simplyred

Anything thats useful outdoors, i like to put flashlights, tools, keychains, compasses and even those cheapy rain poncho's. You never know when something may happen and one of those items may come in hand. carry extra pencils, logbooks and small baggies just in case a little maintenance is needed.

Other than the ammo cans, i've found the peanut butter containers great. we get temperature in the -40 and i've yet to see a cracked or damage peanut butter cache. But i've seen plenty of others cache containers that have cracked or just leak. As for glass, don't like it at all. Bad enough so many places are littered with broken beer bottles, we don't need any more chance of broken glass.

My name is from the name I gave my truck back in 1987. I still have the truck and one day hope to restore it. It brought me so many good times offroading, going places where most never go. Now goecaching is doing the same for me, although now we mostly use our quads. Offroading for 20 years gives me lots of places that I know of to place caches, which now I can relive and share my favorite spots.

Winter caching has many advantages. No bugs Bush isn't so thick. no leaves and the frozen lakes make easier hikes to island caches. we've done a good many caches this winter, and alot of them are real tough terrain in the summer, and /or you need a boat. Most people don't seem to cache around here in winter so tracks aren't usually a problem. It snows every other day so that usually covers any tracks anyways. But I don't go out on those real cold days.

On the highway my 60CSx routinely provides me the first upcoming turn alert at 1.0 mile (which last for .2 mile) then a second alert at .2 mile which counts down to .1 mile then in feet until the turn is made. No problems taking an off ramp at 70 mph in traffic. Love my garmin also, great units. I use it while driving a truck all the time and don't have any problem with autorouting, mine also warns me well ahead of time, 1 mile or so and then again within 100 or 200 meters. the only issues i've had was the power button can be hard to turn on the unit in very hot weather, button pushes but unit doesn't start. the other issue is it turns off in certain areas, but i believe that is a bug in the topo maps.

Thanks guys.

60CSX, i can only use 14 letters for a waypoint name and 29 for a note. There is more space available in windowbut doesn't allow for more letters. Is there a way to get more letters available for the note or name?

caching is still possible in winter, but it's better when we get some fresh snow, buries any previous tracks and makes the scenery beautiful. Been a really good winter to get in some extra caching this year, but winter is here now, won't be too long and it's spring anyways, then it's the blackflies and mosquitos. LOL geocachingontario is another place, but did not see any forums.

Topo Canada is great, it lets you see hills, lakes or rivers and can help you to get an easier way around, as for the contour line, just place the curser over them and it tells you the elevation. Some stuff is a lttle dated, but most of the out in the bush places are pretty accurate, around here anyways.

usually carry my camera bag, full with camera, spare batteries for camera and gps, headphones and mp3/FM radio player, pen. Then I have my swag-bag, wraps around my waist with swag, new baggies for caches and extra log books. I also have my cellphone. Usually have drinks in the cooler in my vehicle. But if I'm on my quad, I have everything I need to get me out of most situations. From tools to first aid kits, cooler with drinks and food, fishing rods, tow straps and winches. I like to be prepared.

The only complaint I have about discovering TB's, is that people are getting confused and logging discovered instead of retreiving, leading to lots of TB not in caches. And not showing in the hands of. It seems to be happening alot around my area.

Was tinkering with my weather transformer and think I got all the bugs out. Now I should be able to cache all year round. Sorry to the skiers and snowmobilers, but I like caching and have an ATV, so this has been a great winter so far. Now to work on my GPS blocker, so I can stop all other cachers from getting all the FTF's.

yes I see it, i have been playing with it, thanks. It would be nice if you didn't have to do it manually though, cause now I have to go to all the multi's and change them.

show different icon when they are multicaches, i have many caches downloaded on my gps, and sometimes i spend time looking for a multi not knowing it's a multi. When caches sho up nearby, i'll look for them. now if when they download, they would show a multicache icon, then I would know that it is. Lately, I just don't download multi's unless I've read up on it and gonna go out specifically for it.

i use the ram suction mount and with the middle piece being 3 inches, it close enough even in my venture van with the windshield far from me

60CSX, I think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Seeing as I pretty well have everything I need for cacheing, 60CSX with maps and 512memory card, 12xSony camera & 1gig memory card, 8 travel bugs to place, good hiking boots and gear, 2 4x4 kodiak ATV's and 2 geodogs, the only thing I need is TIME.

you can lose a sock or your wallet around the house, but you know the exact location of every cache within 100 kms of your home.

my 60CSX best shows 9 feet, but 95% of the caches, it puts me right on top of the spot.

Was reading this post and was already thinking what it was when I saw steve69 post. Mine does the same thing, so far i have two locations where i can reproduce this problem with topocanada. Once I get pass these certain positions all is fine untill I turn around and come back by these points. The screen fades and the unit shuts off. Since I got the metroguide, I usually have it on when on the highway and the unit does not shut off at one spot. I thought it was fixed with the latest software release(Garmin) but the other day I passed this spot and topo was on and it turned off. So I conclude it is something with the topo software

I would say thaI have been goecaching all my life. I've been as long as I can remember. I been atv'ing, fourwheelin and hiking four over 30 years and have seen many places. I've always thought of how nice it would be to share these places with others. I'm forever looking for new places and things to see. Geocaching gives me an extra goal (excuse) to what i've always done. It's like an information station, I don't have to keep going back to the same spots that I already know, I get to go where others like me have already found.

used an older magellan for many years, this pass summer I bought a garmin 60CSX. It has geocache in the gps and decided to see what it was about. Before that never heard of it.

Heres some pics of my canine cachers

I use a ram mount on my quad, it gets some really rough riding and some good speeds. I've never worried about it falling out, it's in solid and doesn't even cross my mind. I do feel a little vibration in the bars but the GPS doesn't vibrate at all. When I use it with a windshield mount, all I have to do is loosen the center adapter screw and tighten it on the windshield mount. It is safe worry free driving.

I've had topo canada since i bought my gps and recently bought MG4 (Canadian Tire was selling it for $69). It seems like the map is the same as topocanada, without the contour line and all the smaller rivers and creeks, but does give you the ability to find places by address #. It also has POI with adresses and phone numbers. the downfall is that it's a little outdated. But I do enjoy all the extra POI, and it's like having a phone book also. I am pleased with it.