[sipafz]

I just got a 1490T (Amazon $166) and have found that it will except pocket queries and up to 10 routes in GPX format. It’s gonna make my life easier and safer, now I can watch the road instead of squinting at my handheld.

Jack

[sipafz]

Like it or not there can be only one first to find. You either found it or you didn’t. Really, what’s the difference? I love new caches and always try to score an FTF whenever possible. For me it’s the excitement of getting out and experiencing a bit of the unknown. Sometimes I find them, sometimes they have already been found and even sometimes I can’t find them at all. It’s all good! I all love to watch and read the logs when I release a new cache. Lately the FTF activity has been very high in my area. My new caches have been attracting half dozen logs or more in the first 24 hours. We are very lucky to have a colorful group of cachers and some really good hiders in Ozaukee County. Regarding the original post, goirish75 found my new hide first! Be proud of the fact that you got it before the other cacher because the odds were definitely against you! And don’t worry about the other guy; he will add many more FTF’s to the 40 or 50 that he already has.

Jack

[sipafz]

Energysaver has a thread in the announcement section of this forum that refers to the Treasures of Oz and appears to know the person that is placing the new “ToO” caches. My guess is that Ranger Andy from Harrington Beach is doing the placing, but I can not say for sure. I think that there are now five ToO caches released and probably more to come in the near future. It does not seem like they are going to have some kind of organized cache hunt since they have been slowly releasing them.

Jack

[sipafz]

Sorry to here about your spill. I’m always around and in the area. Just drop a line.

-Jack-

[sipafz]

Being members of the Riveredge Nature Center in Ozaukee County we get a monthly news letter. My wife says that they are having a free family intro to geocaching and ask if I would like to go. At the time I was doing something like changing the oil, cutting the grass or something important. I think my reply was along the lines of “Are you kidding me? Like I have time for that.” Of course she then played the “kid card” and found myself at the nature center the following weekend. After some instruction we were out finding some temporary caches that were hidden on the grounds by the staff. My six year old daughter caught on real quick and really enjoyed finding the treasure boxes. A day later I was asking my brother to borrow his GPS that he uses for hunting and fishing. We went looking for our first cache on September 27th 2009 and DNF’ed the first attempt. We did find a few others and were hooked ever since. During the last 8 months we have found 429 with 21 being FTF’s and hidden 41 of our own. The ironic thing is that Mom was the one to expose us to the hobby and still shows no interest. That ok because it’s a great way to spend quality time with my daughter. As for that elusive first attempt, well we finial found that bugger recently as our 404 find. It only took about ten trips and five hours of looking. Someday we wont be newbies anymore.

Jack

[sipafz]

KMK:
I remember that redwinger had the same or similar problem a few months ago. If I remember right it had to do with long cache names that are the same for the first 20 or so characters. Try loading the first cache and then rename using your unit. Then try the second.

sipafz – Jack

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jerrys dad wrote:

Is anyone other than me still having problems with GC.com? I can’t get search pages to come up without and error coming up. I lose the page to a IE error page. This happen I would say 9 out of 10 times I try to search. It doesn’t matter the search type either. When I refresh it always takes me back to page 1 of the search.
Any ideas?

I (and some in my circle) had some problems about two months ago that sound similar to what you have described. I was using IE6 and had to upgrade to IE7 or FireFox to regain GC.com functionality.

Jack

[sipafz]

@EnergySaver wrote:

I just need to vent … I have 10 caches at Harrington, 3 in ammo boxes, the rest in “lesser” containers. Some cacher did all 10 of my caches today, to discover that the 3 there were ammo boxes, the cache contents were dumped at the location (log book, trinkets, and TB) and the ammo boxes taken. While the other 7 caches were just fine. Grrrrr!

The nice thing … the cacher turned in all the “remains” of the caches to the Ranger … thank you!

Some Cacher here – AKA sipafz – Jack: We (Dazzo and I) were bummed to find that the boxes were pillaged. We picked everything up, dug around the snow to make sure we did not miss anything and turned the stuff into Ranger Andy (less T.B.s which we took & logged). I talked with Ranger Andy for a good half hour. He was very interested and wanted here all about our adventure in his park. It’s not possible that he took the boxes to avoid confrontation. He seemed very concerned and wanted to know the status of the rest of the hides. He was also grateful that we stopped in and said that he would contact you immediately so you could make your plans to fix and release.

Thanks again Enerysaver for taking the time to place and maintain these caches! We did have a great time in the park and will be back to finish the quarry bridge multi after the thaw!

Jack

[sipafz]

You might be right, but the following web sight: http://www.fws.gov/letsgooutside/ discusses geocaching and has an event planned on Federal managed land:

Try Geocaching

Saturday, March 27 − Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, Illinois

What’s geocaching, you ask? Come find out and cure your cabin fever with an outdoor adventure and treasure hunt, starting from the Ingersoll Wetlands Learning Center. All ages and skill levels welcome. Bring your own GPS unit or borrow one from the refuge. Both morning and afternoon sessions are available with a reservation. Learn more about geocaching at http://www.geocaching.com/ and type in the GC Code: GC22FNG.

So maybe these area’s are open?

Jack

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