mikemtn
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Is it possible to log a find and have it only visible to people on your friends list? And/or keep my log archive private?
It's listed as "Under Review" in the feedback forums. Over 600 votes. Go here to add your vote:
WOW, I guess the internet's not for everybody.
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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
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I would be happy if everybody that finds my cache would log it online.
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I got my geico bug today. Put a picture of it attached to the item I'm sending it out with and it's all activated ready to be placed this coming weekend.
Anyhow, I don't expect it to last long in the wild. It's like a cachekinz sort of tag. It's very small (thin and small in general). You really have to read to see it's a trackable and not just a piece of advertising swag.
But oh well. It was free and I'm willing to send it out there but I'm not expecting much of it.
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.
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I got my geico bug today. Put a picture of it attached to the item I'm sending it out with and it's all activated ready to be placed this coming weekend.
Anyhow, I don't expect it to last long in the wild. It's like a cachekinz sort of tag. It's very small (thin and small in general). You really have to read to see it's a trackable and not just a piece of advertising swag.
But oh well. It was free and I'm willing to send it out there but I'm not expecting much of it.
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
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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.
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Well, how else can Groundspeak continue to offer free memberships, if they don't get revenue from somewhere? Those hamsters get hungry.
And, the people providing that revenue are going to put their money where it will do them the most good, where their customer base is located.
Eventually, these TBs will cross the borders and start visiting other countries too, but there are laws, lots of them, governing contests in other countries, the make it unfeasible for them to be run internationally.
I guess Jeremy could go back to having a Paypal Donate button on the Geocaching.com home page.
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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?
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It's the GPS antenna that's the battery hog. Any app that keeps the GPS antenna on is going to drain the battery.I tried their Android App today and it worked flawlessly. Think it might be a battery hog though.Compared to using the Geocaching App my battery was gone faster.
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I see geocaching being one of the points of interest in State Park brochures. Instead of only 1 out of 10 people you ask having heard of the game that will now be 3 out of 10. When you see a place and say "theres got to be a geocache there" ..There will in fact be a geocache there. GPS devices will be able to auto upload caches surrounding your current position, and picking out the ones you've already found. National forest and parks will drop the need for permits after realizing they are not worth their own time. Drugs dealers and burglars will have geocaching accounts so they can scout out an area before hiding their stashes in remote locations.
If I'm reading this (the bolded part) right, that's what smart phones do now.
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Funny you should mention that. Garmin just put out an opencaching iPhone app today. I downloaded it. It's very similar to the official app, just a lot fewer caches.
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.
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Funny you should mention that. Garmin just put out an opencaching iPhone app today. I downloaded it. It's very similar to the official app, just a lot fewer caches.
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.
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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.
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All of them state that you should only hunt after school, on weekends, or over the summer.
So it can be done.
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?
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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.
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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.
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Remembering (and longing for) the good old days of Geocaching. Good to see El Diablo.
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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)
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I keep my Charter Membership hoping that someday it'll be worth something and I can sell it on ebay.
I'll give you 100 trillion dollars for it.
I've got 500 trillion dollars already. (Yeah, ebay)
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I keep my Charter Membership hoping that someday it'll be worth something and I can sell it on ebay.
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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.
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If anyone actually finds something that works besides turning the phone off give me the heads up. That's the only downside to the official app.
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.
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And there's the rest of the story. Congrats to cache_test_dummies for figuring it out in post 5.
Not chosen almost always means something creative and almost always it ends up being a micro log. The cache is also rated a 4.
All this tells me it is definitely one of these
So there is no deception and the CO was actually nice enough to give you a very specific hint.
So, what kind of ammo does this thing hold. If it's not for ammo it's not an ammo can.
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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?
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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.