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@cheezehead wrote:

Just made a challange for tonight’s event. I may get slapped afterwords thou!
http://coord.info/CX66

you got a kink in your link….. try this:
http://www.geocaching.com/challenges/view.aspx?cx=CX66

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@Walkingadventure wrote:

Just logged my 300th Challenge from my office chair. I am awesome and feel better for it too.

Dang you! only up to 30 so far, BUT, we are focusing on Germany 😈 😈

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@Braid Beards Gang wrote:

Really???

At first glance, this seems poor. It will be interesting to see how this concept evolves. It appears that the challenges will not be counted as “finds”.

Do Challenges increase my Geocaching.com find count?

Yes. Challenge completions and geocache finds are combined in your total stats count. However, you can hover over anyone’s count to see how many caches and challenges the user has found and completed.

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From the FAQ’s

How do I prove that I completed a Challenge?
Challenges run on the honor system. Say you completed it? We believe you. After all, you’re only cheating yourself!

Run numbers, Run! (insert stinky skunk emoticon here)

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So, looks like this is how the Virtuals are being brought back. Fits the promised timing, but looks like a very different twist, at least from the promo cartoon we’ve seen. Although, there were all those gnarly Phooning Virtuals………………….:smile: 🙂

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@Ashen15 wrote:

My favorite was the fishing cache because I was the only one who believed GZ was in the water and was willing to do the wading!

You mean this one? At this point, seemed like all caches were in the water 😉

Shawnee6570 after ‘noodling’ the grab, while goirish looks on

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@huffinpuffin2 wrote:

@sweetlife wrote:

We never even took the book with us, only the stamp card. never even looked at the book, all the info is in the GPS that you need, even if you only have coords, get close follow the trail, repeat at the next cache, no book needed.

If it is made part of the book, please make it removeable so that I only have to carry it.

Perhaps using a GPX-loaded gps makes the booklet obsolete, but we find the book invaluable when caching ‘old-style’……using a non-paperless gps. Since we do not get cache info ahead of time, and if you only have an etrex or something else that just shows LOC’s, the book is a perfect complement of cache info (eg hints, size, D/T, back-up coords for when your gps shorts-out in the rain) for use on the trail. And, it’s where we put our notes for writing logs.

Recommendation we have, is to print them on waterproof (monsoon-proof) ‘paper’, and hand out underwater pens 🙂

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@sweetlife wrote:

We never even took the book with us, only the stamp card. never even looked at the book, all the info is in the GPS that you need, even if you only have coords, get close follow the trail, repeat at the next cache, no book needed.

If it is made part of the book, please make it removeable so that I only have to carry it.

Perhaps using a GPX-loaded gps makes the booklet obsolete, but we find the book invaluable when caching ‘old-style’……using a non-paperless gps. Since we do not get cache info ahead of time, and if you only have an etrex or something else that just shows LOC’s, the book is a perfect complement of cache info (eg hints, D/T, back-up coords for when your gps shorts-out in the rain) for use on the trail. And, it’s where we put our notes for writing logs.

Recommendation we have, is to print them on waterproof (monsoon-proof) ‘paper’, and hand out underwater pens 🙂

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A little on and a little off topic:

Has anyone used the SPOT Satellite Communicator feature? Have considered getting the PN60w because of this feature, as we occasionally end up without phone communications.

Or does anyone use some other means to accomplish this? Thanks

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😎
~3^2 100^.5 ln59874.14172………………….. ????

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@David Cantrell wrote:

I made my 1000th find 08/12 at the West Bend Cache Ba$h! Yeah!!!! So what color is the jacket???

Congratulations David! And still a white and straight jacket for you! :boulet:

Hmmmmmmm. Why does it always seem to pour when we cache by you? Hmmmmm? Must admit, they’re always memorable events! 😉 😉

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@cheezehead wrote:

I think I was told that with the 450, you can not share wirelessly, but I’m not positive it was the 450 he had.

Our 450 shares wirelessly…..but don’t yet know what…… There was another Oregon that was trying to talk to it in West Bend……asking for a date perhaps?…..but we declined the invitation. 😯

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Worked perfectly! Even in the rain! Thanks! :oui: :oui:

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Bump :blush:

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@Trekkin and Birdin wrote:

Trekkin’s beloved Map60CSx is literally falling apart and held together with tape. The writing’s on the wall. He’s looking at the Oregon 450. He wants the capability to run WhereIGos, so the newer ones are out. I have a 300 already, which he used in South Dakota.

What can others tell us about this one? TIA

Specific to Wherigo. We used both the 300 and 450 on a lengthy Wherigo. They were comparable, but found the ‘red go-that-away arrow’ hard to see on the 450, but fine on the 300. But really did not like having only the distance and arrow functions to tell us where to go. Don’t think you’ve made the leap to a smartphone yet, but have heard that doing Whereigo’s on an Android provides a single view that includes a decent map, the target destination, and your current location.

Additionally, having now compared our smartphone to the 450, the ability to review lengthy cache descriptions and previous logs is really slow with the 450…..it displays gpx file contents painfully slow, once you’re used to the speed of current smart phone tech. You may think speed is over-rated, but the more time spent waiting for the 450 to do its thing, equates to less time to get on down the trail and smell the roses. FWIW

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