Grizzly Pair

We tried Blacks in Northampton, the first guy had no idea what we were talking about, he went through some doors at the back of the shop to talk to someone, when he came back he told us it didn't start until Saturday and all the promotional material was wrong.

To get decent maps on a Garmin you need to buy TOPO, not as good as OS maps which you can buy from memory map but better than the maps that are supplied with the GARMIN.

We have the same unit, I don't think you can data directly to the unit, all downloads are to the card. We use this to different TOPO maps and cache lists to seperate cards on long trips.

Sorry folks Mrs Grizzly must have been having one of those "Bear with a little brain" moments. I did mean to congratulate the family on a 1000 caches.

Well done to Sylvia, Robert and the girls for achieving this milestone. 2000 by Christmas?

When we started caching we had already planned a future holiday to Canada to include a trip to Knights Inlet to go and watch Grizzly Bears. Celia has always been bear mad since a child so it just seemed like an obvious name for us. Once on the holiday we spent quite some time watching a mother and her two cubs, we took hundreds of photos including some of the cubs who we adopted as our mascots. We now have these 2 cubs on our stickers we put onto logs. 2009 we return to Knights Inlet, we hope to see the 2 cubs again but much larger.

When I were a lad we lived in't shoebox in't middle ut t'road.............. I have contributed to Drsolly's sales figures over the years, we now have to beg our hardware people for Gigabytes of memory and Terabytes of storage to keep our systems running. Sigh, nothing to do with caching though.

This one is a whopper : Secret Army Finale – The Execution http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...1b-51ef64a6c8b8 You do have to complet a series of 9 tricky caches to get to it.

Well done Hoppers, I am sure that, like us, you can now relax and find some other way of spend evenings and weekends. Glen & Celia The Grizzlies

We use a Solio, it can be charged from the sun (if you can get enough) or from the mains. It has a huge range of attachments to connect it to loads of devices. I bought it fromthe manufacturer but have since seen it on offer in Milletts.

Its snowing in Grizzlyland

I use EASYNICHE/GEONICHE to convert GPX files and communicate with my bluetooth GPS from a PALM PDA. http://www.raydarllc.com/

Whilts on holiday in Canada we were able to log our finds half way through the holiday at a public library which provided internet access for free.

I would recommend a Palm Tunsten E2 plus a globalstar bluetooth GPS. Invest in Geoniche software and never use any paper for caching again.

por-shay Is there any other way? Porsh-uh. That's the way the family that mde them says their name, anyway. I'm one of the ones that calls it like it reads. After long runing debates with fans...I've realized that the uh ending was the right one, but old habits die hard. I'm still holindg out that Mazda has an a like o in Mod and not a like Math. But Maybe I'll lose that one too. How do you get from mathematics to 'math' is there a mathematic? Do the maths!

GeoNiche and EasyNiche from : http://www.raydarllc.com/index.html If you have a Palm with Bluetooth, get a small Bluetooth GPS unit and then get this software, there is a small once-off charge. It gives your palm a display like an Etrex and many other facilities.

Mrs Grizzly of the Grizzly Pair is a current Brownie Guider in Northampton. So far hasn't had the courage to geocache with Brownies but a new cache has recently appeared near the meeting place which may be worth a go. Would be interested in any caching within the movement.

I have just had a play with this on my new Tungtsen E2, seems like a useful addition to our armoury, Celia won't have an excuse for getting the calculations wrong now.