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Is this something to figure out how to use GSAK and cachemate and what-not effectively for us new people? If so, I would have an interest in it, I've left behind or lost so many pens at caches ! Yep, also to include GPX Sonar, Custom Points of Interest (POI), and whatever else I can't think of right now. D! What is a macro? What is it for? How do you set them up? Let's see...what else...? If you look at my profile you can see what a particular macro can do in GSAK. Wow, that's cool! Thanks for pointing it out!

Wow! That must have been a 30 minute nightmare in the parking lot!

I noticed something interesting in the data. It shows up quite clearly if you plot it out. The curve looks like the standard exponential curve you'd expect given that the caching community is getting larger -- except for an anomaly in the Spring of 2006. That was time period when the infamous 2006 MTRP Cache War was raging... I'm so proud, call that peak the Carl-Harmon anomaly That is interesting. I guess the major cache hiders were all sucked into the MTRP vortex during that period of time. I have another little tidbit. On one of the other threads someone was asking where people fell in the history of their state. As we know California was one of the early adopter states. When I joined about 4.5 years ago there were only 2000 caches in the entire state. Now there are 2000 caches within 20 miles of my house! It's pretty amazing how fast it's grown. It has been an exponential growth curve. Another interesting thing has happened to Geocachers with very high find-counts. In the earlyy days there weren't all that many caches so one had to wait around for new caches before going out on a hunt. Now with a very high find-count one must wait around for new caches just like in the beginning. History repeating itself? Blessed are the hiders for they shall blanket the Earth. If the high find-counters are finding 2000 caches a year in San Diego, they might just have to widen their search area!

After finding a neat GSAK macro to optimize pocket queries, here's an interesting factoid from the results (pretty much all of San Diego County to the Salton Sea): Date Range of Cache Placements per ~500 caches, # of caches, # of days in range: 01 9/10/2000-10/22/2003 496 1137 02 10/23/2003-10/24/2004 497 367 03 10/25/2004-6/23/2005 497 241 04 6/24/2005-12/4/2005 495 163 05 12/5/2005-3/30/2006 498 115 06 3/31/2006-7/4/2006 496 95 07 7/5/2006-11/1/2006 498 119 08 11/2/2006-2/19/2007 496 109 09 2/20/2007-5/15/2007 492 84 10 5/16/2007-Now 32 We're basically stabilizing around 2000 new caches a year! (on edit: DOH! my table got eaten! )

Interesting! I've never tried that. You learn something new everyday! ... And if your GSAK database is up to date you can run this macro to generate and optimize the from and to dates for all your PQs that you need. This is excellent! Thanks for pointing this out - will save me a lot of time!

Wow - we found a robin's egg with no nest in sight - put it under a lamp for two weeks and it didn't hatch (luckily!! )

Say... you got a few hints!?!?!? Hey, that's a great idea! How about it, FlagMan?? Congratulations! Congrats to all the other milestoners, and also to kwver and jahoadi and john, who blew past 3800 when no one was looking. Thanks for the congrats! Hats off to jahoadi and john for their remarkable achievements...Who will reach 4000 first? [ ] The race is on kwver jahoadi and john and GoBolts!

If this is an accurate representation of your two options, then maybe the $175 will get you a better result than the $5. Seems like a lot of work even for $175. Do you know if that is what he would do?

Slight update, seems it is going to be the Bear Valley area. Good choice - that one isn't too rough. There is that one slightly hairy stretch right after that part.... Crud! And haven't even made my first payment yet. No really, that is somewhat photoshopped, Right? Start time near the Buckman Springs/Bear Valley Road start should be about 8:30ish. Hehe, yes, it's a Banter special. However, I did christen the skid plate right there so watch out for that one rock! It was a bit of a bumpy ride - haven't been able to talk the family into going for those wild rides after that one.

Slight update, seems it is going to be the Bear Valley area. Good choice - that one isn't too rough.

What about 03:04:05 06/07/08 or 04:05:06 07/08/09 etc? - seems like an annual event for a little while, until, say... 09:10:11 12/13/14 (for those who like to sleep at night )

Here ya go! Funny you should mention Bill. I'm just putting the finishing touches on his website. I'm just giving it a new look, making it a little easier to read. I'm by no means a "webmaster", but I think it came out okay: http://wtetw.com/indexnew.htm It will be up and running in a couple of days. He says to say "hi". Hi. I can only imagine all the caches he's passed by... Very impressive what he's doing - and you for helping - btw, Google Video is spelled wrong! Yeah, I know, just testing you guys! Nice site Duncan! What would be really cool is a map of the US showing a track of where he's been! I think you can do it in Google Earth! Actually, Google Maps, as we've seen, if he's got a gpx file.

Here ya go! Funny you should mention Bill. I'm just putting the finishing touches on his website. I'm just giving it a new look, making it a little easier to read. I'm by no means a "webmaster", but I think it came out okay: http://wtetw.com/indexnew.htm It will be up and running in a couple of days. He says to say "hi". Hi. I can only imagine all the caches he's passed by... Very impressive what he's doing - and you for helping - btw, Google Video is spelled wrong!

Well, we did run across this as well: And here's another angle of that nest:

Well, we did run across this as well:

Here's my first contribution to the San Diego County Cache Critters thread! Caught looking for nectar caches near our Little Oaks in Olivenhain cache.

Wow, that is cool - great find!

Make it a 20 waypoint multi in a 20 foot radius and you'll really have something fun!

Did you get an update? There wasn't one when I checked a few days ago.

Well, for us old technology (non-csx) types, it seems the best current solution is to just set our units to mountain time. on edit - ah, i see setting DST to Yes works better (who needs no stinkin' firmware update!)

Possibly 3000 posts in this thread! Another milestone for San Diego!

Sorry dude but you never posted anything on the SD thread.... Nobody ever posted a link on the SD thread until 2 hours before the deadline.... Yes, he did. Somehow it slipped right past us.

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I was a little worried they would turn out to be geocaches!!