You will need to become a 'premium member' ($3/Month or $30/year) of Geocaching.com to receive .gpx files either individually for each cache page, or in groups via Pocket Queries. The .gpx file contains all the information found on the first page of a cache listing, including the five most recent logs.

Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK) is an awesome program, available for a 30 day free trial, and now $20 to register (still WAY worth the $20!)  With GSAK you can sort, weed through, manipulate, view, arrange, and modify cache listings into manageable groups for upload to your GPSr and/or PDA (you could probably get a decent PDA off EBay for $25, or you could spend $350 for the latest model) .

For the PDA, you will need a copy of CacheMate (also has free trial, currently $8 to register) to view the information uploaded from GSAK. Again, you will have the co-ordinates, difficulty, owner comments, and the first five finder logs as well as a space to record the date, time and your comments for your find on the cache.

Once registered both GSAK and CacheMate include free upgrades for life. Both developers are constantly improving their products to include user-requested features.

No trees are killed in this process, but a bunch of electrons are highly inconvenienced!
Cache On!

Azpaul1 wrote:

Since you mentioned mapsource, I am assuming that you have and using a Garmin gps unit. The only gps that I know off that lets you download all the page info. is a Garmin I-Que.

 

Until just recently, I too used your method of entering waypoints and in the  last couple of months have, with some help of close friends, I have gone paperless. The answer sounds very complicated, but once everything is set up it is a snap to use.

 

First, I set up a series of pocket queries that I run weekly. I then load them into a waypoint management database called GSAK (the best $8.00 I have spent, I might add).

 

GSAK , allows me to load the waypoints into my 60C and the page info. into a PDA.

 

Like I said earlier, it sounds complicated, but once everything is set up it is a snap to use. With the PDA, I don't have to carry a clip board full of printout's to rummage through for the info that I need and I can enter notes  about the cache I just found.

 

I hope this helps,

Paul aka "AZPAUL"

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Debbie

To: az-geocaching@listserv.azgeocaching.com

Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:02 PM

Subject: [Az-Geocaching] a better way!!

I haven't posted much but I have been lurking for a long time. I know there has to be an easier way to have the caches in my gps with the info from the pages. Right now I put them on my mapsource as waypoints and download them into my gps when I am going somewhere. I also print out the page from the website to take with me.

Can anybody tell me if there is an easier way to do it??

Hope this makes sense!!

Thanx

Maillade

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