Enspyer

Finding a spot that makes me think "that is so cool", and then people logging finds that say "that is so cool", is, well, so cool. Hiding is more exciting, especially since I've only hidden 8 caches.

I thought the article was great. It was written in a light that would make people want to try geocaching. There weren't any glaring errors like the ones that sometimes pop up in news stories. Who were the geocachers in the pictures?

Thank you all very much. I haven't had a new GPS for over a year...

Yeah, I have set it to East US...which is where I am. It says 02:49:35pm and 18-AUG-04 I assumed it couldn't get a signal because it didn't know the date and time but now I'm quite confused.

I set my 'new location' near my house. And I let it be outside for a while but it didn't get a signal. Should I let it be out there longer- would that help?

I'm not a beginning geocacher, but I got a new GPS today so I feel like a newbie again. I have a Garmin Legend now (I used to have a Lowrance iFinder). Anyway, I can't figure out at all how to change the date and time. It's about 15 minutes behind time, and it says it's August 18th (it's not). How do I change the date and time!?!? Thanks so much!

Well I guess it's nice when people recognize my dog (the Caching Schnoodle) and then they know who I am. The Caching Schnoodle:

In Central New York State, the loneliest cache I'm aware of is Center Of New York State- Episode 1. It hasn't been found since January, and before that since April 2003, and before that since September 2002. That's if for logs. I just don't think people want to do all that bushwhacking for a virtual, even though the concept for the cache is great.

No one has to visit a cache before they approve it. There's no way the approvers could manage that anyway. 6 days is still an okay time, although you should check to see if your approver has left a note on the cache page. .

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I'm a kid who is in school 5 days a week. I can't drive a car. There are people in my area of definitely qualify as FTF-fanatics (that's not a bad thing). However, I've got 2 FTFs. What you have to do is have a cache, just by chance, be placed in an area you'd go anyway. One FTF was on a cache that was on a system of trails behind a supermarket. As we go to the supermarket anyway, a little detour was no trouble. The other one was near where one of my parents works. You might not be able to become at real competitor in the FTF game, but you can have a chance sometime.

I was interested to see that the cache that you've found is one that I found too. If you look like you know what you're doing and watch your surroundings, parks like that won't be any trouble at all. Also, there's some caches in the area that we aren't going to do. For a local example, the caches in the old Split Rock quarry. There's probably nothing wrong with them, but we still aren't going there. It's the "trust-your-instinct" thing that's already come up a lot in this topic.

I feel enlightened and I live in the US! I never knew lamp posts were like that!

Yes they are. I'm 14. I'm not into Boy Scouts obviously, but I was a Girl Scout for a few years. I got sick of it when all we did was art projects and dropped out. Right now my second favorite hobby is amateur radio. What band do you hang out on? What's your callsign? I just got my tech license in February, and I'm still hanging around 2 meters. I'm in a club at school, and a main thing for year is for everyone to upgrade their license, so I hope to be on HF soon! Our other project is radio control (aircrafts). We have a Youth Net on a local 2 meters repeater every Wednesday night. For now my callsign is KC2MOK. By way of teenagers geocaching, our club did a geocaching-event (not listed on the site) thing at a local park one time last year. So you can count the 15-20 people there as teen geocachers, although only 3 of us geocache independently.

Yes they are. I'm 14. I'm not into Boy Scouts obviously, but I was a Girl Scout for a few years. I got sick of it when all we did was art projects and dropped out. Right now my second favorite hobby is amateur radio.

It's a great activity for teens. When I started geocaching I was 13. Good luck!

We were the FTF on a cache and while we were just getting the cache out and signing the log some more cachers came by...so I'd say they missed it by like a minute and a half! Edit: Making plurals match (grammar stuff!)

There's a big difference between a TB and a cacher.

Charity walks can be great times to find geocaches. The local CROP walk follows a path that passes 3 geocaches (I own 2 of them) and I will probably check on mine and perhaps introduce some people I'll be walking with to the activity. It should be fun.

One thing I've noticed is that the tan/yellow color used to signify owned caches has come back to the search results, but on the Geocaching.com maps. When you do an 'Identify' search, they still are either green or white with the MY->...This isn't a big deal, but it confused me at first glance. Just a note.

I looked at those maps like the 1st or 2nd day after I discovered geocaching. For months I've been trying to figure out how I'd done it. Duh! Thanks for posting that info!!!

The rest of the show was good too; I watched the whole thing. The had an interesting segment about using GPS to fight forest fires. The geocaching piece was quite accurate and probably have been nearly the same with almost any geocacher out there. Edit: Question answered by post above!

Yeah, that's the same thing I thought of. I have adopted 3 Abzug and Hayduke caches; the local ones are almost all adopted by various cachers. I would really encourage someone to (eventually) look into adopting JumpJunkie's caches. Cache maintainence can be sad, but it's so nice that the caches are cared for and still out there to be found. I'm really sorry to hear the news...

I've done this to do travel bug trading, or when I'm revisiting a cache with a friend. I understand your curiousity though; it's the same reason I enjoy doing unfiltered searchs and reading the online logs of caches I've already found. I always post a note so the owner knows that someone went to the cache, and I might compare the cache's state to how it was the last time I was there. Sometimes I use the note to include pictures as well, but that's just because I like taking pictures when I'm caching. If anyone thinks my caches are worth visiting more than once I'm very pleased!

I'm not from the DC area but I suppose I could help. If you haven't already you'll want to search Tysons Corners zip-code (22102) and see what caches are around that area. The first item, the Ash Grove Bug Hotel, looks like it might be a good one. Good luck and enjoy your trip!