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The webcam cache for this one was in Minnesota I think. But a member of our local group in Tulsa had a great idea when he visited. An obvious clue that he is a geocacher.

Wow, I only just got 3.31 installed a few day ago! A great peice of software for only $7. Makes caching much more fun for someone likeme that refuses to print pages. I keep finding new features all the time. Just realized that you had added cache type/status columns in list views. A VERY welcome addition to the program.

While coming down the rock strewn hills from the Styx Mine cache in the Wichita Mountains near Lawton, OK me and OKDoke had quite the experience. OKDoke jumped off a boulder and came around a small scrubby tree only to realize he was face to face with a several 1000 pound male bison. I heard him yell, WHOA! Thinking he had found another tree climbing snake like we had spotted on the way up, I run up behind him like an idiot not seeing what he was yelling WHOA! about. Let me tell you, it's amazing how fast a sleeping Buffalo can rise to his feet when woken. His legs seemed to pop out from under his body like landing gear. Realizing what it was I quickly high tailed it down several boulders and got the Hell out of Dodge so to speak. Like a true geocaching buddy, leaving OKDoke to fend the Bison by himself. Like they say, you don't have to outrun the animal just the othe guy with you. Thank goodness OKDoke was able to back away slowly and then joined me in a quick dash down a few boulders. It was nice that we got to laugh about it later. I had images of seeing OKDoke tossed over my head as I was running away. It was also a great chance for OKDoke to tell me another story from the Wichita Mountains where he jumped off a Boulder on one of the mountains and almost landed on a Turkey Buzzard. The buzzard took flight and OKDoke almost did as well.

Ummm, CacheMate is available for Palm..... That said, I agree with the cheap part. Whatever you can find for cheap that you won't mind dropping. I bought a Palm Zire 21 because I know someone that works for them. Figured I might as well support them. It was pretty cheap for a new unit. 95% of it's use is geocaching so it was a wise choice for me.

Giving GSAK a test run tonight. Looks pretty good. There are a few key issues that keep me from deleting Watcher and Spinner and using your program instead. Any plans to implement the following. My apologies if I missed them earlier in the thread. 1) Filter by coordinates. For example, I took a trip from Tulsa, OK to Memphis, TN travelling I-40 over Christmas. I ran a couple of PQ's and I was able to eliminate all caches that were not between two sets of latitude lines I would be travelling in. Then I took the 2 GPX files and merged them into one for the trip. 2) Icons for specific cache types/bugs. With watcher I change my icons for specific cache types. I have icons for regular caches, multis, other, letterbox, and caches that may have travel bugs in them. With GSAK I see only found, not found, placed, archived. Watcher also let's you add an icon for a cache that is still active but "may" be missing due to numerous not found logs. 3) Cache Code prefix. I like to use the GC.com cache codes for my waypoints. The smart names just don't do much for me. Too hard to read and decipher. On my Magellan I can just view the cache description name at the bottom of my user list. I like to use a prefix for each type for example GC1111 would become, MC1111, UC1111, LB1111, or VC1111 depending on cache type.

Well I can say one thing. First person to start a thread asking if there is a problem getting that GPS on a plane should get a bar on their warn meter.

Since you are in Florida it will take you about a week to get it done depending on how you ship it. They are VERY fast with repairs. I live in Tulsa and took my STP in one morning and picked it up that night. Only because I didn't have time to wait. One of my friends from Oklahoma City brought his MeriPlat to Tulsa and they fixed it while he waited in his truck in the parking lot. Gave him time to plan his cache route for the day. Most likely if you ship it UPS, they will open it in the morning and send it out on the UPS truck that night. If you overnight it, then it will get back even faster.

Bought my first STP around June or July of 02. Noticed cracks that fall or winter I think. Some on the screws and one on the battery compartment! Which is when I got concerned and sent it in with no problems. Actually drove it over since they are only 4-5 miles from my house and picked it up later that day. Got it back with several new goodies. Noticed the battery pack fit much better and was now easy to thread. The new one now has a very very samll crack on one side at the center screw. But it's been a year now. D/C is 1502 not sure if that changed when they fixed it.

Sure does! I was just thinking that too! It looks an aweful lot like the stats sig lines and banners many of us played around with here back 2-3yrs ago. I think some newbie copied that idea a few months ago and thought it was novel. Yea, but those were not dynamic and available to everyone to use for free. You had to change them yourself. It wasn't a service. Wasn't really even a graphic either. It's just odd that dynamic images dissapeared recently.

Wow there's a novel idea. Looks oddly familiar.

I usually take mine out for dinner first.

Probably

Darkmoon had a cache at our last event that was called Alien Spawn. I looked like an egg from Aliens or those eggs from Gremlins. When you opened it, it was filled with micro caches as trade items. On a side note, we found it at night and it kinda glowed under LED lamps. Something in the way the LED lights filtered into the hot glue on the outside of it. It blended into the trees and shrubs with a regular spotlight. Needless to say it was kinda creepy when I turned around and it just appeared under my headlamp lights where I had not noticed it with the spotlight.

I'm sure I'll regret posting this later, but for now... (L to R) Me and the infamous majicman smiling for the camera. Which broke shortly after.

Isn't Duke Nukem Forever coming out this year?

I used to trade regular dollars when I found something in a cache that I just had to have and didn't have anything cool or worthy of trade. Now I put in WG dollars instead. Might as well have fun with them. I'd say you should log them and then spend them or trade them or do what ever you would consider normal circulation. It's only common courtesy to log that person's bill since you have it. I don't think it's unfair to spend it though. That's what a dollar is for anyway. I often remove them and put my own back in. Then I log them and spend them. If I am starting a new cache or am finding a cache and I just happen to have someone else's WG dollar that I have logged then I'll put them in a cache. I don't do anything different than I ever did before with money in caches except I now log them. Why? It's more fun than just trading plain old ones.

Isn't it strange that so many people I know have German and Japanese cars, and yet tell me to buy North American? I have a GM car, which they try to convince me to get rid of for some inferior foreign product, and an eTrex Legend, and one of the best GPSr's around, a (French?) Magellan Meridian Platinum. Maybe we should practice what we preach. Proud to be Canadian, and born to keep the peace. Last time I checked the Manufacturing & Logistics center for Magellan (which is located in Tulsa, OK a mere 5-10 miles from my house) paid their employees in US Dollars. But I guess I should support Garmin instead, put those American guys out of work becuase it was their fault they got bought by the French. I could care less what GPS you own but proudly use my Magellan. Why isn't anyone mentioning Lowrance also headquartered in Tulsa, OK.

You mean I'm not supposed to raise gas/lunch money by removing all wheresgeorge bills that I find? Ooops!

9Key needs to visit the "hair raising experience" cache in Oklahoma for an idea on that statement. For The OKC area I second Darkmoon for both finds and hides. I gave him the Oklahoma Geocacher of the year award at my Tulsa Geocacher Christmas Party for finding almost 500 caches and placing almost 50 in his first year. Parkermen won it last year but has not been heard from since last Spring. As for finders --cappy-- is the new madman in Oklahoma. Almost 600 finds and he still has a few weeks until he's been at this a year. There are less than 700 active caches in the state. In Tulsa team JPenn01 has probably been the most active team in recent history. They will probably rack 400 by the end of their first year. Most creative caches and best logs is Donna and Robert of the Tribe of Two. (aka ONC Staff) Best team name and Mascot - Golden Retrievers Rest in Peace, we'll miss you Tucker There are plenty more awards and mentions I could give out I'm sure.

OH what the heck here it goes: My recent goal of cache number 500. Out on a limb. Me behaving badly as always My new favorite self-photo

I carry a Camelback RimRunner or an older Platypus backpack. Used the RimRunner on a 16 mile (roundtrip) dayhike in Colorado and it worked just fine. Has ample room and bungee straps on the back for lashing poles and jackets. I hiked in a 100oz platypus bottle and "cached" it 3-4 miles up the trail for the return trip after topping off the 100oz in the camelbak. I highly reccomend the Maxpedition gear. I got one (M-4 waistpack) for Christmas because I got tired of carrying a backpack when I went on Geocache runs in mostly Urban areas. It will hold a camera, PDA, GPS, cellphone, log book, 2 pens, leatherman tool, penlight, my mini head lamp, small trade items, 1 set of rechargable backup batteries, 1 set of alkaline batteries to backup my backups just in case, and a backup lithium battery for the camera. We call it..... MY MAN-PURSE!

Heh! Can't stand I'm four caches up on you can you! I've got plenty to go get around me since I spend so much time in your neck of the woods. Seriously though, if you are planning to head this way let me know. I'm hoping that rain will burn off by late afternoon. If not I have Monday to cache if all else fails due to the holiday.

You should definately get the pocket queries then. You'll need the GPX files not the LOC files if you plan to use them with most of the programs. That may be where you were running into problems. Easy GPS will open your GPX files as well. PDA is the way to go. I hated printing pages and would rather go hunt without pages than to have to print them. Now that I have a PDA, I'm in cache Nirvana. You can you Watcher to view offline and filter your cache pages before running them through GPX Spinner. You can use GPX spinner along with Plucker which is slow and can be time consuming. Due to Plucker and not Spinner I might add. Plucker is a great app but it can be slow if you have a lot of pages to scrape. Spinner makes the HTML files and Plucker scrapes them for putting on your PDA. Or you can use Cache Mate which will download the GPX files right into your PDA for viewing AND logging which is something Plucker can't do for you. Of course it won't log online but you can store notes from your day and upload them to the notepad for later logging. Personally Open up Cache Mate and put the entire GPX file on my PDA (just in case). I then open Watcher and filter the cache list for the trip, then spin them to rename the waypoints to my taste. I then use Easy GPS to put the Spinner.GPX file in my GPS. All in all I can be loaded and ready to go in 5 minutes if I have the right GPX file ready to go on my hard drive. Periodically I will update my Plucker file just in case I want to see what bugs are near or look at the distance pages but find I am using it less and less since Cache Mate is on hand.

It's on the list. I have to complete the new pocket query section, and follow up with the benchmark section. After that I'll have all the new code for the "my cache page" - It will be tabbed, similar to the profile page. Cool, thanks for the quick reply. It's not a real issue for me yet. I just remember it being mentioned before. I'm just glad I'm not one of those users with 100+ TB finds. I'm sure that could get quite cumbersome.

Speaking of the Travel Bug list. Wasn't there something in the works to show only a few bugs on the "My Cache Page". Is that still in the works? Just broke the 50 travel bugs mark and the list is getting a little much. I'd like to see it reduced like the log list is. Maybe make it a link instead. Actually, just placing it at the bottom of the page would do too.