TemptressofDown

We started out geocaching in a small way then after a while we decided it would be fun to set a few caches of our own. As we then lived in the Middle East it was great to drive to some almost inaccessible part and commemorate our achievement with a geocache or an earth cache. And knowing many of our fellow geocachers in the region were expats and traveled a lot for work we thought it would be interesting to see where a bunch of TBs might end up so we let a few loose into the world. Some three or four years later of the 8 we released two plus a geocoin have almost certainly been muggled, three are in the hands of geocachers who've had them for one or more years leaving just three out of eight still traveling. Is this about the usual rate of attrition or should I be upset about their lose? I tried messaging the TB hoarders but have not had any response from them. Anyway it was an interesting experiment and watching their journeys was fascinating.

A couple of our TBs have been in the hands of European cachers for over 8 months, neither respond to messages sent but both are active geocachers - how long is too long to hold on to a TB? And would you think it only polite to respond to a message sent by a fellow cacher?

Any ideas how to review the active passage plan or route on a Garmin Montana 600? All I seem to see is a list of waypoints whereas I'd like to see each waypoint with the bearing and distance from the previous waypoint etc. Our older Garmin GPS's are able to do this but I've scoured the Montana documentation and most of its menus without success.

Anyone else having problems with Basecamp and Pocket Queries? I created a pocket query of all the caches we'd not found in our area (UAE & Oman), when loaded into Basecamp it displays many of them (about a third?) with the open chest indicating they have been found. Transferring this data to my Montana via Basecamp it keeps the issue. Seems ok via Mapsource to my older GPS but then I loose much of the additional info like cache descriptions, logs etc.