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Hachi Machi! That is just sick and wrong! 200 finds! That is just so wrong, I just wish I could have done it. Congrats to both of you guys! Dan

The reason we've not been out geocaching is mainly because we have been looking at the COWS. Haven't you noticed the any of them? You only have until November 7th to check them out. We've "logged" about 200 of the more than 300. My favorite so far is the French Moodle. We even met the artist. She was hanging out in the area. Don't worry we will be back.

Hey! Gophers from UK I would love to have you help. Please e-mail me an address to send the quilt squares to and I will send out a packet of 10 and a fabric pen to sign them with........ This is going GREAT!!!! So far I have 13 addresses...From NY, OH, CA, CT, MI, WA, UT, LA, Canada and South Africa!!!! Wow!!! I cut over 200 muslin squares and need 500 small colored fabric sqaures then I can start sewing.... I think that in the packet of blocks will Ihave 1. 10 squares unless you want more 2. Fabric marker 3. Instructions

Hey....So I have received a few e-mails and I am now working on the squares.....Cut 200 muslin squares tonight....... What should the duties of a signature sherpa be? I thought that I would 1. Put 10 squares in a baggy with a fabric pen and instructions... 2. Mail a packet to each person who sends me their e-mail address 3. Send more than 10 squares if this is requested. I thought the signature sherpa could 1. Place the baggy with squares in their cache 2. Check on baggy and once all squares are signed either mail to me or send via cache to my cache...Seem ok? DxChallenged

quote:Originally posted by Slightlynorth:I just started GeoCaching last month, but so far I have found it much more rewarding (to me) to just load up all 200+ caches in the Washington area into my eTrex and then try and find the caches. Most of the ones I have loaded into my GPSR I have never even been to the info page on. I just batch downloaded all of them from the seek results. So, as I am out and about (or actually out for caching) I will notice a cache waypoint on the map view and if I have the time I will visit the cache while I am in the area. And thanks to Garmin, I can now easily mark the caches I have already found with an open chest waypoint. If I can't find one, I will look it up later and try it again after having read some more about it. To me it adds some challange, but I am not above looking up a cheat should I not be able to find it. Well, you'll occasionally be out of luck. My Six Flags cache's "posted location" is the Parking Plaza... you have to get info from inside the park to deduce the cache location (which is a few miles away). I post this clarification at the top of my cache listing, but if ya don't read it, you'll get run over looking for a box that's miles away. ------------------ > Martin Magellan 330 (1.56/WAAS enabled!) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo !

quote:Originally posted by Slightlynorth:I just started GeoCaching last month, but so far I have found it much more rewarding (to me) to just load up all 200+ caches in the Washington area into my eTrex and then try and find the caches. Sounds kind of risky with all the multi-stage or virtual caches that are out there. I wouldn't want to waste my time without knowing a little bit about the cache. I tried finding Wolf Point last Thursday, and forgot that it was a multi-stage cache. I got to the coordinates and looked high and low before giving up. Had I only read the cache page, I would have definitely gotten a lot closer to the cache

quote:Originally posted by Slightlynorth:I just started GeoCaching last month, but so far I have found it much more rewarding (to me) to just load up all 200+ caches in the Washington area into my eTrex and then try and find the caches. Sounds kind of risky with all the multi-stage or virtual caches that are out there. I wouldn't want to waste my time without knowing a little bit about the cache. I tried finding Wolf Point last Thursday, and forgot that it was a multi-stage cache. I got to the coordinates and looked high and low before giving up. Had I only read the cache page, I would have definitely gotten a lot closer to the cache

Unlike most of you, I discover geocaching from surfing around the internet. I rarely watch TV and never heard it from anyone (still haven't) I am drawn to it because it of the time capsule aspect. Being uncomfortable about death, geocaching gives me an sense of immortality. Think about it, if you place a cache, in theory, it could be there for 200 years after your death. Maybe your family has forgotten you but someone will find that cache and think of the person who hid it. Deep huh.

d a general invitation to all Utah Geocachers to join us as we celebrate this milestone...er...waypoint for us both. (I know what you are thinking...ego, ego, ego. Well, perhaps, but I had such a great time hiking Zeus' Roost with Cach-U-Nuts, Hunt4Elk and 220Swift for #100, that I just had to plan something good for #200. Since dhobby and I have been neck and neck for weeks now, I wanted to invite him to go with me, both as a show of gamesmanship and because I want to see if he's as crazy as I think he is. I still am not sure WHEN this will take place, as it depends in large part on how quickly each of us hits 199. I need 20, and I think dhobby is at 175. I am starting to have a little trouble finding caches after work, since I have found all the SLC caches in recent weeks. May have to do a "BunkerDave Special" and head out to the desert for a dozen or so. Anyone up for that? Anyway, I will keep you all posted, on a different thread. I don't want to clutter up Elwood's thread with my own ideas.

d a general invitation to all Utah Geocachers to join us as we celebrate this milestone...er...waypoint for us both. (I know what you are thinking...ego, ego, ego. Well, perhaps, but I had such a great time hiking Zeus' Roost with Cach-U-Nuts, Hunt4Elk and 220Swift for #100, that I just had to plan something good for #200. Since dhobby and I have been neck and neck for weeks now, I wanted to invite him to go with me, both as a show of gamesmanship and because I want to see if he's as crazy as I think he is. I still am not sure WHEN this will take place, as it depends in large part on how quickly each of us hits 199. I need 20, and I think dhobby is at 175. I am starting to have a little trouble finding caches after work, since I have found all the SLC caches in recent weeks. May have to do a "BunkerDave Special" and head out to the desert for a dozen or so. Anyone up for that? Anyway, I will keep you all posted, on a different thread. I don't want to clutter up Elwood's thread with my own ideas.

quote:Originally posted by m&k:leskowitz, I think it's just nobody can find them as fast as you can hide them!! That is pretty funny. How can I help that you guys are slow? I figured that there is one of me and 200 of you. Odds say you should win. I am taken a vacation from hiding for awhile. I think I will find some, if there are any in Houston that are not mine. Actually overall I have not seen the activity I expected. We need some new blood in Houston to get it going. I hope the picnic sparks up the area.

By Model -------- Garmin eTrex Vista:................ 32 Garmin eTrex Legend:............. 30 Magellan 315:......................... 29 Garmin GPS III+:..................... 27 Magellan 330:......................... 27 Garmin eTrex:......................... 26 Garmin GPSMAP 76:.............. 20 Garmin 12:............................. 17 Lowrance Globalmap 100:....... 17 Garmin eTrex Venture:............ 13 Garmin eMap:........................ 12 Garmin GPS V:....................... 7 Garmin 12XL:.......................... 6 Garmin eTrex Summit:............. 6 Garmin 12MAP:...................... 5 Eagle Explorer:....................... 4 Garmin GPS III:...................... 4 Garmin GPS II+:..................... 4 Eagle Accunavsport:............... 3 Magellan Meridian Gold:...........2 Magellan 2000XL:................... 2 Magellan for HandSpring:........ 2 Magellan for Palm:................. 2 Magellan 410:........................ 2 Magellan 320:........................ 2 Magellan 310:........................ 2 Lowrance Globalmap 12:......... 2 Magellan Tracker:................... 2 Garmin GPS II:....................... 1 Garmin 48:............................. 1 Garmin 45XL:......................... 1 Garmin GPS III Pilot:.............. 1 Garmin GPS 76:.................... 1 Garmin GPSMAP 176:........... 1 Garmin eTrex Mariner:............ 1 Magellan 330m:..................... 1 Magellan 300: ....................... 1 Magellan 2000:...................... 1 Magellan Blazer 12:............... 1 Lowrance Globalmap 200:....... 1 Lowrance Globalmap 212:....... 1 Eagle Map Guide Pro:............. 1 GeoDiscovery Geode:...............1 Apelco/Raytheon GPS11:........ 1 Silva Multi Navigator:............... 1 Magellan Trail Blazer XL:......... 1 Magellan 3000:....................... 1 Trimble PSN-10:..................... 1 By Brand -------- Garmin:............................ 217 Magellan/Thales:............... 81 Lowrance:......................... 19 Eagle:.............................. 8 Apelco/Raytheon:............. 1 Silva:............................... 1 Trimble:........................... 1 Total -------- 328 GPS Receivers ------------------ -Iron Chef _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ agefive.com/geocache/ ~ Fe-26 Lets Drive Fast and Eat Cheese!

I've got a 12 point multi-cache within a 200 acre nature park. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=2203 Average hunt time has been about 4 hours with about 4 miles of hiking. Everyone who's hunted and/or found the cache have expressed what an excellent cache and enjoyable hunt it's been. There is only a single cache at the end. The other waypoints are points of interest within the park (signs, benches, etc.) which seekers must visit to collect numeric clues used to compute the final cache location. Use as many points as you think are necessary. Those who really like challenging hunts will hunt it.

I just started GeoCaching last month, but so far I have found it much more rewarding (to me) to just load up all 200+ caches in the Washington area into my eTrex and then try and find the caches. Most of the ones I have loaded into my GPSR I have never even been to the info page on. I just batch downloaded all of them from the seek results. So, as I am out and about (or actually out for caching) I will notice a cache waypoint on the map view and if I have the time I will visit the cache while I am in the area. And thanks to Garmin, I can now easily mark the caches I have already found with an open chest waypoint. If I can't find one, I will look it up later and try it again after having read some more about it. To me it adds some challange, but I am not above looking up a cheat should I not be able to find it.

funny you should bring this up, as I've been trying to decided what I'm going to do since my GlobalNav 200 broke down (no apparent reason.. hasn't been dropped or drowned or such). The GlobalNav's are a basic GPSR (no mapping) but I was happy with it's accuracy. Sadly the cost to fix my GlobalNav is very close to replacing it (here in Australia) so I thought I'd shop around... and I keep coming back to the GlobalMap 100. They are $450 (AUD) here, a Etrex is $385 in the place I priced them (I think that might not be the best price available) Any idea what a Etrex is 'over the counter' as my sister is in Florida at the moment and I could get her to pick one up if it saved a decent amount! In the meanwhile I think I'll have to try opening my Globalmap and see if some home repairs are possible! Maybe something's loose! [This message has been edited by hgmonaro (edited 16 October 2001).]

While caching today I found a large pile of phonebooks in the woods while hunting for a stash in a 4x4 driving trail area. Here is part of the log entry I left http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=7991 Once I made it back to the truck I noticed that the pile of junk I had parked next to was a pile of new phone books. Upon closer inspection I found that they were the current year and were still in the yellow bags that they get delivered in, about 100-200 bags in all containing about 4 books each. I got a phone number off one of the bags to call Bellsouth about it and put 3 bags of them in my gear basket, which was all that would fit under the net. Called Bellsouth on the way home an told them about it, they said there was no way to trace the books to any particular employee since they had been delivered back in June to this area. However they did take down the information about where they were and said they would send someone to get them within 2 weeks. The books are located at N33 55.967 W83 53.299 incase anyone wants to take some out in the mean time, and let me know if they are still there 2 weeks from now cause they gave me a number to call if they are. All in all it was a great find, got out with minimal scrapes, and found a new place to go wheelin! the pile along with a small pic of date on books. What I was able to carry out this was my good deed for today. ok fixed the pics ------------------ Brian & TabascoX Senior Memeber Southeast Xterra Club Geocaching since October 2000. [This message has been edited by Ramness570 (edited 01 October 2001).]

No problem here,either. Able to pan & zoom with ACDSee or PhotoShop 5.5. Starts to lose clarity when I get zoomed in to 300%. But at 200%, the unbelievable devastation is quite crystal clear. Hard to believe that those gigantic structures were reduced to that. God bless those folks working down there to clean up that disaster & try to find any remnants of all those lives. ------------------ Gary "Gimpy" Strong Rochester,NY

quote:Originally posted by CaptHawke:A pirate, 200 years too late... it's never too late to be a pirtate...yo ho ho and all that...the jesters smile at you...

What a great topic [thanx Seesthewind!]... I'll be perfectly honest: #1: I originally heard about geocaching on the Discovery channel. Not only am I a gadget-girl-geek but it involved computers and they are my first love... okay, second to four-wheeling. I could see where having a GPS would be a good tool to have living in the Redwoods of Northern California, too. #2: Being a web designer/developer and starting my own business and being business-oriented, I thought of commercial applications [don't start boo-ing yet, please], and while doing research for a website about the new Planet of the Apes movie, I found the Project Ape geocaching site and that fueled this part of my interest. #3: [here is where the term 'painful' slides up against 'honesty'] I am disabled. And fat. I have gained 200 lbs. since injurying my back in '91 and have tried walking, tai chi and tae-bo among other things and nothing killed the depression or made me feel inspired to move off of the couch or out from behind my 'puter. I saw the prospect of geo-caching as a way to get me motivated to move. #4: I'm incredibly competitive. So is my S.O. [significant other], Eric [who is also a bit overweight], and there are quite a few aspects to geo-caching that fuel our competitive spirits. And appease them. Standing over a cache, beating our chests and coming home to brag is essential! #5: all of the other positive aspects that others have posted... spending time with our kids being number one on that list. We have an 8 year old who loves reading the GPS and compass and a 4-1/2 year old who loves the 'find treasure/leave treasure'-part. We have an opportunity to teach them the abundant wood-lore I learned first from my father, second from years of girl scouting and later from living here and hunting and fishing. It enables me to teach them a love for our environment that goes beyond sending a check to an agency run by beaurocrats with specific agendas that may not represent our own ... sorry. Did not mean to preach (yeah, right Red]. Lastly, it enables me to give something back to those who have entertained me with their caches by hiding my own and watching them be found. Haven't done this yet, but the caches [three ready to hide] will, I hope, reflect a bit of us and our interests, hobbies and likes. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread and to Sluggo for starting it! ------------------ Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI http://www.queenofheartscastle.com/home.htm http://www.beautywithattitude.com http://www.w6hy.org

What a great topic [thanx Seesthewind!]... I'll be perfectly honest: #1: I originally heard about geocaching on the Discovery channel. Not only am I a gadget-girl-geek but it involved computers and they are my first love... okay, second to four-wheeling. I could see where having a GPS would be a good tool to have living in the Redwoods of Northern California, too. #2: Being a web designer/developer and starting my own business and being business-oriented, I thought of commercial applications [don't start boo-ing yet, please], and while doing research for a website about the new Planet of the Apes movie, I found the Project Ape geocaching site and that fueled this part of my interest. #3: [here is where the term 'painful' slides up against 'honesty'] I am disabled. And fat. I have gained 200 lbs. since injurying my back in '91 and have tried walking, tai chi and tae-bo among other things and nothing killed the depression or made me feel inspired to move off of the couch or out from behind my 'puter. I saw the prospect of geo-caching as a way to get me motivated to move. #4: I'm incredibly competitive. So is my S.O. [significant other], Eric [who is also a bit overweight], and there are quite a few aspects to geo-caching that fuel our competitive spirits. And appease them. Standing over a cache, beating our chests and coming home to brag is essential! #5: all of the other positive aspects that others have posted... spending time with our kids being number one on that list. We have an 8 year old who loves reading the GPS and compass and a 4-1/2 year old who loves the 'find treasure/leave treasure'-part. We have an opportunity to teach them the abundant wood-lore I learned first from my father, second from years of girl scouting and later from living here and hunting and fishing. It enables me to teach them a love for our environment that goes beyond sending a check to an agency run by beaurocrats with specific agendas that may not represent our own ... sorry. Did not mean to preach (yeah, right Red]. Lastly, it enables me to give something back to those who have entertained me with their caches by hiding my own and watching them be found. Haven't done this yet, but the caches [three ready to hide] will, I hope, reflect a bit of us and our interests, hobbies and likes. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread and to Sluggo for starting it! ------------------ Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI http://www.queenofheartscastle.com/home.htm http://www.beautywithattitude.com http://www.w6hy.org

Everything I've read so far on UTM fails to mention anything about the letter following the zone. according to my GPS I am located in Zone 10T. I am aware that MGRS uses double letter designations, but I can't find any info on what the single letter means in UTM. I am currently using ExpertGPS trial version and I couldn't figure out why all my manually entered waypoints were about 200 meters (I'm guestimating) too far to the south on the online topos compared to my 7.5' paper maps. Then I noticed the zone letter and changed it from the default G to T and presto! everything matches up! Signed, Dazed and Confused

Even though it is not water proof, the eMap is the unit I have and as such, it is a very nice unit for the $$. I paid $200 but it is going for ~$175 in places. It looks like the 76map is a replacement or maybe an upgrade, but my eMap has been very handy. I can't wait to geocache with it.

Even though it is not water proof, the eMap is the unit I have and as such, it is a very nice unit for the $$. I paid $200 but it is going for ~$175 in places. It looks like the 76map is a replacement or maybe an upgrade, but my eMap has been very handy. I can't wait to geocache with it.

in the drive to run the program. The find function is very good, and operates on th 54k placename database, and the roadname db from the 260 series. A little, but very cool feature is the ability to hold down shift and paint a line over the map, and see the distance add up in the status bar. This is very handy for approximate distance finding, including curves etc. The interface is rather simple and tidy, and probably a good 90-95% of the window area is map. I have spent a bit of time researching and communicating with MapWorld leading up to the purchase, and have found them very responsive and helpful, and they have been appreciative of my many suggestions so far, and I have plenty more to offer now Most of my current suggestions are a focus on waypoint management On the downside, it is not cheap, but when i looked at the numbers and features... NZMapped is $379 for GPS and 260 series only. I picked up TopoMapProNZ + AerialMap (when it arrives) for $585 - which is 10% off retail for purchasing the two together. For an extra ~$200, I got all the extra maps including orthos when AerialMap is released in a couple of weeks. No, it's not cheap, but I certainly think it provides more value if you can afford it. On a side note, I had a brief chat to the owner whilst I was picking the software up, and showed him geocaching.com and told him about it, and broached the subject of promoting geocaching in their store, and they would be interest. So once I've got uni out of the way I'll go back and get some stuff organised. Cheers Gav [This message has been edited by rediguana (edited 10 October 2001).]

in the drive to run the program. The find function is very good, and operates on th 54k placename database, and the roadname db from the 260 series. A little, but very cool feature is the ability to hold down shift and paint a line over the map, and see the distance add up in the status bar. This is very handy for approximate distance finding, including curves etc. The interface is rather simple and tidy, and probably a good 90-95% of the window area is map. I have spent a bit of time researching and communicating with MapWorld leading up to the purchase, and have found them very responsive and helpful, and they have been appreciative of my many suggestions so far, and I have plenty more to offer now Most of my current suggestions are a focus on waypoint management On the downside, it is not cheap, but when i looked at the numbers and features... NZMapped is $379 for GPS and 260 series only. I picked up TopoMapProNZ + AerialMap (when it arrives) for $585 - which is 10% off retail for purchasing the two together. For an extra ~$200, I got all the extra maps including orthos when AerialMap is released in a couple of weeks. No, it's not cheap, but I certainly think it provides more value if you can afford it. On a side note, I had a brief chat to the owner whilst I was picking the software up, and showed him geocaching.com and told him about it, and broached the subject of promoting geocaching in their store, and they would be interest. So once I've got uni out of the way I'll go back and get some stuff organised. Cheers Gav [This message has been edited by rediguana (edited 10 October 2001).]