Lil Devil

Not a waste at all. Thank you for being open to learning. I've seen others get mad and take their ball and go home in lessor situations. If I'm ever in your area, I hope to be able to look for your caches.

Which caches? I just looked at the map in that area and I don't see any 2 caches that are closer than 0.12 miles apart. Check your messages on the website or in the geocaching app.

I'd like to know how a word-based challenge is geocaching related?

Project GC FAQ - How up-to-date is the data?

L0weB0ys, check your messages.

Your caches are happily sitting in the queue waiting for your local reviewer to look at them. In the meantime, please review the Geocache Listing Requirements / Guidelines, specifically the section on saturation and note that it applies to your own caches, too.

Fixed it for you. Your local reviewer doesn't care about logs. It's not a Geocache Guidelines issue. It is, however, a website Terms of Use issue, so the lackeys at Geocaching HQ will be happy to help. Use the Contact page.

Yeah I think the lackey that responded was confusing MasterCard gift card with Geocaching gift card. The payment system will certainly accept a MasterCard gift card because it won't know the difference between it and a regular MasterCard credit card. The payment system has no way of knowing that the card won't work again in a year when it tries to renew.

You're confusing the Dewey Decimal System with the card catalog. The books are still numbered on the shelf according to the Dewey. The card catalog has been replaced by computers and web pages.

Totally different animals. The GSAK native application has access to all of the geocache data that you have downloaded to your computer. The GSAK website does not have this data. The Project GC site has been building it's database for years and now has a fairly complete database of caches, and many but not all of the logs. Another website could certainly enter the arena, but it will take a while to build it's database to a useful level.

It's really interesting that most of the people complaining in this thread, have been members, and assumably Premium members, for several years. Face it, you're not going to stop being Premium members. You wouldn't be able to handle not having access to the Off Topic forum You guys would complain about anything. If they took away auto-renew, and forced you to manually renew every year, you'd complain about that.

As others have said, the API will return logs on archived caches. Not only that, but if I specifically ask for them, the API will also return logs that have been archived. Nothing is sacred.

There are two different caches being discussed in this thread. A large bison described by a paranoid muggle as a "grenade" and an unknown container described as a "pipe bomb." I think TahoeJoe is confusing the two.

ROFL! The fact that this thread has reached 11 pages should be evidence that it's a lot. Seriously, you'd be surprised how often cache owners ignore the guidelines and say "But it's a great cache. Can you make an exception?"

I navigate to caches with my GPS which just has the coords. I rarely read the cache description. Usually only if I have trouble finding the cache. Often I never even glance at the description so I wouldn't know if there are inadequacies or even flat out lies. There are bigger things in caching to worry about.

I've had many facepalm moments in my 15 years of geocaching, but the most memorable and talked about came on my 9th ever find, back in June 2002. My wife and I were in a wooded area at the back of a neighborhood park, looking for a difficulty 4 hide. The most difficult we'd searched for so far, so we were a little intimidated. We searched around for quite a while checking stumps, logs, bushes, up in the trees, etc. Eventually my wife asked what the hint was, so I pulled the print-out of the cache page from my pocket, as this was long before smartphones or geocaching-friendly GPS units. I stepped up on a nearby rock, as if to stand on a podium, and read the hint out loud. The hint was one of those that only really helps in retrospect. So then I read the entire description as my wife continued searching. When I finished reading, my wife looked at me and asked what the name of the cache was. I looked to the top of the page and replied, "Alcatraz." Now, anyone who has ever visited San Francisco will know the nickname of the famous prison is "The Rock." The next few seconds were like slow motion as my wife's eyes scanned down my body to The Rock that I was standing on. The Rock turned out to be concrete formed around a Tupperware container.

Doctor, it hurts when I do that.

It's your TB. You can delete the bogus logs and Recalculate the distance it has traveled.

Hmm. You brought up an interesting point. I do enjoy power trails. Well, the social aspect of them. But that's for another thread. If I ignore the approx. 9,000 power trail finds, it increases my Favorite Points ratio to 3.5%. Still a far cry from the 10% points accrued. Yeah, I've seen a lot of crap caches out there. Besides power trails, I'm pretty omnivorous. I'll go into an area and try to pretty much clear it. The leads to finding a lot of crap that sometimes has me asking myself "why am I doing this?" When that happens I'll make sure to target the next few caches to have lots of Favorite Points and my attitude will quickly improve.

Way back in 2001 when I started geocaching, I kept a webpage where I listed my top 10% favorite finds. Later when bookmark lists came out, I moved my list to there, but soon had to demote it to the top 5% because there just wasn't enough good caches. Later it got demoted again to the top 1%. When Favorite Points came out I made sure to award all those caches that were on my 1% list, even if they were since archived. Today my Favorite Points ratio sits at 2.3%, which I'll admit surprised me when I calculated it just now. I expected it to be less than 1%. I agree that many people award Favorite Points for silly reasons, such as FTF. My criteria is "If I was taking a reporter geocaching, is this a cache I want to see written about in the paper?" I do not support awarding additional Favorite Points for any reason. Even if a new cacher was to only go after the 2% of caches that I awarded Favorite Points to, I would expect that cacher to simply choose the best 10% of that 2%. The best of the best.

Set a bookmark in your browser to point to your profile page and then the home page is irrelevant.

I don't know about the reviewers in Oregon, but here in California, the reviewers won't publish a cache on school grounds even if it has explicit permission from the school principal. There have been several cases of schools being locked down when someone who is not "in the know" such as a parent, sees a geocacher poking around, and calls the cops. Nope. Caches on school grounds are just a bad idea. Maybe there is a nearby park where you and the students could hide a cache?

Go to https://www.geocaching.com/my/ and your unpublished caches will be listed at the top.

It should be noted that including pictures in the reviewer note is not directly a function on the Submission Form. Rather, you have to submit just the text of your reviewer note. Then, after the complete form is submitted, go to your unpublished cache page, scroll to the bottom, find your Reviewer Note log, and add a picture to it.

I assume when you say "standard geocaching map" you mean this one. If that's the one, you can change it to show the same maps as the one on the cache page. On the left side, make sure the sidebar is open. Click the little > arrow in the green bar if needed. Then, down at the bottom, click the big green box that says "Set Map Preferences." A window will pop up where you can choose between Google and Leaflet maps. Select Google. Now the map should show the same trail lines when you zoom in far enough.