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I updated my Oregon 550 just before leaving on vacation. The additional info in the search is nice, but now when I mark a cache as found and turn off the GPS when I turn it back on the “found” caches are back in the unfound list, and I have no found caches or field notes. I just got back and noticed there’s another update available – hopefully it will fix the found cache issue. It was really confusing when in an unfamiliar area and caches that I could have swore I found were back in the search list.

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@blue_cougar54494 wrote:

I just received am email from the Princeton Club about food donated by weight loss vs exercise. Each person participating gets to choose whether they want to commit to exercise or weight loss. Food will be donated which ever way they decide to go. So if you would like to exercise then weight loss by all means go ahead. If you are on a team it will help either way. I hope this clears up how food is donated.

Thanks for checking this!

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Great idea to get us motivated and donating to a good cause.

I was signing up and noticed that you can select exercise time instead of weight loss – 10 pounds food donated per hour of exercise rather than per pound of weight lost. It seems to me that I could donate a lot more food by using exercise rather than weight, and I see the Wisconsin Geocachers listed as a team for exercise, too.

I guess my question is – are you going to see how we stand compared to other teams based on food donated, or based on weight lost? If by weight lost I stay on that program, but if by food donated I’ll switch to exercise. Thanks.

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I need to drop some weight too, and hopefully this will be additional motivation to get me going. Count me in.

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@hack1of2 wrote:

Cool. A group outing for Lord of the Caches. Even BBG had mentioned to me a month or so ago he might be interested in going a second time because he liked it that much. That’s quite an endorsement!

I’d like to join in for the Lord of the Caches, a classic I’ve been eying up for a while.

As for my watch list I have about 20, mostly caches I’ve enjoyed or were quite challenging, a few that I’d like to do, and a few that I’ve DNFed and interested to see if others find it afterwards (usually that’s a ‘yes’ 😳 )

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Interesting thread. I did find the elevation macro in the gsak forums – try this link: http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=10289&st=220&#entry141556

As for my finds, the highest is GC1J8T3 “Big Horn Sheep (Eastbound only)” Colorado, 8798 ft
and the lowest is GCMKWT “At the Pier”, California, -28 ft

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I use picasa, a freebie program from Google (picacsa.google.com). It will easily import photos from a camera or sd card into the program where you can crop, remove redeye, etc. Then you can quickly upload to a picasa albulm on the web (you can set the privacy to public, private, invitaion only, etc). There is also a plugin to quickly upload from picasa into facebook.

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Shucks! I would love to go, but don’t have enough vacation left this year. As others have mentioned the Badlands are not to be missed, and if you have time be sure to swing up to see Devil’s Tower. Have a great trip!

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Thanks WisKid and Bec for all you do for the rest of us.

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I picked up a burr removing tool somewhere (Walmart?, Gander Mountain?, Cabelas?, other?) that is like a pumice stone with different textures on the different sides on the stone. It is sort of a rounded triangular shape and 4-5 inches long, so fits in your hand well. It does a pretty good job of getting most of the burrs, and it must be pretty cheap or I wouldn’t have gotten it.

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Great news! Thanks Steve, and everyone else who was involved with this.

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June 2005

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Mine is my main geocaching companion. Since she’s the one in most of my uploaded photos for virtuals and EarthCaches it only seemed fitting to use her as my avatar.

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Congratulations!

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