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Nice job Ger. I noticed that you have to renew every year. Greg quote:Originally posted by ger:I've been working with the SJRWMD for the last several months to work out an agreement with them to allow the placing of caches on District lands. They have been reasonable in their requests and they have set up the following web site for cache approval: http://sjrwmd.com/programs/operations/land_mgmt/geo_cache.html Nice to have a governmental agency work with us to allow geocaching on lands they manage versus a flat out prohibition!

If you've got any sports-related TBs, please pay a visit to the Black Hammock Sports Cache in Oviedo (32765), FL, an Orlando suburb. Greg quote:Originally posted by fractal:I'll be in Orlando from Oct. 26-31st. I hope to bring many PDX(Portland, Oregon) travel bugs with me. If anyone would like to have some bugs come back with me to start or continue their journey in the wonderful Pacific Northwest, please contact me Maybe we can arrange a little group geo-get-together, or just have bugs placed in some easy caches around the zipcode of 32828. Either way would be great Also, I'm looking for suggestions for some good caches in that area. Not really physicly challenging caches, and not really virtual, but more like a unique and/or beautiful place. I'll be taking a friend out caching for the first time and I wanna be sure to give her a great first impression of both me and the game Looking forward to being down that way! -fractal -=-=-=-=-=-=- N 45 30.ish W 122 58.ish

If you've got any sports-related TBs, please pay a visit to the Black Hammock Sports Cache in Oviedo (32765), FL, an Orlando suburb. Greg quote:Originally posted by fractal:I'll be in Orlando from Oct. 26-31st. I hope to bring many PDX(Portland, Oregon) travel bugs with me. If anyone would like to have some bugs come back with me to start or continue their journey in the wonderful Pacific Northwest, please contact me Maybe we can arrange a little group geo-get-together, or just have bugs placed in some easy caches around the zipcode of 32828. Either way would be great Also, I'm looking for suggestions for some good caches in that area. Not really physicly challenging caches, and not really virtual, but more like a unique and/or beautiful place. I'll be taking a friend out caching for the first time and I wanna be sure to give her a great first impression of both me and the game Looking forward to being down that way! -fractal -=-=-=-=-=-=- N 45 30.ish W 122 58.ish

Unfortunately I have a cheap GPS that does not include map, satallite, etc. Also it has the distance to only .01 mile which is, what, about 53 feet? So I have to rely on old fashioned hunting, sometimes for a long time, in order to find the cache. quote:Originally posted by VegasCacheHounds:I do my search similar to that, but slightly different. I follow the arrow until it leads me to less than 10 feet away, then I switch to the satellite view and head to where the coordinates match up to. From there I look around to see what the most logical hiding spots are and check them out. If they don't pan out I then recheck the zero spot using the coordinate display and start over. If that doesn't work, I then randomly search the area. If the rest of the team is with me, I find the zero spot, then every fans out, with me checking the GPS every now and then. Shannon VegasCacheHounds

Unfortunately I have a cheap GPS that does not include map, satallite, etc. Also it has the distance to only .01 mile which is, what, about 53 feet? So I have to rely on old fashioned hunting, sometimes for a long time, in order to find the cache. quote:Originally posted by VegasCacheHounds:I do my search similar to that, but slightly different. I follow the arrow until it leads me to less than 10 feet away, then I switch to the satellite view and head to where the coordinates match up to. From there I look around to see what the most logical hiding spots are and check them out. If they don't pan out I then recheck the zero spot using the coordinate display and start over. If that doesn't work, I then randomly search the area. If the rest of the team is with me, I find the zero spot, then every fans out, with me checking the GPS every now and then. Shannon VegasCacheHounds

How do you do your search when you are seeking a geocache? Do you go to a your GPS' landmark and look at the arrow to zero in? How much precision do you have on your distance? How big is your final search area? I just started geocaching and here's my process: 1.Enter landmark coordinates 2.GPS mode has arrow pointing and landmark and distance to landmark in 1/100ths of mile 3.When distance gets to 0.00, begin search 4.When distance changes to 0.01, go back until it hits 0.00 and search again

I just bought the cheapest GPS I could find - Magellan 310. It has only 2 digits after the decimal point for the minutes. I assume other GPSRs have 3 digits after the decimal point since the cache descriptions include that much accuracy. What budget GPSRs would you reommmend for greater accuracy?

I just bought the cheapest GPS I could find - Magellan 310. It has only 2 digits after the decimal point for the minutes. I assume other GPSRs have 3 digits after the decimal point since the cache descriptions include that much accuracy. What budget GPSRs would you reommmend for greater accuracy?

I have Magellan GPS 310. quote:Originally posted by welch:you should double check that your in the correct datum. but, what gps do you have? (magellan 300or310 by chance?) some units just were not set up to got three digits, placing a cache with one is find, but you should point this out in the description so that seekers know the search area will be a bit larger than normal. The first couple finders will probly check the coords, and could include them in their log, exspecially if you request this be done quote:Originally posted by The Hammacks:How is it that most of the cache descriptions have 3 digits after the decimal point but my cheap GPS has only 2 (in the minutes)? Is it OK to place a cache and provide only 2 digits after the decimal point? http://www.scubaboard.com/images/smilies/whack.gif

I have Magellan GPS 310. quote:Originally posted by welch:you should double check that your in the correct datum. but, what gps do you have? (magellan 300or310 by chance?) some units just were not set up to got three digits, placing a cache with one is find, but you should point this out in the description so that seekers know the search area will be a bit larger than normal. The first couple finders will probly check the coords, and could include them in their log, exspecially if you request this be done quote:Originally posted by The Hammacks:How is it that most of the cache descriptions have 3 digits after the decimal point but my cheap GPS has only 2 (in the minutes)? Is it OK to place a cache and provide only 2 digits after the decimal point? http://www.scubaboard.com/images/smilies/whack.gif

How is it that most of the cache descriptions have 3 digits after the decimal point but my cheap GPS has only 2 (in the minutes)? Is it OK to place a cache and provide only 2 digits after the decimal point?

How is it that most of the cache descriptions have 3 digits after the decimal point but my cheap GPS has only 2 (in the minutes)? Is it OK to place a cache and provide only 2 digits after the decimal point?