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If you Valet park your car, a dishonest attendant will have your home address (vehicle registration and/or insurance), the keys to your house (do you seperate them?), and the knowledge that you are not at home. Easy pickin's

I was thinking of the fastest team to get all the caches and return to the start but I'm open to any ideas. Like Orienteering?

I am getting NO MAP whatsoever! I went to try and find some caches, and I get a blank screen. I get all the other features outlining the map, but NO MAP.

Speaking as someone who was first licensed as a ham radio operator back in the early 1960s, ham radio fox hunts were quite popular even in those days, but they typically do not employ GPS beacons or GPS receivers at all, but rather portable VHF or UHF ham transmitters acting as beacons, and the hunters employ portable VHF or UHF receivers plus small directional antennas to track the "fox". Just use APRS.

I once zip-tied an unactivated TB onto a micro I hid as a FTF prize.

I got a DNF on a cache, and it said the area was recently bulldozed. The next day I checked on it, and the immediate area of the cache was untouched, but the cache was missing. I archived so I could move it to the other side of the road, and within a couple of hours, a new cache had been placed, along with 6 others. One cache was placed approximately 250 feet from mine. The hider of these 7 brand new caches, was none other than the person who DNF'd mine. Coincidence?

I own a RINO 120. It is a GPS with built in FRS/GMRS Radio's. One of the cooler features is the fact that when you communicate with other RINO users, their location will show up on your GPS screen. Don't have to ask, "where are you?" Being a HAM Operator is the best. Carry a small 4 or 5 watt 2 meter transmitter, and hit the local repeaters. The radio's can be the size of a pack of cig's, without the antenna of course. I prefer a radio of more substance, and carry a Yaesu VX170 or my Icom W32 dual bander.

We use to cover the area that got "stung" with mud, and continue on.

Even with the cost of gas, geocaching is a very inexpensive hobby. The gas prices have not affected our entertainment nor vacations at all. Yes, it is higher this year, but add up the diffence... Los Angeles, Ca to St. George, Ut - 800 miles, round trip. Our Explorer gets 20 MPG highway. So, 40 gallons of gas used round trip. IF AND ONLY IF gas was $1.00 per gallon higher this year as opposed to last, the trip would cost us only $40 more. I don't know what the increase was from this time last year, but it definitely was not $1 per gallon. my .02 (put it in the tank if you want!)

I am involved with SAR. I teach navigation to my team. I use to hide water bottles in an area, mark the location, and have the team map, plot a route, and find the "victim." Now, I have a lot of other people hiding things, so I don't have to get there 2 hours before my team to hide Mr. and Mrs. Aquafina. Also, since in SAR you are looking for the little things that are out of place. On wilderness caches, I can usually find them w/o GPS, because I will track others that have been to the cache. It is a great and ongoing lesson. When you train your eyes, and continue to train them to find the item that is "out of place", then it becomes a lesson and a sport.

My daughter has found my caches. If I don't get a log in a month, I like to check on my cache. If my daughter hasn't found it, I let her find it, then she logs her find.

I too, would recommend going with HAM license. About $20 investment, and some time studying online. Some handhelds can be had cheaply. Although illegal, most HAM handhelds can be modified to work with FRS and GMRS...sometimes just a software update, usually clipping a diode. With thousands of repeaters, a lot being linked or having internet access (thus able to run ECHOLINK or IRLP), you can talk across the state or to other countries with your handheld.

I'm new here, but I don't see a problem with posting a picture of my daughter. In fact, if I knew how, I'd post the picture of the micro she found with me today - actually, I forgot a pen, so figured a picture would be proof! It kinda goes along the same lines of people who post pictures of their vehicles and blur the license plates. Don't they know people see those things when the drive it down the street!?