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OK, so now tell me is it Laff-am Peak or Lap-Ham Peak?
You must have been hunting near your home. Spend some time in Bong RA and you can acquire a herd of those little guys. Those bigger ones are American Dog Ticks, also known as wood ticks. The ticks that are the size of a speck are deer ticks. While the dog tick is not expected to carry Lyme disease, it does carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia.
I actually prefer the winter caching. Gives me a chance to break out the snowshoes, plus I like it that I sweat a little less than normal. Of course, this has caused me to develop an intense lack of respect for people who hide micros on the ground.
If you are working on the puzzle that I think you are working on, pay close attention to the description and hints. Some people’s view of the world is skewed, similar to that of people in the 12th century. I wonder if they were worried about sailing off the edge of the world!
Cool. Looks like this would work for every modern phone (except the Iphone). Of course, it is still very much a hack, and not quite ready for the average user, but still this shows a lot of promise. Nice find!
Unfortunately, the supported hardware for these is “behind the times”. I’m sure it made some sense to select the PocketPC (now Windows Mobile) platform for Wherigo at the time. Unfortunately, the PDA market has become the Smartphone market, and Windows Mobile, while still active, is not a big player anymore. The Colorado/Oregon doesn’t really do the technology justice (no multimedia capabilities). I’ve heard some rumblings about porting over to Google Android, but nothing about Iphone, Blackberry or Symbian. All this added up means that Wherigo will be very limited in popularity for the foreseeable future.
To be honest, I beileve GS was expecting a bigger response to Wherigo from tourist boards, resorts, and the like. The idea was that these organizations would license the technology to provide tours of their respective sites. Imagine a product similar to the taped tours you can rent at various attractions, but downloadable to people’s PDA/phone and including sound, video and other media. When they received a collective yawn from these folks (again, due to the lack of hardware options), I think they have moved on to other projects (such as the Iphone app).
The highest rated apps for droid are Geobeagle (free) and Cachemate ($10). I’d suggest you download one and try it. Remember that the antennas in phones are designed for automotive use and will not work well in cover.
It doesn’t show up in the GSAK menus. Reading the manual, it appears to require custom software, which is provided. The interface is not documented in the manual, but maybe they can give you details of the interface and you can write your own program. (Note that there doesn’t seem to be support in GPS-Babel either, which is a very bad sign. They support almost everything.)
I don’t believe you can on any Garmin. Eventually they just roll off as the list gets full. Why would you want to do this? I suppose you could just keep searching for other stuff (you don’t actually have to FIND it, the list should probably be called “Recent Searches”) until the items you want removed are off of the list.
Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if a muggle took an ammo box and left everything else. This sounds like something a hunter would do. The difference is that Jay’s containers are all effectively micros, and not of use to anyone for much of anything.
I also wouldn’t be surprised at some of these containers getting removed as trash. Someone cleaning up the area is not going to understand that a light bulb lying among other trash is something special. Now, if they left the trash and took the light bulb…
I think everyone who has placed a cache has had them disappear now and then. It is the nature of the activity when we hide things in areas with public access that, sometimes, the public accesses (and takes) the things. Additionally, we all are aware of “geocachers” who steal coins, remove all the swag from a cache, or do other antisocial things. This is unfortunate, but our choices are to give up and let the thugs win, or keep doing the things we enjoy.
OK, lets start. First, as others have said, the EASY way to do this is to use GSAK. Just load your files into GSAK, use the GPS Setup to select an Explorist 210. Then use GPS | Send to GPS. It is that easy.
If you don’t want to use GSAK for some reason (can’t afford $25, like doing things the hard way, masochistic tendencies, morally opposed to commerce with Australia, or whatever), you CAN do this with GPS Babel.
1. Connect your GPS to your computer using the USB port. It will assign it a drive letter. Within this drive is a directory called Geocaches
2. Start GPSBabelGUI-2.
3. Select the input file type as Geocaching.com .loc
4. Enter the path and file name of your loc file.
5. Select the output file type to be Magellan Explorist Geocaching (.gs)
6. Enter the path and filename where you want the file to go. This is the tricky part. Lets say the drive for the GPS is E:. The path will be E:/geocaches/filename.gs. (Substitute whatever name you want for filename).
7. Make sure the waypoints checkbox is marked.
8. Hit Lets go. The waypoints will be transferred.
Or, you could just buy GSAK and save yourself a ton of effort.
One thing you should be aware of. LOC files have virtually no information, just the GC Code, Name, Placed by, owner code, and the coordinates. No description, no hints, no additional waypoints, not even the state. If you want the full information, you need to get a GPX file, which is available to premium members.
If anyone has contact with the local people associated with this program, please make sure they understand about the “agenda” guideline. Some of the early submission from other states have been WAY over the line, such as soliciting donations or advertising membership. This is the main reason this program has been so slow to get started. If they just keep the pages informational, they will be fine. Programs, Eagle projects, ranks, merit badges, individual troops, etc. are all fair game. Putting out a cache saying “BSA is the world’s greatest charity, so send us money so that we can keep saving kids” is not.
The main reason for using the ignore list is to stop the caches placed in the list from appearing in your pocket queries (as well as the online searches). All the ones on my list fall in the category of “environmentally unsound”, that is a difficult hide in a sensitive area. Since I am never going back to find those particular hides, I have no reason to keep getting them in my PQs.
For those of you who didn’t sign up for the North of Highway 8 discount and are having problems with this, here is what I think will work. (I don’t have a Delorme, so I can’t test.) Load your PQ into GSAK. Export the entire database to a GPX file, making sure you are using GPX version 1.0 (the pulldown for this is at the very top of the dialog box), and make sure the Use Defaults box is UNCHECKED, and the “Include GSAK extra fields” box is UNCHECKED. Now, load that exported file to your GPS. I’m guessing this will remove the offending entries from the GPX file and let it be loaded to your PN-40. Someone let me know if this actually works.
Note that the reason GSAK is not failing is that GPS-Babel (the file conversion engine which runs “under the hood” of GSAK) was long ago converted to handle the GPX version 1.1 files that apparently geocaching.com has switched to. If anyone who doesn’t want to use GSAK for whatever reason (especially those running Linux or OS10), you can download the GPSBabel program at http://www.gpsbabel.org. Instructions for using this program is beyond what I can put here, but I can probably help you through using it if you want to try that approach.
My first cache, I placed an ammo can on a breakwater in the middle of winter. Kind of looked like no one ever went there. Everything went well until warm weather. I get a DNF, so head out to check it, finding something like 500 people on the breakwater near GZ. Oops! No wonder it got muggled. Waited until night and replaced with a micro. Next finder logs that they were looking for a micro and found an ammo box….what? Back out, and the cache is back. I check the logbook and it was found by a muggle, who took it home, read the log, realized what they had done, and put it back. So…I removed the micro, got a chain, and hooked it to an old ladder, and hid the cache under a pile of rocks….resulting in it being muggled in less than 24 hours. Back out with the micro, hidden in a fairly obvious place. Gone in a month. Back out with a replacement, this time hidden more diabolically. That hide is still there (replaced once for wear).
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