rosebud55112

Because there's deep snow and I'm willing to let someone else blaze the trail.

Another reason why this statement is wrong is that a good chunk of Iowas's western border (about 75 miles as the crow flies, longer as the fish swims) is actually the Big Sioux River, not the Missouri River.

Another couple of ways to keep the geocaching going during the winter is by working on the solutions to puzzle caches and/or going to event caches. You are lucky in that you can combine the two--check out GC2HPXH. Its a bit of a drive for you, but Cambridge to Monticello shouldn't be overly difficult. There are going to be a lot of cachers there--you may be able to carpool. Plus its got links to a lot of puzzle caches if you want to do some homework before the end of January.

I got a nice new backpack to carry my caching supplies in from my wife, lots of chemical foot warmers from my daughter, and Santa brought me my new mileage-tracking geocoin and some nice socks.

Isn't there like a 72% chance that it lands in the ocean somewhere?

Not much choice except traveling south from the North Pole.

Besides the 10-10-10 and Seattle area souvenirs, the Geocoinfest2010 souvenir is up. I assume some others are as well, but I don't have 'em.

I hope you're traveling from west to east, then.

I've been told that they just placed 1/2 of the missing trackables here: http://coord.info/GCW22N Confidence is high (in my office anyway). Three weeks later and only three of the nine geocoins that The Black Hand grabbed have been spotted in the wild again. Confidence may have been declared high prematurely.

Is there a reason you don't want to replace the conatiner and keep the old one active? Are you expecting to lose the replacement as well?

Go ahead and log them. If the CO has an issue with that, then he'll get back to you. Since virts are no longer allowed to be created, all the virts are of a certain age, and in some cases the COs are no longer active. This at least allows these to stay active caches.

I've been told that they just placed 1/2 of the missing trackables here: http://coord.info/GCW22N Confidence is high (in my office anyway). As the owner of one of the pirated coins, I know that as of yesterday this member was holding at least ten TB/Coins. According to their profile, they still have all ten. None of the travelers has yet been logged out of this account. Of course, there's a difference between them logging the travelers into a cache and actually placing them in the cache.

I use Geocheck.org, and it doesn't cost anything. I like it because I can add pictures and extra info to my solution, such as parking coordinates or trail access. I agree -- it's very nice to be able to immediately verify my solution, especially if it's to a math type puzzle. I think the only thing worse than not having a solution verifier is a CO who won't respond to a request for verification -- something I had happen on three caches I solved recently, all belonging to the same CO. That's really lame. Like one I just solved tonight had a very obvious and straight forward solution once you figured out what needed to be used (the golden ratio), but the question comes down to how the CO rounded the coordinates... I know that a MM.001 difference doesn't really matter for your actual GZ, but I love seeing geochecker or the like giving me a nice "CORRECT" and/or cheering me on to go get the cache! Sometimes, having the geochecker can actually move you away from the correct answer, as you hinted at here. Suppose I have a puzzle where the answer is 23.7486, and you are looking for the degrees north. If I set up the checker to have no fudge factor, and I truncated the answer, then mygeochecker is looking for 23.748. However, you reasonably assume that you should round your answer, and enter 23.749. When my geochecker says "incorrect", you'll go back and recheck your math, but still come up with 23.749. The assumption you are making of rounding may not ever explicitly cross your mind--just as the assumption of truncation never explicitly crossed my mind. As such you assume that I've given you a red herring, and search my puzzle for some other (non-existant) answer, or eventually put this puzzle on your ignore list. Without the geochecker, you'd assume you had the right answer, and you find the cache and get the smiley. This is probably more a matter to be kept in mind by puzzler owners when setting up their geocheckers (Allow slightly fuzzy answers as correct!) than solvers, but not all assumptions made in solving are explicit.

That seems to be the issue. Thanks!

I've got a couple of bookmarks that when I try to get to them via a cache which would be alphabetically near the end of the bookmark, the bookmark list shows only the first 100 caches and indicates that is all. Anyone else having that problem? I apologize if this is covered in another thread. I searched but did not see anything.

This morning I'm seeing an issue I've never seen before. When I'm in the general geocaching maps page, and have a bunch of cache symbols and smilies shown, when I click on a cache symbol to get the little balloon shown, sometimes a balloon for a different cache on the page appears. The balloon appears over the cache it describes, not the one my cursor is on.

Another nitpick: You will have exactly one point of intersection if the sum of the two radii equals the distance between the waypoints OR if the difference of the two radii equals the inter-waypoint difference. If the difference between the radii is greater than the inter-waypoint distance, you will have no intersections. And of course, if you have two waypoints which are the same, and two radii which are the same, you have an infinite number of intersections, and a poor puzzle.

Not that I'm trying to cast aspersions or anything, but how did you come to have a logon here 15 months before you started caching?

The first set is simply a deciomal expansion. Realize that there are 60 minutes in a degree. Then, for the north coordinate you have 46 full degree, plus .41570 of another full degree. If you multiply .41570 by 60, you should see that .41570 degrees is equal to 24 minutes plus another .942 of a full minute.

The Dakota also allows for paperless caching.

C'mon guys....this isn't even yet the most-posted to thread started this month. We've got a long ways to go to break into the TopTen of all time.

Well, you may not have a FTF, but at least you didn't have to eat Jack-in-the-Box food, so you came out ahead anyway.

Maybe the locals are working against you. If, for example, your cache hiding spot alos turns out to be a squirrel's hole in a tree, he may toss this intruder out on the ground everytime someone replaces it in that perfect hiding spot.

I am Spartacus!

I think you have a typo, don't you--You want "WANDER", not "WONDER"--or am I reading the moonfont wrong?