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Ironic that you include Wherigos on there. Talk about something you all have let stagnate forever that had so much potential that just became quizzes and reverse solvable before you go junk. Benchmarks are a part of history. No move of a level playing field, actually. It's there or it's not. Just like a cache. OMG what a concept. And even when it's not people still log it as a cache. Cool - so other parts of the world don't have benchmarks. SO? Kinda like a HQ or Maze or Giga icon. Sure, maybe they get around, but to the masses? Rationale for this is weak. Nobody: Nobody: Cachers: Benchmarkers: Newbies: Literally nobody ever in any way shape or form: Groundspeak: Yeah, let's go ahead and stop doing something that takes us literally no effort and that, while only a small group of people love it they really do love it, and just up and cancel it for no reason whatsoever with nominal notice and call it 'progress'.

This morning I tried to log a mystery cache. Found. Type log. Submit. Congrats! Now you have X finds! Go find another!! Get to work to look and nothing. Nope. No log. I click the 3 dots and see "pending logs". You cannot see it. Shows you have 1 pending. Said something like 'You currently do not have service. Logs will upload automatically once you have service." Um -- wifi only? That's BS. Nope. Get home. Wifi. Nothing. App is otherwise working fine. Log out and in and guess what -- pending log is GONE. Apparently sign-out = delete (that's bad!). So I click and log it again and no issues in wifi. But wifi doesn't exist everywhere. And why didn't it send? And why wouldn't it use cell? Checked -- yes -- cell data enabled on app in general iPhone settings. Clueless but that alone makes me not want to use it over other things. Lack of trust upfront.

Here is the link to the log that did it -- which has photos. Log with pics

Deleted my cookies on IE. Not working. Works on Chrome but GSAK not filtering through either.

Since numbers don't count, and you don't won a challenge, this shouldn't be an issue. Most challenges created were done already by their creators.. and most could be easily re-done again.

Oh, well. At least I can say I'm special, right? I did try several different USB cables and in several different USB ports, too. Thanks, though!!

A variation of the 2nd part of my post, above. No joy. Had not had batteries in it overnight and tried it again, for over 30 seconds, and multiples of a minute -- just in case. No joy.

Hoping for similar help here. Going on a trip very soon and with the 4th holiday..... Anyway, mine won't get booted past the logo. I can't get it to do a master reset. Pushing on the upper left corner does nothing for ANY amount of time. Turn off the Oregon, press and hold the upper left corner of the screen and power the unit on. You will eventually be asked if you want to reset user data. If you answer "Yes" the unit will be master reset. Nor can I force it into USB Mass Storage Mode, because I cant get it to power OFF when connected with the USB. 1.Attach the Oregon to your computer via USB cable 2.The Oregon will power on and start to boot, immediately power the unit off while still connected 3.Power on the Oregon and continue to hold down the power button for 30 seconds 4.The Oregon should enter USB mass storage mode 5.From your computer remove or rename any gpx, map files (.img or .kmz) files that were recently added 6.Unplug the Oregon and power on to see if this remedies the problem The unit does flash about every 10 seconds like it's trying to boot, but nada. Anyone who can suggest anything -- your help is truly appreciated!!!

Agree. To me, it seems that these people would be upset mentioning why you were in the area in the first place. Really, what's the difference between the two? I go highpointing, and did a fly into Denver, drive to WY, East to NE for the NE highpoint, S to KS to the KS highpoint, back to Denver via Garden of the Gods and Pike's Peak. I was able to get some really cool caches along the way, some which had not been found in ages. And they were in really beautiful places, too. Great photo ops. Think the CO got mad I mentioned I was on a whirlwind highpoint run and made the detour for his cache? Some of the challenges (clearly, not all) really take you off the beaten path to some places you would never otherwise go. Seems for whatever reason (challenge, HP run, other) it's just part of your story. Sometimes they're cache driven. Sometimes caching is a secondary (or less) factor in what you're doing. Wonder whether the COs would rather have "was here to get this one for the XXXX challenge" or "TFTC"....

Is it just me? It used to autocalculate -- now only manually. And yesterday / today / tomorrow?? not even manually. Have one that moved from Alaska to Hawaii. Would love to see if I broke 10k miles. Not tonight......

We had one approved in Houston for a public building. The owner worked with Geoaware. Tried to obtain permission to look at a public building, ended up getting none. Involed the stone on the sidewalk and building itself. Finally got it approved as public. In Canada there are several like I was talking about. See This One where you do it from the road, and the target is on private property you DO NOT have to go on. I cannot imagine that the EC owner got permission from the Canadian Royal Highway Dept. (or whatever) to place the EC there at the highway where you pull over to stop and look.

Looking at possibily establishing an EarthCache for a feature that is large, viewable from public roads, etc. No need to GO there. Just to be there to see it. Could have folks estimate height from nearby objects, and use GPSr for circumference estimate. The issue is land. If they were to go TO it, it's on numerous peoples' land. Not just one. And there is no need to do so. Being at any nearby road is more than sufficient. So.... what do you do? There has to be other situations like this.... Thanks for any ideas/guidance.

Been several days for some of mine and several I watch. Just not happening. Would love to know it would auto-correct or curren bug or something and not a methodology change.

I've seen this phenominom on a cache I found in Brevard County called La Caza del Camaleon. The CO made the cache page into a poem, and dang near everybody who logged it followed suit. Check this out for poems. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...d7-8fa442743dd0 GCXF2Z - The Japanese Gardens of Houston. ALR - at least one haiku MUST be included in your log or it will be deleted. CO gives instructions on what a haiku is and how to do it. NOW for the funny part -- it's been archived. Check out the Prime Reviewer's comments -- in 2 part haiku nonetheless!! Cache missing since May The owner seems not to care Prime disables it A month comes and goes If not fixed within that time Archived it will be Found this the other day on the HGCS boards. Still get a kick out of PR's humor.

I have some larger caches and some micros. Although with 28 FTFs, I have only received a few FTF prizes. We have a lot of FTF hounds around here, but you never know which one will get it. Or IF. One of my most recent was someone who got FTF and it was their 5th cache. I try to leave something. Often it's an FTF pin. They are like $2. And it's usually a nice little surpise. In my larger caches that have at least a little higher T or D or both, I leave an unactivated micro geocoin. They have the benchmark coins and virtual ghost coins and other similar ones for like $5. Sometimes I'll leave a few lottery tickets. Nothing too much, and always a nice surpise. I know I don't have to. But people like to try to find my new caches. Fast. Adds to the fun for everyone.

I second that. Most of my lock-n-locks are painted with ultra-flat nature color (greenish). I'm also experimenting with doing some spray-adhesive to it afterward and using moss from a craft store to partially cover some of it for further blending. But the spray alone holds up pretty well on most of mine. And a can lasts quite a while.

I think that's a cool idea, actually. While you cannot dip them like you can in a traditional or vitual, you could ask that after the EarthCache spot is visited, that the cacher dip it in a local cache he/she will invariably visit, so its path is at least somewhat tracked for routing / mileage. You cannot expect tons of EarthCache activity, but it should get moved around as much as any others. And if you get to someone who likes them, you may get some really scenic shots. Time to round something up for a TB tag..

LMAO.

but -- "Can I develop an EarthCache as part of a museum or other exhibit? EarthCaches are a great tool for outdoor museums and other groups to provide an outdoor learning experience for their visitors. EarthCaches cannot be however inside Museums or visitor centres and need to be accessiable after hours. EarthCaches developed that require people to pay an entry fee will be discouraged. " I am looking at developing my first EC. It has to do with a river, salinity, etc. but there is a visitor's center that has all kinds of great interactive stuff. Saw the above and kinda got discouraged. In my situation, I can move it to another point of interest and a visit is not necessary, and I've developed around that... but it would have made it a lot easier -- and more informative -- to place it there. Thoughts?

Kinda think that FTF on virtuals should not exist. That said, if I cared about FTF on an Earthcache, I would think it would be who visited and completed it first. By completed, I mean whoever DID it and calculated/measured/read/tested -- whatever the requirements were. FTL is just that FTL. FTF may be on vacation and not able to log for a week. That does not seem fair to deny if (s)he did it in the morning, but the FTL did the requirements that evening. I track on traditional caches, but would never even conisder it on one of these.

I'm not sure that this is all that complicated. You don't live in NY, so there are not a gazillion of them. You can do 5 PQs per day. SO within a few days, you can nail every quadrant around you by doing a 'get 500 within x miles of zip code y' search. Merge all of these files. Use GSAK as Tequila said, above. You can have a file of all caches outside the donut, in the donut hole, or between the boundaries of the donut. Are you targeting a caching run/pillaging? Do a PQ of caches along a route, and couple that with a PQ or 2 of the cache-dense areas and upolad to the GPS. I keep everything I have not found in my GPSr for my area. When I do a specific run or travel, I do exactly the above. Get them for my routes and also for specific areas where I know I'm likely to venture off the route.

BlueDeuce said: Virtuals and all other cache types currently allow Tb logs. I just went on a highpointing mission, and dipped TBs and GCs at the NE and KS highpoints, and the the NE/KS/CO tri-state marker. All virtuals. No problem. Many state highpoints have virtuals, and many don't have caches at or near the summit. I hope they don't take that feature away. One of my TBs goals is to get to all the state highpoints. Lots of states, but no luck yet.

I've never had an easy time getting it to run, but never too hard, etiher. Just a bunch of pushes. Today with IE new, IE old, and Firefox and 100+ pushes between them nada. Will not take. Ugh.

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In case anyone at GC.COM is looking for examples: Logs on 7/25 placements for: TB27VQR TB27CTA TB21ACD No e-mails.