windscorpion

My worst would have to be when I was a bit off the beaten path. Got out of my vehicle with my GPS'r and shut the door only to see my key in the ignition, my cell phone and wallet on the seat, and the doors all locked. No hide-a-key for entry. Noticed a nice piece of stout chain on the ground, picked it up and one good swing later the front passenger window was gone. Drove home in the rain and ordered a new piece of glass the next day. At least I already had the experience of replacing the window regulator motor, so the glass replacement was easy enough. I can assure you that adventure won't happen to me again!

Since I already had been using my Palm Tungsten E2 for a lot of other tasks I decided to use it for geocaching PQ's as well. The software I use is GPX Spinner and Plucker. Of course this unit is actually more than what you really need to get the job done. It is nice to have graphics and images from the cache pages show up in thousands of colors but the color screen is difficult to read in bright sunlight.

My pooch "Echo" adopted in 1994. She is getting old now. Used to lead the way, now sort of tags along.

I find that good puzzle caches help level the playing field when it comes to FTF's. Not all of the FTF Hounds solve all of the puzzles first. This gives the rest of us that can't get out at a moments notice a chance to still compete in the FTF race.

Great idea for a theme cake! Well Done!!

Just make em all complex puzzle caches. If they want to take the time to solve the puzzle and still steal the cache then go for it.

I think that just about everywhere there is geocaching there are FTF Hounds. Some of them seem to be able go out searching 24/7/365. For the rest of us worker bees that like to get a few FTF's, I feel the puzzle cache helps level the playing field. It gives the 40 hour work week cacher a chance to be the first to figure out a puzzle and make the find. I can see the problem of coordinates getting sucked up due to the locations on multis. I live out in a desert community and there is an incredible amount of open land for cache locations so it hasn't been much of an issue here. I do get frustrated trying to figure out some of those puzzles, but I also enjoy it when I succeed. I have about 25 of them solved right now. I just need to get the time to head out of town and make the finds.

I ordered from http://www.getfeetwet.com/ and got a good price on my Garmin. I am not sure about all of their shipping options, but I think they have an 800 number for questions. I just checked on some of their prices. They have substantially gone up since my purchase.

I have used Easy GPS before. But have decided to get GSAK. It is the cat's meow. Very versatile. Plenty of options for displaying and manipulating records. Well worth the price!

I updated the software on my Garmin Etrex Legend CX to Version 2.80 yesterday. Began downloading caches using the the Garmin Communicator on the web pages. Well, now it downloads the caches as generic waypoints (with a flag icon) and doesn't include the notes, which is usually the cache name. Now I am back to manual entry of the notes and changing the icons (like on my Legend). I think Garmin's programmers seem to going backwards instead of forward with their updates.

I work aboard a Marine Corps Base that performs live fire exercises all year round. At one time our Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office used to auction off pallets of ammo cans periodcally. Now the recycling section shreds the cans and sends them out as scrap.

I am becoming more of an E/F'er. It was getting old failing to find some caches only to realize that once back at the computer some of the logs definitely gave me a little help. Now I have the PQ's running on my Palm E2. Very nice!!