mvigor
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My Nuvi 200 is such a thin GPS unit that I can use the suction cup mount right on the dash over the tach. It doesn't extend out past the top lip of the dash and is several inches away from the steering wheel.
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My Nuvi 200 is such a thin GPS unit that I can use the suction cup mount right on the dash over the tach. It doesn't extend out past the top lip of the dash and is several inches away from the steering wheel.
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I didn't mean to imply that for any reason I was going to remove all the logs from my traveler. I was simply asking if there was a way that when I place a traveler in an Illinois cache, I could remove the mileage indication that it had been directly moved there from Sweden. I am replacing a lost bug with a copy.
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Thanks for trying! If you find a way that works, I'd love to hear about it.
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I had a traveler go missing from a cache in Sweden. It's time to release a duplicate traveler, but I don't want to "claim" any mileage for moving it from Sweden back to Illinois since I didn't go there. Will this be as simple as deleting a log from the traveler's page?
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$1600 bucks? I think we should all get together on this one and pay the bill. I say we pool our pennies. Seriously, let's send them 160,000 pennies. I wounder how long it'll take to get that many pennies together? Or how much they would weigh?
They would weigh about 1088 pounds.
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I'm with SkellyCA. It fascinates me that there are 600 or 700,000 hidden containers in the world that 99% of people don't know about.
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I downloaded the nRoute program. Thanks for the link!
The Nuvi wouldn't show up in the USB list, but the eTrex did. I think I need to buy a Map DVD next. Looks very nice so far!
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I have an XP laptop that I could take on the road.
Can I use either of my existing GPSrs as an antenna to get a full laptop screen tracking where I am along with nearby caches?
I have a Nuvi 200 for the car and a yellow ETrex handheld. Can one of these be used to feed information to the laptop?
What program or web site do you use on the computer to do this? I can be online with my Palm Treo phone if need be, but it's a slow connection.
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I say just try not to worry about what other people think. I only found about 20 caches my first year because my desire to cache is apparently only in the fall and early winter. Hopefully I'll find another 20 or so before January or February. It's NOT about the numbers...I'm just having a little fun.
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Those are trackable coins, so GS had to approve them
Really? HAD TO? That can't be right. Maybe I'll come out with some "Groundspeak Sucks" geocoins, tracking at Geocaching.com. Or some "Beat Your Wife Today!" Geocoins. I'm sure TPTB do get to draw the line somewhere.
Yes, really. GS approves ALL trackable coins for content and appropriateness. They do this because they are selling the tracking codes to the person and so must have say what goes and what doesn't.
Now, a non-trackable coin....well, they don't even get to know about those if you don't want them to!
Roddy I COMPLETELY mistook your original statement.
I put the emphasis on the HAD TO in the sentence, meaning "Groundspeak was forced to approve them, even if against their will". I didn't realize you meant they were in a position of holding approving authority.
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Those are trackable coins, so GS had to approve them
Really? HAD TO? That can't be right. Maybe I'll come out with some "Groundspeak Sucks" geocoins, tracking at Geocaching.com. Or some "Beat Your Wife Today!" Geocoins. I'm sure TPTB do get to draw the line somewhere.
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The guy who reviewed my entry thought I shoulkd move it to a place that was a little further away from the club, just to ensure members are not spooked by all the new people hanging around at all hours of the night. I went back to move it to find it had gone......
Not the cache.....THE WHOLE BUSH!!!!
they are making a new footpath around the club
Maybe a member was already spooked by the person hanging around the bushes...and they made a quick decision to relandscape!
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Now you've got me wondering if a person can reform a preform. Perhaps a used bottle can be boiled back down to a much smaller and stronger shape? I think I will try this.
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The place I work has a Coke machine vending for 40 cents and our local Wal-mart sells their store brand in cold 12 ounce cans for 25 cents.
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The solution to the problem of a cache owner deleting finds is to reduce the tension, not increase it, in my opinion.
Exactly! That’s always the best option and should always be the first choice when these things happen. Right now, Groundspeak doesn’t seem to have any effective way of dealing with the issue of valid logs being deleted by cache owners. It seems to come up every few months (or more but I’ve not been around here much) that a cache owner with delusions of grandeur deletes the find of someone who legitimately found their cache because they don’t like what the finder had to say. (Personally, if someone told me my cache sucked I’d take it as a hint that maybe my hide isn’t all I’d hoped it would be.)
The consensus seems to be that if the cache owner is unreasonable you should just give up because there’s nothing that you can do. Well, yes there is. True, it’s a last resort; but the finder isn’t powerless, even if it’s not PC to point it out.
Or you could just give up before it turns into.
You steal the cache.
Cache owner retaliates by letting and air out of your car tires when he finds you.
Which pisses you off so you run over the mailbox at his house.
To which he responds by throwing eggs all over your house.
Promptly causing you to throw a brick through his living room window.
Which makes him feel it necessary to put sugar in your gas tank.
Leaving you stranded on a geocaching trip, pissing you off so much while you walk home that you're wondering how much hit men cost or if you can get away with full blown arson.
Sometimes it's better to just stop.
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That makes sense. Thans for the explanation.Means they are dropping a coin into the cache.
Usually, it means they forgot to drop the coin/TB when they posted their original log, so they had to create a second note to drop it/them. Sometimes, people use notes to drop coins/TBs into event caches ahead of the event. And, occasionally, some folks write notes to "dip" personal coins/TBs into a cache for mileage, even though they are still in their possession.You don't say.
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I'm an Apple/Mac guy and I have been for 24 years now. But some things seem best done on a PC. I run GSAK on my wife's Windows laptop. I know that's no help.
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I forget who said it, but if you learn nothing else from this forum, learn NOT to say...."are you looking for what I'm looking for?" LOL
This is especially important EXTREMELY IMPORTANT if you don't know what a 'pickle park' is.
Yes, and while in pickle parks, it is also rather prudent NOT to say "Did you find it yet?". One of my Psycho Urban Caches is located in the underground tunnels of an abandoned fort in a city park, but the entire park is also a pickle park, a drug park and host to a number of modern urban phenomena, including feral cats, taggers (graffitti artists), hookers, pimps, drug dealers, and a number of other things. So, while hunting Psycho Urban Cache #10 - Derelict Grunge Acropolis, it is kinda a good idea not to come out with either of the aformentioned statements!
Or for that matter Vinnie, when being approached while Geocaching at that same park with the question, "Are you looking for something?", it's probably a good idea to carefully word your response.
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I'm fairly sure time travel is involved here. The OP actually placed both caches, but he doesn't know yet that he'll do that.
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For the Mac users out there, use Option and Shift together and hit the 8 key.
Great!! another post it note on the wall
Addendum...Option-Zero gives you a bigger one.
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One thing I have noticed - when the cache owner is there watching folks don't trade used Sharpies for geocoins!
Unactivated geocoins you mean? The traveling ones don't require a trade at all.
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i wonder how many geocachers got lyme desease....
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Yeah I just had one of my travel bugs picked up by cacher who sent me off an email saying "As you know travel slug geocoin travelers pick up items along the way, so just wait and see what we have done with yours."
Actually I didn't know this, nor did I really want or expect it to happen to my TB, but I'll just have to wait and see I guess.
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Maybe I should have read the article more closely, but it sounds like they are claiming to have invented a 3 times more powerful AA battery. Why the tie-in with GPS? It would be good enough news for lots of devices, not just our handhelds.
That makes sense. Thans for the explanation.
Usually, it means they forgot to drop the coin/TB when they posted their original log, so they had to create a second note to drop it/them. Sometimes, people use notes to drop coins/TBs into event caches ahead of the event. And, occasionally, some folks write notes to "dip" personal coins/TBs into a cache for mileage, even though they are still in their possession.
People wanting to steal or destroy caches?
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He has a right DISTILLED in him to sit on anything he likes. He has traveled the country! Lived in Japan!