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robert

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  1. Definitely not confined to Germany, Austria, etc. It wouldn't be fair to say it's just a language mis-understanding or an issue only occurring with overseas cachers as there are probably folks in the U.S. doing the same thing.
  2. If the virtual caches are stupid because you don't have to leave your home to log them, what does that make the act of logging them? The point of geocaching is to get you out of your home! Is it really geocaching if you sat in your chair and logged a bunch of locations you never visited? Nein.
  3. The only problem I have with micros is all the threads about them, including the one with 231 posts in it started a week or so ago. meralgia linked to it above, there's plenty in there to keep you busy and answer your question.
  4. Man, I have to ask... how much fun can it be if you're not getting all frustrated and stuff? Isnt' that what makes it fun? If I packed it up and went home while I was still having fun, I'd probably have one find per trip. "Yup, OK. Found it. Had fun. Let's go... wife is waiting." You answered your own question. If getting frustrated is part of the fun, then you're still having fun, aren't you? I'm not saying you stop having fun on a challenging cache the moment the challenge presents itself. But there's a point at which the fun isn't really there (sometimes), so call it quits there. It might be on a challenging cache you've spent 8 hours looking for, while for some it might be trying to keep up with a fictional pace you feel makes you a "real geocacher" and ends up burning you out instead. Everyone is different.
  5. Even without the guidelines, it should be pretty clear to people that in order to log a cache you must find it (or in this case visit the location). What's the point in submitting bogus logs from across the ocean and never having seen what it is the cache is supposed to show you? Geocaching ethics aren't language restricted.
  6. You're welcome! If I'm ever down that way, I'll look up your cache.
  7. Yup. 5280 feet = 1 mile 5280 feet x .10 = 528 feet You can place a cache less than 528' from an existing virtual if you want. Virts and events don't have proximity guidelines.
  8. Correct, they cannot see it. What sometimes happens is someone will see a page with coords on it from a TB/geocoin and try to find it that way. No worries.
  9. Even then it's not that big of a deal. So what if someone finds it before the reviewer publishes it? Caches are meant to be found, right?
  10. Sounds like you did everything right then, I'd sit tight and wait for the reviewer to contact you.
  11. As long as it is a reviewer note and not a regular note, that information will get deleted when the cache gets listed. You also need to add them using the additional waypoints feature, here is a tutorial on how to do so.
  12. Snoogans Sorry, it's been a while and there's lots of new faces, but I figured I'd start with knocking off the ones we knew wouldn't be on the list.
  13. You mean Australia. crash_test_dummies results are pretty cool, and one of them is still unfound. I wonder if there are any others of equal or greater distance?
  14. That's what a PDA is for. An inexpensive Palm device with CacheMate and you can do that all day long. I've never taken my laptop (now just about dead) to find wi-fi hot spots, I don't have the need (because of my answer above). I have used my iPhone while sitting in a parking lot waiting for someone. It asks if you want to join a network, and I tapped one while trying to tap something else when the prompt came up between taps. I was there for maybe another minute before driving away and dropping the network.
  15. I do this for fun, so if there's ever a time I'm out there and not having fun, I'll pack up and go home. No sense in ruining a great hobby by continuing on when what attracted you to it in the first place isn't there that day!
  16. This thread was fun: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=177062 I don't think you should log the virts w/o visiting the locations. It just doesn't make sense to me. There's one near where I work that has that all the time, you can see the answer from a Google map right on the cache page. Unfortunately the owner doesn't seem to be deleting the fake logs like they're supposed to.
  17. That's okay, people will find other places to hide caches -- just as they did when payphone caches were starting to be hidden.
  18. Can you show where it says they would support ALL handhelds? I agree with the others that say you are upset because you jumped the gun a bit without reading the specifics. You bought a low-end unit that doesn't have support. While I understand that smarts a bit, there's not anything Garmin did wrong here. With OSX Leopard coming out on Friday, I realized I wanted it. I read the specs and notice it's not going to work with my G4 Cube -- so I went and bought a new Mac Mini. Now I don't have to worry about coming home with the Leopard box only to find out it won't work. I'm glad I read the specs ahead of time to know that. If you MUST use Communicator, then get a new GPS with native USB support. If not, then there's really no fuss. Garmin hasn't promised anything they didn't deliver. The did deliver Mac support, just not for your GPS.
  19. I tried it on a sample cache and it didn't work. Works in the forums like you showed, but the OP was asking about using it on cache logs/descriptions:
  20. Guidelines don't allow for caches to be hidden where you have to email for coordinates, nor do they allow commercial caches. Groundspeak has made an exception because of the special nature of these caches. I think with that in mind, logging one's own DeLorme cache is a special exception as well. Besides, I think (as has been pointed out) that the real challenge is completing the grids, not finding the cache. I doubt any of the DeLorme Challenge caches are going to be Little Nasty style caches, they're meant to be found, so no advantage there. My vote: Log on! Congrats to Lep and anyone else who has completed a DeLorme Challenge cache, even in Rhode Island.
  21. Hey, my stone colored Geocaching.com hat looks just like that.... only it took almost 4 years to get that way! I am going to be in need of a new one soon--but it's so dadgum comfortable I hate to part with it.
  22. I agree. The "Thanks, Arnold" should be removed, as should the note on the page by the person who took offense to it.
  23. It's deja vu all over again!
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