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On the new Garmin GPSr's, as you go through your caching day hitting the found key every time you find a cache, it records the find in the calender. So when you sit down in front of your computer to log your finds you have your GPSr right there, click on the calendar application and the date of your cache run, and BINGO, all the caches you found that day are listed in the order they were found. Works for me!

The best I've been able to get away with is 76. I was game for more but my caching buddy was just plain worn out! As for fun, It sure can be - especially if you feed off each other's enthusiasm. Even funner if you can remember each cache during the logging and bait for comments.. Yea, I was tired for sure. But I got 2 more than him! 78 total for the day.

This hobby is, to different people, different things. Some like to hide, some do not. Some hide that shouldn't, and some don't that should. It is what you make of it. But I don't think it is reasonable to assume that all people should play it the same as you.

I have hiked 50 miles for one cache. It was a seven stage multi that took me and my cohorts 5 trips to complete. Approximately 10 miles each trip with a 2600 foot elevation gain. What an adventure!

I use CacheStats from www.logicweave.com. It uses the same "my finds" PQ, converts it to HTML so you can just copy and paste it into your profile. Works great!

I had a cache "migrate" about 30 feet. When I went out on a maintenance check I could not find it and replaced the container with one that could not be moved (a hanger). About a week later someone logs that they found the cache but it was different than the cache description (which I updated after replacement). I had to e-mail the finder and ask him where he found the "old" container so I could go retrieve it.

I downloaded the program but my 1.8 Ghz processor is too slow to run it effectively.

After all the bee stings, tick bites, poison oak, and snakes, who's afraid of a little rain?

My brother accidentally found a cache while camping up in the sierra's one summer. He opened it up, read the geonote, and wrote a short entry in the log book. When he got home he logged on the the web site and found out all about it. He proceeded to purchase a GPS and after he had found a few caches he called me up and turned me on to this great hobby. It fit right in with my lifestyle and I have been hooked ever since.

Do you have source for that claim? I would think the processing power of the GPS is relatively steady until it just plain didn't have the juice to power them. My friend and I have been standing next to each other with identical units and differing power and have almost the exact same readings, but we've only done that a time or two. The only source I have is personal expieriance. Just before the batteries are dead my Garmin GPSMap 60CSx goes whaky.

Don't forget battery strength. Weak batteries in your GPSr can have an effect on it's accuracy.

The really sad thing about geocoins that I have seen in the past couple of years is even if you see that there is a geocoin suposedly in a cache, 70% of the time it is not really there. It seems people have a problem with logging coins (and TB's) in and out of caches. With that said, finding anything in a cache that is trackable is a "BONUS'. Not the reason I search for the cache.

So this is the evolution of the virtual cache?!? IMHO it has gone waaaaaaay downhill!

Annadel State Park has alot of local history behind it and there are alot of very good caches within it's boundaries. Here's a link to the park page. Also Jack London State Park in Glen Ellen is a nice place to visit and has quite a bit of history. For some beautiful views of the valley hike up to Gunsight Rock in Mt. Hood Regional Park. You won't be disappointed.

I've done a 5/5 out in my neck of the woods and I would always be intrigued by such a cache. Is it any thing like this one? Nemesis

In this case I think signing the log for your fellow cacher was a deed well done. But don't let you new cacher get used to it. It may become a habit that will be hard to break as he gets older. Congrats Snoogans! (and Snoogstress)

Me, myself and I are 47, 47 and 47 respectively.

Seems like the bomb squad had a positive attitude about the whole situation. It could have turned out alot worse!

Give me a little more information on where you would like to cache in this area and I would be more than willing to give you direction to some great caches.

Let me know if your still interested. I would be glad to move some TB's for you.

I just bought a 2001 Nissan Pathfinder. I haven't been able to take it out four wheelin yet but it works great in town.

Bass Pro Shops has it.

I tried to download it to my Sanyo Katana and they say they don't have a version for my phone yet.

You know you spend too much time geocacheing when you buy products at the store based on the container they come in.

I ended up a ISTJ. Whatever that means...