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All I can say is that, as a long time supporter of Goodwill, I probably would have filled my pickup with stuff to log a cache like that. It's a shame that charitable organizations are tossed into the same dumpster as megacorps like The Mart That Shall Not Be Named™.

I would like the option. But what we REALLY need is the ability to hide caches on an ignore list.

I never have completely understood this concept. My receiver is always more accurate when moving, even if only at a walking pace. When I stop, after about a minute, my accuracy starts dropping and eventually my location will start "skipping". Start walking again, and it will immediately home in.

I was visiting cemeteries out of historical curiosity and to take photographs LONG before geocaching was even invented. There was nothing disrespectful about those visits, and there's nothing disrespectful about visiting for geocaching. It's all a matter of how you conduct yourself.

I chuckled a couple of times, but my final reaction is that somebody simply needs a new hobby.

I always check Google Earth just to see if I'm in the ballpark, but the GPS coordinates are the final word.

I realize there's a certain futility in asking a serious question here, but I'm genuinely curious. Exactly why were virtuals discontinued? They were already gone before I started, so I don't know the full story. I do know that I've enjoyed all the grandfathered virtuals I've logged.

It wasn't terribly funny at the time, but it was certainly spectacular: Drowned Automobiles Okay, okay. It was funnier for you than it was for me.

I use bookmark lists extensively to group caches by geography and routes, and run into this limitation all the time. It's incredibly annoying to have to purge an already-filled list I'm saving for the future in order to create a new list for the upcoming weekend. There really needs to be an increase in the number of bookmark lists available to users.

I just checked one of my pages and can confirm everything you said. I'd like to know why this has happened as well.

Well, the Colorado isn't the only thing that chokes on HTML. Paperless caching on an iPod can be an exercise in futility because many listings are full of so much crap HTML that the listing is 80% garbage and ends up being truncated for having too many characters. Nothing like scrolling through 8 screens of noise only to get to the end of the file and realize you don't have a hint or even know what the container size is. The easy solution is for people to go easy on the HTML in cache listings. I mean, to we REALLY need ten different colors and sizes and scrolling marquees to hide a film can in a cemetery?

Dupe.

Though technically listed as a mystery, GC11CFT - Chinook FWA Cache is my favorite because: 1. Each stage is a challenging and loggable find in and of itself. 2. The scenery/terrain is great for each stage. 3. Once you've collected the clues from each cache, it becomes apparent that there are multiple solutions, and that finding the final will involve some deduction and legwork ... so it's not just a trail of coordinates. It took me four trips to complete.

FYI, there is a geocaching group on last.fm. If you like to see what other cachers are listening to, that's a great way to find out.

So I take it the answer must be no, then? I simply don't want to pursue a "feature request" if there's some hard limitation that would prevent the function I'm describing.

Thanks. At least I know I'm not overlooking something obvious. Would this in theory be possible?

Could there be a checkbox that says "Hide caches on my ignore list" in the same manner that "Hide my finds" and "Hide my caches" works?

Both of these are excellent, and both have been placed with the permission and assistance of the library staff. GCM140 - Among Dead Trees GCHBBD - Font of Knowedge (sic)

I've been using a GPS1000 exclusively since I started caching, and I've found it to be very accurate, very easy to use, and very durable. The screen is absolutely HUGE and very easy to read, even with my glasses off. And they use plain old SD cards for map storage. For a fraction of the price, their accuracy is nearly as good as most currently available units. With that said, your options for interfacing it with a computer are limited, and your options for loading waypoints from Groundspeak are nonexistent. The communication protocols for the GPS1000 are proprietary, and even though programs like GPSBabel could talk to the reciever if the protocols were available, not enough interest exists to justify the man-hours necessary to reverse engineer the protocol. If you have an older PC, the Rand McNally mapping software will let you load detailed maps which are very accurate as of their release date (mid 90s), however the interface is tedious and time consuming. It requires a PC with a 9-pin serial port, though I have had some luck with USB-to-serial adapters. I have the software, and have used it, and can help you with getting maps onto your receiver. One interesting point is that once the maps are made, they can be copied off of the SD card, copied to another SD card for backup, and also burned to CD. I took a long rainy weekend and built street-level maps for about a 300 mile radius of home and backed them up. If you build maps for other areas, we can swap maps. I tried to find other users and swap maps once before, but there simply aren't enough out there who are interested. The gist of it is, as long as you don't mind entering your waypoints by hand, the GPS1000 is an exceptionally competent receiver. Don't let ANYONE tell you it's no good for caching. I have nearly 400 finds in under a year that prove otherwise. And nobody's ever complained about my hiding coordinates, either. If I can be of any assistance, don't hesitate to ask.

Red Hills State Park down by Summner has TONS of caches in it. You can almost make a day of it and never leave the park grounds. It's fairly spread out, so you might end up driving a time or two, but if you plan your hikes, you can park, do a handful, drive a short distance, do a handful, etc. And there is camping available. The surrounding area has about a zillion caches as well. I spent an entire day down there last fall and barely scratched the surface. HTH

Just follow the jets of flame to the cache! Great idea! On a more serious note, Deermark, could you email me a full-resolution copy of the group picture? I'd like to make a print or two. And thanks again for the event, it was a BLAST!

I would love to be able to browse public bookmark lists, a well as save them to a "favorites" page or somesuch thing. I would also love to be able to have more than 20 bookmark lists. I've bumped into that limit a few times already. It's really annoying.

GE is a very useful tool for planning caching trips, confirming the general location of a cache, or for getting an idea of the terrain you need to cross to get to one. However, be advised that GE is not always 100% accurate. Image resolution, scaling, and parallax can all reduce accuracy. In case of conflict, trust your GPS.

I think in order to simplify the situation and appease the ranger, I'd have simply taken the cache with me, posted an SBA clearly stating that the cache was removed, and emailed the owner directly and offered to ship the stuff to them or meet and deliver it in person. The request to remove the cache might have been unfounded, but if the ranger wants to cop an attitude about it, they'll simply toss it in the trash the minute you leave without it. Better to have the owner sure of recovering his stuff than go all the way out there to retrieve it and find out that some ranger having a bad day just decided to heave it into a dumpster. Plus, if the ranger turns out to have been in error, they're more likely to accept their error and not have a bad opinion of geocaching in general if their request was met with, at the very least, polite compliance. FWIW