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Don't expect people to follow those rules. It's hard enough getting people to follow the "don't keep travel bugs" rule. Anyway, I'm looking forward to playing. I'm have to trips to LI planned, right in the heart of JMBella territory.

That is remarkable. Way to go, Rusty O.

And if people are going to keep pulling all their caches, we should at least make a CICO event. A couple of group hikes where we find and retrieve the caches would at least give us one last chance to log them all. Plus, we'll all get to see the great spots and possibly find places to hide our own (with permits).

400... Way to go!

That's about seven miles from my office, but I can't help you - I already logged that cache with a cacher in California.

Well done, Walkin' Ed (and John D?). You're stamp has become the second most common thing for me to find in a log book. The first, of course, is floopy's name. Hope to meet you on the trail one of these days.

Congrats to Mrs Rusty who found her 300th cache. She chose BrianSnat's Aw Maw...Not CampGaw! for the milestone.

Cajetan74 swept a bunch of caches in my area today, including Nadiasmirnoff's Stash for #400. Congrats on the milestone.

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Way to go, Monkey Girl!

Congrats on the milestone. It was nice meeting you tonight.

The confusion was over who's middle name we were trying to guess. If it was Jeremy's (as ClayJar suggested), then you guessed it first. Some people thought we might have been trying to guess El_Diablo's middle name. I think I won the three geocoins, but I don't know who was giving them away.

Woo hoo! I won a free t-shirt at the 3rd anniversary chat! Could have been you! Better yet - come now and enter to win a free custom, hand-carved hiking staff!

I have a Rino 120 and a GPSMap 76CS (which is simmiliar to the 60). I recommend getting the 60. The microphone on the Rino is really poor quality. I have been told a dozen times that people can't hear understand me when I transmit. I can understand them though. It's great to be able to transmit coords and to easily see where other members of your party are, but the same 'feature' is available in manual form by simply carrying a $25 radio and reading off your coords if you need to find eachother. The idea of the Rino is really cool, but on the group hikes I've been on, it just hasn't prooved too useful. This recommendation is especially true considering that you don't even plan to be using it in conjunction with another Rino (for now).

Couldn't have happened to a nicer dog. uh... guy. Congrats to Joe and Bella.

I'm sure glad I didn't know he was missing. Even though I have no idea where you live, knowing he was missing would have kept me awake staring at the floor all night.

The only thing you can't do with the mac is put maps onto the legend. If you get a GPSr with more memory (the 76cs has 115mb), you'll only need to put maps on it once for your area, then again if you travel to another state (or a few states away depending on where you live). If you have a friend with a PC, buy City Select and install it on your friend's CD, then use it to install the maps. You won't need a PC for most of what you do for geocaching.

Congrats on the milestone and thanks for the entertaining log!

Done. (Sometimes it's nice only owning one cache.)

There was a recent thread about geodogs in the Northeast Forum at http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=86203. Lots of folks around here cache with dogs. My favorites are Autumn, Bella, and the Real Quoddy.

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The 76cs (and probably the 60c) allows the user to determine what to show at each zoom level. What you're seeing there is the default. The City Select detail is quite extensive and especially useful for auto-routing (driving directions).

I posted the photos side-by-side at http://www.midiresource.com/geocaching/basemap/.

600! Wow. That's 491 more than me! I better get my butt out there. Well done.

Give me the coords you want to see the basemap for - I'll upload some screenshots.