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The funny part is people actually believe they are being stealthy while nonchalantly searching trees, bushes, light poles, guard rails etc.Take my word for it, it looks suspicious unless onlookers think you are insane and escaped the institution. I know My Cloak of Invisibility has never worked properly. I have a hat and suit made of tinfoil. It keeps me properly hidden.

Yikes! Much faster from the laptop as well as the mobile phone. TFTwork guys!

Well that's a bummer and an added step in the process. I hope this is something that can be re-fixed in an upcoming release. Thanks for the info. Before I upgraded to a new box, I had a program that would resize by batch or folder. I guess I'll have to find that again. I don't see any mention of the new picture or file parameters. GC, if you have new photo requirements, it would be nice to get them published so we can follow them. Just MHO.

Anyone else getting an error when posting pictures to logs? I've tried repeatedly to post different pictures to different logs, but keep getting the same error. The images are standard jpg's from a camera I've posted from before. It's not a very informative message, but it shows up every time now: An Error Has Occurred Your request has resulted in an error. Please return to this site's home page to continue. from this page: http://www.geocaching.com/error/500.htm

That one would have had me reaching for my sting kit. A motion activated buzzer (buzz buzz) would finish it off and me as well probably. I like creative ones like that even though i don't like bees or wasps etc.

I'd worked on a puzzle cache for a couple weeks and believed I'd solved it. When I got to the coordinates, there was a boulder pile and I reached in the various holes until I found one with a cache stuck way back in there and around a corner. When I pulled it out it was a new cache that hadn't been activated yet. So I reached back down the hole and lo and behold, the puzzle cache was there as well. It was sitting right on top of the real, original cache. I logged the puzzle and sent the owner of the new cache a note. It turns out that the GC reviewer had denied the listing and sent him a note that said "you've got to be kidding". I laughed about that one for a couple weeks. I never did see the cache pop up in a new location otherwise I would have found it again and logged it.

careful, I choked on that one....

Nice presentation!

After reading 5 pages of this back and forth banter, I'm glad I live and cache on the other coast. Note: The giant sucking sound you just heard was the amount of time and drama spent/wasted on this cache when you could have just moved on and continued living life instead of obsessing on it. Sorry if I've stated the obvious.

My macros are found in my GSAK data folder. For full disclosure, I did specify a different (new) data folder upon install. However, with that said you should be able to pick up / copy your data folder from one computer to another bringing not only your macros, but your db as well. I agree with the others, the GSAK forums are probably better, generally speaking anyway, for GSAK inquiries. Hope this helps.

Poor Jeep. I hope you changed its oil when you were done. And BTW, I understand why you did it (even though I probably wouldn't), so congratulations on the effort and your success.

Yeah, I just logged a DNF yesterday on a missing cache (construction of a town drainage ditch in the area). The thread referenced by WRASTRO is in fact long-running, and will probably never die off. I'll even admit to being a contributor to it. Account names are never used, and cache pages are never linked to. I'd say what you did is often frowned upon, but maybe I'm just some zany Puritan. Ultimately, I suppose it's up to the cache owner to decide what's a find, and what isn't. And yes, emailing someone when it's not your cache is totally whacked, in my opinion. Not a comment on the applicability of the find or not, but that smells fishy to me. Someone other than the cache owner sent you an email...sounds like it might have been from the dweeb who placed the sticker. Just sayin'. When it looks like a fish and smells like a fish, sometimes it is a fish. I can't imagine someone else doing it.

I probably should work more !!! Scubasonic I do work too much (recently validated by my doctor) and find that it definately gets in the way of my caching and playing and drinking and other sporting activities and...uh...what was the question again? Seriously, I've been reading this thread and found myself grinning at most of the comments. I am just freaking astounded by the numbers as well as totally amazed by some of the stories. That is what the sport is about. Good stories and good experiences and good friends. Congrats Scuba!

No idea. I don't think I see anything like that in the GC Android App. What app are you using?

GREEEEEEN....envy..... That's spectacular. I have a few, but not nearly that many.

A nono in a big plastic cow placed among a herd of other cows... An ammo box in a whale placed with a herd of other whales... A 35mm film can tied to an antler of an antelope running with a herd of other antelope... Ok. sorry. herd, gaggle, grim.

I think that is a wonderful idea and my kids would love it. And it really is a two-fer when you can combine the fun of geocaching with education at the same time. We keep a stash of kids toys in the car for swag that goes into caches as well as a smaller bag that has some small books or educational items that our little geocachers can pick through when we find a good cache with not so good contents. For me, I cache for the quest and challenge of the find. For my kids though (2 and 5), they like to go along and get the shiny marble, dice, or book. Keeping it at their speed means I get to cache with them which is the best I could ask for.

It's green, fuzzy, and looks like the early 70's carpeting in my first house. That's my final answer and I am sticking with it.

Hmmmmmmm.....going to have to make one of those. I've found the dangling from fish line ones, but never with fake leaves attached.

That's rich! LOL. My cache-mobile has a travel bug on the back window which is a dead give away for those who know and a good conversation starter for those who don't.

I also wondered about that. It would be nice to have an official GC mail to the log owner letting them know. I think Lost and Found is a great concept.

Unless you have explicit permission from Groundspeak to do so (and if you do, make sure you mention it) it is not allowed per the forum guidelines. If someone asks about a particular product, I believe it is OK to mention you sell such an item, but don't use it as an excuse to post a full advertisement, and remember sock puppet accounts can get you banned. Geocoins can be promoted in the geocoin forums. What is a sock puppet account? That one is new for me... sock puppet That makes more sense than one owned by pets who can't drive. ty.

Unless you have explicit permission from Groundspeak to do so (and if you do, make sure you mention it) it is not allowed per the forum guidelines. If someone asks about a particular product, I believe it is OK to mention you sell such an item, but don't use it as an excuse to post a full advertisement, and remember sock puppet accounts can get you banned. Geocoins can be promoted in the geocoin forums. What is a sock puppet account? That one is new for me...

I'm right there with you. My daughters come wtih me when we are able and are incredible disappointed when it is pure junk that is found. They don't consider used toys, dirty toys, new toys, marbles, or glittery princess stuff junk. Though we have a rule about anything not in a package getting sanitzed first. I don't get the ketchup packages or bbq sauce cups as swag. That's just fricken lame and put there by people who don't have little ones with them. I actually would rather find a log book only in a cache rather than one where I have to explain why my kids can't/shouldn't trade for something in the container. I also carry the box of cache refills in my SUV when caching and sometimes we fill up caches that we think are worthy. Other times the kids get to pull something from the box if a cache is really bad. There was an earlier post regarding human nature and that is probably right on target.

i carry a small pocketknife on the lanyard attached to the gps. not only does it sharpen dull pencils, but it cuts other stuff and can get stuck in places where my giant paws don't fit