wvtrainmann

I was pretty disappointed when they disabled challenges. I enjoyed them because most of them took you to some pretty cool places and things that you may not have seen or been permitted to place a cache. My opinion: consideration should have been taken into account for all the time and effort in completing the challenges done by each cacher and if anything simply kept on the profile page. Oh well.....

this bothers me, but especially because some of these cachers have removed trackables and then they are placed somewhere else before they are even logged as removed! Oh the headache with trackable and lazy loggers! Ugh! We log within the hour if we aren't able to log on the fly on the iPhone.

Yes, they just have to get on that specific trackable page and "grab" it from you, then they can place it.

We submitted the following idea to Geocaching.com but we were advised to post it here also. We would like to see what you think and get some responses and hopefully support our idea! So, here goes: First I would like to say how much we have enjoyed Geocaching since we started last March. It has been one adventure after another. This year, we decided to contribute to the game by hiding caches and setting free some geocoins and travel bugs. We love getting all the emails when someone has found our caches or trackables!!! It is so exciting! We have just one suggestion regarding the trackables -- perhaps add a small window at the bottom of the cache page so that while you're logging your "Found it" the small window will indicate which trackables are in the inventory and make it so that cachers can easily pick up a bug listed and not have to do the extra step that is required now. I think that this will dramatically reduce the amount of lost, misplaced, or incorrectly listed trackables. We just need to make the logging of retrieved trackables as easy to remove from the cache as it is to drop them in! I believe that the trackables will more likely be in their proper caches and logged correctly with this minor adjustment. Logging retrieved trackables involves an extra step that so many cachers are not taking and trackables are getting physically moved, but not logged and consequently lost. When logging a cache entry, it is so easy to drop a trackable. Why can't you make it that easy to retrieve one? We painstakingly keep up with our trackables and try to keep in touch with cachers who may be in possession of ours if we see that they haven't been moved for a while. We hope you will look into adding this feature to geocaching so that less trackables will be lost! Happy Caching! J&J wvtrainmann