ChillFire12

I love this part of my life...and am happy to support it with or without the features. But the features are a HOT part of Premium <3

I have been doing this for slightly over 10 years. I only (as of this moment) own one active cache. I would rather pour my time into maintaining that one well than spreading myself too thin taking care of multiples I might not get to. I have nothing but respect and wishful admiration of those who maintain huge amounts, like Geoart, etc. I do what I can to help (logs, etc.) but for me, I think you just really shouldn't bite off more than you can chew. That is why for now I have one, and by this time next week, *MIGHT* have 5. I would rather do high quality, meaningful and well maintained caches rather than not. <3

I love the end of the rainbow in geocaching. It is what brought me here to begin with, 10 years ago. To find the other side of that dirt road in the desert. To learn a little bit of local history in a place I thought I already knew. To find a new way to approach things. Now, there is a new different thing. It seems there is a run to chalk up numbers of finds. Powertrails may or may not be a way to do this. But here is my thing. I LOVE to walk, and run in between. Some call it Interval Training, meh, whatever. But I find a buncha caches in a line, I need my workout, so I park my car, and go. And I still treat each cache tenderly and lovingly, while keeping up my heart rate. I might jog in place while replacing a soaked wet log. But that it how I utilize the Power Trail. This weekend when I take my little girl out to see the world, we might catch one or five caches, but we got them in a totally different way. We smelled the air, touched the cactus (gloves, yeah) and saw a new path. We learned something about why that little hole in the cement is there, or saw a new mountain. ...3 sides to every story...

I am with this train of thought. I just nibbled a little bit off a trail today. Myself. A vehicle. Solo. A creative way to juggle keys and packs and pens and new logs if needed (last one on the trail was April). I feel I earned every stop, and was only able to do maybe 20 out of what feels like a billion I am more about the journey and not the destination of numbers, but something about this new culture of quantity in the game has sucked me in. However, weekends, when I am a family and not just a mom, are when we go for the destination finds <3

I started 10 years ago as of last Sunday. I didn't log my caches on the computer, because, well, I just didn't. I loved getting out and seeing a new view. A new dirt road. A piece of history that I never knew. I just did it to DO it. It wasn't numbers. It was the experience. I didn't give a rats a** what my cache find count was. I found something YOU put out there in the desert, all by myself, based on GPS stuff. It was rad. <3 Fast forward a few years. I went through stuff, as we all do. Had I been a little more astute, I would have used geocaching to bring me back to what I love, rather than sit in the dark and feel unmotivated and put the whole love on the back shelf. So now, I am back. It is TOTALLY different now. I love hunting the meaningful, well loved caches, But I will admitedly grab the quick LPC while out doing single mom chores, because, I feel like I lack credibility even TALKING here on the forum with the low number of finds I have. And the fact I even care about the number bugs me This game/lifestyle is about getting up and off the chair and out the door. Had I logged all my finds back 9, 10 years ago, I'd be in the 1000s. It stings, but its real. I hope geocaching stays that way. Real. Its a love of my life, and now my 3 kids as well. This weekend I will be placing a half dozen new caches that I spent time on. Containers might be store, but placement is everything ❤️

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Welcome! I am a world away in Arizona, but have ties to your area. I just celebrated my 10 year geobirthday this last weekend. I never logged things in the beginning and then took several years off, but now back in full force. If you ever make it to the desert, you have a friend <3

We got hung up in a step in there, we knew it...it was just for a macro glitch, but done with that.....but that is where you are right <3 Thanks so much!

Thanks for all the response, mostly on4bam, for hanging in there and not being a something other than nice <3 I had my local person on this, and while I know basics, it was weird just not getting this little radius. He figured it out. And yeah, I am still learning this big wonderful program GSAK, but there was a weird that I was getting ALL around everything BUT my home radius. We got it. No wait, my friend did. I am just here to say thanks on4bam <3

Thank you, I'll ask on that forum. I appreciate your time

Yep, done They just don't have anything about my specific issue. That's why I came here. For friendly help. No need for anything else

How does someone get to know how to use something unless they use it? Somehow I managed to learn it enough to make it work for every other cache area I have worked with...

I see the load summary. I am getting 500. And yes, I understand how to put a circle around my home location It is working everywhere but here, and there are a plethora of caches around my area. They all show on the GC app, just not in GSAK. I have already played with radius numbers. Nothing is making this work.

I am using GSAK, I have been saying that....I am trying to put caches onto my GPSr via GSAK. You seemed to have understood and even said what I am doing, I am going to "geocaching.com access" and then "get geocaches" and then click on the Google map button to visual SEE a 49.5 radius, then click on "return coordinates,", then it checks my API count, all is fine, and begins generating GPX files, but nothing is showing up in that area, or going to my device.

Yes, I go to maps via geocaching.com, and get geocaches. I then view on a map within a 49.5 mile radius. There are over 500 within that radius. They then generate 50 at a time, but do not go into my GSAK database or whatever. I do not even click on export because with my GPSr attached to computer, it just automatically transferred over. I am on Windows 10. And I did what you said, looking at that GPX folder and there are no individual files. And the only caches that are showing on my GPSr are batches of 500 in other radius areas I generated, not my home area.

I don't know how to see files. I don't get all that. I make a radius circle in the map, it checks my API numbers, and puts them in my GPSr. It's just not doing it for my home radius. I am new to GSAK and don't know about files and folders and what is what. I just plug and go. Until now

I am sure this has been asked somewhere, and I have somewhat searched, but my frustration level is going over the top. I have run a in a 49.5 mile radius around my home location and successfully pulled up well below my daily limit of downloads, but they do NOT transfer to my Oregon 650. I have caches in hundreds of other locations successfully transferred. But this one search, the one I really want, will NOT go to my device. I know there are ways to move folders and GP* something files, I don't understand how to do all that, and I am getting really frustrated. We were out today for 8 hours and had to cell phone cache a lot of our route because here I was thinking I was all prepared, and nothing transferred. I just ran the same thing 8 times. Nothing is working Can someone walk me through this before I flip out?

Thanks Mr. Alandb

This is great advice, thank you, I just found it for $211 on Amazon Thanks so much...I might just push the button....thank you!

Thanks so much

Hi Yall! I am recently back to S. AZ, where there are LOTS of back dirt roads I am ready to explore and re-do I also want to honor the hands free of my state, and looking to upgrade to the best Garmin Drive that is also to incorporate into geocaching. I have an Oregon 650, and while I love the little straight line, its not good for driving. Recommendations, please. Want to buy tonight for a big weekend blitz...but carrying on into the future, I am a map JUNKIE and a data geek. I want it all. Please advise which is the best and latest that also is GSAK friendly, as I don't know the ins and outs of other ways to import cache data :/

Thanks to you both for your responses I went with the Oregon 650t (was less than the regular 650) and I couldn't be happier!

If you want little silly stuff, the Dollar Spot at Target. Get little things for a dollar. It might seem silly to some, but I am here in Hawaii, and those little dollar things that are silly to us, mean a ton to those on the mainland. You can approach it like that, for your neck of the woods

Hi you guys I am not new, but I am re-entering the atmosphere of my favorite thing to do ever...so I am back! I currently live in Hawaii, and have been here for years. I am most recently from Arizona prior to moving to Maui, and next week, we are returning home to southern Arizona. I am looking to make geocaching friends around the area. While I started almost 10 years ago, I went through a growing stage of not logging finds, I know, I know. So when I get back home, I will be returning to old spots to cleanly and correctly log old finds, and enjoy the many new ones. For the next few days, I'll be trying to grab many more of the few caches here on the island, and get some trackables ready to make their way around the world from Maui, and move some more back to the mainland. I own a couple of eTrex Vista HCxs that my kids use, and recently got an Oregon 650t I am a map junkie and data geek, so after a few years of having to put geocaching on hiatus, I am so, so happy to come home, with a fresh start Looking forward to making new friends!

Hi you guys I am not new, but I am re-entering the atmosphere of my favorite thing to do ever...so I am back! I currently live in Hawaii, and have been here for years. I am most recently from Arizona prior to moving to Maui, and next week, we are returning home to southern Arizona. I am looking to make geocaching friends around the area. While I started almost 10 years ago, I went through a growing stage of not logging finds, I know, I know. So when I get back home, I will be returning to old spots to cleanly and correctly log old finds, and enjoy the many new ones. For the next few days, I'll be trying to grab many more of the few caches here on the island, and get some trackables ready to make their way around the world from Maui, and move some more back to the mainland. I own a couple of eTrex Vista HCxs that my kids use, and recently got an Oregon 650t I am a map junkie and data geek, so after a few years of having to put geocaching on hiatus, I am so, so happy to come home, with a fresh start Looking forward to making new friends!