cw1710

Curious. That was only because I emailed him a couple of times when he first deleted my logs asking why he did so. The first time I complained to Groundspeak about him he turned around and archived all of his caches in 2 or 3 states and he no longer has any active hides. Also, the cache is gone now and another is in its spot so I can't take a picture of the log.

Is there anything more you can tell us about this situation? I had never met the CO and my find was legit. There were also no spoilers or anything improper in my logs that were deleted. ---My original response from Groundspeak: Hi cw1710, I'm very sorry to hear that. You are correct, that is not a valid reason. I am giving him a few days to respond--at least until Friday or Monday. However, if he declines to contact Groundspeak as well, we'll be happy to reinstate the logs ourselves. Please send me the links to your father's logs as well. Thanks again, and sorry for all the trouble. We like the site as family friendly as possible! ---Next Response from Groundspeak: Hello cw1710, Thank you for your patience. Just to check, are you sure you signed the log for this cache? Can you give me a description of the cache container, its contents, and exactly where you found it, and what day it was? I am asking for pictures of the logbook from the cache owner as well. This will help verify the situation. Thank you for your help. ---I answered with very exact details of the cache and informed them that the CO did not even live in my state so he never came to collect his pill bottle container so him providing a picture of the log wouldn't be possible nor could he say that I didn't sign it and the next response I got was: Dear cw1710, Thanks again for your patience. Unfortunately, I cannot get this CO to budge. I ask that in this instance you please let it go and move on. We are not able to help any further in this dispute, and this cache must simply go unlogged by you. Please refrain from contacting the cache owner again about the matter. I wish you the best of luck in the future. Big change in attitude from the initial response to the last response.

What rule? Not that there is a regulation, buthttp://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx --Logging of All Physical Caches Geocaches can be logged online as Found once the physical log has been signed. That guideline doesn't mean what you think it means. While it does mean that cache owners must allow a 'find' log if someone has signed the logbook, it does not give guidance regarding unsigned logbooks. Apparently, it doesn't mean that owners must allow a find log. I recently had someone delete my logs without reason and after emailing him about it without response, I emailed Groundspeak and complained. They emailed him and their response to me was that he wouldn't budge and that I would just have to not log that cache. It would seem to me that you can delete any log you want to on any of your caches for any reason.

I hung a flare tube about 20 feet up a tree. It was attached with paracord. The squirrels chewed through the cord twice now and the cache is currently disabled. I now have a short section of light metal chain from Lowe's to go wrap around a branch and hook it to. Moral of the story: Use something the wildlife can't hurt or you will be climbing the tree over and over again for maintenance.

I am a LEO and have seen a big increase in counterfeit money over the last few years. So much so that the Secret Service has to be notified for every bill we bring in and fairly quick after. It didnt used to be as urgent. People counterfeit smaller denomination bills like that do it because they are easier to pass off. If you went into Wal-Mart right now and paid with a 5 or 10 they would probably just throw it in the drawer. Bust out a 20 or higher and it gets hit with the detection pen. Oh, and yes Knight, possessing it is absolutely illegal whether you have the intent to use it or not.

It seems to me that the new user notes text box is causing a slight lag in page load times. Anyone else feelin it? If it is only a slice of what is to come, can an option be added in your account preferences to just totally disable them?

Dont know about your state but here in Alabama you just have to have 1000 people committed to purchasing the plate to get it printed. It is $50 a year extra for the special plates which makes for an expensive trackable. I don't know of any negative way that the numbers could be used either (I'm a cop and have not seen them used for anything negative. They are plainly visible on the back of your car anyways). If you could get the people it would be cool. Typically, a percentage of that $50 goes to the organization (usu. nonprofits). It would be really cool, even if not a trackable, to have a geoplate made where some of the money went to conservation projects in the state. That would possibly be a good way to get some of these anti-geocaching states/areas/park systems to accept our game. There are other conservation plates out there, but this one would be good for conservation of hiking trails and biking trails and stuff of that sort.

the thing is that it takes at least a minimal amount of effort to put out a lame traditional. not so with virtuals, all you need to do is create the listing. if you pick the coords off google, you don't even need to leave the house. Not with a good verification question. One of the fun things to do when we reviewed the virtuals of old was to nail the verification question with Google. We would then tell the person submitting the virtual that it would not fly the way it was. I like that way. One other thing would be to monitor the CO's activity status. All the ones that seemed to be problematic were the ones with inactives owners. Several around this corner of the country got nailed by people from out of the country trying to rack up numbers. There should be a time period of say 6 months or a year that if the cache owner has been inactive then a virtual could be adopted by someone willing (since it just needs monitored and not a physical container maintained) or archived to prevent the problems. I have seen several that were good virtuals that mtnman had to archive because they were getting nailed by people that obviously were not visiting the cache. I think most of the logs said Greetings from Germany in them.

OP: +1 for GSAK. Once you figure it out, it is priceless. ventura: You should be able to play with the options in findstatgen and put the grid back in. I have had each recent version and I think I too lost the grid at first but it is there now. There are several options you can change and play around with in there.

There is a series of 8 caches in a nature preserve called Cane Creek Canyon in Tuscumbia, AL. It was an awesome place to hike and cache and it is really well maintained by the owners. GC1XHGF There are a few others in the park as well but these 8 are a find one and get the coords to the next series of unknown cache types. It didnt take more than about 3 hours or so for us to complete it. I drove 4 hours to get there and it was completely worth the trip. Being first to find made it even better.

... Re, checking after DNFs, I'll add that once a DNF or 2 is on a cache, people are quick to give up, and seem to be more inclined to log their own DNF. This can result in a string of DNFs on a cache that's present. I've seen this many times, including on my own caches. I hadn't even thought about that side, but now that you bring it up, I guess there is a mental aspect to it that well the last two couldn't find it so it must not be there. IF you don't think it is there, you probably wouldn't give it as much of a search and this could lead to more DNFs then necessary. I found a cache with no problems and when I went to log it I couldn't find the page right off. I then figured out that it had been archived some time before because a handful of people had logged DNFs so the cache owner assumed it was gone. We found it exactly where it was supposed to be and in good shape. There are definately ups and downs to logging DNFs I guess.

It just depends. A lot of people don't log DNF's. It is a good thing for the cache owner to maybe go check on it when certain DNF's are logged. I first check the number of finds that the DNFer has and think about that in relation to the difficulty of the cache. I also think that if you are caching with a group of people, that only 1 or 2 of the group should log the DNF. This is because many people will filter out caches with more than a set number of DNF's. A group DNF to me is equivalent to 1 DNF. Maybe they just had a bad day and overlooked it but if all 4 or 5 people go log a DNF then the next person may filter it out for no reason.

I really like that idea! Me too! and I have heard it before, but I cannot find that reflector anywhere. Anyone know where to get one? We have a couple of Safety and Construction Supply stores here that sell cones, barrels, signs, etc. for roadway safety. They carry the tape so you might check if you have a store like that. Otherwise, you can search google for engineering grade DOT striped conspicuity tape.

We have a guardrail cache close to here in which the CO bought a piece of the yellow/black striped reflective tape that exactly matched what was already there. Then he stuck it to a magnet and put it in place of the original. It was quite difficult to spot because it was actually supposed to be there. It was about a 12 inch by 12 inch square right on the end so you are basically looking at in when you park the car but you walk right past it looking for a micro since it is on a guardrail.

It is usually easy to tell even without seeing the GPSr because the geocacher will usually look suspicious and the muggle will look like they are supposed to be there because they aren't trying to be sneaky.

I think the easiest way should be to open GSAK, click on the Search menu-->Filter and then click on the 'Other' tab at the top of that menu box. Then at the bottom of that set the My Found Count to Greater than or equal to 2 and click Go.

I like making mystery caches more so than I do solving them. I currently have two that are unfound still and neither one of them has a geochecker because it is not needed. But I do agree, that the AHA! moment is a great feeling.

I had 8 in a day for the busy day challenge here. GC1D4WZ

I have been with people with Oregons and they were just aggravating, fragile, and gave the owner fits. They are nice but just not as rugged as the 60csx. I would go with the 60csx anyday. I, on the other hand, when not with a friend with the 60csx, still use a $99 etrex legend and have all of my caches loaded into cacheberry on my blackberry and I use a Nuvi to get where I'm going. The etrex is accurate and extremely durable. I have all of my days caches loaded onto the Nuvi and the Blackberry and that includes past logs, etc.

Well whaddya know. We agree on something. I carry goode olde wide mouth disposable water bottles, and hike near running water when backpacking. When the water bottle are empty, I fill 'em up with this: (except it's an older model than this) I wilderness hiked without filtration for 12 of the 25 years I've neen doing it without getting sick, but I spent the money on the filter after I did a 12,000ft pass that had completely dried up and had to hump my water for miles. I also carry a katadyn filter on long hikes and love it. You can filter almost any water other than sewage.

So you used your position as an officer of the law, someone that we should be able to look to for protection from harassment, as a means of harassing someone for your amusement?! Not cool. I've seen people post this type of story before, and it seems to me that any cop (or person in any position of authority) who uses that position to harass someone for their amusement, needs to find a new line of work. I'll try to extend the benefit of the doubt to you, and hope that you hadn't thought of it this way, but that's exactly how your actions come across. The bolded part states that he knows me. He just didnt realize it. Playing a joke on a friend is hardly harassment.

It is always fun to harass security guards. A lot of them take there job way too seriously. On the other hand, I am a police officer and I get off at midnight. This is about the time our reviewer likes to drop caches most of the time. I met someone one night right as I got off to grab an FTF and as we were parked we spotted a very familiar FTF chaser that had just parked (this was the dead end of a neighborhood) so I walked up with the light shining and sternly asked "What are you doing out here?" and could hardly keep from laughing while he (very nervously) explained geocaching to me. Then I laughed and said I know, now lets go find it and he realized who I was.

May be a misstype there: the LCP comes as .380 only (and is a very nice pocket gun), while its wheelgun cousin, the LCR, now comes in .357. The more important part of this statement, though, is the logical extension to the last part - whatever the choice of personal defense tool (firearm, pepper spray, croquet mallet, or just a super-annoying personality), it needs to become part and parcel of your normal daily routine. Yep, I messed that one up. It was late and I was half asleep! I don't carry mine everywhere because I am scared or paranoid but because I am supposed to. I'm in law enforcment and our policy manual says you have the duty to be armed off duty. Thats just common sense anyways because there are a lot of people out there that I have locked up that would love to have a go if they ran into me on the streets. Here lately we have had some new-to-the-area cachers hiding caches in a very sketchy side of town and people were immediately wanting me to escort them over there. I made sure to let the cache owners know to put some type of warning on the cache page for unsuspecting travelers because they are very close to interstate exits.

Pepper spray is pretty good for dogs but usually will just make a person mad. I prefer my .357 Ruger LCP, but I don't just carry it caching, I rarely leave the house without it.

I had the pleasure of taking Techiegrl on a run when she was here in Alabama recently. She was a lot of fun to have around and her finds are legit finds. That is some pretty serious caching for only a couple of years in.