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  1. The new maps just got better - now have TOPO and B&W aerial photography as view options! Awesome job guys
  2. This site seems to have some issues today - message saying "Stats images have moved....."
  3. Been tweaking with an existing ROUTE today by varying the distance from route. My goal is to have the PQ results give me as close to 500 as possible. What I find odd is when I tried the max distance of 5 miles the PQ yielded under 200 caches but when I tried 2 miles, then 3 miles I got progressively greater numbers of caches! Further fine-tuning yielded the most caches (320 about) at 3.7 miles. Going any wider yielded progressively smaller numbers of caches. How does the feature work - starting with 0.1 miles along the entire length of the route, then 0.2 and so on until it max's out at 500 or runs out of caches? The route is less than the 500 mile limit. Sorry if this is old stuff but I honestly tried searching for existing threads on this. Could a Mod push this over to the website forum? I wasn't paying attention to where I was when I created the new topic.....
  4. If TPTB are counting the yay's and nay's then I'm adding my YAY for the new map. Love the smaller icon size, the ability to hide my finds and hides, 15 mile limit is tolerable and the cache list is just a click away. Good work, Raine etal.
  5. Unless I missed it, nobody has mentioned the huckeberry fields on the south side of Mt. Adams down around Troutlake. Maybe that's too far for your parameters but these are GREAT huckeberry fields. Bridges of Stone is near the Peterson Prairie USFS campground and showcases a partially collapsed lava tube. Some ice caves to see in the area as well. Fun area. Just a few caches though.
  6. Easily accomplished using third-party software such as GSAK. In my opinion, the cache pages are busy enough with adding more functions. In GSAK, you have control over which caches to print, how many past logs (if any) to include, whether or not to decrypt the hint and a few other formatting options. Then you can control paper size with your printer options. I like 4 pages per sheet, for example.
  7. Just got off the phone with TigerGPS - they say it will ship next week.
  8. If you haven't received enough positive feedback yet - I'll add my enthusiastic "thumbs up". Great appplication - easy to use. A suggestion - install it on the main memory rather than on the storage card - runs much faster that way. I use an iPAQ rx 1955 with 64 mb main memory
  9. Just got back from vacation and noticed bunches of new features - tried this one and no luck so far. Can't even get it to send coords to my garmin. Have downloaded the app twice, rebooted both times as required, click on "Send to GPS" and nothing but the little window telling me to download the latest version! My browser is Firefox 2.0.0.3 - Garmin 60C via USB
  10. Howdy neighbor! I'm just up the coast in Coos Bay. Welcome to the addiction! I absolutley LOVE geocaching down in your area! Great trails and beaches. Gorgeous views as well. Maybe we'll meet along the trail one day.
  11. Are you using wap.geocaching.com or another url? I was commenting about how www.geocaching.com looked on my pda. Normally, I use the highly simplified WAP address but was just checking out the regular site one day for kicks and noticed it loaded faster and was more mobile-friendly than before.
  12. I concur with tomfuller about the Multnomah cache or anything along that stretch of the Gorge. If you can spare the time, get off on the Historic Columbia River Highway for some great scenery and a multitude of trailheads. My grandson and I were just up in that area and did the three caches along Latourell Falls Trail (check out my blog entry). The caches were How Goofy! * Billy Goats Gruff * Underwater Sunlight and nearby Curious Gorge. Gas prices - Portland $2.87 at a Safeway with discount card (I'm not a Portland resident but was just there this weekend). Have a great time!
  13. I concur with tomfuller about the Multnomah cache or anything along that stretch of the Gorge. If you can spare the time, get off on the Historic Columbia River Highway for some great scenery and a multitude of trailheads. My grandson and I were just up in that area and did the three caches along Latourell Falls Trail (check out my blog entry). The caches were How Goofy! * Billy Goats Gruff * Underwater Sunlight and nearby Curious Gorge. Gas prices - Portland $2.87 at a Safeway with discount card (I'm not a Portland resident but was just there this weekend). Have a great time!
  14. I agree with others that it probably won't gain you much and they can be awkward to actually walk with. I use an older 60C and have an external antenna I occasionally use while traveling in my vehicle but practically never while on foot. I've used it a couple of times when I'm hiding a cache in dense tree canopy and wanted the extra signal strength for good coords but that's it. The newer Garmin "x" models are reportedly much better so I think you'll be fine.
  15. I don't often use my pda's browser to view individual cache pages cause I'm usually looking at cache info via Cachmate or the WAP site. However, today I was doing just that and was very pleased to see how well individual cache pages show up on pda browsers! Someone's been working hard to make this happen I'm sure and kudo's to all. Previously pages loaded slowly and graphics and text got pushed around creating long messy pages you had to scroll down quite a ways to see the info I was interested in. But today I see a clean, crisp and well organized page, even if it's broken into two pages. It loads so quickly, who cares you have to click to a second page to get more info. Thanks again to all you guys and gals at Groundspeak who continually work to improve the user's experience!
  16. Yup - cx, my error. Thanks for the help - knew I'd get the answer here. I've never used my tracback feature so totally forgot about it.
  17. My father uses a Garmin Vista CSx and asked me if he could get his unit to display the distance/bearing to each and every track point as he is retracing a previously recorded track. I suspect not! I think he must convert the track to a route first and then navigate using the route. I'm guessing that conversion would result far fewer waypoints than the original track log. Thought I'd throw the question out here and see if there was something obvious I'm forgetting about that could help him. I think what he wants this capability for is retracing trails he's walked and wanting to see a display of how far away the next track point is. Thought's anyone? Thanks
  18. I've seen the same phenom - seemed to me to change to yellow pushpins every other refresh of the kml. I've seen this behavior for 3-4 weeks now. I've been using the latest BETA all along and haven't upgraded to the "non-beta" version yet so this behavior isn't new with the "non-beta" version of GE4. Irritating but usable.....
  19. Hit the report button just below your last post and ask that the thread be closed. D'oh! The ONLY button I didn't try earlier! Thanks Closing now - really!
  20. Couldn't agree more - exactly why I posed the question - to find out the proper ettiquette for such a visit. Now that I can see the "archived" cache page I know how to go about it. Thanks all for your contribution to the topic - going to close now. Um, if I could figure how.... I don't start too many topics and can't seem to find the place to close a topic you started Would have thought it'd be one of the options on the opening post.
  21. I just did a search for all virtuals centered near the snail mail address. Under 20 within a 50 mile radius and none seemed like the one you mentioned. Provide a link here please? Edited - Thanks Snoogans for the link
  22. If geocachers are in the vicinity of GS headquarters and would like to pop in and say Hi/Thank You etc - is this encouraged? Must be a busy place at times and wouldn't want to distract folks but at the same time it would be neat to be able to stop in if in the area. I saw the snail mail address and realized I was within a few blocks back at Thanksgiving visiting fam on Queen Anne! I defininately would have stopped in had I known. Edited for spelling
  23. Had my Garmin GPSmap 60C for over two years now. I've worn the protective clear coating off several buttons and even the white lettering off the two zoom buttons. Other than that it's in great condition. Most of my use is hiking trails in the heavily wooded coastal forests in Oregon. It's been dropped numerous times and no harm done. It's normally in my hands the entire length of my hikes, occasionally tethering it to the front of my backback strapping for the longer hikes. I keep it in a nice REI sunglasses case in my backpack between outings. I almost wish something would go wrong so I could justify a new "x" model with the newer sirf chip but alas, it's like a Timex, takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin' Wow, just dated myself there.....
  24. Thanks for the responses - very interesting stuff.
  25. While geocaching along the Oregon coast between Gold Beach and Brookings I decided to attempt to recover some benchmarks if I could. I came across several set in late 1800's that describe the station as "THE STATION IS MARKED ABOUT 2-1/2 FEET UNDERGROUND BY A BOTTLE. THREE STAKES AROUND THE STATION ...". None had been recovered in recent years. One recovery note speculated that perhaps bottle hunters had dug these up. Just interested in hearing from you experts about this type of station set. Was the station really just a glass bottle buried? Were they set on top of some other mark? Was there a prescribed way to place them? Why didn't they get reset with disks later? One example is PID OA0962 Deep Gulch Thanks in advance for your collective wisdom Mike Coos County, OR
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