing something official like inspecting lamp posts and are signing a log to prove that you did your work. Something official, One time I was having a really bad afternoon at this one cache located dead in the middle of a family play ground. I was alone when I retrieved the cache, but when I was about to replace the cache only 2 min later there had to be a family rep from every family in town standing within 10 meters of GZ. I waited for an hour, I left and returned in another hour, and in the third hour I returned again and waited for another 30 min. In over three hours the park was not at any time crowd free. I decided that I was going to take several pieces of bark from a fallen tree stump and make like I was examining the pieces on a nearby table. With a hand lupe, my note pad and some forceps I took a few minute of playing around and then walk the samples over to GZ like I was replacing my samples and at the same time replaced the cache while three children werte at my side asking me what I was doing. Not one muggle thought anything was off in the slightest as the cache was fine in the following weeks that past.
  9. You would be surprised what a fresh set of batteries can do to correct that. Not kidding, either. When I read this comment that a GPS reciever can gain performance by replacing a set of used batteries that are still operating the reciever with a fresh set of batteries I had to make a comment of my own. I do see the point that a fresh set of batteries would give an improvement to a recievers primary voltage which could offer (could offer, meaning it might be) a gain in sat acquisition times from a cold start, and maybe even a warm start, but this is not related to the accuracy of the reciever directly. The secondary voltages that the reciever works with are most likely very sophisticated to ensure that the operating conditions that the circuits need to interpret the incomming data, and the role that timing plays down to and even beyond the millisecond are regulated by the device and not by the condition of the primary voltage or batteries directly. If it were true that the condition of the batteries were directly related to the performance/accuraccy of the GPS reciever it would not be possible to manage and interpret the data being sent from multiple sources, under extreme timing, with any level of usable accuracy. As I was not certain of this myself exactly as I am not a radio repair tech, I am only an airframe mechanic that simply installs a GPS reciever or removes a unit to be sent off for repair, I contacted a bench tech for confirmation. I was informed that a handheld reciever that has secondary voltage regulation instability will be repaired or replaced. I directly asked about reciever performance changes with a battery change, and that would be considered to be an indication of a need to test the unit for problems. Again, I had to comment on this as this can be something that can affect how people interpret their GPS reciever, this can effect how GPS users decide when to replace the batteries. If it is true there will be a lot more batteries being replaced.
  10. I might suggest that you think about possibly consider some sort of reinforcement of the entire bark panel. Maybe in other posts this was touched on slightly but I will say this just to make certain it is said. I have in the past worked with a very similar idea using tree bark as camo of sorts and have found that my history of working with composites have been a very nice asset to improve this sort of thing. If you were to use either polyester or epoxy resin with two to five layers of vale ( a very light weight fiberglass fabric) and one or two woven layers of glass on the back of the bark, and employing the use of magnets placed between the final layer of glass, you would have a very durable object the will stand up to some very hard handling and be easily repaired if needed. Use a bit of thought to ensuring that the glass is also mechanically attached to the bark as well, simply relying on a chemical bonding is ok but to have a mechanical bond secured with a chemical bond is bullet proof. You can get the resin and glass for only a few dollars at just about any hardware store and a pint of polyester and catalyst/hardner will be enough to do several more future caches.
  11. I have been thinking of this very topic myself for the past few weeks, until now I thought that I might start a thread on this my self. I am located in South Queensland, Australia and have noticed the mystery where abouts of trackables to be on the rise over the past 3 months or so. It is not a case of just not having been noticed until rescently as a few of the GC I am thinking of were not even released into the world until a few weeks ago. Three weeks ago I was out on a Sunday morning, I went to 9 locations, plus returned to two locations that I had been to the week before. I was going to make a play by play account of the items but it was going to be very long, I deleted it all the way back to this point and will make a general statement that will not be so wordy. I could have ended up with 7 or more new trackalbes for me to move out of the 11 caches I visited. I actually got home with zero trackable having only placed the two that I had already. The four caches that reported trackalbes had in total two TB and those two were in caches that they had already been two before believe it or not. Four GC's are still no where to be found as they were not in the caches that they were reported to be in. The two caches that I revisited, also had reported me as the last person to visit the cache, the one with a GC was gone, the one that was a TB was still in the cache as I had left it. I had visited more than 11 caches in those two weeks, but it was these 11 caches that had a story to tell. Out of 45 caches that I had gone to in 8 weeks 25% of them had their trackables tampered with by those that did not make any sort of log entry. There were a few other caches that did have something strange go on along with a log entry but I am sure that it was more an admin mistake rather than a vandal issue. And finally, my plans to do things with trackables and making hides have been greatly affected by all this that goes on, and by goes on, I would like to know to what extent all this is heading to, how long has this been as it is, and anything else that can shed some light on this?
  12. I am not personally in law enforcement, but I have a family that has a long history in the legal proffession and as such on those family gatherings , Xmas, Easter, Turkey day, Fourth of July etc etc the only sound that can be heard at the dinner table is the sound of legal jargon gone bugga zigzag. A couple times the topic of Geocaching had materialised and got my attention. I recall hearing that in some case in California or maybe New York that involved a civil suit with a police department of a police officer that had made an arrest involving a person geocaching had opened the door for geocaching to be adressed in future police briefings of some sort. I don't know all or even many details, but as I do understand that as of some date in late 2009 or beyond all police officers should be completely briefed and informed of the general principles of geocaching. But one thing................. When I was listening to this I did not hear if this was something that was being considered or if it was something that had already been put into action. either way, this does mean that in some time soon any confrontations with law enforcement should not involve an uninformed civil service worker. I know this does not really help in this thread, but it does indicate that like the cell phone, the gps will have its day in the legal system.
  13. Chopping wood one weekend afternoon at home in Clear Lake, Ca I had stopped to go have a coffee up at the house. When I returned 45 minutes later I went straight back to chopping and before I took my first swing I felt a hard jab into the side of my calf. I was so stupid to not look around before returning back to the choping block or to have been wearing my boots rather than some rock climbers, and I was also so very lucky to have been delivered a venom free bite. That was 17 years ago last September. Since then I always prefer to wear below the knee hardened leather riding boots that are made specifically to resist bites. But if you are only going to be visiting an area that has a population of such snakes than spending 250 and up for a pair of boots is over kill, just walk heavy footed and don't zig zag your path and the snakes will almost 100% move out of your way before you see them. 31 years I spent living in areas with a high population of diamond back and other pit vipers as well as the coral snake, and walking heavy and surely seen me to only come across a dozen or so, and only one meeting was a problem. Also, those boots only work below the knee, your thigh, and hands are no better off and can be the most likely place if you are sitting on a rock or stump. There are snakes like the corn snake that do their best to mimic the rattle snake but are as harmless as the gopher snake. The coral snake on the other hand does not offer any warning and can be more deadly than the pit vipers, they also tend to be found in areas that have a little more water than the vipers are likely to be found. Just avoid any snake with red and black bands that are separated by a thin yellow band altogether. Or just avoid all snakes with any sort of red band maybe would be better. True or not I am not certain, but vipers tend to avoid areas that have a population of King Snakes, Joshua Tree National Monument has a high king snake count and I understand that pit vipers are not found as often in that area. Walk heavy and that will be the best thing you can do.
  14. I am sorry to jump in here with this, but I wish to say something about this subject. Over the last 15 years I have seen all sorts of things GPS recievers have been used in and for. And before the GPS reciever there was a great deal of things that related to the map and compass. And before that I am sure there was something else like the sextant perhaps. But, in those 15 years surrounding GPS and geocaching or stashing the whole idea of it all is focused around the GPs reciever, the reciever and the related systems is what geocaching is at the core. When people strike up the issue of compass, maps, and sat images as an alternative in however they might like it to be, the idea that it is still really geocaching is at question. There are groups out there that have activities that are meant to be map and compass focused and not "GPS", these groups do very similar types of things like geocaching but in a way that is dedicated to the compass and map. If there is not one in your area that you know of, if you go to most any outdoor supply house that deals with mountainering gear you might find such a group, or you can start one of your own. I myself belong to a small gathering of 7 friends that twice a year take to some remote area of Queensland, bringing only my suunto compass with map scales built into the plexi, and my US Military issued compass, full set of topo maps of at least three scales from 1/25000 to 1/250000 of the area and leave any battery driven device in the vehical for the day or the week. BUT, COME ON!!! This thing about the using sat images, maps, and maybe a compass to find caches while geocaching...............I have yet to meet one person (personally) that is claiming to not use a GPS for caching that is also trying to come off as some sort of purist that believes that they are trying to move to a higher plane of exsistance because they need not use a GPS. And, if all the times I heard the someone claim that they do not have a GPS because they cannot afford it, well as we type, the Pawn shop in my town, the local "Wow", eBay, and me, all have a GPS available for less than 65 dollars AUD except Wow (about 150), and 65 dollars will NOT get you a compass, three current maps, and a scale.
  15. I bought a couple coins rescently that I was planning to release at some point in the near future. But, apon recieving them I was amazed at the craftmanship of the two coins, they are so wonderful to look at that I know that if I were to place them in a cache with the hope of their eventual return or at least a very well traveled coin before they are captured that they would not make it more than a half dozen caches at best before disappearing. I come to this assumption as I have observed the disappearance of a great many trackables in my area that are simply struck metal discs or interesting swag attached to a TB tag. The two coins I have "Fortune Favors the Bold" and "Ginkoba Leaf" are both well struck with a fine enamel inlay and laquer type paint, you have to see them to really see them. If I new that they would be able to travel I would have already have sent them off, but knowing that they would soon be in someones collection I had to alter my idea if possible. Not long ago I ran into someone that had some experience with their trackables disapearing and they had given up on sending out another coin, now this person it seems has taken to logging in and them logging out their own GC in caches that they visit and sign the log. I am thinking of doing this myslef, whenever I travel over a certain distance I will log in and out my trackable to more or less use GC as a record of my own travels perhaps. I know this is a bit off topic, but for me this is a direct response to any question that comes under the topic of trackable lost, and maybe this is how a few others beside myself view trackables and the loss of them.
  16. The stencile over the military text is a great idea. But there was a case some time ago, it was either in Pheonix, or Fresno, I can't recall, but the city had a similar first syllable. It involved someone stenciling the words "Non volitile" and "Non toxic" on the container, it was found on a city bus I believe and inside the container was 2 pounds of ball-bearings carefully duct taped around 5 sticks of dynamite. If anyone remembers this at all, I don't know if there had been any sort of blasting cap or other means of detination provided for it all. Even if it was just the dynamite and bearings, it would mean that the chance of it going off would be very low, but it still had the ability to kill anyone without 50 feet, and seriously injured up to a couple hundred or more. In todays world of half crazed people thinking up all sorts of amplified ways to get themselves noticed in whatever way their minds thinks it is best handled, it is the obvious things that get the most attention. In some regions of the planet today it has happened where a toy is fixed with a small explosive and left on the ground for it to be happily picked up, not by a 22 year old soldier, with three grenades and a rifle. If I were to come across a container of any kind with "safe" stenciled on the side, I would immediately think that it was not a military object, but I would also keep my distance just in case someone was up to no good. Thats just me. All I am really saying is that, if you are looking to ensure that the contents are reguarded as safe, the only way you can do that is to make sure the container is of a clear material like ploycarbonate.
  17. I disagree, its a bad idea altogether. You need to sell your property immediately, find a piece of land in Australia, buy it, open a pub on it, and have an Aussie place your cache on a bar stool for ya. At the same time I will move back to my home in Sonoma County California and plan to visit that pub the next time I am there to visit and be the FTF as those pub crawling aussies would never see the cache if it bit them in the A**.
  18. For eight years I had not found one geocache since about 2001 as I had been working non stop. Eight years it was home, airline, or taxi with a blue tooth headset and a notebook as the only contact with those I know at up to 130 hours a week on the clock for a Dec 2009 deadline. But, as such, I did manage to help several friends with setting up about a dozen or so caches in that time. Finally in January I retired from my eight year work load at 41 and have now jumped back into caching and other recreational items that I have neglected in all this time.
  19. A photo to verify your locating a cache. I have always looked at this idea, thing, way as a very lazy approach for the cache owner to never need to maybe go and check the caches log for its contnent. It should be enough for the log to be signed to get your credit for finding the cache. If cache owners simply verify the caches log entries to the web page entries than any discrepencies should be removed at that time. Years ago when a cache was hidden, and back in those days a cache was really hidden well and good. It was necessaary to plan your visit to a cache along with your vacation time as it was often in a place that was only accessable by foot or horse, and was ussually something like a couple to four days in and out. And when you found the cache, it was very easy to prove that you did find it because you would most likely have been onlyh one out of 6 other folks to have seen it and would often have a specific note, phrase, or some icon specific to that cache (or Stash as we called them) that you would take from that cache with you to keep as your evidence of your find. Now, with it possible to locate several caches in an afternoon, proving that you found the cache is very different but not any more difficult. IN any case it would seem that the cache owner should at set intervals check the cache and log book and make any adjustments as needed. AS for the photo being a requirement for logging your find, I view that as a big problem for several reasons. I refuse to ever put my image on display with my name or not unless I am in a group photo in close proximity to myself, (reason for this is vast and has to do with my line of work in a few ways), and a photo in this day and age proves nothing when you have layer, colour pallettes, airbrush tools, and the ability to completely fabricate photo data tags and attach them to any photograph as if the image was the untouched original straight from the CCD to the memory card. The real fun of geocaching needs to be protected more than anything else, if the fun were to disappear than all that would be left is navigation and technology, and accuracy and outside of learning these things there will be no drive to keep it alive. Ever wonder why drive in movie theaters have almost completely disappeared outside of the occasional one here and there?
  20. There's some confusion here that needs to be cleared up. First of all, this all has to do with how Geocaching first started. Geocaching was imagined shortly after the removal of Selective Availability from GPS on May 1, 2000, because the improved accuracy of the system allowed for a small container to be specifically placed and located. Dave Ulmer of Beavercreek, Oregon hid the first Geocache and posted it to Usenet newsgroup sci.geo.satellite-nav and challenged people to find it with their GPS devices. So Geocaching was born with the intention of using GPS technolgy to find these containers. I discourage people from finding Geocaches without using a GPS device since using a GPS is the whole point. If enough people stopped using GPS devices to find caches then Geocaching would become known as a Find Boxes Hidden In Random Places Game instead of a High Tech Treasure Hunting Game. I have no idea how someone would manage to think using a GPS to find a Geocache is cheating. I understand that here it is said that geocaching was first imagined after SA was removed in around may 1 2000. Although it was not a large scale item at the time, long before 2000, more like 1996 I was already using my reciever in the foot hills of California to locate certain stashes that were more or less passed around between a rather diverse group of people. When I packed up my house, sold it and moved here to Australia on April 10th 2001 I had by that time located several dozen stashes that by now are lost and gone unless they were absorbed into the new geocaching as it had been called by thw time I signed on with this site in early 2002. After I signed on in 2002, I doid not engage in any geocaching until this year as I had little time to do the work I had to do here in Australia until it was done late in 2009 allowing me to retire at 40 years. But, I could have fit in some geocaching in all this time if it were not for the way geocaching had been steering itself. When I first dabbled in geocaching in 96 it had an almost clever clandistine community feel to it that has not survived beyond the year 2000 or so. I see geocaching today in 2010 as a good thing of course, but unlike what I first knew it to be it is now pretty much another technology that could very easily one day become a commercial growth like the mobile phone has done for the radio reciever.
  21. I am currious. IS your use of a compass and map something you are doing by choice or is it simply do to a lack of a reciever at your command? I too have several compasses, maps of all varieties, and I also have a few GPS recievers. I use my compass on those occasions where I need to maintain a bearing and do not wish to engage the reciever when all I need is an arrow to follow. But short of occasional use of my map and compass to keep my nav skills in good shape I use the GPS at every turn. Do you think that in the days of early ocean crossing when the sextant was state of the art that there were those that prefered to use only the sun and moon and a celestrial calender to navigate the seas. I only sound as I do because in the past year I came across two groups of travelers that almost called me lazy for using a GPS. The interesting thing about their attitude for me was that one of the groups were using an Aviation sectional chart with a 1/1000000 scale to navigate on the surface, the resolution for surface navigation is unusable. Even with my GPS in hand I had 1 1/100000 scale map, 1 1/25000 scale and 1/250000 scale map along with my 2 compasses and caliper. They had no idea that I was better prepared than they were even using, but was ready to take out all the stops.
  22. In response to your question I believe that it might be possible to get the answer you are looking for by simply using the map provided on the cache page that is on the lower right hand side of the screen. If you carefully frame the area of your choice the number of caches that are displayed is provided just above the list of cache names. I believe that if the number exceeds about 500 caches than it will stall and you will need to reframe the area to a tighter cover to stay below that limit. If the area you wish to get a count for exceeds this limitation with a little bit of stategy it is easy to move your target area in a grid pattern and get a reasonably close estimate of the total number of caches in an area of unlimited size, you just need to be clever about your method. As an example I got an estmitate of my surounding area here in Brisbane of 366 caches in a 10 square kilometer area of the center of town using the map. Using the grid idea I found that the entire Brisbane surrounding area has over 700 caches within a 100 Sq KM area from the CBD. I went and looked at the Yuma area after I closed the reply a few moments ago. Not being very thurough of course but it seems that the area to the east in Fortuna is the most concentrate area for caches. With a fast look the area from the California border and East of Interstate 8 to the east of Fortuna about a 25 sq Km area looks like it has about 550 give or take caches. The immediate Yuma area I8 west to the CA Border is around 100 caches. It does appear to be a rather dense area for caches. I must say that I currently live in Queensland Australia since April 2001, from Santa Rosa, Calif. (I have lived in Tempe not long before that, and caches anywhere in Az were rare at best). In 1997 I was geocaching only not by that name of course. The caches back then were not organised as they are now and you would learn of a cache by word of mouth as if I recall caches were something that groups were doing amognst themselves really. My having located maybe a dozen caches was a great success. After reloating to Brisbane I did not do anything with geocaching even though I had signed on with this site in 2002, I just was not interested in what I recalled as geocaching. then a few weeks ago I was teaching some people I work with how to navigate using various methods like triangulation, dead reconing and such when I was presented with someones GPSr that was loaded with a great deal of cache POI's, it started me up once again as I reaslized that the world of GEOcaching had evolved into a grand spectical of not just hundreds but hundreds of thousands of caches. I am not very sure about the travel bugs and Geocoins, the point of having something going on a holiday for you seems odd at this point for me. It sort of like sending your paper boy to Tibet for you. No matter how you look at it only the paper boy gets to ring the bell, not you.
  23. I have thought of using the numbers from TB's that I have purchased, but I could not leave it be. With all there is to offer in the shear number of GC's that are available and how it is possible to attach almost anything like a key ring or even a 5 Horse Power self propelled lawn mower if you really cared, to your TB to take along on its way from cache to cache, that there must be a way to simply buy a number to fix to something unique or even just a blank Government issued Naval Dog Tag. So, if I must; I will simply take the TB numbers I have and apply them to the etching pattern that I have made up for the tags already, and let the ferric chloride do its thing. Thanks for helping me with getting a final answer to my question. Perhaps the sale of only the numbers is something that could be made available in the future for Groundspeak and related sources?
  24. I have several sets of blank dog tags that I a close relative of mine passed to me a few years ago. This week I came across them once again and it occured to me, would it be possible for me to reassign the gender of these Dog Tags from toe tag and mouth plug into a pair of matched Travel Bugs for me to use as if I had bought them ready made? So, assuming that it is possible what would I need to do to get a TB tracking number and whatever else I might need to get things ready for me to present a travel bug to a cache and start it on its way? I thought that I would open this as a new topic as for the past few days I have asked others about how to go about this idea and no one could provide me with a clear answer and was very interested in learning what I might find out about this once I got a final answer.
  25. I would add something as well. I too have had a Garmin GPS 12 XL as well as a 12. SOmething that is really wonderful about the GPS 12 (XL) is that it is an extremely rugged unit. I was wandering in the South Lake Tahoe region years ago along some glacial ridges when my hand just let go of the GPS 12 for no reason, I could only watch the unit bounce from rock to rock until it finally splashed into the lake far below. Three days later I came back with a 5 ml suit, fins and a mask and found it in 18 feet of near freezing water. Once on the surface dried and new batteries it worked, and it even tracked its final accent into the canyon as 41 mph and traveled just over 3/10 of a mile into the lake. No other unit I am sure can be as reliable. To this day I have one in my truck and another as a backup in my pack. Hang on to the 12, for what little you can sell it for it is worth far more as a reliable backup device.
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