Steve0512

It would be relatively easy to avoid coming into contact with the ammo can gasket.

This past weekend the wife and I decided to drive into Indiana from our home in Illinois to add another state to our map. While in Indiana I had the great idea of driving up into Michigan to find a cache and add that state to my map. Well one idea led to another and I convinced my wife that Ohio wasn't all that far away. In one day we did a four state, 380 mile Geocaching adventure. It turned out to be a lot of fun.

When you log the retrieval just put in the log your intentions.

Okay now I'm confused. Mpilchfamily and BlueDeuce are contradicting each other. I also have a sticker on my car. Do I need to have the Collectible box checked or not?

Didn't know about that until today!

With all due respect, my response to this is that if you are finding too many caches to post decent logs for your finds, then you should find fewer caches. The logs left by cachers are the only thanks COs get for the hundreds of dollars and dozens of hours they spend conceiving of, preparing, and placing caches for you to find. The least you can do is write a little something, give a little feedback, and thank them properly. I note you have 50 finds, and 0 hides. I'm guessing your perspective will change if/when you join the ranks of the COs. As an aside, we're all busy people, and an "apology" in advance is no apology at all. With all due respect, my response to that is that if you are too thin skinned to accept a valid explanation, and need to tell people how they should enjoy their hobbies. Then maybe cache ownership is not for you.

Please don't lose too much sleep over this. I have to admit that I am one of those cachers you speak of. Believe me it has nothing to do with the quality of your cache or the shortcomings of my experience. In the early days when we were Geocaching with my iPhone, once we found the cache, with the complexity of the app and my fat fingers on the touch screen. A quick TFTC was the best we could muster while we were running from hordes of mosquito's in the 90 degree heat. Now we use an Oregon 450T, Once we find a cache we are able to mark it as found right on the GPS. Later we have to log in to the website and manually enter those logs. Just this evening my wife and I sat down to log our caches from yesterday morning. She reads them off from the GPS by GC number, I search for the cache page on the website and log the find. As we were going through the list, neither of us could remember any details in particular from the ten caches we found 36 hours previous. I know we had an enjoyable day, it was our anniversary. I can tell you all about my wife falling into the creek. However the particulars of each cache all merge together in our mind. Many of the posters on this forum will tell you how they carry a small notebook with them and make notes in the field. To remember details about each cache. Good for them. They are better people than we are. It's not that we don't appreciate the hard work you wen't through to craft and place the cache for us to find. Thank you for all that work. We are just busy people trying to squeeze out a little time in our day for our favorite hobby. With a full day of work, housework and kids we have very little time for the niceties that you deserve. You have our apologies.

Yes drag and drop the GPX file into the GPX folder on your 450. Don't worry if you already have a GPX file in there, you do not have to delete it. You will eventually have several in there.

yes mine has both compass and radar. Really radar?

I once got mixed up with DISCOVERED and RETRIEVED. It was a nightmare to get it all sorted out.

I'd re-install the drivers.

If I were inviting you to my house, I would give you the coordinates where I live. I might also give you the coordinates of a liquor store on the way so you could pick us up a nice bottle of wine. That would be a waypoint. Same as if I would give you the location of a good parking space. That would also be a waypoint. If I hid a cache at coordinates that require you to cross a stream to get to, I might be a nice guy and provide a waypoint at a foot bridge so you don't get your pants wet.

It looks like a waypoint for a parking lot.

You can, if you want to, go back and Edit the DNF's to a Write Note. Go back and view the log, and you get the options: * Edit Log * Delete Log * Upload Image Thank you, I've done that now.

[With sheepish eyes] I wish I had read your reply before I posted 4 DNF's today that were caused by various reasons such as: 1) Mosquito's 2) Dense brush 3) Mosquito's 4) mud 5) mosquito's 6) high heat and humidity and did I mention mosquito's? Thanks for making me a better cacher in the future.

OK I'll add to this line of newby questions. Under what circumstances would you select "Write Note"?

I couldn't have said this better.

Ahhhh I understand now. Thank you for clearing that up for me. When I received the unit the first thing I did was get all the updates from Garmin. And that is how I ended up with the treasure chest graphic. It is unfortunate because I would prefer the other icon. Oh well! Thanks again.

I've noticed in several pictures on this website and others the button icon for Geocaching on the Oregon to be the classic Groundspeak geocaching logo. A yellow, green, blue and orange graphic divided up into four squares. On my 450T the icon is a generic treasure chest. First question: Is there a difference in functionality between the two? And secondly, how do I get the classic icon for my unit?

I picked up a travel bug about a month ago. When I logged the find, I logged it as "Discovered" instead of "Retrieved". It seemed self descriptive to me but I was wrong. While traveling to the East coast I dropped off the TB in a cache there. I am now trying to log this placement but the system won't let me as it is not properly in my inventory. I've tried to re-log my finding as retrieved but in order to do so I need to know the original code that is stamped on the tag. I don't know the code as I am no longer in possession of the TB. What do I do now?