Viajero Perdido

Ooo, belt and suspenders! Wouldn't that make it swing into something hard and metal, instead of just going thud on the soft ground? Or maybe get caught in rotating machinery? I have the Garmin mount too. First thing I managed to do was break it. While attaching it to the bike, I dropped it to the ground, and it cracked at the very top - the little loop of plastic that hooks around the "button" on the GPS. I reinforced that with a loop of wire, and it's been great ever since. PS: my avatar pic was shot on the handlebars. Very helpful fly, offering directions like that...

Has anybody else noticed that there's no prompt before deleting a pocket query? Click the button, poof, it's gone and you're not getting it back. Why on earth is there an are-you-sure prompt for creating a PQ (at least, when you copy an existing one's attributes), but none at all when deleting one? That's backwards!

"I'm going to Moe's" (slam) ... Then remember to gargle with whiskey before sneaking back in.

Lessard Road Sinkhole almost swallowed a geocacher. He drove over it before the bottom fell out; it sent him airborne!

Vertical gain is about 5500'. Yes over a vertical mile. Easiest route is a scramble (as shown in photo). No climbing gear necessary, but an ice axe is recommended. Sites: http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/15...unt-temple.html http://www.peakfinder.com/peakfinder.asp?P...me=Mount+Temple

Mount Temple cache sounds a bit tricky. It haunts me...

Reviewers can correct coordinates by any distance, on the request of anybody. It's up to their judgment. Typically they'll do this at the request of cachers other than the owner if it's apparent the owner has gone missing.

I do what the OP does, but I don't even slow down. As I'm driving down the highway between interesting caches, it's fun to see roadside caches approaching on the GPS display, and as I'm driving by at full speed, figure it's gotta be riiiiiight ...there! Yep, that's where it'll be. Of course I never log those. More fun than playing word games with license plates, IMHO.

Ooh, I like the latest version of the maps! (The version with simple + and - buttons in the upper-left corner.) Much more flexible than the old 1...7 or older 1...City...3...Yadda...7 style. And cool - the "i" button in the upper-right corner (I won't ask what "i" stands for) switches to an even cooler mode. Stop now! it's perfect. But if you're looking at the other, tiny map at the top of the page, would you mind zooming it out a bit more? Thanks! VP

Just a guess... Is the image a full-size one straight off the camera? With lots and lots of megapixels? Maybe you're giving it more than it can digest. If that's the case, try shrinking the image yourself before sending to GC.com. Good luck. (EDIT: Post #100. Yikes - I'd better shut up and go geocaching!)

Ditto. To clarify: You do want to have Plucker in the PDA, but not its companion application ("distiller") on the PC. On the PC you'll want SunriseXP instead.

However, you can turn the attribute on/off like any other attribute - on the edit-attributes page.

Hang onto your receipt and warranty info! I had two dud TXs in a row before finally getting one that worked for more than a week. It took months to get the warranty service too; I was quite ticked off because they seemed to be deliberately stalling. It was the first time I'd been that long without a PDA since the things were invented. For software, I use Plucker to view the output of GSAK's output-to-HTML feature. Works like a charm.

I'd say 5 stars. It would be a "serious mental challenge" to convince myself to touch anything that looked explosive. I wouldn't go near anything in that picture!

There are probably harder ones, but I humbly nominate my own School for consideration. It took 6 months and several hints before it was finally solved. The logs make pretty funny reading. But of course, I can't tell you how to solve it.

That's a good list all right, but I've noticed it's missing at least one other: Love Grotto. It's on 3 favorites lists, but at least 2 of them are by non-Calgarians, so I guess that's how it got overlooked. (This is a plug for Love Grotto; it's an excellent hike.)

In a nutshell, * If you like urban caches, Calgary. You can't turn around without tripping over one. * If you like wilderness caches, Canmore. Caches on anything from short trails to mountaintops. The national parks (Jasper & Banff) have very few caches for bureaucratic reasons. Canmore (including Kananaskis Country just to the south) doesn't have this problem, and has picked up the slack quite nicely. Around Canmore, try anything by BVPete, and certainly don't miss Cold Cache. Have fun!

It doesn't sound like there's anything wrong with your unit's setup. For compatibility with GC.com, it should be set for hddd mm.mmm which is what the cache pages show, and it probably is. The maximum value for mm.mmm is 59.999, so it would and should reject N040 74747, which are invalid coordinates.

On a related note, I've declared that Edmonton is the Geocaching Centre of Alberta based on some handy stats from GSAK, namely the cache density report. How do other provinces compare by this measure? (The number's gone up to 287, but I haven't updated the cache page yet. And this number includes "brass caps", which in Canada are an Alberta-only thing, so YMMV...)

The last few months, it seems like there's always been about a 1% chance of getting that page at any unpredictable moment. (It's sort of like walking through a dog park without looking down.) In my experience, a retry usually works. What's a bit annoying is that you can't just hit Reload. That only reloads the error page. Instead, you have to go Back, find the link you clicked, and click it again. Or close the error tab, find the original tab, and re-click the link. Just takes a few more moments. The 1% tax.

Two compliments about the new maps: 1) The Google map shows much better detail at the default setting than the Yahoo ones did. 2) I don't care what words you use, even if it's Americanisms like State, just please keep the words. Or some indication of which direction is zoom in vs zoom out. Even better would be an indicator, eg via bolding, of which zoom level you're currently at. (Using bold for a hover effect isn't useful.) Google accomplishes the same 2 goals with their slider and +- buttons. You can accomplish the same thing by keeping the words, and by bolding the current setting. I hated the old 1..9 scheme because 1) I had to experiment to figure out which direction was zoom in vs zoom out. 2) I had to experiment to figure out which setting was default. Say I wanted to zoom out just a little. First I had to figure out that 4 was the default, then... was it 5 or 3 that I wanted?

For security reasons, no. However, this thread discusses how you can do some basic formatting and add links.

For best results, I do use the averaging feature. Also, I attach the unit to a branch directly over the cache (if possible) using the belt clip, then sit down and have a good long break. By the time it's taken 1000 readings or so, it should be pretty accurate.

I've been getting timeouts today, yesterday, and every other day I can remember. All the time. When I try to load a page on GC.com, one of two things happens: 1) It loads almost immediately, within a second (well, the maps might take longer, but who cares?) 2) Nothing at all happens. In case 2, I know by experience that I can wait until the end of time, and still nothing will happen. Well, that's not quite true; after about 10 minutes Firefox will give up with its usual error message. So if nothing happens after a second, I may as well click reload. Or hit Submit a second time, if I'm entering a log. Often the second time works. (It's frustrating when I don't have an URL in the address bar, such as when opening a page from Google Earth, because then reload isn't available.) Cache log pictures are a different story. Some are just plain unavailable. I can try anything I want, they just refuse to load. Via a direct click, via the log page, via the gallery - nothing. If I try again tomorrow, maybe that picture will load, maybe tomorrow a different server will try to serve up those pictures, I dunno. I don't think it's my browser. Other sites work fine. Do I want new features like Wherigo? No. Do I want the basic functions to work properly? Yes please.

I usually let other people have FTFs, but if a cache hasn't been found for a really long time, then I really want the FTF. It means a challenging cache, and it gives me a goal. Recently I hiked up a mountain for a cache that had no recorded find since it was published almost 2 years ago. And guess what - there was an entry in the logbook from 2007. I was a tad annoyed at the finder for not having mentioned that detail online. A couple of days later I got a thank-you note from another cacher who was about to hike up the same mountain for the same cache. By logging, I'd saved him the trip. (This was not the most scenic mountain to be climbing; it's an old strip mine. There are more attractive mountains to climb.) Another frustration: I traveled rough to a little-visited corner of the Dominican Republic, because there was an FTF waiting there after 10 months. Couldn't find it, and I looked hard. The coordinates seem to be way off, as the description doesn't match what I found at GZ. It was the lowlight of my trip, and a big detour. This is discouraging, as I have other hunts planned to very out-of-the-way caches, and I'd sure like to have a decent chance at that teeny reward for the substantial effort of getting there.