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vagabond

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  1. Yrium was one of the early cachers in San Diego county, you could always get a chuckle out of his logs and they were never short logs. He's been gone for a few years now but his logs are still there.
  2. When I'm switching between units I go to gps at the top of the gsak page click on it click on setup then scroll down to your unit click on it then go to send and click on send that should do it. I load my 650t and Nuvi that way
  3. back to the triton and vantagepoint, I can take a 500 cache pq start loading into the triton, then take the same pq and load my Nuvi and my 650t and be done and still waiting for the triton to load. About the only thing I dislike about the newer Magellans is having to use vantagepoint to load pqs it's so darn slow
  4. I used to do most of my caching on Sundays, map out an area any parks I'd hit early, like shortly after daybreak. Many mornings I'd leave the house at 4 or 5AM to hit the parks at the crack of dawn, never had a problem
  5. there are quite a few around the barstow Ca. area, highway 395 north of I15 there are about 4 the last time I looked and before highway 58north of 58 on the 395 there are more. Between Barstow and Needles the route 66 emblem, all BLM land
  6. Are you using the term to refer to glue? I've used altoid tins in the past, in protected locations. Never used glue. With a neodymium magnet you don't need glue. Just put the magnet on the inside of the tin. One caveat about altoid tins, even in a protected location expect to do a lot of maintenance. They rust up quickly. A baggie will not keep the logbook/sheet dry for very long. The OP is from CA where it doesn't rain much so no biggie about rust. "Booger" is one of those green electrical cabinets you find around shopping centers and just about anywhere. Depends on where the sprinkler heads are located, found one a couple of months ago that was full of water, that was in Temecula Ca.
  7. how many people if 3 or more I'd say get a van, if just 2 just about anything will do
  8. The 200 geocache limit requires a lot of extra effort. If you have too many in your PQ, not all will load. I'm not sure how it decides which ones to exclude, but it is usually ones that you need. If you use GSAK, there are macros that will break a large group of caches into eXplorist friendly files. EDITED: I confused my eXplorist 500 with my Triton 500. The eXplorist died years ago, but I still use the Triton every now and then. The Triton will only load 1000 total points, including regular waypoints, geocaches, and child waypoints. When I was still using mine I'd limit my PQs to 195, the PQs would be for my area in so cal. If I was on a trip I'd do PQs every night
  9. you can only load 200 caches to a explorists 500 file but you can load as many files as your memory will hold, hopefully on an SD card. Sometimes when loading 200 caches it will drop out a few, when I was using mine I'd load 195 per file then change files an load another 195, I have a 2gig sd card in mine
  10. If you were there when it was hidden, then you already know where it is located, how do you 'find' it? I'd say it's akin to finding your own cache. In a certain state I visit often and geocache in, it's totally acceptable to bring a new cache to an event, let people sign the log, then go out and place it: Found it WooHoo FTF. Xxx Xxxxx was the first to ink this sweet blank log at the meeting in Xxxxxxxx. Thanks for putting out this cool idea for a cache. Found it Found it at the Xxxxxxxx XXX meeting. Thanks for the cache XXX. Cool idea. Publish Listing Published Found it First to log. Saw this at the meeting in Xxxxxxxx. Found it Found this one in the back of Xxxxx and Xxxxxxxxxx truck. There are about a dozen similar logs. Just when you think you've heard it all. Brian do you remember how it was done in the early days
  11. Looks like you had fun and it can get silly at times, we did it on 2 different days and backwards
  12. here's one I found many years ago in east San Diego county GC5B
  13. Loved my gold and my 2 explorists 500s, but the triton series sent me running to Garmin
  14. I have a "that's not geocaching" response to what goes on along numbers run trails like the ET Highway, but it isn't directed at the caches themselves. Rather, it's directed to some of the "shortcuts" that are used by many who are doing the ET Highway numbers run trail. For example, the three cache monte (aka cache shuffling aka swap-and-drop) breaks the fundamental "return the geocache to its original location" rule of geocaching, and leapfrogging (and other divide-and-conquer techniques) are just armchair logging by another name. +1 +2
  15. You know Ca. stste rangers go through the same training as the Ca. highway patrol
  16. Route 66 series between Barstow and Needles Ca Planes trains and automobiles in the desert east of Barstow Both of them are well over 400 caches
  17. I just upgraded from a nuvi 255w to a 1490lmt, I tried 29 hundered series but It wouldn't show the caches as POIs on the map unless I was actually going to it
  18. Thought I'd add this In almost 13 years of geocaching I've had 1 LEO encounter and he was more interested in the pill bottle in my hand it was the cache
  19. my 255w and 1490lmt are both the same for the gpx files and favorites.I USE gsak FOR LOADING GPX AND POIs if they're loaded as favorites go to tools scroll down to favorites and you can delete all your favorites, I'll check all then scroll down and uncheck anything I want to keep like addresses
  20. OK folks keep mentioning the P membership, and you;ll never qualify
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