uxorious

Wow! Talk about breath taking arrogance. You really need to look in a mirror!!

I can think of several ways they may have gotten the coordinates before the cache was published. I once hid a cache while camping for the weekend near here. Later I met some cachers from out of state that were camping near me. In conversation, I mentioned I had just hid a new cache, and offered to give them the name and coordinates if they wanted to go find it. They had to leave that day, so turned down the offer, but if they had taken me up on it, they would have found it before it was published. with my slow typing, I see a couple other ways offered above.

Well since you asked. I have never experienced this. Nor have I seen any thing else that would indicate my reviewer is anything but a hard working volunteer.

I may be missing something here? I only need to log on to one or the other, and hit remember me, to access both the forums and geocaching's web site. Logging on one, logs me on the other.

There does seem to be a lot of truth to this. I'm glad I grew up at a time when I would play all day, outside with neighbors, and only come back in when the streetlights came on. When my parents wouldn't be in trouble for just letting me walk to the park alone. I am 67.

I did that once. I was returning to an area to find some new caches. It had been about two years since I had cached up that road. I always read the cache pages before I load them into GSAK, to help decide what I want to go for. This cache sounded familiar, so I dug out my old field records, and sure enough, I had found it but never logged it. Makes me wonder if there are any more. The funny thing is, shortly after I logged it, the CO archived it, and put a new cache in a better spot in this cemetery. If I hadn't noticed it when I did, I might never had known.

I find the compass page works to get me close to the cache. If I'm having trouble with getting a good lock on location, I find changing to the map page will help. For some reason the map page seems to be less likely to jump around, and a little easier for me at GZ. But, usually the compass page is close enough. I think this is a matter of personal taste. I've tried both over the years, and have settled into what works best for me.

+1 The only thing my 62 does that I like over the 60 is it is paperless. If I could find an easy way to go paperless, I would go back to the 60 in a second.

This absolutely, for me. If it wasn't for my wife's health, and the need to be connected for that, I wouldn't turn my cell phone on in the woods.

The farthest I've gone for a one day cache would have been to the Original Stash Plaque. As the crow flies it is 280 miles round trip. Not sure how many miles as a car goes, but quite a few more.

I cannot imagine me destroying a cache for any reason. No matter how annoying. However, while I have no problems at all with snakes, and a fake one might startle me, it wouldn't annoy me. I do know people who have a phobia of snakes, and their reaction to finding a snake without any warning could very well be annoying. I have a phobia of spiders, and avoid them at all costs. But have found caches where the CO has used a spider for scare fun. I really don't find that annoying at all. If someone puts one in a cache of mine, for the sole purpose of scaring the finder of MY cache, I would be extremely annoyed. You want to change the feel or purpose of a cache, put your own cache out and leave mine alone.

I wouldn't consider it changing someone else's cache. It's just a bit of swag. A rubber snake is just a toy. If it is put in the cache to scare someone, doesn't matter if it is a toy. It still changes the nature of the cache. I have found a cache or two with a toy snake in or around them, and have no problem with the idea. However, if you put anything in my cache meant to change the experience, you are messing with my cache. Want to put spiders or snakes in a cache, set out your own cache to do it, don't change someone else's.

If I have a few caches in the unit, and want to keep them there for a future trip, but want to add a couple for today, the new ones delete the old ones. I've been told I can avoid that by putting the caches into a file before loading them? I haven't figured that out yet. If I want to delete individual caches, after finding them, or for any reason. Can't do that without connecting to computer. Playing with the two GPS unit in the yard, I have found the 60CSx to be more accurate. (however, this might have to do with the way I have the 62s set up) Seems like every time I have some problem, and work like crazy to figure it out, something else comes up. NEVER had that problem with the 60CSx. With the 60 I was out and finding caches in one day. Even the Magellan explorist 210 I started out with was easier to use then this thing.(in fact, if the explorist had point to point mapping and a lot easier to load caches, I might still be using it. ) I'm sure that when everything is figured out on this thing, I will find it is OK. It is just frustrating that it is so clunky. So, you're right. Some of these things you can't do, and that exists on all current and recent Garmin GPS's (and maybe even the same with Magellan, but I haven't used a Magellan in well over a decade, so I'm not sure how the new ones operate) The first point, I'd like you to clarify, because loading new caches shouldn't overwrite old ones, unless you're referring to loading via Pocket Queries and your PQ only supplies you with cache listings that you have not found. In which case, your way around that is to either include found caches in your PQ, run your "my finds" PQ and load it on your GPS, or go to the specific cache you want to leave on there and load it as an individual file (either using the "send to GPS" function or downloading as a single .gpx file. The only way a cache listing will be overwritten is if you load a new .gpx file of the same file name. Deleting caches from your device is much faster on a computer. I even prefer manage waypoints from the computer than on the device. Your found caches will be "hidden" - they'll appear as icons on the map, but they won't show up in the "find a geocache" list, or the "nearest cache" dashboard, so there's really no immediate reason to remove them from your device while in the field. You have to connect to a computer to load new caches, so use that time to also remove caches you don't want on there. I often have not need to keep my found caches on the device, so I simply have my PQs set to return only listings I have not found. Each time I load the new PQ file, it effectively removes found caches from my device. Remember, the reason you could do these things on your 60csx is that geocaches weren't differentiated from regular waypoints. Now, geocaches are categorized differently, and you get all of the information from the cache listing on your GPS with you, which you didn't get on the 60. Accuracy is a much debated topic in these forums. I can't see any reason why older antenna technology should be more accurate than newer technology, so any accuracy issues are either perceived, or potentially software related. Truth is if you take two identical units out with you (say, two 62s's), you're going to get variations in location readings between the two units. I wouldn't be surprised if there's more accuracy variation within models than there is between models (within a brand anyway). Accuracy in geocaching is also subjective, as the accuracy of the coordinates supplied by a cache owner depends on their method of obtaining coordinates - a quick read from a cell phone will not be as good as a quick read from a GPS, which in turn is not as good as using the waypoint averaging feature. So if the CO's coordinates are off, your GPS won't bring you right on top of the cache. But that's not really the point of geocaching either... once you get within 30 feet, you should be putting the GPS down and searching landscape directly. I load all my caches through GSAK. If I'm going to take a trip for the weekend I check out the caches in the area and load the ones I'm interested in into GSAK. If there are some caches in the GPS I plan on going for in a couple weeks, they disappear when I load the new ones. I've only loaded a couple pocket queries over the years, but didn't think that worked for my caching style. While I much prefer to delete caches as I find them, I guess I can live with having to delete them on the computer. That does have an advantage that I cannot accidentally delete a cache in the field. (been there done that. ) As for accuracy. Like I said, I do think it is how I have the thing set up. I've made some changes, after reading some tips here. Need to try it again. However, when using the two side by side, the difference is often more than 30ft. Sometimes as much as 50ft. With the 60CSx being very close, 5 to 15ft. When I got the 60CSx it didn't take several months and repeated trips to the forum to get it up and running right. As for your last point, I have been geocaching for 9 years, and am well aware you rarely get right on the cache. You get as close as it will get you, then put it away and start looking.

I guess any other times you can blast away all you want.

Thanks for that, I find that comment to be extremely insulting. I'm working hard on learning how to use it, that's one reason I don't like it, it shouldn't be that hard to learn. No other GPSr I've used was as user unfriendly.

If I have a few caches in the unit, and want to keep them there for a future trip, but want to add a couple for today, the new ones delete the old ones. I've been told I can avoid that by putting the caches into a file before loading them? I haven't figured that out yet. If I want to delete individual caches, after finding them, or for any reason. Can't do that without connecting to computer. Playing with the two GPS unit in the yard, I have found the 60CSx to be more accurate. (however, this might have to do with the way I have the 62s set up) Seems like every time I have some problem, and work like crazy to figure it out, something else comes up. NEVER had that problem with the 60CSx. With the 60 I was out and finding caches in one day. Even the Magellan explorist 210 I started out with was easier to use then this thing.(in fact, if the explorist had point to point mapping and a lot easier to load caches, I might still be using it. ) I'm sure that when everything is figured out on this thing, I will find it is OK. It is just frustrating that it is so clunky.

My 60CSx was simple and easy to learn. I used it, along with a palm m500 for a long time, and it worked perfectly for the way I cache. The palm doesn't talk with my windows 7 or windows vista computer, and I lost the cachemate program. So figured it was time to get a new GPS that was paperless. Maybe I'm just not tech smart, but this thing is not user friendly. By coming on this forum, and playing around with the thing I have it working, but there are several things the 60CSx would do this won't. I really don't like it. I'm sure for the way most people cache it might be great, but some of the things it does doesn't fit my way of caching.

Just one more reason I regret buying this worthless brick, the 62s.

This is a game and over the years I have found nearly all games have "house rules", or different rules in different areas. When learning to play Mexican Train for example. We went on line for some clarification of some of the rules, and found many web sites with differing rules. When I was in the Navy, we often had to figure out the difference in rules and agree on how to play before we got very far into some games. Geocaching is just a game. As long as I am consistent in the way I play, and if going out with others we agree on how we will play that day, than everything is good.

You do know you need to press a separate button to get the hints, right. If you press the button for the description, you get the description. If you want the hint it is a separate page. I like it this way, as it allows you to access the hint only if you need it.

Part of the reason I like this game is because I'm not in competition with anyone else. My finds are my finds, your finds are yours. I love watching my numbers grow, but I pay little attention to how anyone else's grow. As long as I am logging the caches in the way I feel is OK, and the CO doesn't care, than that is how the game should be played. For those of you who feel this game is a contest between players, and want consistency and fairness, that's good, that's how you play. But geocaching was not and is not set up to be a competitive sport. As long as I'm consistent to my own way of playing, it should not affect your way of play.

I just hope those were his nanos, not some he stole from someone else's cache.

We need the address of the people who think it is a good idea. We can then go, drill holes in the side of their house, and install stuff we think is cool.

Around here,(western Washington) they have kept the area around the towers cleared for a lot longer then they have used helicopters to inspect them. If they don't keep the trees cut down they will grow up into the wires, not a good thing. Keeping the bigger brush away from the base of the towers and away from the roads allows for easier inspections of areas that may not be able to be checked from the air.

On the 60CSx it always gave me a choice of on-road, off road, when I would hit go and before it would load the cache. Maybe I missed something, but the way I got this to work was, after selecting a cache and hitting go, it loads the cache, I then hit "find" again. It then gives the choice of "find another" "stop navigation" or "change route activity". I selected "change route activity" then selected "automobile driving". That gave me a route. Edited to say, I reread your answer and found where I could set it up to prompt. Thank you.