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There is no senior waver or discounts nor do I believe there is any disability waver for day use. Personally I say tax us and leave the parks open to all with no fee. With the current insane revenue craze everywhere I'm surprised they haven't installed red-light cameras and sold pot at the entrance booths.

I know of two places with an effect simular to that (quicker echo), one of which I have considered for placing a cache for years, but it is not the place you are discribing.

Whenever I hear 200'- 300' I think Map datum. Just check to make sure your unit's map datum is set to WGS 84.

No, but other issues I have had are solved by clicking the compatiblity icon in the address bar. You might give that a go.

It uploaded field notes just fine today. It must have been just some minor glitch on a couple of sites. Frankly, I really like IE9. It seems much quicker than even Chrome. The only thing I miss is spell checker.

Seems I have had a problem on some sites uploading/downloading files while using IE 9. For instance uploading field notes files from my Oregon400t, it finds the file ok, but when I hit upload the file disappears and does not upload. The same works fine on Chrome.

I believe this is an issue with IE9. My upload file blanks out once I hit upload. I'm using a Oregon 400t. It works fine using Chrome.

Thank you TotemLake. I am an old timer cacher. Now into my tenth year. I'm also a bit of a purist, and a minimalist. I do not often use attributes. If I have something to point out, I usually put it on the cache page. I want people to view my cache page. <--Who's lazy? What is a cache? A box, a logbook, a coordinate, a GPS, a cache page. Nothing more than that is required. Anything more than that deminishes the challenge to some degree. We now have endless attributes, zoomable google maps, hints, photos, explainations, parking directions, extra waypoints, on and on. Sorry, but that's rather a lot of hand-holding. I don't think I'm lazy. I have a lot of 5 terrain caches, and take pride in my cache pages. I would like it if people bothered to look at them every now and then. The one thing I often do is point out any safety hazards. I believe in people knowing what they are getting into if there are hidden risks involved. I put that info on my cache page. Please take the time to read it. You always have the option to not do any of my caches for any reason. I have no objection to that. Don't like my lack of attributes? Don't do my caches. I'm fine with that. Really.

Came across a significant landslide today in a forested gully leading to a beach on the sound. Seeing all that brown water in the sound from above I am now thinking maybe it was more current than I realized. It was south of Redondo Beach at this cache: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b1beb2e2-4905-4354-a6f8-635a65318b92 I wish I had taken some photos of the cracks in the ground and the fallen trees. At an rate, be careful out there in situations were you may have saturated unstable ground. There is a lot of that around right now especially along the bluffs on the sound.

First you need to know what cache it is. You have many ways to find it here: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/default.aspx Then go to that cache page and in the upper right of the page there will be a place to click on to be able to log your find along with your comments.

Well, one reason would be that WAAS is not universal. It covers most of North America, not the world. It offers several types of corrections. I have always it. It is an added benefit.

Interesting that you are at 34 north and South Africa is at 34 south.

I walked up behind a bobcat once on a trail, deep in the Olympic forest. I scared the heck out of him

The worlds first Night Cache by ..ehm.. me: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...1f-fd385a74d5f2

OK so I just turned the GPS on and walked out to the car and it downloaded the chip data and the count read 80. I then walked out of range and the dashboard says it was searching for chip. Looking at the chip page the data is still there (there was no data before I fist walked within range and downloaded). When I walked back into range there is no download, the dashboard just says chip detected.... and the count is still 80. It only counts when the GPS is turned off (scrubbing the data), and turned back on again for an actual download. So just at actual downloads.

Thanks, that gave me an idea for testing. If I "discover" a chirp, note its "logged visits", leave GPSr near it for half an hour, turn it off, turn it back on again, and compare the two logged visits number, it'll tell me how many times the GPSr downloaded info from the chirp. I don't quite get what you are saying, but here's how that works. Anytime I edit the chip, it resets the visit number. First time you download it, it will say zero visits. Second time, 1 visit, and so on. It shows previous visits. If you don't turn the GPS off, but walk away and out of range, your GPS will show "searching for chip" on the dashboard, but when you walk back into range it will not download again but rather just show "chip detected" on the dashboard, and still show the info on the chip page. Everytime you turn off the unit and turn it back on within range it downloads again and counts again. As far as drawing power after being downloaded and still within range, I don't know, but my sense is that it (the chip)just broadcasts all the time at the same rate of power draw and only the GPS is affected and probably only by the download itself.

That's a fantastic test! Did you check how much more, if any, power it is drawing when it is in the vicinity of a chirp device? I'm also curious about one other thing : does it continuously download from a chirp that's in range (hope not - kills the chirp's battery). Hmm. I have one in my car as a vehicle travel bug and it downloads each time I turn the car/gps on. Now about 70 times. Hasn't killed it yet.

38 microseconds a day: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge.../Unit5/gps.html

In the world as it should be: honesty, civility, and knowing right from wrong. In the world as it is: hide it near the cache or as a step to a cache in a well concealed and camouflaged spot.

What about if it lasts over four hours!??

Yes, I already considered taking a screen shot, which you can do with most models. It would preserve the data for later viewing, but the drawback is that you have to do it through your computer, so it is not an immediate help. In fact I took a screen shot of the first chirp I found around here and it is still in my GPS.

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I noticed it says right on the Garmin site that it doesn't support Chrome.

Nobody's found me yet. (chirp enabled vehicle travel bug)

Just in time for Halloween treats, this guy was hanging around my eves: