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Fivebales

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  1. There have been lots of complaints about the new search engine that only searches for caches 10 miles or 30 miles out...I have discovered an easy work around for this, and I'm sure others have, too. Do a search with the usual 10 or 30 mile radius, click on a cache in the furthest reaches of the the search, open to that cache and then click on the state right below the Favorites button...Presto/Chango, the map is repopulated with caches far and wide. You can search the whole U.S. without any limit on circle radius.
  2. Just click on a cache in the furthest reaches of the 30 mile or 10 mile search. Open to that cache and then click on the state right below the Favorites button...Presto/Chango, from there you can search the whole U.S. without any limit on circle radius.
  3. "GPX File" is disabled. Probably a premium only feature. I am not a premium member. Sorry, I didn't realize that. If you need to send to your GPS, Internet Explorer works fine. I don't use IE, so I return to Chrome after I use it for sending cache to GPSr.
  4. "GPX File" is disabled. Probably a premium only feature. I am not a premium member.
  5. You can click on the "GPX file" button to the left of "Send to my GPS", then you can show in folder using the down arrow after it loads. Have your GPS connected to the computer, find the Garmin file and open the GPX file listed on your GPS. Have both windows open and drag from the download folder to the Garmin GPX folder. If you click on the gpx file it will open in GSAK, so you could do it that way, too....just more steps...
  6. My husband and I enjoy geocaching from the northwest to the southwest. We are here in Yuma for the winter and would like to find other Geocachers or groups in this area.
  7. This is a very creative use of a log. Each Geocacher must continue the story when they log in. Storybook Ending
  8. Testing again to see if changes show
  9. When looking for a cache this past winter, we found the site, a cemetary, but not the cache. In the description the owner had told how she hoped it wasn't as hot as when she had planted the cache in the summer, but not to worry there was a water spigot nearby. We found the water spigot, but didn't need it since it was a cold, windy January day. We also saw a thermometer on a pole, but we didn't see anyplace where a cache could be hidden. We weren't too anxious to do an extended search in the cold weather, so we soon gave up. In the middle of a sleepless night I had an AH HAA moment; Why would there be a thermometer on a pole in the cemetary??? Sure enough, when we went back the next day, we found the log only cache hidden in the white box the thermometer was mounted on. Very clever hide!
  10. Just taking people out for the hunt is the best way, especially after they reply, "HUH????" after you've tried to explain it.
  11. Just taking people out for the hunt is the best way, especially after they reply, "HUH????" after you've tried to explain it.
  12. My screen name is from the time we lived on a small farm in eastern Washington. We called it Five Bales Farm, not because we raised just five bales of alfalfa hay each year (although some years it seemed not much more than that.) We called it that because our last name is Bales and there are 5 in our family. Just have always liked names that are a play on words. We were teachers, so our first boat was named Summer School and the dinghy was named Hooky from Summer School. The boat we have now is named Last Class and the dinghy is called Class Cutter. We have retired from teaching, so we consider this boat as our Last Class.
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