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  1. Here's a little tool that makes finding the "other side of the world" a piece of cake. http://www.ubasics.com/dighole It looks like for most of the US, the other side of the world is off the coast of Australia.
  2. Okay, how about this... How young are your kids when they start helping you find a cache? I cache with my four and six yr olds... Sometimes me and the six year old will point the four year old in the direction of the cache and look somewhere near the area so she can "find" it. Other times, my six year old finds caches that I'm ready to give up on.
  3. Personally, the idea of a cache owner secretly spying on me is a little creepy--let alone coming out and saying, "hi". Meeting other cachers at a cache is cool but being watched is not. With that being said, I think adding attributes to caches where that is likely to happen is a GREAT idea. I can then ignore them.
  4. The guy in the brown truck just dropped off my 60cx. I'm upgrading from a Magellan Explorist 500 that would allow me to connect to Streets and Trips 2006 with NMEA over a USB connection--but it looks like I can't do that with the Garmin. Am I just missing something? Also, does the Garmin not have a way to store Hints for a cache site like the Explorist?
  5. Ours is just an anagram of our last name, Dearmore. I use it whenever I want pseudo-anonymity from Google.
  6. Hmmm... Auto-routing. Question: The garmin that I've got coming to me in the mail I understand has autorouting. But I assume the base map isn't detailed enough to get a good route... Does that mean to use auto-routing I'll need to load more detailed maps onto the unit? And if so, do the detailed maps cost money?
  7. 1. Load every cache within a 10 mile radius around my house into GPSr 2. Decide where I'm going, look up caches in the area, and make sure this is within that 10 mile radius. If not, load caches in target area. 3. Memorize relevant details (stuff like, "if you pass x, you've gone too far") of all target caches 4. Check google maps (NOT earth) to get an idea on parking 5. Drive to cache site. Walk towards cache keeping an eye out for suspect things like old trees, multi-trunked trees, etc. 6. Keep going until you're at ground zero, and search a 20 foot radius. 7. If not found, widen search to 50 feet. Then further. I haven't had a DNF for awhile now so this seems to work for me.
  8. Yes, and I've already been accused of setting the whole thing up. I swear I didn't!
  9. Update: Well, good things (and good people) can happen! I checked all over the cache site on Sunday and couldn't find it. It was definitely gone. I left my number with a few nearby businesses (one a church) in case someone turned it in. Tuesday night I got a call from the church saying they found it! I picked it up and it was a little dirty but cleaned it off and it's back to perfect condition. Now I've got that GPSMAP on the way... I guess I'll sell the Explorist and try to recoup some of the money I paid for the new one.
  10. That's the thing about an Explorist... There wasn't a way (that I knew of) to enter personal details. And that's one of the things that factored into getting a Garmin GPSMAP. There wasn't even a place to stick a keyring tag! Except for maybe on the little screw head that holds the battery compartment closed. I actually set my home as a waypoint marked "Home" on it, too. I think I would have left it on, though, so if some well-meaning person did find it and knew how to use it, the batter would be dead and they wouldn't have the cable to recharge it. Well, okay, guess I'm not alone. That feels better!
  11. Okay. I'm, what, two months into the game so far and I lost my Explorist 500 last weekend. We looked everywhere... At the last cache, the parking lot, the parking lots of places we went to later, the police dept, etc. Nowhere. After berating myself and wallowing in self-pity, my wife and son convinced me to buy another one. So after reading the reviews I bought a Garmin 60cx which should be in the mail in a few days. Yes it's a costly mistake and we'll be paying it off for awhile, but we go a couple of times a week and it would be a big part of us to give up now if we stopped cold turkey. Has anyone else lost a GPSr in their years of geocaching, or am I just a lone moron? What did you do?
  12. I've only been caching for a couple of months but I've noticed the same thing. When my family is planning a trip to the park, I jump online to see if there are any caches nearby, and if not I think, "Well then what's the point?"
  13. I've had an idea for a theme cache for awhile but before actually doing it I wanted to see what people's thoughts were. I want to create a books only cache that is clearly marked, "Please trade books only". Is it fair to expect people to abide by that rule? Are there other caches like this already? I haven't seen any in my area.
  14. I've got less than 20 finds so I haven't seen many, but I've seen some notable variations. The magnetic micro hanging onto the under side of a park bench. An ammo can covered with sticks in the part of a tree where the trunks go off in different directions.
  15. Pretty much everything I see in the caches in my area is junk. It's kind of sad, but I think the best thing I've seen so far is a ceramic figurine (didn't take it). Before my first geocache, I got the Idiot's Guide to Geocaching. I was getting excited reading the suggested items to trade--DVDs, computer software, games, etc. I was a little disappointed when I got into the field and saw that a lot of it was used dollar store stuff and party favor type games. Luckily my kids like that kind of stuff! For me the fun is just finding it and logging it anyway.
  16. When we go to an urban "parking lot" cache I tend to park my van between where I think the cache site is and where most of the muggles are parked. This seems to work well. On park caches, we park as close to the tree line as we can, and just head into the trees looking official like we have a good reason to be there.
  17. My team includes me as the primary with sometimes my wife, oldest son and daughter. The screen name doesn't mean what you might think--it's just a anagram of our last name, Dearmore.
  18. I thought it was kind of funny when I saw this subject line... I just got back from a cache where the posted coordinates were up to possibly 50 feet off. Luckily I had read up on the cache details this time before heading out. Whether I read the details or not just depends on if I get the desire to cache while I'm already out on the road or if I am at home and able to do it. Looking up the details is the preferred method and leads to far less DNFs. On the other hand, if I don't find it when just doing it "cold" I'll come back later after researching it a little.
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