lamoracke

Most likely if they are from the United States and you are from outside USA, you will have no tracking number. The cost to get tracking overseas to Europe is pretty much prohibitive but its not as true in reverse.

There is one cache close to home called Squirrel Squash. We love it so when we want to show a cache to another kid, we often go there and once there, good time to swap swag and trackables.

If folks are saving caches for later, yeah its not accurate but really, am not sure its a big deal. I do have one friend who I know saved logging an earth cache for a special day, but really, its not something I worry about. If someone was totally butchering their numbers to qualify for say a 2 year streak and they only cache once a week, that would probably get noticed and if I learned that about someone it might make me feel less about their integrity but really, I do not feel its worth worrying about. I like my dates to be accurate so its a record of when/where I was so if I logged I went to Blank State Park I would not like my date to be a week off.

Wonder what the deal is with Chrome. They do not support my school's lecture platform, they do not support Geocaching's plugin, Chrome used to be the best. I get around the Geocaching thing by using GSAK but occasionally I liked the ability to just quickly download one cache into my Garmin but now I can't. Just silly I cannot.

I have one bookmark lists which has 21 positives and 2 negatives so they do happen. Personally I think its kind of mean to negatively rate a bookmark list anonymously, just don't use it then. I have a couple of others with a rating or two. One thing I have noticed is that these bookmark lists I have used for challenge caches never get rated. I just do not think its done much. I either make them for my individual challenges or make detailed ones for challenges I qualify for, ratings do not seem to apply to those, at least for me.

Ding Ding Ding - We have a winner. As a challenge cache enthusiast, I cant imagine that many challenge caches that would be helped by this. If folks are going to pretend to log a cache, they would do it without challenge caches just as easy.

Dunno, I had 92 of them before they went poof.

Had some other local ones WSPF - Get Outdoors Expo https://labs.geocaching.com/Adventures/Details/2a7c2d4b-1395-4376-850f-0702b0ee8fc7 Tri Cities Mega event - https://labs.geocaching.com/Adventures/Details/37a09a63-645a-4825-ad8d-cdc6a10e4411 Astoria Brewery Tour - https://labs.geocaching.com/Adventures/Details/c2f03a1f-e777-4eff-a48c-8d0c9ff2e391 One Eyed Willie Treasure Hunt (Goonies) https://labs.geocaching.com/Adventures/Details/124f7cdd-86c7-485d-8abb-82cbd5c28fd1 Cache Wars https://labs.geocaching.com/Adventures/Details/6c8e9ee8-7c20-4ada-8f47-4a5832036039

As someone who would not mind a new icon for challenge caches, I would not see the value of this particular one. It varies by area anyway. Yellowstone and Mount Rainier, two parks I just went to recently have a lot of virtual and earth cache ones already inside. So if you establish one, it would not incorporate those. I think it would be nice to just get new caches in National Parks, not worry about the icon. I do not see the need for this. Power trails do not need their own icon either as some have asked, not that there is a pure definition of them anyway. There are wilderness areas, state parks, national parks, indian reservations, national recreational areas....lots of places that need special permission as a whole to get caches in and possibly high fees and to make a special icon for just one kind? Do not feel its needed, just my opinion. Many national parks have a buttload of caches just outside the boundary. Mount Rainier for example has dozens and dozens of caches on the mountain, but are just not passed the gate where the fee area is.

Not much you can do about it, just be a good example yourself. You expect to see copy and paste logs on say power trails, I mean, the more caches one does on a day the less likely they will say something original. As a person in GeoArt I do sometimes think its annoying that someone posts, "loved your puzzle, TFTC" but had said that on all 45 caches so obviously they did not really mean that on mine. However, just delete the email and move on, not much you can do. I try to write unique logs, just appreciate the logs you enjoy more and be a good example logging the way you like to see logs on your caches.

Personally I would be happy to see some limited webcams brought back. Maybe make them very limited, premium members only, let each state or region only be allotted so many, you have to show the link of a webcam you want in advance and be told as a cache owner if you do not police your webcam finds that the cache will be archived etc etc. Folks are so worried that webcams are not geocaches and they are entitled to that opinion but I think a nicely done webcam adds variety. Maybe if they allow so many per region, they can have a lottery to see who gets them. Just throwing ideas out. I think many folks are frustrated that webcams have bogus finds (even though the vast majority of folks do not even have 20 webcam finds in their counts, folks get 20 caches in an hour on a power trail) so some system that would try to limit bogus finds and encourage responsibility ownership. If all virtuals were gone, all webcams were gone, all challenges were gone, all puzzles were gone (some folks want all puzzles gone too), there would be a lot less variety in this sport and many folks I cache with like variety whether old caches, high favorites, different cache types, etc etc. I love it when a webcam is on my route and yes, that is partly because there are so few of them. I'd still like them if there were more.

Well, certainly have not been part of any group that had 4 or so vehicles. Once in a while you have 2 cars as you met someone while caching and you both pull up at the same time. Team names are fun. Have never been part of a caching day where one car went one way and one car went the other and we claimed finds for the day. Have not heard of that on cache machines either where you could have 4 or more vehicles at one cache usually by just coincidence or just the route. This example the CO is posting sounds like some things that folks would do on the power trails. I mean, when you have a situation where you have the same cache over and over where really there is nothing special about Cache #115 and #236 and #362, the idea of splitting off to get it over with quicker could possibly happen I bet, does not mean I am in favor of that, I just see it being more plausible happening on those type of power trails. I just personally do not do those type of caches so its not an issue for me.

We know they are not allowed anymore for new publishes, but they are still active caches, it would be nice if COs could do basic cache maintenance on them afforded to the other caches, like changing the coordinates 100 feet or transferring ownership or even temping the cache if there is a problem and then being able to enable it afterwards.

I was informed that webcams can not be transferred to other COs. I guess (my own speculation) the idea is to get them to all die off eventually. One of my big pet peeves. If Groundspeak wants to lock all new webcams and virtuals its one thing, but owners cant even change their coordinates, enable their cache, or transfer ownership. Just ensures they die quicker. The only way webcams will continue after COs pass away is family members taking over the account. That is just my opinion about webcams and virtuals in general, not about the reason this webcam got archived. Personally I hate to see any webcam go, especially with an active CO and a functional webcam, wish you could have made the sunrise request optional.

Depends. If I am on a trip, am going to have lots more variety to choose from, like when we go to Yellowstone, I have old caches, caches that help on challenges, high favorite caches, webcams, virtuals, interesting spots... but at home, often its just what I have not found if its say within 10 miles. If I want to go further, I try to find a nice hike I have not been to before or if a puzzle catches my eye or something new with favorites.

Why don't you send notes the the TB owners, since it is actually their job? If I got a note like that from you, I would ignore it. Whats wrong with thinking a CO could/should remove TBs that are not in the cache. TB owners may not be active anymore but a cache owner should be. If I get such notes, I quickly look at the inventory of my cache and if I see a TB which has been there for longer than the last few logs or some sort of eye test that its likely not there, I just mark it missing. Done, easy. Over with, that does not mean the coin is doomed, it just means its out of the cache so folks do not go looking for it in my cache. Not sure why that is not reasonable to ask cache owners.

I'd be for them in a very limited capacity. Maybe let each premium/charter member who has been active for x # of years be allowed to submit one and to a special reviewer team (am sure many folks would be willing). We do not need 1000s of them. Course, I'd like limited locationless caches back too, or at least a few back on a retro weekend. I think variety is fun. The last purely physical container that was allowed was a Wherigo back in 2008 but obviously we recently just got lab caches but those are not usually physical containers and are limited time so not the same thing.

$212, I cant imagine someone actually paying for that. Sometimes some items on ebay get fake bids when its a weird almost silly item that get attention on news sites or some other way to hype it up.

FYI, if I am scrolling through all the logs on my phone and see a log encrypted, I will make sure to read that one even closer. Once you get a lot more finds, say 10 or more, that one cache with a mild spoiler will be so far back most cachers will not even notice it.

Who says a CO can't delete their archive log? My sock just did. Right, they can delete their own archive log but perhaps I thought it was Groundspeak (Or reviewer) archiving it, then they would not be. Personally I think deleting your own archive note is wrong, why try to confuse folks by making folks guess what happened and when. Appeared they wanted to be done with it and if it caused confusion, so be it.

Thanks bud for that note, that would have been my guess, the CO archiving it. Well, nothing for it then, was their call. Sad to see any virtual go but if the CO has had enough, then its time.

That is strange, no archive notice at all. A CO cant delete that either. Why no archive notice I wonder? CO is still active. And one can document their answer by just emailing the CO three words so the gallery would not give an indication of found or not.

I have never understood why there are so many rules on moving caches and many of them due to the COs and what they say is allowed or not, assuming one can even understand them in full. There are supposedly rules they can't be at events, but heck, there were like 4 or 5 of them at the Woodstock when it was in Seattle. I see nothing wrong while in between grabbing a moving cache and dropping it somewhere new you let some friends find it. The type of cache I have seen the most folks getting bent out of shape on are moving caches. I'd still be happy to sign one, but am not going to go out of my way to find one ever again. Too much drama. FTF drama is preschool to drama on moving caches.

speaking of the Brazil Ape cache. There is a large group of cachers going later this year. About 24 of them. Wish I could go but I don't have the money these guys do. Well, there was sure a large group of Germans who just went. Course, I wonder what will happen with that cache, given the CO just passed away. It would seem you do not need a person living in the area to own that one. Yeah, I often joke if I win the lottery, I would go to Brazil and find it and take 10 of my friends with me, well, and the family.

I once checked how many logs I had online vs the paper log but never deleted any, it was an exercise in curiosity once. If an online log gets my attention, I might look at a particular log but I have never felt the need to go through all the signatures and delete logs not there. Even if I found one missing, its not like I own the Ape cache in Brazil, was hopefully just an honest mistake.