RainbowKat

Google's satellite view helps a lot with that sort of thing.

But you wouldn't call a thief a "stealer." Oh well, just joking around anyways.

*twitch twitch* No, I won't do it. I recently found my 2nd cache and I hid it the exact way I found it. I don't understand how someone could be in such a hurry like that guy StarBrand described. I like to take my time and look through the log and all the stuff in the cache. *twitch* I can't take it anymore. It's muggle, not muggler! Where do people get the R from? Boston? Heaven knows Boston doesn't use their Rs when they say "they pahked theiah cah." *feels better*

Actually mine was just last week. I have generalized anxiety disorder and I went to the park alone for my first solo geocache, and I have never felt more mellow. It was a beautiful warm (but very windy) spring day and I was actually relaxed, and that good feeling stuck with me when I went to work afterwards. Geocaching: Better than anti-anxiety drugs!

Since we're on the subject, can I send the TB dogtag out by itself without attaching it to anything (well maybe a laminated note)? I can't find anything really good and meaningful to me to attach it to, that is small enough to fit in most caches.

So I asked someone to translate that Bugzilla report for me into non-developer-speak and they said it was bad data in the cache, and upon clearing my cache the site is working again! I had tried everything but that - safe mode, all add-ons disabled. Something got corrupted somewhere. I am happily posting this from Firefox 4 RC 2. Thanks for the suggestion and the offer of help popokiiti... I do have Avast and not AVG.

It still crashes with all the add-ons disabled. It is apparently a known issue in Firefox 4. Here's the Bugzilla report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529733

I can't. Simply trying to visit any page on the forums crashes the browser. I'll try going to the Firefox support forums. I'm not switching browsers.

I apologize if this isn't the appropriate place to post, but today every time I visit these forums in Firefox 4 RC 1 (yes I know this is beta software) the browser crashes. No error comes up - I just get "Mozilla Firefox has encountered an error - restart or quit." I've been using FF4 for a week and this is the first time I have had this problem. Geocaching.com is fine, it's just the forums. Is anyone else having trouble with any version of Firefox? I don't want to downgrade if I don't have to. (I'm posting this in IE8.)

Have you tried the official Groundspeak app?

That's only four points, lol! I carry pepper spray too. Hope I never have to use it. It gets windy around here a lot (NW Indiana isn't that far from the Windy City) and my luck, I'd probably get a backspray and get myself too!

I was wondering what kind of crazy cache owners publish their phone numbers! LOL "dude it's 3am no I'm not going to tell you where the cache is goodnight!"

I think if I was a muggle I'd be more suspicious of a pipe labelled "Harmless Geocache" than one with no labelling!

Near me there is actually a Geocache across the street from the County Sheriff's Department. I bet the police know it's there too!

Are you talking about these? Baby soda bottles?

Kid 1 is sensitive but he's also only 19, in his first year of college, and he's never had a really big problem - nothing more than a minor car accident (hit his mom's car in the driveway), never dealt with the police or bullies or anything like that. He's still a kid in that way. I chalk it up to not a lot of experience having to stand up for himself in "the real world." I talked to him a little bit about learning how to not take things personally and to stay calm with irate people, and how my jobs in customer service have taught me that. Sure, I have my bad days and get angry too but if I got scared or screaming-rage-angry at every bad customer I deal with, my blood pressure would be through the roof. I told him he will eventually learn to let it all roll off his back. Time makes things better too and he's calmed down considerably... after all, all that reaction I posted about was within the hour after it happened. Thanks for the couple of stories... I hope they'll make him feel a little better.

So today my neighbor's kids were excited about going geocaching, so I thought we'd go look for one. We went to one in a cemetery because A. it was close and B. it was not a small or micro. I took Kid #3 with me in my car (she's 16) and Kid #1 (19, male, just home from college for spring break) and his girlfriend Kid #2 rode in his car. I was leading the way and I mistook someone's driveway for another one of the cemetery's gravel roads. By the time I realized it was a driveway (it was really long and curved around), it was too late to turn around until you got up to the house - it was thickly lined with trees on both sides. I pulled in to let Kid #1 turn around and go back out, and alas, I got stuck in the mud. The gravel was very muddy and it was nearly impossible to tell but I'd gone about a car's width off the edge of his driveway. Cue man coming out of his house screaming and swearing. Kid #1 went back up the road. I said I was lost and thought we were still in the cemetery. Man apologized and said "I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were ladies, I should have watched my language." His wife was with him and asked if the other car was with us. She told us to call him and tell him not to come back down the driveway but to wait in the cemetery and she and her husband would help us. Man said another woman got stuck a lot worse the week before. They pushed my car until we got free. Well, the man needed to move his pickup so I wouldn't back into it when I was turning around (still negotiating a bit with the mud), and he drove up to the cemetery road and stopped at Kid 1's car. Wife stayed behind helping to direct me out. We left and Kid 1 pulled over soon after and got out nearly crying, and said the man had called him an "effer" for not coming back down the road to help us and that we tore the "eff" out of his lawn. Kid #3 and I explained that his wife told us to tell him not to come back down there and it was just some crossed wires...man would talk to his wife & realize she told us that. I and Kids 2 & 3 were calm and fine but it took a long time to calm Kid 1 down. The lawn was a muddy mess anyways but Kid 1 is absolutely paranoid that the guy took down our license plate numbers (we didn't have any indication that he did) and is going to call the police about his lawn. I told him I really don't think that's going to happen, but if the police showed up to just send them to my house (we live right next door) and I'd take full responsibility. After all, it was my wrong turn and my car that got stuck in the mud. People regularly mistake me for a teenager and Kid 1 is over 6 feet tall so I think the man might have thought he was the oldest there. So yeah, we decided to save that cache for another day and didn't go after any more. Kid 1 was just too upset. I explained to him that I've worked in customer service and have learned not to let irate people get to me and hurt my feelings. I hope he'll try caching again with us this summer. Anybody got similar stories or advice so I can make Kid 1 feel better?

I just activated my first Geocoin. The page where I activated it asks me to set it either as collectible or not collectible. What's the difference? Will it matter if I decide to send it on a mission?

For the love of all that is good and not itchy, please move it! Did you know you can get poison ivy from another person? I don't want to shake hands with a geocacher who's just touched your cache!

2 dollar bills and gold dollar coins are neat.

Apologies for being a bit off-topic but I have a disease called Raynaud's Syndrome. In essence, if I get cold my body thinks I'm freezing to death and cuts off the circulation to my fingers and toes. This is normal for someone having hypothermia - the body does it to try to keep warmer blood in the torso and thus, vital organs - but in my case it is an overreaction. Just the few degrees' change of temperature in getting undressed for a shower can trigger it, and sometimes, like when I'm scraping my car windows, it can hurt too, like frostbite. You might say it's like an allergy to cold. In any case, it's not wise for me to spend much time out in the cold.

If I trade swag from a cache, do I need to mention it in the logs? Should I say (for example) "took 2 buttons left 4 buttons*," naming the specific items I took and left, or just "took swag, left swag," or is it okay to say nothing at all about swag? I know you can say TNLN if you didn't trade anything, and I would always mention travel bugs or travelling geocoins. *My first and only successful cache was a button-trading cache, so I thought I'd use it as my example.

A newbie's perspective: Though I initially joined this site in 2007, I never had a GPS until just last month, and had forgotten about the site for a while. I have ordered and received the hide-a-cache starter pack from the Groundspeak store, and as soon as the weather warms up (so that I can actually go out caching and not just sit here talking about it) I intend to use my trial premium membership that came with it. Then I will pay for a year. I have no problem with it because $30 for a year is a very reasonable price for a hobby. In fact, it's probably one of the cheapest. Though I do feel bad, having logged 1 cache and 1 DNF, that there are some members here who might look down on me for "sucking off other people who do pay." (I understand it would only be a minority of people, but still, I'm a leech because I use the free features of a site that is freely available and the founder of the site wants to keep it that way?) Though I have no friends with a Premium account and thus, no way to see the location of PMOs, I also don't like that a PMO owner would delete the logs of a non-premium member. What if I pay for say, 3 years, and log a few PMOs in that time. Then I decide I'm no longer interested in geocaching so I stop paying. Would the cache owners go back and delete my logs just because I'm no longer paying? That seems a little unreasonable, so I hope most PMOs would not delete basic members' logs, since the founder of the site intends for the "back door" to stay open.

That's terrific! Thanks, I'm new, didn't know about that.

If a cache is near a house or a few houses, I bet the people who live there know about it or maybe even own it!