GeekinTX

The website seems to automatically log 100 random caches from all over the world. I've stumbled across a few today. They're all new accounts, mostly non-validated email addresses. Some busy world travelers out there! http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=90acbdba-e21e-46e6-8786-0372e1da4b1e http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=32b5bc21-dba6-4142-888d-a4d80ae8295b

http://sonntagsrudel.amshove.net/indexE.html Just tell him you'll have to pull the video files from the camera.

Consiering that most of his caches have been in Belgium, and this is the only cache ever logged in the US, it's most likely they typoed the GC number... Use a link to the log http://coord.info/GLJEFM1Q and contact them and ask in simple English if they didn't maybe get the wrong cache... Ron

I'm having the same type of issue. It just spins and spins. Same thing happens when I visit http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/ to try to download directly. I sure do miss the days when the files were emailed to us directly. GeekinTX

...but until that happens, couldn't somebody find and delete the "s" that shouldn't be there? Ron

In the account settings at http://www.geocaching.com/account/ under "Your Preferences" and the "Time Zone" choice, there's an option for "Adjust for Daylight Savings Time" and based on your choice, the above-referenced page shows either "Show Daylight Savings Time" or "Don't show Daylight Savings Time". The correct nomenclature is "Daylight Saving Time" without an "s" at the end of "Saving". You could just call it "DST", but please don't display it incorrectly. Thanks!

My review was posted on the 5th day, along with another one that was submitted a day before mine.

If someone tells me they're a college graduate, I typically believe them without asking to see their diploma and a notarized copy of their college transcript. If a drug-addicted ex-con tells me they graduated from Harvard, I might tend to disbelieve that. Same thing goes with souvenirs. If you're the type that absolutely must at least touch the container when a group finds a cache, and wouldn't dare log a find without it, you're probably thought of as an upstanding person. I'd tend to believe that your souvenirs are legit. But if you're the type of cacher that lets other people solve the puzzles and waits in the car while somebody else jumps out to go climb the tree and sign the log, well... your collection of souvenirs probably won't impress me too much. If you want to cheat, feel free, it doesn't effect me, you're only cheating yourself and making yourself less credible. Just don't brag about your latest souvenir, because I'll probably think you're full of crap.

If the two halves had been put together with a screw, it feels as if it needs to be tightened. But that wasn't the case - the spindle was welded or soldered, though not very well. It moved so much that the two halves could nearly touch. Normally, I'd return them, but I purchased them as door prizes at an event I'm hosting today.

Four days ago, I posted a negative review after receiving two $20 items that both had the same problem. For such an expensive geocoin, I expected a lot better. When I submitted the review, there was a "pending moderation" message. Four days later, the item http://shop.geocaching.com/default/yo-yo-geocoin.html still showed no reviews, so I submitted it again. Is this normal? Does it usually take more than four days to approve a review? Or does Groundspeak only allow postive reviews and dismiss negative ones? If that's the case, the entire product review system is worthless and may as well be removed.

All of mine have now come in... I've never seen 'em spaced ten hours apart before. :-) Ron

I run four queries every Thursday. Only two of them have run this morning. http://www.imagecross.com/d/image-hosting-view-06.php?id=9385PQs.jpg Ron

I noticed several occasions when an out of town person logged that they'd attended an event in my area, only to delete that log later. The souvenir is still awarded.

I'm an active geocacher with a Pebble too, and would love to see something like this. But I recognize the problem that the Pebble has a 3-axis accelerometer, but doesn't have a gyro or GPS. Bottom line is that you can't tell which way the watch is pointing, so you can't do a compass. The best you could do is displaying "the cache is 253 feet NNE" or "The cache is 74 feet away at a heading of 283 degrees". Maybe a north-is-up compass with the distance underneath that vibrates once when you get within 100 feet and twice when you get within 50 feet. You'd have to refer to the watch for direction and distance and you'd have to know which way was north, either by referring to your smartphone, a compass, or your own sense of direction. Ron

Souvenirs weren't invented yet. They're not retroactive.

I stubbed my toe on a tupperware cache fully of cement, and broke my toe. Down with Tupperware!

Minor nitpick: We talk about D/T for difficulty and terrain, but I've never seen "T/D" used. In pocket queries, we have the option to search for Difficulty {greater than|less than|equal to} a level Terrain {greater than|less than|equal to} a level However, when creating a pocket query for Caches Along a Route, the entries are reversed and terrain is listed first, followed by difficulty. Can those be swapped so it is consistent for all PQs?

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Could you reword this in the form of an English question, please?

I was glad to see geocaching being a part of Switched at Birth in the latest episode. I also noticed that the cacher swapped swag but didn't sign the logsheet. They didn't show whether or not Daphne signed the log in the pinecone cache, and she apparently "traded down" and was called out for that. Her stealth techniques left quite a lot to be desired! Later when they both embarked on the multi cache, I was a little disappointed that they didn't show any redirectors (one was maybe on the bottom of a fence rail or in a fence post), and they gave up before finishing. There was a bird feeder hanging on the side of the bridge for goodness sake! What could be more out of place than that? It didn't show Daphne searching with her phone, but other than that, no GPS devices were ever shown. Ron

If you're at GeoWoodstock, you could borrow my copy: TB3FR5N Ron

Amen to that. I often see a hide by a new user with no finds. It's usually either a bad hide by someone with no finding experience, or a sock pocket hide by somebody that wanted to be able to find their own cache. EIther way, I believe 100 finds before you hide is a good idea, and favorites for premium (or at least validated) players only.

I popped the question with a little multi in the neighborhood. She works training realtors, and she'd given me one of those door-hanging lock boxes one time as a potential geocache part. That never really panned out, but I still had the lock box. When she came home from work, it was hanging on the inside garage door with a note taped above that said "go to N xx xx.xxx W xxx xx.xxx". In each of the stages was a colored piece of "foam" paper with the coordinates for the next stage. In the last stage was the key that converted the colors to the lockbox combination. Inside was the proposal.

Are there any holes in the pole? Do you see the cache here? Click for spoiler.

He's found 14,339 caches? Not bad. Really good for a single day of caching! So, I can pretty much guarantee he didn't have time to get out an sign ANY logs on December 30, being so busy at home on the computer and all.