[Todd300]

I use Firefox. I will not ever use IE again.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/

You can find Firefox there.

And make sure your antivirus is up to date. Sounds like something’s messing with your computer.

[Todd300]

I’m only picking up some that are right on US 2 such as waysides and the trip to Traverse City will be in late February or early March. So I might get lucky and have some snow melt away.

[Todd300]

I’m not fond of using cables to make transfers of any sort. I’ve always used my SD card to transfer files between my PDA and my computer and when I finally get around to getting a handheld GPS (I use my PDA with a bluetooth GPSr for caching), the handheld will definitely have an SD card slot so I can continue to make transfers this way.

I do the same thing with my digital camera. I never use the cable that came with the camera.

It’s so much quicker. Pop out the card from the PDA, load card in computer, send files to card, load card into PDA and I’m ready to go.

I do the same thing with my Nuvi, which has an SD card slot as well.

[Todd300]

The 365 Day challenge that I’m talking about is that you need to have at least 1 find on each day of a calendar year over the course of your geocaching career. Actually it should be 366 days when you factor in Leap Years.

If you look at my profile and see my 365 day grid, you will see that I have a lot of holes to fill, but I only started caching of april of this year. Come next April, I’ll be planning to cache on the days that I did not cache this year so I can fill in those grids. It will probably take me quite a few years to do it and the winter months (Dec-Feb) will be the toughest to fill in the grid for obvious reasons unless I go south 😉

Hope I make sense here.

I doubt anyone has done 365 days in a row, but I could be wrong.

[Todd300]

Well, I have some modest goals right now. They are as follows:

1) Get all 13 counties in the UP of Michigan. I’ve got 3 (Menominee, Delta, Dickinson) thus far and will get more once my kids start their high school bowling season next month. We’ll be going up to Bruce Crossing, L’anse, and Marquette among others. Then we have Michigan state regionals in Traverse City, so I’ll get more counties on US Highway 2 along the way to the Big Mac Bridge. Not sure how many more counties there are after I pass through Delta County on US 2. Then I’ll get the Western UP in the spring with a possible goal of getting the Norich View for my 400th.

2) I don’t think I’ll ever get all 72 counties in Wisconsin. That will take me years as I don’t have time to drive that much. For example, to get to the extreme southwest corner of WI like near the Iowa border, that will take me 7 hours minimum – without stopping. I don’t think there is a macro for GSAK to tell me what counties that I’ve found so far, so I’ll have to go to INATN to upload “My Finds”, but I think as of today, I have 6 counties completed in WI. So I have a ways to go yet.

3) Delorme sounds complicated, Trudy. I have no desire to pick up a book to see what pages I need to get. I’ll skip that.

4) As for the 365 day challenge, It will also be years before I find one cache for each day of the year. I’ve only started caching this past April. But I do have one small goal and that is to find at least one cache for each numeral day of a month. According to my GSAK stats, I have never made a find of the 15th, the 18th, or the 31st of any month. I’ll have the 31st crossed off my list this weekend when I go after #300 overall. It looks like I won’t get the 15th or 18th next month as I work on both days next month, so we’ll see when I get those days crossed off my list.

5) As for getting all 50 states, that will never happen. The last time I’ve been to a state other than the ones bordering WI was when I went to FL for Spring Break back in 1986. The Detroit Lions has a better chance of winning a Super Bowl than me getting all 50 states – lol. So I set a more realistic goal of getting the oldest cache in each of the states bordering WI. The one in MI may be a problem though because I need a boat to get to it. It’s near Traverse City. But I think I can get the others.

6) A major numbers run. The most I’ve found in one day is only 21 caches. I feel I can at least double that sometime next summer when I can get more daylight. I had a great run just this past Monday when I found 8 WSQ’s of Sweetlifes in just 2 hours. I figure if I can find a dense area and plan it just right, I can do that pace for an entire day from dusk to dawn and end up with 50+ finds in one day I’ll probably go to West Bend for this run, though I’ll do it sometime in June, not at the Cache Bash.

7) Finally….a D5 cache…to date, I have never found a D5, thought I’ve yet to even attempt one. I doubt I’ll complete the grid for the well rounded cacher, but I do want an opportunity to get at least one D5. As for a T5, that usually takes special equipment like a boat or climbing gear, so I usually skip T5’s.

Well, there you have it. Those are my goals for right now.

[Todd300]

I don’t carry any TOTT’s with me, but I guess I should. At the very least I should carry a tweezers to get those logs out of bisons and nanos, then a log roller to roll up the logs with after signing. Rolling nano logs are a pain in the @ss, especially if it is a very long strip.

(TOTT – Tools of the Trade)

[Todd300]

*post deleted * wrong thread – lol

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I don’t even have an actual handheld. I use my PDA with a bluetooth GPSr and caching software on my PDA.

And I vouch for Bartrod’s Lowrance. I’ve cached with him a few times and he’s beaten me to the punch on many caches – lol.

[Todd300]

I could not use my nuvi even in pedestrian mode. One day I was at a park and my handheld died..so I had to go back to the nuvi and try it with that..didn’t work for me..I sat in my car for a little bit to let the handheld charge then went out to look for the cache at the park (which I found).

The Nuvi is only good to take to parking spots and road side caches such as the Top Spot series.

[Todd300]

Maybe I’ll run into you if I go there. All depends how my local high school football team does in the playoffs as well as the local semipro football team.
The semipro team played today, but I didn’t go to that game due to illness, so I don’t know if they won. If they did, they play at Ripon college.

As for my high school team, if they advance to the playoffs, I’ll be seeing them play instead up north, so I won’t go to Ripon in that case. i’ll know more after October 31st.

[Todd300]

Wouldn’t they be in a craft store or a craft department at Wally World?

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If a few factors fall into my lap the way I think they will, I might be in Ripon in a couple weeks for a football game. While I’m there, I might as well hit that series. Is it anywhere near Ripon College? That’s where I’m going to the game.

[Todd300]

I always forget to take log sheets with me when I go out caching. But I do plan on printing out a whole bunch of sheets and put them in a folder and put the folder in my back pack. Then I’ll replace other logs as needed. I also have those little bags from the craft department at Wallyworld.

In addition, there are a few caches in my area that are owned by others who don’t live here, so I help maintain those caches for them..I replaced one log book that was wet for Sweetlife and one of Bartrod’s caches went missing, so I replaced that cache for him as well.

I’m doing a maintenance run this weekend on my caches due to the rains we are getting. More info on that on my blog.

[Todd300]

Just had mine yesterday.

More info on this blog post –

http://deafcacher.blogspot.com/2009/10/020-caching-recap.html

[Todd300]

Way to go, Sandlanders. Hope to run into you on the trails someday.

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