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Nice to see that the battery life has improved to 10 hours. When I was last looking for a gps, the man at REI said the batteries only lasted 30 minutes. This would get you to a short cache and back.
I would be very weary of the fragility of the unit. It looks rather fragile and that would worry me when we are talking this kind of money. The man at REI also said he knew a guy who had one and he has taken it back 3 times in 6 months even though it rarely leaves the car.
To me, the ideal combo is a nice, rugged gpsr and a cheap, used pda. I have cracked and scratched the screen on my pda but who cares, I only paid 40 bucks for it.

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You can add our five to the list. WI, MI, IL, FL and IA. It was nice to find caches in three different states on Sunday within a few hours of each other.

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We tend to go out 2-3 times a week on average. We go out as a team 1 or 2 times a week. We take our time and find 5 or 6 caches and end up the day at McDonalds as a treat.
About once a week I hit the trail alone for the harder and longer caches. I tend to stay out as long as the sun is up and the bugs are not too bad.
We tend to cache much less in the summer compared to the other seasons. I’ll take -20 degrees to swarms of bugs any day.

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Way to go Bec! I have had the pleasure of caching with you at two events and enjoyed your company. I must say, when I saw you at the Birch cache at the campout, in mud up to your knees and still laughing, I knew you were a true cacher. Most people would not be smiling while waiting ten minutes for us to dig your left boot out of the sucking bog. Here’s to at least a 100 more caches and to dry feet.

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Very well done, Alan. Welcolme to the century club.

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Nice going Alan. It looks like you got around 100 caches in three weeks. Quite impressive.

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This weekend I went down to Illinois for some caching and ran across a series placed along a bike path. I was suprised that the first three out of four caches were placed right next to an active railroad. I got to the first one (Trail Junction #1) and saw it was on top of a tunnel that went under the tracks. There were a lot of people on the path and working in their yards nearby. I spent about two minutes looking for the cache and gave up because I felt self conscious being so close to the tracks. I read the logs for the other three caches and two of them had notes from other cachers saying they were also very near the tracks. I just skipped the rest of the series and moved on. I guess every approver is different but it would be very obvious looking at any map the caches were aroud ten feet from the tracks.

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We were very cost conceince when we started out going paperless. Our first pda was the Palm Zire m150 and it did the job for a while. It’s biggest downfall was the size of the memory. With only 2mb, it allowed us to load cachemate and 500 caches. That may seem like alot, but we always tended to be right at the extents of that 500 cache circle. We then got lucky and saw Snoshu’s post for a Sony Clie s-360 for sale and we picked it up for a very reasonable price. We now has 16mg and allows for all 2000 caches that are sent to us from gc.com and has room to spare.

I know there are alot of spinner/plucker fans out there but we niether had the time or the knowhow to figure them out. Cachemate would be my recomendation to all who are starting out paperless.

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I also have a pair of Asolo boots and would never buy another brand again. The folks at REI were very helpful to find a boot that fit and was good for backpacking in rougher terain. If the store doesn’t have it in stock, you can order it from the web sight and return the ones you don’t care for. I ended up ordering 6 pairs of boots before settling on the Asolo 520. The wife was not pleased to see $1000 on the credit card bill before I could return the other 5 pairs to the store. You would not need this heavy of a boot for 99% of the geocaches but they do sell lighter versions.

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Nice going Alan. Now do you have time to make a Blue Mound #2?

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We hope to try out Mr Elver’s Cache in Madison this week for the 1000th. It has been around as long as we have been caching but we have never got around to doing it. It looks like a tough one but after tackling the Bird on a Wire series yesterday I think we are ready for anything. I even had to finish the St Louis cache in a rain storm so we would end the day at 999. It may take a couple of evenings to finish Elver’s because I don’t think we will be able to wait for Saturday.

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I just ordered my 60cs from tigergps.com and it shipped the same day. I ordered it Wednesday and should get it Monday. I have already told the boss I am leaving at exactly 2:00 and no overtime on Monday. Tigergps usually has the lowest price but they will gladly match anyone. I have used them twice and would recommend them to my best friend.

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Congratulations Jeff. The way you have been going, 2000 is just right around the corner.

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We really enjoy checking out your stats page as much as we can. The stats I check out the most is the finds-per-day. It lets me compete with myself to keep up the pace or try to increase it a little. Would it be possible to add a couple of more decimal places to this column? It makes me feel better when I go to 1.26 from a 1.25. This small change becomes harder to achieve the longer you have been caching. Thanks again for all your hard work.

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Thanks for the post. We have tried to get out as much as the winter weather permits. It’s kind of hard on the kids dressed up in the snowsuits, hats, gloves and facemasks and get them to walk a quarter mile in the snow.

We hope to reach the 1000 mark by my birthday (May 1st) and are right on target. We had hoped to be the next Wisconsin cachers to reach 1000 but that mean man in Pewaukee will beat us there and crushed our poor little children’s hearts

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