The Pastor & Pastor's Wife

I am a Cachly user, a GSAK user, Garmin GPS MAP62s, (now a Map64st) user, and iPhone user. I believe the gpsr more accurate than the iPhone, especially when I travel into a dead zone. So I began searching the internet, geo-forums, etc, for a way to export from Cachly on my iPhone to my Map64st. Most involved using Basecamp Mobile, which is gone and replaced with Garmin Connect. Although I couldn't figure out how to export through Connect. I did read some topics on this forum but none too helpful. So I did figure out 2 ways. One involves a lightning to MicroSD card. This involves taking the card out of the gpsr, install in in the lightning reader, exporting the gpx, then upnzipping it on the card, reinserting it and good to go. (more on the unzipping follows) The 2nd method lets you keep the card in the gpsr. Using a powered lightning to usb adapter, you can connect the iphone, gpsr, and external usb power, needed to power the iphone and keeping it from becoming overwhelmed by the current draw of the gpsr. When the gpsr is plugged in, I choose to access the Mass Storage. In Cachly, I choose the area (in live view) I want to gather caches. In this example, I kept reloading the page until I had 1300 geocaches. I exported and named the GPX file Caches. It took a while to download. I then export it into the MicroSD card under a folder named Garmin/GPX The export is done using a iOS program I downloaded free called iZip, which allows you to placed the caches.zip into many different folders - photos, documents, Google docs, Dropbox, etc, Since it sees the gpsr, I put it under the folder Garmin/GPX, although I could also store it in the internal gps just as easy in the same named folder, which is default on the gpsr. Once exported, I use iZip to unzip the GPX into the Garmin/GPX folder. Unplug the usb to gpsr cable, turn on the gpsr, and when it loads it has the 1300 caches loaded from Cachly and my iPhone. If I travel and leave the 1300 cache area, I can gather caches for the next area and repeat the process. I will use iZip to view the gpx files and delete them and the zip files from off the MicroSd. This allows me to leave the laptop and GSAK at home. I did not try this with my Map62 but suspect it will also work.

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I want to coattail on this. I used a Map60Cx since it first came out and was wondering what the new trend is these days. I haven't spent much time on the forum...been too busy caching. So what's the latest that you're using and what's so great about it?

Here's a recent story posted on the Pineywoods Cache Connection forum by Normasgirl. I was caching in the Dallas area with lostlookingforyou and we were excited to have some of The Barrow Gang caches on our to-do list. In addition, surrenderthebooty has a cache very nearby called "Stuck on You - In the Middle" and that was on our list first. So, we pulled up to the outside gate of Grove Hill Memorial Park and started chasing the needle. It led us toward the corner at first where we found a homeless guy "sleeping." He was surrounded by beer cans so we just thought he was passed out and sleeping it off. We then went into Super Silent Stealth Mode because we didn't want to wake him up and tiptoed over to where the cache actually was. I found the cache and took it over to The Don so that he could do the paperwork and The Dancing Half and I decided to check on the homeless guy. Hmmm...he doesn't appear to be breathing...and on closer inspection (which I will save you from because it was really GROSS!) it became apparent that this poor guy was dead. Dang! Time to call 911. NG: We're at the corner of Samuel and Grove Hill and we've found a homeless man in the cemetery and he's dead. 911: Is he injured? What makes you think he's dead? NG: He's not breathing (and I also told her about the GROSS stuff) 911: Is he Hispanic, Black, or White? NG: He's Hispanic or White - it's kind of hard to tell. (What difference does that make?Dang!) 911: What's he wearing? NG: A green t-shirt and khaki pants (Dang woman! He's not fleeing - he's dead! He's the only dead guy on top of the ground in the cemetery - why do you need to know what he's wearing?) 911: We'll dispatch someone right away. It's the fourth of July and there's no telling how long it's going to take for them to get here and the dead body was really starting to creep us out, so we decide to move to the inside of the cemetery where the other caches are and wait for the sirens. We went right by one of the caches so we made the find and were doing the paperwork when we heard the sirens, so we went back to the gate to wait. We flagged down the firetruck (why did they send a firetruck?) and ambulance (it's a little late for that!) just as my phone was ringing. It was a police officer on the way to the scene. PO: Why is someone from East Texas calling in a dead body in Dallas? NG: Uh...we're up here "visiting" (boy, am I glad I didn't have to explain that one! Who just "visits" in a cemetery?) and just happened to find it. PO: Is he injured or traumatized? NG: No sir, he's dead. PO: Well, I guess he decided to cut out the middle man. NG: Yes sir, I guess he did. (It was all I could do to not burst out laughing - I couldn't believe he said that!!!) The firetruck and ambulance are already here. PO: I'm about 20 minutes out so I'll be there soon. At this point, we asked the fire department guys if they needed us to stay and they said "No, he's dead!" so we went on to the other caches inside the cemetery. We were a little shaken up but there was nothing we could do for the poor guy, so we decided to not let this ruin our caching day. After we finished the rest of the caches inside, we drove back out the way we came in. The firetruck was gone, the ambulance was gone, there were now 2 police cars there, and the dead body was STILL THERE!!! Oh my gosh! We couldn't get out of there fast enough. Today was a day that we will never forget. lostlookingforyou hit 3000, I hit 4400, and we were FTF on a dead body. Do you think geocaching.com will give us a special icon for it?

I'll add my bit...I, too, wish there was a way to PQ archived caches, if only to elimante them from my gsak database. Case in point, I regularly delete all disabled caches from the database knowing that if they do not return with the next pq then most likely they have been archived. But while doing a cache run in Leesville, La, we came upon one that was not disabled but had several DNF's. Regardless of that we stopped an looked a few minutes but decided that if "that" cacher didn't find it, it probably wasn't there. Once I got back home I looked at the cache on-line and discovered that it went from active to archived with no disabled in the middle. That eliminated my way of taking care of archived caches since it never disabled in GSAK. The reason for the drastic change was the owner had moved away and just was no longer able to take care of the cache. Had I been able to run a pq for the area for archived caches I this one would have shown up.

"Woman, I decided we needed this new GPS and that's that!" While you're in the hospital getting over the concussion she'll have some time to cache on her own with the 60cx and come to learn and appreciate it's beauty and simplistic design. You might not be able to get it away from her once your stitches are out.

That's got it. Thanks!

My pc crashed last weekend and I had to reinstall the OS and all programs. I've noticed that when I export caches into Mapsource that I now have large nav-aid icons (which I like) but on my laptop I still have the small ones. I cannot figure out what happened and how to also get the larger icons on the laptop. Does anyone have any ideas?

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We usually go together but sometimes I'll catch a new one at lunch. She doesn't mind me doing that however I don't like to go on a big day of caching without her. Someone has to operate the pda.

Maybe it's lame but this is one of mine: (not over)(not large)(george w) Of course, 10 years from now new cachers may say, "Who is George W.?" and think Washington instead.

Hey, thanks jackrock! I'm going after that cache today and now I know what to look for! As to the original post, I've seen some hints that are scrammbled up before encryption so you have to unencrypt AND unscrammble the hint. That can add some time.

Here's one of our local cachers. He'll help hide, find, plan an event, and even do some pc work. All you have to do is feed him.

I'm in my prime at 50. She's prime too at 47.

I thought the idea behind TB's was to move from cache to cache but I guess I missed the memo on the change. I had some TB's go missing and emailed everyone that had them in their possessions, some since last summer. One cacher told me he place it at Maceday lake in Michigan and listed some coordinates. I searched and located the cache, emailed that owner with all of the information and this is what he found out. The TB wasn't in a cache at all, just laying beside a boatramp, behind a boulder, under a pine tree and several inches of snow. What? So we don't have to place TB's in caches anymore? Just toss 'em out on the ground somewhere and list the coords? The cacher shows to have only 1 find and that was the one the TB was in. Anyway, I appreciate the Michigan cacher that went out of his way and out in a Michigan winter to find my TB. That's the true nature of cachers, to help each other.

I did some TB inventory and found out that some of mine had been in the hands of a cacher since last July. So I wrote to each of them to verify this because sometimes a bug will get dropped in a cache and not get logged. But this is a corker. One cacher, where abouts unknown, wrote me back with this: I dropped off this travel bug while traveling to Michigan. There was a nice lake, and although it is frozen over this time of year, it will have plenty of fisherman come spring. N 42.681623333 W 083.42961500 Extra hints in a follow up note. The follow up note says: Hint: Matthew 4:19 travel bug location. N 42.681623333 W 083.42961500 Dropped off travel bug at "Maceday lake launch access" parking lot. TB was placed behind fourth large boulder from the right. Underneath and pine tree. And, directly between parking lot and the lake. So I emailed the owner of the Madeday Lake cache. He traveled out in the cold Michigan weather to find the bug. Here is his first response: Tim I just put the coordinates in to Google earth. It is not in a cache at all and not quite where I at first thought it was. It is in a public access parking lot for Maceday lake and is almost two miles as the crow fly's from the cache I thought it was near. I am going to give it a try in a moment or two. Jim He then went out to the spot and found the TB. It is found, I have it sitting here on my desk. I will go head and grab it and try to get it back in to a cache as soon as I can. The public access site it was in is a spot I fish every chance I get during the summer months. I am a bit surprised that it had not been placed in a cache, it was quite literally placed behind a rock with a pine tree over hanging it. The travel bug was well hidden the saving grace here was the description in the logs for the Travel bug, despite it being under an inch of snow. The information sheet is wet, with your permission I would like to print a new one and laminate it. And put in a new zip lock bag. The cacher that originally grabbed the bug from a cache in California, THE ONLY CACHE HE HAS EVER FOUND, and he dropped it, litterally, in Michigan. I am so thankful to Jim for taking time to find this TB for me. That's the true nature of a cacher.

Here's the wife and me in the flamingo choking contest at a cache event.

I ordered a PDA keyboard from Provantage got it the next day with ground shipping. I was pleasantly surprised.

I noticed some display problems with IE7 so much so I uninstalled it and went back to using IE6

For the wife and me, it can take a boring, stiff 5 hour drive and turn it into a fun filled, relaxing 12 hour drive. We plan vacations with caching in mind. It takes us to out of the way places we wouldn't have seen and historic sites we would have missed.

You buy a new, high-tech gspr only to sale it off next spring for the newer, high-tech gpsr. And you do this every year!

Let me add another... Oh, no, not a roadside park cache. Where the gpsr will lead you down a "poop" trail.

So the wife and I are driving along and I inquire about a cache appearing on the gpsr. She looks it up on the pda and says, "Oh, noooo! Not a cache owners name) cache!" Well known for tossing 35mm behind logs, not maintaining or replacing missing caches. We usually pass them up unless brand new or someone found it within the last week.

There was the time the wife and I were heading to a local geocaching meet/event which started at noon. We left the house early to go to Shreveport to the Bass Pro to get a part for the Ram mount. We would then make it back to the event before the start. On the way to the Bass Pro I turned on the gps. Big mistake! There were 5 new caches for us to FTF. We did and kept on caching. We did make it to Bass Pro (I really needed the mount part) but then cached the rest of the day and never made the event. I had some explaining to do to my fellow cachers that were looking for us to make an appearance. Oh well! That's what caching is all about...turning on the gps. I just fight the temptation to do it on Sunday mornings when I'm dressed for church.

I never found an answer to this question. I'm having the same problem and would also like the new icons on mapsource. Does anyone know how to do it.?