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I wonder if it has something to do with a max number of caches it will convert.

I was having an issue with spinner myself but mine may have been more severe (I got nothing).... I placed the pocket query (unzipped) over the shortcut icon (like my instructions stated) and the black screen came up sat there for 2 seconds and then went off..... didn't create a single thing...... I did re-run it and gathered a glimpse of what the black screen said... "No a recognizeable .GPX file" I got this pocket query straight from geocaching.com so I'm positive that it's a .GPX file. Any Ideas?????

I do have a quick question though....... When I export my data to cachemate and try to pull it up on my Palm, it doesn't have the Hints, and past logs.... It appears to only have the first page of information... did I set something up on GSAK wrong because I noticed that under the "Cache type" column it has a question mark instead of the icon for the cache. HELP!!!!! soooooo close.

Let's the brown-nosing begin! Just be careful what you wish for... How about Tacoma Washington? NOT!!! I vote for Colorado too...

I'm glad at least a few of them offered to make ammends and were forgiven. Unfortunately, the message that's still being sent by the defaced containers is "Hey, here's a new way to prove you've found a cache! The good people of Texas accepted it, so everyone else should too." And I don't think I've heard anything from the team about rescinding their "record" claim. Apart from Alabama Rambler, none of them really seems to care what anyone else thinks. The stench of arrogance is still pretty strong in here, even if the air is a bit fresher in Texas. And with good reason, if people would READ they would understand that Alabama Rambler takes responsability for the actions of the TEAM! In Texas that means EVERBODY.... I have no idea what it means "up North". Some of the group on the TEAM were in from Germany (is this the way we treat people?) and are not necessarily going to chime in to explain themselves since they do things differently in Germany and may have come to the conclusion that this is the way things are handled here. I just wonder if this has gotten out of hand due to a few people that HAD the record felt they got their toes stepped on. It seems to be ALL ABOUT THE NUMBERS!!!! not the fun. You're right, arrogance seems to be running rampid in here.

Unlike most of you, the DRR team sent out appologies for writing on the outside of the caches and also offered to pay for damages (if needed) to the caches. Most of the cache owners (Like most Texans) sent replies letting them know it was okay and congratulations on the run record (unlike most of you). Go cache or something! geeze, you don't even realize that you give the game a bad name with all the whining and bitching your doing!

Really? So if people who never attempted the cache rated it low on their "impression" from reading the page, it won't be autoarchived? When did they change that? It would, but the approvers have the foresight to make sure it's something worth ranking before putting it out there.

Hundreds. Well more than the 3 or 4 on TC. If GC keeps pissing cacher's off by archiving caches because someone whined about skewed counts......they'll (cache owners) move the caches to TC and then there will be hundreds over there. Just give it time. Perhaps this is a good thing. All the folks that can't understand or abide by the gc.com guidelines can play their own version of the game elsewhere. They might be happier and those that do abide by the guidelines might be happier. True..... I was always taught you didn't like the game take your marbles and leave. It's ashame that things come to that though. The geocaching community (that stood for togetherness and loose play) has now resorted to numbers and strict "straitline" thinking (kinda like our Government) When you got people like "Cryminal" (nope didn't misspell) that can't just play the game and leave everyone else alone to play it puts a damper on things. Oh well, enjoy!

Hundreds. Well more than the 3 or 4 on TC. If GC keeps pissing cacher's off by archiving caches because someone whined about skewed counts......they'll (cache owners) move the caches to TC and then there will be hundreds over there. Just give it time. Where they'll get pissed off when they find their caches auto archived, although nobody ever even attempted it. That's why the approval process is set up the way it is in TC so that doesn't happen.

Hundreds. Well more than the 3 or 4 on TC. If GC keeps pissing cacher's off by archiving caches because someone whined about skewed counts......they'll (cache owners) move the caches to TC and then there will be hundreds over there. Just give it time.

Wait a minute....you are on the side that says its okay to log cache finds for temp caches, right? So how is everyone but you stuck on numbers? If you are argueing that you should get credit for these caches that violate the guidelines, then you must care about numbers too. Honestly, I don't care about anyones numbers. What I do care about is people abusing the system. Do I care that they have false finds? No. Do I care that the more people log false stuff the more distorted the game becomes? Yes. I'm glad that everyone had fun at GW4. Fun is what it's about. So is Baseball, but if you start scoring runs for one team everytime a player touches a base, regardless where that base is, the whole game changes. My issue is not with the logged smiley's (I didn't log anything other than the event itself) it's with the fact that perfectly good caches are being archived for no feasible reason other than a few people are pissed because of a geographical issue and a count skew.

This is one of the very reasons I "normally" stay out of Groundspeak. EVERYONE of you are stuck on numbers! You don't care that people had fun. You don't care that people were able to make memories (getting smileys or whatever). You simply care about the stats bar at the bottom of the cacher's account. To each his own..... Just trying to make it understood that some of us went to GW and don't care whether the crowd got smiley's for their count or not. Will we change the game because the German group stated they do things completely different than we do? I doubt it..... Happy caching everyone! Be safe!

Used that at TC05 and TC06. Works really well.....the problem is just that..... it's been used at TC05 and TC06.

I'm sorry, but that's just absurd. As briansnat said at one point, the game is about finding hidden containers with a GPSr. If you aren't doing that, you aren't geocaching. It's like saying you ran and finished the NY Marathon when really all you did was meet someone who was at the NY Marathon at a party and sign their t-shirt The problem is that is exactly what they did! The coordinates were posted for the location of the cache at the various camp sites.... and they found a container, signed the log and in some instances traded items. So once again, fix the game! Archiving a cache merely because someone's count is boosted is whats absurd. Most of us are merely playing the game (you can tell by my numbers) and don't get upset when others post 5000 cache finds. I wasn't at GW4, so maybe you can help me understand this... The coordinates for the caches at the various campsites...they were posted WHERE? Not on the webpage for the cache that is in Iraq. Not on the page for the Florida cache that made it's way to Texas... The coordinates were posted on an event board for the weekend. Most of us don't carry laptops with us to events to arbitrarily download off GC Ah...there's the problem. These were NOT caches listed on GC.com, they were listed on an event board. They shouldn't be logged on GC.com. The waypoints were on GC.com (making them loggable). Hence the problem GC.com has with this... they weren't in original coordinates. So do we (talking as part of the "chastised" one's) change coordinates (temporarily) to suite the game so the caches are "legal" pieces again? And after the event is done change the coordinates back again? Now who's wanting to manipulate the game?

Thanks for chiming in. I didn't think I was alone in this!

Again, it's about the count! Who cares? remove the stat if it's causing that much of an issue. There are plenty of stat sites they can boast their number on. GW4 was great, I'm sorry for anyone that missed it. I am proud to have attended and I did caches (permanent ones) while there and have memories of good times with the family and friends from the geocaching community. I thought that was what the game was for.

I'm sorry, but that's just absurd. As briansnat said at one point, the game is about finding hidden containers with a GPSr. If you aren't doing that, you aren't geocaching. It's like saying you ran and finished the NY Marathon when really all you did was meet someone who was at the NY Marathon at a party and sign their t-shirt The problem is that is exactly what they did! The coordinates were posted for the location of the cache at the various camp sites.... and they found a container, signed the log and in some instances traded items. So once again, fix the game! Archiving a cache merely because someone's count is boosted is whats absurd. Most of us are merely playing the game (you can tell by my numbers) and don't get upset when others post 5000 cache finds. I wasn't at GW4, so maybe you can help me understand this... The coordinates for the caches at the various campsites...they were posted WHERE? Not on the webpage for the cache that is in Iraq. Not on the page for the Florida cache that made it's way to Texas... The coordinates were posted on an event board for the weekend. Most of us don't carry laptops with us to events to arbitrarily download off GC

You didn't notice me there? I was the one in the that hot pink polka-dot bikini, standing under that tree, not loggin pocket caches! Just kidding, don't get bunched up Seriously though, I have been to an event before. I met other cachers by saying stuff like, "Hi, I'm MountainMudbug! Are you a cacher? What's your handle? Ohhhh I finally get to meet you! I loved your ______ cache, that hide was awesome, I've never seen one like that before!" "Hi, you're a cacher, too? I don't recognize your handle, are you a new player? Oh, you're not new, you're from _____ city, wow you drove a long way! Thanks for coming!" Not getting "Bunched up" just don't understand the Hoopla!

Good Luck on that.... GC will archive the caches!

I'm sorry, but that's just absurd. As briansnat said at one point, the game is about finding hidden containers with a GPSr. If you aren't doing that, you aren't geocaching. It's like saying you ran and finished the NY Marathon when really all you did was meet someone who was at the NY Marathon at a party and sign their t-shirt The problem is that is exactly what they did! The coordinates were posted for the location of the cache at the various camp sites.... and they found a container, signed the log and in some instances traded items. So once again, fix the game! Archiving a cache merely because someone's count is boosted is whats absurd. Most of us are merely playing the game (you can tell by my numbers) and don't get upset when others post 5000 cache finds.

That makes little sense to me. Why does a person need to log a temporary, moving cache at an event to get to know someone else? That is not a justification. You can easily meet and have fun without this weird aspect of the activities. Archiving a cache that someone is toting around the country with them, when it is listed online as supposed to be at XXXXX coordinates, is hardly arbitrary. Did you go to the Geowoodstock event? I don't remember seeing you there? This only makes little sense if you care about the numbers..... I don't. If you have been to ANY event you would know that icebreakers are needed. You might, but I don't just walk into a campsite and start a conversation with a stranger. As for the logging...... What does it matter? GC.com can make some sort of "allowance" for a limited number of caches being brought to an event for logging if they wanted to. Then we wouldn't have people whining over "spilt milk" (or moved caches). Fix the game not the players!

You know I think you may have lost touch with the "game" yourself..... I attended the Geowoodstock but didn't participate in the "portable" caches involved with the event but didn't have a problem with those that did. Out of the 700 (+ / -) cacher's at the event not a single person bitched about the caches and it completed one of the main goals of geocaching...... the journey and discovering new locations..... Don't tell me that the folks from Jacksonville Florida didn't have a journey to get to Texas or the crew from Germany didn't see NEW locations when they arrived in America. If it's not about the numbers then what exactly is it about? Why are we archiving caches that "may" have been at the Geowoodstock event if it wasn't about the numbers? I can't imagine 700 people trying to locate the handful of caches at the State Park itself (or the distruction that would be caused to the eco-system)..... it would be rediculous to expect it. Jeremy, I've had a lot of respect for "the group" in the past (things may have been said by some I didn't agree with but I went on) and plan on sticking with the game in the future but if we are to continue to have events like this then there needs to be a FIX for the issue so it's NOT a circumvention of the system. The "powers that be" need to really look at what they are doing to the game if they arbitrarily archive caches just because someone took it to an event so they could get to know other cacher's that's purely rediculous. Come on..... It's merely a game!

Many of the merit badges require special equipment to complete so I don't see that as a hinderance. I'm not sure what the process of getting geocaching approved as a merit badge entails, but I think it'd be cool. Just reading this thread and decided to "chime" in.... I too am a "old" Boy Scout and my son is presently in Cub Scouts... I met mousewiz at the recent University of Scouting in Dallas and was able to get valuable information from her concerning the consideration of a merit badge and how geocaching is being formed into scouting. She advised that the process has already been placed underway to consider such, since it doesn't really fall in line with Orienteering it's a given to earn its own merit badge placement. The more demand for this and the growing popularity will naturally formulate a merit badge. Mousewiz is and should be a main contact for all geocaching / scouting venues. This will insure the scouting community information is in her hands.

I hope we make you guys proud! Hopefully we can plan a "TEXAS" sized time for you all.... If it's anything like our Texas Challenge weekend we have every year it'll be GREAT! WELCOME TO TEXAS in '06

I actually like it! It doesn't stand out as much as the red one. Gotta keep it camoed!