norsehawk

just be aware that an automatic translation tool will give a very rough at best translation. in effect it takes each word, and provides the translation for that word. so you lose much of the nuance of what was intended. For example, I took the above bit I just wrote, automatically translated it to spanish, and then back to english, then to german and back to english: to be hardly found out, which gives a tool of the automatic translation inside well from the cases of one much to Rohübersetzung. in reality it takes each word, and it makes the translation available for this word. you lose as much from the colour of, which it was thought.

I have a 20d, and I have a policy about taking that out with me: If there is a chance that I could fall into a swamp, I don't take the 1500 dollar camera with $300 in accessories with me. Instead I take my little nikon 5 mp. I live in Florida, and we have lots of little swamps all over. So taking my 20d geocaching is unlikely.

my 60cs has problems under tree cover often, I have a magellan eXplorist 210 that I keep in my cache bag that seems to have a lot less problems under cover, but it doesn't have the great bells and whistles that the garmin does, my friend picked up a 76cx and he loves it (might be the csx) and it also has no problems with sattelite reception under tree cover, heck, he can get a signal standing in the center of his house. I am sorely tempted to get a Csx for myself for the improved reception, but they are pricy!

So far, while geocaching, I've seen 1 pygmy rattlesnake (thier rattle is near silent because its so small) it was sunning itself on the trail. I have also seen many gators, but then I am in FL, they are everywhere

i've found 2 mr. magnetos, both were challenging finds once you got to ground zero. The second one, it took me 2 trips before I got it. The first trip, I was searching the spot for over an hour trying to figure out where the heck it was, went home, thought about it for a few days, got a hint that it was magnetic, next time I was over in that neck of the woods, I found it within 1 minute.

Or, if he does get permission, to remove the chance of someone stopping in traffic and winning themselves a darwin award, make it into a multi, start the chain at the place where you need to start, and have the stages lead you in.

High for me would be over 2000. Really High would be CCCooperagency.

whenever you plan to go anywhere you call and ask for coords before heading out.

If you hide it, there are people crazy enough to seek it... I think the most dangerous cache out there would be hot glowing tribulations http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...86-c332841529da its final stage is inside an abandoned (and still hot) nuclear reactor.

As one of my favorite local cachers says: "A dnf isn't giving yourself an F" Or something like that

528 feet, which is .1 of a mile, approx 161 meters, 6336 inches.

You can always make a note to the reviewer to publish at a certain date or time. And really, whats the big deal? FTF is nice to get, but I don't see the need to do extra coding and more work to randomize the time a cache is listed. If you want to be a FtF hound, then you gotta make the investment in time to potentially run out at any time of the day or night to get to the cache first. (and for the record, I'm not a FtF hound, but I have gotten about 4 ftf's)

I like the books, unless the cache won't fit a book, for example, a bison tube.

when you are loading multiple caches into a gps, say more than 5, it is infinately faster to press a button and have them shoot down the usb cable into the gps. (imagine trying to manually enter 500 caches into a gps) On the gps's I've owned, there wasn't enough space available for each cache to have more than the hint about the cache. What I need to research is if those new pda type phones with the gps built in would be a good enough gps to actually geocache with, then you would have 1 item for complete geocaching. It depends, I am sure the software is very useful if you have it loaded into the gps, but as of yet, I have not felt the need to purchase the maps, If I was using my gps for trip navigation, then the road maps would come in very handy I am sure, and if I hiked a lot, the topo would probably come in handy.

Do you need a gps to locate the cache?

I've gone off trail early many times, and yet I keep making the same mistake... "its only .1 directly that way"

For me, its a good excuse to go out and get exercise, have fun and its usually a decent mental challenge at times as well. I am definately one of those gadget guys, I love electronic toys, and after reading a few news articles about geocaching, checking out the site before, then seeing another news article, I finally decided to say what the heck, buy a gps and start trying to find caches.

I have been pondering the same situation myself as well, I have a 60cs, and its annoying when the thing keeps beeping that it lost sattelite when its sitting on my hip and I'm walking down a trail, that or in my car and the same thing happens.

If I get more than 2 dnf's in a row, I contact the geocachers and see if they can tell me where they looked, what they saw, ect, if I can't get in touch with them, I drive by for a quick wellness check on the cache, check its connection, make sure all is right and all. and then I post a note saying cache is in good shape if it is, or if not, I fix it and state so. I always take a cache container with me when I go out to check just in case it needs replacing. ( I guess winning 144 bison tubes on ebay does come in handy) edit, removed the quote that didn't have anything to do with my post.

Wow, from reading all the responses, I thought the tampa bay area was pretty cache saturated, but now I see that it is around the middle, some areas have extremely low numbers, some extremely high. I just need to get cracking and find more

Pickle park? I have no clue, I would have to read the original log to see if I wanted to go there or not.

If your log was a warning to others, I don't see that as a really good reason to delete the log. However if someone posts a blatant spoiler on the log telling people exactly where to find the cache, puts in blatantly false information, posts a fake find, or makes a personal attack or some other sort of antisocial log, then I would have no problem with the log being deleted.

I just carry a Leatherman and I have a mini carbiner with a led flashlight on it with compass that I have hanging on my bag, I haven't really gone night caching yet, so its mainly been a compass or to peek in a hole

.52 miles. I know pretty much where it is, but when I'm in the mood to try and grab it on the way home from someplace I usually don't have my gps, and at the end of a hunting session, I haven't felt the urge to go after it before hitting home. One of these days tho...

From your homepoint, how many caches does the Groundspeak website find within 50 miles of your house? From my homepoint, I have 2081 caches within 50 miles, I wonder how many more it would be if there wasn't so much water west, south and east of me. Tampa Bay area, relatively warm year round, so no need to stop caching because of snowfall is what I bet helps the number