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The maps look great!

Is it possible to add Washington DC to the list of states? (Or is it somewhere that I’m not seeing?)

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@Decrepit wrote:

Can you guarantee it won’t rain? 🙁

I don’t know… maybe we should invite Vince Condella…

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@djwini wrote:

i logged onto GC today to check a PQ and the new link for caches along a route was there. along with instructions. when looking at it, i saw all the routes posted by the cheeseheads. nice work. this should make traveling and caching a lot easier.

Thanks! Don’t forget, I have all the routes I’ve created filed here for easy searching.

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Instant update:

Who says the GC.com forums are all bad? An aquaintance from the forums amazingly happens to work a scant two miles from Middle of Nowhere, MT and pulled off a TB rescue over lunch!

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Aaaaargh! 100 miles from home, and suddenly she’s in the middle of nowhere! 🙁

Anyone going to western Montana anytime soon? 🙄

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At the New Munster Wildlife Area:

Also at New Munster:

At Nash Park in Kenosha:

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I’d guess the assumption is that if you’re downloading a pocket query, you’re probably shuttling it into some piece of software, so the order of the results doesn’t really matter. All my queries go straight into GSAK, so I couldn’t care less what order they are in the GPX file. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen questions about the PQ sort order before and I think that’s always been the response.

I think the route tool is still a “public beta”, as the only place it is mentioned is the “Caches along a route” thread in the GC.com Website Forum. Jeremy (the Irish one) is asking for people to use it and find bugs and places for improvements.

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I’ve added instructions to the page for using the GC.com tool and GSAK.

In a nutshell:
If you use the GC.com tool, your ultimate result is a Pocket Query containing caches along the selected route. You are presented with the usual PQ options, with an additional one for selecting the distance from the route.

If you use GSAK, one of the filtering criteria is distance from the imported route.

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Guide to Cache Adoption

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@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

Ok here is the order I do things.

1. Click on the zip icon on the pocket query Icon.
2. It will prompt you to save or open the file. I just open.
3. It will open a window and you will get 2 gsak icons. to the left it will say extract all files. Click it.
4. This will open an extraction wizard. Click next, next, and finish.
5. This opens another window and there is your precious cache file. Drag it into gsak and play.

This is providing you have windows XP. Otherwise I don’t know what is going on in that computer of yours.

Note that GSAK can open up the ZIP file directly without you needing to extract the GPX files first. Just open up GSAK, select Import (or Open, I forget which) from the File menu and you’re all set!

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I thing this might be one to post on the GC.com forums.

Have you tried having it sent without being zipped?

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And some people prefer the walks down boring paths to a box under a pile of sticks to a deviously hidden urban cache.

“Geocaching is like a box of chocolates…”

My concern would fall more along an area becoming saturated with the same type of cache. If every park in town had a cammoed film container hidden in a pine tree, that would get old real quick.

If suddenly every new cache was a puzzle, even the final destination was interesting, that would get tiresome.

If every cache was a peanut butter jar behind a log, it would soon get tedious.

Maybe geocaching is more like an omelette.

Some people like ham. Some like peppers. Others like tomato. Some people may detest spinach. Personally, I like mushrooms, though I wouldn’t want one packed with solid ‘shrooms. I prefer a good mix of several ingredients. For variety, maybe I’ll try bacon once in awhile.

All cooked in butter. With extra cheese on top. And salsa… *DROOL* Excuse me for a sec…

Okay…

In the geocaching “omelette,” some people like micros, some like multis, some like puzzles. While I’m sure there are some that might like a heavier helping of one type to another, I think most people would prefer to see a good variety of different types in their area.

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A sign that you’ve been caching too much:

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The Article

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Just make it clear in your log what you are doing so people don’t freak out out when they see someone logging finds on caches that have been archived.

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