KRMarlo

A new problem I am reading about and should be addressed is this www.piratecaching.com. It has been responsible for the deliberate plundering of three caches in my area, and it is making a major problem for the game, and for the children that have been getting involved with their families. Perhaps this is a clan that needs to be politely asked to turn their creativity to something else? Thoughts? -Ken Never hold back your step for a moment... Never doubt that your courage will grow... Hold your head even higher, and Into the Fire we go!

That's our baby too! I feel for you, we love our Legend...that photo is a sad sight. Stories like this make us extra glad we plunked down the extra bucks on the extended warranty stuff (usuaully a scam in my eyes, but in a situation like this we'd have gone back to Best Buy and snagged a brandy new device, no questions asked). I hope Garmin comes through for ya! -KRMarlo Never hold back your step for a moment... Never doubt that your courage will grow... Hold your head even higher, and Into the Fire we go!

That's our baby too! I feel for you, we love our Legend...that photo is a sad sight. Stories like this make us extra glad we plunked down the extra bucks on the extended warranty stuff (usuaully a scam in my eyes, but in a situation like this we'd have gone back to Best Buy and snagged a brandy new device, no questions asked). I hope Garmin comes through for ya! -KRMarlo Never hold back your step for a moment... Never doubt that your courage will grow... Hold your head even higher, and Into the Fire we go!

And it's a fabulous piece of equipment. I'd say for the question of durability you can't go wrong with one of these. -KRMarlo Never hold back your step for a moment... Never doubt that your courage will grow... Hold your head even higher, and Into the Fire we go!

Ah well...time to chat it out with some connections. Ol Ebay and Hlaf.com will likely be a good spot to hit too. Thanks much for the swift reply! -KRMarlo Never hold back your step for a moment... Never doubt that your courage will grow... Hold your head even higher, and Into the Fire we go!

My apologies if this has been addressed somewhere, but I can't find it asked anywhere. I'm a little taken aback at having to spend $120 on Garmin's Mapsource software. I actually wrote to them regarding the exorbitant amount of moolah it takes, and I received a polite response regarding royalties and independant contractors for mapmaking, yadda yadda yadda. We recently got a hold of DeLorme's Topo USA software. I've just begun to play around so I may answer my own question in the coming days. Are there other map programs out there that can be uploaded to an eTrex Legend or other Garmin product to punch up the basemaps a bit? If I can do it with TopoUSA it'd be fantastic. If there's something else out there at less cost than Garmin's please point me there too. Thanks for the time folks, -KRMarlo Never hold back your step for a moment... Never doubt that your courage will grow... Hold your head even higher, and Into the Fire we go!

I've found that with accuracy the way it is, this is a sport of determining the clues. Some caches in this area (NJ) have been very clever in the clues in ways that don't really give you the answer, but make it an amusing puzzle to solve when you hit the zone. Some geocachers are die hard in refusing to "cheat", but sometimes there's no way to do it otherwise. I advocate hiders getting more clever and riddle like in their clue giving. This adds to the puzzle aspect, and is likely to cut down on frowing "not found" faces. Never hold back your step for a moment... Never doubt that your courage will grow... Hold your head even higher, and Into the Fire we go!

I've found that with accuracy the way it is, this is a sport of determining the clues. Some caches in this area (NJ) have been very clever in the clues in ways that don't really give you the answer, but make it an amusing puzzle to solve when you hit the zone. Some geocachers are die hard in refusing to "cheat", but sometimes there's no way to do it otherwise. I advocate hiders getting more clever and riddle like in their clue giving. This adds to the puzzle aspect, and is likely to cut down on frowing "not found" faces. Never hold back your step for a moment... Never doubt that your courage will grow... Hold your head even higher, and Into the Fire we go!

We use an eTrex Legend which does support bread crumb trails. In this lies our second error. We chose to navigate along paths as we hit them in hope they led to the car as opposed to fighting our way back the way we came. We visited two caches in the same location, so the track log would have brought us first back to the 1st cache, and then along the difficult bushwhacked path we took to get there. Three hours and pained legs later we would have been better off braving the bushwhacking a second time. Live and learn I suppose. -KRMarlo Never hold back your step for a moment... Never doubt that your courage will grow... Hold your head even higher, and Into the Fire we go!

We use an eTrex Legend which does support bread crumb trails. In this lies our second error. We chose to navigate along paths as we hit them in hope they led to the car as opposed to fighting our way back the way we came. We visited two caches in the same location, so the track log would have brought us first back to the 1st cache, and then along the difficult bushwhacked path we took to get there. Three hours and pained legs later we would have been better off braving the bushwhacking a second time. Live and learn I suppose. -KRMarlo Never hold back your step for a moment... Never doubt that your courage will grow... Hold your head even higher, and Into the Fire we go!

Listen to the advice and warning everyone. Always, always, ALWAYS mark your vehicle as a waypoint when you arrive at a site you'll be hunting on!!! We botched this afternoon in a mild bout of complacency and found ourselves roaming for three hours before finally finding our car! The two seconds it would have taken to make a waypoint out of our vehicle would have given us the time to go have sushi at our favorite place (very near the cache site we explored) before it closed...at 10:00 PM!!!! A hard learned lesson in being cautious. We'll spare you learning it the same way....mark your cars!!! You won't regret it! Never hold back your step for a moment... Never doubt that your courage will grow... Hold your head even higher, and Into the Fire we go!

Listen to the advice and warning everyone. Always, always, ALWAYS mark your vehicle as a waypoint when you arrive at a site you'll be hunting on!!! We botched this afternoon in a mild bout of complacency and found ourselves roaming for three hours before finally finding our car! The two seconds it would have taken to make a waypoint out of our vehicle would have given us the time to go have sushi at our favorite place (very near the cache site we explored) before it closed...at 10:00 PM!!!! A hard learned lesson in being cautious. We'll spare you learning it the same way....mark your cars!!! You won't regret it! Never hold back your step for a moment... Never doubt that your courage will grow... Hold your head even higher, and Into the Fire we go!

We've been rolling along for only a couple of months in the hobby, but we have found the best containers to find stuff in are the green ammo boxes. Super solid, and basically waterproof (unless submersed I suppose) these blend in well, but are easy to find for a trained geocacher's eye. They're also roomy enough to store tons of really nice doo-dads. When we're eventually ready to plunk down a cache somewhere, this is the route we'll be going...I highly recommend! Never hold back your step for a moment... Never doubt that your courage will grow... Hold your head even higher, and Into the Fire we go!

We've been rolling along for only a couple of months in the hobby, but we have found the best containers to find stuff in are the green ammo boxes. Super solid, and basically waterproof (unless submersed I suppose) these blend in well, but are easy to find for a trained geocacher's eye. They're also roomy enough to store tons of really nice doo-dads. When we're eventually ready to plunk down a cache somewhere, this is the route we'll be going...I highly recommend! Never hold back your step for a moment... Never doubt that your courage will grow... Hold your head even higher, and Into the Fire we go!