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I'm not talking about logging them, although you should do that, I mean how often do you look for a cache and not find it? Lately I've been thinking that my family and I seem to do it a fair bit even though we've been caching for 6 years. So yeah, I was just wondering if it's more common than I think or if we're just lagging in our caching skills, haha.

No, because I really couldn't care less. I look at my souvenir page maybe twice a year, so even if it's cluttered I really don't care. Besides, summer is when I have more time to cache anyways.

I dreamed about finding a cache that we'd DNF'd a few times once. Next time we went back we found it although it wasn't where my dream said it would be.

If we actually get to search around and don't come up with the cache, I log a DNF. If we get there and there's muggles in the area or something, I usually log a note for that.

Before we went paperless, we'd take the printout and write which ones of us were there for the find and what date we found it on.

I want to try to get to 500 by the end of next year, but I'd be OK with 400. I've got an easy one lined up to do on February 29th so I can say I've cached on Leap Day. Other than that, keep having fun, fill in some missing D/T combos, and try to do some more multis and puzzles.

I talk to my friends about it sometimes and they're actually really into it. They don't have GPSs of their own so they just go with me sometimes, but we still have fun together. And our family loves caching on the Cape when we go for our vacation every summer.

For me, it really helps to have parking coords whenever I'm going somewhere I'm unfamiliar with. If it's a local park that I know well I may not need them, but still, there's others who would need them. In general, it's probably best to have them there.

Between August '08 and June '09 when I was just getting started. I did my first at a camp with their GPS, and the second GPS-less because we could tell the exact area it was in just from the map. But we didn't do any more until we actually got our own GPS, thus explaining the slump.

Did they write the log with the day they actually found the cache, or the day they wrote the log? If it was the day they wrote the log, try changing it to the day they found it.

We have 16 out of our 22 left to give.

You shouldn't really do it, no. If you want to, then go ahead, but be prepared for a lot of scolding. The practice is generally frowned upon.

Personally, I'm happy with this solution. Now, I might actually go do some challenges since they won't be in my find total.

Earlier this morning, logging in took a while but everything else worked fine. Now I logged in OK, but everything else is slow. Hmmm... EDIT: Now I got a message saying "The service is unavailable. Server too busy" Is anyone else seeing this?

The dates are sort of there, but they aren't exactly the dates. Like instead of saying "August 18" on the ones we found today, it says "Today", and then it goes on to ones like "about 19 days ago" and then as generic as "about a year ago." I probably agree that it isn't my favorite feature, but I guess I can live with it. It's ridiculous. "About xx days ago"....how stupid and wishy-washy. Yeah, I don't really like having to whip out a calculator to see when 19 days ago was. But in all honesty, it is pretty annoying. I agree that the cache pages were just fine the way they were; short, sweet, to the point, and easy to read. Now the pages are huge, and the avatars can be really distracting.

The dates are sort of there, but they aren't exactly the dates. Like instead of saying "August 18" on the ones we found today, it says "Today", and then it goes on to ones like "about 19 days ago" and then as generic as "about a year ago." I probably agree that it isn't my favorite feature, but I guess I can live with it. Although it doesn't help that about half the people don't have avatars, so it just shows that creepy generic face. *shudders*

My thoughts exactly. If challenges get listed as part of my finds, I'm probably not touching another challenge again.

Looking at all these just makes me want to say this:

Excuse me while I facepalm, I guess I did just read that it was 1000 caches per PQ. Oh well, thanks for the help anyways!

When it says that you can run up to 1000 PQs, does that mean that you can have up to 1000 sitting there at a time, or that you can only run 1000, and then you're done forever?

I don't think anybody's ever come up to us and asked what we're doing, but it may be because I ward them off with the fake cellphone bit with my GPSr.

Where can I buy one?

That's basically what the family car looks like, with the occasional use of a Ford Explorer. So obviously we have to hike to everything.

You probably need to enter them as a seperate waypoint. That's what I usually do.

We looked for the 2nd stage of GCG9PQ at least 4 times. It didn't exactly help that the cache was missing though. Once it was replaced, we got it. For the longest time, GC19W9E stumped us. We looked for it first in May '10 after it hadn't been found for around 8 months, and couldn't find it. Then we went back after it was found a couple of times this June. Still nothing. Finally got it after we emailed for a hint. It was a really tough cache that we were looking in completely the wrong area for.