wilkintj

Where at in Michigan? I live in Michigan, maybe I can help.

I am looking for a Garmin Vista C if anyone has one for sale.

Does anyone know if there's a way to view the past speed from your track on a Vista C? So say I'm riding my bike, is there a way I can look back and see my speed at any point like I can altitude? Thanks much.

Hey, I just wanted to give a quick shout out to the Michigan cachers out there. I moved up here from Cincinnati last week and look forward to tackling some SW Michigan caches. There seems to be more micros / multis up this way from Cincinnati. Any truth to that, or am I just crazy? Anyhow, cheers!

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I'm sure this has been covered many times before, but couldn't get the Google search to answer this for me, but does anyone know ~ how big - memory wise - each square of Garmin's TOPO map takes up (I know some are bigger than others, but on average). I have the Vista C, wondering about how many squares I can load on there. Thanks much.

It worked like a charm this morning - thank you. I'm curious about the distance calculation for the TBs though ... you said you tured it off, but I can still see the distance mine has traveled, and it was going up as I was logging it this morning, so are you speaking of an additional feature besides the number of miles it's traveled?

Yes ... I've mostly noticed it with TBs. I have a mileage tracking TB that I drop / pick up at each cache and when I try to drop it or pick it up, that's when I get the deadlocks. Sometimes when I drop and get the deadlock the log will still show up ... just w/o the TB. Anyway, Jeremy said he changed something to try to fix it, so I'll give that a whirl and see what happens.

I guess I'd be one of the newbies, but I just like to log them as soon after the cache as possible since I'm lazy ... figure if I don't I'll forget about it. Oh well, part of the game I suppose.

2 more deadlocks ... ugh I give up. I'll have to log them once the site is fixed. Anyway, againg ... love the site in general, but the last two times I tried to log ... today and last weekend ... it was the same errors and they're annoying.

Here's the next error I get ... Server Error in '/' Application. Transaction (Process ID 389) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Transaction (Process ID 389) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction. Source Error: An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. Stack Trace: [sqlException: Transaction (Process ID 389) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.] System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() +180 Groundspeak.Web.SqlData.SqlConnectionManager.ExecuteNonQuery(String sql, Database database) +148 Groundspeak.Web.SqlData.SqlWaypointController.CreateLogData(Guid LogGUID, Int64 WptRefID, Int64 OwnerID, DateTime LogDate, Int64 LogTypeID, String Note, Boolean IsEncrypted, Boolean OwnerCannotDelete, Int64 ObjWptID, WptDataSources DataSource, Double Latitude, Double Longitude) +2160 Groundspeak.Web.GPX.WptLog.Create(Guid LogGUID, Int64 OwnerID, Int64 WptRefID, DateTime LogDate, Int64 LogTypeID, String Note, Boolean IsEncrypted, Boolean OwnerCannotDelete, Int64 ObjWptID, WptDataSources DataSource, Double Latitude, Double Longitude) +164 Geocaching.UI.LogBookPanel.CreateNewLog(Boolean CheckConfirm) +1609 Geocaching.UI.LogBookPanel.LogButton_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) +43 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) +108 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +58 System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +18 System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) +33 System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +1292

First off ... love the site, it's awesome, so thank you. Recently though, the site has been terribly slow while trying to log finds / travel bugs. It seems like anytime I'm updating the database I get errors many more times than not and I have to re-type everything, and submit again, wait for it to error out, repeat, until it finally works. I've spent 20 minutes already this evening trying to log my finds for the day and I'm only on #2 of 7. Help please! BTW, the most recent error is below and it came while trying to log a TB retrieval. Server Error in '/' Application. Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. Source Error: An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. Stack Trace: [sqlException: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.] System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream) +742 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteScalar() +177 Groundspeak.Web.SqlData.SqlConnectionManager.ExecuteScalar(String sql, Database database) +123 Groundspeak.Web.SqlData.SqlWaypointController.WptLogExists(Guid LogGUID, WptDataSources Datasource) +146 Groundspeak.Web.GPX.WptLog.Create(Guid LogGUID, Int64 OwnerID, Int64 WptRefID, DateTime LogDate, Int64 LogTypeID, String Note, Boolean IsEncrypted, Boolean OwnerCannotDelete, Int64 ObjWptID, WptDataSources DataSource, Double Latitude, Double Longitude) +59 Geocaching.UI.LogBookPanel.CreateNewLog(Boolean CheckConfirm) +1609 Geocaching.UI.LogBookPanel.LogButton_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) +43 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) +108 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +58 System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +18 System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) +33 System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +1292

thank you for all of the changes ... much more appealing to the eyes!

GSAK and excel ... excel to keep track of the distance I've hiked / walked while geocaching ... makes it reall easy to sum up the column.

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I have a question about logging a benchmark ... twice. There's a virtual cache in my area called Benchmark of the Month Club. Basically, each month there's a benchmark, or two featured, and if you find it, you log the virtual. The virtual can be logged up to twelve times, once for each month, but in any given month you can only log this virtual by visiting the benchmark of the month. My question is: Say I find the benchmark for Jan and log the virtual cache, is it bad form to also log the benchmark in the benchmark section? Thank you.

Thanks everyone.

This is a bit related to this, but does anyone have any experience with needing to find out who owns a bit of land? And how you've gone about that? There's a tract of land near me, next to a river ... at one end is a park that's run by the city, and on the other end is a highway, and to the side is farmland, but that stretch of land, I have no idea who's in charge of it, and that's where I want to put a cache ... mainly down towards the highway end so that there's some hiking from the park end involved to get to it. I've looked on google maps and nothing shows up and on mapquest it's listed as Little Miami Scenic River. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know please. Right now the plan is to go to the city park at the one end and try to find someone that works there and ask them.

I would cross for sure, seems more fun that way. The more 'out in the woods' / crossing streams / playing on logs there is, the more excited I'd be to go there.

Funny ... I was wondering the exact same thing today. I put the log book back in the zip lock bag today and then noticed it was opened to my page. So, I dug it out and shut it, thinking that I couldn't leave it open. Why not? Who knows, just didn't seem right. But maybe that's because I found it.

Maybe a Nalgene bottle? Those seem pretty water tight with water in them, so I'd assume water would remain out as well.

Thanks everyone, I appreciate it.

Is there a universally accepted cache #1, as in the first one ever placed, not #1 in popularity. I tried to search google, and also google search this site itself, and didn't find it. Turns out searching 'cache #1' returns ALOT. Thanks guys.

I don't have a Magellan, but just wondering if you're updated your drivers on the computer for the new unit? Maybe they're similar enough not to need new drivers, not sure, but just a thought.

I don't really have a policy ... if the cache description says it's near the trail, I'll usually stay on the trail until I'm really close, within 40 feet or so, just because it's a nicer hike not having to push through thorns and overgrown weeds or whatever. But I guess that also depends on the terrain ... if it's a nice mature forest or some other area where walking around off the trail is easy enough, then I may go off trail. I'm lazy, I'll do whatever's easier, but with that being said, the animals have trails of their own, but don't always stick to them, so I feel no need to always stick to them myself.