cycler48
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One way around it is to become a premium member and help support the site. I'm not knockin' ya ... just sayin'
Oh i definitely plan to eventuallly! right now
1. i dont have a car.
2. im still in school
3. my gps isnt the best...
and 4. cant afford it XD
but i WOULD however like to log the correct cache that i already found ;D
I hope thats not a bad thing to want, but it was a really cool cache, and my dad wanted to say thanks to the creators and stuff like that, since he works RIGHT next to where it is.
You're now a premium member.
O_O how did THAT happen?!
Call it a gift to a fellow geocacher.
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One way around it is to become a premium member and help support the site. I'm not knockin' ya ... just sayin'
Oh i definitely plan to eventuallly! right now
1. i dont have a car.
2. im still in school
3. my gps isnt the best...
and 4. cant afford it XD
but i WOULD however like to log the correct cache that i already found ;D
I hope thats not a bad thing to want, but it was a really cool cache, and my dad wanted to say thanks to the creators and stuff like that, since he works RIGHT next to where it is.
You're now a premium member.
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One way around it is to become a premium member and help support the site. I'm not knockin' ya ... just sayin'
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Welcome to the addiction!
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GC11PA4 ... Last found on June 7, 2008. I found it yesterday.
GC115QE ... Last found on June 7, 2008. I found it yesterday.
GC1491Y ... Last found September 16, 2007. I found it on November 1, 2009.
Each of them required a good effort and fairly long hike to reach. The first two are at the top of a mountain and the third is a 5.5 mile round trip hike. It seems to me that a lot of the geocachers in my area won't go after caches that require time and a good physical effort.
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Hi
one of the rules is that you must replace stuff taken from a cache with something of equal or greater value.
Does that mean I must replace a coin with a coin, or a TB with a TB?
No. They're travelers and you don't have to trade for them. Take 'em ... log 'em ... and move them along.
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I do it for the challenge. It wouldn't bother me if every cache consisted of no more than a log.
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Hi,
Both of my nephews got eTrex Venture HC's for Christmas and I wanted to set them up and show them the basics of geocaching. Their home computer is an Apple laptop -- something I really know nothing about. Can anyone explain what I exactly I need for them to easily upload geocaches to their GPS's?
I looked on the Garmin driver's page and didn't see anything listed for Apple at: http://www8.garmin.com/support/collection....ct=010-00633-00 Are there special Apple drivers out there?
I'm assuming they will need to have Garmin Communicator plugin installed, so they can upload directly from the geocaching webpage, is this correct?
What software is available for uploading .loc or .gpx files to the GPS? Is there any very simple software (I'm thinking closer to EasyGPS than GSAK) for an Apple?
Thanks!
Yes, the Garmin Communicator will be a necessary install. Be aware though that the Safari browser and communicator may not play well together if you have the flip4mac plugin installed unless you have updated versions of all. I've updated everything and all is well. It may have been the older version of communicator that was the problem, but that's just a guess on my part.
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Ever knowingly trespass (NOT including implicit permission hides please) but didn't care? Ever steal someone else's cache? Armchair virtual? The Church of Geocaching is now open for business. Confess your sins here. As long as you repent, NO ONE in this thread will blast you.
I challenge everyone to use all their powers, vested by the geocaching gods, to keep this thread sane and friendly, for you are now in the house of geocaching worship.
Unfortunately, just this past weekend I trespassed onto someone's property and had to crawl through barbed wire to do so. I was near the end of an almost 7 hour trek through brush and a steep climb up the west side of Harrison Mountain in the San Bernardino Mountains and was dehydrated (lost a water bottle) and near delirious at the time (serious) ... plus it was beginning to get dark. I was so wiped out that I figured if I got shot by the owner I would have considered it a mercy killing. I was able to climb up a canyon wall to get myself off the property before being noticed. I generally follow the rules, etc but this time my options were limited. If I had tried to get out the same way I came in, maybe I would have had to spend the night there. Overall, it was fun ... lol. Oh, and I never was able to reach the cache at the summit.
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I'll be darned! Safari, communicator, and Flip4mac now appear to play well together. Since I downloaded the Camino browser, I hardly ever use Safari to know if the problem had been solved. Thanks to those who pointed out that the combo is now working.
Garmin Communicator Plug-in Version 2.9.1.0
Flip4Mac Windows Media Web Plugin 2.3
Safari Version 4.0.4 (6531.21.10)
So maybe what you should do is check to see if you have the most recent versions of everything.
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Works fine here also, check to see if you have Flip4mac.Yup, the garmin communicator plugin won't work with safari.
Works fine here.
i have flip for mac and safari and it works fine
if you have a premium membership though i strongly reccemend maccaching, this plus and ipod makes for paperless caching. stores all the info on the ipod in the notes section and transfers all the caches in the pocket query to your gps, and you can even choose to give them the title of their name rather than gc code.
actually, right now I am experiencing some serious problems with my gps, it doesnt want to communicate with the computer(garmin communicator, maccaching, mapinstall, and even the unit itself- vista hcx- says its not connected) any solutions? they all worked about a week ago when i did my last pq, now that im trying to install some maps it doesnt seem to work tho
I tried Maccaching and it wouldn't recognize my Oregon. If one looks on the Maccaching site at supported receivers, the list is pretty short. It seems that most of the software for Mac doesn't get updated often. Bummer.
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Works fine here also, check to see if you have Flip4mac.Yup, the garmin communicator plugin won't work with safari.
Works fine here.
The plugin Flip4mac is the problem. When I initially had problems with this, I looked and looked on the internet and finally found information about communicator, Safari, and Flip4mac. I think since then Safari and Flip4mac have both been updated and perhaps now it will work ... although I haven't tried it.
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cycler48:
I was using some cheap brandfegan:
I was using some cheaper, disposable, screen protectors designed for PDAs...oh, and I forgot to ask, cylcer48 and fegan, do you happen to recall the cheap brands you'd stay clear of?
I don't recall the name of the cheapo brand I first tried ... just that I bought them at Radioshack. (edit: found them - Sakar GPS Screen Protectors)It was near impossible to apply them without having bubbles under the protective sheet and they actually made the screen harder to read in some lighting conditions. The NuShield, however, applied with no bubbles and made the screen a little easier to read. They also appear to be quite durable. I've probably had the first NuShield protector on now for about three months and it still looks good. The cheap ones ... I was going through one per week.
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working fine here. Couple of answers would help clear up your situation...
- What version of OS X are you using?
- What internet browser are you using?
- Is it the current version?
- Do you have the Garmin Communicator plugin installed?
- Is it the current version?
- What model Garmin GPSr are you using?
- Does it have the current software installed in it?
- And if said GPSr has both RS-232 serial and USB which are you using?
I am using 10.4 tiger
browser is safari
tried using the garmin plug in avail. online mult times
yes it was the current version
garmin gpsmap 60
yes
usb
thanks
Kev
What I discovered a few months ago is that the Safari browser doesn't play well with Garmin Communicator if you have Flip4mac installed as a plugin. I now use the Camino browser and have no problem.
- What version of OS X are you using?
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I always log DNFs ... even when I know I'll be out looking for it the next day. I just had one of those a few days ago. I couldn't find it one day, but found it the next. As was mentioned, DNFs serve a purpose.
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dadgum I hate malcontents and whiners.
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Have you or did you calibrate the compass? I would try that alpng with a fresh set of batteries.
I'd try the calibration first, but perhaps? a master reset will fix the problem. You could also contact Garmin's excellent customer service.
I have two Oregon 400t's and find them to be quite accurate.
There are a few instances in which the user would want to perform a Master Reset on an Oregon. If the device is locked up or the user wishes to erase all user data, please follow the steps below to perform a Master Reset:
1. Power the device Off
2. Place a finger in the upper left side of the display
3. Maintain pressure, then press and hold the Power Button
4. Wait 5 seconds, then release the Power Button
5. Continue to hold your finger on the display until the following message appears: Do you really want to erase all user data?
6. Remove your finger from the display
7. Select Yes to the prompt asking to clear all user data
Once the device has been reset, it will revert back to the factory default settings and all user data will be lost. The device will need to reacquire satellites. To do this, place the device outside for a period of no less than twenty minutes in an area where there is a clear view of the sky.
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You're misunderstand what an ALR is.
Whether you are requiring people to do something, or requiring them not to do something, it's still a REQUIREMENT.
Ditto
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Just getting started here. I'm using my old Garmin Land and Sea GPSMAP 176C, but I would like to geocache on the road with my MacBook Pro. After many painful days of failure, I have come to find out the USB connections to the MAC do not work in a native environment. The MAC software runs great, but there seems to be issues with USB connections on the MAC. The only way to make the connection to the device is with a Virtual PC which is running windows on a MAC. When trying to find a new GPS it is never clear which ones work well with a MAC.
Has anyone out there had an idiot easy (non iPhone) GPS device connection to their MacBookPro? I have not been able to find product information on line which says "GPS comes with MAC software".
I'm not sure why you'd be having usb problems with your MacBook and your Garmin. Do you have the Garmin communicator installed? I also use a MacBook Pro and have no usb problems in connecting my Garmin Oregon. I use Garmin's BaseCamp and find it easy to use with no connectivity problems. I also use RouteBuddy and MacGPSPro but don't care for them nearly as much as BaseCamp.
I feel Bikers pain. As a Mac fan also using a Garmin I've been unable to go paperless. Are you having trouble connecting the GPS to the Mac or getting one of the many geocaching apps connect to the GPS? Connecting to the Mac should be easy. Cycler is right. Just load the communicator and plug it in. However Cycler, if you have found a way to go paperless I want to hear it. I'm tried MacCaching, MacSimpleGPS, GeObsession, GPSBabel and GeoJournal. Not one will connect to the Nuvi. I haven't tried MacGPSPro. I'll try that today. But I'm sure that result will be the same. Any time would be appreciated.
Hmmmm ... I'm completely paperless using my Oregon and my Mac. MacGPSPro doesn't have a free trial that I know of. I don't send geocaches to my Oregon in any way other than through PQ's or individual downloads. Unfortunately, there's no GSAK for the Mac and any other programs for the Mac don't get updated and won't connect to my Oregon. It would definitely be nice to have GSAK come in a Mac version but I'm quite happy with the setup I'm using now.
Could it be the Nuvi that's the problem? Just wondering.
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Last night my friend and I started a cache run early on an extinct volcano (OK, it's a really small volcano) with only a few caches on it. We read the cache page on one of the caches and it said that no matter which way you go for the cache, it's rough terrain.
We opted for going up to the cache from the bottom rather than going to the top and working down.
Our first ascent was on a hiking trail, or so we thought, that was heading the wrong direction so we started bushwhacking towards the cache. No dice. The terrain was a little more than we were prepared for while looking at night. So we backtracked.
We found another place that looked more like a mountain goat trail, but there are no mountain goats within the confines of the city so we surmised it was more of a washout. If it had been raining there might have been a small waterfall there. It was basically a mud path that was very steep.
We figured that would take us right up to the cache and so we headed up the hillside. We had to leave the mud path because it was too slippery and instead climb through the foliage (taking care to not cause damage, mind you) and finally made our way to.... a trail. Yup, managed to bushwhack right to a stupid, flat, wide, used to be an actual road, trail. Oh well, we were already headed up so we might as well continue, right? So we kept climbing straight up till we got to close to the cache (which stated to watch out for the drop-off). We managed to find the cache on a nice flat, level plateau sticking right out of the hillside. It was a great place for a cache, really. And to top it all off, it was less than 30 feet below a roadway! Yeah, that's right. We bushwhacked over 200 vertical feet straight up the side of the mud slick hill, just to discover that there was a road less than 30 feet above the cache.
Talk about embarassing! I wish someone had mapped the trails on this little volcano. Could have saved a lot of sweat.
What kind of silly mistakes have you made?
This is what adventures are made of. lol
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Hello,
Just getting started here. I'm using my old Garmin Land and Sea GPSMAP 176C, but I would like to geocache on the road with my MacBook Pro. After many painful days of failure, I have come to find out the USB connections to the MAC do not work in a native environment. The MAC software runs great, but there seems to be issues with USB connections on the MAC. The only way to make the connection to the device is with a Virtual PC which is running windows on a MAC. When trying to find a new GPS it is never clear which ones work well with a MAC.
Has anyone out there had an idiot easy (non iPhone) GPS device connection to their MacBookPro? I have not been able to find product information on line which says "GPS comes with MAC software".
Thanks,
EspritBiker
p.s. I tried to search the forums but "MAC" and "USB" are both less than the 5 characters required!
I'm not sure why you'd be having usb problems with your MacBook and your Garmin. Do you have the Garmin communicator installed? I also use a MacBook Pro and have no usb problems in connecting my Garmin Oregon. I use Garmin's BaseCamp and find it easy to use with no connectivity problems. I also use RouteBuddy and MacGPSPro but don't care for them nearly as much as BaseCamp.
Link to communicator plugin for Mac: http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=3607
I'll also add that the Safari web browser and communicator don't play well together if you have flip4mac plugin installed.
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You'll need to hook the device to your computer then go to the GPX folder there. That's where you'll find all your cache files and you'll have to delete from there manually. Also, please do check out the wiki as there's some good information there.
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there's this sign in east arlington, VT, near one of my favored campsites.
That's great..... but do you really expect those people to slow down and actually read the sign?
hahahaha ... that's funny. People ignore signs all the time.
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Hmmmm ... I use my GPS devices to keep me out of trouble rather than get me into it.
What if you find a premium cache and youre not a prem. member?
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Hahahaha ... I've got a lot of good karma going for me in my old age. Don't tell anyone though ... it might ruin my reputation for being a sarcastic, cynical, miserable old goat who hates everyone.