majormajor42

it sounds like a good challenge for the FTF types. They won't be upset at you. I've only done a couple FTFs but I prefer it when there is a challenge and it just doesn't come down to who happened to get notified of the posting first and happens to be in the area. wouldn't it be great if you get more than one cacher out there at once, coming at it from different directions? Now, as far as the picky people who might get offended by the trick, keep in mind that by the time a few people have found it, they will log their adventures and might include such items as where they parked and how they approached it. Not everyone reads the logs but I think most that would have issues would read them. If you don't want people to give these hints away in the logs, you might want to make a request for them not to say so in the description. Have fun and TFTC

perhaps it would be more useful, in the short term, to have a private bookmark list of certain people as a sort of quick reference. This would be instead of the 'my friends' feature that has you send out an invite. I've only been caching for a couple months. I invited one person when I was kinda new cause I saw we had similar interests. I was left standing

what is the best way to find a bookmark list of night caches that might be in a certain part of the USA?

Thanks for the replies everyone. As I get more familiar with the in and outs of this website, I'll find my way. All and all it really is a great community of people that enjoy this caching thing even though I haven't actually met anyone yet. Not too many events in the wintertime and I only started doing this two months ago. As far as finding caches that are good for my street-bike and others that are good for my mountain bike, maybe I'll stumble across some good BOOKMARK lists that people have put together. I might even create and share some myself as I get more experience. I think I read in the forums that there is still no great way to search thought the shared bookmark lists. I can either access them by stumbling across one when looking at a cache page, or just search for forums posts that have bookmark links, right?

"Is that a First To Find pin?! On your Uniform?!"

LOL! and then I looked up hamstercaching and I'm laughing even harder. hamstercaching

Since getting the Groundspeak weekly notification that includes the link to delorme, I was reading about the delorme challenge caches. WOW, those are really something. I just want to congratulate Walkin Ed for recently completing the NY one. GC102CP BTW. I see some of the state pages have additional download information so you don't have to go out and buy the mapbook. It is a nice feature since this is supposed to be non-commercial (I'll probably end up buying the NY book anyway). But I see that the NY page doesn't have these. Is it easy to figure out the grid coordinates for each page?

I just upgraded to premium membership and have been playing around with some of my new features. Good Stuff. Since I own a motorcycle (SV650s for the curious) I wanted to see which caches in my region would be especially good to do on a motorcycle. by doing a query for caches with the "motorcycle" icon on them I knew I would get some results that would be more for off-road dirt bikes, which are motorcycles too. I understand. I was at least hoping to get results for caches along twisty roads and other areas that are known for motorcycle riding. I was disappointed in how many other results came up that have nothing to do with motorcycles. A cache in a Wal-Mart parking lot, for example, was labeled "motorcycles allowed" probably because motorcycles are in fact allowed there. So would any other park-n-grab. but I don't think that was the intention of the label in this case. Since I'm new, maybe this is a common problem that people here discuss. I tried doing a search but saw that this motorcycling issue hasn't been discussed specifically. Maybe labeling it "fun on motorcycle" or "motorcycling preferred" would get the idea across. who knows? I have a mountain bike too and to a lesser extent, I see people put the bike symbol on their caches in the same manner. just cause the cache is accessible by bicycle, and bikes usually are "allowed" anywhere a car is, doesn't mean I'll take my bike off the rack once I park my car 200ft from the cache. I don't have a 4x4 but I see a lot of people on here do. Does the "off-road vehicle" icon get overused too? I mean, if you have a license plate on it, your jeep is "allowed" in the Wal-Mart parking lot as well. please excuse the rant. I haven't placed any caches yet and perhaps shouldn't complain. maybe I too will want to click as many attributes as I can when I place a cache

Catch-22 is one of my favorite books, thus my name, but I sadly would never hold the rank of Major since I was in the Navy Reserves. I went to the USMMA in the Ninties and worked on ships for several years before settling down in civilian life. I am grateful for my reservist and merchant marine experiences because I learned a trade that has provided me with a good living and job security. Militarily though, I was more interested in the machinery ("toys") of warfare such as ships and planes when I was younger, which led me down this path of engineering. As I get older, however, I respectfully admire those who primarily tackle great challenges on the ground and the machinery are the people of the team. I’ve tried to get my good friend who was in Iraq with the Army interested in Geocaching. But I understand that for him, hiking in the woods recreationally holds about as much interest for him as pleasure boating did for me when I worked on ships, not much. And now, boating is one of my favorite pastimes. So you never know what the future might hold. I’m happy to be involved in an activity that attracts so many veterans. Hope to meet some of you along the way. Thank you all for everything.

oh, okay. that makes sense to me now. thanks SiliconFiend.

I've been using this GPS for about a month. got a question: how come, sometimes when I use the mouse pointer on the map screen and place it over a geocache symbol and press down (enter) it wants to move the location of the cache. Other times, if I do the same thing, the information for the cache is displayed. I've already accidently moved a cache loaction without intending. I wasted an hour searching in the wrong place till I rechecked the coordinates. There was another time I wanted to move a cache but I couldn't get the "move" option to appear on the map screen.

does that military grade one open up easily when you want it too? I link to my PC often so I would want access to the USB port on the back. the web site site says there is access to the batteries in three seconds so maybe it does open easily. Does it open like a clamshell or do you slide the unit out from the case? I find that sliding the unit out from my current cover puts pressure and wears out the thumb button on the front of the unit. Oh, found more info here: http://astore.amazon.com/military-technolo...4977501-8250550 seems to be good.

I know there is a thread on turning your car in to a TB. I guess I didn't make that clear in the OP. I wouldn't recommend driving with unmounted stuff on the dashboard either, or hanging them from the mirror while driving. I've only been putting them on dash after I park, like I say in the OP. As far as theft goes, I guess I've been lucky so far here in NYC. Perhaps there are in fact desperate people who would break in to my car for a rubber duckie with a "dogtag" on it. Chances are they would leave the duckie and steal my parking meter change. bunch of debbie downers...

I'm still new but I was wondering if cachers will put TBs on their dashboard or hang them from their rearview mirrors when their cars are parked in public places? This seems like a good way of allowing others to discover your TB if they happen to walk by your car at the right time. By no means am I encouraging anyone to hold on to TBs for an excessive period of time, but for those few days between caches, why hide them? I tried looking up this topic to see if it was already discussed. Most discussion about TBs and cars have to do with the car itself being a TB but I don't think I'll be doing that. What I may do is put a geocaching sticker on my car so that other cachers, at the very least, will know that there is a fellow cacher in the area if they see me parked near a cache. So has anyone ever discoverd a TB in this fashion? Do you display the TBs you have in some fashion?

That's too bad. You only own six trackables and half are MIA. I wonder if 50% is a common statistic for the number of active TBs that a person owns. It was kind of fun looking at your profile, to see who has your TBs and coin. It is sad too because since these people haven't played for several months, the caches they own are detoriating as well. By the way, I think the dog ate the coin.

this reminds me of road rally type scavenger hunts that I once heard of. that way people don't speed on public roads. I'm curious how a team event works. How do you prevent two teams from looking for the same cache at the same time? If one team finds it, the other team does by default. how do you prevent a team from excessively camouflaging the cache when they put it back, or worse?

Been Lurking about a month. So far all my questions have been answered by just doing forum searches or google searches. Most of these questions have concerned the jargon and terms of geocaching such as TNLN, TFTC, skirt lifting... I figure most questions that I have have already been asked and answered. I will start posting more perhaps if I keep playing this game. It hasn't even been a month and who knows if I will be just as enthusiastic a year from now. In the meantime I am having a lot of fun, especially considering that I discovered geocaching in the height of autumn. The hikes I have taken, that I wouldn't be doing if it wasn't for the hunt, have been feasts for the eyes (and nose). I'm in suburban NY so I am curious what new challenges caching in the winter will bring. The leaves had made things difficult cause it covered the paths to the the cache that others might have worn. Sometimes the leaves are covering the cache as well. In the winter, besides the chill, caching might be easier, especially if I can just follow footprints in the snow. I think the height of summer will be the least enjoyable. the bugs and undergrowth may put and damper on things. So there is a question. If I am the first to find a cache in a fresh snow fall, should I keep walking around the place so my footprints don't lead straight to it? not only would this maintain the challenge of the cache, but it would also help prevent a muggle raid on it too. I'll see if this has been addressed or top post if I can't find a discussion on it. cheers! found something about the snow: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...703&hl=snow so I guess it is proper to try to hide the tracks by either making more and more tracks or not caching in a fresh snowfall in the first place. I'm really not that good yet so it will be fun to see what my tracks look like in an effort to find the thing. my GPS tracks look cluttered enough. oh, and if the cache needs to be pulled out of the snow, it might need to be camo'd again with some more snow.