http://www.delorme.com/afterChristmasSale09/gpsdeals.htm

http://www.youtube.com/v/mTbpuQzMnxA

I think it is very unlikely that James Wernke was geocaching when he had his
very unfortunate accident, but it probably did occur somewhere very near my
"Prickly & Slippery" cache (#GC20HH9).  I know that because, while checking on
the cache, I ran into a woman posting signs for the missing dog on Friday and a
party setting out with picks and shovels to look again today.  For those
interested, I've revised my cache description and hints and posted an update log
that might be informative to you all.
Peydada (Barb)

We have scheduled the December version of VEPS for Sunday, December 6th.  For
this version, we will be doing a "hike pair" in Orange County.  One hike in the
morning, a different hike in the afternoon.

We will be doing a hike pair for one Earthcache and one Virtual next week near
El Toro and then Laguna Beach.  To start the morning, we will be meeting at the
Flash Mob in the Limelight Flash event set up by DopeyDuck-GC216FK at 8:00 AM in
the Portolo Hills (north of El Toro), then will be moving from there to the hike
for the Red Rock Canyon-Whiting Ranch Earthcache-GCQ0ZN.  The hike for this one
looks to be about 4 miles round trip, 600 elevation change.  There looks to be
about 5-6 caches, other than the Earthcache along the trail.  Once this hike is
completed, we will be heading over to the Pixy Stix, Pick up Stix and Sugar Fix
Flash Mob Event-GC216GV (also set up by DopeyDuck).  We will eat lunch here,
then head down to the Dripping Cache parking and hike.

The Dripping Cache Virtual-GC86A6 (near Laguna Beach) looks like a 4.5 mile
round trip hike (although I have information that it could be as much as 6) with
only about 200 net elevation change.  It looks like about 2-3 nearby caches near
or on the trail, not including the Virtual.

Let me know if you are interested in hiking with us for either or both hikes by
Thursday at 5:00PM!

Craig

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VEPS/

Well, I've been caching off and on for a while but, more off than on it seems.
Still a bit of a n00b.

Looking for a patient volunteer....and one who, at least this week, might be
interested in some crack-of-dawn caching....just be warned though - lately its
been very cold that hour of the day, cold for california anyway...

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

The 'Getting Started' page on geocaching.com has a link to a movie that appears
to feature geocaching in a positive light...

Teaser video with Geocaching scene
http://www.geocaching.com/about/

Main site for movie
http://www.splinterheadsthemovie.com/

Anybody heard any reviews or info on this?

Friends are visiting from Seattle -- caching newbies -- I would like to put
together a list of a dozen memorable OC caches -  4 of my favorites:

bajatym   Lamp Post High'd  and 5150

IWillFindIt!!  Valuable Fence

cacheflyer  Boeing Hi-tech cache

So nominate 1 of your own or your favorites.

Thanks,

tartanite

Hey Ryan!

Glad you found the group.  This is the place to come for answers to questions,
and to put together a cache run.  There is tons of experience, and oodles of
experience in this group, so if you have questions, ask away, someone will
answer.  And if you are going out caching, and want to hang out with some other
cachers, post a note here a couple days in advance, and someone is likely to
join you on whatever journey you plan. ;)

Hope to see ya soon!  Maybe Cache and Munchies run next week?
(Isn't it someone's Birthday soon? [;)])

Anyway, a big Welcome to the group.

--- In knock_cachers@yahoogroups.com, "Ryan" <ryan.caywood@...> wrote:
>
> Hello every one my name is ryan i go by whitey714 when i cache. I cache around
orange county so far i have been doing it for about 2 months i have met some
really cool people cacheing thanks for letting me join this group
>

Hello every one my name is ryan i go by whitey714 when i cache. I cache around
orange county so far i have been doing it for about 2 months i have met some
really cool people cacheing thanks for letting me join this group

I receintly acquired a netbook, to add to my geocaching arsenol.  One of the
minor problems I found with it is that Street Atlas and Topo 6 would not load
into it, due to the small screen size.

That has been changed with the latest releases to these two popular programs. 
They operate nicely with the small screen of the netbook.

That being said, there are a few problems.  Due to the small size screen, they
have a crowded display.  Topo is worse than SA, due to the larger quantity of
data they dispay.  If you use them normally, they are tolerable.

If you connect a GPS receiver to the computer (either a bluetooth puck or a
mouse puck) and use the GPS capabilities, they get very busy very fast.  Again,
Topo is much more crowded than SA.  Additionally, when you are displaying the
map with GPS information, the thing has a large blue stripe about an inch at the
bottom of the map to display the street name you are on.  It has some other
information along with the street name.  With such a small screen, this is
ENTIRELY TOO MUCH space for the amount of information it displays.  It should be
just one line instead of three, with better spacing of the information it is
displaying.

As far as the programs themselves, they are up to their usual top quality.  If
you are a user of GSAK, you can export your data to the Delorme programs, then
draw them in on the maps.  Very nice for street hunting, it gives you a GPS
display much larger than any of the current popular dash top units.

I use SA more for searching than Topo, but then I haven't been doing any real
off roading since setting the system up.  Overall, I have to say they are both
winners.  The only real problem I've seen is that large street display, but if
you minimize the GPS data display, it is tolerable.

We actually used geotagged photos in our trip guide fro Carbon Canyon (See
previous post) on everytrail.com.  The iPhone has this feature, and it is a cool
way to catalog photos, so you remember where you took them.  C loves to take
Sunrise/Sunset photos, so we can easily locate where she took the photo by
looking at the GeoTag.

--- In knock_cachers@yahoogroups.com, "alanfromsocal" <alanfromsocal@...> wrote:
>
> I don't know why, but Samsung made a digital camera with (among other things)
a GPS built in.  Seems like an odd combination, but I'm sure someone will figure
out a Geocaching application for it.
>
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/photography/digital-cameras/compact/EC-CL65ZZ\
BPBUS/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail
>