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There's a separate thread about it, and IMO it's unclear if they are planning to bring it back how it was or not. The map is now clickable to the full google map, but you still can't zoom/pan/etc. If you click on the "geocaching.com Google Map" link just to the left of the map, you get a full google map that you can zoom/pan/etc.

Well, some quick google-fu (seattle tourism) turned up a few sites that might be useful. http://www.pikeplacemarket.org/frameset.asp?flash=false http://www.seattle.gov/html/visitor/tourism.htm http://www.visitseattle.org/ http://www.experiencewa.com/

When I solve a puzzle, I add it to my "Solved Puzzlers" bookmark list and include my solved coords in the "comments" box. This way I never lose my solution. Then I put the solved coords into my GPSr as a waypoint. After I find the cache, I delete the waypoint and the bookmark and log it online. It's a simple system and it usually works for me.

Mine aren't so much geocaching as geographic. I have a dog named Juneau, and a cat named (Port) Ashton. Former pets include Shasta, Prince William, Bristol, Willow, and Virginia. The least geographic name I've used is Piper (Cub). Neither belongs to me, but I know two dogs named Garmin.

1- I haven't done it, myself. What I have done is gone around the long way, Anchorage-Palmer-Glennallen-Tok-Fairbanks-Denali-Wasilla-Anchorage. It was pretty fun and the roads don't carry the same types of warnings. 2- Check out http://geocachealaska.org/alaskacacheinformation.htm It has lists of favorite caches from several Alaskan cachers. Also, here's a cut-and-paste of my answer to a similar question. I kind of like tourguiding by geocache! Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, I'd be glad to answer them. Enjoy your stay here. I'm sure you'll have a great time!

Great idea on the challeneg - perhaps this could be the new level then - 5 or 10 EC's in a single state/country? It wasn't my idea - it's just a challenge cache I came across near my home coords: GC21QXG If you liked that one, there's more! There's another EarthCache challenge cache nearby. It's kind of like tic-tac-toe using EarthCache topics to make a line. It's hard to explain but if you check it out, I'm sure it will probably make more sense: GC1ERJ8

I'm in Alaska. As of right now, I have 6 logged finds and 6 more I have yet to log. I have 0 in states/countries other than Alaska. For me to find an EarthCache to even obtain my Bronze level, I'd have to either fly or have a passport/enhanced ID and drive at least 12 hours each way. As of right now, I also do not have sufficient leave from my job to take a trip of this nature. I'm working my way toward a local challenge cache - 20 Alaskan ECs. At a minimum, this will require a road trip of at least 8-10 hours each way (but no border crossing). These are the cards I have been dealt, and I will do the best I can with them.

Put me down for Josh Bernstein. President of the Boulder Outdoor Survival School, so you know he's got skills and a huge appreciation for nature. He was the host of "Digging for the Truth" and showed how very smart and nerdy and funny he is, so you know he'd be fun out there. Plus...he's super good looking.

If I don't like a hide, I generally don't say anything. It was my choice to find it, and I usually had enough information going in to have at least some idea of what I was looking for. I don't remember ever feeling "zonked". However, I have reported a couple of caches to my local reviewer because I felt they might be guideline violations. Two were buried caches. One had significant religious overtones (not so much on the cache page, but definitely with the hide itself). I'm not sure what else happened, but at least I said something. As a cacher, it's not my job to police the hides or enforce the guidelines, but I do feel I have something of a responsibility to tell the reviewers if I see something questionable (especially since they're not local and wouldn't see it themselves).

I found glass pipe at a CITO event, set carefully on top of a lighter in a small hole on the side of a hill. I picked it up with a dog drop bag and handed it off to a friend.

LOL. I'm in Alaska. Depending on who you ask, we don't have urban, either. I'd have been peeved with that hide, too. I'm short too, even for a girl. Luckily though, I can usually manage to roll up the logs - except in the wintertime. It's impossible to do with gloves on, and almost impossible with frozen fingers.

Well, my cousin is a geologist... I don't have any formal training, just nerdery and a love of the outdoors.

While we're at it, I'm going to declare that Alaska Style is disguised as a salmon (before someone else decides that it has something to do with a snow pile).

+2 Strongly agree. My ignore list is empty right now, but a nano in the woods would almost certainly change that. I'm not against any specific type of cache container, but I do think that a container should be suited to its surroundings. Urban environments make better use of the nano's features.

This stuff: http://www.alpenglowskincare.com/html/insect_repellent.html rules. It's a 100% natural, citrusy scent and smells so nice that I've had people ask me what perfume I'm wearing. Despite living in Alaska and venturing into what is most assuredly bear territory, I haven't experienced any problems (or even any near-problems - touch wood). I also haven't had any problems with bugs bothering me, unless they're exceptionally bad bugs. For those times, I also carry 100% DEET, which I hate using because of the smell, the texture, and the nature of the chemical.

I found some erm..."glassware" and a lighter while doing a CITO. I'm not into that kind of thing, but I do have some friends who were pretty happy to receive my swag.

That is more of a fantisy than a thought experiment. Responsible gun owners have their guns locked. If a kid is devious engough to find the key, he sertanly is devious enough to find the ammo in the house. One bullet in a cache is not the problem. Not to mention, an inexperienced kid wouldn't even find the correct gun to use. Also, even though I do usualy sign the log while the kids look at the stuff, I always keep one eye on the kids. ***These posts I am making are not trying to say that a .22 shell is a good swag item. Indeed they should not be used as swag. I am just trying to help people that a .22 shell is realy not as dangerous as some of you are making it out to be. I can appreciate that it isn't extremely likely, but it is plausible. That's why it's a thought experiment. Einstein famously had a thought experiment about traveling on a motorcycle at the speed of light. I would reckon that's a bit more fantastic than my little story. While most gun owners are responsible, there are incidents every day in which children get their hands on guns. Just this week, a 3 year old in my city shot himself and died. The point is that while we might be responsible gun owners, we do not know if the parents/family/neighbors of our kids' friends are. As for the point that a kid who could get his hands on a gun could also get his hands on ammo, I have to admit that I drew that scenario from my own life. My dad had a gun cabinet that he used to display his un-loaded guns. The key was on top of the cabinet. I could get into it by the time I was 8. He kept his ammo in a safe. I couldn't get into that, which is probably why he felt comfortable using the cabinet. I would have had my choice of firearms with various styles and calibers. Of course, this was the 80s, and everybody is so much more safe these days.

How's this for a thought experiment? Young geocacher and parent geocacher find a cache. Parent geocacher busies him/her self with the log book while young geocacher checks out the swag. Young geocacher takes a live round, unbeknownst to parent geocacher. They are, after all, small objects which one can easily conceal on one's person. Young geocacher shows his/her new prize to young friend and everybody is still having fun. Eventually, young geocacher and/or young geocacher's friend find themselves access to a firearm. Gun owner, thinking him/her self relatively responsible, had stored it unloaded but neglected to lock it up (or perhaps clever youngster figured out where the key was hidden). Now is there danger? Always remember that kids are curious, and often a little smarter than we give them credit for.

Can't the owner of a cache mark TB missing that are not in the cache? They can now. I don't know if they could then. I am probably missing something but how is this different from "dipping" a TB ? It saves a step/log. Now you "drop" the bug with your log on the cache, and then "retrieve" with a log on the TB page. With the "viist" the two would be combined, it would be logged into the cache but never leave your inventory. That's one part of it. The other part is that you can't "dip" a TB into an EarthCache, ostensibly because there is no box to ceremonially dip it in.

I hid my first when I had about 100 finds. It's my best hide so far. One of my other hides is a park and grab micro - not particularly challenging. Another is a regular in the woods, but near a place where it's frequently - shall we say - re-appropriated by non-cachers (I'll probably end up archiving that one soon). My other two caches are ones that I adopted.

I'm going to be contrary and go with "unknown/not listed", on account of - despite its size - it probably wouldn't be feasible for trade items/trackables. Even if it had a wide mouth, it would probably be difficult to get things in and out (possibly even including the log).

Crazy glue isn't acetone... ~LOL~ Why use nail polish remover for my test? I have pure acetone at my disposal (among many other chemicals). I don't see anywhere in my post where I said Crazy glue was acetone. As for the nail polish comment.. it is more accessible to the general public these days. It is about 90% acetone. I have no problems buying it being a former boat builder and fiberglass tech with a degree in.. ah.. nm... Heck.. I could call Dow Corning and order a 55 Gallon drum of it. OK, you said Krazy Glue CONTAINS acetone... which I'm pretty sure it doesn't. And nail polish REMOVER is 70% acetone according to the last label I read. (I admit to being without nail polish remover at the moment). It doesn't. Acetone actually REMOVES Krazy Glue, according to their website.

Can't the owner of a cache mark TB missing that are not in the cache? They can now. I don't know if they could then.

As I understand it, TBs and geocoins can't be logged through EarthCaches because back in the days when it was allowed, folks used them as a TB graveyard. The rule became no box, no TBs. I understand this reasoning. I sure wouldn't want a whole heap of missing TBs cluttering up an EarthCache of mine. I have an idea to propose so we can solve that, I think. Maybe if they just had a "vist" action for TBs - and have that be the only option for ECs. Then folks could log their personal TBs and geocoins through caches with only one click, and the EC problem would no longer be an issue. I mention this as a geocacher who enjoys doing EarthCaches, and as someone who has a personal TB - my dog. She is featured in all my EC photographs, because it's just so much easier to shoot her than it is to find a place to set the camera, set the timer, run into the shot (with the correct backdrop), and still have a decent picture. I also say it as someone who enjoys seeing pictures of pretty spectacular scenery - which is likely to be found at many ECs. Although I haven't had too much luck with my TBs in the wild, I'd love to see pics featuring them at ECs. As for the personal TBs, I tried it last year and found it a little cumbersome, since you had to do at least 2 and sometimes 3 logs in order to log the cache, drop the bug, and then retrieve it. If it could be logged as a visit - in and out in one fell swoop, it would be easier for folks to do. The TB's log becomes a kind of travel journal which makes it easy to reminisce about adventures past.

I would appreciate that, too. You have to enter text for the TB logs, why not put that text on the TB page as well as on the cache page? It would make it much easier for the TB owner to keep apprised of his/her TB's adventures.