TheGreatEvie

The "Advanced Search" was recently updated to 'play better' with Bookmark Lists. You can read more about it here: Release Notes - March 23, 2016 Essentially, you can run an Advanced Search and then click the "circled plus" symbol next to the caches you want to have in a List. When you click on that "circled plus" symbol, then you'll be able to add that single cache to 'an existing list' or 'create a new list' right away. You can also check-mark several caches and add them all to a 'an existing list' or 'create a new list'. Worth checking out. Ahhhhh, much better, thanks for the heads up

I'm assuming you've tried uninstalling the app, then hard rebooting the phone (holding power & home buttons down until apple logo appears and it reboots) to clear the RAM, then re-installing the app? Runs fine on my 6 with 9.3.1 (apart from being a bit pants compared to the "Classic" app) but 6s hardware is obviously different.

I'm starting to come round to PQ's in theory, but still think i'll use a mix of both methods, I just worry that a PQ is going to miss out caches because I've not got the settings correct or it exceeds the limits of the search. Bookmark Lists I find to be entirely too longwinded to create. The one feature I really love about the original iPhone app, was the ability to do an Advanced Search using keywords. This was spot on for selecting a series of caches and then saving to an offline list all at once, rather than having to go and select each one individually and add to a list. If there's a way to do that from the website or the "new" app I've yet to find it.

Thankyou both, worked a treat once I split it into four date ranges, I now have full coverage with a total of 1,745 caches I'll be happy to find just one or two so I can drop off a travelbug

Thanks for that, i'll give it a go

Right, first some background info. We holiday in Mallorca once or twice a year, we hire a car and generally drive around to various places sightseeing/exploring etc. If we're in the mood we'd like to geocache (only happened once so far ) as we're not the "sit on the beach" types. As I don't have computer-type access to the internet when there, I thought a PQ would do the trick, so last year I set one up based around a roughly central point on the island with an 80 mile radius. It would seem that doing it this way is running into the 1000 cache limit as out at the extremes of the radius I'm missing a lot of caches. Now, my question is this; If I set say two PQ's from different central points with overlapping radiuses/radii (whichever is the plural ) will I have a problem with duplicate caches on my GPS, or is it smart enough to disregard duplicates? hope that makes sense

Yup, just the same on the Etrex 30 you can also go Map > Menu Button > Setup Map > scroll to Map Information: Select Map & then Enable or Disable I do like your Profile suggestion though, very useful

as stated above, like an idiot I deleted the track so cant test will revisit this once I have a new one

with all due respect, you cache your way, and i'll cache mine part of the fun for me is organising the trip, I don't want or need thousands of caches on my GPS. We're not in this for the stats or bragging rights to how many caches we've found. Its all about spending quality time with my daughter in the outdoors, not sat at home with her glued to one screen or another. Having said that, I do have a PQ set up as we holiday in Mallorca quite a lot and don't know where we'll end up from day to day, so I have one set to grab them all, which I do have a problem with but that's for another thread

I do my Etrex 30 similarly to Meow&Purr; open the actual cache page select the "GPX File" option save them to my desktop copy the .gpx files to the GPX folder on the Garmin delete found caches from Garmin once back at home any DNF or unattempted are then stored in .zip or .rar files on the Garmin for next time (I only have GPX files for the planned trips live) these have to be replaced with more up-to-date downloads on the day of attempting due to updates in log files etc. but it helps me keep track of which files I need. In the past I have tried using the "Send to GPS" function when you get the cache pop-up from the map or the "Send to My GPS" on the cache page, although it does send the file to the Garmin I often found they did not show up or not all the data was written hence why I use the slower but IMO safer method above. I'm sure once you get to grips with how things work you'll develop a method that works best for you

The Etrex is running the latest 4.30 software and has been since it was released, BaseCamp is the latest 4.6.2 which is a more recent update than the GPS itself, which is why I was leaning towards BaseCamp being at fault. Interesting you mention that fault and how to remedy the track, because thinking back I remember a few times I've had to edit stray points off the track from forgetting to clear the last point in a 3rd party program, which would then force BaseCamp to recalculate the distances I suppose. Perhaps the bug was not as fixed as Garmin hoped Sadly I deleted the track yesterday so cant test your fix, but will give it a go next time. Also due to having the batteries out to charge them I've re-calibrated the compass too, probably won't make any difference but you never know.

I've recently noticed that Garmin BaseCamp is giving incorrect distances on saved tracks. When we go caching I always clear the track data before we start, and then after a series or the ones we've selected to find I then save the track to open in BaseCamp later. Finding the distance we've covered is an extra encouragement/goal for my daughter to keep her interested in being outdoors rather than glued to some form of screen indoors. We also do the same thing when out mountainbiking, which is how I noticed the discrepancy. Yesterday I cycled a route round some reservoirs that I've done before with my daughter, I know its roughly 10 and a little bit miles round. I reset the track as normal, had good signal, then popped the Etrex 30 in my backpack and set off. On getting back to the car, I saved the track and again cleared the data. On arriving home, I plugged the Etrex into the PC then opened BaseCamp to look at the track, imagine my surprise when the track summary tells me I've travelled 26.8 miles. Now, my immediate thought was somehow I'd not cleared the previous data correctly and a stray point was adding a huge chunk of mileage, but no, all is as it should be. I went ahead and uploaded the track to Strava as I usually do, and sure enough Strava reports the correct distance of 10.1 miles So my only conclusion, is that BaseCamp is calculating it incorrectly. Has anyone else come across this??

We're no stranger to wet weather in the UK but this year has been particularly bad, and speaking as someone who's yet to hide any caches, I'm not filled with optimism at the chances of whatever we hide staying dry and envision a lot of maintenance trips in the future. Ammo cans seem to do a good job, but here they seem to be prohibitively expensive and due to the size not ideal for UK hides. Clip-lock boxes seem about 50/50 depending on the initial quality of the seal and how they are treat in the wild by cachers (if you drop a rock on plastic, it's gonna crack). Bison tubes again seem 50/50, you either get a nice dry log, or a tightly-rolled wet mess. Magnetic nano's, just don't get me started

indeed I was interested, and if I'm honest, surprised at the "somebody elses problem" attitude of most of the replies perhaps its just a UK thing, or more accurately a Yorkshire thing in my case, to want to help out. If the container is compromised then i'd expect the CO to go and replace it, but if its wet due to being improperly sealed by another cacher or exposed to the elements and I can remedy that for the next cacher because i'm on the spot, I don't see as I'm "enabling" by saving someone a journey.

Thanks for all the replies so far, nothing is ever cut and dried is it Actually managed to save a soaked one the other day, due to us doing it drive-by style and being able to use the car's heater, we were quite proud of ourselves as it was almost mush. Generally it seems to be the one's on an out-of-the-way series that are the worst affected (sod's law). We've decided to start carrying new logs in our kit, we already replace split bags if the log isn't too damp, sadly at the minute the weather just isn't up to being able to dry existing ones out "in the field". I suppose then i'll just bring the wet ones home, dry them out, scan and attach to the log as pics, hopefully that will appease most people. Again, thanks for all your input

You know how it is, especially with the current run of lovely weather we're having in the UK, you find a cache and the plastic bag (if there is one) is destroyed from use and the log is soaked and un-signable. I've seen some online entries saying "replaced log" and just wondered what the process was? Is it helpful, or should you just flag it with "Needs Maintenance" and leave it to the CO? We've started to carry replacement bags of varying sizes in our cache-kit and have now replaced or added bags to a couple of caches where the log was not too bad, but what do you do when the log is a soggy mess? Just after peoples opinions and routines when they do this, I'm all for helping out and keeping caches alive and appreciate people can't always easily get back to their hides, but also don't want to get on the wrong side of CO's. Would also be interesting to know what style/size of logs you carry as spares if you do replace them. thanks in advance for any info

Oh, ok guess i'll have to solve any nearby caches before working out hides then in future. i'll have to pray that either they're not too clever, or I'm not too thick

Just a quick question for clarification. Does the 0.1 mile rule apply to the Puzzle co-ordinates, or the solved corrected co-ordinates? thanks

This just sounds kind of funny to me. "A phone's drawback is you have to plan ahead for offline." "A GPS doesn't need data but you have to plan ahead." Talk about misquoting, did you even read it before cutting bits out to change the meaning? If you HAVE NO DATA SIGNAL you need to have saved earlier for offline use. If you HAVE A DATA SIGNAL you're fine. See where I'm coming from? When we're caching on local moorland, the cell signal often vanishes completely, leaving the app with no map data, no way of loading more info, no way of posting logs. That to me is a drawback.

We started out with just the iPhone app which served us well until we knew we liked the hobby, we then purchased a Garmin Etrex 30 to be more serious about it. If I'm honest both have Pros & Cons, which is why when out in the field(s) we still use both. A phone's main drawback is you wont always have data or signal, so unless you planned ahead and saved everything ready for offline use its limited. A GPS unit requires no data signal & IMO has more accuracy, but planning ahead is key. You cant access the internet and add new files when on the go.

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