robert

What's that old fart going to do?

Even then the site says to give 72 hours. Can you imagine what would happen if it said "If it has been 6 months to a year and your cache is not listed more information may be found on the Groundspeak Help Page." Slight difference there, but you won't see that.

He's not going to answer it. Placing the new cache was the answer, though much like this thread, it backfired. Parents who can't take care of their kids can still have more.

Coming from the world's most casual cacher, that says a lot!

...your perception, yes. But not reality.

You seem to be mixed up. You placed the cache. You are responsible for the geo-litter. Especially since his name is still on the cache. This is a prime case why people shouldn't be required to hide caches. Responsibility is a big part of geocaching, some aren't up to it even when they think they are. The other day we were at the playground. Everyone was playing football and having fun, except one kid. When the others weren't playing by his rules, he went and sat on the edge of the playground and sulked. He sat all by himself, hoping someone would play with him. When nobody did, he eventually went home, wondering why nobody would play his way when everyone else seemed to be doing fine playing by the rules of the game. Maybe some day he'll learn that his way isn't always the right way. But then again, maybe not. I wonder if Vinny somehow got ahold of RK's password and posted a story to see how far people would take it.

The site and the volunteers do appear to be willing, but your time-frame was way too long. I'm sure even you can see that even though your perspective on it is a bit biased. What you're essentially doing is hogging that 528' of space for a cache you may never get around to checking. Should someone who wants to place a cache in that area (and is willing and able to take care of it) have to lose out because you aren't able to check on the one you've already got there? If it's going to take nearly an entire year (or possibly longer, based on your own statement) for you to check on the cache, it still doesn't seem like archiving the cache was the wrong thing to do. When you're no longer guilty of forgetting about it and when "at some point" gets here, hide a new cache there or have the old one unarchived. If someone hides one there in between now and then, there's nothing wrong with that either.

If that's the case, post a note, don't disable it. Less will look for a cache that is disabled than one that simply has a note on it from the owner saying they'll look at it when they get a chance. If someone wants to give it a shot and try to find it, there's a chance they will and all will be well again. If not maintaining the cache in a timely manner isn't the issue with this one, it's that it was disabled when a simple note would have worked.

What do you mean "swiftly"? The last note was SIX MONTHS AGO (and even then the attitude was "when I get around to it" rather than any definite time frame), so yeah, 8-10 weeks is a really long time when you add the 6 months that have already passed to it. And who's to say he'd even check on it "sometime this next Spring" if he didn't check on it in the last 6 months? Is he going to have time "sometime this next Spring" that he didn't have since June 13 when the cache was disabled? If the cache is worth keeping, when he gets around to it the OP can head out there, check on it, fix it up, whatever, and the reviewer can unarchive it. If he doesn't plan to keep it, he needs to go out there anyway and retrieve the container (if there's one still out there). This is a lot like those threads where a n00b comes in jumping up and down about how the awful reviewers didn't publish their cache. When the real information comes out it ends up being the cache is an ammo can tied to train tracks going through an elementary school playground.

If spring isn't soon enough to qualify for "a few weeks" then what is this for exactly? Does this not (more than) imply that a cache will unavailable for more than a few weeks? There's a difference between "unavailable in winter" and "I don't feel like taking care of my cache right now so I'll get to it whenever". Take a look at the cache hukilaulau linked to. The reviewer was right to archive that one. The guidelines appear to be written with some flexibility in them to allow things based on individual situations, which is perfect. There's nothing wrong with how these guidelines were applied. Way more than "a few weeks" as written in the guidelines was given, unfortunately the OP chose to do his own thing anyway, and the cache was archived. Now maybe someone who actually wants to hide a cache in that location and take care of it if and when it needs it will do so.

Here you go! http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines...x#grandfathered Virtuals haven't been listed since around November of 2005, and even before that there weren't too many.

You found a Wii?!?!?

Please either add something to the discussion or don't. Even with the smilies, it's still lame when your only input is correcting someone's spelling or grammar. Thanks for understanding. Add me to the list of people who would rather see a virtual maintained by a local. That way if a sign gets damaged, etc., it can be checked and verified by the owner rather than merely archived because it can't be looked after. Good virts are hard to come by, I'd hate to see one disappear because someone wasn't able to maintain it.

Good question. I haven't exported to the PDA directly but according to the software you could. I'll try it tonite when I get home to see.

http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=[username] If the username has a space, use a + sign. Oh, and don't use the [ ] around it, that's just for show. So ours would be http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Beaverbeliever http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=robert http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=StarBrand Have fun.

There's no reason to use a LOC file and a GPX file, as the GPX has everything the LOC does, plus other things. Just download the GPX and upload that to your GPS and your PDA. The software doing that uploading will strip out the unnecessary information for your GPS but pass it on to your PDA. I've always used the GPX and don't have any issues.

Yes.

Why not try the test thread, located at the top of this forum? http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=178546

I've met Vinny, and he is a nuclear nightmare. Besides, if he gives me a cut, I may be willing to see what I can do to get his cache published.

You think it was bad with that one... I had to move 9 of 29 parts of my Choose Your Own Adventure#2(GC10X8C). Of course, because those 9 points had changed, I had to actually visit each but 1 point. At each point, you will get 2 sets of coordinates to direct you to the next point... in which also has 2 points...etc. That is Truely Annoying! Doesn't sound like a problem with the reviewer(s) there... edit: stupid tags

Are you sure of that? Out here we have Multiple people that outright Refuse to publish caches placed by induviduals. Heck, they even sent out e-mails to those people Stating that they Will NOT publish caches from them. Is that rejected out of spite or rejected out of experience at being burned by cache hiders that lie about certain things when submitting their caches? Or repeatedly submit caches that violate guidelines? edit: stupid tags

Unfortunately at this time there is no GPS in the iPhone, nor can you add one via Bluetooth. Apparently someone is working on one to clip into the dock connector. Also you can't add software to it yet, so that will only give you the built-in Google Maps which may not work with that GPS. In the first part of 2008, the iPhone will reportedly be open to new software, so there's no telling what's coming from that point on. There's also the rumor of an iPhone 2 sometime in mid-late 2008, but if you can't wait that long (I couldn't), it won't do you much good right now. I'm not sure about the Blackberry, but this thread may be of some help. robert (happy iPhone owner)

I wouldn't buy one for Massachusetts either. I'd just memorize where both grids are and go find the caches.

If it were any map, that might be the case, but a DeLorme map makes it commercial. Using the company's name on the cache page makes it commercial. Just like a cache called "Dunkin Donuts" is commercial, even if you don't have to buy a donut (I just had one, so they're on my mind, and yes it's 12:40 here and I'm eating donuts)

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