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rosebud55112

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  1. An interesting youtube video that mentions not only geocaching, but essentially these boards!
  2. Yeah, I guess I'll always use the "Will Attend" from now on. I don't understand why GS feels that people who were interested enough to write a note would specifically not want to learn anything the EO has to announce, but I guess that's their default position.
  3. A question about when an event owner makes an announcement: I saw an event in my area that looked interesting, but it was at an inconvenient time for me. I put my chances of attending at about 30%, so rather than log a "Will Attend", I logged a "Write Note", as my chance of "Will Not attend" was greater. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the EO had to change the time of the event, and did so in an "Announcement" log. For the life of me, I cannot find the email that normally comes when an EO makes an announcement. Does that only get sent to people who logged "WA" logs, rather than everyone who logged anything? Or did I accidentally delete an email? In the end, I showed up expecting an event, only to find out by checking the event page (wondering why nobody else was there) what had happened. Lesson learned: always check event page before planning to leave for an event; don't expect to receive announcements.
  4. 1. Success, sort of. I'm at 51.7%at the end of 2020, but that does include a lot of Adventure Lab Caches. 2021 goal: (NonTraditional, non-Lab Caches)/(Total non-Lab)>50% 2. Close but no cigar. 11 new US counties. A trip which got cancelled due to covid would have made this easily. 3. Success. Colorado, Oklahoma, and Arkansas were earned. 4. Nope. That cancelled trip raises its head again. 5. Nope. Published only 2 Mystery caches.
  5. Yep, obviously based on Mystery at the Museum -- no problem with that. But the process becomes do what you need to get souvenir 1, and we'll give that to you, then do what you need to get souvenir 2, and we'll give that one and another one just for kicks to you.
  6. Unless I'm mistaken, you're thinking almost 40 years ago, and the disputed territory was the Falkland Islands/Las Malvinas (depending on side). Grenada is north of South America and to the best of my knowledge, has never been claimed by Argentina.
  7. Pay your bill, tip your waitstaff, go out and get some more cool caches you just learned about.
  8. Which, unless it is maybe a hint about how to open the cache (for example, a cache with a lock), or instructions on returning the cache to it's correct position, or something in a similar vein, means it's a pretty poor hint.
  9. Not a souvenir, but you should see an icon for it under your trackable tab
  10. Maybe I missed an announcement or something, but I just noticed that I have a new beta version of Badgegen on project-gc. It's got some neat new badges that weren't available before, and combined some old ones (It looks like coins and TBs are now wrapped into one). It's got a 360 degree from home encirclement badge--can anyone point me to a checker for that? 'm shy 5 degrees, and would love to know which five degrees those are.
  11. When the first one came through and I didn't see a log on the trackable's history page, I assumed that the logger had simply mistyped the code for a different trackable, and then after posting, realized what had happened and deleted the log. But the second one on the same coin raised my curiosity, and led me to this thread. If HQ is autodeleting these, good for them, and thank you.
  12. In the past two days I've had two people log discoveries of a coin I've had at home with me for years--same coin, one of many. I looked at the logs of that coin and don't see either one--does that mean HQ has already deleted them? I'd like to delete them--and based on the info I just learned I am going to lock that coin and many others.
  13. Thank you to all who responded. It's too bad that this would be so difficult to calculate. Strangely enough, in the two weeks since this thread was first posted, a new virtual cache has been placed at DEN, meaning that travellers through there will now get a chance to get two caches, not just the one Earthcache.
  14. The topic isn't the existence of caches in airports--the topics is whether it is possible to determine how many cachers have such a cache as the only cache in the state or other geographical region. It may well be the case that that is not determineable. So far, no one has had input on that question.
  15. So it looks like at some point next month I will have a need to fly to Dallas. Looking at airfare this morning, I saw that the cheapest-yet-not-in-the-middle-of-the-night flight would put me through DIA (Denver International Airport) with a 2.5 hour layover. Not enough time to really get out of the airport and cache, but of course, DIA has an Earthcache inside the main terminal. Yay! Even more Yay, I do not have Colorado yet, so this would be my first cache in the state--and also my only cache in the state, at least for the time being. I'm sure I would not be the only layover cacher with this cache as my only Colorado cache--is there some way to run a program through Groundspeak or Project-GC to determine the approximate number of cachers in that situation? I know a similar situation can occur with passengers who get the Virtual cache in Chicago O'Hare as their only Illinois cache. That one is not my only IL cache, but I was able to get it during a layover there last April. I know there is a bookmark of airport-based caches, but my question isn't about that; it's about whether its possible to determine the size of the population with an airport cache (or any one particular cache) as their only cache in the geographic region.
  16. Goals for 2020: 1. Get my NonTraditional/Total Finds ratio over 50%. Once I've hit that, I may start picking up more trads, so I won't necessarily end the year over 50% 2. Add 12+ new US Counties 3. Add 2+ US states 4. Add 2+ Canadian Provinces 5. Publish 5+ Puzzle caches
  17. That makes sense. And that would be justification for allowing the Jasmer Challenge type of challenge. It's not a case of finding cache X cause you to be unqualified; it's the inexorable march of time that does it. Every one of us, at some point after our deaths, will no longer qualify for a Jasmer challenge. Merry Christmas, everyone!
  18. 1. Good progress on this. I found 307 more non-trads than traditionals this year, bringing my NT ratio up from 46.0% to 49.2%. I'm now just 82 NT caches away from my goal. 2. Success--added Grand Cayman, Honduras, and Mexico while on a cruise in June. Had to DNF the only cache I had a chance with in Belize. 3. Success beyond my hope--39 new counties in 2019 4. Missed this one. Needed 43, picked up 32 5. Missed big on this one. Only one published this year--this morning in fact.
  19. I think that you would have a difficult time getting one exactly like this published today, even though as pointed out this one would be grandfathered. All of the individual squares can be checked with stats online, and so in theory, a checker could be built to see if a finder has one or more rows, columns or diagonals filled. All that is good. But two of the squares themselves are questionable (under my understanding of the rules). O-3 (Average Terrain >2) and B-4 (Average Difficulty >2) may be true at any given point in time, but could become untrue the next day depending upon what caches are found after already meeting the qualification. I believe (could be wrong) that GS does not allow challenges like that--they need to be once qualified, always qualified. Yes, strictly speaking, I-5 (Find a cache hidden in every month since May 2000) is also one that people become unqualified for, but this type of challenge is allowed anyway.
  20. I dont think so. You must find at least one cache on each of those six days. Finding two on Monday and getting shut out on Tuesday won't do it for you. Don't think caches found, think days on which caches are found.
  21. Hope you are feeling better Oldlog. That's a great goal for you.
  22. This seems to have worked itself out after 4 days, but without requiring logging another cache. Thanks you.
  23. This past Saturday, 9/21, I made a trip across southern Minnesota to watch my daughter at a marching band competition, and of course I grabbed some caches along the way. In total, I found 17 caches on Saturday. When I got home on Sunday and was logging them, I accidentally logged some for Sunday, 9/22, forgetting to properly change the found date. After a bit, I realized I had the incorrect date, and edited the logs to show the right day. So now on my Geocaches tab, I can see all 17 caches as found on 9/21. However, on my statistics tab, it shows me as having only 13 caches found on 9/21 in my career. I had 2 9/21 caches before, and I correctly logged 11 caches (misdating 6), so I understand why the system would originally say 13, but I'm wondering why the stats tab is keeping those last 6 as finds on 9/22 instead of counting them as 9/21 finds? It's not a horrible thing to have those six caches showing up one day off, but it makes the stats tab less trustworthy.
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