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My item is a digital camera.

I talked to one of the rangers today, and she was telling me about a Geocache event that was there not to long ago. She was real impressed with it. She is not in charge there, but she feels that geocaching could be a good way to introduce people to the park. Maybe one day they will allow it to happen.

We have pre selected and marked most of the cache sites already, and I will be marking the rest tomorrow. I have 16 total for now, and I may be placing a few mini's to bring the total to 20. Kings Landing is almost in my back yard, so that makes it kind of easy for me. I would love to have your help if you are availible during the Camporee on Saturday, April 29, and we will most likely need more GPS units. As of now Geocaches are not allowed in the park, except for this event. I plan to introduce some of the better placed and least intrusive caches to the ranger. My hope is to get them to rethink their GeoCach ban.

This will be at a local park and Scouts are required to leave it in better shape than they found it. Not that they always do. I will stress CITO. I wll have enough help and time to go over the basics of using and inputing information on a GPS.

I have been asked to introduce Geocaching to the Boy Scouts in our district, at the spring camporee. There will be about 300 boys there. The activities included are, Map and compass instruction. Later in the morning, patrols will be doing an orienteering course. The patrols waiting for their turn to start will come to our station and learn about geocaching. Those patrols that have a GPS will have the chance to geocache. We hope to get a few GPS loaned to us. And Troops are asked to bring them if they have them. So with any luck we can get all of the patrols geocaching. We will place about 20 caches, each with log books and some with patches. The caches will have a point system, with the lower points going to the eaiser caches, and higher points going to the hard ones. We have large, medium, small, and mini Caches. They will have a good range of difficulty, from real easy to super hard. The scouts must sign the logbook with troop number and patrol name to get credit for that cache. They will be required to replace the cache exatly as the found it or they will not get credit for it. They will have the rest of the day to try and find all of them, after they finish the orienteering course. I hope to get enough funding or donations to award the winning patrol a new GPS. We have already found and marked the areas where the caches will be placed, so it should not take long to put them out. Am I missing anything?

I sometimes hunt with 3 or four other people. Mostly kids. Each kid wants to take something, so I always replace those items with other items. Most times we trade even or up. But sometimes we are caught off guard by nice items, so we trade the best that we can. On the one cach that I did hide, I spent about $15 on it. I am not expecting the value or the items to stay the same or grow. I just want the hunters to enjoy finding it. As the cache gets older, I will be replacing some of the broken, dirty items with better stuff. I will not be upset that there is junk in it, nore will I replace all of the junk. Some peoples junk can be other peoples treasure. Enjoy the Hunt!

I like the adventure. Not knowing exactly where I am going, or what I am getting into. I call it treasure hunting. It is something that one of my sons, my wife and I enjoy doing dogether, by getting us to go out and enjoy the day. I enjoy hiking trails in my area that I never knew existed. Some of the mini or multi caches, give me funner chalanges than crossword puzzles or video games. It beats sitting in a hotel room waiting for a soccer tournament game. Its good exersize. I like getting my boots muddy, I like making my own trail through the woods, and knowing exactly where I am. I think it is cool finding a mini in a parking lot with people walking all around me, with no clue on what I am up to. Some caches do have nice finds in them. So in a sence, it it not just one reason, but many reasons that I enjoy geocaching.

Just checking to see if it worked

I would like to place my cache in a Rubermaid container, in The Rubbermaid wherehouse.

Im starting to get the idea that i am better off if im moving while reading my GPS. Is it better to set it for True North or magnetic North?

Im using the Track Up setting. Thanks

On my Etrex Legend, the waypoint direction keeps changing on me. This happens often. For example, I can be standing still, in the clear. My accurcey will be as good as 14 feet. My waypoint will show up at 75 feet in one direction. As soon as I start to move twords the waypoint, it will change, and be 75 feet in the opposite direction. This will happen in the navigation screen. On the map screen, The waypoint will flip flop and end up behind me. I know it must be some simple setup that I have wrong in the GPS. Can anyone help me?