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I believe you are right on that one. So I get to keep my spots till someone tries to move in on them. I'm gonna go with this answer. I held a spot...way out in the sticks...for something like 2 years, with every intention of hiding a cache there, until I was asked if that spot was still available. Then I realized that after 2 years, maybe I didn't have all that much intention of hiding one there, and let the other person have it. Oh well, one more cache for me to find.

OK, confirming that the Cabela's ad has the 62s for $199.99 and the eTrex 20 for $169.99 in the Feb 27-Mar 12 Spring Great Outdoors Days circular. The ad suggests it's only for the Kansas City store, but would guess all of them do as well. You "should" be able to follow my tip above to see if that's available near you. Can't tell if this is all sales or in-store only. Good luck!

Hmmmm My paper didn't have the circular from Cabelas. Is there a item # or code or anything I could use to call them and get it at that price? Ours is at home, and it'll be several hours before I can get to it to confirm. However, they usually mail one out in advance of a sale event, and this one may start this weekend. Folks on the mailing list get advance notice, then when the sale actually starts, that info will get posted. So here's a tip. Go to the homepage and select the store location near you. Towards the bottom of that page will be a link to current sales...but not upcoming deals. The circular posted now if for Feb deals...this one may start March 1. Will post back here later this evening.

It isn't shown on the website, but the latest Cabela's (2-24-14) mailer had them at $199.

There are those who believe that a log containing only "TFTC", or less, is equivalent to saying "this cache s.... stinks". However, they found the cache, signed the log book, and therefore get to claim the find. Deleting such an online log only opens the door for drama and angst between the finder and CO, and GS is going to side with the finder.

If you're talking about QR Travel Bugs, like these, you'll need to download a QR reader app to your phone. There are several free options for Android. I've found it is only easier in that scanning takes one directly to the TB's page, but then a log has to be entered via the phone, and phone logs are so often disappointingly short.

Multicaches, field projections, field puzzles....

I've got a 62s, with City Nav, a couple of topos, and a lake map installed. I use City Nav almost exclusively, but then again I live in Kansas (don't need no stinking topos! ) If you're not going to get too far from the beaten path, City Nav or the OpenStreetMap equivalent should do fine, but sometimes a topo will show a country road better...and they're free. Hope this helps

Another option would be to open your My Finds PQ in MapSource and/or Basecamp, and then either Save As or Export a CSV or Tab delimited file that goes straight into a spreadsheet.

There's a cacher in our neck of the woods who has been in the game since about day 1. He routinely went/goes to small local airports, borrowed the loaner car for a couple of hours, and hid caches all over the state. Can't go anywhere without stumbling across one of his caches; and for several years, couldn't complete the DeLorme or County Challenge without finding at least a handful of his caches.

OK, first off, cool coin design! Love the detail on the dog's head! Second, not trying to bash here, but there's a few problems (you did ask ) Maybe put together a list of issues so everyone can help out each on each one. So to start there, GS doesn't typically condone permanently attaching geocaching related items to stuff like trees, bridges, etc. Some might consider that defacing public/private property. Second, if this is a trackable number on the coin, you can only have one copy of that number in the wilds at a time (you've probably figured that out already). Third, these might be seen by Reviewers as "vacation caches", which are generally frowned upon. Especially since the maintenance plan is to permanently attach them to something. You should have a plan to maintain each stage of the Cache/Challenge. Fourth, depending in the total distance place-to-place (are we talking counties, states, countries, continents?), you may run into problems defining how such a challenge appeals to a significant number of cachers. While you may be going to cool places, how many other cachers will have an interest/be able to follow that path? Fifth, the verification requirement of taking a picture would probably be considered an ALR. Just my pre-cup-of-coffee observations. Maybe another way to do this would be to release a series of coins during your travels, each somehow leading back to a traditional cache. Find one or more of the coins, get one or more "rewards" of some type. Of course coins go missing and tracking numbers get abused at times....

It is common practice in some locations for some folk to pre-sign the log before the cache is placed so that they can can claim the FTF when it is published. Is that really a common practice? Another form of common practice around here. Once the FTF clique figured out that the Reviewer has a very reliable routine, they would (and still do) inform themselves when one of them has submitted a new cache. They will then all gather together at the designated time somewhere "nearby" waiting for the notification, then they all go grab a group FTF. These are usually claimed within mere moments.

If the first reviewer answered her, it would have ended there. The question would have to be answered one way or another, as ignoring someone does not solve the problem. Was there a problem? Only one other mentions PP after the OP. One with over 16,000 and one with over 95,000 finds just mention how tough the log was to access. Many cachers fail to report problems. Shame on them for burying their heads in the sand. And so what if I am cache police? The other cacher who complained, he happens to be the Deputy District Attorney for Contra Costa. And he is a cache police too. You'd think someone with 95,524 logged finds would know better by now.

I've seen it happen a few times, twice to me and a few others. Someone places a cache to be published on a certain date, and the Reviewer misses that note and publishes it "early" while dealing with their daily workload. Usually followed by a panicked email from the CO asking for the cache to be unpulished, and therefore made unavailable. If one can catch it while it is still available...easier FTF pickings. Just one more good reason to not overly burden your Reviewer with requests to publish on a certain day and/or time.

Just going with what you've provided: The reason for the agenda guideline is so that GS doesn't get into the position of choosing between any agendas, regardless of their worth or lack thereof. The text also bumps into the commercial guideline by mentioning local "businesses"; whether for-profit or for-charity. Just keep the description to the cache, and you should be good.

-5 days, resulting from a pre-publication snafu.

One other thing about the 62s, and higher, units; they have quite a bit of onboard memory for maps. I've got all of CityNav North America loaded on our 62s, and have our topos and other maps on an SD card. Just FYI...

I vaguely recall that imagery was updated, at least in the central US, and there may be a thread about it floating around here somewhere. My annual subscription was just about to expire at the time, and I had just finished downloading the areas I wanted...and didn't want to go through the process again. May have been around late 2012...

Wait one second there CTD...Are you suggesting that information found on the internet might NOT be true????

There's your problem.

Not exactly turning them off, but you can adjust the zoom level at which they'll display to a very small number, and they'll only show on the map when zoomed in "closer than that". A couple of ways to get to that menu, but from the Map screen, Menu > Setup Map > Advanced Map Setup > Zoom Levels > User Waypoints > choose your setting.

WNC, Sorry you got caught up in this mess, and hope you and the cachers of northern NJ don't get steam-rolled again.

My missing PQ just showed up. Thanks!

Same here. Had 3 out of 4 run successfully yesterday, and 3 of 3 today. Trying to rerun the one that didn't get generated yesterday, and am still waiting for it a couple hours later.

A time out? Really? You tried to open the doors for debate on an issue happening in the NNJC community and in return you are issued a time out. The members of NNJC have the right to be informed of what's happening in THEIR community as well as agree or disagree respectfully. There's absolutely no reason why this issue should be hidden from the members of NNJC. There's a display of power happening within this group which I believe should have no place within a geocaching community. It's a community, after all. Leadership? Yes, but not a dictatorship. "There must be no balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but organized peace." -Woodrow T. Wilson What bothered me, and maybe I expressed this earlier, was that my attempt to inform was purged without notice or warning and that the rebuttal from their President was allowed to stand. It left the NNJC membership with a defensive argument (the rebuttal) without a clear premise of why the long explanation and assumed justification of archiving was put in place to begin with. I sincerely hope that NNJC officers have had an opportunity to absorb the salient points made here (assuming they were allowed to visit this forum) and understand that their tactic is not beneficial to anyone. I also hope that they will apologize to the affected cachers who had their caches force-archived, apologize to those who were banned for expressing an opinion and informing their membership, and finally, re-think their practice of forcing a "privilege" onto those who have rights as cachers. This is a game. Period. Let's all play nice. Completely agree with this. Sorry to the folks who've been railroaded during this ordeal, but it seems this train's been rolling for quite a while: From The Groundspeak Blog, nomination for September: This was apparently written after the Griggstown episode of the same sad story. What's really odd is why this behavior gets so publicly rewarded? edit: quotation code