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I'll start by agreeing with this part of Briansnat's post above: I volunteered to help our State agency put together and publish their state-wide caching challenge a few years ago. One of the parks experienced a proximity issue with previously placed caches, and sure enough, the Manager requested all caches in that park (something like 8-10) to be archived to make way for their 2-stage multi. And that is exactly what happened. Plenty of room in that park for everybody to play nicely together. I'll disagree with this statement that has been made a few times in this thread, though: Yes, the land manager can request previously existing caches to be archived and removed, and Groundspeak must comply. The "final say" part, though, is getting their replacement caches published by Groundspeak. I'm not aware that KVSP, any other park or land management agency, in NJ or anywhere else, has any inalienable right to have their caches published on this website. I really hope GS chooses not to condone these shenanigans, especially if the backroom politics between KVSP and NNJC reported in this thread are accurate. If KVSP wants to have their own "caching thing" going on, let them put out however many private caches they want...unpublished on this site.

+1,000! I wonder if the reviewers/TPTB have the fortitude to stand up and say they will not participate in such petty turf wars. Guess we'll find out soon enough.

You're best bet for getting answers to GSAK questions is their own forums at www.gsak.net Very good service there.

I had purchased an eTrex Vista about a year before starting caching, mostly to mark hunting and fishing spots and some work-related activities (I know, using a GPS for something other than caching...heresy!) I had seen the geocaching icon on the GPS menu before, but never really gave it any thought. (Games?!? Play GAMES with this thing?!?!!!) The next spring, I was poking around the Wildlife and Parks fishing reports and found a link to a statewide geocaching challenge (find a two-stage multi in every state park, win a weekend at a cabin). I remembered seeing that strange word on the GPS, put 2 and 2 together, loaded up the nearest waypoint and ran off to find our first ammo can at the park about 5 miles from home. This made me realize caching could check-off two of my bucket-list items, visiting every state park and finding something outdoors that we could do with our then 11-month old. Instant addiction! Even our now 6 year old has his own account.

I'm going off very distant memory, but if your GPS has a SiRF Star chip, the SW version will have an "s"; and if you have the Mediatek chip, the SW will have an "m". They are not interchangeable.

Re: the bolded bit...because the app would have to show the user a sufficient number of caches anywhere in the world to keep them interested enough in the game to continue playing. The only source for those caches right now are existing ones. Any alternative to using existing caches would require a large number of "Intro" caches to be placed all over the world. Remember, new cachers don't just pop-up in the large mega-metropolises, the app would have to cater to anyone everywhere. As for virtual finds, I would think a very new cacher would have a far better first experience finding an actual container, rather than following the app to some random spot, and having it proclaim "Congratulations! You're Here!" And from CR's previous post: Another way to phrase this would be, "do you want your potential customers thinking LPCs, GRCs, and smelly dumpsters are what caching's all about from the very first find,..." As has been often said, how one gets introduced this sport has a large part in how they see and play it into the future. Speaking from recent personal experience, we've had a significant growth in our local caching community in the last several months, and most of their early finds were film cans in road signs. And guess what, there's been an overall proliferation of film cans and bison tubes, even in places where one could safely hide a Buick let alone an ammo can. Why??, because "that's how this game is played...right?" If a new cacher makes it through the Intro app in whatever form the app takes, and gets hooked on the game, they'll get to those caches eventually. I don't think the app has to include only the best of the best....just take a good swipe weeding out those caches which give a less-than-desirable first impression.

On my 62s, I went to Main Menu > Proximity Alarms > Enter. Since I have no alarms set, I hit Menu and get a selection popup for Change Units > Enter. That gives a radius units selection pages of miles, yards, feet, KM, meters, and Nautical Miles. If I select Feet, I can then set up an alarm for a waypoint/cache, and the units are in feet. Does that help?

I just did a quick check of a profile of someone who is currently holding one of my TBs. Under the Trackables tab on their profile, it only shows that they have logged 1 TB (mine) but that does not indicate that they still have it, only that they logged it once (Discovered, grabbed, or retrieved). One would have to then go to each TB's page to see the TB's current logged location, which does not take into consideration a logging error of some type (forgot to log it into a cache). I imagine trying to track down one trackable would get pretty labor-intensive for an experienced cacher with a long history with trackables. Hope this helps. edit: error with error

Kansas GC1QA53 - Island Drum GC44514 - Quadrumanous GC1NCR0 - Drum Bridge GC1VRTM - Drumribbet

I think the majority of users of those GPSes, at least in North America use the WAAS function, unless they're in a specific situation where they're trying to squeeze every last second out of a set of batteries...or they don't know about it. I've used a 76CSX and now a 62s and have enabled WAAS on both and never changed that setting. IIRC, WAAS is turned off as a factory default setting. For the 62s, from the Main Menu > Setup > System > GPS > WAAS/EGNOS. Yes, it improves accuracy; no, it does not shorten satellite lock speed. Hope this helps.

How about "31 Days of Caching: August xx"

Another source, Science Bob. 30 for $18.95, plus shipping.

Why on the world would you think anyone would want to read about that? Why in the world would you want to make an issue of it?

OK. Every state has a wildlife management agency, each has a webpage that more-than-likely publishes the various seasons, may have a list of public hunting areas, legal hours, days, etc.. There is a lot of variation between state-to-state and season-to-season, but good information to know. Avoiding these areas during season is a good idea..hunters only get so long to enjoy their season, caching can be done year 'round. Avoiding very early or late hours of the day (usually prime hunting times) is another good idea. But, if you find yourself in an area where hunting is allowed, you DO NEED TO BE CONSPICUOUS!!! A muggled cache is not worth an unfortunate accident... EVER!!! (Sorry for the shouting) Any cache can be replaced or even archived. Other things can't.

Good for the OP on trying to reduce their use of fossil fuels. However, the impact of geocaching is a drop in the bucket compared to other hobbies. As someone mentioned above, let's look at boating. According to the US Coast Guard(WARNING, large file size), there were 12,101,936 registered recreational watercraft in the US alone in 2012. Abount 6 times the number of caches ever listed on this site. In my experience, boats get way less mileage and have far greater emissions then most on-road vehicles. And that's not counting the fuel of the vehicle towing them back and forth. Using less fuels, saving more...all for it. Using geocaching as a platform to advance a worthy agenda...IMHO, caching is already one of the greener hobbies.

There are multiple ways to do this. The easiest may be depending on the type of GPS you have. If it's a handheld, it should have some mapping software that allows you to download and display the caches; example Garmin has MapSource and Basecamp. These would also allow you to rename the caches, or make a list of which to chase first. Second, as a PM, you could make a bookmark list of these caches, and then run a PQ off that Bookmark list. On your PQ page is an icon to "Preview on Geocaching Maps". Maybe even easiest would be to just run and load the PQ to your GPS, and navigate from there. This would even work on a phone.

RedKori,child waypoints (parking areas, trailheads, etc.) should be named somewhat similarly to the parent cache. If the parent is GC12345, the parking waypoint should be something like PR12345. Having lots of child waypoints displayed can be confusing, just go by the cache number. As for secondary stages of multis, that's easy. Begin navigating to a multi-cache. When you get to the first stage, and beginning at the Map Screen, press Menu > View Geocache > Enter Next Stage. Those added waypoints will remain associated with the original multi and you can navigate directly back to the cache description page without stopping the navigation (from the Map, Menu>Show Description). HTH

Well, we're only up to 31 responses. My response...NO! And that makes 32.

$0.63 cents per for a pack of 30.

Here's one example near us, I'm sure there are many similar: Kansas State University Just facts, no commentary or agenda. If the OP wants to provide a view of a new building under construction, they could name the cache after the building, say when construction was started, when it would be completed, and what it would be used for. The scenic vista will come with the smiley. As others have said, just facts, no agenda.

Are you trying to say that a GPS pressure sensor; by being located inside the pressurized portion of the airplane, will not give you an accurate reading of your current height? Aircraft still use pressure sensors to determine altitude and airspeed. During cruise/transit flight these are set to reference altitude to standard day sea level. That is one reason planes don’t fly into each other. Upon takeoff and landing they are set to "local" pressure so they know how high they are above the "local ground". GPS heights generally give you a distance above the ellipsoid (a model of the earth’s surface as it is not spherical but more like a squashed egg) not the ground. In some areas the ellipsoid matches reality quite well and in others they are quite inaccurate. This will also change with the geodetic reference system you happen to be using. I believe the aircraft's pitot tube (pressure sensor) is located outside of the pressurized cabin.

BTW, here's the main GeoTours link Some of these have been out for a couple of years or so by now... Was this re-eally worth cancelling a vacation over?

LOL, I want a Montana in that price range!

My 0.02...post another note to the page that the goal has been met and you're looking to return it to the owner. There's 5 people watching this bug; hopefully one of them is the person you're looking for, or maybe knows how to contact them. Beyond that, I'm not sure I would carry the investigation any farther. Others might, I wouldn't.

Needs to be reported to Groundspeak. How does one get all those souvenirs without any "found it" or "attended" logs? B. By posting a log...then deleting it. That's probably it. If so, some Cache Owners received mystifying "Found It" notifications. [EDIT] I'm guessing the Cache Owner would have logged his sock logs on his own caches. Not likely because all kinds of provinces of European countries, and many countries. Would also have to know the bounderies of districts in Europe Or use the map and select any cache at random. (of course, I had all cache types turned off to collect that link...). Yes, it would take some effort to get everything, but they certainly seem to have plenty of time on their hands already.