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How about if we put this thing to bed. If and when I hold another event you bet your booties I won't to it the same way! Now if we could all get back to this Hobby we all love and have devoted so much time and effort into making it what it is today. Edited (my smilies were not working)

guess I wont be sending him any more "personal" emails. he would rather do this in public so that everyone can see.

This was way out of line...... nowhere did I say "Sorry, we don't want your kind" You are making me sound like i'm a bigot. You don't know me. You just made that up and it is slanderous. This is what I meant when I said. edited for spelling

I was away from home all day today. I didn't find out about all this until I got home tonight. My wife told me all about it... What those people wrote on the Web page was inexcusable. I can't be watching it all the time and I should not have to tell my children not to look at that page until I checked it out first... I'm just thankful that one of my children had not read those vile posts.

I felt I had to remove it so that people could not post comments that my Children could not read. My whole family reads the web page.

Thanx you seem to know where I'm coming from

There are cachers in my area I don't know. I wanted them to also attend. I just thought that I could reach more people with this method. I didn't think it would turn into a bunch of of undeserving comments from people who don't even know me and slandering the local cachers without even knowing all the facts.

First off let me say that I am appalled with some of the comments that certain people who didn't have the gonads to use their real name posted on the cache page my young children are both cachers and could have read those posts! The coward that posted the sock puppet should be banned from this great hobby not me. I don't know exactly where to start because I can't believe this has gotten so far out of hand so here goes... I love this hobby, I have been doing this for over 2 years I've geocached from Yellowknife in the north to San Diego and as far east as Montreal Quebec. I have told everyone that will listen me about how great this hobby is. I am probably one of this hobby's greatest advocates. When I came here just over 2 years ago I could count on one hand how many Geocachers were in the Comox Valley and on the other hand I could count all the caches that were here. Enough about me. I just wanted everyone to know how much I love this hobby and what it means to me. Last year I invited local cachers to get together so that we could meet each other face to face and talk about this great hobby of ours. I think there were 12 or so cachers and their families. This turned out to be more successful then I ever imagined (there was about 30 people in attendance) everyone left with some sort of prize. The logistics of planning even that little event was mind-boggling. Over the last year I have been asked by old and new cachers to hold another event. The popularity of caching in the Comox valley has grown in leaps and bounds. The only reason picked the area I did was to limit the number of people at the event. As it is, with The area I chose there could be 40 or so people show up which could lead to up to 100 people showing up! I guess I could of just invited the same people again this year but I wanted to allow the new cachers to come and have a great day also. Because of the activities we had planed last year (and this year) I can only have so many people attend. Plus we had prizes for everyone that attended. We spent out of our own pocket close to 200 dollars. If I opened it up to everyone I would have no control over how many people showed up and I could not assure the quality of the event, plus I would never be able to collect enough prizes for everyone. As for some of the comments in this thread I would like to address them individually I am in fact sorry that I listed this cache the way I did It will never happen again. I might never list another cache ever again. I will sleep on it. Thank you CR for seeing my point its not as if I said "Only left handed people could attend" that would be silly and against my nature. This does not even deserve a response! This "class" has hundreds of thousands class mates I can't invite everyone. It has not been edited that is the way I first posted it I only emailed one person...music-cachers...(and he didn't even live close to the area.) He is the one that started this whole thing. THANKS FOR TRYING TO RUIN THIS GREAT HOBBY FOR ME AND MY FAMILY we are all disgusted with the way this turned out. We were only trying to do something nice for the cachers in the area who have become our true great friends.

after a few emails back and forth this is the conclusion. So I guess for now if you want to project a way point in mag you have to do the math before you input the bearing Tom

I live on the west coast and Our Mag Dev is 19. So there is a big difference bettween a Mag heading and a True heading... Most of the multi caches around here that send you on a bearing and distance use Magnetic Tom

I sent an email off to Garmin to see what they say. They are good about these things. Sooooo When i get a response I'll Share it with all of you Tom

I put this on the GPS thread and the response was slow...Please leave this up here a few days before you punt me Hi there I own a GPSmap 60C I was out caching and had to project a way point Soooo I marked my location and went to menu and went to the "project waypoint" page... I put sayyyy 100°mag in the bearing slot and press enter... the digits changed to 119° mag which is odd because my Mag dev here is 19° I checked the settings and it is set to Mag. Any Ideas?

If I do that, And I want to put in a Mag heading, Will I have to change it back?

it was in the Subject line Its a GPSmap60C with 3.50 software Tom

Hi there I was out caching and had to project a way point Soooo I marked my location and went to menu and went to the "project waypoint" page... I put sayyyy 100°mag in the bearing slot and press enter... the digits changed to 119° mag which is odd because my Mag dev here is 19° I checked the settings and it is set to Mag. Any Ideas?

I think we have a winner! This will work perfectly along with a few modifications Thanx all

Canadian Geocache Site Logging Station I Like it

Good point !

where can we send the hi res pictures?

Good idea!

Too Funny Keep em coming

I'm working on a new cache that involves one of those official looking "data collecting" boxes that I have seen some people use for hiding a cache... On the front I want to put official sounding jargon something like... This is an official Watershed monitoring station placed here by the Ministery of _________ Blah blah blah... I need to come up with an official sounding geocaching ministery...I know you people will have lots of ideas Tom

I made a hollowed out log that has a wooden top... It rains so much here in the winter, that the Top of the log has moss growing on top!

Ok...I just figured how to save a midi file of Morse code to my 'puter... I want to use it in a cache...how do I link to it? Thanx

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