Thrak

I'd guess it's the same as TLTWPL Too lazy to write proper log..........

I thought "leaves of five" is poison oak? Poison Oak is prevalent where I live. "Leaves of three - let it be" also applies to Poison Oak. We don't have PI here - only PO. I've had it numerous times and I freaking HATE the stuff!

Just make SURE that you properly record that you took it on the TB's page. A note on the cache page is NOT sufficient!

These are treated just like any other swag and may be traded. Some people like to collect these signature items from other cachers. MrsB Personally, I don't expect anybody to trade for a dorky Thrak button! If you want to collect it - TAKE IT. It's not worthy of being a trade item and most folks I know don't consider their sig items to be trade items. If you want to collect it then go ahead and do so.

Haven't looked to see if there are any in my area. No interest at all in them. They seem like a pretty lame idea to me.

You might want to post over in this forum: GPS Garage Sale or this one: GPS In Education

I'd strongly suggest checking out GSAK - Geocaching Swiss Army Knife. It's a cacher's best friend and can send your queries directly to the unit in whatever format you like.

You can buy the data cable on eBay but it looks to me like it's a serial port connector. If you don't have a serial port on your computer you will also need to purchase a serial-to-USB connector.

This one is pretty much "buried" - it's certainly underground!

I'd have to agree that mygeocachingprofile.com is probably one of the easiest there is. Just do a query on all of your finds and then upload the file to the site. It will generate more stats than you could possibly want. You simply select which of those stats to display on your profile page and they automagically appear.

Holy cow! In my area there's pretty much zero swag. There used to be regular caches in the area (maybe there still are but I found them long ago) but anymore pretty much everything placed is a micro. When I started caching I always carried swag to leave in caches but these days there's no way to leave anything.

The User Manual..... Hey! Don't shout at the guy. Weren't you ever new to all of this stuff?

Of course! After all, you did find the cache. Make a separate "needs maintenance" log if you feel it's appropriate.

Don't include your own caches in the PQ. You can do a separate PQ for your own caches and then load them as custom POI with a different icon - at least with may GPS units you can do that. I keep my own caches on the microSD card and use a purple circle as the icon.

I went to GW VI in Wheatland, CA and GW VIII in Carnation, WA. My local group (N.U.T.S. -- Northstate Unusual Treasure Seekers) co-hosted GW VI with the RCGDS - River City Geocaching and Dining Society). My wife and I worked a vending booth at the meet and greet the night before and also at the check-in booth for the actual event. Some of the volunteers didn't show for their shifts so we actually ended up working almost the entire event. It was pretty cool though. By working the check-in station we met about a zillion geocachers from all over the world. We got to have a short conversation with most of them. Lots of folks with lots of accents. Met some of the "famous" folks. It was interesting to meet Naked Cacher - he was wearing clothes but was still easily recognizable. We did get to wander around a bit and I had time to attend a GSAK lecture that was quite informative. Among other folks there I also finally met the infamous Snoogans for the first time at the meet and greet and then at the event. (Of course he was also at the meet and greet and event for GW VIII as well and I scored a collection of his personal smashed pennies. If you have never done so you should check out his profile page. It's.......... umm........ interesting.......... unusual........... ) We traveled to GW VIII as part of our vacation. We camped our way there and then stayed in a hotel and then camped our way home. It was pretty cool. We didn't work there so we just wandered around and talked with people and such. There were organized things to do but we didn't do any of them. We also attended the meet and greet the day before the actual event. If you go to a GeoWoodstock event I'd highly recommend making it to the meet and greet the day before - it's a relaxed deal where you can meet a LOT of folks and gab about caching to your heart's content. There will be things to buy and food to eat. The weird thing about our GW experiences is that we did very little caching the day of the event. Lots of folks get a bunch of caching in and there will be caches near the event. You can go alone or tag along with a group. It can be a blast to cache with folks from other countries -- I especially love Scottish accents.

I have bugs that have traveled over 26,000 miles. I have other bugs that disappeared. One of my bugs disappeared for over a year and then suddenly reappeared. I've found coins in caches that were stuck for a year. I've moved bugs that were stuck in mountain caches that were hardly ever visited - I picked them up so they could MOVE again. (I'll never understand why people will drop someone else's TB into a cache that gets maybe 1 or 2 visitors per year...........) I actually found a coin when I had a DNF on the cache. The coin had been lost more than a year ago and I found it in the dirt with some pine needles and such covering it in a place where I looked for the cache. It's always cool to restore something like that to life again. The owners get quite a boost from having a lost item turn up. Like others have said, if you can't stand to have it vanish then don't make it a TB. Some people will steal anything. Others will take the bug and then lose it or else simply never geocache again. It happens. Out of 15 I have released, 7 are now "residing" in one of my archived caches after having vanished. I have others that I need to move there as well - haven't been seen since 2009. It sucks but it happens.

You can create a bookmark list on the geocaching.com site. It's a simple way to track your FTF and, if you use the naming convention 001 Cache Name, 002 Cache Name, etc, when you make the list it will keep them in the order in which you found the caches. NOTE: If you choose to make a bookmark list as suggested above, you might want to consider making it a private list so it doesn't show up on the cache pages themselves. Not everybody will be pleased to have your FTF list showing on the cache pages. YOU will still see it on the relevant cache pages but others won't.

I tend to have the opposite problem. People rate caches as a 1 terrain when they should be anywhere from 1.5 - 2.5. A cache with a terrain rating of 1 should be accessible in a wheel chair.

They do make rust resistant primers. Yeah, you could paint a crappy container like an Altoids tin with a paint/primer specially designed to resist oxidation. But the first time it's opened, and the horribly inferior, (and not even remotely waterproof), hinge grinds itself from the closed to the open position, your protectant surface is nullified. Results like that are to be expected when you start off with such a crappy container and try desperately to turn it into something that doesn't suck, rather than starting your cache creation process with a quality container. Naturally, the type of cacher willing to go to that much trouble, researching containers and buying one that has proven, over time, to have a high survivability rate in almost every environment, just so those folks who seek his cache won't have to deal with an icky container probably wouldn't even consider using something as crappy as an Altoids tin anyway, realizing as most clever folks do that they totally blow as a cache container. I recently found an Altoids can cache in Alaska. It was right next to the water. Right............. Sea water and metal. The hinges were gone and the interior was rusted. I just don't understand why anybody would use an Altoids can at all but especially right next to sea water. There is obviously a lot of fog in the area as well. I had planned to leave one of my Thrak buttons in the cache but, for obvious reasons, I passed on doing that.

I'll have to give this a try. I used to have lockups all the time with my 78S when it would recalculate a route. I went to a beta version and the problem went away. Of course a later update brought the same darn problem back. It makes me crazy. Maybe this version of the firmware will finally resolve the issue. I certainly hope so. I love the unit except for this idiotic problem.

Should be the same as the 78S. Are you actually marking the caches as "Found" on the unit under the "Log Attempt" page? With my 78S when I do that the caches no longer appear on the "Geocaches" page.

Never found one under or on a cache but have encountered rattlesnakes multiple times while geocaching. The most recent one started rattling approximately 2 feet from my wife's foot. We just backed slowly away and then went around it. Lots of rattlers in the hills around here and even in parts of the park that are essentially right in town.

I suppose somebody ought to do it......... Why does my post say Ringbone?

I don't care about other people's numbers at all. However, I do care about MY numbers. My numbers are for ME and not for anybody else but I certainly don't want to puff them using challenges. I like to know the actual number of caches I've found. I'm glad that I discovered challenges add to the total find count before I checked them out for myself. I have no desire to add bogus "finds" to my numbers. Like I said, my numbers are just for me (ok for my wife as well ) and I want them to reflect reality.

I am soooooooooooooooooooooooo very NOT interested in that sort of caching!