crawil

In the car: Garmin Nuvi 760 On the trail: Garmin Vista HCx

Hotmail has been problematic lately with gc.com emails. Get yourself a Gmail account and all will be well.

I have to add one I received on an old cache: If you parked at the top of the hill, it was a short walk down to the cache. No danger involved . . .

I am using a BB Curve with Verizon and am peeved at the crippled GPSr, too. Make sure you email them and let them know. Anyway, I've accessed the full version of the website with both the built-in browser and the Mini Opera with no problems.

Nope and if you get over several hundred finds, it would be a very big notebook!

Good luck!

Uh, sure?

I'm going to combine 2 trains of thought and suggest that the stats displayed when you log a cache look like this: April 14 by name (Found/DNF'd: Hidden/Active) so a log posted by me today would read April 14 by crawil (1156/125: 7/5) Elsewhere I would like for both sets to be displayed so we can see the total picture.

If I find a cache with many TB's and coins in them, you can "discover" all of them which, even though you are not moving them on, let's the cache owner know that their TB/coin is still in the cache where it's supposed to be and not lost. As a TB owner, when I get one of those logs, I am glad for the update even though the bug isn't moving.

Don't worry. A lot of cache writeups appear to be only half-written!

Go to www.geocaching.com. Click "Hide & Seek a Cache", select "California" in the "by State (US only):" box and hit GO. Right now there are 64,258 caches listed, so in less than a week, there was a net gain of 383 caches. That's almost a whole PQ right there! You are far better off picking your favorite area and focusing your PQ's on it. When you know that you will be somewhere else, run a PQ or 2 for that area and go nuts!

1. The GC number is assigned before the cache is published. 2. I believe you have to wait until after the cache is submitted before you can add the attributes. 3. Sure! Just send them an email through the website with the coordinates and they will be more than happy to let you know if the spot is clear or not.

Geocaching Swiss Army Knife: "... all in one application that allows you to manage GPX/LOC files, upload to your GPS, and convert to various other formats."

In another aspect, my 14-y.o. son and I frequently cache together. Often I will point to a spot and let him investigate. When we are FTF on one of these hunts, we claim a co-FTF, since we worked as a team. A check box on the website has no way to accommodate us.

I like this idea a lot.

But what if the cache is just off the parking lot at the head of the nature trail near the playground? I think there are waaay to many variables and different categories of locations to be able to codify something like this.

The reviewer should be the first log on the web page - the log with the green circle. If you don't see one, some old caches didn't list the publication note, then try another close cache. Email them the cache number and describe what's going on. You could also post a "Needs Archived" log on the cache. That will be sent to both the cache owner and the local reviewer.

Use the map view on your GPSr. Set it for x miles and you will see the little icons as you approach. Before you leave on your trip, you can look at each one and delete those that you have no intention of finding. This will greatly reduce the indecision as you speed down the freeway.

Yep, that's exactly how it works. You can check this by moving the cursor to a spot 20 miles away and seeing which waypoints are displayed. Much cheaper than driving that far for a test - unless there is a cache there that you MUST grab!

I have the same unit. It will hold up to 1000 waypoints, but it only displays the nearest 50. Try searching by name for one and you should find it. The Vista HCx can hold thousands of waypoints if you load them as POI's.

I like this idea, too. Mushtang, you may be onto something!

*If* I understand it correctly, once you subscribe to Verizon's VZNavigator service with a Storm, then you can use the GPSr in any app.

No question - just passing information on to the rest of the community. I have a BlackBerry Curve (8830) with Verizon and I use CacheBerry along with my eTrex Vista HCx. The CacheBerry is great for paperless caching. The downer is that the new version of CacheBerry has a built-in compass so you can use the BB for navigation - unless you are a Verizon customer. All the other providers allow the software to access the GPS. I'm not issuing a call for action, but according to their own text:

I sent Verizon the following message regarding the locking of the BlackBerry's internal GPSr: This is the reply I recieved:

Is it the car with the 2-tone paint job?