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Hermione, your enthusiasm is scaring me…. I’m not sure how the others felt about the evening event, but I for one REALLY enjoyed caching all day and then sitting down for a good meal at the END of the day with such a great group. My nocturnal nature, I guess. Of course, if it’s 100 miles away Saturday is probably better for those of us who work Mon-Fri.
Weather and darkness is no longer much of a factor for me. If I’m going caching, I’m going caching!
I do what you do, as far as having several hundred waypoints with me all the time. The day before I go somewhere to cache, (usually Friday), I delete the week old file from my PDA, and install a fresh one. Sometimes I will do this again before going out on Sunday. If I am going outside my normal travel area, I make a new pocket query for the area I am going, and process it & put it in my PDA. When I went on my last trip north, I made 4 seperate files; one each for within 80 miles of The Dells, Black River Falls, Rice Lake, and Arbor Vitae. This sometimes provided some overlap, but I could be sure to know about the caches anywhere near my route of travel. Plucker can have as many “Channels” as you may desire, & yes, it all fits in my little Handspring Visor. The advantage to me for seperating the files is that it makes it a lot easier to scroll through 50 waypoints than 300.
To the trail……..
[This message has been edited by Cathunter (edited 11-15-2003).]
Congrats Ken, on becoming paperless.
I upload all the waypoints to the area I am going to hunt the day before I hit the trail. On weekends, I sometimes will do it a second time, just in case there were logs or changes within the previous day or so that might effect my caching. Using paper, sometimes a being a week or more old bit me in the arse more than once. After the first couple times, the process is a no-brainer.
Just like me after a 20 cache day
Wow, I was l o s t without any Geocaching forums to check for a couple of days.
A HUGE thanks to Alan & Jeremy for the server space and all the effort involved with keeping us here.
I have tried and gave up on accessing the geocaching.com forums more than once.
I have always been curious- From a technical standpoint, can someone tell us where the wi-geocaching.com website is hosted from and who actually performs all the design & maintenance? Does the board discuss every detail concerning the final appearance of the WGA site?
How, if at all, may this web forum be effected, seeing it is also “powered by” InfoPop?
I guess those IL caches count? Congrats to Dave and the rest of the Cheesehead Team. Hope your finds have been as good as your hides.
Congratulations Folk Trackers, 400 is a lot of hollow logs and thorney bushes. You also made 400 at one of my favorite caches.
Out of curiosity, how far is it now from home to the nearest cache not yet hunted?[This message has been edited by Cathunter (edited 11-09-2003).]
That was YOU??
Now I REALLY feel stupid.Just kidding; I couldn’t be that “Lucky”.
Advertising is much like Pornography; Both provide a False sense of what is RealMaybe you have had better luck, I found that the Mobipocket reader ran very slow on my Handspring, and did not have all the capabilities for re-arranging waypoints and making the waypoint names something that made sence to me on the road. I can also choose how many pages deep to download for each cache page (to get all the logs if I choose to) and even follow offsite links for those caches that require it. GPX Spinner and Plucker are free. There is a little learning curve in the initial setup, but once it’s done, it pays off. It take me less than 5 minutes to load 500 waypoints from a Pocket Query to my PDA & GPS be on a roadtrip.
That’s surely a different way to go at it… One of my first and most memorable is Dave’s “Cheesehead Trivia”. Learned a lot on that ride.
I have been using GPX Spinner and Plucker for about 3/4 of my finds. There is a good webpage for setting it up here- http://b.hammond.home.mchsi.com/paperless.html
Welcome back Lil Otter! Glad to hear things are coming together for you. It’s been weeks without a cache find? Must be like medieval torture.
As for working all day & then living in a tent the whole time, it reminds me of a song I once heard-
“She is More of a Man than I’ll ever Be”Hope to see ya on the trail soon!
[This message has been edited by Cathunter (edited 11-06-2003).]
The format posted on all the cache pages is Degrees & Minutes-
N 42° 33.642 W 088° 07.929 (WGS84)
There is an optional drop-down tab for Degrees, Minutes, Seconds when you are initally posting or editing the hide, but the webpage will automatically convert this to the Degrees and Minutes format.
This help?
[This message has been edited by Cathunter (edited 11-05-2003).]
Oh yes! You can have hundreds of cache pages at your fingertips via laptop, without getting back online. I keep mine with me for trips. Last time I went up north I pre-prepared 3 seperate files, 500 caches each in the southern, mid-state, and northern sections of the state. Then I could upload the section I was passing through into my Garmin on the fly. Worked great!
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