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Thanks for the links and replies. Closing thread.

Forgive me if this is no brainer, but I couldn't seem to find my answer with a forum search... I picked up my first TB on a cache hunt this weekend. It has a logbook attached to it, and it's really cool to see where it's been. I'll place it in another cache this weekend when I go out. Anyway, my question is the etiquette regarding picking up travel bugs. Is it OK to pick up a travel bug from a cache you have already visited? Or is that in bad taste to revisit a cache simply to pick up a TB? I haven't found most of the caches in my area, but at some point it would become difficult to pick up new TB's if you have already visited all the caches near you. Opinions? Thanks!

Just did it myself- no problems here. I can email you the file if you'd like!

I use my old Vx with Cachemate and it works great. The only gripe I have is the slow data transfer through the original serial port- docking/charging station. There may be a USB dock available, but I haven't really looked for one.

E-mail the cacher this snippet from the Geocaching FAQ: Politely remind the cacher the he is in violation of rule #2

Time is money. I have found Cachemate to be much more time efficient than the spinner/plucker option. I have very little free time, and I'd pay to have more of it.

WASSUP???? Oh, you mean Wide Area Augmentation System?

You can look at this triangulation station with 2 reference markers that I found: OH1291. You can also look at it's associated azimuth mark: OH1292. Underground marks are underground- I have not dug up any yet. Ther probably are some hunters here that have.

Excellent unit for the price. Have used mine for caching, road trips, hiking. Works great.

This question reminds me of living in the silicon valley in the '80's. There actually was a store in town that rented software. Their approach was for you to "try it before you buy it." This was before hard drives were common in home computers, and applications were on a single floppy that you inserted when you wanted to use it. Copy protection was also in it's infancy. Needless to say, renters quickly built up their software libraries at a fraction of the cost of buying it! I don't think the store was in business for more than a year or two. As hard drives evolved, applications got bigger, spanned more than one floppy, and had to actually be installed before you could run them. There was no way to guarantee that applications were being "unistalled" after the rental period was over, and I think they may have had some legal problems from software companies. I suppose rental software could be feasable today with applications run directly from the cd-rom or dvd-rom. I don't know that software companies would be on board with that idea since they obvioisly make money from selling more copies.

This should be posted as a new topic, not under "suggestions, requests and bugs," but your answer can be found here.

You have asked about being a newbie geocaching in Hawaii. This is the Benchmark Hunting forum. You may get better responses in the Getting Started forum or the West and Southwest forum (which includes Hawaii). Also, try looking at the Geocaching in Hawaii search page. It will probably tell you what you need to know about geocaching in Hawaii.

Ditto

Some do, some don't. This topic was also recently discussed here.

Geocaching implies that you do use GPS From the Geocaching.com home page: Join Geocaching - The sport where YOU are the search engineTM A GPS device and a hunger for adventure are all you need for high tech treasure hunting. Here you can find the latest caches in your area, how to hide your own cache, and information on how to get started in this fun and exciting sport.

Oops, I didn't know it had that feature! Good to know.

I've pondered the same kind of idea... ...charging to list caches, above and beyond a "free" limit of say, 2 caches. Something reasonable like $1 each. That might cut down on lame caches, and and might filter out those that might not be commited to maintain their cache. That way, the "listing service" could be supported, in part, by those that list. It wouldn't cost anything to play, as you could still find caches at no charge, and have the opportunity to place a small number of caches at no charge also. I might get flamed for such a suggestion, seeing as I don't own any caches myself, but I don't know how GC.com can be expected to continue providing free services if the hobby/sport it expected to grow and grow.....

Of the two choices, it would be cyclecaching, as cyclocaching would be caching in a circle. cyclo– VARIANT FORMS: cycl– PREFIX: 1. Circle; cycle: cyclorama. 2. A cyclic compound: cyclohexane. ETYMOLOGY: Greek kuklo-, from kuklos, circle. See kwel-1 in Appendix I. cycle SYLLABICATION: cy·cle PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: skl KEY NOUN: 1. An interval of time during which a characteristic, often regularly repeated event or sequence of events occurs: Sunspots increase and decrease in intensity in an 11-year cycle. 2a. A single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon: A year constitutes a cycle of the seasons. b. A periodically repeated sequence of events: the cycle of birth, growth, and death; a cycle of reprisal and retaliation. 3. The orbit of a celestial body. 4. A long period of time; an age. 5a. The aggregate of traditional poems or stories organized around a central theme or hero: the Arthurian cycle. b. A series of poems or songs on the same theme: Schubert's song cycles. 6. A bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle. 7. Botany A circular or whorled arrangement of flower parts such as those of petals or sepals. 8. Linguistics In generative grammar, the principle that allows an ordered set of linguistic rules or operations to apply repeatedly to successive stages of a derivation. Often used with the. VERB: Inflected forms: cy·cled, cy·cling, cy·cles INTRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To occur in or pass through a cycle. 2. To move in or as if in a cycle. 3. To ride a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle. TRANSITIVE VERB: To use in or put through a cycle: cycled the heavily soiled laundry twice; cycling the recruits through eight weeks of basic training. ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Late Latin cyclus, from Greek kuklos, circle. See kwel-1 in Appendix I. OTHER FORMS: cycler —NOUN

Guide to finding a cache

I'll echo what has been said already. For caching, the Legend is a great unit, and a great value (I got mine for under $160.) In a car, however, the Legend would not be the best choice, since it does not have autorouting. The V has autorouting and comes with detailed maps (on CD), but is also portable enough for caching. As far as traffic jams go, I'm not sure a GPS unit would help you as much as you might hope, since it doesn't know where the traffic is. It will "autoroute" you the shortest or fastest route, but that route might be where the traffic jam is!

If you happened to take a picture of it, post it here. Experienced benchmark hunters may be able to tell you more about the mark you saw, and perhaps tell you why it's not listed in GC.com.

I don't have a 60c, but my Legend exhibits the same behavior. It is my understanding the accuracy circle represent the combined accuracies of the reciever and the basemap. The installed "out of the box" basemap is not exceedingly accurate. So, although your reciever may say "10 ft accuracy", the map that displays your current postion may be accurate to only 200 feet. One you install any of the more accurate MapSource maps, the accuracy circle becomes much smaller, representing the improved accuracy of the map. Edit:spelling

I've experienced problems like your describing on my Windows 2000 machine, running IE 6.0. I don't think it's a GC.com problem, because this has happened on other sites I've visited. I have found that I can "fix" the problem if I use the keyboard arrows (instead of the mouse) to scroll up again. It has always stopped it from scrolling back down automatically for me.

Thanks for your response. You answered my question quite well.

How about splitting it like this: 1. GPS units and GPS software forum (This category would include the hardware, and mapping software, and perhaps other non geocaching related GPS software- I really don't think ther is a need to subcategorize into different manufacturers) 2. Geocaching software forum (this category would include all the GPX type software that is more geocaching related- Watcher, GSAK, cachemate, GPXsonar, etc) Of course there will be some overlap with mapping software, since you use mapping software for Geocaching, but I think this might be a feasable way to separate the two. Having 12 different forums for each make/model/OS/platform is way too complicated in my opinion.