Brooklyn51

That sounds like an awesome gift to someone who is involved and enjoys geocaching. A trackable FTF tag will almost certainly be taken from any cache it is left in, hopefully to travel far and wide and for a very long time. There will always be that risk, though, that it could vanish from the grid at some point (all trackables run that risk) The only way to keep track of a trackable forever is to never release it to a cache, but where's the fun in that? Kudos on the cool gift!

We just started using our Android to geocache with. It works pretty well, but today we solved a field puzzle and we figured out how to put in a waypoint but when we try to navigate to the waypoint using the maps it doesn't give us an option. We entered the waypoints in the compass and we do get the waypoint to show up as an option there just not in the map. Since the waypoints were a mile away from where we were the comapss feature wasn't that useful for driving purposes. Any hep? Thanks.

I'm sorry - I'm rather new. I've read a few forum posts lately that mentions Jeeps. What is it about? A few years ago, Jeep, yes, the truck company, put out a series of Jeep TBs for geocaching. They were immensely popular to find, so much so, in fact, that many disappeared off the grid within a fairly short time. Whether or not this was done by neophytes who didn't know what they were, muggles who found them accidently or just plain unscrupulous cachers adding them to private collections is pure spectulation. There are still a few out there but are very rare. If you do find one, enjoy it but take some care to place it in a good "safe" cache. BTW there are other company themed TBs floating around too, like the Geico Gecko TBs...

It can be helpful sometimes to walk away, maybe 30-40 feet, from where you think GZ (Ground Zero) is and come back to it from a different direction, especially if there is more than one likely hiding spot. And sometimes it helps to do this several times, a kind of triangulating if you will. This is otherwise know as the drunken bee dance. Most of us know some variation of it well. Then once you have a better idea where GZ is, again it's time to put the GPSr away and look around.

So did you put it together then? Just curious..

kudos for thinking outside the box though.

I would guess that it's very unlikely to work as you might think. The magnetic field from a nano's magnet would be very small and very local. Someone would have to pass the compass directly over the nano and if one needs to be that close to the container in order to see an effect on a compass, it would probably be easier to just look with one's eyes. I have to agree with NYPaddler. Try a slightly larger container for the ivy and save the nano for a magnetic surface.

Gitchee-Gummee posted some good stuff .Have a look at this too: http://www.geocaching.com/guide/default.aspx Besides having a wealth of great information on geocaching in general, there is a section on trackables (travel bugs and geocoins) that you may find helpful.

You can edit your cache page by going to the menu on the right side of your cache page under "Navigation" and clicking on "Edit Listing". You will be taken to the page as when you first submitted it for review. (it won't be reviewed again though) Make whatever changes you need to, be sure to click the 2 boxes near the bottom that states that you read the terms and the guidelines and you're good to go. The changes will happen immediately. To change your attributes, click on "Edit Attributes" instead.

When we DNF a cache this is the information we write in the log for the DNF.

As cache owners we appreciate a DNF log. We normally check the "experience" level of the cacher who DNFed it and consider how hard the hide was to begin with. We usually will disable the cache and go check on it. Our disappointment is more with a cache that has several DNF logs on it and the CO hasn't bothered to explain in a note or hasn't gone to check on the hide. To be honest, our team is probably inclined to pass by a cache that has the last few entries as "DNF" without a note from the CO that the cache has been checked on and, in fact, is still there or been replaced. But over all, like the earlier poster: The less we worry about how others play the game, the more fun we have playing it.

You can put any information you think will be helpful to the reviewer to help her/him review the placement of the cache. For instance, you could mention that you got permission for placing the cache at that spot or that a potential hazard that shows on the map is not a hazard at all because of the fence that separates it from the general area. Reviewers don't have anywhere near the time or fortitude I imagine, to look for the all the caches they review. They just review your submissions for compliance to the rules of the game, which is still one heck of a job. Kudos to all of our reviewers!

"The quickest way to a cache is not usually a straight line"

The comments from the other cachers are there. You just need to know where to look. When you first enter the home page, you can either click on "Geocaches" or on your own name in the upper right. Either one will show you the logs you've entered for your most recent finds. If you then click on the blue words of the title of that cache, you will be brought to the cache page and there you will see all of the other logs from previous finders. Feel free to explore the site and look around. You mention that you dropped in a trackable, but it isn't showing on the cache page. You may want to log it in so the that the owner will know where it is. Check out this link, esepcially the part about trackables: http://www.geocaching.com/guide/default.aspx Lots of good general info there. Feel free to ask more questions here too. And above all, have fun!

Try selecting a map datum called WGS 84. That one seems to be a standard setting.

I was thinking the same thing. Thanks for laying the question out so well. The Oregon 550t is great unit but it does have a few quirks.

totrama- I have noticed the same thing. If I modify the coords on a puzzle cache for a cache that I have already have on my 550t, say from a PQ or a previous download, it will not change or update the file on my GPSr. It's something that has been bugging me for a while but I've never known what to do about it. Deleting the gpx on the GPSr doesn't seem to help. I just been put in a waypoint for them. But if it's cache that I have NEVER EVER had on my GPSr, the modified coords copy over just fine. Go figure.

A while back, I read about about a little test you can perform that helped me get some perspective on the accuracy of our GPSr and how that can change over a fairly short time. Turn "tracking" on if your unit has the abiity (it's the feature that lets you track your trail over a distance so you can backtrack) and set the GPSr down on a spot that's fairly open to the sky. Let it just sit there for 10-15 mintues and then take a look at the "trail" your GPSr made while just sitting all by itself. You will probably see a zig-zag star-like pattern on your screen. GZ moves around as the satellites change position and configuration, atmospheric conditions affect the readings, tectonic plate movement and so on. It helps if you remember this when you can't seem to get a good lock on GZ. Maybe walking away and coming back from a new angle will help. edited fer speling

I've seen that as well from time to time. I think it just means the server is a little slow on that particular occasion that you're looking at the list and the data simply hasn't fully loaded/updated yet. Next time, you will most likely see it as it's supposed to be.

We once had a cache that was washed out of its hiding spot after a very heavy rain and into a nearby creek. It was found some distance away from its original spot, but the finders were able to identify it by matching some of the names in the log with the online logs of the likely candidates of caches in the area (another good reason to sign the log )and contacted us. Short of going back to where you stashed the cache, you could try to contact the owner of the cache that's listed on the nearby site and see if you can get a match that way. It's possible the CO already knows it's missing but may not know where it went -or- the cache might simply be a remnant of an archived cache from days gone by.

If you have the coordinates and the patience to look for an archived cache, there's no reason to not log it if you find it. Keep in mind, though, that an archived cache should have been removed by the CO or might have been archived for the very reason that it's missing, so you may not find anything. This would probably be one of those times when you wouldn't post a DNF But if you find it.. log it. On a similar note, inasmuch as an archived cache that is still out in the wild is really just so much geolitter, I wouldn't remove the cache without the express permission from the CO or failing that at least a very very clear indication that it has been abandoned; ie, the last log was months or more ago

The are lots of resources around.. if you know where to look for them, of course. Try Googling 'geocaching puzzles' Here's a couple of links to get you started: http://www.purplehell.com/ Purple Hell is good general puzzle website. lots of cool info there. http://coord.info/GC25WQJ this is actually a puzzle cache site but has a ton of good info on it. I'm sure there are plenty of others on here who can give you more info as well. Good luck!

Looks like Pikacu knows him. He contacted him the last time. See earlier post from Pikacu.

Looks like geocheck.org isn't working again. It's not showing up on any of our cache pages and I can't go directly to it.

We have a cache in a city park that we had to register with the parks and rec board to place. It is hundreds of feet from a house way back off a woodsy trail, but the parking lot is a cul-de-sac at the end of a short street with some pretty ritzy houses on it. The FTF cacher called us to say that a neighbor had just called the police on him. The cacher was just minding his own business (it was 8:00 pm and the park doesn't close until 10:00 pm), sitting in his car logging the cache when the neighbor came up, stood at the back of his car and called his license plate into the police (at least supposedly did that.) The cacher waited 15 minutes to talk to them but they never showed up so he left. The next day another cacher found the cache and he was returning to his car when the police pulled up and asked him what he was doing. He replied "geocaching." to which the two high-fived each other and the one said "told you!" The police said that a neighbor had reported two men walking into the woods and only one returned so she was sure that the other had been murdered. Geesh! I guess maybe it isn't always a bad thing to have a neighborhood watch dog--but in this case she got it all wrong, the cacher was by himself. So she wasn't a very good watchdog! Since then the cache has been found many, many times without incident. Go figure!