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Ken, this one’s for you….

Retro Encabulator

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Oh yeah…

I would pick it up and take it with me, then try and contact those other people.

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It’s great that you found it.

Technically it is trash, and as a any good geocacher knows…”Cache In Trash Out”.

Now, this is kind of special trash, and if it were me, I would attempt to contact the original owner, and if no luck, I could try and contact Anutienae, since they have shown interest in adopting it.

Hope this helps…

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Another photo of our mystery lady.

The plot thickens….

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Mystery Woman? Mystery Hat?

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Dram Shop

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There will be a PDA there, whereby a “To-Do” list of all the caches can be beamed. The “To-Do” list will have co-ords, description, hints, etc…

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Ken,

I recently archived a multi-cache that started in the East Bluff SNA. The actual cache container was north of the SNA. I did not check it for proximity, because it was in the SNA.

Maybe that was it?

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Wow, you guys sure do carry a lot of stuff into the woods. I take more of a “minimalist” approach

Things I carry into the woods:
GPSr (Always)
Compass (Always)
PDA (Mostly)
Digital Camera (Sometimes)
Trading Items (Sometimes)
A Pen (Sometimes)
Water (Rarely)

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I have an article already written for this purpose: “Tales of the newbie approver”.

Just need to get the lead out and finialize it.

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I just placed a Yellow Jeep TB into Glow In The Dark II. I tried to place it in a different geocache, but could not find it (3 seperate times). So it’s a good thing Yellow Jeeps come with headlights.

Just a note…. While dropping it off, I noticed one reflector missing, which makes this cache slightly more difficult but not impossible. If in the middle of the reflector trail you cannot see another reflector, take the path to the left about 20 paces and another reflector will shine back at you. I hope to replace the reflector within the next couple of days.

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The graphic you are referring to is hosted by the wi-geocaching.com website. If that site goes down, the picture goes away.

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Here’s the content of an E-mail I put together for my bro-in-law who was shopping for a GPSr recently:

Garmin 76S (This is the one I would buy for me)
Pro: Lots and lots of memory (24 MB, load in the maps you want and forget about it)
Pro: Big Screen (we’re all getting older, aren’t we?)
Pro: Built in compass (Don’t need to constantly switch between compass and GPSR while hunting a geocache)
Pro: Quad Helix Antenna (good for hunting under heavy tree cover)
Pro: Built-in barametric altmiter (cool for in the airplane, check the pressurization)
Pro: Built in antenna connection (Add an external antenna while in the car, easier to use)
Pro: Less expensive cigarette lighter adapter for the car.

Con: Physically arger than the e-trex series.
Con: Decreased battery life (solved with Ni-Mh batteries)

Garmin 76
Pro: Big Screen (we’re all getting older, aren’t we?)
Pro: Quad Helix Antenna (good for hunting under heavy tree cover)
Pro: Built in antenna connection (Add an external antenna while in the car, easier to use)
Pro: Less expensive cigarette lighter adapter for the car.

Con: A little light on memory (8 MB, You’ll need a computer to load in new maps when you go somewhere new).
Con: Physically arger than the e-trex series.
Con: Decreased battery life (solved with Ni-Mh batteries)

Pro: Less expensive cigarette lighter adapter for the car.

Garmin E-trex Vista
Pro: Lots and lots of memory (24 MB, load in the maps you want and forget about it)
Pro: Built in compass (Don’t need to constantly switch between compass and GPSR while hunting a geocache)
Pro: Built-in barametric altmiter (cool for in the airplane, check the pressurization)
Pro: Physically Smaller

Con: Dinky Tiny Screen
Con: Patch Antenna (Complaints from Geocachers about use in heavy tree cover)
Con: No external antenna connector (must keep this on the dash in the car)
Con: No external antenna connector (crappy antenna? Tough!)
Con: Buttons on the side of the unit (IMHO) are physically hard to press.

Garmin E-trex Legend
Pro: Physically Smaller
Pro: Most bang for the buck
Pro: $$$$$$$

Con: A little light on memory (8 MB)
Con: Dinky Tiny Screen
Con: Patch Antenna (Complaints from Geocachers about use in heavy tree cover)
Con: No external antenna connector (must keep this on the dash in the car)
Con: No external antenna connector (crappy antenna? Tough!)
Con: Buttons on the side of the unit (IMHO) are physically hard to press.

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Now…. I don’t want to ruffle any feathers… but….

I was one of the people at the campout this spring who was uploading data to everybody’s GPSr’s. I saw MANY different models of GPSr that day.

There wasn’t ONE SINGLE GARMIN unit that had any problems connecting with the PC and accepting the data waypoints.

There were MULTIPLE Magellan units that would not accept any data at all, and a couple of them that we had to work on for a long time before they accepted any waypoints.

So…. if compatability with your PC (and somebody else’s) is important, I say buy a GARMIN of any kind and you’ll be happy.

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I too have tried to find this cache with NO LUCK. I tried on Saturday in the afternoon with my daughter, and were driven from there by the bugs (mosquitoes in this case). I went back alone, with the high-test bug spray on, and couldn’t get a reading to be consistent on one side of the trail or the other. I haven’t been back since the getting some extra hints, but I know I covered the area that the hints point to quite well. Just must’ve missed it!

-Tie

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