[djwini]

yes thanks, that is exactly what i was looking for. now i have to go home and see if i can get it to work.
donna

[djwini]

i couldn’t even get to a sliver in time in summer.
you are either brave or totally nuts

[djwini]

thanks

[djwini]

i don’t really know how to put it on the page

[djwini]

so many technical people, it’s time for a peon. i’m a builder of ct x-ray tubes for general electric. using screw drivers and wrenches. geocaching gets me outdoors. puzzle caches get me using my brains.

[djwini]

i like to trade for stuff. if there are beads, i take them for my daughter. or sometimes i’ll take the small beanie babies. i like the make it yourself kits you sometimes find. and now i have started taking fishing tackle. i usually have some pins that i make to trade. when those run out, i have an assortment of stuff that i have picked up in other caches that i thought were nice but then realized i was never going to use, so back out they go. i will sometimes drop the pins into a cache if it needs some extra swag if i liked the hike or the find itself, without taking something in trade.
i have always tried to at least trade equally, and have a dollar coin in my bag just in case there is that really nice trade item that i want.

[djwini]

i wasn’t going to post a reply but after i walked away i got to thinking. i was contacted for a hint about my puzzle cache and gladly gave the hint i usually send out. i like for people to find my caches. i made it a puzzle just to give it a little extra twist instead of just walking out to a box. if they want to hunt in a group, more power to them. if they are anything like me, most of them will have solved most of the puzzles anyway. the 10 puzzle solved entry fee is just that, a way to get most of them to look at the puzzles.
now maybe every cache owner doesn’t feel like me. in fact, i’m sure of it. there was a puzzle cache i was attempting to solve that i wrote the owner for help on twice. he was very nice but he would not give me any help. it was like he just did not want that puzzle to be solved with help. i put it on my ignore list. there are too many other caches out there to waste my time on something that causes me frustration. give me a nice walk with a nice box and some trinkets to find any day!

[djwini]

i can loan you a 60c. i’m from the hales corners area. so that’s not too far. sorry, can’t help out that day.

[djwini]

yeah, but a lot of coins look very similar, so you could easily mistake them. if i hadn’t taken that coin, i’d still never know that it was a repeat cache. and yes, i did delete the log.

[djwini]

you should have kept him. they make great mosquito eaters. we have some at the camp i go to in summer. they swoop around at night and make everyone scream, but they really don’t do any harm and every mosquito that gets eaten is one less to bite me.

[djwini]

#1 cell phone
in winter hot packs, in summer bug stuff
wet wipes
first aid kit
flashlite-no battery kind
multi-tool
compass
whistle
pepper spray
trading items
spare pen
batteries
hard candy-sour
little notebook

and water with its own strap for carrying

[djwini]

i think fusion has the same kind of thing where you can load the programs right from the mac. haven’t tried it yet.

[djwini]

i’ve always been afraid to put the gps in my luggage, fearing theft or damage. did you ever watch them load the bags? my carry-on is usually full of all of my electronics, gps, camera, palm. you should have seen the checker the time i was taking a bunch of tb’s to florida. the dog tag attached to the teddy bear showed up on their xray and they had to take all that stuff out and look it over.

[djwini]

thanks

[djwini]

furfool–there is a mac program similar to GSAK called maccaching. i looked at it a little, but not enough to recommend it, or know how it works. i am also using GSAK in the windows environment on my mac.

usually when i am planning a cache run i will print a sheet of the caches i might try to find, anywhere from 5-20. i list the difficulty, terrain, size, and hints. and if it is a mystery cache, i will also list the corrected coords. not quite paperless, but 1 sheet instead of 20 is better in my book. and then i can write notes on the sheet, since i can’t remember a cache by the time i get home.

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