Lean Wolf

Oh, this is still a topic. May I sum it up?

Same here. I get a result of 53 caches in the route pocket query preview but only 14 caches in the mailed gpx file. The truncation problem, is it described in some other thread, I can't seem to find it?

Ok, thanks. Couldn't log it there either, the site didn't work, but that's another story.

I found a 2005 Washington geocoin in a Swedish cache today. It seems not to be trackable on gc.com. Is this really the case?

Great! Thanks! To be honest, the maps leave a ton or more to be desired, but compared to what was before (nothing) it's a *huge* improvement. Seeing those few landmarks brings a new dimension to gc.com browsing. Thanks again!

It's great and it's free. That's a combination bound to arise suspicion. Has anyone heard any rumours about adware or spyware along with Google Earth?

Let's not. It's all here. Sorry, I can't see it that way. A hotel without guests is just a hotel without guests. There may be many reasons for that; unattractive location, competing hotels nearby, or maybe just not that many people travelling in the area. If you get my meaning. And I don't think a travelling guy want's to be unable to check out just because no other guests have checked in. Oh, I did it anyway. Oh, well...

There's always more than one side of a story...

It's worth repeating:

Great gizmo, here's a close-up: But what I always carry with me is something like this, only mine is more than 20 years old (this is a SwissChamp).

I've noticed I have a tendency to skip certain spots when looking for a cache and only go for the more likely ones. Lazy by nature, I know. If I don't find the cache, I use the methods described by Brian and RK and others above. If I still don't find the cache I either give up or do it the hard way. I do the whole search over again in a painstaking manner, this time including all spots, however unlikely they may seem, moving in a spiral out from the zero point. If I don't find it now, this is the kind of search that calls for DNF log. By the way, don't forget to check your coordinates at the end. More than once I have managed to change the coords of a cache inadvertently on my 60C.

I agree. Telling people what to do and what not to do is bad, don't you think!

And food, too, dammit! Your absolutely right. Sometimes a fat sausage is just what you want after a tough hunt.

Way too cool to be true. Here is part of Stockholm City. Sigh.

Eh... How about this one? Four Windows Now we're bound to get off topic.

Search on Google with "gps" and "magazine" and you'll get plenty of interesting links. Here are some link collections: http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/snap/gps/gps_links.htm#media http://www.montana.edu/places/gps/lres357/...S/GIS_Magazines Here is a magazine to which you can subscribe: http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/

Yes, this helps some times. But beware of the opposite! I have missed caches when I've been thinking: "Under that dirty stone! Nah, he wouldn't have hidden it there, would he? I wouldn't." Then I search on, forget about it and it's a DNF. Next occasion I try the cache I lift the stone, and there it is. The good hiding places are those that don't look like hiding places from outside.

Amazing! May the sats be with you!

This is also a good place to go. You can click on the map and zoom in any place in the world. Everytime you click you get the coordinates. Multimap

It had to be sold to me. I discovered GC a long time ago and included it in the "funny but obscure links" section of my Internet links collection. "If you don't know what to do with your GPS" was the tagline, I think. Then two years later the husband of a collegue of mine got into geocaching and she started telling everone at work what a fantastic pastime it was. Well, she's must be good at selling (she should, that's part of her work), cause she got me all worked up about it. Especially the hi tech/hidden treasure combination. I ordered the GPS the very same day, an etrex Legend, and I bought my second one, GPSMAP 60C a month ago or so. So now the GC link resides in a more honourable place in my link collection.

Yes, actually one of them had a few logs and one had hidden one but no logs. The rest were clean. And possibly available, but hey, RK, I'm just stating a funny fact here, no need to get grumpy on this one.

There's a popular thread running where users explain what's behind their nicks. Sorry, the reasons for mine are private, but I recently noticed I'm able to search for user names, so I tested it with the banal relative of my nick: Lone Wolf. Of course it was taken. But it was never used! I tried a few more, and I got all worked up. I entered name after name that sprung up in my mind; obvious, supposedly coveted names (although the coolness may be debatable). Believe me or not, ALL the names except three were registered but NONE where used. Here are the names that popped up in my head, in chronological registered order: Cowboy - January 04, 2001 - Not validated Hawkeye - January 08, 2001 - Never logged Coyote - January 23, 2001 - Not validated Trapper - February 03, 2001 - Not validated Kilroy - February 13, 2001 - Never logged Rawhide - February 17, 2001 - Not validated Eagle - March 24, 2001 - Not validated Cowgirl - June 14, 2001 - Not validated Batman - June 17, 2001 - Not validated Groundhog - November 24, 2001 - Not validated Lone Wolf - February 15, 2002 - Not validated Donald Duck - June 19, 2002 - Not validated Pocahontas - December 01, 2002 - Not validated Chevrolet - May 25, 2003 - Never logged Baby - October 24, 2003 - Not validated Rubber Duck - March 26, 2004 - Never logged Hitler - January 17, 2005 - Never logged (not even used as sock puppet) Uh oh, I smell conspiracy! Has anyone got an offer bying a cool nick for cash? Is it yet to come? Or was it just Jeremy trying to raise the nick standard of the site? Have you experienced that your cool choice of nick was already taken but never used? Which one was that? Here are the three names that weren't registered: Mr President Harley Davidson Smith & Wesson Go grab'em! Edit: Bad mathematics

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