mikemtn

Somewhere in my memory from a few years ago there was an issue with a user name that went around the forums for a while. If I remember GS tried to get him to change it and he wouldn't do it. I don't remember if he finally changed it or got banned or what. The name started with Up. Somebody with more memory cells can probably remember more about it.

It's listed as "Under Review" in the feedback forums. Over 600 votes. Go here to add your vote: http://feedback.geoc...frien?ref=title WOW, I guess the internet's not for everybody.

mikemtn found [Traditional Cache] Burgess Falls Cache #1 Monday, 03 September 2001 Tennessee My first cache find. Had given up and went back to the parking lot and somebody told me they are closing Burgess Falls after today so I went back and learned a little more about my GPS 12 and found it. A lot easier after I sort of figured out what I was doing with the GPS. I took nothing and left one of my University of Tenneessee GoBigOrange ballpoint pens. Thanks, Mike

I would be happy if everybody that finds my cache would log it online.

I'm not expecting it will last long either, but attached a travel bug guide to it anyway to try to help.. Is this guide somewhere that I can print a few of? Is it on site or yours? I found a few dog tags I've had since 2001 and may send a few of them traveling. Thanks, Mike It's not my site. It is a site called Geocacher University. They have lots of great downloads. That's what I was looking for, thanks.

I'm not expecting it will last long either, but attached a travel bug guide to it anyway to try to help.. Is this guide somewhere that I can print a few of? Is it on site or yours? I found a few dog tags I've had since 2001 and may send a few of them traveling. Thanks, Mike

I guess I need to spend some time seeing if I can get From Jonjaben back in circulation. I used to do a lot of research and a lot of emailing when he got stuck but I've gotten a little lax lately. I've gotten him out of a few life threatening situations over the years.

I guess Jeremy could go back to having a Paypal Donate button on the Geocaching.com home page.

After a quick look at the Geocaching and Geico home pages I see nothing about the Travel Bugs. The only place I've seen any info on them is here in the forums. So, how did they first get discovered?

It's the GPS antenna that's the battery hog. Any app that keeps the GPS antenna on is going to drain the battery. Compared to using the Geocaching App my battery was gone faster.

If I'm reading this (the bolded part) right, that's what smart phones do now.

OK, I'm going to get the Android App. It's going to be interesting to see if the Opencaching App has the same big problem as the Groundspeak one. I tried their Android App today and it worked flawlessly. Think it might be a battery hog though.

OK, I'm going to get the Android App. It's going to be interesting to see if the Opencaching App has the same big problem as the Groundspeak one.

I guess C&P's are a step way above not logging online like a lot of them brag about doing. I could care less if you got bee stung or the kid fell in the creek or your wife waited in the car. I just like to know how many people found my cache.

And how much does this mean to the Geocachers cache hunters that have to find them all and are not going to be in the area during the appointed times to cache?

I guess Keystone killed this thread by moving it here. It may be some kind of record a topic getting moved after 2 months and having 50 replies. Anyhow maybe we accomplished something before it met a merciless ending. And yes, if I'd thought it belonged in the GPS forum that's where I would have put it.

Surley there's someone in the area close to Groundspeak Headquarters that has an Android phone that is experiencing this behavior that they can carry in to headquarters and hold their hand so they can see what we're talking about. After seeing Elias' post over in the Android forum I'm about convinced that they have not even been working on this issue. It doesn't sound like they've even been reading the forum posts.

Remembering (and longing for) the good old days of Geocaching. Good to see El Diablo.

Back in the old days the closest cache was about 30 miles from my home. I was working out of town and had seen an article about Geocaching in the paper, bought a GPS 12 and Saturday went to find it. Here's my log from that first cache: "My first cache find. Had given up and went back to the parking lot and somebody told me they are closing Burgess Falls after today so I went back and learned a little more about my GPS 12 and found it. A lot easier after I sort of figured out what I was doing with the GPS. I took nothing and left one of my University of Tenneessee GoBigOrange ballpoint pens. Thanks, Mike" (and yes, I believe that those were the good old days of Geocaching)

I'll give you 100 trillion dollars for it. I've got 500 trillion dollars already. (Yeah, ebay)

I keep my Charter Membership hoping that someday it'll be worth something and I can sell it on ebay.

I had this idea a few posts back calling it a ghost thing. I think the most frustrating thing about the whole thing now is the lack of any communication from the admins. It would probably take a fair typist 15 seconds to make a "we're still working on it" post. It looks more like they've given up on it and are skeered to tell us.

I can tell you what DOESN'T work: the Advanced Task Killer app. It "kills" the Geocaching app, but an hour later you'll still see that the geocaching app is your largest consumer of battery power. Just tried it and it failed....rebooting. Can't speak for Advanced Task Killer, but TasKiller stops it. I've got probably 25 apps and I'm not going to install a task killer just for one defective app. Can't see buying a spare battery just for one defective app. Please, everybody that hasn't voted in the Android forum go here and vote for this issue. Vote even if you don't have the problem. Heck, vote if you don't have an Android. I don't know what good it will do, all the admins must have got fired or died or something.

So, what kind of ammo does this thing hold. If it's not for ammo it's not an ammo can.

So, if it's illegal to be on school grounds for any reason but to drop off or pick up your kids it'll override the law and be OK to Geocache on the property if your reviewer approves it?