Walts Hunting

Are you thinking along the line of the iQue which does both or just getting a PDA to make your trekking paperless. I don't know which other maps will load but I use MapSource. If you are looking for inexpensive (read cheap) try Outdoor Navigator which for $20 provides all the topo maps in the US some in 24K and others in 100K. It works on a PDA.

I searched for "from origin" on the forum and the responses didn't answer my question.. What does that button mean. I have been using the postal code which seems to be a subset of that since it is bolded and above the postal code box. I imagine that someone must have asked if there was a possibility that a linear serach will ever be offerred. After loading a couple of sets of data from different pocket queries into GSAK I go to MapSource, mark the route then export it as a MPS file and load it in the ARC/POLY. Not to cumbesome but would have to run quite a few queries since they are radial and if I put in 50 miles and 200 caches and it reaches 200 first then the ends along the route would not show up. And you get some 50 miles off the route when you might only be wanting 10 or so. It would even be pretty good if just two points at a time and all caches within x distance of the line. You can actually do highway 5 from Oregon to Mexico with only 4 segments and be at a maximum 20 miles off the highway.

I believe in the recent article in Parade magazine the quote was. It's the journey, not the destination. I am new to this and it gives me a reson to hike somewhere and explore new areas. Am returning to Death Valley and Joshua Tree (29 Palms) area this winter with a whole new activity. I have friends who pack up a picnic basket and take the whoel family for the whole day to look and just have a good time. For trade items I just went through some old stuff and found very neat items that I had acquired in the past but were no longer needed such as a pin from the reenactment ceremony of the UN Charter in SF 50+ years ago. Figure I got about 30+ great items that I can pass to someone.

Thanks everybody for the help. I should have looked closer for the log icon on the page. Particular thanks for the person who sent me to the Florida GeoCaching page. That had detailed instructions from the GPX download to the multi find logging using a PDA. Should give me a lot of stuff to read. Now I am all set just need to have UPS deliver my iQue

They say there are no stupid questions (although when I had to teach occas ionally I questioned that) so I am going to give it a shot. This is a two part question. How do you log a found cache manually? I can't find any magic button on a cache page that would take me there. So where did you guys hide it so the newbies would ask annoying questions? Second, I have downloaded GPX files using pocket query, converted to CacheMate (also have GSAK but with a palm this seems to make sense). Found some cache's (not really, just getting everything straight). Exported category found from CacheMate and used CM2GPX (wow a name that makes sense) and now have a file of found caches. Can that be uploaded to some magic place where it is massaged? Thanks for your patience. I did root around in FAQ and discussion boards but it appears that you guys have passed this by.

Have iQue on the way. Geocacheing Newbie. Can GSAK be used to get waypoints from any source (geocacheing.com for starters) into the iQue? Read the part about CacheMate and am reviewing the info on their home page. Am trying to decide which program I should use. Any suggestions?

I have read the FAQ's and the getting started discussion as well as looked at the icon description page before asking this. There is a little icon that points in a direction on the left of a search page and some distance below it. What is distance from? I thought the waypoint was exactly at the cache site.