dentful1

you know your a geocacher when........ you date and sign your DOT Inspection book with your geocaching screen name instead of your real name.

oops. I copied and pasted what was on the Arkansas forums. I would fix it but I don't think I can change the original post.

Quartzcacher and I have had a run of 110 a few months ago. We knew this area was here and Quartzcacher did alot of research into which route to take to get the most out of the day. When you have power trails that have 30-40 caches in them that are 500-600 feet apart you can really pile on the numbers quickly. This area of Texas between Jefferson and Linden have a good supply of caches in many power trails. Check out the cache maps of the area and see for yourself. We did not have time to enjoy the scenary around the cache sites. However, for the most part there was not a whole lot to look at. Dirt roads with trees for the most of them. We are planning on another power run later in September. We will go just to the west of Waco. They have good numbers in those power trails. We do enjoy the days that we only grab a few caches and enjoy the hike. But every now and then we just want to get out and do a power run.

Quartzcacher or QC as some call him (Bruce Crane) and I ,Dentful1, (Aaron Bopp) have met up once again to continue our quest for BIG numbers. This trip was bigger and better than the previous run of 110 caches in one day that we made back in the spring in the great state of Louisiana. QC had heard about this area of Texas that has power trails. He mentioned it to me back in the late spring that we were to go on a mission to the Linden/Jefferson area of Texas. QC was excited about this because he heard about a series called "Bridge of Death Road." He was so pumped up about this run because he now has a new ride, a Jeep Liberty 4X4 Off Road Edition. He kept on thinking of this one spot about a BIG muddy hole that he heard about. Sooooo we booked a camping spot on Lake O' The Pines and used a tent. We used a tent in 106*F days with 75*F nights. We used a tent with no A/C. We used a tent during the summer in Texas. Can you get the picture of what I am trying to paint here. We left Friday after work and arrived at 9pm and set up camp. QC and I both get up for work early in the mornings so we had no problem getting up at 4:30am to get ready to be on the trails no later than the break of daylight. We found our first cache at 5:30am and by 6am we had 10 caches in the book. By 7:28 we had 34 caches. At 8am I was talked into sending our good buddy Cachemates a text message letting him know that we had 40 caches in the books by 8am. I did so and got a text message back stating that I needed to hustle up and get a move on. I then replied back saying that I am not driving. For some of you that know me by now you would understand what was being said with that. By 11am we had 75 caches logged. It was about this time that I was concerned about QC's transmission. You see, I have been counting down the feet left to each cache so he could stop right next to them. But every time he over shot the cache by about 80 feet and had to put it in reverse to back up closer to the cache. Our 100th cache of the day we put in the time of 1:11pm. Soon after that I broke my previous record in one day with find number 111. We got into a few slow spots in between these power trails but QC broke his previous record in one day with find number 142. Let me reiterate that these find numbers are all in one day. At find number 150 we made it to the big muddy hole that QC was all worried about. Luckily it hadn't rained in these parts in about a month so the muddy hole was very passable. The only bad thing about no rain in about a month here is that the roads are a very fine powder and sand and it makes for a great dust storm when you stop and jump out to get a cache. It was about this time we realized that we could set another goal on top of our main goal of finding 200 caches in one day. We wanted to beat the number of finds that the number 1 cacher in the world, alamogul. had found in one day, here on these trails just a month ago. We had to get to find number 212 to tie up alamogul. At 8:42pm we found cache number 200. We just met our first goal and our second goal is just in reach. At 9:06pm we tied it up with alamogul with 212 finds. We could not stop there, we had 2 more caches to get in this series. Just one minute later we broke alamoguls record day with 213 cache finds. We ended the long day with 215 caches found. We only had about 20-30 DNF's, I lost count and will have to get those numbers from QC. We made it back to camp and we bled red mud when we cleaned up from all the red clay dust that we were in all day long. QC and I had to get up and pack the next day to head on home. We knew that we weren't going to go after a lot of caches . We eased on home with 41 finds on Sunday. QC and I "Gutted Texas" with a total of 256 finds in 2 days.

I just bought a Garmin 60CSx and I installed the 2008 City Navigator NT. I got a great deal on Amazon.com for all my new GPS stuff. The 2009 is just a map update and is 2,142,961 KB size file. I got my update for FREE because I just bought my stuff and just registered it with Garmin. I downloaded the file to my computer and transfered it to my GPS.

i am having the same problem as oregon willow with Vista.

The You Found/Own* selection is a good tool and I use it alot to see where I need to plan my caching adventures. I do believe that an option to "Take off Found Caches" would significantly help cachers. Upon clicking this option all the caches that you have found would not be shown on the map, which would show only the caches that you need to go after. Sometimes there are caches that are on top of each other and by clicking this new option it would reveal those caches. Please look into this, I do believe all cachers will appreciate it. Aaron Bopp , "dentful1" Glenwood, Arkansas, United States

OK. First of all we got the the program installed. Then the computer did not recognize the USB that was connected to it. Come to find out that you have to have the connector on the GPS pointing down like it has a tail not up like an antenna. They failed to mention that in the instruction manual.

This is dentful1 again. Please email me @ aaron_n_heather@yahoo.com if you know what you are doing and have done this before.

Having problems installing my new hardware to the Windows XP. Magellan software does not recognize the XP. It says to stop immediatley to avoid any damage to programs. It also say to contact the manufacturer of the software for help. But it is Christmas time and they are closed when I am open if you know what I mean. HELP ME SOMEBODY PLEASE!!!! Is it safe to continue to download the software to the XP edition without doing damage?