[Waaaahhhhh! Don't know if I want to Scream or Cry!]

Thanks everyone for your input. I used to have an excel spreadsheet with every puzzle cache with coords, notes and all the goodies, but lost my hard drive. Haven't had the time to rebuild so was using the notes...have no back up for them. As I didn't notice when they went missing, I can't give Groundspeak any idea of when they went missing. I'm still really sore about it, and that is why I hadn't been back yet. 27 days until I leave on my first trip of the summer...some of the puzzles I had solved are eluding me now...all the pressure has my mind blocking the bits I need to remember. Oh well, it really is just a geocache....Q@#$%^$ @#$%$%^&$ &%$%^@@$%#

 

Sarah - not as sad of a Houlagan.

[Waaaahhhhh! Don't know if I want to Scream or Cry!]

I'm about ready to throw a tantrum like a two year old. I spent all winter working on local puzzles and putting my solved coordinates in the personal cache note area on the cache page. Thought it was a great idea and passed it along to friends as well.

 

Spring has finally sprung and I decided to put a bunch of solved puzzles into the GPS......

 

Gone!!!! All Gone!!!!! All my notes and coordinates!!!!!!!

 

Back to square one I guess....sigh.

 

Thanks for letting me vent.

 

Sarah - a sad Houlagan.

[Canadian Souvenirs]

Saskatchewan souvenir is out..... Snow covered mountains?? Seriously?? Apparently it doesn't have to represent the province geographically. I am somewhat disappointed.

 

Sarah of Houlagans

[Sask Winter Caching Game 2010-2011]

The Winter Caching game is starting. SG&N were not able to get it going this year due to other commitments, so I will attempt to fill the void. The listing should be posted "soon" and it will very much like last year's event.

 

I am hoping the word will spread and we will get lots of participation.

 

We're in!! It might pay to post the link to this thread in a note on the cache page, though. Most people don't know the forums exist! Thanks for taking this on El Fudgeeo!! It will be nice for Sask_Girl and Novy to get a chance to enjoy the game!

[Sask-cache-one 10th anniversary party]

Whatever day you pick I'll be there!! What a fabulous idea!! I like either option, but as it is winter, and dark early, out of town folk may not want to travel in on a Friday night. That said, our Shortest day of the year event last year was attended by cachers from 100+ kms away... not exactly an opinion, I know...

 

Let me know if I can help out!!

 

Sarah of Houlagans

[Does your GPS have a name?]

Well the 60CS is called Gyps because with her wonky compass and slow to find sattelites system we get gypped when group caching as we are far behind the rest with the new toys, but we love the old girl anyway. The Colorado my hubby has is called "stupid thing" by me, as I don't cotton to the newfangled gadgets too well LMAO. That may change in a few weeks when I buy my 62 CS. Our Nuvi in the car is called "naggie" because she nags us to turn where we don't want to turn. Many choruses of "shut up Naggie!" ring out when we are caching!

 

Yeah, we're a little off our rockers, but that's ok!

 

Sarah of Houlagans(SNSGK), formerly SNSGKrieger (I'm not a fan of that change either...LMAO)

[Letterboxing stamp?]

I am not a "geocacher;" I am a letterboxer lurking the geocache forums because I have had a couple of my letterboxes discovered by geocachers who apparently don't know much about our hobby. I have actually been impressed by the apparent awareness of letterboxing among those posting replies on this forum; then again, the people interested enough to engage in forum discussions are most likely those interested enough to learn more about their own hobby and in so doing will learn something about related hobbies as well.

 

I had thought to come to this forum to make an APB to all geocachers about the existence of letterboxing; as stated, though, it seems that awareness is already in existence.

 

Unfortunately, not everybody reads the forums, so the majority of geocachers will remain unaware of the plight of the letterboxers, who find their stamps removed by a well-intentioned geocacher, playing by the rules of his game, but unaware that he has inadvertently stepped out of bounds, and into another game playing by different rules.

 

How, then, would you wise readers recommend that I go about reducing the likelihood that my stamps are taken from their boxes? I already include information within the box declaring that it is a letterbox and not a geocache. I usually try to relocate my boxes when I discover that I have placed one near an existing geocache. But I wonder if there is anything else I can do to keep from losing my stamps.

 

Thank you for any ideas!

 

My plan with future letterbox hybrids is to drill a hole through the wooden block of my stamp and attach it to the container. I hope this will prevent my stamps from walking off. Just a thought.

[Need a little help]

Does anyone knwo of a good site that translates cahing pages? I'd love to know what that page says!

[2010 Official CITO date has been set]

Magellan will be the 2010 Cache In Trash Out sponsor! Hurray! They (Thales/Magellan) also sponsored the CITO events in 2003.

 

Thank you, Magellan.

 

For more information about CITO in general, check this out: http://www.geocaching.com/cito/

The Event Planning Resources on that page can be very helpful.

 

Miss Jenn,

 

Does this mean that I should write Magellan and ask for a prize donation? If so is this only applicable for events held on April 28th? We are hosting our event on May 1 to ensure the snow is all gone and the ground is a little drier. Please advise.

 

Sarah of SNSGKrieger

[Season's Greetings to our Canadian Cache Reviewers]

Merry Christmas to our local reviewer onecrazycanadian!! Thanks for all you do for Saskatchewan and Manitoba and also a shout out and thank you to Cache Chameleon who fills in when needed here in Saskatchewan! You both do great work!!

 

May you and yours have a most joyous holiday season!!

 

Sarah, Steve and Nick (and the 4 footed George and Lex too)

[AVATAR TESTING and INSTRUCTIONS]

Avatar creation instructions

 

Save the desired image to your PC, then:

 

1. Click on My Account tab on left side of home page.

2. Under Account Options on the right side click on Edit My Profile

3. On the Edit Account Details page look for the Virtual You section. Under Avatar click on change/edit

4. On the choose my avatar page, click on the Upload a New Image line

5. Use browse button to find the image you saved to your PC, give it a File Caption and hit Upload

6. Once it is uploaded click on My Details

7. On the Edit Account Details page look for the Virtual You section. Under Avatar click on change/edit

8. Click on desired avatar, then click on Select Photo

9. Click on the Edit Account Details line, key in your password, then page down and click on the Update Account button.

10. Go to the forums and log out and log back in. Your avatar should now appear next to your name.

 

 

To test please use this thread.

Please do not start another testing thread.

 

Testing this is a test.

[Where did the Lock & Locks go?]

A while back, someone predicted that Snoogans would personally cause the death of geocaching. Maybe this is his first salvo?

Could be he's buying up all the recyclable plastic on the planet for some dark, nefarious purpose?

 

Uh oh! Maybe I shouldn't have said anything....If I go missing, please check all nearby ammo cans for my pieces. I guess I'll be my own signature item!

[Where did the Lock & Locks go?]

After reading this thread this morning, I thought I'd have a look when I was at our local Wal-Mart and I found that the 18 piece Starfrit lock-n-lock sets that had been previously selling for $19.99 are now on the clearance pile at $9.99. As well, most of the other plastic containers that usually line the shelves in the storage department were gone as well. So I bought 4 boxes of lock-n-locks. LOL I'm good for a while now. Add those to my pile of ammo cans and I should be able to hide for a while yet.

 

I checked out the rubbermaid lock style containers while I was there, and I think that they wouldn't last nearly as long as the lock-n-lock style, so I passed on those ones.

 

I then checked our local Dollarama and Giant Tiger stores for the lock-n-lock knock-offs. They were sadly lacking in those containers. It is a giant plasticware conspiracy to end geocaching, I tell ya!!

 

Sarah, of SNSGKrieger

[Caches you refuse to log a Found it on.]

 

Just curious...is that a squished toonie?? Very neat signature item!!

[The lost art of logging]

This is my favorite thread that I have read so far. Just wanted the OP to know that I have been inspired to do a better job with my logs. I had assumed that it was normal to write short to the point logs, and I actually had edited myself quite harshly when we started caching, as I have always been somewhat wordy. Now I write what I want and I thank you for that.

[logging with a sticker?]

We have just ordered a self inking stamp in order to do the local letterbox hybrids and plan to use it to sign our geocaching logs as well. As we usually write quite long logs for anything other than a micro it will be a part of our log but not the extent of it. Just our 2 Canadian cents!

[How do we change people’s attitude towards filing a DNF]

If I can't find it but know I'll be back within a week or so, I don't mark it DNF.

But you didn't find it, so why not log it that way? If you go back another day and find it make a new log that says you did.

I've done some pretty long multis that I've had to go back to finish on another day because there were so many stages. It doesn't make sense to say that I didn't find the cache when I'm still working it. The FAQ makes it very clear that they used to alert cache owners for potential issues. Why send out false alerts?

Ah! Multicaches are a different story. If you go to the final and search and search and eventually quit the attempt, that is a DNF. If you are running out of time and complete say 3 out of 5 legs and plan to finish the 4th and 5th leg, then you'd wait to log either Found it or DNF depending on the end result. That is how we do it. There is a local cache for us that we have stopped at 5 times in the last 4 weeks. Just can't find it, and our logs show that. I have been offered a few hints, and think that we may just be able to find it this next try. It will be great to finally find that one. I think the DNF's are making it even more fun!

[How do we change people’s attitude towards filing a DNF]

In my house, we post any cache we attempt, be it found, or not. If I make an attempt at a cache I log it. I wish more people were no DNF phobic as well. But to each their own, and all that jazz. Just wanted to chime in with a "I agree with you" post.