Team Periwinkle

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gpscity.com has great tutorial videos. http://www.gpscity.com/garmin-gpsmap-62-videos.html Also try this one (which isn't GPScity.com):

We recently were on a hike with five ~10-11 year old Boy Scouts and showed them the game. Inside the cache we found was a spent .30 caliber shell casing. You would have thought they had found the Rosetta Stone wrapped in the Holy Grail. The coolest thing ever. So exactly to your point - if these kids had had $10 between them, they would have gladly left it as a 'fair trade.' One man's trash is another man's treasure...and kids like the darnedest things.

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REI: http://www.rei.com/product/770192/Groundspeak-trackable-travel-bug-for-hitchhikers There is a way to look up in-store availability from the product page.

Wow. I understand the passion here, but as a relatively new 'cacher, I'm hoping that other new 'cachers don't read this thread and get scared off. We recently logged a find of a nano, where it was a nano inside a slightly bigger nano / micro. The logbook was inside the nano inside the micro. We didn't figure that out until after we left the cache (and went to another similar cache that was using the same type of container). So we logged a "find" - heck, we left a trackable inside the cache - even though we didn't sign the log. And we acknowledged this whole story on the on-line post. http://coord.info/GC1YY5V [And I don't think the CO is trying to be nefarious with a cache inside a cache - the nano no longer was in good enough condition to be the only container, so they just put the nano inside the micro. I won't criticize the CO for this situation (and I'm putting this here as a pre-emptive strike against those who will blame the CO for a bad cache).] So by some of the logic in this thread, my 'find it' might not count. I have a pretty good argument that it does count, but I can also understand the logic of "find it = must have signed log" so it doesn't count. [Although there is always an honor system in everything - is anyone doing signature recognition on the names in a logbook to verify that the 'cacher who signed the log is REALLY the person who was there? But I digress....] Anyway, my real point is this: We - my kids and I (and my wife, when I can drag her along - are doing geocaching as a GAME. We're having fun, and the kids enjoy looking at our statistics on the website and finding out who finds our finds after us. If the CO had deleted our 'find' on the nit-picky technicality (and I'm using that phrase deliberately here [extra bonus points if you can name the actress and movie that quote is from]) then my kids would have been really upset, and they might start to lose interest in a game that is interpreted so rigidly. And I understand the rebuttal to that is "rules are rules" - but really? There are gray areas in all parts of life, and before we come up with hard and fast interpretations of rules, consider the implications of your (or a CO) actions. In other words, let's not have hard and fast interpretations of rules, but rather let's analyze each situation independently. Certainly if someone is trying to log a find with ill intent and deception, I'm all in favor of deleting the log. But I don't think anyone here would think it is a good idea to alienate new 'cachers and little kids just doing this for fun and making innocent mistakes, right? So can't we all just relax and get along? I like the idea that we're geocachers not geolawyers.

Premium Membership is actually an annual fee..if you were looking at the price and thinking it was monthly, you might have been scared...but the annual cost seems pretty reasonable to me.

Our minimum trade / deposit are geotokens (non trackable coins). Search "geotoken" on amazon.com. Comes out to ~$1 each. (and no, I'm not talking about the "Jack Squat" coins....)

I always keep my retrieved and in-transit travel bugs in my geocaching bag / sling / kit, so they don't get lost. And I really like these business cards: http://shop.geocaching.com/default/starter-kits/essential-gear/geocaching-trail-cards-25-pack-1.html

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Is there any way to temporarily 'hide' or turn off the display of geocaches on a Garmin series 78 gpsmap?