markandsandy

Actually, that's not true. If today is Monday and you check Monday, it will run shortly after you submit it. But do preview your search before checking a day to run, to verify that the results are what you intended.

If I am licensed to carry nearly everywhere in the state, why should that change just because I crossed the boundary into a National Park? Most of the people that I know that carry would still prefer avoidance over an encounter. Do you see a lot of armed encounters in parking lots, etc. OUTSIDE of the National Parks? I mean involving people who are licensed to carry. I don't. Why assume that this would then be a problem inside the parks? I go back to my first point: If I am licensed to carry nearly everywhere in the state, why should that change just because I crossed the boundary into a National Park? Just because you might not be able to carry here shouldn't mean that I cannot.

There appears to be a problem with notifications not being sent. See this thread in the web site forum: Email Notifications

Not to mention the Altar of Parallel Sticks.

Well... if you have the right vehicle, you can get anywhere at anytime! But if you want to see the National Monument visitor centres, you have to visit after mid May. They usually open up around May 18, which is the anniversary date of the big eruption. This would also be a good time to do the Mission 9 Tunnel of light APE cache (GC1169), so you can hike through the tunnel (2.3 miles) to reach it. The tunnel typically opens around the first of May (weather permitting). Bring good flashlights and dress warmly, regardless of the outside weather, it's cold and dark in the tunnel. There are several caches between the tunnel and the APE cache, plus one inside the tunnel.

Why not? Try it sometime. It should become obvious very quickly.

I've basically been doing the same, everything on the laptop, but load the PDA and GPSr before leaving home, although on longer roadtrips, I would take the laptop and use it in the truck with Street Atlas and the LT20 antenna. On overnight trips a small printer goes along as well. I just bought (3 days ago) an HP Mini Netbook (10.2" screen), specifically for caching and navigating in the truck, and I think it will be along on more caching trips. Much easier to hide/carry along when parked at trailheads than the big laptop.

If 43 and gray slows you down, you are in for a loooooong winter around here.

You don't? And there isn't? I thought Ontario was just one of the far northern states. OK, I'll leave the Canada forums now. Actually, the bulk of the population of Ontario lives further south than you. In fact, the northernmost cache I've ever found (in Sudbury, about a five hour drive due north of my house), is still south of where you live. Imagine that! I actually new this, and joke with friends in Ontario about it. But the myth that Canada is all farther North than the USA goes along with the Igloos and snow all year. Do a search, and there are a lot of cachers with Napoleon in thier names. OK, Time to sneak back across the border and go home.

You don't? And there isn't? Snow snakes? I thought Ontario was just one of the far northern states. OK, I'll leave the Canada forums now.

I'm new and came across 2 DNFs today. I feel no shame in logging them at all, but they were DNFs because the area was very muggley. Do I: A- Log them as DNFs since I was chased away by muggles? And then log them as found when I go back to really find them without muggley eyes? or B- Not log them as DNFs until I for sure can't find them? Thanks for your help! The way I do it - I log those as a DNF and in the log mention that it was because of the muggles. This helps alert other cachers that they may wish search at a low-muggle time. Other people might log a note - it accomplishes the same thing. When I go back and (hopefully) find them, I add a new Found log.

You'll get used to it. Pretty soon you won't even notice it is there. I agree with the others, it should remain there for all users.

If I have time I'll try optimizing routes with Street Atlas 2008 tonight. I bought SA 2008 with the LT-20 GPSr to use in my truck. The LT-20 stays connected and leaves my Vista free for when I'm out of the truck. Caches loaded from GSAK. It's great when you are driving to a lot of caches. Finally got a chance to try some things in Street Atlas. I've never tried to have it route between caches before, just for more normal travel. For caching I've usually planned my route manually (if the caches are even on roads). If you enter a Start and Finish for your route, and then select caches as Stops on your route, it automatically creates what it thinks is the optimum route between them, disregarding the order that you actually enter them. Simple click on each cache icon does it. Of course, since these programs are designed for calculating travel on roads, they all have the issues such as routing you to the point nearest the cache for off road caches, so you need to make those corrections yourself, by selecting the parking location/trailhead for those instead of the cache itself. I purposely tried routing to a cache that I know is on a gated logging road, and it routed me directly to the cache. This just points out the necessity of reading the cache page (I know you all do) for recommended parking coordinates. Is there a way to batch add the stops? I figured out how to do it one by one, but that can take forever if you're doing a decent sized run... According to the manual, you can import a database file (access, excel, text, etc.) and then create your route from it. I'll try tonight by exporting one from GSAK, then importing it into SA and creating a route. Wish I had all the software on my work computer, I'd try it now. But then I'd get even less work done. Looks like the feature to create a route from imported data is a feature of Street Atlas Plus, not the standard version so I could not try it.

And even after seeing this numerous times, I still sometimes take the hard way in. The 'ah hah' moment comes when you've reached the cache and see the easy route, and go 'ah hah', that's the way I should have come!

If I have time I'll try optimizing routes with Street Atlas 2008 tonight. I bought SA 2008 with the LT-20 GPSr to use in my truck. The LT-20 stays connected and leaves my Vista free for when I'm out of the truck. Caches loaded from GSAK. It's great when you are driving to a lot of caches. Finally got a chance to try some things in Street Atlas. I've never tried to have it route between caches before, just for more normal travel. For caching I've usually planned my route manually (if the caches are even on roads). If you enter a Start and Finish for your route, and then select caches as Stops on your route, it automatically creates what it thinks is the optimum route between them, disregarding the order that you actually enter them. Simple click on each cache icon does it. Of course, since these programs are designed for calculating travel on roads, they all have the issues such as routing you to the point nearest the cache for off road caches, so you need to make those corrections yourself, by selecting the parking location/trailhead for those instead of the cache itself. I purposely tried routing to a cache that I know is on a gated logging road, and it routed me directly to the cache. This just points out the necessity of reading the cache page (I know you all do) for recommended parking coordinates. Is there a way to batch add the stops? I figured out how to do it one by one, but that can take forever if you're doing a decent sized run... According to the manual, you can import a database file (access, excel, text, etc.) and then create your route from it. I'll try tonight by exporting one from GSAK, then importing it into SA and creating a route. Wish I had all the software on my work computer, I'd try it now. But then I'd get even less work done.

Nudecacher wouldn't.

Oh Tananbaum Decorated christmas tree near cache on Tiger Mountain.

If I have time I'll try optimizing routes with Street Atlas 2008 tonight. I bought SA 2008 with the LT-20 GPSr to use in my truck. The LT-20 stays connected and leaves my Vista free for when I'm out of the truck. Caches loaded from GSAK. It's great when you are driving to a lot of caches. Finally got a chance to try some things in Street Atlas. I've never tried to have it route between caches before, just for more normal travel. For caching I've usually planned my route manually (if the caches are even on roads). If you enter a Start and Finish for your route, and then select caches as Stops on your route, it automatically creates what it thinks is the optimum route between them, disregarding the order that you actually enter them. Simple click on each cache icon does it. Of course, since these programs are designed for calculating travel on roads, they all have the issues such as routing you to the point nearest the cache for off road caches, so you need to make those corrections yourself, by selecting the parking location/trailhead for those instead of the cache itself. I purposely tried routing to a cache that I know is on a gated logging road, and it routed me directly to the cache. This just points out the necessity of reading the cache page (I know you all do) for recommended parking coordinates.

If I have time I'll try optimizing routes with Street Atlas 2008 tonight. I bought SA 2008 with the LT-20 GPSr to use in my truck. The LT-20 stays connected and leaves my Vista free for when I'm out of the truck. Caches loaded from GSAK. It's great when you are driving to a lot of caches.

Just imagine how many threads we'd have about the Lame Music on The Cache Page.

It's 41 space 35 point 51, no 41 degrees and 35 decimal, no 41 degrees 35 comma...... Oh, it's behind that big tree over there

You could possibly have both as in "Wow, that sucks!"

I had to google it. I just call them pruning shears. Same here. We could have used them this weekend going to An Old Railroad Bridge. Both of us are scratched up, but not quite as bad as some of you.

Hiking to a cache is good for my blood pressure. Yard work isn't. Guess which way I like to spend my saturdays.

If you attend the event each month, then it is only reasonable to claim one "attended" for each such attendance. However, there is no obligation to do so, and rather, you are free to do what you want. And, on the reverse side of the coin, I have at times created quite a stir among event cache owners in my area, simply because of the fact that I have sometimes logged tens of thousands of "attended" smileys for a single event at which I had spent about two hours. I have done so because of the simple fact that every time a radionuclide (i.e, an atom of a radioactive element such as radon or a radionuclide of astatine, iodine, lead, radium, uranium, radium, etc.) in my body breaks down and emits a photon of ionizing radiation, it is transmuted into a different element, and thus, as a result of the breakdown of that radioactive element, my body has been entirely changed from what it had been a moment before because its basic elemental composition has been altered, and thus I become a new person perhaps two hundred times per second (see footnote #1), and thus get to claim a new "attended" smiley for each of those new instances of myself. Footnote #1: It should be noted that my body contains a level of radionuclides that is about 18X higher than that of a typical resident of the USA, due to the simple fact that I supplement my diet of raw animal products (that is, raw pasture-fed meat, raw fish, raw eggs from free-range chickens and raw grass-fed dairy products such as raw milk, raw butter, raw cheese and raw cream) with water from my radioactive water jug (aka "radium water jug"), which dispenses water which exhibits a radioactivity level of about 180,000 pCi/L due to the presence of radon and radon progeny (aka radon daughters; they are quite hot), and I eat a lot of Brazil nuts and also spend two hours per week breathing radon gas in my own personal customized "radon gas chamber". Shouldn't each new person log under different accounts? I also reasoned that way, and I did try that route for awhile, but Groundspeak admins got rather upset with me for all the tens of thousands of new geo accounts that I had created, and they convinced me that since each new post-nuclear transmutation Vinny was only marginally different from the old Vinny, and still bore the same name and wore the same clothing and lived in the same place, etc., that I should use only the main Vinny & Sue Team account. This raises another question. My wife and I cache as a team, and have not yet attended any events. When a team attends, do they typically log one "attended" for the team, or one for each member? 1 per Geocaching.com username. Sheeeshhh this thing is getting complicated Thanks, That's the answer I was expecting, but just thought I'd ask.