WeightMan

It is payable in hamsters, if you wish.

Unless your GPS has an electronic compass, you have to be moving for it to know which way you are going. It reads the change of position and figures your heading that way.

If you want to keep a database of an area that includes too many caches for a PQ, the best way is to make a large circle and then select caches by date placed. For example, you might have on PQ that covers caches placed from January 1, 1995 (yeah before the first cache was placed, but don't sweat the small stuff) to February 23, 2003. The next would run from February 24, 2003 to maybe April 15, 2004 and so on. The exact date would depend on how may caches are returned. Do not select a date for these to run until you have narrowed down the dates. Each time you submit the PQ, the number of caches returned is listed so you can adjust as needed. Also, Jeremy has promised that the limit of caches per PQ will go up to 1000 in early May.

You can also bookmark a set of caches and run a pocket query of that bookmark listing. Again, the whole group can be loaded at one time, instead of the one at a time that you have been doing.

have you experienced a rush hour commute in latee land? Our area is not number one in anything often, but we were recently given the "not so distinguished" award of having the longest commute time in the nation. if it were me, I would look for a place in North Bend (motels mostly), Issaquah or the Woodinville/Redmond area.. Issaquah would be perfect.. no 405 traffic to deal with, close to the Issaquah Alps which has probably one of the densest concentration of caches on the planet, and you can hop on I90 and in a few minutes be in Seattle - which is arguably the easiest corridor in and out of the city, or by traveling thirty minutes the other direction (East) be in the glorious Cascade Mtns. VK lives in LaLa land, he knows about freeway traffic. I used to live there too.. your right, it's quite bad, but it's not the same.. down there, you have way more cars on the road, but also way more options to get in and out of places.. not like Seattle where 90% of the traffic on the roads is heading towards Seattle in the morning (from North, South, East, and even from West via ferries), and then going the opposite way in the evenings, all on just three major routes.. in LA, you have dozens of major routes.. options such as HOT lanes, and reasonable mass transit options (better then up here anyway) and we aren't number one without reason.. anyway.. just trying to point out that summer driving on our major arterials, is just not fun I agree, I avoid 405 as much as I can. In fact, from Renton, I would likely take SR900 (Renton-Issaquah Road).

have you experienced a rush hour commute in latee land? Our area is not number one in anything often, but we were recently given the "not so distinguished" award of having the longest commute time in the nation. if it were me, I would look for a place in North Bend (motels mostly), Issaquah or the Woodinville/Redmond area.. Issaquah would be perfect.. no 405 traffic to deal with, close to the Issaquah Alps which has probably one of the densest concentration of caches on the planet, and you can hop on I90 and in a few minutes be in Seattle - which is arguably the easiest corridor in and out of the city, or by traveling thirty minutes the other direction (East) be in the glorious Cascade Mtns. VK lives in LaLa land, he knows about freeway traffic.

Let me add my congratulations Glenn. Well deserved.

The only real problem with staying in Renton is that it is about 45 minutes driving to Carnation and that time does not allow for traffic which can be quite heavy on I-405 any time of the day.

so like next week i am going out of town i am not sure what the zip code is of the town i am going to. so i will need to look up the zip code search for caches in that area then go to the PQ and set it up so it can send them to me and i can download to my gps. Or just use the geocaching google earth maps and find a cache in the area and enter that in the PQ search. You don't have to search by zipcode. You can also search from coordinates if you have a set close to where you will be.

One to check out that is a good one in any weather is Ebey Bluffs. It is listed on the Northwest Classics bookmark list. Any of those on that list are good ones.

Good thought. The storm due in on Thursday could even bring snow in the lower elevations. Remember that the cache is at basically the elevation of Snoqualmie Pass. Some folks were just up there a few week ago, but we have had snow since then. If you do go, be sure to check the avalanche danger before you head out. There are avalanche slopes in the area.

Depending on the context, it could be Cache Owner or the Garmin Colorado.

But Sciuchetti would be! If not, it would be Tobias & Petronella.

From the Coasters and the 1950s

I have a bookmark for caches I have done and enjoyed along the California and Oregon coasts. It goes all the way to San Francisco so there is more there than you want, but it does have some good ones on the list. Hopefully Groundspeak has the bookmarks working right now.

I was going to suggest the Oregon coast. Lots of good caches along there.

Would WA-20 be OK on the east side? Skip the North Cascades and pick up WA-20 at Omak or thereabouts and head east. There are some good caches along that route to Pend Orielle County. You could then come south to Spokane and back along US-2.

I've only done the first of Jester's night caches and would not mind going along as well. I have done the 4 oh 5 Troll and can sit back with Jester and laugh at your efforts.

Jester has two of them close to each other. One of them is Nighttime Isn't Just For Sleeping. You can find the other from that page. They are less than a quarter mile apart.

I do have one to head over the pond, but it is currently in Minnesota so I don't think that one will get there with you. There is one of mine in Austria, trying to head home. You might put Seattle #3 on a watch list and see if it lands anywhere near where you are visiting.

Thanks to Rodgowdy, we now have a cache once again in Discovery Park. Caching Again In Discovery Park was just published. It does contain some restrictions, notably it is not available at night. Hopefully we can show the staff at the park that we are, indeed, good land managers. Way to go Rod.

Each of my caches is unique and therefore requires an unique cache page. If they were generic LPCs, then I wouldn't hide them.

Good to hear from you again. It has been some time since we heard from you. For orca watching, I would suggest some place in the San Juan Islands. There is a resident pod that hangs out in that area fairly often. Perhaps something around Friday Harbor. I'm not sure if they have whale watching boats out of there or not, but it should if it doesn't. There are also some good caches on that island.

We are hopeful. At this point, Discovery Park is still off limits. Rodgowdy will be working with the staff there and will likely place a cache or two later on. After seeing how this works, the park staff may well open up portions of the park to caching. There are area that they are leery of having caches in due to habitat concerns as well as safety concerns. The safety concerns are primarily along the bluff.

I should note that this is NOT just for problem parks or caches. Hydnsek started this with Cougar Mtn Park when there was no problem with the park at all.