minerals44

This seems to be quite a good forum ... One thing comes through ... people get their kicks out of different kinds of caches. We are puzzle-solvers. Others are "extreme" cachers (the 4 and 5 terrain types), fitness types looking for interesting exercise, collectors (of pins or signature items), or simply like to go out with their grandkids to trade a beanie baby at a 1/1 ammo box. All are valid reasons to cache, but the thread that emphasized accurate descriptions and carefully chosen D/T ratings nailed it. If you do your homework and use the search engine carefully you'll have tailor-made adventures that suit your own needs and personality. We'd like to see a forum topic (or even a blog) centering on off-the-wall, out-of-the-box caches ... solvable but difficult puzzles in one-of-a-kind containers. Cachers are very clever people and it's REALLY hard to come up with something that no one has ever seen before. We think the benefits of this kind of creative endeavor extend beyond geocaching ... like promoting whirled peas and stuff like that. OK. Confession time. I placed two "hollow bolt" caches today (actually they were nuts with ersatz bolts). Ciao, Minerals44

Thanks for your help! That was exactly the problem ... the e-mail zipped .gpx files worked perfectly and we bagged an FTF this morning before breakfast.

Interesting. I've been trying with the "run only once and discard" option. Will give the e-mailed files a try and see. Thanks ahead.

We'd like to download our Pocket Query results as .gpx files. I check this option (.gpx) and make sure to .zip as recommended. No matter what I do the file goes to my Apple laptop as a .loc file (and we don't get the all important details of a cache page). Are we stuck with our clipboard forever? I'm using CacheMate and MacCMconvert. Everything works OK so long as I check the .gpx option on individual cache pages of geocaching.com. Has anyone else had this trouble? Is there a simple fix?