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NevaP

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  1. Locationless caches were archived AND locked 01/01/2006. I just experimented a bit and it appears that archived regular caches will still take a log.
  2. I like old caches too and I plan to make an effort to find more of them. I have logged two placed in 2000, Gorilla Stash which is the oldest cache in Arkansas and Melbourne's First which was the first cache placed in Victoria, Austalia. I think it is now the oldest regular cache still active down there. I ran some pocket queries for old caches recently and discovered that the oldest active one in the USA, Mingo is in northwestern Kansas, an easy day's drive from me. There's another May 2000 one out there too. I think our annual summer trip to Colorado will be routed via Kansas this year. NevaP, an old cacher who uses her real name.
  3. Ignore all that. I have no idea what it means. It just popped up in a recent update of GSAK All you have to do is is this: 1. In GSAK get your database of caches that you want to map. (filter and sort it as you like -GSAK has pretty good help on this) 2. Click file on the top menu bar and then click export in the drop down menu. Then click Microsoft streets and trips file. 3. In the box that appears,i n the text file to creat box, name your file and show where you want to save it. Mine go into C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\Geocaching\csv files. Do what ever works for you. Just name it and put it where you can find it. Then click generate and then OK to close the box.It will be saved as a .csv file (whatever that is) Ignore that stuff about Babel under the hood. 4. Open Streets and trips and click on Data in the top bar menu and then on Import data Wizard. This brings up a browse through files box. Find the file you just made and saved. Click on it and click open. 5. There are a number of things you can adjust in Streets and Trips at this point but I don't understand them so I just use the defalt settings as they are. Click next and then click finish on the next screen and PRESTO A nice map full of push pins showing the locations of the caches in your data base. You can zoom in for great detail. Neva P, who usually figures out which buttons to push and just assumes it's all done by magic.
  4. If/when you become a premium member, once a week you can run a pocket query for all your finds. You can then load this into one of the datbase programs like GSAK or. Cachemate and sort your finds by date, state, cache type etc. As your numbers mount up this is useful and fun. NevaP, who just took about 45 seconds to determine that 8.09 % of her finds are Virtuals.
  5. I was caching in southeast Missouri about 12:30 PM CDT, on Sunday, clear skies, mostly out in the open, approaching a cache, and my three and a half year old, beat up, Magellan 315 went absolutely bonkers. I was about .25 miles from the cache and suddenly the GPSr go-to distance started jumping to 7.5 miles, 5 miles, .5 miles, 3 miles, 400 feet etc etc. with the distance and direction changing every few seconds. I figured the poor old Magellan was ailing (I had dropped it two days earlier, face down on a hard packed trail, causing it to completely lose its display, then cured it by the tried and true method of dropping it again face up) I searched for the cache in the area where I thought it might be without success, and headed back to our campground. On the way I noticed that the Magellan was behaving again and I went after a different cache. It led me right to one deep in the woods and later right to the one I was looking for earlier. The disruption lasted about half an hour. I'll join those suspecting a solar flare.
  6. Happy Birthday to our PikaDaughter, a day late, from the PikaMom and PikaDad who have been off caching and fishing in Missouri. (29!! HA ! )
  7. I shot a 69 today. (once around on a nine hole course)
  8. Whatever version I have is two years old because I got the pocket PC in March 2004. I guess I should see if there's an update maybe? Yes, the logs are only as recent as my GPX download. I do try to remember to have a fresh download when I head out on a major excursion. I don't have internet connection for the PPC. What I don't understand is why 247Malibu doesn't see the cache page and logs using GPXSonar.
  9. I'm using a Dell Axim pocket PC with GPX sonar and GSAK. I export GPX files from GSAK to a folder and then copy them to the pocket PC. When I open the file in the pocket PC I see the horizontal lines of information but when I tap and hold a line with the stylus a box pops up with the choices for cache details which when tapped gives the cache page (pictures omitted) with about five logs and Cache options which when tapped includes showing hints decrypted and setting that cache as center point for the list. It should be working this way for you. NevaP, who usually figures out which button to push but still thinks it's all done by magic.
  10. Caches not found is also an option in pocket queries. And it's a filter option in programs like GSAK so you can do a query for everything a selected area and then sort out the not found ones. IMHO, Premium membership and the ability to run procket queries is worth every cent you pay for it.
  11. Absolutely. Only leave the scratch-offs with a top prize of a few hundred at most and then only if you won't be resentful in the unlikely event that somebody else wins it. What I hate is finding an already scratched off, non-winning ticket in a cache. The times this has happened I suspect somebody scratched it at the site and then just left it. They could at least have done CITO.
  12. Everything seems to back to normal (?)
  13. Something's going on. When I try to enter the forums through the front door I get the board stats page with a list of who's signed on. I can't seem to get to the list of topics at all. I got here by clicking active topics. And I see the same (or similar) error message. It probably is all Cheers fault. I'll try again some time later.
  14. I make refrigerature magnets from my digital photos using the flexible magnet sheets you get from craft stores. Most of them are closeups of birds because that's what I'm usually photographing but I do some sunsets, flowers etc also.
  15. As if somebody from the high plains would even recognize such a bush....... Don't worry, you're not the only one. I was down there recently and kept having that problem. If you have cached in Florida you should recognize them. They are often called SAW Palmettos for good reason. I always come back to Nebraska with assorted geowounds from grubbing around in them. Nebraska's terraine is so varied that we have a multitude of styles. Well, OK no palmettos and palm frond covers.
  16. No, it's not too late at all. Just date your log for the day you actually made the attempt or as close as you can remember the date. People often log both finds and DNFs after some time has elapsed because they are traveling or life just gets in the way of doing cache logs. I think most new cachers feel a bit foolish logging their first DNFs. especially for so called easy caches but if you brouse through some cache logs you will spot ones logged by people with an impressive number of finds. And when I do a DNF it makes me feel good to see another by somebody with hundreds-thousands of finds. If everybody found every cache, easily, on the first try it wouldn't be as much fun. I've greatly appreciated DNFs for my caches that were missing or in trouble and I have tweaked the difficuly up a notch for a few of mine that were harder to find than I thought they were. And I cache a lot while traveling so DNF logs help me decided which caches I want to look for when I have limited time in an area. Logged six finds and only one DNF today!
  17. Yes, a bit (or a lot of snow) modifies the difficulty. While researching potential Alaska caches last spring I got a laugh from the April 15, 2005 log for this cache. Those Alaska cachers are a determined and hardy bunch. When I got there on June 15 it really was a 1/1. But I seem to find at least half of the 1/1 micros are at least 3's for me.
  18. Posted in loving memory of EntSoc Bug Seven, a beautiful big dragonfly, released in the fourth year of my tradition, in the city of the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, with the gaol of traveling to future meeting cities. This poor bug was placed in a nice Ft Lauderdale cache, which contained a number of other bugs (I liberated three, including a white jeep) and not long after the owner checked the cache and reported no bugs present. There have been no logs. So EntSoc Seven is now officially location unknown.
  19. I've hogged this thread enough but I have to show you the great photo of my O-Pooh bug which was posted by BikerChick.
  20. Last fall I picked up The Ulcer TB (ref. TBH9TT) who is helicobacter pylori , the bacteria that cause ulcers. While he was visiting me the scientists who discovered and named him received a Nobel Prize! The bug posed for a photo with the newspaper headlines and some ulcer producing foods. He's mentioned by name in the article.
  21. The Beanie Baby gang at my house tend to party with visiting Travel bugs. Cruising Cat had a great time here. Look close and you can see him at upper right center next to the Ruby Princess. More photos and the whole sordid tale in my 2/2005 logs on his page (ref.TB5C65 )
  22. I often post pictures of TBs when I can do something that matches their goals or theme. Cat related TBs get special treatment at our house. Here's The Crazy Cat Lady (ref. TBJCAM) with one of our resident felines. There are more pictures on her page.
  23. Unfortunately it does happen fairly often. I love travel bugs and I obsessed and worried over my first ones. But I came to realize that they lead precarious lives and my solution to enjoy them is have a lot of them. I have launched 25 bugs in my three years of caching. One is officially dead, 3 have been marked missing and four more are in trouble and if I have no replies after another round of e-mails to the last logger they will marked missing. But that leaves 17 bugs that currently appear to be alive, well and traveling. I just tallied up 2005 (I keep track of them all in a spreadsheet) and last year, collectively, my bugs visited 150 caches located in 30 different states plus, Australia, New Zealand, Hungary and the UK (England, Scotland and Ireland). I usually get several reports of logs every week. So if you find you enjoy TB’s, budget to buy tags in quantity packs and get a bunch of them out on the road. That way you worry less about individual ones. Happy New Year and good luck to all TBs
  24. Congratulations TeamBaltz! Daughter is a real cutie. Lots of fun ahead. I'm a senior citizen female, often caching alone and I've had a few LEO's stop to see if I was having car trouble or something. I've never had to give a real explanation of what I was doing. I'm a birder and The binoculars which are always around my neck are good camoflauge. I feel more conspicuous in parks when I'm down on my knees with my butt in the air peering under benches but I have found that muggles in general are VERY unobservant. If someone does ask what's going on I just given a quick explanation of the game. More and more I find they have heard of it.
  25. I find the difficulty ratings very subjective, especially for micros because I happen to be one of those people who can't see a bison tube hanging right in front of me and I never seem to be peering under the bench at the right angle to see the key holder stuck under there. However, for most caches a 1 or 2 difficulty rating means it's placed in a fairly conventional way and as you get more caches located you learn what those ways are. A 3 or 4 difficulty rating usually means there is something tricky or clever about the way the cache is hidden or the cache is difficult to reach or retrieve. But once you have seen some of the more common trick containers and placements they may not fool you again. So again it is subjective. A 5 difficulty rating should be reserved for something really diabolical or a multi stage cache like this one which takes 8 to 10 hours to complete. But some people will overestimate the difficulty. Descriptions and logs will often tell you more about the real difficulty of the cache than the ratings do. And experience really does help. A terrain rating of 1 is supposed to mean wheel chair accessible and 5 is supposed to mean that special equipment (a boat, scuba gear, climbing gear) and or skills are needed but these are not always correctly applied. And the 2-3-4 terrain ratings can also be subjective. It's common out here in the midlands for Nebraskans to complain that a Colorado 2 terrain rating is really a 4 while the Colorado people say the opposite about Nebraska caches.
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