[Team Deejay]

@The Crippler wrote:

1000 Smley Face Bouncy Balls…

You mean we were supposed to trade those out when we found the cache? 😈

As we were walking away from that cache, I suggested that we should log “Took 100 smiley face balls, left a binder clip, TFTC!” just to see what your reaction would be.

[Team Deejay]

You can look at your collected galleries from the profile page. You can also look at the gallery of a specific cache by using the link

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/gallery.aspx?ID=%gcid

where %gcid is the long code for a geocache. You can see this code if you look at the link when going to the cache page. Assuming you have a few caches you want to look at regularly, you can just make a bunch of favorites, one for each cache.

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@cheezehead wrote:

@Team Deejay wrote:

You’re welcome, guys. I was happy to see that at least someone DNFed that Star Wars Trivia cache that has sat for so long. Now, if we can just get Cheezehead to get over to Airport Flats….

I have been there and could find nothing, I ‘ve read reports that lots of the stages or tools are gone. Maybe I’ll make another trip up there again summer. Is it too late to log my stuff from the beginning of the month?
I think I hit 3 or 4 on the list.

Its not too late, but if you posted a NM or NA note on it (or even a DNF!), I could start the process of getting it closed down.

[Team Deejay]

You’re welcome, guys. I was happy to see that at least someone DNFed that Star Wars Trivia cache that has sat for so long. Now, if we can just get Cheezehead to get over to Airport Flats….

[Team Deejay]

Well, the short answer is that you really can’t do it without using a macro, but you can come close.

The non-macro version
File|Export|Mapsource
Click the big change button on the dialog box.
Choose the radio button for “cache type”
For each cache type, pick the icon that you want. There is an icon for “geocache” and multicache. You can use the information icon for mysteries, if you don’t already use it for something else, everything else is up to you. Just pick the choices that make sense. There are no icons for ghosts, cameras, globes, etc.
Now hit save and do the export.

The macro solution
There is also a set of custom icons and a macro for exporting caches with those icons to the more modern Garmin units (60C(s)x, 76C(s)x, Colorado, Oregon). (That is what the “use macro to select icons” checkbox is all about.) Here is a link to get you started. I never personally thought this was worth my time to set up, so if you want to do it, you might have to contact the page owner for more support.

[Team Deejay]

I predict June 21st. Did I win?

[Team Deejay]

Well, here is a good starting spot.

http://www.geocaching.com/about/

[Team Deejay]

One more: memory sticks, thumb drives, and homemade CDs/DVDs. No smart person is going to stick something they find in a cache in their computer (too much risk of viruses and other similar issues), so they just lie there until they are worthless. Of course, homemade music CDs would be ok, except they are defacto copyright violations.

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@SammyClaws wrote:

Oh yeah, that right, you like to just clean out all the caches on either side of you while you drive down the road.

The defined route is what had us not driving up the farmers driveway to get to the caches in the park behind his house.

I still think it would have been ok. Surely the cache owner had informed the nearby homeowner of the cache just across the property line, right?

[Team Deejay]

@Lostby7 wrote:

feminine hygiene products….yep I have found those in caches.

Hmmm, wouldn’t it work to absorb any moisture in the container? Maybe this is actually a good idea.

[Team Deejay]

I would think that, assuming one has internet connectivity, one could just use a browser and connect directly to geocaching.com. Seems to work on a blackberry, et al.

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Batteries. Unless the cache is one of those that gets found every week, the dampness in the cache (leakage or condensation) will make the batteries useless in short order.

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What’s a “defined route”? 😈

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@Team B Squared wrote:

Here is a GSAK macro that I have found to shorten series names automatically. I have found it very useful to make waypoint names more manageable for me.

Shorten Series Name Macro

One warning about this particular macro. Each cache that is modifies is “locked”. This is necessary to prevent future downloads of the cache from changing the name back. The problem with locking a cache in GSAK is that it also prevents anything else from changing, including coordinates, cache description, hint, etc. It will add the new logs, however. I have written my own macro for this purpose, and it suffers from the same limitation.

And since I am commenting, numbers help a lot, but another way to make this better is to reverse the naming system, as Sloughfoot did on his Tail of the Serpent series. A cache called “The Source – Tail of the Serpent” works much better than a cache called “Tail of the Serpent – The Source”.

[Team Deejay]

I’m sure this will eventually be just like the Wiouwash trail, the Wild Goose trail, and other newer state trails, in that the maintenance of the trail is conducted by the county parks organization, even though the ownership of the trail is with the DNR. In those cases, the DNR form is sent to the county parks department, who are the “responsible land managers”. Fortunately, we don’t have to wait for them to return the form.

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