dew cache

I have a M.U.L.E. Camelbak which has 100 Oz of ice water and 549 cubic inches of space and I also have a fishing shirt that has lots of pockets and a pen pocket (very import to me). I carry the common things (TB, Sig coin, mirror etc.) in the shirt and I carry the extra stuff (spare battries, new logs, plastic bags etc.) in the pack.

It is really simple if you do not want to pay $3-5 for a dog tag don't you do not have to place TB to enjoy the sport. I decided not to put out coins becasue they were to expensive and the first one I put out was lost to a flood with 0 miles on it. I have only lost 2 of the 12 TB I put out. So I go out and buy 8 TB at a time for $35 including shipping they may last months or 1 week but that is my choice and for $4 that is not much to lose which will happen sooner or later. $4 is what 25 miles of gas to go caching? I guess it is all how you look at it. As far as the ads go I don't even notice them they are just part of the back ground to me, unless I go looking for one and then I can never find the one I am looking for. The other option is to start your own web page to log and place trackables and hope it catches on and can be a valid competition to Groundspeak. But what happens when the orginal poster wants to put his rock that has 12we34 on it but I have all ready put out my piece of wood with 12we34 on it?

I always liked hiking and playing in the woods as a kid back in the 50's. In the 60's I learned all about topo maps and compasses, I went to a military school and they taught us how to be forward artillary observers. Then the 80's I loved playing a game on the computer called Cave that was exploring and discovering things in a cave, even today I like computer games that you are discovering new parts of the map like Heros Might and Magic. About 18 years ago or so I found Score-oree while I was a BSA Scout Master and that is taking a map and compass heading off through the woods in search of punch stations hidden over hill and dale. It is really an orentieering course that some college ROTC teams RUN for 4 hours trying to get all 100 which I never saw completed where our council set up the course. I also loved going to Philmont which is a back packing BSA camp in NM where you set out for 10 days on a trail where you have to find your way using a map and compass and get to live in the 'woods' for the 10 days that was a blast! The best of both worlds. When I read about caching in the local paper a little over a year ago, I said I have to do that and now the only regret I have is I found it too late in life to really go for a lot of them I want to and I don't have enough time to do more of it. I am not into the numbers but into the hike I hate PaG and really hate lamp posts. One of the most enjoyable vacations I have had in the last 15 years is this last summer when I went to Reno I went Geocaching every day that was fun. When I retire in 3 years I plan on caching a lot more than now and one of my goals is to find caches in all 50 states and I only have 42 to go So in sumarry was I born or made a cacher, yes both I think I was doing it before GPS's were around.

Well I have a Texas Goecatcher logo with my name on the back of the car and my shirt has my goecach name embroderied on it "DEW Cache" and my walking stick has the Goecache logo on it. If someone is out walking in the woods and does not say anything about one of those I assume they are muggles.

How can an area have more than 100 caches per square mile? With the 528ft rule, the best you could do is a 10x10 grid, or 100 caches. In your example, there are 10064 caches within 50mi of the centroid for the 90706 ZIP code. So pi*(50mi^2) would give us ~7854 square miles. Dividing 10064 caches by 7854 square miles gives me only 1.16 caches per square mile. Am I missing something? Oh, I see. Just did some more math. I was assuming Chuy's cache count is based on a 50-mile radius from the center of the ZIP code, whereas Chuy is assuming the cache count is for a 50-square mile box centered at the centroid of the ZIP code. But I still don't see how it is possible to go over 100 caches per square mile. Even taking your 100 per square mile x 7854 square miles is 785400 posible in a 50 miles raduis.

If you just "drive" the loop...what time would it take? With no stops other than routine lights and whatnot. The route would be about 2 hours to drive. 110 miles +/- Kojones Well if are they going to be 110 miles of driving I would think they were all going to be Park and Grabs with low ratings and I would never even start it even if they were 50 smilies. If they are not going to be low ratings very few people would ever start it. I don't like PNG or go for low rating caches both of my ratings averages are around 2. That is just me I am in it for the excersice not the numbers and steping on the gas and brake are pretty easy. I have got a few PNG but I didn't start out to get them they were on the way to/from somewhere and I saw them on the GPS.

Okay how do I limit the search to 20 miles when I type in a zip code I get 50 miles? I typed in my zip code 75077 Lewisville TX and found 6068 caches within 50 miles, when I moved in closer to Dallas 75234 Carrollton it get 6133 caches within 50 miles.

Same here no maps in PQ's and I am using IE 7.0. There is also no way to get to the maps if you go in to preview there used to be a map it option just like there is from your home.

If you go to Reno go look for Rock, Paper, River GCPQ7W it is a 4/4 and you have to go to a small island in the Truckee River I would not attempt it in the spring. I just got back and spent over an hour on the island with my wife looking and could not find it. Getting there was not that hard in fact it was fun we just could not find the micro in the rocks.

For me it was geochaching first in fact I borrowed a GPS to do my first caches. I had a GPS for the car Lowrance 500C deffinatly not a hand held. I have been using a Palm since the 90's and did not even know about paperless caching until after I bought my own GPS after reading about in here.

I bought one for my 76 the unit slides in from the top and has a button once you get it to the bottom there are two pins that slide up into holes on the back of the GPS which lock the two together. You can snap the GPS in the mount if you want instead of sliding it in. Once it is together you can take the unit and mount off by pulling down a lever and they will lift off and leave the mount base on the bike. To put them back together you have to line up the mount with the base drop down and then slide down so it is not just a slide in and out.

Well I have a 76CSx and it started giving me fits about 2 months ago. I used the electronic compass all the time even though I always carry a magnetic compass with me and liked it BUT sometime ago the pointer would go away as well as the compass ring all I had was a circle with a bunch of little lines. To get it back I had to turn the unit off and on or recalibrate the compass yes turn slowly in one dirrection 2 turns. It was not too bad doing it once a day but about 2 months ago it started happining more ane more until if I was out 3 hours I was "fixing" it 10-20 times. So now I just turn off the electronic compass and use it with the pointer only and as long as I am moving it is good as gold. I have a great since of direction and when it tells me to go North and I know North is not that direction I get out the magnetic compass hanging off my pack. Which is also a whisle which I always carry and I make the wife carry one also an old scout habit I guess.

I have had a 76CSx for over a year and the electronic compass has started giving me problems so last week I turned it off and did not miss it so I will probably leave it off now all the time.

buyeretail.com has it for $309 plus $14.95 shipping. I bought my 76CSx from them on 7/5/2006 which is $314 currently and they are still around. My purchase was without any hassles.

Well I took it out again today and it worked good for the first cache then when I was homing in on the second the pointer and compass blanked out again. After someone in here told me I could turn off the compass I turned it off and it worked fine the rest of the day for eight more caches. So the problem is in the electronic compass and as long as I leave it off I can cache on with no problem. Thanks for all the help!

I did find it at PCNation cheaper but it has a 2 week shipping date but for a 10% discount can you wait for 2 weeks??? 010-00629-00 GPS ETREX LEGEND HCX TR GPS PERP Quantity: 1 Item Price: $205.34 Cart Total: $205.34 This cart qualifies for FREE shipping. Shipping cost preview: Delivery Method/Time Cost Ground 4-7 business day delivery FREE FedEx 3 business day delivery FREE

Am I bad I don't even know there was more than one HCX I guess I will look closer the next time.

Well now that you have turned it on there is probably not much chance to it will work again because the water probably shorted something out. A few years ago I dropped a phone out of my pocket it to a bucket of water. The first thing I did was remove the battery and put the phone in the front window of my car in the hot sun and left it there all day to dry out. When I put the battery back in the next day it worked fine for about 6 months and then died I don't know if it was because of the water or not.

Go here if you want to find out a lot about PI & PO it is a good site with all kinds of info including many pictures to see what it looks like. It is where I went to find out about it after the second time I got it this spring. I never know anything about it because it never bothered me but I have learned a lot this year. http://poisonivy.aesir.com/view/welcome.html

No I checked the setup Routing and it says Off Road with Next Turn Pop-up off The setting I don't know what means is under Heading it says Switch to compass heading when below 10 mh which I think is when I am on road and using it for turn by turn (which I never use it for) and I go less than 10 Miles per Hour for 180 seconds it switchs to compass heading. I have looked at every setting I can find the the pointer and compass points still go away randomly. Sometimes it will work for hours and other times less than a minute. When I set the unit on the ground it has never blanked out it has happened only when I am holding it. I think it is broken so I think I will just buy a new 76Cx and forget the electronic compass so it will not happen again I have read where several people have the same thing happening with their electronic compass in their Garmin so maybe it is an inherited trait of electronic compasses from Garmin.

tigergps has them listed at $226

Don't think becuase you have never had it in the 40's you will never get it. I was a Scout Master for 18 years and would tromp around the woods with the boys and I never got it till I was 55 and was getting fishing worms in leaves that were loaded with PI and you guessed it I got it. Just a few bumps on my hand and every since then I can get it not every time but sometimes. It has not been too bad yet the worst was my upper leg a couple of weeks ago when I sat on the can and got it off my arms when I leaned over even though the arms never broke out.

No I am in off road mode becuase the distance keeps changing and usually if I set the unit down it will continue to work. One thing I just found which I do not know what it means while double checking off road I found two fields titled 'Switch to compass heading when below 50 mh' 'for more than 90 sec' I just changed it to 10 mh for more than 180 sec I have no idea what mh mean. I found it in setup under heading and I have it set for cardinal letters and magnetic north reference. Thanks for the idea keep them coming.

Well yes sort of. It is a homing indicator layed on top of the compass so that you know what direction to the cache and what is happing is the pointer and compass points are going away and all that is left is a circle with little lines around it no long ones at NSEW or anywhere else. If you know there is a river west of you about a 1/4 mile and the homing indicator says you are .4 miles to the east of the cache you know you had better find a way over the river and not head straight for the cache.

One thing to try is taking 500mg garlic everyday. I take one pill at night before I go to bed. I still get chiggers a few but they only last for a day or two at most. I use to get them and they would bother me for weeks also as a kid I always had hundreds of them in me, my waist and ankles were one big welt. A couple of weeks ago I was walking through chest high grass and figured I would be ate up but only ended up with one or two and they were gone by Tuesday. Garlic pills are cheep and when you take them at bedtime they don't repeat on you at least you don't notice it