King of Pennsylvania

No you have me all wrong. I meant the frog suit that our Frog Idol inhabits so that his skin does not dry out and so that we are not blinded by his true radiance!

They are pretenders to the throne my friend.

Is it possible to borrow or rent a Signal the Frog Suit for a smaller local event? If it is, who do I contact?

I think I created my own problem here. I was using tasks as a mechanism for the user to interact with instead of using them as an internal mechanism for moving content forward. I looked at the source of the Flea Market Wherigo and saw how they showed descriptions and directions to the players and how they used tasks. Once I modified my cartridge to use tasks in a similar manner everything was fine. It's odd that the cartridge worked fine on the PocketPC but trying to incorporate the functionality into the Colorado caused it to get confused and not show messages to the player. Hope this explanation helps if you too are having issues.

I seem to be having a similar problem with my Wherigo on the tasks tab. I can press the button for it but nothing appears or happens afterwards. At least for me on my Colorado this was not a backlight issue. Was there any other resolution to this?

I published three Wherigos yesterday and when I tried them on my emulator on the computer all worked fine. However, after uploading them to the Wherigo site and then downloading them to my Colorado, the first task doesn't show anything on my screen. Any ideas on this?

Thanks a bunch. That was it. The final was a bit farther than any of my other locations. I set the distance range to -1 and everything's fine. I spent a couple hours trying to figure out what I had done incorrectly. Thanks again for your help.

Thanks a bunch. That was it. The final was a bit farther than any of my other locations. I set the distance range to -1 and everything's fine. I spent a couple hours trying to figure out what I had done incorrectly. Thanks again for your help.

Hello everyone. I am having an issue with a single location on my latest Wherigo cache. I have it set to visible and active and I can see it flip to active and visible on the map when I run the task to do that. Unlike the other zones I created, it never shows up in the location tab of the emulator. The user has no way of determining what direction to go to get to the final location. Any ideas on what might be my problem?

Thanks and thanks. I wasn't sure where to put my question. Thanks for the link. I read through it and it had a lot of good information. Thanks again.

Using my old GPSr and mapping software I was able to get turn-by-turn directions to a geocache. Now though with my Colorado 400t and additional mapping software I can't get the turn-by-turn directions to the cache. Turn-by-turn works on waypoints and all other features of the mapping software but not on geocaches. Does anyone have some suggestions? Thanks.

I was wondering if anyone was having a similar issue and what steps they took to correct it. I bought a new Colorado 400t and downloaded and installed the Garmin Communicator Plugin. I verified it on the Garmin site and everything according to Garmin is correct. However, the Groundspeak site says it is unable to load the plug in. I tried on both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Same results. Any ideas?

Sure you could join one of those "other" geocaching groups, but if you want to be part of something special... Just kidding to all you geocachers out there. York County Geocaching Society This is the link to our website. We are a fun-loving dedicate group that meets once a month (very informal). We plan 2 or 3 geocaching events a year on top of our monthly meetings. Additionaly we have adopted a highway in York County and do CITO events on it roughly every other month. We organize a "Beginners Event" every year and are always willing to help out a struggling geocacher. We also have formed a Waymarking team and have at this time one Waymarking category (Retired Prisons). In the past we have organized a geocaching activity for sick children and we have created our own trackable geocaching coin (I think we still have some) and a travel bug race. If you have any questions please feel free to post on our website or contact me via geocaching.com Good caching to all of you.

Here is the York County Geocaching Society on the Inaugural Adopt-A-Highway event. To add to the challenge we chose the coldest day of winter so far... That's right I've thrown down the gauntlet.

I was looking and did not see that this category (I guess sub category) made it over from the locationless geocaches. Doing Hard Time I would like to set up this category if it is okay.

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Oh he's not on vacation. I just got this from the approver... Greetings from Geocaching.com. This is an automated message letting you know that the cache has been archived. In case you plan to unarchive the cache in the future, keep this link for your records: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=82102 Message: Hello, I am a volunteer Admin with Geocaching.com, and I reviewed your York Historical Tour series of virtual cache submissions. I am *temporarily* archiving these caches so that they do not block the approval queue while we are working with them. This archive note applies to all of your submissions. Unfortunately, the standards for approval of virtual caches today are quite different than at the time when most of the virtual caches you've visited were approved, including the Harrisburg and Carlisle tour series. Those series would not be approved under the current rules. Please consult the requirements at this web site and ensure that the details on your cache page address all the parameters of a virtual geocache: http://www.geocaching.com/articles/requirements.asp Some of the important guidelines to keep in mind are that a traditional cache could not be placed at or near that spot, the location should be a specific one that requires a GPS to locate it - not MapQuest or a google search, and the location should also be unique and compelling (otherwise it would be more suited to posting at www.waypoint.org). Generally virtual caches are placed in locations where a traditional cache would not be allowed or would be inappropriate, such as National Parks, since the virtual prevents a later physical cache being placed within a .1-mile radius of that spot. Often a micro cache can be readily placed at or near the same spot submitted as a virtual cache. In places where a physical cache would be inappropriate other sources for numbers for the coordinates to an offset physical cache at another location can be used to bring people to your special spot and forward them on to a physical cache. If you would like to re-do any of your submissions as physical or offset caches, I am confident that they can be approved. If you wish for any of your virtual caches to be evaluated on its own merits, I will carefully review the cache. It would help greatly if you could describe for me (in a private note) what the subject of the virtual cache is, why it is a compelling spot, and why a traditional cache cannot be placed nearby. As a final alternative, you can string together several interesting virtual locations into a 'multivirtual' cache, preferably one that ends with a traditional container. But well-planned multivirtual caches can be approved on their own merits: see 'Stop and Smell the Churches' recently approved in Chambersburg, PA as an example. If you were to take all or some of your locations and resubmit them as a multicache, I would likely approve that. Please don't hesitate to respond with an explanation of how you would like to proceed with these cache submissions or if you have any questions. To write back to me, go to your cache page and email me via the link to my profile on the archive log. Sincerely, Keystone Approver Geocaching.com NOTE: Do not reply to this email directly. The communication will not be received. To ensure a prompt response, please follow the method of contact described above. If you did not archive this cache, please refer to the cache listing to read the log as to why it was archived and to contact the administrator. Responding directly to this message will not be answered. Cheers, Geocaching.com Team I responded: You know your explanation is really lame. This game is only improved and perpetuated by having the people who play it create caches. I decided to give back to the game and spent a good deal of time and energy figuring out caches that other people would enjoy and learn something from, and you shot them down. Now it seems that Geocaching wants to remove or at least not approve any of the traditional virtual caches, because they only want traditional caches. What will you do when all of your local parks have five caches in them? Exciting hunt when you are literally tripping over caches. I find the other types of caches boring. I mean with a GPSr you will find the cache sooner or later. Nevermind the junk that people put in these caches. Maybe the slogan should be "trash in cache out." At least with virtual caches the person learns something. People from other places could have done my York caches and really learn something about the city. By keeping the Carlisle and Harrisburg V-caches and not allowing other cities like York and Lancaster to set up caches you are hurting, granted in a small way, the local economy. You are also making it seem that York and Lancaster have nothing important for people to visit. What about little known facts about small towns like Dover and Weigelstown that have interesting facts that will never get out because you guys don't think virtual caches is what geocaching is all about. I will not modify my caches. I set them up according to the way I wanted. I set them up like other virtual caches that I completed and enjoyed the most. Now you're telling me that's not good enough. It is these kind of dictates from those on high that will ruin the game. I am a volunteer for Geocaching too, and with your decision on not allowing me to create my caches you have made me not want to do anything to help geocaching, including hiding caches. I can't believe that you turn down anybody who is trying to help out the game of Geocaching. Since you don't like the way I set up my caches please come to York and set up caches the way you want them. What do you mean you don't have enough time? If you can turn away peoples' attempts at creating caches, you obviously have enough time to create virtual caches that point out all of the little known historical facts in Pennsylvania. Reconsider your decision and I will continue to help build geocaching into a great game. Please forward my caches and your response and my response to the higher ups so that they can begin to understand that a policy like the one you are espousing is ruining a great game. This is one of the few times that I have had a real negative feeling about geocaching.

I love the Nolde Forest Center. I've been there a few times and had a great time hiking the trails. Can't wait to search for your caches.

I read it Wednesday and was looking for my first cache on Thursday. I had never even heard of the sport before the article. Good thing too, my wife was wondering why I had gotten a GPSr for Christmas.