Hideaway Hunter

Thank you for your reply. On these last logs, I used todays date, but I put the date that we found it in the log. In future, I will use the date that we found the cache. Once again, thank you. Hideaway Hunter "The Thrill of the Hunt, The Victory of the Find"

log the date for a cache find, or even DNF? For example, last week, my wife and I spent a few days in an area in Eastern Washington. We went with a good supply of Geocaches to look for, and we found most of them. However, and this is what leads to my question, what date do you put down in the log-in page? Do you put in the date that you are logging it on-line? or do you use the date that you actually found it. We don't have a laptop to take along and then be able to log our finds every night back at the motel, or where ever we happen to be staying at. I wasn't able to get on-line to log my finds until today (Monday) and almost every site I went to log, I found others had found and logged after we had found it. Or am I making too much out of something that is not that big of a deal. I kinda like to think that the logs I read on-line are in the order that they have been found. I'd love to hear how y'all do it. Hideaway Hunter "The Thrill of the Hunt, The Victory of the Find"

I recently flew Horizon Air from Seattle to Fresno and back. Before boarding the plane, I asked the person behind the gate desk about using a GPSr on the plane and they flat said "NO". After boarding the plane and taking off, when it came time to let people know it was OK to use their electronic devices, they included the following line (or something like it) "except for those that SEND or RECEIVE a signal". I was kinda miffed, especially since I knew that the pilot sitting up front was probably using his GPS to help pilot the plane. I guess that is why I try to fly Horizon as infrequently as possible. Hideaway Hunter By the way, I was able to find six out of seven caches during one of the days. Went looking with sister-in-law, her kids and my parents. The kids thought it was great. They found most of them. Sis-in-law used it as a field trip, since they home-school their kids.

I'm sorry, but I don't have mine in front of me right now, but it seems to me, if I remember correctly, if you go to setup in the menu, there is something called tracking, or something similar. Basically, what you are looking for is something to leave tracks on the map from point to point to point etc. I know that it is there someplace. Just look in the menu under setup. When turned on, it will leave a trail of "breadcrumbs" on the map. It can be useful for backtracking. Hope this helps. Hideaway Hunter

I'm sorry, but I can't figure out how to open a downloaded file in Notepad. Nothing happens when I right-click on it and if I double click it, it takes me to EasyGPS where I am told it won't open in EasyGPS. I can't highlight it so I could copy it someplace. What a dunce!

I have Windows 98 and MSN 8.

I know that this has been discussed before, but I must be missing something along the way. I have EasyGPS on the computer and opened. I go to a GeoCache page that I would like to download. I click the LOC Waypoint File (*.loc) link. I then get a window that opens and gives me three options. "Save This File Now", "Open This File Now" and "Download This File Later. It doesn't make any difference which of the first two options I click, when EasyGPS opens, there is another window on top of the EasyGPS page that says "The file you have selected cannot be opened with EasyGPS. Please visit http://www.topografix.com for information on our other products." I have even tried going to the search page, selecting a Geocache, scroll down to the bottom of the page, clicking "Download Waypoints" and I get the same message. Cannot be opened with EasyGPS. Can anyone out there explain to me what I am doing wrong? If I am not doing anything wrong, then why isn't EasyGPS accepting the waypoint? I guess, until I can figure out what is (or is not) happening, I will have to open both pages in the same window, hand load the waypoints into EasyGPS and then download them into my GPSr. Thanks in advance to any help that you might be able to give me.

Thank you for your help. What I did was use the "find" from the start menu, using *.loc for the "file" to find and son-of-a-gun, it showed up in EasyGPS. I don't know how or why, but it seemed to work. I guess until I figure out how to use this better, that is one way to find the waypoints I download. Again, thanks for your help.

After hand entering coordinates into my GPS unit to locate Geocache sites, I found EasyGPS and downloaded it to my computer. Now here comes the problem that I am having. When ever I try to download a Geocache, it downloads into my Download Manager. Then, when I open and try to bring it into EasyGPS, it says that it is the wrong format. I had no trouble at all in downloading the waypoints from my GPS into EasyGPS, but I cannot figure out how to download waypoints from the website to EasyGPS, and if I can't get them to EasyGPS, I can't get them to my GPS unit (Magellan Sportrak Pro). What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.