dadndotter

Thanx guys for all your help, I'm anxious to get back out there & try again. I'm sure I had the coordinates entered right, as I drove to the spot and parked within 100 ft of where the r said I should be, before I even looked at it. The difficulty rating is only 1 1/2, and I know the area very well, so I guess that made the failure a little harder to take. It is a "log only" cache so I suppose it's not too big. Probably next weekend now before we get a chance to go back out, I'll see if I can find some local cache'rs, and I'll let you know how we make out. Thanx agin, an' hav a gud'un. DND

GPS is new to me, I'm an old map&compass man, but my dotter & I got "fearsome confused" last year on a back-pack trip (I've never been LOST). Her borrowed GPSr (I assume that's GPS reciever) showed us where we were, and the map showed us which way to go to get where we wanted to be, and the compass took us there. Then I heard about GeoCaching and thought it would be great fun. We found a Cache location near home and went to find it. Well, the map told me as much as the GPSr did. That confounded new-fangled device kept sending me into the middle of the road, a good place to get run over, and I didn't think it would be there in the first place. I know that there can still be a margin of error, so we searched the area for about an hour, and found nothing.(S1H,FN)? The Cache was found the day before by a group of Boy Scouts, and I'm a fair tracker if I say so myself, but that didn't help either. When we left there, I was about ready to leave the r there. So, I came here looking for help. Any hints or tips that may help us when we go out there again?(Yes, we will) I did just read thru "Your first GeoCache hunt" and feel like I'm a little better prepared to try again. Too bad it's too late in the day now. Thing is, If I go out there again, I won't even need to take the r along. DND