spyder8
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It seems a brand new user somehow has 20 TB's listed as found in 1 day -
I don't know if he is messing with things, as there are no log entries -
Is there a way to search and list the TB's found by a single user ID -
ID = "Travel Bug"
http://www.geocaching.com/profile/Default....2f-12b6582c0e23
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I was looking for a topic regarding the Geocaching merchandise, but didn't really see a main topic relating to the Geocaching store, or to the more general topic -
I wish there was a main category just for "Geo merchandise" -
I like these stores -
http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/search/?q=geocaching
and I like the logo "got signal" -
A nice group shirt might have with a local logo on the breast,
with the larger "got signal" on the back -
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I'd like to see another major section to discuss Geocaching items and assoc that are for sale -
I've noticed that there are several sites on the Internet offering variations of shirts, and other tagged items for sale -
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the shipping costs for the small items seem rather high ?
ie - everything seems to have a basic shipping cost of UPS $6.85 -
which seems like a lot of money to ship things that could be mailed
with a First Class envelope for 37 cents
or even via the US Post Office for $3.85
Phil -
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I was a FTF a new micro that was hidden in a Forest Preserve in the western suburbs of Chicago. It is nice area, with paths, etc...
We are trying to teach our Boy Scouts - "leave no trace" - and more and more of these caches are hidden in a manner that requires new bushwacking paths to be trampled thru the brush, along with broken branches, etc... It may not matter much around here as there is plenty of growth to replace it - but I certainly would not want to do this all the time in more fragile areas. As we learned out at Mt. Rainer & Mt. St. Helens - "don't be a meadow stomper" -
I guess I just don't understand the "thrill" or the "fasination" of hiding a cache way back in the woods that requires a lot of bushwacking, thorns, trampled meadows, broken branches, etc.... to get to the cache.
Yeah, it may make it more adventerous, but I certainly can start to understand why communities, agencies, and land owners don't want their areas "trampled" by Geocachers -
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Well - thanks for having this thread. I was wondering the same thing and the thread helped sort out the mystery of the new Tadpole name vs the old Geocacher name -
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ok - another variation of the TB transfer -
If I have a TB in my possesion,
how can I handoff the TB to another user for placement -
ie - We happen to meet on business,
and he offered to take home and place a TB for me -
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I have not seen an easy way to search for user information & profiles from the main pages. In fact, there really is not a high level general "search" command entry point on the left nav boxes, or the main pages...
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I have them here in Chicago - and wanted to mail them to a friend in Oregon, and let them take over the description, goal, images, etc -
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I have a few new TB's dogtags that are sitting on the desk,
and I did not place as yet, but I have "activated" them -
Is there a way or facility to transfer "ownership" to another registered cacher,
so that I can give some away without having to acquire new ones -
or - to "un-activate" them.... and I can send them with the activate codes -
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Several folks I know have bought the new Garmin Legend.
I downloaded the manual - and started flipping thru it.. Wow, it's like reading thru another operating system set of menus.
I wonder how all that GPS Windoze menus and command levels compare to my simple set of commands with my Garmin 12. It's like having so many functions and capabilites that it becomes more difficult to just do simple tasks.
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bug ??
I'm not sure if this was always the case,
but I just noticed that the "watch travel bug" upper right corner selection
seems to be a toggle - I was blindly going thru a list of bugs, and clicking on the "watch this TB" when I noticed they were getting "removed" - instead of being "watched" - so it must be a non-displayed toggle -
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we recently had a situation where a cache was located in a wooded area directly under some overhead high-voltage power lines. The GPSr seem to give erratic readings the closer to the power lines. Has anyone else experienced this behaviour near high-voltage power lines. ???
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It just seems to me, that after dragging around the western suburbs of Chicago, there appears to only be a few placement opportunities :
- local forest preserve, state park, etc
- local municipal park or land area
- * private corporate campus or land area
- * private residential, farm, or land area
- national forest
- ?? - what else is there ?
I have also encountered some "no trespassing" signs in the (*) private corp woody settings, that scared me off a few caches -
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hi -
just started, and it is fun
However, after our last find...I was wondering about how the caches are really being placed ?
Are folks putting them in their local area without "official" permission as dictated by the Geospeak agreement ????
To me, it would seem very "difficult" to get some "agency person" to allow the placement -
ie - some of my first couple of finds....
- cache on local univ property
- cache on local Forest Preserve property
- cache on community park property
just wondering - if folks are really going thru the hassle of even attempting to get "permission"
How To List A User's Tb Finds
in Trackables
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Thanks for the note about the profile "travel bugs" being a hotlink - to a list -
At least on my screen, only the "bug" is the hotlink,
and the "text desc" is not hotlinked....so never noticed -
http://www.geocaching.com/track/search.asp...2f-12b6582c0e23
The only reason I mentioned the topic,
was that my TB was one "found" and "replaced" -
and yet it appears to be physically missing from the cache -
I'm up in Chicago - and the cache is down in Florida -