TomToad

As he approaches the long, flat, black land, he sees a large creature approaching from the distance. "What kind of creature is this?" he thinks to himself. "It is big and swift and has two glowing red and blue eyes on the top of it's head. I wonder how it will taste?" The very last thoughts of this magnificent creature.

I thought Munzee caches where listed on a different site. I suppose that a geocache could also contain a QR code so one could log a find on both sites, but without a logbook, it wouldn't be a geocache. Even multi's and puzzles eventually end in a logbook to sign.

Wait, what? You didn't know that? If you input N 41 41.7965 W 084 48.3615 GS rounds the last digit to the nearest zero rendering that N 41 41.7970 W 084 48.3620 and drops the zero to display N 41 41.797 W 084 48.362 A difference of roughly 3.7 ft ~~edit to clarify~~~ What GPS do you use that has that much precision? Every one I've ever used only goes to the thousanths. Any rounding is done by the GPS itself. My Delorme Earthmate PN-60 displays to the ten thousandth place. It really doesn't do much good though, because the accuracy on the best day and best conditions is about 6-7' which is far greater than what can be measured by that much precision. Typically the accuracy is more like around 10-15'

Not if you don't remember your password. When you try to change it, it will ask you for your old password, and your new password twice. Go ahead and try it, and you will see it cannot be changed without typing your old password, even if you are already logged in. The easiest way to get your old password would be to log out, then click on the "forgot my password" link when you try to re-log on. But if the email listed on the site is no longer valid (and you can't change that without knowing your old passwords either) then the only other option is contact@Groundspeak.com

Is the email in your account correct? You can always log out, then when you try logging back in, click the link that says "Forgot your password?" You then type in your screen name and your password is emailed to you.

Why would someone feel the need to hide a geocache at such places? Because all the lamp post skirts are bolted down?

What about guardrails at businesses? Like those between the parking lot and loading docks, or those in front of some convenient stores to keep people from accidentally driving into the door? Or how about guard rails along private roads and drives? Would they be owned by the state as well?

I actually bought some of these on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000P91E4C They work great, never had any of them cross-threaded nor have any gotten water inside. Only problem is that the seals do not last very long, but even without the seal, the contents have remained dry.

It's simply called Geocaching. By Groundspeak inc. http://www.geocaching.com/iphone/default.aspx

Not necessarily. Even though most are probably placed without permission, we don't know that for certain and until we find out otherwise, tend to give the Co the benefit of the doubt. There are some places, such as certain parks, that have a blanket ban on them and so we know for certain do not have permission. Also, if a manager or land owner at Walmart discovers the illegally placed cache, it gets removed from that Walmart. If a parks manager finds an illegally placed cache, then they may end up having us remove all caches from all park properties.

If you have an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, there is a program called Geocaching Toolkit. One function is Circle/Circle intersect. Put in two of the coordinates and their distance. You will get two answers, write them down. Then replace one of the coordinates with the third. You will get another two coordinates. The ones that match up is the correct one.

The problem is that the iPhone will take readings from satellites, cell phone signals, 3G signals, and wifi signals to triangulate your location. If you don't have a solid satellite lock, the other methods at best give you about a 300' accuracy. There is a program called MotionX GPS lite. I would suggest downloading it. Open up the program and go to Menu/ My Position. When the little globe in the upper right corner turns green, it will mean you have a good satellite lock and your accuracy should be within 30'. It may take several minutes to get the lock though. To speed up the process, you can turn off WiFi and 3G.

The opening on the blue circle points north. The red arrow points to the current zone relative to north. If you have an iPhone 4G with built in electronic compass, the notch on the blue ring will turn as you turn so it always points north. Then the red arrow will always point to the next zone. On the iPad and on iPod Touch with a GPSr attachment, but no electronic compass, you must turn the device so the notch points north, then the arrow will be pointing to the next zone.

And then when the land manager, who was assured that there would be 528 feet between caches, finds them at 260 feet instead, all plastered with Geocaching.com stickers, how do you think the game will look to them then? 90% of the guidelines were created to show land managers that geocachers are responsible people. 10% are for controlling the game directly. ( Yes, the 90% and 10% are made-up numbers, but the concept is the same). The guidelines were created for a reason. Attempting to circumvent them will impact the game one way or another. Yes, there are exceptions, but the exceptions should be determined by the reviewers and Groundspeak who are familiar with the situations of the area, not by those who commonly think that hiding a cache within 400' should be an exception because one is a nano and the other is a regular. Edited to put lamoracke's quote in proper context.

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When you log a cache with the PN-60, it is saved as a field note on the device. If you use Cache Register, it will upload the field notes automatically when you sync if you have the setting on for it. I personally prefer to upload manually. From the main menu, click on "Your Profile/Field Notes." Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "Upload Field Notes." Go to the bottom and click on the Delorme tab. There you will find instructions on uploading field notes manually. After uploading, the notes are still not logged. They are held in a different section of the site where you can read over them and edit them. Just click on "Compose Log" and you will be taken to the log page with the date and the find status already filled in. Anything you typed in the field will already be on the log page as well. Just make any edits you want to and then submit the log. Edit: Reading the manual, there is a way to log using SPOT. Don't know anything about that since I have the PN-60 and not the PN-60w.

The DNFs also help the cache owner. If he has the cache set as a 1 star difficulty, but sees that there is as many DNFs as there are finds, he might realize he has the difficulty rating set too low. I have a cache that I thought any seasoned cacher should have no difficulty in finding, but the number of DNFs has me realizing the cache was more difficult than I anticipated. I already raised it one star, might consider another 1/2 star.

You won't be able to edit the attributes until after you submit the page. Just uncheck the box next to "Enable Cache Listing, " then submit the page. You can then preview the page, add attributes, edit the page, etc... When done, click on the "Enable Cache Listing", then resubmit for review.

What are the other night caches in your area listed as? If they are listed as mystery, then that's how you want yours listed. People that like to do night caches will expect them to be listed that way.

One problem I have had is with the contacts getting dirty. Get a pencil eraser and use it to rub the contacts on the back of the Delorme, and also the contacts on the GPSr side of the USB cable. Seems to fix 90% of my computer to GPSr problems.

Create a bookmark and save the caches to it. Then do a pocket query from the bookmark. Use the free Cache Register program from Delorme.com site to transfer the PQ to the PN-40. On the GPSr, go to the Geocache page, click menu once, Select File/Open, then select the PQ. Now all the caches should be there.

Paperless caching is when you carry around the cache info in some form other than paper. The two most common ways are with either a paperless capable GPSr, or a smartphone. However, you can also use an iPod touch, tablet PC, pda, PSP, cell phone, camera, digital picture frame, cassette recorder, etc...

Thanks everyone. I guess I'll just leave it for now.

Need some opinions on the best way to handle an unpublished cache page. I came up with an idea for a puzzle cache. Went and found a nice hiding spot. Got the coordinates and came home to create the cache page. Worked on the puzzle so that the result would give the correct coordinates, wrote up the page, uploaded the pictures, clicked the two disclaimer check boxes, unchecked cache is active, and submitted the page. After making a few changes and some edits, I finally got a page that I liked. All I needed to do was place the cache and then activate the page. Before I went out to place the cache, I decided to check once more the other caches in the area, and I discovered that it was too close to another cache by about 40 feet. Went back and checked 40 feet away for another suitable place, but couldn't find one that would fit the cache. Finally I just looked for another area all together. Found one about half a mile away. Got the new coordinates, and came home to rework the puzzle. Problem is, before I finished the cache page and plug in the new coordinates, things got in the way and I put it off. Fast forward one week, and now another cacher has hidden a cache close to the new spot. Oh well, you snooze, you lose. Anyway, now I have a geocache listing pointing to a spot that could potentially block someone else that might be able to utilize a spot 40 feet away. Since I am not going to use this spot now, I really don't want to hold it up for someone else. I have decided on another spot I could use, but it won't be available for a couple of months due to construction. I really don't want to start over on the listing if I don't have to. So should I just leave the page as it is for now until I'm ready to change it, change the coordinates to point to the middle of the ocean or something, or should I just archive it and then submit a new one when I'm ready? Or is there a better option I haven't considered?

Ok, here are the steps. Download and install the Cache Register program on Delorme.com website. On Geocaching.com, Go to Your Profile/Quick View from the menu bar on top. Along the right side, under "Premium Features," Click on Manage Lists. Create a new bookmark list and give it a name. Open each page you want to send to the PN-60 On the right, Click on Bookmark Listing Add the page to the bookmark. When through with all the pages, Go back to Profile/QuickView, then Manage Lists. On the line where the new bookmark list is, click on "Create Pocket Query. Name the query and check the day you want the query to run. Click Submit. Wait until the PQ is generated. You will receive an email when it is done. Plug in your PN-60 to the computer and run Cache Register. If it is the first time run, you need to go through the setup procedure. In Cache Register, click on "My Pocket Queries" and make sure the query you want is checked. Click Sync. Wait until the PQ is transferred to the PN-60 Now on the PN-60, go to the Geocache page. Press the Menu button once, Click File, Click open, Click on the PQ file. Wait for the file to load. Now the Geocaches will be on the Geocache page, and the child waypoints and parking will be on the Waypoints page.