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We got our GPS Christmas 2012 and joined soon after but we also had a free month when we bought the GPS. Is there somewhere I can go to see when I have to renew? Also, do I lose my favorite points if I don't renew in time?

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Okay so it's been a long while since we went caching (a few months) I did a PQ to load up most caches, but there are some that didn't load up (mostly the few premium caches). Then when I hit "send to my GPS" it brings up a pop up with all the GPSs and there is a tab for Magellan but it won't click it so I can't change it to my GPS. I downloaded the last update, but nothing changed - I still can't select my GPS. I can't load up any other caches either, so it's not just the premium caches that gives me this problem Is there a fix? Not sure if this is relevant, but I erased all the caches that I had loaded up cuz there were some from Vegas & others too far away taking up space

I am the wife of this duo - why can't I do it? I already told hubby I wouldn't marry him again - he knows once was enough to last a lifetime.

We're planning a trip to Las Vegas soon and I checked to see what caches were available and I found about 30 along the strip. We won't be wandering off strip to get any of these. There's a cache at our hotel but I think it's inside the hotel, I don't recall what the GPS signal is like inside - will I be able to find it inside as I think a few caches are inside the buildings. I did one cache near my work and it was on the top floor of a building and near outside and the GPS was all wonky and kept losing the signal - I wonder how available it would be inside a building. I'm quite surprised by the caches available - I only saw about 2-5 puzzle caches there and I solved or two of them already. This looks weird to me since my area has a 48%- 50% saturation of puzzle to traditional with 2% towards multis. So the map looks mostly green with traditionals compared to the mostly blue look of the map near my home. - Quite refreshing Any caches off strip that I MUST do and are worth the trip off strip for the WOW factor? I'm caching with a muggle who won't help me search and will limit my looking time so it must be worth it.

Is it possible that the cache is posted on another site? There's another site that has caches posted - but i don't recall the name of the site

I thought of it going on my property but had to vito it since it might attract unwanted attention from neighbors, I'm in front of a round-about so there are lots of people who might see and hubby doesn't want people on the property. I saw the pick-a-brick and might have to resort to that if I can't find all the pieces I need. I plan on gluing the pieces together so no one can take it apart but the whole thing might disappear if someone thinks it's too cool an idea. The lego puzzle piece itself will be in another holder (a birdhouse) with a lock on it, and the combination to the lock will be on the cache page for cachers. I have plenty of regular pieces and lots of "mega block" legos - so I'll use those up first.

Just an FYI: the shorter the hike, the more likely your cache will have issues. Actually now that you mention this, I can see it being true. Hmm and I had the spot all picked out... back to the scribbling board...

Geocaching.com counts DNF logs for you, but only you can see it. I actually like seeing this on my page, then I know that I tried this one and that I can go back and find it at a later date - or see something that will jog my memory. I like seeing my numbers go up but I'm not really about those, but it's nice to know that I actually got out and about when I see where I've been

Remember: When engineers build something idiot proof, nature builds better idiots. - I like this - so true. Yeah, in my house when my son was younger, nothing was childproof with him, those gadgets were just there to provide the few extra seconds I needed to get to him - he's now 13 but he'll be my tester. The cache will be in urban setting but out a bit farther so no long tedious hike - but the cache holder will be something that could be found in nature by an animal lover.... I'll get my dad to build it - it will take forever to build but it should last forever too if he builds it.

After finding about 143 caches (might be more by the time I'm done) I wanted to hide a cache. There is a 50/50 ratio of puzzle caches in our area so I didn't want a puzzle to find the coords but I wanted a field puzzle I wanted to make a lego puzzle where the log is inside - the cache holder will be something else that I'm also working on. Would this be more likely to dissappear than a traditional caching container? There are few to no field puzzles around here - where you must figure something out to get to the log - like add water or air or press buttons or something else - and I like those kinds of puzzles since I'm horrible at the ones where you have to decipher something to find the coords. I wanted to know if these might be more apt to getting vandalized or stolen since it has the potention to being something pretty cool? I have a limited number of some specific lego pieces and don't want to have to rebuild this thing 20 times as it would deplete my son's stock of legos but I'm willing to give it a try to add variety to the cache selection.

I log DNFs if I have actually spent some time looking - if I don't get a chance to look for it cuz muggles are there, I won't log a DNF - If you look for it and don't find it and don't log a DNF it might have vanished and the next person will go looking for it and not find it either. After a few DNFs, I guess the CO will go out to look to see if it's gone. I returned to a cache 3 times before finding it and logged each DNF. There is also a very tricky one near work that has many DNFs and a few "found its" after - it is extremely tricky to find and it's kind of satisfying to see the DNFs, makes me feel special for finding it when so many can't find it. I DNF'd a cache once, it had been quite a while since it was found. the CO posted on the log that he checked and it was still there - we were 12" from it (but I thought it was on the golf course and didn't want to go there, but it wasn't and we returned)

I finished a series of puzzles with my cache-magnets and the coords for the last two needed to be changed on my GPS (I have a Magellan 310) When we first got the GPS I managed to find out how to get a heading and a bearing. BUT I want to change the coords on the GPS for that 34th cache but I can't find out how to change it without having to change the coords on the cache page. (I kept I created a waypoint with the correct coords but I wonder if there was another way

Planning a trip and wanted to go caching while we're away (hubby will LOVE that). I want to load up my GPS and bring it along but don't want it to get lost along the way with our bags. Can I bring it in with my carry-on, or does it have to go in my checked-in bags where it might get lost as we have many stop-overs? If I carry it in my carry-on will the Xray mess up the GPS and I'll lose all the info loaded in it - I don't have a PC where I could load the caches again. I may be bringing it for nothing since my caching partner isn't coming with us and he's usually the one who makes these finds before I'm even close to GZ and hubby won't want to linger for more than 30 seconds or so since I might attract too much attention… Sheesh! So check in or carry on? and are the X-Rays harmful?

Two weeks ago in really dense wooded area we went biking. Mine wasn't a thorn prick but a thorn puncture- the thorn broke off flush against my skin, at first I thought it was a little something in there - maybe a tick - never saw one so didn't know, I tried to squeeze it out. Turned out a thorn had gone about 1" deep into my ankle - luckily it missed any tendons or veins, it didn't really bleed at all when my son pulled it out. 2 weeks later I can still feel the bump near the injury site. Don't recall feeling it go in, good thing we had our bike helmets and our sunglasses on... My son didn't want to cache anymore after than one.

I know that assigning favorite point to a cache would most likely bring more people to that cache but does it give the CO something like a reward? Just wondering.

My son and I cache together, I mention online that the cache was found with him, so basically, for now, any DNFs are logged - My account is like the family account with a side account that's rarely used. I log the finds because I like to know where which ones are done

My 13 year old son has an account but hasn't been logging his finds online. He started but didn't want to do it anymore (his choice) he can pick it up later if he caches without me. Is this a problem? I mean when he decides to log his finds online later, the map won't accurately reflect his finds and he'll have to find out which one's he's done but for the here and now, is it a problem? Will a CO see his signature and not see his online log and think it's wrong? I know he should log them but I guess this is his way of playing. I mean it's better than logging his finds online and NOT signing the log.

My region is saturated with puzzle caches - there is about 45% puzzle caches compared to other types of caches - mostly regular and some multis. I've managed to solve some of the puzzles and I know that I can see the location of the corrected coords on that same cache page. However, if I'm planning a route I'd like to know that there are solved puzzles in the area I'm staking out on the big map. Could this be something to be upgraded in the next upgrade, so that whatever the corrected coords are on the puzzle cache page (whether they are correct or not) would be where that cache would show up on the map (the large map). Because I cache with my 13 year old son and our often-car-sick dog, I don't want to have to go all over town back & forth looking for caches, so we usually plan out a route where there are groups of caches, but I'd like to see that there are solved caches nearby. I know that we'll have to return to those same areas if new caches appear, but again, I won't see the solved puzzle caches in that area if they still show up in their original location. Could this be something added? I think it might be helpful for us planners or any puzzle solver?

Good to know, I can say that if I came upon one of those, I might be tempted to ignore it too in case permission was not granted. Hmmm where to put this now so it won't get muggled...?

Is it considered bad form or a bad idea to place a cache in your own front yard? I wanted to place a puzzle cache in my front yard as my first cache (this would give me a chance to see how the maintenance thing works as well as checking the progress of the cachers) but I was wondering if it would be a bad thing to do? I'd rather hide a smaller cache as my first cache as it would be easier to camouflage but our area doesn't seem to have many puzzle caches (not the ones you solve to find the coords - there's about a 50% saturation of those, but one where the cache is at the listed coords but you must solve something to reach the container). This one would be quite large - like a 4 cup container size - and I don't want to hide it in the forest as I'd never be able to find this thing again even with a GPS. I'm thinking of placing it in a bird house. There's an area in front where they could sit & ponder the puzzle too which might be useful. Would it be a bad idea to do this? I'm thinking the neighbors might say something at some point... There is an area in a wooded area nearby that could work but I'm afraid that something of this size might get muggled

My son and I tried 12 different times to get a 3 stage multi - TWELVE TIMES! Human/newbie error on all counts but still we tried multiple times. I even emailed the CO asking if maybe I'd done something wrong as I ended up in someone's backyard with the new cords (turns out the north was the wrong north) once problem fixed, we returned 3 times to GZ and finally found it. I wouldn't have dreamed of logging it as found because we tried so hard to find it - there was no crater at GZ but there was plenty of snow but we plodded on until it was signed.

I've mentioned it to some, and to my mother in law who asked what I got out of it - what's the point? I told her that her grandson and I were spending time together, it got him away from the TVs & monitors and got him some exercise. No there was no money to find, but hopefully, when he's much older, he'll remember us searching all over the place for containers holding sheets of paper and our adventures with the carsick dog barfing all over the new car each time we bring him! However, now when we drive anywhere, my son and I will point to all the "secret spots" that we've discovered on our adventures... Their loss not ours. It's a hobby, it's personal

Depends on how many batteries you have - I found that a pill container will hold 2 AA batteries just nice - the larger ones might hold more. I also learned the hard way to ID old batteries - once they get put in the GPS, they need to have some sort of mark on them - I dropped the two old batteries on the ground with a new one when I was changing them out. I think I mixed them up. I must learn lesson...

winter caching is fabulous, the trails people leave are easy to follow. No bugs, no snakes, no LEAVES and most trees are naked! Around here there are about 25% less caches available but the finds are great & fun. This is our first summer caching, the mosquitos are vicious this year with all the rain.. We're still adjusting.