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I only cache solo or with my wife never a group, I would just slow a group down, I only walk never run and many times it is a stroll because I enjoy looking at nature. I would say about 1/3 to 1/2 of my caching is solo. I have been to one event and did some solo and some with my wife there were other cachers looking also but we were really on our own.

Well my take on it is I enjoy going to a place that has more than one cache on it, does that mean I will not go to a place that has only one no. If a trail has 10 caches on it and you do not see the trail becasue you are looking at your GPS or what ever you still have to walk back to your car and you can look at the trail then. I have been known to go to the last cache on the trail with out stopping at any others and then stopping at the other on the way back to the car. Most times you walk two directions one to look at the trail area and the other to cache.

I was with you up until "3 smaller groups each finding 5 caches" part... I don't mind one person signing the log as long as everyone was present at the cache. If they weren't there, what are you doing signing them in? How exactly did they participate in finding the cache if they weren't even there when it was signed? I agree with you all members of the big group did not find all 15 caches but in some cases they are claiming that they did that is wrong. Some of people are in the hobby just for the numbers I could care less I see people that claim 200-300 finds in a day I just don't see how they can do that many in a day I went out last Friday for 7 hours and found 14 I can not see averaging that everytime I go out. Two hundred and fifty would have to travel at least 25 miles and unless they were going on a road with a LPC every 500 feet I just don't see it. I mean it takes an average of 5 minutes when you get to a cache area to find it, sign the log, put it back, get in the car, drive another 500 feet, park the car and get out. 300 finds times 5 minutes is 1500 minutes or 25 hours??? I am not calling anybody cheaters but I can not see how they do it and still have a life. Again I don't care it does not hurt me. I am not into it for number is so I would have a lot more finds than 261 after 641 days caching. Some stats for high finders: Total: 10810 finds Total days since first find: 1514 - Overall find Rate: 7.14/day, 50/week Total days with a find: 733 (Every 2.1 days or 48.4% of your total days) - Average finds per caching day: 14.75 Best day: 6/01/05 - 251 finds Total: 12737 Total days since first find: 2274 - Overall find Rate: 5.6/day, 39.22/week Total days with a find: 1032 (Every 2.2 days or 45.4% of your total days) - Average finds per caching day: 12.34 Best day: 5/28/06 - 230 finds Most consecutive days with a find: 14 from 2/28/07 to 3/13/07 Longest caching drought: 31 days from 9/01/02 to 10/01/02 Total: 11102 Total days since first find: 1626 - Overall find Rate: 6.83/day, 47.81/week Total days with a find: 773 (Every 2.1 days or 47.6% of your total days) - Average finds per caching day: 14.36 Best day: 6/01/05 - 269 finds Most consecutive days with a find: 12 from 8/19/04 to 8/30/04 Longest caching drought: 111 days from 10/15/03 to 2/02/04

I don't think the problem is with everyone not signing the log that is in the group but if a group goes to an area and splits up into 3 smaller groups and each small group find 5 caches and they all say they find all of them in other words they all claim 15 finds. I never go with anyone other than my wife and she does not even have an account we both use mine, she has never gone out except with me.

From 6/24/2007 to 6/23/2008 127 I only got 38 my first 6 months so I started slow for me even From 6/24/2007 to today 134 Want to hit 300 by 6/24/2008 my first 2 years, but if I don't it is no big deal. I am not in it for the numbers but to get outdoors and get excersize. I do very few PAG because that is not why I geocache. I was a BSA leaders for about 20 years and I miss the woods and this gets me out for a few hours without having to camp in a tent

Never had any problem with any Law Dogs (from Tombstone) I guess I look offical when I am caching I wear green police tactical pants with a tan shirt and hat and military LBV (Load Bearing Vest) sometimes I am carring a 6 foot walking stick. I also stick to hiking/biking/riding trails or parks most of the time and I don't night cache. I have gotten in trouble with my wife before as in "Were are you at and when are you coming home?" "You mean to tell me you have been caching THIS long?"

Some people say I get paid to do nothing. At one time many years ago I was accused of being the worst professional golfer there was as I got paid to golf 3 or 4 times a week during the work day. I have been reparing computers of all sizes and types since '72. I am now the Technology Coordinator for a board of REALTORS that has 1000 members just counting down until I can retire and geocache more while traveling the country.

I call mine either it or gps. It says we are at GZ or how far away does It say we are? Or the GPS says there are 3 caches within a half mile. I never have thought about naming it of course I have never named a car or a gun or a bike I guess I am not into naming things.

Assuming that you still use a GPSmap 76CSx, you can add the caches as POI and only be lmited by the size of your microSD card. Regarding the duplicates, if you combine the PQs in GSAK, they will go away. No I am now using the Vista HCX but it should still be able to do it I guess. I never figured out how to get the POI in from GSAK but I will try again. I know when I try to put more than 1000 waypoints from GSAK in the GPS says it is out of memory even though I have at least a 1GB but I think it is a 2GB microSD card. I am not worried about the dups but the point was that if I have 6 queries with 500 caches in them that is 3000 that may include 1000 dups but that still leaves 2000, but if I can put the waypoints as POI that would solve the problem. I will try it tonight as I have about 8 searches around my home (Dallas/Fort Worth area which has over 10000 caches) so it will give me a good learning session thanks for the help. The quiries to get a total of 500 from home distance is 10.7, Work is 9.5, by airport 7.5, Arlington 6.9. I will try to combine those four together and get them in my GPS. I just have never used the POI on the handheld or the Lowrance I use in my car on trips, maybe I should learn how to .

I simply load all of the PQs into my GPSr and PDA. That way, I just take a quick look at S&T in the morning to identify the area that I want to his for the day and head out. It's even easier if I'm searching for caches along my route, because I just keep finding the nearest one. My problem is my GPS only holds 1000 waypoints at a time and each of the 6 quries have 500 in them some are dups but still I am sure there are over 1000 total. Las Vegas along has 1894, North Las Vegas has 1888 and Pahrump has 1290. My Palm holds more how many more I don't know maybe I could load them all in it. Now then that I am looking at the quries I am not sure I found all the caches in the area because they all have the max of 500 even though the map said like 316 I may have to revisit the procedure

Well mine lasts many days of caching I went to Reno last summer and cached at least 5 days and only found 19 and DNF about 6 and never needed to recharge my Tungsten E2 but I do not use back light, Auto-off is set to 3 minutes and Beam Receive is off. When I got home the power level was down to a little under half. I went through a lot of batteries in my GPS in that time, it seems like every day I needed to replace them. I used to use it as a mp3 player and used it on a flight to England about 8-9 hours and then used it on the return flight so I used it for 16-20 hours and it was still 75% charged. So you either have something draining your battery or a bad battery.

You can do this from the Geocaching.com Google maps. Display up to 500 caches on a map centered and zoomed how you like it, then order a query for everything displayed on the map. Here is my method for long caching trips outside my home caching radius, where I keep a set of queries for a 150 mile area around my home that updates weekly. 1. Target the areas where I'll be staying for a prolonged period of caching -- whether it's a day around a big Park or two days in a distant urban area. Create pocket queries for a circle around that area of interest, with the radius defined by the area and the amount of time I'll be there. If it takes more than one query, do multiple date-separated queries. 2. So, for a roadtrip with stops in five areas, I'll have five big circles full of caches. I then import these into my mapping software. I look for the highway route that connects the first circle to the second. At the far edge of the first circle, I locate a town or placename along that highway. At the closest edge of the second circle, I pick the last town along the highway before I head into the area already covered by pocket queries. I then construct a "caches along a route" query between those two towns. Now the two circles are connected and I have all the caches for X miles on either side of the highway. 3. Repeat step 2 to connect all the other circles. 4. Update all the queries right before I leave, and while on the road if I have internet access. Well I got it done for Vegas after reading your reply I thought about it for a while and went to the home page and searched for caches and chose Nevada then Las Vegas and made the map small enought to have less than 500 caches of the type I was looking for (Traditional, earthcache, virtual and unknown) that were active and created a pocket query from it. Then I moved the left edge of the map to the right edge (went west) of the page and was able to zoom out to 62 miles and created another query and did that and ended up with 6 queries that are about 125 square miles around Vegas. Now all I have to do is figure out what part of the area I am going to the next day and I can load up the GPS and Palm. I already had the route setup by going to Find Caches Along a Route and found someone eleses route from Amarillo to Flagstaff then another one from Flagstaff to Las Vegas using the route I was going. I will not be stopping between Dallas and Amarillo too early in the trip.

I am having the same problem I am going to Las Vegas and when I do a search of only Las Vegas I get 1895 Active caches well that is 4 queries assuming I knew where to do the 4 and that is not including North Las Vegas or Pahrump which I think is south where we might go. I am taking my laptop loaded with the queries loaded in it I just hope I can come up with the full set. My GPS is going to be loaded with about 500 caches along the route from Amarillo to Las Vegas when I leave home.

Be careful of the 25 cent knockoffs they are cheep aluminum and not steel and will bend the first time you go to use them, I tried buying them for the scouts but were not worth my trouble. But of course as swag thye would be okay as long as finders didn't really want to use them.

You must have done exactly what he told you because you are still here able to write about it.

"I want to look at a camera vest next time I am in NYC at B & H or Adorama. Or maybe a fishing vest. I am going to be driving by (yeah like I might not stop) a Cabela's on my way to Boston next month" I bought a fishing vest and liked all the pockets but the one thing I could not do with it was find a good place to carry a pin to write with, I even had my wife put a botton hole on one of the flaps but it was too short of a pocket and the pen would barely hang on and I lost a couple and I use one that has a stylus and ink so they are not cheap. I finally got a camera shirt that has a pen pocket on it and I love it. So make sure what ever you get has a place for every thing you want to carry. Right now I am thinking about getting a military load bearing vest (LBV) which is like a pair of suspenders with four pockets for ammo and two for grenades which might be cooler than the shirt I now wear. Just not sure if the pockets are too deep to be of much use.

I have got one out as a travel bug right now that I carried since '68 and used for 18 years with the Boy Scouts. TB1FDZJ to see a picture of one if you don't know what they look like, it is in a cache in Utah since 9/3/07 if you want to go get it go to GC13901 out side of Salt Lake City. Some one nice enough to put tape on the sharp part, I did not think of that because I carried it so long and it never did anything to hirt me, but I did not think of small kids getting ahold of it.

I found one a while back that had been chewed through by some critter and only the lid and about half of the bottle were left. I know it was the cache because I had found it about 3 months earlier. I found what was left of the log about 6 feet from the container which had been placed about 4 feet up in a tree.

If you are askng me my meal plan is Breakfast 45-60 g Carbs Snak 15-30 g Lunch 45-60 g Snak 15 g Dinner 45-60 g Snak 15 g So you can see I should have between 180 and 240 g a day according to my diet plan which I still have here at work and home. Some of the values are apple or orange about 15g. I have 3 different carb bars I use at work, they have 11g, 21g and 25g. So if I don't bring a piece of fruit with me to work I eat one of the higher ones in the morning and the lower one in the afternoon. I will admit I don't worry about the carbs too much when I am out walking around geocaching because I figure I am working off a lot of sugar in my 4-6 hours and I need some extra. When I have been out for a long time I may eat two of my bars but when I get home my readings are never above 150 usually they are around 90-100 so I must be doing something right. I know my A1C is high right now probably high 6's maybe even low 7's instead of 6.4-6.5 because I am not excersizing enough becasue of the winter and road construction around my office which has been going on since school was out last year and I am not walking at lunch as well as some other commentments in my life just seem to keep getting in the way.

I was told about a year ago that I was a type 2 but do not take any meds just changed my diet and started excersizing. I have not gone too low that I have ever found. I have been out for 4 hours hiking while I was geocaching and totaled over 8 miles total distance and did not have any problem. I always take some carb bars or a protein bars with me for when I start getting weak or tired and eat one and can go a lot longer. The main thing to do is be able to tell when you are getting low and do something about it. I make sure to get something to eat when I am filling up my water bottle, it has become second nature now, if I have nothing to take with me I will stop at the store on the way to my first cache. I think that if you are out hiking and eat something even if you are not low it will not cause you to go high becasue you are excersizing anyhow I think I would rather go to 200 than 50. I never carry my tester maybe I should but I never have. I when was a Scout Master in the Boy Scouts and went to summer camp for 10 years I had an assistant that was a type I diabetic and she handled it fine she always had a small juice with her when she felt like she was getting low.

My wife does not care in fact about half the time I go caching is without her, she does like to go when she can but she does not get upset. I have found some neet places and taken her back to see them. She likes to go because it is something we can do together unlike golf which she can not or will not try or when I go fishing which she gets NO pleasure out of doing. We really like caching when visiting someplace because it takes to places we would never find otherwise. If she is off and I go she will be there if she can not go she doesn't care if I go.

That's about right. There is a balance in the 5s. A 5 terrain due to the 30 mile hike should probably not be a 5 difficulty. However 30 seconds of sheer terror followed by a grueling search for a 5 difficulty cache keeps the balance about right. There are not a lot of true 5/5s in my area. I don't know a 30 mile hike requires a little prep like being in shape to do it first of all and getting water and food prepared it would be at least a 10 hour hike, maybe even an over night if you wanted to look at anything, to hike 30 miles for most people. I know for me a 30 mile hike for one cache had better be a 5 or I would never start it maybe 30-45 years ago I would have but not now .

To me a good puzzel cache is any one I don't start. I am no dummy but I just don't like puzzle caches I enjoy going out doors and hiking not setting for hours trying to solve a puzzle so I never try one. I tried a few when I first started and I could not even figure were to start so I decided right then and there I didn't like them. For those of you that do you can do my share I will leave for you and more power to you.

I have been using my used dibetic test strip plastic bottles. They are pretty waterproof and if a little water does get in the white liner will soak it up and dry out in a day or two. Test strips must be keep dry or you waist those 25 little dollar strips I read where someone put a soaked log in one and in a day or two the log was dry as a test and said it was very good to use and they are about the same size film can.

Well down here in Texas I used to prefer to cache in the winter as long as it is not raining. The bugs are not out and without leaves many caches are eaiser to find. That is until last week when I broke out in the worst case of PI in my life I am real bad shape now. I did not see any, it was also dead, and got some of the oil on me. I did not take the same precautions when I see the stuff and did not wash off with cold water as soon as I get home in fact I went to bed on it with me I guess because I did not take a shower until Sunday morning before church. Now I have a big wash to do, I have put anything I might have wore last weekend as well as anything I know I wore from Saturday afternoon until my shower on Sunday morning in it.