Road2Ruin

The best place to start is with the user manual which can be downloaded or printed from the Magellan webpage. It gives pretty clear instructions. As for which screen to use, I find that once I get into the cache area I like to use the map screen to find the cache. The arrow shows me which direction I am walking and the little green line leads right to the cache. I have the map set at "track up" and one of the fields shows how many feet to the cache.

I have also been unable to acess my account.

I guess I'm going to be the lone dissenter here and side with the cache owner. I think taking over 50 percent of the travel bugs was wrong. The taker knew it was wrong and tried to justify it with a gushy log about poor less attractive travel bugs. Cuteness or lack of it does not determine whether or not a tb gets taken. I am sure that the bugs will be well-cared for as the taker is a geocacher with much experience, but he should have taken fewer. The bugs were not going to languish; the area is busy.

What is the meaning of the word "warn", the 0 percent, and the 5 peach-colored boxes that appear to the left of my forum posts? Have I done something to affect my good standing with GC.com? How can I get rid of them? I have tried to find some kind of setting in My Controls that will take care of it, but I can't see it, if it is there.

Just an update: the two jeeps on opposite coasts did, indeed, have tags with the same number and one of them will receive a new tag.

Thanks. I have sent the e-mail. To add to the discussion, my Jeep tag has five letters and a number, none of them an O or a zero. That was the first thing I checked when the problem arose!

A few days ago I grabbed a YJTB from a cache near me here in CA. Yesterday it was grabbed from me by someone in PA. I thought the cacher grabbing it from me entered a typo when logging their jeep, but that does not seem to be the case. It seems that two jeeps have a tag bearing the same number. One of us needs a new tag or a replacement jeep. How can we take care of this?

I grabbed a YJTB a couple of days ago here in California and have it in my possession. Today someone in Pennsylvania grabbed it from me. It seems that two jeeps have the same tag number. One of us has to get a new tag. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks to everyone who offered help and encouragement! We found five caches this weekend and we are gradually expanding our ability to use this thing and our confidence in not screwing it up. Thanks again for helping us to get started! "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrble warning." -Catherine Aird-

I told the kids I was buying my own Mothers' Day present this year and we were taking up a new family hobby! Last week the Man in Brown handed me my Meridian Platinum and I have been happily reading the guides and the CD-ROM manual (with the microscopic type!). Also, I've hit the online GPS primers offered on various websites. But I am still confused! I am probably missing something really obvious or maybe I am overwhelmed with all this technology. What I need is "Geo-caching For Dummies" with a step-by-step how-to-use-your-GPS-for-this-purpose guide---you know...."first you do this, then you do that..., etc." Meridian Users--- Do I start by entering the cache waypoint (provided by the cache hider) in the Mark screen (from the 2-second goto)? If so, what next? Will the "location" be automatically entered by the unit when I hit "save"? Will it turn up in "routes" or do I have to somehow get it there? I could use a bit of hand-holding to get me started. ~*Mary*~ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrble warning." -Catherine Aird-