hurleyanne
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Update: There's also one in Cold Lake, Alberta in July http://coord.info/GC5ZFA4
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Do you use lists? Why or why not?
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How do you currently use lists? Why do you put caches on lists? Are there list related tasks that are tough to do?
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How would you like to use lists? Is there functionality that is missing that would improve your experience? (Feel free to think outside current offerings. ie: collaborate on it with a friend, download to your GPS, etc)
1. I do not use the ignore list option (I guess I figure I can ignore caches for myself), and have a few items on my watchlist (and watch a bookmark list). Bookmark lists are probably one of my most used features on the geocaching site. I love being able to organize cache information for future reference.
2. I use bookmark lists to keep track of puzzle caches I`ve solved but not found, plan which caches I might want to look for on vacation, and highlight important or interesting geocaches (for instance, I maintain a list of the 100 or so oldest active caches in Canada). I also like creating bookmark lists to make it easier for groups of people to run PQs off of them so we can all have the same cache info. I love doing challenge caches and many require you to organize your finds in a bookmark list. In this case I appreciate the ability to edit the cache name in the list so that I can sort caches in a certain order if necessary.
Before I travel I add caches to lists from the map if I know I`m going to a specific area. Next I`ll get a list of caches nearby then sort them by favourites and add highly rated caches to my bookmark list as well. In this way I`ll be sure to both have good caches to look for and have an abundant number to look for. Being able to look at the map first also means I can see where there might be some good areas to rest while on extended road trips, and save those for future reference.
I like how GSAK can save caches to bookmark lists. One way this has helped me is that I run a PQ of a bookmark list I`ve created of caches I`m interested in, then check the caches to see if they`ve been found recently and are in decent shape. I can easily filter out and delete caches that aren`t active in GSAK. From there I will delete all the caches in the bookmark list, and use GSAK to refill the bookmark list with my preferred caches.
I like that there is a place on the list to write notes and descriptors, both for the caches themselves and for the full list. I like that I can choose to keep them private or make them public.
3. Things that I would love to see get easier or clearer:
- transferring items from one bookmark list to another without having to save to one list and deleting from the other.
- removing a few items from a list requires a lot of clicks, then it wants to reload the list from the very beginning again. Some of my bookmark lists can be very large, and it can take quite a while to page through where I had been editing my list. Additionally all the page numbers are at the bottom of the screen, so I have to scroll to the bottom of every screen as I go. This isn`t bad for a short bookmark list, but I`ve used the maximal 1000 cache limit sometimes.
- I would like to be able to see a map of the caches on the bookmark list without having to first create a pocket query.
- It might be nice to be able to choose to be notified if items on a bookmark list are archived. Even better if I could be asked if I want to delete it from the list and it will take care of it for me.
- I find the public vs. shared terminology to be a little ambiguous - they almost sound the same.
- I`ve seen comments where people would like to be able to keep an easy reference of someone else`s bookmark list so they can look at it again later.
- It would be nice if you could have more cache info in the list of bookmarked caches, just like on a list of nearby caches. I might not need to rely on GSAK as much to filter out caches from my list.
Thanks for requesting our opinions!
Lorianne
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Do you use lists? Why or why not?
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Looks like one from this list was found today! The owner reports receiving a call as it was found and I've seen a photo on Facebook from another one of the finders, but it hasn't been logged yet! SK Extreme 1
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Hello all
I am not at my best with technology. Currently I'm not getting past first post with my new Garman. I have inserted the batteries but I can't get the back to close. What am doing wrong please?
Thanks in anticipation
Newt10
I find my 650 pretty tricky to close too, and doesn't close near as easy as that video of the Montana shows. You have to carefully align the bottom of the back cover then bring the top of the cover into place. You might need a couple of tries to slip the bottom properly into place. After that you'll be able to turn the locking mechanism
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Most of this year's resolutions are continuations of last year's:
1. Try to finish the Jasmer challenge. Hubby and I are hoping to travel to the western U.S. in September, and I hope to add stops to get the last 5 months I need. I managed to knock off 12 months last year.
2. Try to double my cache count - maybe even hit 10000. I've got plans for a caching trip to Nevada/So. Cal. in March with a few other cachers, and they're all hungering for some really high count days. Last year my summer geocaching was out the door because of house/yard renos.
3. Continue the cache streak I started on December 1st until I set a new personal record (prev. record was 192 days). I think it would be awesome to be able to make it to 1000 days, but I don't know how long into winter I can maintain my perseverance.
4. Enjoy traveling with my hubby, caching all the way, whether it be a day trip to drive around the countryside or on a 2-week adventure including driving the Rubicon Trail again!
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The Massachusetts month by month challenge was buy far my favorite. The idea is to find a cache in every month and year since the first cache was placed in Mass.
This sounds great - I might just have to steal this for my province!
One that's unique to my province (as far as I've seen) is And all the rest have 31..., which is a challenge to find as many caches as the current date such that you complete 1 on the first, 5 on the 5th, etc. until you have completed 31 days of caching. The extra twist to this challenge is that you could only count days from months that have 31 days in them (Jan, Mar, May, July, Aug, Oct, and Dec), that none of the caches could be hidden in cities, and that they all had to be hidden in Saskatchewan. It took planning, perseverence, and driving to complete this. I was lucky in that a bunch of power trails were hidden within easy drives after I was a year into the challenge. Gotta love country driving!
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I've only come away injured from a couple of caches:
- Sprained my ankle going down some stairs after an event
Seeing the x-rays a few years later I learned I actually avulsed my lateral malleolus! - Had a run-in with a farm dog at what should have been a png. I had a tough time squatting for a few days after being very scratched up by that dog! I swear if it could have gotten me down it would have raped me! Here's my log, complete with pics of my legs: My dog log.
- Sprained my ankle going down some stairs after an event
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What sort of price are you hoping for? Do you care if it provides you with the cache descriptions?
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Here's mine:
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I'm really wondering what happened to all those database specialists in Seattle - either none of them works for Groundspeak or no one asks them how to create a keyword search that actually returns a list of caches that you really want to go searching for.
I'll give you an example: I really love doing challenge caches and I'd really like to know which active challenge caches exist in the area I normally cache in. That's Northrhine-Westfalia in Germany and the Netherlands. Currently it's simply not possible to get this information out of the database in an easy way.
If I use the (old) keyword search I'd enter "challenge" because every challenge cache is supposed to have the word challenge in its name. What do I get: a really long list of challenge caches from all over world of which about 90% for me are absolutely not relevant because I won't go searching in California, Ontario or New Zealand any time soon.
What I would like to see is only the 10% caches from my area. So what would help me find stuff would be a combination of filters (like the ones you can define for the pocket queries) plus the possibility to add a keyword (maybe with wildcards).
For the database search that means instead of doing a text search on over 2 million recordsets (I assume you filter out the archived caches beforehand) you'd filter first for search criteria (e.g. Germany) and then perform the text search only on the filtered number of caches. For this example this means text search on about 250.000 instead of 2 million recordsets.
So you'd actually have a win-win-situation: you provide us with a useful feature and have less search load on the database.
I really like the idea of this type of search, and would like to see a similar set-up for notifications. If I could set up a location, choose the log types I want, and choose the cache types all in one notification it would be quite convenient. Currently you have to set up for each type of cache separately and it's a fairly time-consuming task.
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GPX 1.0.1 isn't supported on any GPSr I know of (not Garmin anyway) and can cause issues if loaded.
You can set to get PQ's as 1.0.1 and then use GSAK to send v1.0 to the GPS, with the attributes converted into text on the first log using this macro
Thanks for that link. I'm okay with just text attributes, as long as there's a way to list them.
Hoo boy... I see I got a lot to learn about it. But I'm having a hard time even figuring out the basics. Last time I tried to get it to upload some local caches, it left out a bunch and included a bunch more that were WAY out of the search parameters! Where do I go to even get started on the basics?
I ran across a couple of tutorials posted in the Southern Nevada geocachers facebook group. Does this help: GSAK Tutorials.
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Tequila:81 Proof was the first challenge cache in Canada, to the best of my knowledge.
Say something like that and you just know some smart a** is going to come along and refute it... and here I am! Saskatchewan's first challenge cache was published Mar. 31/08 Numeric Conundrum . Two more challenges were published there on the same day as Tequila:81 proof.
That said, I was pretty excited by the idea of this challenge when it first came out, and even more excited when one was published closer to home, and probably the most excited when I finished it and was FTF! Someday I hope to be able to log Tequila:81 proof, but need to find some older caches somewhere on my travels. There sure aren't a lot of older high difficulty/high terrain caches around these parts...
... and then almost a year later she returns to say she found even older ones in British Columbia, and the oldest of them is Vancouver Island Topo Challenge. Just in case somebody cares...
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I know of a 2-stage multi where the start and the finish are approx. 1500 km apart!
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Sounds like you had a good time! Congrats to Mastifflover for the win.
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I would think that the one you should be most likely to find would be the guardrail one...
Another trick you can do is to look for caches that were found by other people in the last week (or since the last snow if you remember the date). If you have to dig for caches in the snow I'd recommend regular- or large-sized caches. I like to get down on my hands and knees and dig through the snow with my nicely gloved hands. Sometimes a stick for poking into deep snow helps too. You'll hear a nice hollow thunk, but sometimes I can be fooled because dead branches sound the same. Good luck with your winter caching! Stay warm!
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Here are my caching resolutions for this year:
1. Complete this challenge cache: And all the rest have 31... (hoping for March if the weather will cooperate). I have 28 days completed and have 3 left - and they all fall on weekend days in March.
2. Continue to pick away at finding a cache hidden every month since the inception of geocaching (Jasmer challenge). Hubby and I will be traveling in June and my planning has already begun! I currently need 17 more months, and figure I should be able to get at least 12 of these without too much difficulty.
3. Do more hiking by the river that goes through my city. It's so pretty!
4. Head out on a solo weekend caching/camping adventure. I did this 2 years in a row, then life kept me busy so I haven't done this for a few years now. It's a nice way to explore caches in the country!
5. Get my finds up to 4500 by year's end (which means finding about 1200 caches this year).
6. Make an effort to hook up with other cachers to go caching more frequently.
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In time things could improve too. When my hubby was my boyfriend he wasn't too keen on caching. In time he's matured and willing to be patient to wait for me while I hunt, or even help out at times. Mostly he'll drive with me (usually in the country) while I do the hunting. In the last few weeks we've done some canoe caching, and on vacation we'll take out his 4x4 and explore areas where I get to cache. Basically we've been able to combine things he enjoys with my caching, and it's a lot less stressful than it used to be. Sometimes he enjoys the competitiveness of the FTF hunt, and will help out with hunting for those. Lately he's been helping me keep my cache streak alive - often asking me two or three times a day if I found a cache yet, where I found it, etc. I think it's becoming part of 'us'!
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I know of one, for sure: bobbarley
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This weekend the oldest unfound cache in Saskatchewan was found, Legend III. It was originally placed June 10/02 and was found on Sept. 14/12! And it was the finder`s 8th cache find! Pretty exciting|
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A little over half the way through the year. What was your 2012 goal and how close to it are you?
1. To have a caching streak that exceeds my non-caching streak. Check! 83 days and counting.
2. To stay in the top 20 Saskatchewan geocachers (maybe move up if possible). So far I'm hanging on. Was up to 17 at one point, but have been passed by a few maniacs cachers.
3. As of today, 2012 is now the year in which I have found the most caches. 652 finds so far this year. I wonder if I could do 1000?
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One of my ex-boyfriends from high school started caching last year as part of a team with his wife. He's only come out to one event and I didn't have the nerve to talk to him (I wasn't completely sure it was him at the time). She seems nice enough, though!
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I heard that it would be given out on June 12.
Seeing the x-rays a few years later I learned I actually avulsed my lateral malleolus!
New Canada souvenir
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After logging a couple of caches tonight I received a Canada souvenir! Looks like attending an event this weekend isn't the only way to get a Canada-themed souvenir.