MouseFart

This brings about a question I have. I have two cache containers made and waiting until this weekend to go find a suitable place to stash them. With these two containers that I am starting out with, I am making them in hopes of catering toward kids. I am still searching my worn out brain for a catchy title to name these caches so that they will be directed more towards the kids. To start the caches, I have placed about 10 toy, game, kid type fun trinkets into each. Now brings my question. I anticipate that probably more adults will migrate to these just to log more finds than kids will, and I also anticipate that most of the little things will be scarfed up by the adults who locate these. Is it OK to randomly check on these cache sites and just add some more of the same kid trinkets as they dwindle down, or, are these to be left alone and only accumulate what is hopefully traded for ? (based on trade items being safe for kids).

On the "All Geocaches" page, at the far right side of the page in a column, there are small boxes that you can place a checkmark in.

Ooops, scratch that last message. Mousefart had a brainfart. I found the link and how have it corrected. But who put that first set of coordinates there ? ? ?

Hey, I had the same question. NiraD- I took your advice and find that coordinates for my home location are already entered (and I did not place them there???), but anyhow, I cannot find the "update home coordinates" link anywhere. Is it by chance that you have to be a premium member to have this feature? The coordinates that someone??? placed there are not what I get as coordinates at home.

A couple of the photos I have seen on here of some of the folks cache containers, I see they have Geocaching labels and even on the inside of a couple of caches I have found, there is some small printed material explaining what geocaching is, just in case someone should stumble onto one, they will know that it is not a dangerous thing that they have just found. Where do you go about getting this stuff?

I've found 2 perfect round containers with sealed water-tight screw on lids. One is about a 2 quart sized, the other about a pint sized. They are both hard white plastic. I just used olive, brown and black Krylon spray paint and turned them into a couple of awesome looking camo pattern containers. After they dried, I picked one up and with the slightest fingernail scratch, the paint just comees right off to expose the white plastic again. Next I went to Walmart and thought I remembered seeing a camo pattened Duck tape, but could only find black, gray, white and blue. Bought a black roll and just finished wrapping the smaller one in the black Duck tape and it now looks like junk and shines like a shiny new car. So, How do you camo your caches?

There is one right now in the garage sale forum for $100 dollars. I'd hook up with him pretty quick, it won't last at that price.

I've had my first ever GPSr for about a week now and still learing to use it. It is the Garmin Legend. A couple of days ago, I used an old stump in an open field to mark as a coordinate, then backed off a couple of hundred yards and pressed "goto". It directed me to within 17' of where the stump was marked, but I was still off 17' and was not happy with this. Just now, I went back out to the stump and in a triangular pattern around the stump (about 10' away on all 3 sides), marked 3 different marks. Went into the house and used a calculator to average the 3 lats and 3 longs, then programmed this figure in as mark #4. Pressed "goto" on mark 4 and this time, it directed me to within 1'7" of the stump. Now this is more of what I was thinking a GPSr should do. Did I just get lucky by doing this or is this how a true cache should be logged once I start placing them in locations that I have in mind? Thanks, Rick

Anyone have experience with which will last the longest? I am using Energizer alkaline batteries right now and getting about 8-10 good hours before they are dead. I am wandering if a good Ni-MH rechargeable battery would last any longer and what the offset would be in cost between the two in the long run. Thanks, Rick

Don't get me wrong here, I am totally against about 90% of the bogus lawsuits for damages filed by alot of people these days, but this sounds like an excellent class action suit since personal injuries were sustained due to defective equipment produced from the manufactorer of that flashlight. Very glad he is OK, but from the looks of that photo, it was only fractions of inches from going from OK to suffering lifetime disabling injuries.

I was fiddling with mine yesterday and showed 1mph slower than what my speedometer was showing. Which was right I don't know, but thats pretty close in my books.

I have found that on one of the GPS pages, there are icons and one is labeled as "MARK". I fist marked my home location in "MARK" #1, then went to "MARK" #2 and programmed in the coordinates found on one of the cache sites and pressed "GO TO". This worked in directing me right to the cache site. When ready to program in another coordinate location, I deleted #1 and #2, then used #1 to mark my current position that I was in at that time and programmed a new #2 for the next site and it gave me directions on how to head out to this new location. Question now: Do you have to do this everytime to start out on a new search? I see that the "MARK" icon will go up in consecutive numbers, I suppose to mark several coordinates at once, but how do you toggle up and down to say #6 and how does the GPS know from what coordinate you are going to be starting from? Hope that made sense, because this thing is confusing me.......LOL

By going to the Garmin website, I see where "Mapsource" can be downloaded. Does this cost a fee and is there anything in the download that is more detailed from what came in the Legend when I bought it new?

Looks to me like nothing to worry about. Farm & Ranch animals always seem to decide it's time to die while in a barn or pens area. Due to these generally being the feeding or bedding areas, we drag ours off to a secluded part of the ranch, away from where the smell and decomp process can happen all by itself.

OK, I'm hooked now!!! Went during my lunch hour today and located my very first cache site. Because of having to wear dress clothes at work, I did not fight my way through the cactus and brush the last 5 feet to where the ammo box was located, but I did see it and how it was covered to blend in with the area. I will go back this weekend and "officially" find the box and sign the log, then record it as a find. Now comes my question: Without looking at what was inside, what do your cache boxes normally contain to start out with? On the way home from work, I stopped at a everything under a dollar store and obtained antenna balls, a sack of glass diamonds, mini cans of WD-40, little flashlights, fishing lures, matchbox cars, little rubber bounce balls, and some trinket key chains. This all came to a whopping $9 dollar purchase for a sack full of this stuff. I've got a couple of tupperware containers to start my own cache sites this weekend. I also made up some computer generated log sheets to put inside with a pen. Anything else I should include or know before I start my sites would be appreciated. Thanks, Rick MODERATORS- Please feel free to remove this post. If I had read down a few posts, I would have seen what answers my question in a post made by "inhope". Thanks

I just joined this site a week ago, excited about starting geo-caching, and informed everyone that I had just purchased a Garmin Etrex Camo from EBAY. Today, I received my package in the mail and anxiously tore into it. After the torn wrapping paper and shredded pieces of cardboard box finished falling from the air, I discovered that my GPS was not in this box, instead a lighted EXIT door sign was in there. I suppose the seller got orders mixed up and my GPS went to the EXIT sign guy and I got his sign. Sent an email to the seller, hopefully we will get this worked out. Now for part 2. After finding the EXIT sign in the box I had waited a week and a half for, I was really pi$$ed at this point. All self control went out the window as I flew to Wal-Mart and long story made short, I'm sitting at home now with a new Garmin Legend in my hand and an EXIT sign laying on the kitchen table. After looking at the Legends owner manual and playing with the unit for a bit, I now have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to order a NASA Space Shuttle Pilots correspondence course to figure this gadget out. Pray for me.........

geognerd- Thanks for the quick reply. Now how do you determine where the center of your zip code is at? Thanks,

In looking on the main page here, I can type in my zip-code to find the cache's in my area. A small compass dial and a mileage marker is located on each one at the far left of the page. What does the compass and mileage marker relate to? Thanks, Rick

Hey all. New member here and first post. Been looking through the forums and studying up on here. Just yesterday, bought my first GPS off Ebay. Won a bid on a Garmin Etrex Camo unit for $57 bucks. Trying to gain as much knowledge as I can until this thing comes in the mail toward the end of the week. While reading some of the threads, I found one where pics of some of the cache holding devices were taken. My first thoughts in getting into this hobby were, this is going to be a fun hobby for my 11 yr old son and myself to do. After looking at some of the things people have built in order to hide their items, I think this may be more frustrating than fun. As I understand, the GPS will get you within 20-30 feet of a site, then it is up to the eyes to find it. Alot of the things I saw pics of, you could camp all day in the 20-30 site and never find one. Just how frustrating is this going to be? I may have a good deal on an un-yet delivered GPS.......LOL Rick