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Kinda seems a shame that “marc_54140” put on his flack jacket for nothing … good to see positive discussions going on … sort of lacking in jokes, but you can’t have everything.

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Another tip …

Let’s say you have certain Cities you like to cache in a multiple weekends. In my case I have about 2 years worth of caches in West Bend, a couple weeks worth in Sheboygan, etc.

In “Cachemate” create a new category, I called it “Cities”. Then from the cache selection screen, hit the [New] button to create a new cache entry; give it a cache name like “West Bend”, select the category of “Cities” (or whatever you named the new category), then in the coordinates area type coordinates that would be central to that city (or copy/paste them from a cache you have loaded that is already in the area you want).

Now you’ve got a “fake” cache entry that is central to a specific city. Make more of them, as you wish. Now you simply select your category (in my case “Cities”), click on the name of the city … then activate the “Search Nearby Caches” function, making sure that you set the search screen category to All (or the category you have the real caches stored in) … and now you presented with a list of caches that center from that city (or at least the coordinates you used for that city).

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Originally posted by djwini:
the only drawback so far that i have found is the need to scroll to a WP. with plucker, there were lists of letters to chose to get close to the one you want.

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you CAN jump to a letter … it’s just not really obvious …

Lets say you want to find a cache called “Surfing with DJ”, but your way up there by the caches starting with A. Simply draw a “S” in the Grafetti area and you will be jumped to the beginning of the caches starting with “S”. Now draw a “U” and you will be by the caches starting with “Su”. Still not close enough, then add the “R”, etc.

I’m assuming that it also works if you activate the on-screen keyboard, rather than Grafetti Writing, but I’ve not tried it.

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JLTC … beats me … maybe Junk Left, Took Cache … maybe it’s how mugglers log in?!?!?

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Originally posted by John Robie:
Hey EnergySaver you think that we scared her off?

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Glad we didn’t … but if we did, it would have been those LOUD ties you wear!

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Now if your desiring to simply expose yourself to geocaching on a basic “what’s it like basis” .. you may want to consider coming to my “rookie” training event on June 6th, 2pm at Harrington Beach in Belgium (just south of you by 20 to 30 minutes). HOWEVER, it’s open to the whole public, so you will be “part of the crowd” and will be expose to geocaching as part of a “tour”, which is not the same as “team building” and working together in any way. If interested, check it out at: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=fb378f5f-bdc6-4ae5-81ee-874a0b02d398

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Originally posted by darci:
We are looking for “team building activity” and my supervisor had read something about geocaching and suggested I look into what is available in the area. What would you suggest?

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Interesting that you asked this … as this is basically a “hobby”, “sport”, “family thing” to do … BUT there is an Advertiser link on the home page of the geocaching page to something called “Geo Teaming”, which seems to be a company or something that I assume sells their services for just what your trying to do … ie. Corporate Training … check out the web link at: http://www.playtimeinc.com/products_geoteaming.htm

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thanks for the feedback … I’m for sure NOT available then … I doubt that you can rent a GPSr any where, but you never know.

Anybody else out there interested/available then?

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I’ve got about 5 families “waiting in line” to go out for the first time … otherwise I’d help you out. Sorry.

BUT, for others … I suspect it would be nice to know what you mean by “your department”. I assume your talking about a group from work.

Please answer things like:

So, how many people would that be in total? Do any of you own a GPS receiver?
When do you want to do this (weekend)?

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I used the “Spinner/Plucker” combination for a couple weeks … now thanks to the feedback on this board I loaded up “Cachemate” last night … played around with all the settings and stuff for an hour or so (I paid the $8, so I had full functions).

The two products certainly have very different approaches to being paperless. I suspect that I’m a convert to “Cachemate”. While I’m pretty handy around computers, thus dealing with “Spinner” then “Plucker” does not really slow me down; I’m thinking why bother with all the extra steps (even if they are not that bad). “Cachemate” does have a lot more setting/preferences that you need to play with to get it to your liking … for some reason I didn’t notice at first that I could set it to search near caches listing the “miles” and thought I was stuck with “kilometers”; once I notice that I could change this, I was really happy with the product.

For those that like that fact the “Plucker” shows everthing on one scrollable screen; it’s nice that “Cachemate” has an option of Defaulting to “Overview” mode; which shows the “Info”, “Description” and “Past Logs” screens all as one continous screen.

The big PLUS to me with “Cachemate” is the built in function to “log” your find and mark a cache as “Found It” (“Plucker” is basically a “Read Only” series of web pages).

The one thing you can do with “Spinner/Plucker” that you can not do with “Cachemate” is that you can view your “Spinner” web-world on your Desktop computer, which I found handy for planning a series of caches to find “off line”; “Cachemate” does not offer a Desktop version and does not plan to. Also, I do like how “Plucker” automatically shows you the 5 closest caches at the bottom of each cache listing; but the flexibility of “Cachemate”‘s cache proximity search (being able to limit a proximity direction) and the fact that it saves your search table, out ways the couple extra clicks you need to perform.

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or it could be ZoneAlarm

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or it could be ZoneAlarm

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Originally posted by jthorson:
By the time I get it turned on, both I and the GPSr are ‘settled down’ enough to renew the search.

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Is that how you find dead animals disguised as geocaches?

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I will have to give Cachmate a try … I had read somewhere that it “bogs down” your PDA and that Plucker runs smoother/quicker once on the PDA. Maybe they were wrong and I should give it a try.

I do like how with Spinner/Plucker that from any cache it shows you the 5 nearest caches in the file. Does Cachemate do something like that too?

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I play a pretty mean inflatable camp toilet …you do it sort of like bag pipes.

We have a 2 or 3 extra of our older ones laying around in the garage … I can bring them to an event in the future, if someone wants a lesson!

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