boothie103

Pocket Queries will let you plan a route and adjust the route with drag and drop on map. Checkout pocket queries in the help section. I have not long found the pocket queries and already planned a couple of routes.

I'd like to think a NM is that I have to tend to a problem with my cache. I have posted NM posts and watched for the post to see if it has been done. Some disappear, obviously archived, some are not visited again and have a nasty gram from a reviewer and the good CO always sends a thankyou. I will always either message the CO if it is a minor issue or NM log if it is major. Better to be polite on minor issues and posting a NM on major issues.

Simply, yes. When does it need 14 people in eight cars to discover caches at night that could only be appreciated in day light? Particularly on a first to find basis. Rather pointless I believe.

I had one done for my efforts and I appreciated it. It was not disrespectful and I firmly believe others appreciated the effort by the cacher who placed it and me for placing the series. Respectful to those who placed the caches by you placing tribute caches is the way. No Sarcasm.

Who cares? I do it because I like it!

Wouldn't it be in the best interest of the game to simply contact the cache owners and voice your concerns rather than drag newbies into the Forum where you could actually put them on the hot plate and rather than encourage them put them off being part of the game. You and I were both newbies once! Would you have been happy reading about one of your first cache hides in such a way! I know I wouldn't have been.

Isn't this an issue about co ordinates? Mobile phones used to set cache locations are an issue as far as I am concerned. They are inaccurate when you have very few towers in contact with the phone. GPS data can be bad as well, but I would use GPS data over mobile phone data any day. So maybe it could be a case of newbies using a mobile phone rather than a GPS to set the cache. Perhaps a bit of suggestive education about the right gear to set a cache is needed rather than restriction. It is only a suggestion, so please, no carpe jugulum, I want my throat in tact and not ripped out! Also, embrace the day or carpe diem and happy caching!

Go to Google Earth and type the first one in and zero in on it and then type the second one in. You will soon know how far apart the spots are.

I get on line and look at the route, download the positions into the GPS and have no other positions in the GPS. Select the closest first and go for it. With this method, you may also need to print out the paper work. If your GPS is paperwork free, just go for it. If it is a multi cache, I always print out the paperwork.

Not necessary and needless given that it provides impetus to promote the FTF grab and stack numbers mentality. Which, when it means the grab is at ten past midnight on a cache that only can be appreciated during daylight hours makes visiting the cache meaningless!

I've never been hassled by paranoid meddling muggles, I've been asked questions, which I have answered. Either to other geo cacher's realising what I am doing and saying G'day or other people thinking I'm finding something like mushrooms or bird watching. I did get busted by a landowner who had a cache on his property that he had found and researched what it was all about. He took great delight in creeping up on cacher's and at the critical time asking "Did you find what you were looking for?" Obviously he would lay in wait! He did not mind that no permission was asked, he just took great delight in scaring the pants off somebody. I did attract some attention from a guy with his children in a park in Melbourne doing a Multi Cache. I was writing down things and counting things and I realised he was following me. I stopped at the next step and waited, having solved the step, hoping he and his kids would pass. They didn't , so I went on to the next step. At this point he asked me if I was geo caching and how could he get involved with his kids. The guy was a "Big Unit" and I was really worried about him following me so you could imagine my relief! I showed him the print out of the multi and told him as much as I could about things and he shook my hand and said thanks and went on his way. The night before, apparently a Current Affair TV show had a segment about Geo Caching on and he picked up on what I was doing and wanted to know more. I am glad that he asked and that as a "Big Unit" he turned out to be friendly.

By definition, trackable suggests that the item is to be tracked. Therefore, a simple calculation of point a to z can therefore accrue quite a number of points which I am sure any TB I launch, I would gladly wish to be added to the list of points the TB has passed through. Depending upon the TB's mission, I would like a lot of Photo points. I, as new to member to the community, have grabbed TB's with enthusiasm and moved them on quickly. As a launcher of a few TB's, I have insisted that they be dipped and cover nearby ground, who knows what sights will come from the visit of TB that I can experience to. The simple answer to the dilemma, which I find it hard to believe as dilemma, make a note in the TB's mission statement "Not To Be Dipped" and "Please Move To Final Goal with Expediency"! The other solution is simply not to post a TB

I have only been doing it for a few months, introduced to the "game" by a friend living thousands of Kilometres away who came back to visit. I have told him on several occasions over the phone he is dead meat for doing it! Seriously, for me it is a relief from being a full time carer for my wife and I am glad my friend introduced me to the "silly thing" as my wife calls it. I have taken to researching local places to hide caches, rather than travel the distance to find new ones, distance can be a problem when caring. So, no, it is not just a game, it is an excuse to enjoy yourself!

Question about finding a log you cannot sign because you cannot retrieve it. If you see a cache in, for instance, an extendable inspection mirror, which I use rather than kneel and crawl around or determine whether I can reach a cache, and cannot reach it, get it and therefore not sign the log, technically, have I found it? I have found several caches that require me to be taller, physically unacceptable or achievable. Others have required me to climb, another feat that is one of those that I don't easily assimilate with. Then there are those ones that require to be on hands and knees that is just a past memory for me. Using the mirror, I find the cache, but I guess if I can't sign the log, then I haven't found it.

On the flip side, what about all the cachers looking for the cache causing damaging by reefing branches, disturbing the ground, generally disturbing an area and leaving great footprints where they should not have been because the didn't read the cache notes properly. Are they breaking the guidelines? As for hanging stuff from a nail in a tree, I can think of several sites where I investigated placing a cache recently and found nails in trees in bushland left over from previous users like miners, shooters and trappers. Would it be against guidelines if the I hung a cache from a nail or stake in a tree that was put into the tree a hundred years ago for telegraph lines. Especially if it was a cache related to the telegraph line? Common sense and a little thought should dictate what is right from wrong when setting a cache as with retrieving one. I find that arriving at a cache location to find the cache and the area around the cache looks like a bomb has hit it with a 20 metre circle around the cache totally demolished sometimes makes me wonder why I do it.

I am a newbie of only three months experience. Introduced to the game by a friend who had moved a few thousand kilometres a way some years ago. He came back for a visit and introduced me to this insidiously addictive game. I am a full time carer for my wife and have embraced the game as an outlet and relief valve. I have 201 finds and 19 hides based on local history all of which have had great responses by geo cachers finding them. Of the 201 finds I have found, the majority have been around for more than three years. Some over 12 years. A good majority of them need maintenance with the log being the biggest problem. The best ones I have found have been the ones that have been around less than a year. Adopted caches are by far the worst and cut up post it notes as logs do not cut it for me. I have had one need maintenance log which was my own fault using cheap hides which I fixed the next day. I have placed needs maintenance logs on caches which are still in place. Unfortunately, to me, it appears the older the hide the more complacent the CO is and the longer it takes to remedy issues. For example, rather than put a needs maintenance, I messaged the CO that there was a problem, the next day the cache was archived and the CO never even bothered to contact me. The other aspect is the number of caches owned and the distance from the CO home base. The further the cache is from home base, the neglect is worst. The number of caches also appears to dictate the quality of the cache. This is only my observation and not a generalisation, so please do not lynch me on this one, I consider it a valid point. So I would suggest that I am being super critical as a newbie, but at least I am trying to put this from a newbies perspective and saying that I have learnt from others mistakes and will only hide what I can comfortably handle.

I found my 200th today and can remember when I busted my buck, it felt great. The 200 felt even better considering on the way there was a multi cache with a nano and I don't do either particularly well. So for the next 100, all the best and keep finding them. A DNF is only a step away from finding it next time!

My gripe is my very first TB. Dropped in one of my first hides by myself, naturally. The comment by the person who picked it up was "I do not do much travelling, but I will pick it up any way." The main object of the TB was to travel as far as it could! The TB has been in that persons possession since, not visited or travelled any where. Why take it? So the question is, do I give that person a nudge or mark the TB as missing and permit the person to keep it? I had put a lot of thought into the TB's name and mission and am somewhat annoyed that my first TB is probably entertaining somebodies offspring.

I am only a few month old Geocacher and my first experience was a group outing. We all signed one after the other, as I was the newbie, signed last. Everyone found the cache and once they found it, said found, often moving away from the cache before saying found. I had a lot of fun and picked up a few hints and became hooked. The whole point of the exercise was not the joint find, but the individual find. Now, I do it for myself and lay caches for others which gives me just as much enjoyment reading the found logs as me finding a cache, as long as they are not a bunch of letters such as TFTC TNLN etc! My bugbear is the FTF team that races out when it pings on their whatever that a new cache has been published and they, as a group, have to find it. As a social activity, caching is fun, but to play the numbers game, I'm not sure I would be interested in that. To each their own.

Certainly is, grew up watching him. Looking for an avatar for Geocaching that needed stealth and spying and found him. Thought you beauty and bingo, I had an avatar!

I have not been caching long, but met up with a couple while attending to a maintenance log on a badly placed cache on my behalf, cheap magnet. It was great to meet them and we had a good chat about caching. The best one was meeting a cacher while I was setting a cache. Both of us pulled into the same car parking area in a remote area where I was going to set the cache and said hello and got talking. The lady was out walking her dog, I was setting a cache and during our talking it became apparent she was a cacher. So, as she was new to the area, I offered to show her around. We both had the same interests and had a fantastic afternoon looking at the native orchids and other flora as well as the gold mines and diggings. It was an outstanding afternoon.

I am an Aussie cacher living in the country in a small country town. I have to travel to find caches. I only have 190 under my belt and to add interest for local cachers and draw people to our town, I have set about 24 based on local history and gold mining. Also having to be a carer, I am limited to the amount of travel I can do and I have learnt that a good caching run depends on the 7 P principle. Sit down and plan your run. Even if it is to do a traditional and attempt a multi cache, ooh I dislike them, in one day and you achieve it, it is a great day. The seven P's are Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents Poor Performance. If you counted 6 Ps you are right, the seventh P I am not allowed to print, but you can guess it.

Nice works a whole lot better than nasty. Have they been having your TB "visit" caches or are they just keeping it too long ? There is a guy in my area who will pick up a TB and it travels with him for weeks at a time, visiting caches and logging the miles along the way. Then he eventually drops it into a cache somewhere. This is fine with me as long as it is moving, logging and eventually gets to someone else. How do you know they have collected your bug and are planning to keep it forever? I keep checking the logs for the bugs and one is travelling from cache to cache, one is sitting in a cache with a nice photo of the cache location as requested, a third has been sitting doing nothing in the hands of the person who retrieved it and said he doesn't do much travelling and will try to find a cache when he can and the other two are much the same. Is this what you meant by moving a TB along? I do not want to be a thread stealer!

I give in, you've just done my mind in and I will start dreaming cache nightmares involving mirrors facing each other in a double spiral with a bison hanging on a hook reflected how many times in each mirror and I will never be able to touch it even though I know there is log in it! And I know I have to sign it!

I'm relatively new to this Travel Bug Business and having found three in quick succession from foreign countries I decided to go for it. I released five and only one has moved on, the rest are being held by people who have collected them. Is this what you mean by getting a Travel Bug moving again, people holding them in their possession and not moving them on? My first one has been held up for quite a few weeks and as part of this discussion, am I allowed to send the holder a nasty gram asking him to move it along? All of them have been tagged as Non-collectable. One I had found had travelled around 22,000km and out of respect, moved it on in three days.