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I just import the waypoints to Google Earth. GE will accept GPX files so just need to create a GPX file of all your finds.

In the past, I've posted a number of photos of myself at caches as a condition of logging those caches. Recently I went into my gallery and deleted all of those photos. Beyond those deleted photos, I leave no personally identifying information in my GC profile although it certainly would not be difficult to figure out what city I live in based on my cache finds. While I don't know if I would use it, it would be nice if we had the ability to disable our specific list of found or placed caches in our public profile. However, it's certainly not something important enough to me that I would push for the change.

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It is always easier to attack, insult and attempt to discredit your detractors than it is to address issues. It is an often effective tool to detract and draw attention away from an indefensible position. See how well it has worked in this thread?

Again, thanks for the clarification. Going forward I'll interpret being called "narrow minded" as a compliment and not a personal slag. As for probes, we've recently relegated that task to the TSA. Resistance is futile.

Thanks for the clarification. I'll accept the personal slag if you can point out where I stated that all offroaders are irresponsible. I also accept your apology for the personal attack when you cannot find any such statement. Like that is ever going to happen! If you think it will further your cause, continue to attack and belittle your detractors. I believe, however, that your real beef is with your compatriots who ruined it for you, not the people who took action against their systemic bad behaviour. At any rate, this topic really has very little to do with geocaching anymore. I'm off to get a new pair of Birkenstocks...

No, it's just been my experience with offroaders over the past 35 years that the majority of them fit that mold. I know there are also small segments of responsible offroaders, as well. However, bad behaviour by the majority eventually ruins it for all. Life is like that. Your statement above is hypocritical. You claim that I ("one of those people") am generalizing that all offroaders are bad yet at the same time you're generalizing that all people who support vehicle restrictions in the backcountry are "narrow minded". I suppose it's easier to attack me than my position.... Note the proper usage of your and you're.

There's that sense of entitlement I was talking about...

1. I am NOT a member of the BC Geocaching Association 1a. I see no advantage to being a member Was involved briefly at the inception of the BCGA but quit because of politics and power struggles. Being a member would not enhance my geocaching I'm a curmudgeon and prefer the company of my dogs to other people. Many of my caching habits would be frowned upon by some of the more officious members of the BCGA 2. No 2a. See 1a.

This probably won't be much help to most people that need to search for archived caches. For several different reasons I got mostly out of caching for about 5 years. However, we would occasionally hunt for a cache during a road trip or vacation. During that period, for reasons that I won't go into, I consciously did not log any of our finds, about 50ish, online, but did keep track in my own "logbook". When I got back into caching a couple of months ago I decided to go back and log all of those caches. Of course, many of them were archived. That is when I discovered how difficult it is to search for archived caches. The method I used is somewhat unorthodox. I found an old computer backup with some really old GSAK databases. I was able to find many of the archived caches there and use the GC number to search on the website. I then contacted a couple of old acquaintances who still cache and talked them into sending me their GSAK databases where I was able to find the rest of the archived caches. Of course, I doubt that Groundspeak would be too thrilled with that solution as it probably violates some licensing restriction about sharing pocket queries, even though technically they're not really PQ's anymore.

No.

In my younger, wilder, less responsible life I used to be an avid ORV aficionado. Fortunately, in my part of the world, there are more miles of logging roads than paved roads. However, it seemed that many offroaders that I became acquainted with preferred more “challenging” routes that disregarded private roads, environmentally sensitive areas and decommissioned roads. In addition, most of the organized offroad expeditions that I participated in seemed to be an excuse to "party hearty" and were fueled by beer and loud music. As a result, more and more public lands have become off-limits to ORV’s and, now that I’m older and (hopefully) a bit wiser, I fully understand and support the restrictions on ORV’s that have been necessary to put into place. The most irksome trait I’ve come to discover about offroader’s is their sense of entitlement and their disdain toward anyone who disagrees with their “right” to tear up the back country. I’ve had more than one back country camping trip ruined by offroaders showing up at a campsite en masse, cranking up the tunes, disregarding the campfire restrictions and subjecting everyone else to their drunken, rowdy behavior. I don’t agree that being a taxpayer gives one the right to do whatever they want in a park or on crown land any more than being a taxpayer gives you the right to do whatever you want in the city. If bad behavior on the part of any special interest group causes restrictions aimed at those groups then, too bad. Personally, I’m very happy about the restrictions being placed on offroad vehicles in our forests and parks. I think there should be more areas preserved from motorized vehicles. I guess that makes me a Nazi in your eyes?

I'd like Santa to bring me a Nokia N8 SmartPhone.

Yea, that's what we need, more rules!

I've got one cache (GCJWV3) that only gets 2 or 3 finds a year and sometimes there are 2 and 3 year gaps between finds! In fact, it was hidden in July/04 and the FTF was Feb 2006! There is no way I'm going to go check on the cache just because it hasn't been found or multiple DNF's are logged because finders couldn't get within a few hundred meters of GZ.

Just because an account doesn't have any finds on it doesn't mean that it is a newby cacher. It is not uncommon for teams to use a separate account for hiding caches and their personal accounts for logging them. I have caches hidden under my account and others hidden under a team account. If you look at the team account, it has zero finds and last logon is probably many months ago. I've also found really bad hides and really lame caches hidden by cachers with thousands of finds....

+1 As someone whose life has been touched and deeply affected by a gynecological cancer, I think what you're doing is extremely admirable, lil_cav_wings! I commend you on the tenacity to find a workaround. Ovarian Cancer Ribbon

Bingo! You hit the nail on the head. I hate forest micros and any kind of nano. But I fully support anyone who wants to hide one. It's your cache and if someone else disapproves then they don't need to waste their time looking for it, let alone whinging about it.

Lazy! I do it right from the spot on my phone! I assumed everybody would log at least later the same day, but I guess it can take a few weeks for folks who are traveling without a computer. I have no idea why anyone would be willing to go weeks without a computer... are these Amish geocachers or what? It's not "lazy" at all. Not everyone is a technogeek and wired up the yingyang. Believe it or not, there are still people out there who print hard copy cache notes, don't own a PDA or smartphone and use GPSr's that aren't specifically designed for geocaching. Just because they don't embrace technology like you doesn't make them lazy. Likewise, not everyone is so enamored with computers that they can't fathom being without one for more than a few hours or days. And what's wrong with being Amish? Do you a problem with the Amish? Then there are those who cache and NEVER log online. That is the way some people choose to play. There are probably more people like that than you would like to believe.

I'll probably ruffle some feathers here because I completely disagree that a cache owner has any responsibility whatsoever for trackables that pass through or go missing from their caches. Notwithstanding that it may take a cacher several days or longer to get around to logging their finds (and trackables), I'm certainly not going to go out to check on my caches just because someone complains that a TB or coin isn't where they thought it would be based on the cache page inventory. IMHO, it is the responsibility of the trackable owner to disable it if they feel it really has gone missing. When I hide a cache I agree to be responsible for maintaining the cache, not to police other people's TB's/coins/whatever. If the only reason you are going to find a specific cache is because you want whatever trackable it contains, then you need to be constantly prepared to be disappointed when you get there and it's missing. That's just part of the game.

I already had a SUV, a sea kayak and tons of camping/hike gear before I started caching so that was never an issue. Despite living in an area with world-class diving locations, I've never had the urge or desire to take it up. I'm simply too old and out of shape to even consider rock climbing although I do enjoy a good day hike in the local mountains. Kayak caching is another story! I love going after caches that are only accessible by paddlecraft and have several of my own. Secondhand plastic sea kayaks can be had quite cheaply and this is the best time of the year to acquire one as many of the dealers and rental outlets are liquidating their rental fleets. I'm actually in the process of setting up my workshop and milling the wood to build an 18' cedar-strip sea kayak. As for SWMBO, she is the driving force behind our geocaching now. When I first took it up in 2003 she was tolerant and laughed at me and Jomarac5 when we used to leave the house at 10pm and sneak into the public parks to go night-caching. (We did 80% of our caching after dark) She even tolerated doing the occasional cache when we were on road trips. However, when she was diagnosed with stage 3c ovarian cancer a few years ago, and given 18 months to live, I gave up caching (amongst other things) completely. Fast forward to the present and, despite the dire predictions of the doctors and being given up on by the BC Cancer Agency, she is still alive and kicking thanks to alternative treatments in Germany and Mexico. This past summer she was feeling well enough for us spend 10 days exploring the Kootenays by logging road so I bought a new GPS preloaded with the BC Backroads topo maps. For fun, I loaded it with a bunch of caches and we stopped to find a few. Then early last month, out of the blue, she asked if we could go geocaching. Now she is the one who wants to go caching every weekend and plant a bunch of new caches! Anyway, my point is, life is short and full of unexpected ups and downs. If you can afford the toys you want without impacting your savings and monthly expenses, go for it! As someone else mentioned, you only get one go round so make the best of it and do what makes you happy. Even if you eventually lose interest in geocaching, exploring the waterways and back country is rewarding in it's own right and I guarantee that it will generate more enjoyment and lasting memories than vegging in front of the tv or pushing your lawn mower around.

I always carry a couple of logbooks and a supply of ziplocks (in 3 sizes) with me. Being a very wet climate around here, I find that I often replace damaged ziplocks or soaked logbooks. I've never yet had a CO complain. If they did, I would just ignore them. Complaining about someone replacing a ziplock or a soggy logbook is pretty petty. I'm thrilled when someone fixes one of my caches for me - it saves me a trip. Nano and micros are a different matter. Although I often carry a nano or micro cache in my caching bag, I don't bother to replace full or soggy logs in them because I honestly don't know what to do with the old logbook. In those cases, I leave a note for the CO and/or a Maintenance Required log.

Please define "common decency". [soapbox] What is considered "decent" by some can be considered "obscene" by others. Who is right? For example: In the USA nudity, brothels, "adult stores" and anything construed as having sexual connotations is considered by the majority as being "indecent". Yet gory, extreme violence on TV, in movies or video games is considered quite acceptable. I travel back and forth to northern Europe on a regular basis. In those places, nudity and other sexually themed topics/business are quite socially acceptable. You'd be hard pressed to find a women's deodorant ad on TV that didn't include nudity. There is even a gift shop in the Copenhagen airport that openly sells sex toys! And I won't even get into the German 900-number ads on TV. However violence, even what you may consider as relatively tame, is regulated and often censored. Who is right? Who is the lowest common denominator? Regardless of what you or I believe to be socially acceptable or obscene, does it give us the right to judge others for their personal moral code vis-à-vis their cache placements? Really, if a cache placement is offensive to your moral or ethical code, don't go there! If you do get there and find it to be offensive then leave! But don't poop on someone else's cache just because it violates your code of behaviour. Others will most definitely enjoy finding it. Most of what's wrong in this world is rooted in people or groups trying to impose their culture, morality or belief systems on others who live by a different set of standards. The world would be a much better and safer place if we all learned to live and let live. [/soapbox]

Yes. You have demonstrated that. But rose-colored glasses won't protect you.

And you're offended by that? Actually, you totally missed the point of the thread which, by the way, was started long before the other thread was locked. The thread is NOT about Krispy Kreme. You'll have to figure out the rest on your own. However, if it helps you, there are lots of KK caches in virtually every city that has KK's. Do a search - you'll find lots.