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That looks great, and I use similar poles. How did you attach it, if you don't mind sharing?

One thing that I've toyed with is carrying hands free, but still being able to see the GPSr. Several years when I skydived, we would mount our altimeter to our chest strap via an angled foam block, so that we could see it at a quick glance, it looks like this. If you could mount one like this, you would have the GPSr out in front of you at all times, and have both hands free for climbing, bushwhacking, etc. I think that I should be able to attach a GPSr to it, though I wonder if it would support the weight very well. GPSr's weigh a bit more than a standard altimeter. If I find a way to attach one, I'll report back.

INAL, but I highly doubt it. The statues refer to charging for the use of the land, not charging for the access to data on a website that refers to an object on that land. I'd think it clear this is not an issue. INAL either, but if a simple person such as me can obfuscate this interpretation of paying to access land, imagine what could happen in the hands of a professional.

Nice link. In Idaho if the landowner doesn't charge, they are not liable. Wonder if placing a Subscribers Only cache on your own property would increase your liability then? You as the lister would be making that determination, and someone would have to pay to obtain the coordinates, hence, paying to enter your property on that particular task.

Sorry to come so late to the discussion. I've been geocaching for a little while and have a few finds, some of which are in cemeteries. I've placed a cache in my own family cemetery, because I'm a proponent of not forgetting those who come before us, GCW1C8. We also make it a point in Kentucky to mention any interesting sights that you may see in these cemeteries, such as decorated war veterans. As a veteran myself, I don't find that disrespectful. I would invite the OP to view our Kentucky Spirit Quest guidelines, adapted from the Indiana Spirit Quest guidelines, designed specifically to avoid any potential problems with the non-caching community, not to mention spelling assistance by not spelling cemetery with an "a" , KSQ guidelines here. Having lived in Texas for many years, I know the importance of Dia de Los Muertos and spending time with the dead so that we remember them and not be fearful of them, and I think that we can extend this to geocaching as well in an attempt to minimize these complaints. It's also been mentioned before that cachers who are concerned about possible disrespect to graves could avoid the hunts there altogether, which I would certainly be in favor of. I have seen a few cemetery hides that I thought were sketchy, and have posted maintenance/archival notes, and would recommend the general community to do, just to police ourselves, before we have any more incidents like the ones in SC. These are my thoughts, most of which are not too original to what has been discussed, but which may be useful in further discourse. Be well and cache safely.

After geocaching incidents with her 2 previous Palm Tungstens (1 in water, 1 on pavement) I got my wife's most recent replacement with the Palm aluminum case, which has a clamshell type closure, and keeps it completely enclosed. She's cached with it for about a year, with no incident, and no scratches on the screen. Don't think it would help if dropped in a lake, but short of running over it, it's pretty well protected. I use one of the silicon (silicone?) coers for my Palm TX, and it does a great job of keeping it protected from bumps, and not quite as bulky as the aluminum case.

Ok that one takes the cake...with the micro hidden in it..with the coords to a little sticker under one of the pews that contain the coords to the alter...just in case the groom forgot where to go Wasn't quite that bad, however, they did have coordinates printed on the invitations, and the cake toppers were turned in to travel bugs.

Wouldn't have any time to feel sorry for myself; I'd have to act as a grief couselor for my wife and friends. Seriously though, it was similar interests that got me in to this. I love to hike and camp, and I'd still do those things, and I've met lots of great people through this sport that I share other interests with, so hopefully I'd still keep in touch with those great folks based on our other common interests. I'd probably not hold off having a glass of wine with lunch though, since I wouldn't have to worry about it throwing off my searching ability.

How about listing your wedding as a cache event? GCGHEC Twue Wuv 2 cachers getting married? Check Cacher performing the ceremony? Check (me!) Took the entire group caching after the reception? Check

Everything on the cache page within reason. It doesn't do pictures, as has already been posted. Also, it truncates really long cache descriptions, to 8K, I think I've read. So, if you've got a cache placer who likes to get wordy in the description with the history of the area, folk stories and other long things, CMconvert (the program which sends your GPX to your Palm) will chop it off when it hits its allowed length. It will still leave the hint and past logs intact, though. That said, it will warn you when it has to truncate, and I've only run in to this 2 or 3 times in the last 2000 caches since I've started using it. Well worth the registration fee!

What type GPSr are you using? I know how to do it on the fly with the latest Garmin's, but would be lost with some other units.

Oh, c'mon , spill it. You can't make a post like that and then leave us without a story.

Congrats! Send photos of when you get Cameron out on the trail. Heck, you can post photos before that, no one will mind.

Also check out GEOCKY, the Geocachers of Kentucky at geocky.org We're centered in Lexington, but have members from all over the state.

The Mapsource software installs on your PC, and then you can select the maps you want to upload to the GPSr, and then it will overwrite the existing maps there via USB cable. It's a pretty easy and intuitive interface, too. Mapsource is registered to the serial number on the GPSr, not to the PC, so when you register, make sure to keep that code in a safe place.

Cool, I helped place this cache! My wife has pictures of her using me as a packmule carrying this beast of an ammo can out on my shoulders with bungee straps. No, definitely not cheating, you're just using the tools at hand. I'm glad you found it!

I'll add another vote for the 60CSx, which we upgraded to from the 60CS, and is such a vast improvement that it hardly deserves the same name. We've got a 2GB MicroSD card (~$90) installed, which holds the entire continental US, with no lag in calculation times. We've upgraded several times since we started geocaching nearly 6 years ago, and this unit does everything that we've wanted on to do all along. We're hoping that an upgrade will be unnecessary for years. Garmin upgrades the Mapsource software every year, I believe, and give a discount upgrade if you've already got a registered version.

Looks like it was published today! GCZZZZ

Thanks all! I've shipped out the next batch of orders today.

Oh gosh, count me in, if only because we share a name (I've been Bud all of my life, it was easier for my parents than Greg Jr.), but also because he sounds like a great cacher to have along.

If you still have one of each, I would be interested in buying them. About a hundred of each still, demand seemed to dry up once it started getting cold and people were caching less for the season. People still like the coin, so we're hoping to still get them out in cacher's hands so we can get on to designing the 2007 coin.

One more bump to the top, in case anyone is still interested.

Saurocache, our first find of 2004, and still one of our most memorable; fossilized dinosaur footprints in a riverbed. Sadly, it's no longer active, but still a neat place to visit.

All of the rabid proselytizers. The debates about the right path to your final destination.

sun-moon-starz, totally. She does our PQ's, plans routes, stocks our trade items, kicks me out of the house to go cache, sets up events, takes other people caching, designed our state geocoin, does maintenance for other cachers, and more! If she put as much time in to searching as she does all of her other planning, she'd had at least a few thousand more finds, but she chooses to be part of the community, rather than just expend her energies on finding alone. She's not just a great cacher, she's an enabler to my caching addiction.