RainDog

I have used a little yellow eTrex since 2002 and have found the main issue is losing signal coverage under a heavy leaf canopy, but that happens with a lot of units. It's a bit primitive compared to most of today's models but it gets me close to a cache and then I just put it away instead of slavishly following the signal. For the more techo stuff - such as when I need maps, etc. I use a Bluetooth GPSr coupled to either a laptop or a PDA. The way I look at the whole GPSr thing is thus: Buying a set of high-end golf clubs won't make me a better golfer. Purchasing new bowling equipment will not improve my game. (I am notoriously inept at both and my average happens to be the same number!) The lack of a very expensive boat won't hinder me from fishing. Ergo, obtaining a new state-of-the-art GPSr won't help me in caching. In fact, it may hinder it as I may come to rely more on the equipment than on the skills, questionable as they are, that I have developed while on the hunt for the wily and elusive tupperware lurking beneath an unnatural pile of sticks. Bottom line: If you're going to use it primarily for caching then get what you want. You will adjust to a new interface. Any of the low end models will work fine. The ability to connect to a computer is the best feature IMHO. If you are going someplace where your life may depend on the operation of the GPSr then you need to have the ability to survive without it. If you don't have that then don't go. Anywhere in between and you need to strike a balance between what you want and what you can get. Only you can be the judge of that. Happy hunting!

The above was "To each his own" translated from English to French via Babelfish. Translating back, using the same method results in "with each the its clean ones" Go figure. How do the Angels get to sleep when the Devil leaves his porch light on?

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Here in Wisconsin caching seems to slow down in the fall (Hunting season) and winter (Snow - lots of snow.) My wife and I usually concentrate on virtuals when the ground is white and the water is hard. Blaze orange vests in the fall for safety and we don't go in the woods during the gun season for deer for self preservation. The local folks are all savvy hunters but what worries us are the city folks who only get out once a year. My wife works for the district attorney and it's amazing how often she sees "Something moved so I shot at it." from a police report or DNR citation. It will pick up again come spring. How do the Angels get to sleep when the Devil leaves his porch light on?

For some it's a fad. These people can be seen by their counts. They find a few and then discover it's not for them. They may not have the time or the inclination to continue. Their counts stop in the lower numbers and they have not been back. For others, it's a game/hobby, much like golf. They may only play a few times a year or they may be out on a daily basis but the novelty/challenge will never wear off. These people have counts that continue to increase steadily or in my case, by sporadic leaps and bounds. For me, the fact that I've not been bored by it over the last year indicates that it's no fad. The nearest unfound cache is over 30 miles away from me, so I have to plan to hunt them. My wife and I turn it into a day's adventure. I think that if I did it daily that it would lose some of it's appeal but it's an excuse to get 250 pounds of sweat glands off of the couch and outside. Not to mention that it's cheaper than golf. How do the Angels get to sleep when the Devil leaves his porch light on?

My wife met a geocacher while he was looking at a virtual I had set up at the county courthouse. The building dates back to the late 1800's. We was wandering around with a GPSr and she asked hi if he was caching. She told him that I had set up the cache. We later met one who came out of his vacation cabin when he spied a disreputable looking character emerge from a car and start looking around on his land. His son had set up the cache and he happened to be there when we were hunting it. I was using old sheets and he was nice enough to give me a sheet to a cache he had hidden nearby, but I was unaware of. Both were nice people. How do the Angels get to sleep when the Devil leaves his porch light on?

I don't know about the boobs. I'm an a$$ man. People keep telling me "RainDog, you're an a$$, man." edit to change "offensive" term that can be used during network prime time but not here. How do the Angels get to sleep when the Devil leaves his porch light on?

Zoo Invaders is a cache in the Brookfield Zoo outside of Chicago. It's a virtual. Bushwackers will be eaten. How do the Angels get to sleep when the Devil leaves his porch light on?

I used a pack until I ran across a photographer's vest at an Army-Navy store when I went to pick up an ammo box. It fit everything I used to carry in the pack and then some. This thing is nothing but pockets. The real advantage I found is I don't have to take it off to log a cache. How do the Angels get to sleep when the Devil leaves his porch light on?

Reply hazy. Ask again later. How do the Angels get to sleep when the Devil leaves his porch light on?

"Foundation of Life" is near AIG. "Oktoberfest 2002" is near LSE. Both of the above are adjacent to the airport property. There is a member's only near Y72. SUE has a couple within easy driving distance if the FBO has a loaner car or you bring bikes. "Tenner's Bug Hotel" is about a mile north of GRB. These are off the top of my head, but if there are that many that I can recall I figure there must be quite a few nationwide. How do the Angels get to sleep when the Devil leaves his porch light on?

How about: I shot the Sheriff by Bob Marley or Happiness is a Warm Gun by the Beatles or Cher's Bang Bang 10cc's Rubber Bullets? Just a thought. How do the Angels get to sleep when the Devil leaves his porch light on?

The real issue is not so much the extras you get by being a premium member, it's that running this site costs money. Hardware such as servers must be maintained and replaced. Bandwidth isn't cheap, either. Banner ads don't quite cover the cost. For your money you also get the warm fuzzies for helping to keep this site up and running. To answer you question - think of a pocket query as a super advanced search. There are all sorts of options to choose from in them. I have one to find "Members only" caches in Wisconsin. Oh, yeah, you also get access to those. I don't think I get $30 worth of goodies by being a premium member but I sent my cash to help the site because I like the sport/game/hobby that is geocaching. How do the Angels get to sleep when the Devil leaves his porch light on?

PayPal has a link on their site to report things like this to help them prosecute the scammers. How do the Angels get to sleep when the Devil leaves his porch light on?

I'll give it a shot. How do the Angels get to sleep when the Devil leaves his porch light on?

I've noticed some discussion on the dates the cache was last found in this and other threads. I was used to the old way and have become comfortable with the new. I really don't care one way or the other. Is there a way to have both? Or perhaps a user selected switch to display the preferred method? That should put to rest this particular "Thorn-in-the-paw." Forgive me if this was covered in another thread, if it was I didn't see it. How do the Angels get to sleep when the Devil leaves his porch light on?

I have a cache I can maintain only once per year. It states that clearly in the description. I monitor that cache and if things seem to be going amiss I will disable it until I can fix it. I believe that a "Vacation/Holiday" cache is a one-time-only opportunity to place a cache and is discouraged due to the potential problems maintaining it, but if you're willing to check it at a given interval then go ahead with it. You could try to find a local cacher to "Adopt" it and take over the maintenence chores, though. Don't you know there ain't no Devil, that's just God when he's drunk.

Look around. What interests you? What are your hobbies? The most important thing is to use your own ideas, otherwise you are just duplicating someone else's cache. All of the suggestions in this thread are good ideas but keep in mind that some people are not happy with anything and will think "That's dumb." Ignore them. Have fun, do what you want. If you cache it, they will come. Don't you know there ain't no Devil, that's just God when he's drunk.

I'd go with butcher/meat cutter as opposed to butcher/surgeon. The saw on the bottom looks like a bone saw but surgeons don't use cleavers except the ones in my HMO. Don't you know there ain't no Devil, that's just God when he's drunk.

I put in $20.00 in gold-colored dollar coins (I don't know how to spell her name and it's not on the coin) in my latest cache. It's a five stage puzzle cache. The first finders ripped through all 5 stages in about 4 hours. I'm going to put the same prize in my next puzzle cache but I think I'm going to make the puzzles harder. Don't you know there ain't no Devil, that's just God when he's drunk.

I'm not willing to make a call based on one side of the story. Some people have thicker skin than others. Personally, I won't delete a log unless it directly attacks someone and that has not happened to any of my caches. If they don't like my cache, that's OK, it's just their opinion. I will delete a log that does not have an entry in the cache log book, though. Don't you know there ain't no Devil, that's just God when he's drunk.

20 miles as the crow swims/fish walks. In reality it's about 70 miles on the roads. That's just across Green Bay from me. I get a lot of caches in lower Michigan that cannot be filtered in the present format. There are a lot of caches that are closer driving than the list shows. I'm sure a lot of people have the same situation as I do. Most, I venture to guess, are located around the Great Lakes, but some on Long Island and the bay country in Maryland - to name a couple - suffer the same "It'll be a few years before I can clear that one" frame of mind. I just know if we travel to NW lower Michigan that someone - purely out of spite - will set another cache in the area we just visited so when we can log our found caches it still still won't clear our pages! Such is the indignity of life. BTW - we live about 15 miles from upper Michigan, so filtering that state kills a bunch of reachable caches. If/when we can get the raw data I'll be able to write a query to exclude the ones that I don't want but when you think about it, it's really not worth the effort, eh? Don't you know there ain't no Devil, that's just God when he's drunk.

Ages 45 and 50. Sex is whenever one of us can get the wrinkles out of it. Don't you know there ain't no Devil, that's just God when he's drunk.

These "Battle of the Sexes" things really crack me up, but keep in mind that the average person has one testicle and one mammary gland. Don't you know there ain't no Devil, that's just God when he's drunk.

I was just thinkin' it might be a good place to park your bike while you log the cache! Don't you know there ain't no Devil, that's just God when he's drunk.