InHope

My wife and I usually just leave a Homie, and take some worthless piece of swag as well. I did take a plastic gorilla once and left a free am/fm radio w/batteries once...but the radio was free so it's not like it was anything special. I guess I'm not really familiar yet with what's good, because out here it seems like all of the caches we've done just have little figurines...pencils, etc. I've not yet come upon anything really useful, just stuff to remind me of the acual hunt...which for me has been pretty nice.

#2 and 3 are why I picked up two bugs yesterday from a cache that hasn't been found since April. It was a puzzle cache, but not an overly difficult one. I was at a loss to figure out why it had only been found once! Can I piggyback a question on here? I'm traveling back to Iowa and plan to take my brother out. I noticed there are several TBs in the area, all in different caches. Would it be appropro to take a couple of those? I figured if some are trying to get out east, I could take them back to Indiana with me and place them there.

I turned it on today and the whole thing has reset itself! Gone, gone! Everything gone!! Thankfully I have GSAK on my comp or I'd be one upset puppy.

Indeed. Thanks!

I noticed that in my area there are chaches that have been temporarily disabled for nearly a year! These are within the city as well, so I don't get how these haven't been replaced. I realize it's pretty easy to filter them on GSAK, but it's just annoying to me that they're there but not. Do these ever get dropped from the roster? I was just thinking that maybe I could adopt one, but neither one of them have any historical significance. One could probably be made as such though. Any thoughts?

Holding the unit flat is the key. With my Legend and then with my Vista, as long as I had a good lock before entering the woods and I always held the unit flat, face up to the sky, I rarely lost a lock. The few times I did, I got it back promptly. Noted thanks! Keep it face up

Yep! Same problem here. But I have learned to live with it. When GPS is still counting down I am looking for probable hiding places ahead. After getting as close to zero, just put the GPS away and start looking in a circle of about 60ft or so. You have to figure in the accuracy of the hider and your GPS accuracy. Just keep on looking and you usually prevail. You know what the problem has been for this one is that it's in a dense wooded area so it's difficult to just search an area. It's really facinating though because I found a clearning where it looks like a deer was "nesting" or whatever the term. My wife lost my PPC in that mess!! UGH! Luckily we found that though! haha! I think I'm going to go back in and search for it, but take a large stick so I can move the large spiders' webs. Mild arachnophob here. Thanks for everyone's help!

Oh one was 2 the other was 2.5. The reason I went for those though is that they're in areas that I'm pretty familiar with. The 2.5 was a puzzle one so I figured it was 2.5 because of the math involved. The 2 one I just didn't look for the right thing. The 2 I'm pretty sure I'll find tomorrow...going to go do a 1/1 and 1.5/1 tomorrow prolly too. I must say I still had fun Caches are not "2" and "3"s, that the terrain or difficultly level. Caches are either traditional, puzzle or virtual and they can be "micro", "small", "regular" or larger, with an ammunition can as the standard for a regular. Micros can be really difficult to find, particularly if the hider is trying to be clever and make the person work to find their cache. Small caches are usually some kind of plastic container and micros are anything the size of a 35 MM film container on down. GPS coordinates may be 50 feet or more from the actual location, so if it isn't where your GPS tells you to go, look around the entire area. Yep, thanks for the heads up. If you saw we were talking difficulty, so I didn't even bother including terrain.

My wife and I were hunting down this multi Lest We Forget and I put the coords in my GPSr. The area is covered in trees, and I'd be walking in the direction and would have 75' to go, then suddenly it was 20' E then heading east it said it was 40' SW. Is this just something I'm going to have to deal with or is there something I could do to make my lil buddy settle down a little? Thanks !!! InHope

I have a Garmin 12 it is about 6-7 years old. I worry about it's accuracy at times. I don't even know how to begin looking for caches. Where do you find info on where they are hidden? http://www.geocaching.com/about/ http://www.geocacher-u.com/ will save you lots of time and question posting

We haven't gone out since Sunday. I'm off today but we need to clean house. Probably will be going again Sunday or early Saturday before work. I'm concerned about what we're going to do once we finish all of the local caches. Probably will have to cut down to once a month.

You know it's funny you ask because my wife was thinking the same thing. I think that it'd be neat to have because, heck, if something as novel as a cache is out there and you've never known about it before, perhaps you could find something cool buried in the ground. I do second the divining rod.

Hey we're going strong now. Having a blast!

Not exactly sure I'd like falling off a cliff of into a big hole

Are there caches done specifically for night time hunting or do poeple just like the thrill of a night hunt? How many of you do it?

Best bet will probably be Ebay for that. I found a legend, cables, wrist straps, and topo in a package deal for 149...which is about 300 seperately eta: I just started doing this a couple days ago. The maps have helped tremendously already, and the interface is really easy to work.

Six Dog Team This is Six Dog Team. To my knowledge they have a cache placed at every cemetary in Indiana with a nice history lesson as well. They would know about the older ones I think.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOk. My wife and I went out today. We found the 2 I was looking for last time, plus 3 others! She enjoyed it too! I now have a new hobby, and someone to do it with!

I must say I still had fun

Today I took a hike through the infant graveyard from 19th cen. very interesting.

Oh one was 2 the other was 2.5. The reason I went for those though is that they're in areas that I'm pretty familiar with. The 2.5 was a puzzle one so I figured it was 2.5 because of the math involved. The 2 one I just didn't look for the right thing. The 2 I'm pretty sure I'll find tomorrow...going to go do a 1/1 and 1.5/1 tomorrow prolly too. I must say I still had fun

Jeez and I know I was standing right on top of both! I just couldn't find them. I spent 30 mins riffling through some bushes at a large cemetary...nothin. I'm going to go back again tomorrow and look.

How effective are those snakebite kits you can get at a camping store? It has a scalpel, antibiotic ointment, some sucker things, and a little lasso type deal to surround the swell. I sure hope I never get bitten, but I thought I should get one just for posterity's sake.

I have the Topo 3-disc set. I've become a little confused and I couldn't find this in the handbook. Can I/Is a appropriate to get the maps off of the Eastern US CD so I don't have to put the CD in every time I want to look at them? Secondly, with map sets, should I just make seveal smaller mapsets for a few different cahces?

Just to add. I have it on my PPC. It's really easy to use. Use GSAK to take serveral waypoints and put them into one .gpx file. Then all you need to do is put the file on one of your main PPC folders. It'll search if you ask it to If you use the GPX file it puts up everything that's on the page (minus maps). It's quite possibly the greatest thing since paper. ETA: You can also log your own notes with it as well.