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StClairC

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  1. StClairC

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    24 and cache with my girlfriend who is 25. Our life used to consist of alot of sitting watching tv or movies and GC is a nice little change from all that. I'm even tan again!
  2. I got a palm m100 with a USB adapter for less than $10 on ebay and it works perfect. The only problem I can see in the future is the lack of a memory card slot but I can run pocket queries often enough to whatever specific area I'll be in where I don't need to have thousands of caches sitting on there at all times.
  3. I was actually introduced when I ran into a couple cachers. We were coming back from camping at Annett's Mono Village and my girlfriends mom has a thing for cool rocks (she likes to put them in her garden) so we headed up to the area where Obsidian Dome 2 (i think that was the name) was. On our way down we saw another car pull up with Geocaching stickers all over them. We got to talking to them and were introduced to caching. They offered for us to go with them, but it was a steep climp and we didn't feel like making it again When we got home we came onto the website, checked it out and within a week started doing it. Oddly enough, now that I am actually out caching, I haven't seen anyone since.
  4. While that might be what it actually is, it seems that most people do not use that label to signify that is should be tried at night. I just did a PQ using that attribute and 19 out of the first 20 were ones that no bearing whether it was done at night or during the day - just the fact that it COULD be done at that time.
  5. Is there any way to specifically search for night caches? I haven't seen it, but I may be missing something completely obvious. I would love to be able to stop and do one when i get off of work at midnight some of these nights.
  6. You know, i felt the same way when I first started. I thought everyone was watching me and it was actually fairly uncomfotable. Just wait, in a couple months you'll be standing on a busy street corner, bent down, looking through the bushes and feel perfectly normal.
  7. Thanks. Checked all the suggestions after 2) and they all are set up the same way as I have it. Time to scour the GSAK forums
  8. I am having a problem loading info from GSAK to my Garmin Extrex Vista connected via serial port. I have tried both COM1 & COM3 ports but it does not seem to work. I have read alot about ports being hi-jacked by other programs - but I downloaded EasyGPS, loaded my pocket query into there and it loaded to my Garmin just fine so I don't think that is the problem. I like the interface of GSAK better than EasyGPS(mostly cause of the GoogleMaps on there) and would rather use that - but if I can't get it to load to my GPS then there is really no choice. I'm not quite sure if I need to configure my GSAK differently or if its a hardware issue.
  9. I can't help you with that one. You might get better results in the GPS Units and Software Forum Also, GSAK has it's own Forum Thanks - I'll give it a shot over there.
  10. Don't mean to hijack this thread, but with a GSAK question thread at the top of the forums there is no use to start another one. I am having a problem loading info from GSAK to my Garmin Vista connected via serial port. I have tried both COM1 & COM3 ports but it does not seem to work. I have read alot about ports being hi-jacked by other programs - but I downloaded EasyGPS, loaded my pocket query into there and it loaded to my Garmin just fine so I don't think that is the problem. I like the interface of GSAK better than EasyGPS(mostly cause of the GoogleMaps on there) and would rather use that - but if I can't get it to load to my GPS then there is really no choice.
  11. I don't use it yet, but I just purchased a Palm M105 off of Ebay for $6.50 (it was $1.50, but got bid up in the last few minutes) - $15.00 with shipping and all. Just got a premium membership yesterday and am playing around with it until my PDA arrives. I must say its nice to see 500 waypoints in my GPS without my hands being numb and fingers bleeding from typing them all in I seem to be leaning towards GSAK & Cachemate, just cause they seem the most popular and I would be able to get the most support with them.
  12. Perhaps if it was a 50-stage virtual I would think about it - I've done the Disneyland ones before which were something around 15. But there is just too much of a chance that one of the finds would be gone/destroyed/whatever for me to want to start a 50 stage cache.
  13. I blew my engine on my 1997 Toyota Corolla a few months back and when i took it in to get it replaced my michanic said I had the dirtiest underside to any Corolla he'd ever seen. I can't help but think caching had a little to do with that But now it's cleaned, has a 2004 engine and my bionic-geo-beast rides again!
  14. A thread to pad my horribly lost post count? I'm in! Been caching for awhile, not many finds but I'm picking up the regularity recently. The forums look fun - I really need to just jump in and take whatever it shoots back at me.
  15. You should jump out of the car right now, sludge through the mud (i mean, you're already dirty, so why not?), get there before him and be waiting at the cache when he gets there. You will earn about a million billion awesome points and it will help your relationship alot more than sulking in the car posting on this messageboard.
  16. Has anyone tried using an IPod for wireless caching? I would imagine that screen capturing the cache page would work fairly well for caches with short descriptions that all fit onto one page. Plus you get to rock out while I cache Although, I am alittle leery of bringing it out into the field but my Action Jacket should protect it fairly well.
  17. While it isn't exactly the most efficient way to do it, if you know the route you'll be taking just do the search from your starting point on the GoogleMaps search function along the roads you'll be taking and record the points to whichever caches interest you along the way. Might take awhile, but it seems like it would work.
  18. 1997 Toyota Carolla. 140,000 miles on it after my recent trip to Twin Lakes. It has gotten me through plenty of roads that I probably shouldn't have been on with it.
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