DonB

I have a friend that lives in Yuma and he has never mentioned this. What is the definition of State Trust Land.

My handheld will navigate, it has a full set of maps on it but I use the Nuvi to get to the location. It's easier and safer to have the Nuvi talk to me then to have to keep looking at the small screen on the handheld.

So you're going to go through 25,000 caches to see which ones you want to do on a given day? I have bookmarks for the different areas around my home area that I cache in that contain between 25 and a 100 caches each. I load one in the GPS for where I want to cache that day and have at it. Of course I'm not into numbers either.

You beat me to it, that's all I use is EasyGPS and was going to suggest you trying it. I didn't think of it on my first post.

Are you using the treasure chest for an icon?

I hope yours fares better then one of mine that I really hated to lose. It had over 35,000 miles on it and from a couple of emails I received I'm about 99% sure a fairly new cacher grabbed it and is keeping it, he won't answer my email. That's the last coin or TB I'll turn loose.

There are several on Google Play that you have to pay for, but they are only about $3.00

DragonsWest, I think I may be older than you, my first 35MM was a Nikormat FTN all manual with a match needle system but I think I could have played football with it without hurting it. I also have a FE2 a D90 and a couple of other Nikons sitting in a drawer gathering dust. I also had an 8008s That I gave to my granddaughter when she decided to try photography.

For serious photography I use a Nikon DSLR, but I'm not about to take it bushwhacking. I picked up an amazing little Canon Power Shot SX260 HS point and shoot that has an unbelievable 20X optical zoom, will do amazing available light photography, has and more settings then I will ever use. The only downside to all point and shoot cameras is their weak flashes. I used to do concert photography and some times needed to reach out 50 feet with my flash if I couldn't shoot available light. Most of the time now I just grab the Cannon.

Why worry about things you have no control over?

The 60CSx does not have a 3-axis compass, you have to hold it level. To calibrate it you go to the compass screen then into the menu and choose calibrate compass. Its self explanatory from there. I'm not familiar with the 62 series but with the 62 models with the 3-axis I remember reading that calibrating the compass on it consists of rotating it three different ways. When all else fails read your manual.

I have an 855 which is going in the second car and picked up a 2597 for my car. I spoke to a tech support lady at Garmin and she said she also has a 2597 and thought that model gave more bang for the buck then any other model they sell.

Do the math, thirty dollars a year figures out to 8.2 cents a day. How many frivolous things do you spend your money on that costs you ten times that amount?

Depends on how much you want to spend. I just bought a 2597 and so far I like it real well, it has lifetime map and traffic updates and does voice commands which was two of the things I wanted in a new one. I spoke to one of Garmin's tech support people and she mentioned it was the model she has and that she thought it had the most bang for your buck of any of their models. $199.00 from Best Buy and the same from Amazon.

Not according to your profile.

If you have heard of the poi-factory there is a poi file in CSV format for historical markers. I worked with the guy that had the original list and each location has the GPS coordinates.

Maybe I don't quite understand what you are asking, but when I load a PQ into EasyGPS if there are caches I have already found they will be highlighted in green, if it's a cache that has been archived it will be highlighted in red. Usually if I go caching but don't find every cache in that bookmark I will edit that bookmark later and delete the caches I have found.

Nowadays it's all about the numbers, 100 bison tubes a tenth of a mile apart, it's pretty hard to stuff swag into one of those. Once in awhile you do run across a rubbermaid container but most of them look like the ones you have pictured. I have a pretty good swag bag but don't even bother taking it with me when I do my occasional cache anymore.

You quoted Winston Churchill who was famous for being counterculture. He spoke his mind no matter how the majority felt. Obviously you can neither tolerate my opinions, nor listening to them. Tsk, tsk. Show some courage and sit down and listen.. IF you can... The first cache I hid was instantly lauded by people who had thousands of finds. They gave it rave reviews. Now the dark side, all from your vaunted *Premium Members*. 1. Some of the lied in claiming that they found it and logged the book. I thought this was an honorable activity. It is not. 2. When I called them on their lies, one cursed me, reviled me, called me every imaginable name, and said he never wanted to hear from me or my caches again. I forwarded his foul missive to Big Brother who... did NOTHING. Pretty good start to this wonderful, *friendly* activity. 3. There are scads of rules, and the rules have rules. One *Premium Member* chastened me with my second cache, claiming "You can't tell us what to do. You can only give us the location, blah blah blah." Oh really? How about: Bring a pencil. Bring a flashlight. Climb this tree. Use this TOTT. Bring scuba gear, climbing gear, a mirror, etc. 4. Oh look, I have XX,000 finds. Isn't that special. I just finished a vacation on the Big Island, then hopped to Honolulu to climb Koko Head. From there I hunted feral hogs in Texas before leaving on a driving tour of the United States. We shipped our car home from Fort Lauderdale and went through the Panama Canal to Los Angeles for fifteen days, stopping in Aruba, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, and Mexico. That was in the space of about four months. We went to Alaska last year. How many of those cyber medallions do you have on your little geocaching page again? So call me Winston. He was quite able to stand alone, and so am I. Your cliquiness is so high school. "If I were married to you, Nancy, I would drink it." - Winston Churchill, who also said, "My friends are few in number but entirely sufficient." If I was as unhappy as you are I think I would find a new activity before my blood pressure went too high. As far as the price of a premium membership one two dollar beer would cover close to a month of dues. I don't pay for a premium membership to become a "vaunted premium member", I use the bookmarks, PQs, and caches along a route. Equate it to buying any product and paying extra to move up to a better model, and then maybe you will understand the concept.

I hope I can be as lucky, I have one of the survivors of the great train race with almost 36,000 miles on it and I am fairly sure a new cacher in Texas is holding it and won't answer my email.

I hope I'm as lucky, I have a coin from The Great Train Race that was one of the winners at the time with over 13,000 miles on it, and now has almost 36,000 miles on it. I'm fairly sure a new cacher grabbed it from a cache in Texas and is holding it. It is listed as still being in the cache but another cacher tells me it's not. I emailed the new cacher to see if maybe he had it and forgot to log it but he won't answer my email. After all the traveling it's done I really hate to see it go missing, very frustrating.

I think eartha pretty much covered it in his post. I have one missing right now and there's a good possibility that a new chacher grabbed it and is keeping it. I emailed him and he won't answer my email. I really hated to see this one go missing to, it is one of the survivors of the great train race and had somewhere around 35,000 miles on it. The bad thing about the whole thing is there is nothing I or Groundspeak can do about it.

I wouldn't buy a GPS without the electronic compass. It's nice to be able to stop for a few seconds and look at the compass and your surroundings without having the compass stop working.

I make it a habit to jot down coordinates they give in movies just to see how accurate they are and some are pretty close and some are off a mile. There was one movie where they were having a problem with an airplane and for some reason the only place they could land was the dry LA river, so I jotted down their coordinates they gave them for the river and it would have put them about ten miles off the coast of LA.

Unless there's some incident you're not mentioning I think you worry too much about posting on Groundspeak. Every website collects information about you. If you have a credit card they collect information about you and share it with other companies. The government collects information about you and tells you not to give anyone your Social Security number but it seems you can't do business with anyone without giving them your SS number. I don't care what Facebook tells you I don't think they're any different then any other website. The bottom line is everyone shares your information with everyone else. How do you think all of the telemarketers get your phone number even if it's unlisted. I get probably one or two calls daily on my home phone and even on my cell phone and I never give that number to anyone except friends.