Twigs

Trailrider, please include the link. I am curious!

Wow, that is quite the work around! I am impressed, but won't be giving it a try since I just don't feel good about jail breaking my new iPad. Hopefully in time this will be a moot point as app writers see the need and try to fill it for us. The iPad is the perfect travel companion but I guess I'll be downloading a PQ before I leave for Hawaii. Lol

I contacted Garmin about a plugin for the iPad download to Garmin option. All they wanted to do was point me to their opencaching app and basically told me they weren't going to be cooperating with geocaching.com on any further options. Definitely not what I was hoping to hear, but an interesting development.

Thank you JesandTod and niraD. You guys are a big help.

I've never quite gotten the hang of PQ, but maybe it's time I take the time to figure it out. LOL

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I'll give them a try, including writing Garmin. I think Apple has given the needed permission, because there is a Garmin plugin available for Safari, but it is for their MacBook or desktop Macs OS system.

I know many of my fellow geocachers are also iPad owners. One of my favorite features of the geocaching website has been the ability to just plug my Garmin GPS in via a USB cable and quickly download caches into my unit with the push of a button. However, I am finding that this isn't possible with my iPad. Think how nice it would be for people who travel with their iPad and GPS to be able to easily download the caches rather than having to load them all at home via a desktop or laptop computer before we leave from home. I don't know about everyone else, but I hate adding them in manually. As more and more people gravitate to tablet computers (iPads being the largest portion) it would be a great feature to add. Now, if someone out there has a work around for this I would love to hear about it. Twigs

I am so disappointed! There is not a Garmin plugin for the Safari app on the iPad so it is not possible to download directly to a GPS from the iPad. Color me terribly disappointed!

I'll have to go and borrow a friend's iPad for a few minutes to see if it works. I just wondered if others had tried this. We're going on a vacation to Hawaii in the spring and I'd rather travel with an iPad than a laptop. I hate entering in coordinates by hand. LOL

I am planning on purchasing an iPad and one thing I want to be able to do is plug in my Garmin into it and download files just like I do with my laptop. Apple sells a nifty set of adapters that give you the ability to download pictures, etc. from SD cards, and a it also includes a second adapter that provides a USB port. Has anyone tried to use this and successfully used it to download caches to their gps?

I have a cache close to GC24R6T that I had pulled for flood season. It (GC2E4RG)will be going back into action this week if you want to add it to the Cache Machine list. I don't know if I'll be in town for the cache machine but there are some Methow Caches on the list that I'd like to visit.

I was out caching yesterday and rarely trade for items, mainly because I've seen the degradation of swag in the caches. I always have a few nice trade items in my pocket just in case I find something I want to swap for, but more often than not the cache just gets my signature. I wouldn't call all cachers cheap, but it does get expensive and disappointing to set up well-stocked caches and then watch the swag become wet and moldy business cards, and broken toys.

As much as I hated Russell, I have to admit he'd be great at finding geocaches. Problem is...I don't think he'd be good about not destroying the land, the cache, or whatever got in his way of finding a cache. Twigs

I just made the hike up to the APE cache myself last weekend. I am not the greatest specimen of physical fitness (54 y.o. woman -- a bit chunky) and I made it easily. The first part of the hike is the most strenuous. It's about a mile hike up a typical woodland trail. It climbs, levels off, climbs a bit more, and then levels again so it gives you a chance to catch your breath. I really like hiking with a hiking staff or pole so it gives me a bit of extra leverage/balance on some of the bigger steps around rocks and roots. Once you reach the Iron Horse Trail it is smooth walking down a nice graveled road. From the intersection it's another mile and if you go on to the western portal of the tunnel it's another half mile, but there are three other caches there to grab too. I took my time, visited with other cachers on the trail, took tons of pictures, and made it back to the trailhead in exactly three hours. Have fun! Twigs

Our first GPS was the Garmin 12. I bought it for my husband 10 years ago or so and it is still working. In fact he finds it to be very accurate when we cache...better than my old Vista Cx. I'm a Garmin Girl all the way though -- love my 60 Csx.

I'd report it to gc.com and wait for their response. I'll do that. I even have an email from the TB owner telling me that's why it's called The Army of Mystery....you never know where they will show up. I can't believe this has gone on since 2002 (original release date) and know one has questioned it.

I ran into a situation I've never seen just recently. I grabbed a TB with a small army man and a laminated sheet with the number on it. I assumed it had been lost somewhere along the way and sent out again so I grabbed and logged it. Come to find out the owner of the TB released approximately 10 of these. No wonder the mileage was incredibly high! What's your opinion on this? It didn't seem too kosher to me. Would you move the "fake" TB on? Twigs

And yesterday I was getting double notifications for finds on my own caches and others...sometimes hours and hours apart too. Weird.

I noticed the missing header on cache pages where there is no hint at all...no hint...no header. Even if you decrypt the hint, it doesn't print decrypted but either way you get the header. Twigs

This week is my spring break and I headed across WA to Seattle to see my kids and go to an engagement party for the oldest and his fiance. While at the party youngest son and I were discussing my new 60Csx and geocaching and all of the sudden this young man whips out a business card for GPS The Movie and starts babbling about how he is in the movie, one of the main characters, and how he also helped with the editing, and sang one of the songs in the movie. It was too damned funny. He went on to say he'd just seen the final screening of the movie the night before and how great it was, etc. Time will tell if this movie is just a cult hit with geocachers or if it catches on with the general public. Too damned funny, and the last thing I expected to happen at an engagement party. We all gave him a bad time about passing out business cards and pushing the movie the rest of the evening. Twigs

OK, How do I see who has pulled my cache pages? I'm a PM and have never found that feature.

My TB, ~Loup Loup~, was released June 20, 2002 and still traveling. It's in northern Italy now and has traveled 30,800+ miles. She traveled from Washington state to Canada all the way to the Atlantic coast, back to Ontario and then on to Taiwan. From there it traveled to Australia and bounced between there and New Zealand for awhile. Finally in the past six months it moved to Latvia. I sure got a big smile on my face when I saw it was in Venice a few weeks ago and since then it has moved twice. Loup Loup is one of the oldest TBs out there and considering it was my first release I feel very fortunate. Other TBs I've released haven't been so lucky. Twigs

I have a TB named Loup Loup that has traveled over 30,000 miles and is currently in Italy. It started here in Washington State, USA in 2002. It's traveled the hard way...cache to cache carried by different cachers each step of the way. The original mascot was lost almost immediately and last I heard it was on a third one.

My Travel Bug Loup Loup (http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=7181) now has 29816.8 miles on it in Latvia. It is currently in the hands of a new cacher with only 6 finds and less than a week since registration. I just pray the TB is moved on and doesn't gather dust in a backpack somewhere in Europe.

My TB Loup Loup (http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=7181) was released June 20, 2002 and has traveled just under 30,000 miles. She was just picked up this week in Latvia after spending quite a bit of time "down under." That's pretty awesome about Smokey showing up after 7 years of being missing though. That has got ot be some sort of record! Twigs