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started with a Garmin76 now use a Garmin Rino120 Add those to your count, please

Ahhhhh. Yup. That's it! Sounds like my dad will just need to adopt a different style of approach to a cache. Thanks for the reply!

My dad and myself quite often geocache together. I have a Garmin Rino 120 and he has a Magellan SporTrak Map. When we are getting near ground zero, our GPSr's differ by as much as 20' on how far it is to the cache. If we stop and stand still, they will settle in and be just about the same. Mine stays at the same distance it said, but his will settle in and slowly match mine. After doing several caches together, it seems that his Maggy is just slower to get to the real distance -- as if it is averaging more slowly. So is there a way to adjust his SporTrak to "average faster" ? Or is just something we need to deal with when together?

I have come CLOSE to sinning on at least three occasions! 1) A virtual nearby that I found the answer to by doing a little internet searching. It took about 5 minutes. We went ahead and visited the site simply because it seemed interesting -- and was! But I COULD HAVE logged it without visiting. 2) A multi-cache where I had the final location figured out before leaving home. You were to visit the first stage and find a date (day of month) then plug that into a lat/long for the final hiding place. Well, given the possible locations nearby, there were only really 3 days of the month (28, 29, 30) that could possibly fit. And only one of those landed the coordinates in a public park. Well, we did the whole cache -- a LONG walk for the first stage but quite scenic and nice. And the final DID turn out where I figured it would be. 3) Another multi cache where I figured out the final location before leaving home. There were enough clues in the description that I figured it out using a little 'net homework. Again -- we did the whole cache simply because it was very interesting. But could very easily have cheated it. I will admit to not doing enough CITO so we have sinned there! But at least I was able to resist those other three temptations!

My longest drive was about 250 miles. Tucked-A-Wayis at our cabin in northern WI and we live in southern WI. My folks live closer and can do checkups on it, if need be. That hasn't been needed yet, though.

Interesting topic. It brings up something that is "near & dear" to me: the subject of where micro caches "belong". Someone above wrote: Why not a regular? Simple. To make it harder. I refer you to the cache I most recently placed: UnSubDivided 2: Controversy In The Woods Now I made it quite clear what they were looking for. Including giving the option to see what the containers look like before leaving home. And I believe the difficulty ratings are right on according to Clayjar's system. The real issue here is very simple. If you are going for a cache that has a higher difficulty rating, then you are inherently accepting the fact that it is going to take a long time to find. Whether it is a regular-sized cache that is very cleverly hidden, or a micro in a woods, the matter is the same. It's going to be difficult.

... and remember CoyoteRed's suggestion. It's on the money -- and the problem may well return! I believe this is a side-effect of doing an update in Norton Anti-Virus. The people I talk to with this problem usually have Norton AV on the machine; and they quite often call back in month or so with the same problem. I have taken to having them write down the directions on how to fix it. Second issue is that the attachment may actually have been stripped off the e-mail on the way into OE. So you may not be able to access the attachment even after removing that checkmark. May need to have it re-sent.

Radio-wise these units do work well with TalkAbouts and other FRS radios. Main problem is that due to the Rino being waterproof, there is a membrane covering the microphone. That means that your voice becomes muted or garbled when heard by someone else. It's not to an "unuseable" extent -- but it is not as clear as other FRS radios are. I have a Rino120 and love it. Unfortunately I don't have friends/family with other units so I have yet to see anybody else show up on my screen using the P-to-P positioning. But the rest of the unit I know works great. Forgot to add: Nice to see Rinos back in the forums!!!

Here's a very non-elegant, but very inexpensive, option. Go to your local Radio Shack. They sell AA battery holders that are made to put in your electronic project to hold its batteries. I bought a simple plastic holder that holds 8 AA batteries. It does have a connector on the top so that it could be placed in an electronic project, but I have never had cause to be worried that those contacts would short out. Radio Shack sells these very inexpensively and in sizes that carry different numbers and sizes of batteries.

My first hunt was a dismal failure. Had heard about caching from my boss so I dug out my old Garmin 45 that I'd had for quite some time. Entered the coords for a cache up near our cabin in Northern Wisconsin. Memorial Day weekend of '02 the family tried to find that cache. Parked the car and were doing fine -- until we walked into the woods. That old GPS lost lock under the slightest tree canopy. I had to walk to clearings to get lock, then try to figure out how far and in what direction. Then it started raining. We quit on it. Twe weeks later, after checking these forums and hitting eBay, I had a new GPS (Garmin76) in hand. A year later, Memorial Day weekend of '03, we were back up to the cabin and we found that cache. It was nowhere NEAR where we were looking the first time--a good 150' away.

Check at The GPS Store This link will take you to the page for the Rino 130. Scroll down and look under the accessories. One of the first items is a sharkskin case. Click on it and you'll see the picture. I bought one of these for my Rino120 and it's GREAT. When I first bought my Rino, they did not have these. I e-mailed them asking about one for the rino and they said they hoped that one would be developed soon. It wasn't long (a month or so) that they did, indeed, have one for the Rino series. It would be worth an e-mail to them to ask if they have one in development. But also, if the 60 series is real close in size to the Rino, the case for the Rino might just work on the 60. The 'sharkskin' is pretty stretchy stuff. You have to stretch it to get it onto the Rino. It might stretch right onto the 60. Only other issue would be the holes for the buttons, etc. But it's easy to modify. I had to make a hole in the back of mine so I could plug in the car adapter while the case is on.

I think this is a really neat idea. One thing to consider...... Once you have the content of the disk created, in order to really "spiff it up" you may want to have a way for the content to start automatically when the disk is inserted in the person's machine. To do this, you will need to create an "autorun.inf" file. This is the file that Windows looks for when a CD is inserted. If it finds that file, it will automatically do whatever is programmed in the autorun file. You can create an autorun file simply by typing it up in Notepad (or any word processor) and then saving it with the name of autorun.inf The contents of the autorun file do need to be laid out rather carefully. If you search the 'net you will find sites that give a list of commands that can be used in this file. Basically, you can specify what program to open, and what file to run IN that program. Below, I have printed the contents of an autorun file I created. This particular file will run a PowerPoint presentation called "InternetHelpDesk". The file assumes the viewer has the PowerPoint Viewer program already installed in the C: drive in the "Program Files" folder. When you write an autorun file, you will probably have to assume something about the user's machine in order to make your file run by itself. If nothing else, you might just make a simple text file called "ReadMe" or something. Then create an autorun file that will automatically open that readme file using the viewer's Windows Notepad program. Since that program is always installed in the same place on a Windows machine, you would be able to specify the path to the program and use it to automatically open your ReadMe file. In that ReadMe file you could put in directioos on how to open the rest of the files, etc. Below this are the 3 lines that are in the autorun.inf file I created: [autorun] OPEN=c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Powerpoint Viewer/PPTVIEW.exe InternetHelpDesk.PPS

I'll second the opinion on Lost Outdoors I use it all the time -- every cache. You need to be a little careful about how you enter the coordinates, though. Be sure to enter them without the "N", "S", "E", or "W" in front of the numbers. Also--leave off leading zeroes. For example--- N12 34.567 W012 34.567 would be entered as.... 12 34.567 -12 34.567 Also -- for the marker color select Orange as it shows up best.

There are two that I've done: Covert Cache which I just did as my 100th find. and... Cafe' Cache' The Covert Cache was great! In a great bar/restaurant with a a spy theme. Highly recommended. The Cafe'Cache' was a bit lame. Just a little luncheon-type cafe with nothing special about it.

Jimmy was SO proud. He could now log the "Riding a unicycle" locationless cache! EDIT: And the photographer of the picture got to log the "Spot a Dork on a Unicycle" locationless.

In my own cache that I hid, I put in a bunch of these erasers. On the cache page I wrote that the finder is welcome to take one for each person in their party without trading. That way, the kids get to grab something just for the heck of it. There have beenmany takers. I've also thrown a handful of them into some caches that I've found if I felt like the cache was a little understocked. Very cheap. Very small. Weatherproof. Kids love 'em.

DEFINITELY post the note! I am one of those who prints out the cache page as soon as I see it in my area. I have since learned that I need to check the actual listing before actually seeking the cache, but not everyone does. I am currently planning to replace one of my caches, Un-SubDivided, and I put a note on it. I want people to know that 1)If they are going to look for it, they'd better get doin' it; and 2)to check the page before they actually look for it to make sure it's still there. Do you HAVE to do it? Certainly not. But I think it's just common courtesy if you know that it's coming. As someone who has nad at least one DNF because the person removed the cache and THEN archived it, I would have liked to have known it was coming ahead of time.

I owned a Garmin 45 for several years before hearing of geocaching. I used it to try to find my first cache, but that was a miserable failure. Got hooked on geocaching in the process, though, so hit the forums, then hit eBay, and bought a Garmin 76. Did many caches with that before getting my Garmin Rino 120 which I use now. So the GPS preceded geocaching. But geocaching preceded a GOOD GPS!

Here's a pic of Maxx's best side. He's checking a cache location...

Here are three of my favorites. This barn sunset was snapped on the side of the road on the way home from a stop-n-grab cache near home. This Leaning Tree was at an event cache last month and this mill was a virtual cache

I hope Bill keeps his hands AWAY from Garmin!!! I don't need my GPS showing me the "Blue Screen Of Death" and crashing every ten minutes!!!

I always mix up a couple bottles of the blue-colored Gatorade. Can't remember their name for it but it comes in a powder mix and is blue. That is my caching 'treat' that refreshes! We will sometimes bring granola bars along but usually remember them when we get back to the car.

My wife had talked about us getting a nice digital camcorder. I thought about it a bit and realized that it would probably sit too much. I have a Fujifilm Finepix 2800 which is a great little 2megapixel camera. It also has the ability to record a minute or two of video. I love that little thing. It is easy to carry, takes great stills, and has the ability to do a video when I want it. The video is fairly small and being in .avi format, it's easy to edit and work with. I mostly use it for stills, but when we get to ground zero, I will often hand it to my wife and have her take a little video of me digging out the cache container. We also use it to record the area round the cache which is usually very interesting. So for me, a good digital camera with some video ability is a more desireable way to go than a digital camcorder with some still ability.

Thanks for an incredible multi-cache!!! "Banks of the West" was incredible!!! It took us several years to complete, but wooooo-weee!!! What a hooot!!! Had a lot of help from my gang, and we used horses to get between all the stages of the cache. Sorry if we upset some of the cache owners by taking the contents of each cache, though. We didn't realize until we were done that we were supposed to TRADE --- not just STEAL. Oh well. I reckon y'all will just have to get over it!! Took: cash, Cash, CASH!!!! 'Left: dead people, mayhem, broke people Jesse James

I can certainly see why zis cache was a 5/5!!! My crew sailed ze 'Calypso' to ze coordinates and we put on our scuba gear. It was also necessary to use a shark cage as zese waters are known for ze presence of ze Great White. After descending ze 300 feet to ze bottom of ze ocean, we searched for ze treasure chest which was reported to be in ze wreck. After much looking, we found ze cache container. It was very difficult to open after 100 years at ze bottom of ze sea! Ze "Pirate Ship" cache was an excellent one, though. My entire crew, as well as ze film crew of the National Geographic all enjoyed zis trip. Sank you very much! Took: treasure chest of Spanish Dubloons Left: diver's knife which I dropped somewhere J.Cousteau