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I have a Palm Zire31 that I spent $50 for on CraigsList. I am using CacheMate and Mapopolis on the PDA and GSAK on my PC. These 3 programs work very well together. I get about 10 pocket queries a week, and I have about 3000 caches stored on my PDA that are updated every week. My only complaint about the Zire31 is the screen brightness in the sun, but I have developed a functional work around to that annoyance. CacahMate has an option to search for closest caches that I use all the time, and you can also output one or all waypoints to Mapopolis. If you output all waypoints it does tend to slow Mapopolis down quite a bit, so I just do one at a time and then delete them from my address book once I find the cache. Good luck, John of jlfnjlf

Rabid Squirrels... OK just kidding I would truly have to say #1 is spiders, and #1 is seeing someone I love get hurt. If I get hurt then it is just "Cache On", but if it is one of my kids or my wife now that is another story.

I like finding marbles, because I have lost all of mine...

After some deep contemplation I am beginning to think it would be nice to see a field on the individual cache page for a finder based rating system. Something that would average each finders rating and print that output to the main description. This might give a cleared picture of the placement characteristics of an individual cache. Just a sample of the random thoughts of a mad man... Cache on

OK so I am fairly new to geocaching, but I see that the difficulty/terrain rating of caches is rather ambiguous. I placed my first cache last night, and I was totally baffled on how to rate it. So what I am trying to figure out is if anyone has developed a rating system guide for new geocachers. On my first placement the hunter would have to hike 1/4 mile or so, jump a stream, dodge mud-puddles, and avoid the bramble. Thus I rated it as a 3.5 for terrain. The first finder said it should have been a 2, but I have found lamppost micros rated as a 2. I rated mine as a 1.5 for difficulty, because once you make it to the location it is a rather quick find. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. John of jlfnjlf.