+Tequila Posted February 2, 2009 Posted February 2, 2009 I am good to go now. Got my PQ. Thanks Elias.
+StaticTank Posted February 2, 2009 Posted February 2, 2009 Well my caching trip for Sunday was ruined...Oh well. I would have been home by the time the pocket queries arrived! Despite my dissapointment thanks for fixing it. StaticTank
+Lil Devil Posted February 2, 2009 Posted February 2, 2009 You newbies are so spoiled. Why, I remember when one had to walk uphills in the snow... both ways! ... then load the waypoints into our GPS's by hand.. one at a time! Even now you can still do that.. or use the Nearest Caches page and load .loc files of 20 caches at a time. That's what I did, along with putting month-old data in my PDA for the descriptions, but I knew I had only the active caches in my GPS. You just have to want it bad enough
+sawblade5 Posted February 2, 2009 Author Posted February 2, 2009 You newbies are so spoiled. Why, I remember when one had to walk uphills in the snow... both ways! ... then load the waypoints into our GPS's by hand.. one at a time! Even now you can still do that.. or use the Nearest Caches page and load .loc files of 20 caches at a time. That's what I did, along with putting month-old data in my PDA for the descriptions, but I knew I had only the active caches in my GPS. You just have to want it bad enough I did that for awhile when I was new to Geocaching. I even seen it where the first Geocachers used big binders of all the cache pages. Paperless is the way to live in Geocaching. The stuff I use (iPhone + Garmin Colorado) has declared me independent from print outs. (also besides the fact that I am saving a bunch of money on ink and papers and not getting any trees cut down for paper on this.)
+ShowStop Posted February 2, 2009 Posted February 2, 2009 An offline database of geocaches I've never received in a previous PQ? Yeah, that won't work. This is new territory I'm caching in. Maybe I could have run a PQ a couple days earlier, but how was I to know there would be a email blockade the day before I go out? In your case an offline DB might not help. I maintain an offline DB of the caches within 150 km of my house. That represents 90% of my caching. So if there is a block like today (and they happen more often than you might think), I have data. Even if one or two caches have gone missing (typically there are 2 -3 caches archived weekly), I will still have a high degree of success. And less frustration than you are currently experiencing. I do maintain a DB of caches within about 20miles of my house. The caching area we were planning to go was approx 60miles from the house. Well outside an area I would normally anticipate traveling to spontaneously. Also, for comparison, I have over 5000 unfound caches within 100 miles of my house. With a cache rich area such as Los Angeles, I'm not about to keep up an offline DB of that many caches.
vagabond Posted February 2, 2009 Posted February 2, 2009 You newbies are so spoiled. Why, I remember when one had to walk uphills in the snow... both ways! ... then load the waypoints into our GPS's by hand.. one at a time! Even now you can still do that.. or use the Nearest Caches page and load .loc files of 20 caches at a time. That's what I did, along with putting month-old data in my PDA for the descriptions, but I knew I had only the active caches in my GPS. You just have to want it bad enough sheesh newbies, why I remember back in the begining we had to chisel them in stone and carry the tablets around, now that was geocaching
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