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    Alternative Hike of the Month (AHOTM)

    in Northwest

    Posted

    looks like fun, but because of other commitments, Sunday is not a good day for me to attend these.. do you guys ever hold one of these on a Saturday? or maybe I should start an "Alternate-Alternate HOtM" thread :anicute:

    The HOTM is usually on Saturdays.

    The AHOTM is on Saturdays sometimes. It just depends on what weekend days are free. This time, there's a Pirate event on Saturday that some of us are attending.

     

    But hey, we could go Saturday, May 22 - who'd like to do that instead? B+L, LandRover, AndrewRJ - could you come then? (Those who've replied thus far.)

    Nope, heading to Oregon that day for a much needed week off

    It's CITO time!

    in Northwest

    Posted

    *bump*

     

    The official CITO weekend has come and gone - thanks to everyone who helped at the six CITOs around the state!

     

    Of course, CITO events can happen anytime, and I'd like to encourage folks to come out on June 5 and support the CITO event being sponsored by w1370 down near Mount St Helens. From his description and photos, it looks like a really worthy cause.

     

    Plus, I'm looking for carpool buddies for the trip down (from Bellevue area), so lemme know if you're going.

    Currently going.

    Ideas for future PQ1K email or direct download link

    in Website

    Posted

    <click> download

    <click> download

    <click> download

    <click> download

     

    ...how hard is that?

     

    Is thirty-five seconds going to make such a HUGE difference in your life?

    This may have been covered but here is the problem.

     

    With downloading them from the website the website has to be up and running. The e-mail server is a separate entity and usually is working even when the site is down. A file I get e-mailed to me is there 3 days later when the site goes down and I can still upload it even when the main site isn't working, remember everyone who is upset when the site goes down on Friday when then need that PQ for the trip that weekend? Even if they were smart and got the data they needed a few days ago they may not have downloaded it out of their e-mail which they can still do, but couldn't if you had to download it from the website.

    Release Notes 4/29/10

    in Website

    Posted

    Well that was interesting. A new PQ around my house now goes from a radius of 13 miles to a radius of 16 miles. Not as impressive as I was expecting.

     

    Now the glitch. When I preview the PQ using google maps from the Pq page I get a random cache GC17 in north Oregon and that causes the blue box to become a very large rectangle.

     

    This PQ is centered on my house in Duvall Wa and has 1000 unfound and unowned by me.

     

    Odd

    Feature Request: Show Number of Child Waypoints Associated with PQ

    in Website

    Posted · Edited by AndrewRJ

    Wasn't this the same problem with the 500 limit?

    No. Where I live a PQ around my house returns 500 caches with 106 (as of yesterday) child WPs

     

    So when I drop that into my 60CX I get 606 waypoints loading, within the limit of 1000 for that device.

     

    Now in a few hours when the site comes back up I will request 1000 caches which will probibly return something in the range of 200 child waypoints. If I tried to directly load this new PQ like I used to it will try to send approximately 1200 waypoints and choke since that is over the limit for my device, so not the same problem.

     

    I supose the answer is to upgrade to a newer GPS that has a larger limit, but I currently am loving my SIRF III chipset for maping and currently don't have the same level of confidence in the newer devices, (although several people I trust have told me that the newer firmware updates really have fixed the issues the early adopters were experiencing.)

     

    edit for spelling

    Release Notes 4/29/10

    in Website

    Posted · Edited by AndrewRJ

    Someone forgot the Red Banner site outage notification this time?

     

    But much will be forgiven just for the 1k :D

    I agree!

    +1

     

    Yes, I'm sorry guys. :D

     

    I posted about that here. If you want to tongue lash us please do it there because this thread is gonna get busy.

    Actually I mostly ment, forgiven due to the 1K. Thanks for everything you are doing Nate.

    Cache Rescue And Adoption Area

    in Northwest

    Posted

    A fun multicache in my neighborhood (Wandering Pirate's Dream GCJPNT) has gone stale and the owner apparently hadn't responded to repeated warnings last summer from admin about it being archived. I would be happy to adopt it in order to get it unarchived or, worst case, recreate it in the same location. Would prefer to adopt the old instance though since that will preserve the find history. Any admins lurking about who could point me to the most appropriate next step? Thanks.

    Groundspeak has decided to no longer allow "forced adoptions" which is what you are asking to do. Unless you can contact the cache owner and have them start the adoption process at www.geocaching.com/adopt there is no way to take over a listing without the current owners permission. If that is the case drop a needs archived on it if it needs it and collect the trash once that happens. Or re-list it as yours once it is cleaned up.

     

    Also As I understand it you can't unarchive a cache for the sole purpose of adopting it out and archive caches can not be adopted.

    Fungus Among Us

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Not worried one bit. Taking the entire family including an infant to Seaside for a week in a month. The stress of worrying about things like this is more likely to affect your health then the very remote possibility that you would get sick.

    Alternative Hike of the Month (AHOTM)

    in Northwest

    Posted

    For April, I'm looking at heading down to get the final for Shelrik's Center of the Triad Challenge.

     

    This is for folks who've completed the Northwest Triad - APE cache, Original Stash Plaque, Groundspeak HQ. Make the bookmark list per the challenge page, and you're ready to claim the final.

     

    The cache location is in the backcountry between Mt Rainier and Mt St Helens, and the best route appears to be Hwy 12 to Randle, then south on Hwy 131 and onto Forest Service roads. Gravyman just visited the cache and reported the roads from the Randle direction are passable even w/o 4WD (which I have). The cache page says: "The final location of this cache is seasonal as it is at an elevation of 2686ft, the road is mostly paved and a smaller vehicle can get very close but there are a few potholes on the last leg of the gravel shoot towards the Goat Mountain trailhead it would be the last 1/2 mile that would be questionable but this is up to you and you vehicles capabilities...The drive to the cache is quite beautiful and the scenery is "Awesome" we took highway 12 to Randle and turned towards USForest Road 25 then to Forest Road 26 & then FR 2612..."

     

    I am fairly flexible the next three weekends, so if you're interested, pipe up and also suggest a date.

    Forget the weekends, my work keeps telling me to burn some vacation time. I keep forgetting about this one, or maybe I will try at the campout. But I could easily take a random week day off.

    Walla Walla Cache Machine

    in Northwest

    Posted

    :DA True City Slicker, someone should have giving him a headsup about the Eastside. :laughing:

    Now, now. He was just trying to fix a malfunctioning cache so he could sign the log. He could have

    just waved at and called it good it just like more than few other people did. :)

     

    If we can work out all the kinks in time, we'll be using our paintball logger at the next CM. It works

    pretty well, but it still has a tendency to log the occasional cache more than once. We're still

    hoping to implement dispersal mode for those annoying unsolved puzzles.

    I wonder if you found it after or before we did. We felt like we had to pull it in quite hard, like it was catching on something but it was tricky because we were trying not to break the line. Fun cache though, my favorite of the day.

    Visiting Walla Walla in June

    in Northwest

    Posted

    Hello from Indiana! I spent about 10 years of my childhood in Walla Walla and my hubby & I will be visiting at the end of June. While the main focus of our limited day and a half visit will be to show him some places I remember and to visit some family graves, we'd love to pick up a cache or two. I've been searching by zipcode (will never forget that as my late grandfather was the postmaster for many years), but WW is so cache-rich that I'm a bit overwhelmed. Would some locals mind recommending a handful of caches that you think a visitor would like? We'll be at Mountain View Cemetery and Pioneer Park (unless it's now not a good part of town - I haven't been back in decades, so what do I know?) as part of our visit, so if there are any there, we might as well pick them up just 'cause. We're not overly fond of micros and we probably won't have time for many long hikes, so that will limit us some.

     

    Thanks so much for the help!

     

    Mrs. Car54

    There is a rather large caching run being planned in Walla Walla for this weekend. Hopefully some of the participants will be able to tell you what they liked afterwords.

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