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There are to many forums. Different newsgroups, mailing lists, all about geocaching. People talking about the same topics but on different forums. Why don't they all use the CG forum?

Thanks for the rewiew, Jeremy. The 60C comes with 54 MB of memory. The 76 came with 8 MB and the 76S (with compass and altimeter) has 24 MB. How much memory will the 60CS have? Maybe they will add more than just the two sensors?

Iceland. Great landscape and almost no tourists. Many great places to hide a cache. But: do not disturb the trolls and elves living there!

I'm a newbie still picking up the jargon... At first glance, I briefly wondered how one could get Tuberculosis from a geocache... That would really be a bad trade. TB means travel bug, an item with a little numbered metal plate (travel bug dog tag) attached to it. The item travels from cache to cache and can be traced by entering its number into the cg.com website.

That's a real problem. Some months ago I took a TB from a cache containing parfume samples. The TB had such an ugly smell that I had to store it in the cellar until I placed it in another cache.

I haven't placed a vavation cache yet but I know from vacation caches which were approved because the cache owner found someone living in the area who maintains the cache. I also know a cache which had been archived because the owner did not check the cache after some not found logs. The cache owner was told to find a local cacher to maintain the cache.

I often read in the logs that some people take out things worth some $ and put in their sig items worth only a few cents. When you ask them about this they say that this is their sig item and it is much more worth than the thing they took out just because it is a very personal item and anyone should be proud if they find it in a cache. But the worst are people taking out valuable things without logging.

How about a regular webcam cache?

Off course, Li batteries are great, but they are very expensive.

Here, all new busses are equipped with a display indicatind the next station. Some of them use information provided by infrared beacons and incremental encoders but the newer ones use GPS. The information is also used to inform the driver of the optimal speed. The actual position is transmitted by radio to the bus company so they are always informed there the busses are. Some bus stops are equipped with displays showing the arrivel time if the bus is late. Have you ever used your GPSr inside of a bus? In most busses the reception is poor, sometimes impossible but the newer ones have a plastic roof which provides almost perfect GPS reception, even of satellites in the zenith.

Two more moving caches: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...5e-b7c54beee39e http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...d4-9605d50c5cde

The good old NiCd accumulators are still the best choice if you have to use batteries at very low temperatures. NiMH and Li-Ion don't like low temperatures. Some years ago I had to test an repair electronic devices with had to be used at very low temperatures. The battery compartment could be removed and connected by a cable so the user could keep the batteries warm unter his coat. Why not building such a cable and adaptor for your GPSr? This won't make it faster (as stated by buck09 the LCD gets slow in the cold) but your batteries will last longer.

If the tunnel is a good place to hide a cache it is worth its money !

A nice cache for scouts: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...91-6eb25b6a6ce7

And they do it only to protect this frog: Imagine what happens if he would visit Germany and get killed... no more geocaching?

I found 50.000,00 in a cache, not US$ but something like turkish lira, worth less than one dollar. Nothing worth, so I left it in the cache.

The topic already exists. Look here: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=52826 Also interesting: GCH1QX

I know from a multi stage event cache. One stage was a box containing a floppy disk with instructions on how to find the next stage. But: the magnetic disk was removed and replaced by some paper. One hat to open the shutter and turn the disk to read the text written on the paper inside the disk.

I also include the name of the bus stop or railway station next to the cache and a link to an online timetable information service in my cache descriptions to help those (like me) who like to go caching by means of public transport.