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I have a brand new, just out of the box Garmin GPS 60 for sale. This is the yellow colored case unit that is black and white with no basemap other than what's in it. It does not do mapping like the other units do. I picked it up for my nephew thinking it would be ok, but wife wanted me to get him the much more expensive mapping 60 Cx. I essentially have NIB unit sitting here collecting dust that I'd like to sell. I'm willing to part with it for $120 shipped. It includes all the items a new unit has. The USB cable, instructions, etc. I'll even throw in the pair of batteries I put into it. It'll be shipped USPS flat rate box. Send me an email via the main website. I paid $150 for it and whatever else Amazon chalked up for shipping/handling. This unit goes for $135 ish new on Amazon.. Prefer money order or other certified funds. Personal check will have to clear my bank before I ship the unit. Thanks, Vince

I'm having the same problem. Not sure if it's increased traffic or what. I ran a pq last night that never came out. I just put one in about 15 mins ago and usually they post within minutes.

1st find 1/2/07 100th find 3/13/07 200th find 5/25/07 300th find 7/7/07 400th find 9/22/07 500th find 11/11/07 600th find 3/8/08 700th find 5/24/08 800th find 5/31/08 900th find 8/16/08 Currently at 904!

I'm the "friend" whom Driver Carries Cache knows who got a handgun into Canada legally.. I actually had more trouble trying to leave the states (Blaine truck crossing) than I did getting into Canada. I went to US customs to check it out of the country (like people do with expensive photography equipment and the like) and they almost siezed my ammunition due to them not knowing exactly the law on foreign competitions and exporting ammo. Thankfully they let me go. Had they seized it, well, it was for the specific gun I had, custom made, and I couldn't just buy anything off the shelf.. When I returned the same guy who checked me out of the US, checked me in.. he was happy that I did so well When I went to Canadian Customs, I showed him the form from US customs, he took down the certificate #, my permit #, had me pay $50, and I was on my way. I actually called Canadian Firearms control about 6 months in advance to make sure I had all my permits to have it in the vehice with me between the time when I arrived in country and to and from my sis in law's house to the range and then back to the border. Long guns are a bit easier to get into the country as there are parts of the Alaska-Canadian Highway that they reccomend you have some sort of protection from the critters out there.. Dad was able to bring his shotgun into the country for a waterfowl hunt in Alberta some years back, they make you pay a fee ($50) and have you fill out paperwork. There are open seasons certain times of the year (waterfowl and big game hunting, usually in the fall or early winter months). I made sure to do some caching while there and oddly enough there was a cache on the road in to the range in Port Coquitlam.. it is still my farthest north cache find.

I was caching out of town with a friend and we were in kind of a high muggle area. We found the cache and replaced it only to have someone come out of his store and shout, "Did you find it?". What could we say? He said that he watched people find the cache all the time and always asked whoever found it if there was something good inside... We tried to ignore him but he was looking right AT us.. Sometimes you just have to fess up, they probably know what's going on anyway.

One thing on this uploading a route, I'm wondering why there is no option to delete routes that are no longer used by me? I've also run into times when the server crashed out after I uploaded a route, and then I uploaded it again only to bring up the list and now I have 2 identical routes loaded. It would be nice to be able to delete these routes from the server so I feel like I'm doing my part to keep junk off the server.

I've been happily using the "find caches along a route" feature since I signed up back in January, however it seems that there needs to bea function of deleting an old route or doubled and maybe tripled uploaded routes. Sometimes when the site errors out or I don't know that the route had been uploaded successfully, or it puts things were I don't expect them, I inadvertantly upload my route more than once with no way to delete that route from the site. I figure since we are limited to a # of pocket queries, maybe we should have some way of deleting older routes, or ones that we no longer want to use. I probably have about 20 routes I'd like to delete. Any idea if this was thought out or if it would cause too many issues? Thanks, Vince

It's funny, I have a 3 Ghz PC with a 64 Meg Vid card ( I know, most are 256 or better these days) and a gig of ram, DSL, etc.. and when I run Google earth on it, it lags so bad as to be unusable.. however I use a computer at work that has a lesser vid card, lesser cpu and dial up and it works fine. I also have a laptop with a 1.5 ghz cpu and it might have a 64 or 128 meg card in it, and it runs GE just fine, broadband or no. I've updated the drivers for my home PC, but for whatever reason, GE just causes it to have all kinds of issues, so I don't bother running it at home anymore.. when I ran Google earth 3.x it worked fine. For the life of me I can no longer find the install for 3.x and am forced to use 4.x.

Santa Rosa has a lot of urban and rural caches all over the area. I'm sure you could run a Pocket query (when the site is back up) and sort through what you want. The Santa Rosa area and the wine country has a pretty good selection of everything you'd ever want. Micros, smalls, regulars, everything. If you're willing to do some driving, you can head over to the Knoxville area and pick up several regulars out that way, as well as take a trip to Yountville and the wine country and get a whole slew of finds of various kinds. The area from Santa Rosa, suth to Vallejo, east to Benicia, and north back to Berryessa has easily over a few thousand caches, there are bound to be some good difficult hikes all through that area.

Yeah, site is down for me also. I keep loggng on and it keeps logging me off every time I go to run a query, check my page, etc. I was able to run 1 query this am, but now I too am unable to log on. I initially got the same error about 'network documentation' and now I get 'server too busy'. will keep trying.. maybe later.... when half of us have gone to bed..

When I try to log on I get.. So I think something is goofy server wise...

Driver Carries Cache has been on a few of my early backpacking jaunts and can attest that I carried way too much weight at least once (the time when half my pack weight was in ammo ) but after that time, I learned to carry a bit lighter. The last time I went on any significant multi-day hiking trip, I open carried a 6" GP100 stoked with the original Black Talon 357 magnum ammo. That was oh.. 15 years ago. If I were to go today, I'd likely bring a 4" 686 using handloaded ammo loaded on the hot side and I'd probably still open carry since that's legal on most blm and national forest land these days. If I were going via vehicle, I'd probably toss a few more into the vehicle of various types to do some shooting while in the hills. It really depends on where, how remote, and how long I'll be gone.

Well, that's useful enough.. though I didn't know "archive" meant "delete" Thanks for pointing that out to me.

I'm getting the error below when I try to bring up a recently created PQ. I'm only having problems with PQ's I've created since the upgrade. The error below is a common one I get whenever I try to look at the PQ in an attempt to delete it. Since I can only delete it from the view page of the PQ, I now have several PQ's that I can't get rid of. Has anyone else experienced this? I remember running into a similar error on the day I created a few of these. Even though it gives the errors, if I check the boxes on the days to run, the query runs fine and I get the gpx file via email (as a zipped file, like I want them). There are just certain PQ's I no longer want and forgot to check the "run once and delete" when I ran them. [begin error message] Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: Queue empty. Source Error: An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. Stack Trace: [invalidOperationException: Queue empty.] System.Collections.Queue.Dequeue() +110 Groundspeak.Web.UserRoutes.UserRoutePoints.EncodeSignedNumber(Decimal num) +269 Groundspeak.Web.UserRoutes.UserRoutePoints.EncodeLatLong() +339 Geocaching.UI.URQuery.ShowQueryInfo() +711 Geocaching.UI.URQuery.Page_UserLoggedIn(Object sender, EventArgs e) +781 Geocaching.UI.WebformBase.IsLoggedIn() +1320 Geocaching.UI.URQuery.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) +515 System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +67 System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +35 System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +772 [end error message]

For me, this is about a 90 minute drive roughly.. and um, I was just caching through that area like 2 weeks ago. The whole area is quite cache dense though out that direction it's a little less dense than Sacramento and the bay area in general. Highway 99 has a pretty good amount of caching along it while I5 does not appear to but then 99 is mostly a wide 2 lane highway where I5 is a freeway with few chances to exit. It should be a fun outing and I plan on attending.

Well, I've been first to DNF on at least one case... and my dnf influenced one person around here not to go out in the weather I did in my attempt. It was ftf'ed by someone else the next day. If you didn't sign that log first, then you didn't ftf it.. sorry, no go..

Around here (SF Bay Area) the Target store local to me has a $1 section when you go into the store. I've found some pretty good stuff, mini 1st aid kits, mosquito and sunscreen wipes, Emergency blankets, stamp sets, flashlights, glo-sticks, and all kinds of cool inexpensive items. Every time I head into the store to get things I need, I stop by there to see if they have anything worth getting. I get 3 or 4 of something or another and use that to put in either new caches or as swapping swag. The tube of mini glow sticks was pretty cool, like $15 - 10" thin - 2 hour glow sticks for a buck. 2 of the standard 12 hour glow sticks for a buck, can't beat that. I have left new bateries in caches I've put out in hopes that someone will grab em and use em. They are considered a usable item that I may replenish when I do maintainance.

I currently use a Palm TX with a 2 gig expansion SD card in it. I have... wow.. 36 databases comprised of a few counties each (California is a big state with 58 counties) and have a total of er... about 20k cache listings loaded in all those databases... I do have some overlap as I tend to make up "road cache lists" when I go on a numbers run or otherwise. Cachemate is nice in that if I run a pocket query, so long as I update that gpx file to the same location, it updates the new caches, and updates the caches that I already have in that db by overwriting the old one. I found that when I loaded a lot of caches into one database, it was getting near impossible to do searches and sorts because it was taking several minutes. These days I try to limit counties or db's to less than about 1500 points so when I'm in the field I can get a quicker response to a search. Unfortunately I don't have a more modern gps and I have to hand enter all the coordinates. I hope to get around that when I upgrade in a few months. Cachemate doesn't seem to have any limits yet (I've not hit the limit of databases it can manage) and it is only restricted by how much memory you have.

I'm kind of in the same boat here... I'm torn between placing cache spew and really thinking about my hides. All in all I try to place my caches in places people wouldn't otherwise go to or discover on their own. Sometimes there is a story involved. Little parks that have gone into disrepair, new parks no one may not know about or areas with a view. I have one cache that requires a very short(.25 mi), somewhat steep (~250ft elevation gain) hike, that has not been found in about 6 weeks. All the die hard cachers in the area have snagged it, but otherwise it sits without anyone making an effort. When I placed it, it took less than 15 mins to hike up to it and since it's a regular sized cache, I thought it'd be popular.. but nope, the popular ones are the ones that you can pretty much drive up to and make the 2 minute find.. though the cache with the decoy has been giving a few people fits with 75% of them making the decoy find first.. I want to make an effort and place some caches in the open space area around the one that requires a hike, but I'm reluctant if no one wants to hunt it/them..

I know this is specific to mapquest maps, but I've found a way to do this in Google earth also. In GE, you can save the current screen as a jpg and then you can load that to your PDA. I've ben loading gpx files to GE, plotting them all out, waiting for the roads to load and all the overhead stuff, and then saving the screen shot and loading it to my Palm TX. I made sure to have all the text on the screen set to large so I can actually read it. It's helped me to see where caches are in relation to what I have in Cachemate. GE is for the most part free, but requires a pretty good video card (so it seems). It lags on my home desktop but I have no issues using it on an older laptop. You can make the area very broad (and the cache text looks smaller) or you can have many smaller images more zoomed in.

Yeah, I knew about the loc file options, but since you want to exclude people's gpx files, why can't there be a toggle for including only specific people? We have several toggles when we edit attributes in creating hides, a toggle for including/excluding seems natural to me as opposed to JUST an exclusion. I'd rather have that info as a gpx file since I am a subscriber. If they are going to put in the effort in coding, this addition should not be that much more to add. Vince

Is there going to be anything going on the first weekend in June? I wanted to do some caching in the area when I'm not actually occupied. Are there any must finds down in that area? I'll be staying in Morro Bay.

On another note and maybe as an addition, there have been times when I wanted to run a pocket query on just one cache hider or maybe one or two.. I too have to run several PQ's and then use software to pick and choose the ones I want. If the pick/unpick specific people could be implemented at the same time or as an "include/uninclude" feature, I think it would have some merit. Vince

I have a question about this. I've found a few micros lately that had a log but it was such a wet goo of mush that was unsignable. I've then placed a new log into it with a mini-ziploc, placed the goo back in the cache (In case it dries out) and of course signed the log I just placed in. Would this be considered cache interferance or would it be considered a "good samaritan act" of me making it easier for people to actually log the container as a find as opposed to repeating, "Log was unusable, logged find anyway"? Just trying to clarify the idea.. though in the case of the missing inner container, I could see that it might constitute interference. I had a recent micro replaced for me since it was thought to have been muggled but when I went to check on it, I noticed that a previous cacher had moved it like 10 ft from my original hide. I found it and placed it back where I wanted it and snagged the replacement to either give back to the replacer or hide it with an assist somewhere else. I try to keep things the way they are but don't mind maintaining things like that if they are obviously needed. I have not as yet replaced containers for other people and wouldn't do so unless I knew the cache placer personally. Vince

Um.. Garmin 12XL..... because it was $50... After using it for 4 months in this hobby, I definitely need an upgrade... Probably to a Garmin 60CSx. Vince