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Sounds interesting. Not virtuals as we know them (and wanted them back) , but an interesting concept none the less and atleast it does appear they will form part of your overall stats

What is this obsession with favourite points? We've done fine without them for years. Great caches, and even just reasonably good ones, get discussed by cachers and suggested as "must dos" at events. Some of the best caches I've done, don't have any favourite points. As a CO, I prefer reading a nice log, over getting a favourite point any day of the week and it will be a sad day indeed if new cachers start to get the idea that submitting a "TFTC" log for an enjoyable cache is fine, as long as they give it a favourite point as well. I for one will NOT be publishing any Premium Only caches as a way to get some silly points. I'll let the logs of EVERYONE tell me if they enjoy my caches or not.

If you are doing this so you can have the stats like many of us display on our profiles, you can do this through GSAK. Without a premium account, and the PQs that come with that, you will have to maintain the database of your finds manually, but it can be done. The software is fully functional in its free version and you can download and install the macros to perform various tasks, including generating stats, badges etc. but the free version has a delay before opening which gets longer over time and after a few months you'll probably want to pay for it to avoid the frustration. It is however a once of payment of $25 and well worth it, especially if you later decide to get a premium membership so you can use PQs in which case you'll be able to harness a lot more of GSAK's powerful tools.

Thank you

Caches along these lines do already exist, particularly in the states. Most often the "tools" uses are a bookmark but there are plans to introduce a specific cache type for this (see here) The SS series is a prime example of a local flavour of this cache type and while its not actually necessary to find ALL the caches in order to do the final, you also don't know which ones contain the information you need and will end up doing most of them.

Like nanos and 99% of micros, visiting is all it can do So yes, a trackable can visit any type of cache including virtuals and earthcaches

The log date governs the order so it should work fine. I've retroactively logged bugs in the past, but you could try one or two just to double check.

There is certainly nothing wrong with doing that. In fact, now that you have the coin in your inventory, you can go back to your found logs for those caches, edit them (you don't actually have to change anything unless you want to) but as part of the edit your coin can "Visit" the cache. Simply do this for each one, in the order you found them.

Thank you

I vote for No. 1

I seem to remember this topic being covered in another thread somewhere. But generally speaking, it is frowned upon because if you hid it, then you can't find it because you already know where it is. The exception to this is your own event caches because you will attend those, and if at the last minute you can't, the you can't log that you did.

?!?! I must have missed something then. I thought you always chose the nominations

Only one photo for may nominations?

dadgum, finally one I knew as I've just been there, but too slow

Fortunately not, at least not directly, and I'm not sure I'd want someone to be able to. Most of the people that are interested in my activities are usually with me anyway, or I will tell them about it. The best you can do is add them to your friends list and periodically check when last they were active on the site... The frequency that you check it will be directly proportional to the level of stalking ... from the geocaches tab on their public profile, you can click on "all geocaches found" which will display a list of all the caches that person has done. And while its not shown in the list, the list is in descending chronological order, so you can see what caches they did most recently.

Of course, if you are not committed to getting a Blackberry and more interested in features, GPS etc. then you should at least look around at some of the other Win Mobile and Android phone offerings.

Hi, GPS uses the signals sent from orbiting satellites to work out where on the earth's surface you are. So the sort answer to your first question is NO, is does not. It is however quite battery hungry so this is something you will want to take into consideration when looking at a phone, or for that matter a GPS unit. As for the other, I don't know too much about software for the blackberry so perhaps someone else who has used one might be more help. There is also some information on the website or you can do a search for software online. To get started the only thing you really need is an application which will allow you to input a location and have an arrow point to it with distance and bearing information. The rest you could print out from the site. Once you get your first few caches under your belt, and maybe meet a few cachers along the way, you'll start to get a better idea of what you need or want to do what is now known as "paperless caching".

I'm always up for a bit of a get together. Not sure there is enough time to publish an event, but you could give it a try and include detail of the extenuating circumstances in the reviewers note. Otherwise it may have to be an unofficial gathering

Adoption is easy, as long as you have an agreement to do so with the current owner, as they will need to approve the adoption. http://www.geocaching.com/adopt/ You can be used for both caches and trackables.

As I said above, they emigrated some time ago, before my time I think. They are not very active anymore, in fact their profile says they have not visited the site since mid 2010, so their email address may very well have changed and they have not updated it. Your best bet, if you are looking for assistance, is to ask someone that has previously done the cache... you can drop me an email if you like.

Yes, John-Gill has immigrated but you can contact capeccr as I believe he has taken over maintenance should be adopting the cache, although I see it is still listed under John-Gill

Sounds like its going to be a fun event (as long as its not actually raining) and something very different. If there is a vote happening, then mine would be for the nocturnal amphibian survey, just because the micro frogs are not something someone is likely to see very often. Look forward to hearing more.

I second what GlobalRat says. There are many people who will say they "if thats how you want to play the game then that it up to you" but I think if you do that then you're just trying to boost your numbers and not actually playing the game. Because at its most basic level, the game is about going out and finding something that SOMEONE ELSE has hidden. The exception is events, as GR said, because you are still attending them and if for some reason you can not attend your own event at the last minute, then you can not log an attended for it. In my opinion, claiming a find on a cache you have replaced on behalf of the cache owner is perfectly fine if... 1. You have asked the owners permission to do so AND confirmed with them that where you are looking is the correct spot and that it IS really missing. 2. That you replace it with something similar, and in the same place, as instructed and or confirmed in 1 above, by the cache owner, so that others may also come and find the cache. Replacing a cache without the owners permission or simply sticking a piece of paper in a ziplock bag because thats all you have on you, is not acceptable. If you can not replace it properly, then log a DNF so the owner can do maintenance.

Hmmmm, interesting. So perhaps gavgold may indeed publish this as a CITO event.

South Africa has an on going problem with alien vegetation and the only sure way of getting rid of it so that the natural fynbos can recover, is to chop it down and remove it, called hacking. As I understand it, there is no plan to listed it as a CITO event. It will be listed as a normal event but with a similar style to CITO but rather than Trash being removed, we will be removing Alien plants.