YooperSnowman
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Thanks for the great stories. My wife and I were introduced to Geocaching about 10 years ago and have been steady players since then. And now that I will be retiring this summer, we hope to get out more. We live in the UP of Michigan and is a great place to cache where extensive tracks of forestland, Great Lakes, and history all come together for an awesome experience. Thanks again for your stories.
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In addition to the benefits of PM, my membership supports Groundspeak and the game of geocaching. There are real expenses associated with the technology (website, app) behind the game and I simply want support it. With any organization that I am a member of, I not only enjoy the benefits, but look how I can contribute back to the organization that I am supporting. I appreciate everyone's comments. Just my $.02.
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Very cool. Your 9 year old grandson is wise. As for Pokemon Go, players can actually help where stealth is needed in looking for a cache. Muggles assume everyone walking around looking at their devices is playing PG, so geocachers blend in. You still need stealth when grabbing/replacing a cache, but your general hunting for a cache can be camouflaged by PG players. Happy you showed your grandkids the joy of geocaching--thats awesome.
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Thanks for sharing your story. Many of us can relate to your experience. I hope you share this kind of story in your logs. Welcome to the 'game".
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Little back story...last weekend there was a "meet and greet" event in St. Joseph, Mo, about 80 miles from us...so the wife and I decided to do a day trip out of it along one of our favorite drives, and get some geocaching in, while exploring a possible route for our local car club. I knew I would have to space them out, but we wanted to explore some old cemeteries with geocaches (for some reason...we really like these), and do a few "bridge" ones that were just around the corner. I also picked what looked like easy park and grabs along the route. We had a window of 6 hours to play..plenty of time..the actual drive time was like 2-3 hours. Man was I wrong.
Our first 2 were easy park and grabs, but when we hit the park in Leavenworth in what looked like another one, we spent well over an hour there, not only getting to it and back...but just enjoying the views and our time together. Never knew this park was there..and driving by you wouldn't think there was one, so I can see why the last time someone found this GC was 8 months prior. Moved onto the next...and logged a DNF, then another easy park and find overlooking the penitentiary. Onto our 1st cemetery, then a bridge. I had planned on be-bopping back and forth along K-7 into Atchison doing cemeteries...but after these 2, I realized we would be pressed for time..and we still had to hit the 4 state overlook in White Cloud, and the 40th parallel on the Kansas/Nebraska border...2 of which were a must hit on our list.
We hit those 2...plus one other (I'm proud of my wife making it up to the 40th parallel one...it was pretty steep..but she soldiered on and made it), but skipped the rest to get to the meet and greet.
What I've learned is to space them out even further, and just do ones that are right along our route, barely off the road. There's never enough time. Also...when we go back to hit all the other cemeteries, take the suv. My little bambino did fine on the back country roads, but some had me a little concerned I might not have enough clearance. We still really enjoyed ourselves...met some great people at the event, and most importantly..spent some great..and some much needed quality time together.
I share this not only for other newbies who might be doing geocaching they way we're doing it, but also to help make me have a "mental note" as I plan some geocache stops as we make our way down to Arkansas for our car event this Thursday. Plan on doing a couple at Peel's ferry on either side, plus one or 2 others along the highway southeast of Springfield.
Sorry for the long post..but wanted to share. Peace and Long Life to everyone.
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I ran a simple PQ of 14 caches this past weekend and I received an email with the PQ attached.
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By all means give it a try for a while for free and then consider PM. As for me, PM was not so much what I got from membership, as what can I give back to a hobby I really enjoy, supporting the infrastructure of the Geocaching website etc. Of course I do enjoy the benefits, mostly PQs. Best wishes as you learn more.
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Google does not support direct transfer of routes to a Garmin. There are some 3rd party plugins that will reformat the Google route into a correct GPX route file that can be imported. Or you could create your route in Mapquest which does support route transfer to the nuvi.
Note that route import on a nuvi only imports the start, end and any explicitly set via points. It does not use shaping points that are not vias. The nuvi then recalculates the route using these points and the routing preferences and map you have on your nuvi. If you create a route in mapquest, be sure to change your via points to "stops" before you send the route to the nuvi (right click on each via point and on the pop-up menu select "Make this point a stop")
Thanks alandb for the info and advice. I will explore the Mapquest idea. I don't think shaping will be necessary and I will be sure to set via points and convert them to "stops". Since we still have nearly 3 feet of snow on the ground here in Upper Michigan, this will be a nice project to work on in preparation for the upcoming bare-ground caching season. Thanks again.
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I want to create a route on my Garmin Nuvi 1450LMT that will get me close to a remote cache. I have set up a Path on Google Earth that will get me close to the cache with my vehicle. Any ideas how to save the the Google Earth Path (what format) and what folder to load it into on the Nuvi 1450. Thanks very much.
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There is a place and time for P&Gs. I prefer caches that get me off the beaten path and require some hiking with a bit of challenging terrain. But, I will sometimes grab LPCs and other micros just because I want to hunt for a cache and don't have the time for a more extensive outing to the wildlands. When I travel for work, its the P&Gs that scratch my caching itch.
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As mentioned, run a Pocket Query from your Bookmark List. You can then preview the PQ in the geocaching maps--not Google Maps, but you might be able to do a screen shot and print it or use your browser's print function.
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"Finding geocaches is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're going to get"
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I have a Garmin Dakota 10 and have used it in rugged and urban areas as well as remote areas of Upper Michigan, Montana, etc. and has held up well. If I were to buy another, I would probably get a Dakota 20 or an Oregon. All these are tough units. They handle transferring PQs easily and its easy to add waypoints--important for mult-caches. As mentioned above, visit a store where you can play with them and ask questions. Buying a GPSr is kinda like buying a car. There are lots of models out there that do similar things, but its a matter of what you personally like. There's a model out there for everyone's preferences. Good luck and let us know what GPSr you end up with.
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There are many reasons for a DNF on a bridge. Here's a log from a bridge cache near here:
"My old explorist 200 had us walking over the brige, under the bridge, around the bridge, and so on. I started sticking my face in the obvious places behind the guardrails, and came face to face with a skunk! Thank God it stayed put while I screamed and ran away like a little girl. We had enough after that one and tore out of there. Thanks anyway, maybe we will be back next year."
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Thanks AndyT1. Your advice worked great--an easy solution and just what I was looking for. I could select individual or multiple waypoints and simply copy and paste them into the other open MapSource program. Spring must be just around the corner for you. Fall is coming on here in the northern hemisphere--a great time for caching. Thanks again.
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I have a list of waypoints (geocaches) showing in the MapSource window. Do you know how I can append an additional gpx file containing another list of geocaches. Thanks for your help.
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Premium membership will really enhance your experience for reasons mentioned above. Good luck with your gps shopping and have fun.
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Is the accuracy/resolution of Google Maps and Google Earth higher in urban areas than rural areas? Do the map makers put a higher priority on areas with higher population density? Is data storage an issue and therefore less information provided for remote areas?
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Give this a try http://www.geocaching.com/map/default.aspx?guid=e8fbd52a-a35f-4bf7-9f8a-a187e5d81050 You might need to log in.
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Zinzah, I use a Dakota 10 and find it great. Like you I don't use a lot of maps etc. so there is plenty of internal memory for cache data. Also don't load hundreds of caches at a time, so again the 10 is fine. I also use a Nuvi 1300 to route me near the cache when driving. When out of the car I use the Dakota. Together they make a great team in leading me to the cache. Also, its very easy to load the same gpx PQ into both.
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A two-dollar bill--unique. Scratch off lottery ticket--just plain fun.
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Thanks, I got it! now I have to figure out all the new stuff
Thats part of the fun of Geocaching--learning new things. Its actually one of things I enjoy most about it. Even old dogs like me can learn new tricks, i.e. I leaned how to use HTML in my cache pages
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Pair of quality hiking boots: $150
State-of-the-art handheld gps: $399
12 orbiting satellites: $1.0 billion each
Finding tupperware in the woods under a rock: Priceless!
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Trying to follow everything and many thanks for the advice. I know I should not have placed it without Internet but we were in the adventurous spirit. We placed another the next day in a spot that didn't have one already and that one they did publish. I am really just looking for someone in the area to go get the cache and they can do whatever they want with it. I will take the advice of looking for someone in the area that is active and email them and ask them if they might be interested in taking the cache. Thank you all for your advice.
5Bums
A fellow cacher (thanks Gitchee) connected me with 5bums and we are resolving the issue. I live nearby and removed the unpublished cache and tb yesterday. I "grabbed" the tb and will drop it in a local TB Hotel and it will soon be on its way. We are happy that we were able to help out a bit.
Have fun.
Obvious trail to cache location
in General geocaching topics
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We've all experienced it...you park the car to look for a cache and there is an obvious trail leading directly to the prize. No technology needed to find it. So what do you think?
Are these trails harming the environment or just part of the game? After a year or two, should the CO archive the cache so the site can recover and ask the reviewer if you can move it a bit? Do trails attract the attention of muggles?
Thoughts? Thanks.