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I use mine out in the boat as a dry-box. Figure it has enough air in it to float and keep stuff inside dry should the worst-case scenario happen. (GPSr, Camera, Wallet Etc..).

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Idiopathic arboreal ambulatory disorientation

That would be a great name for a Geocache, don’t you think?

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If you want to see a lot of the Northern Kettle Moraine, My cache “Kettle Moraine View” will give an excellent birds-eye view from the observation tower.

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Just had to put my two cents in on this conversation: There was a television commercial for a credit card company several years ago featuring a husband walking around his house stating how far he was from Los Angles, how fast he was walking, what his elevation was, etc… all while his wife was watching him, shaking her head. The premise was that the wife had bought a GPSr for her husband, and now he was driving her crazy with it. At the end of the commercial the wife mutters “Should’ve bought him the tie”. My wife bought me my GPSr for Christmas one year, and let’s say that the commercial hits really close to home.
Now you know.

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I’m in agreement, Nature Hill Odyssey was one of the best multi-caches I have ever done. I also really liked “Coccinella”. Both of these caches had a significant but not too long of a hike. Both had an interesting place to hike in and around, and both were in the woods. On the other hand, I did have a lot of fun doing “Lord Of The Caches”, but that involved driving from waypoint to waypoint. My preference is not to have to drive from point to point, but once in a while it’s OK just to break things up. I think that the number of waypoints isn’t too important, but the total hike length is. I would try to limit the round-trip hike to less than 2 miles.

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I’ve started putting recommended caches on the “Family Friendly” page. If you know of one, please let me know. Either post it here, or E-mail me through Geocaching.com.

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Just right click on the link, then click “Save Target As”, and you will be able to download it onto your hard drive. (At least that’s the way I did it, and I have Internet Explorer).

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Looks like you can directly link to any cache page you want, but you cannot do any kind of searches. Kinda weird.

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Please, if anybody has anything to add (or remove) from the list of what makes a good family-friendly geocache, please post it here and I will update the web page. (I’ll also check the spelling before I upload it the next time.

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I went out to refill the pen cache yesterday and found nothing, but then again, I take the short way in.

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Plucker (and espically) Spinner have a little bit of a learning curve to them. You have to go in an modify the .INI files and some of the other files that come with the program to personalize it and make it work well for you. I stumbled through it, and I would be happy to provide insight on the places / things that need to be changed. Once set up, the programs work GREAT!

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There’s already a thread for the newbie PDA user: http://wi-geocaching.com/forums/Forum8/HTML/000106.html

I just went through it, and I would be happy to help you out in any way I can. You can contact me through Geocaching.com. My complete name there is: Should’ve bought him the tie.

Brian.

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I have two relatively old GPSr’s, and neither of them do waypoint projection. I’ve done a little of this in the past, but leaving the goto to the original point, walk out until the number of feet (miles) is correct, and the bearing reads 180 degrees from where it should be. I’d love to try this method (as it’s the only one I have) on your new cache. Oh, by the way… my two GPSr’s are a Garmin 12Map, and a Garmin eMap.

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Waypoint Project?? Huh? Please explain.

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I do most of my hunts with a Garmin 12 Map. This particular unit does do averaging, which I find to be very useful when placing a cache, but not very useful for hunting them. One of the nice things about the 12 Map (no longer available…sorry) is that it uses four batteries instead of two, and therefore the time between battery changes is greatly extended. I also have a Garmin eMap which uses two batteries, and goes through them reasonably quickly. I have switched all of my portable electronic equipment (Digital Camera, GPS and GMRS Radios) over to Ni-MH batteries. They last a lot longer than alkalines, and they are rechargeable. You can get a set of 4 AA Ni-MH batteries for less than $12 and a slow charger for those batteries for about $12. For any GPS that only uses 2 AA’s, I would strongly recommend Ni-MH.

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