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In my locality we have a new geocacher who is gaining a reputation for being a real nuisance. He goes caching with a few children and they ransack cache sites in search of caches and all too often, once found, the caches are just dumped on the ground. Camouflage is torn away and discarded! He writes remarks in his logs that cause upset and annoyance. His children go on cache hunts, showing other local children where all the caches that they have found are and, as a result, anything 'valuable' gets removed, so geocoins, camo bags etc all go missing. He, of course, strenuously denies it all, even though he's been witnessed tearing ivy off trees, trampling undergrowth etc, and even though friends tell us that his children lead these cache hunts. What on earth can we do?

I've noticed that some listing pages are more attractive than others, with images, coloured text etc on them. I've worked out how to upload an image and em-bed it into a listing page, but how do I edit my text so that it can contain different font sizes and colours?

.OK....some great changes, but how can I load the options that I used to get on the maps....things like satellite, hybrid or terrain? Les (Otter 1)

My travelbug The Dolphin Trilogy, was placed in its first cache earlier this year, with a goal of crossing seas and oceans. It left the Uk on 1st June and travelled westward around the world, stopping in Florida, Kuala Lumpur and Qatar, before returning to the UK. This morning, I called in to a cache near London and retrieved it, so it did the whole circumnavigation of planet Earth in just 4 months. Is this a record?

Hi... I've just published a series of caches and they're doing really well, picking up loads of finds and favourite points even though the series is only a week old. A geocacher who I respect has unfortunately added a photo to his log which is a dead give-away to the exact location of the cache. I'd like to declare this a spoiler so that cachers don't see it unless they want to. What can I do, and how do I do it?

Sometimes, when I travel to an area that I don't normally visit, I load all the local caches, then manage to attempt a few of them, leaving loads in the memory that I just don't want. Is there any way of deleting individual entries?

Thanks guys

I've noticed the tab on the top right corner of the new maps. This opens up a cache list (empty). So what is this list and how is it used?

I have a fairly new Garmin Oregon 550t which sometimes fails to load cache details sent to it. The 'Send to my GPS' pop-up menu suggests that the cache has been properly transferred to the unit, but when I search for it, there's no guarantee that it will be there. A few days ago I transferred a series of 21 caches and they all appeared to have worked, but when I checked out my Garmin, they didn't appear to be there, so I attempted to re-send the whole series, one at a time, but for each one I had a pop-up saying that it was already in my GPS. The next day, out caching, not one of the 21 caches in the series was in the GPS (thank goodness my friend had also loaded them). Caches that I've loaded since then have all loaded ok, ut this pattern of events has happened before......any ideas?

Hi...I released a new geocoin a little over 3 months ago and it was found and taken a week later with a log entry stating that the owner would move it on, soon. 2 Months later I contacted the finder, keeping it very friendly, to ask if they would move it soon. They confirmed that they would. Now, another 6 weeks later, they're still holding it. What can I do to get them to get it out there and deposit it in a cache?

Thanks all for the responses....the bugs are definately missing, I live just 200metres from the cache and check it regularly.

Thanks all for the responses....the bugs are definately missing, I live just 200metres from the cache and check it regularly.

I recently started a new cache and put 4 travel bugs into it, just to promote interest. They were lifted within a few days, and replaced by 4 others. However....the other 4 disappeared without trace the next day, whereas a further one arrived, but none of these 5 were logged, either in the cache logbook or on-line. My problem is that my cache's listing page shows a wealth of trackables that just aren't there. Here's what I've done so far.... 1) Contacted the owners of all the missing travelbugs (only 1 has replied) 2) Contacted the last known person to have posession of the travelbug that mysteriously appeared in my cache, but have had no reply 3) Attempted to contact the owner of the travelbug that mysteriously appeared, but their regsitered e-mail address is no longer valid 4) Made a note on the listing page for this travelbug, saying that I'm holding it and that I will list it as 'discovered' if nobody logs it into my cache soon. What can I do to remove from my cache's listing, all the travelbugs that are\listed as being there, but aren't there at all?

Hi there....is there a short cut to sending a whole series of caches to your GPS, without having to send each one individually? I'm currently uploading cache info to my GPS for a few series of between 10 and 20 caches, and it's a bit laborious doing one cache at a time.

Nope, Gitchee-Gummee, that's not what I said. I post a NM if the cache needs maintenance....simple really. I post a find because I found it....also quite simple. Surely, we sign the log as proof that we got there, but if the CO's log is unavailable I find 2 ways to prove that I got there....I insert a temporary log that I sign, then I contact the CO and describe what I found. In each case, so far, the CO has agreed with me!

Thanks for that, Bear and Ragged.....that's my sentiments, exactly. Whenever I've posted a 'NM' log, there has been adequate evidence that the cache is there, and that I have found it; I have not posted 'NM' for caches that are missing or 'not-found'. Here's my take on it....if I've worked to the general ethos of caching to locate a cache, despite (in these cases) the cache being vandalised, damaged or just badly maintained, then it's only fair to say that I found it. I will do my utmost to sign in, even if it means that poor maintenance of the cache means that I have to provide a temporary log-book and sign in to it. Why should any cacher have to travel to a cache a second time because either vandals had damaged it or the CO had badly maintained it? Let's not boost our carbon footprints! I don't think that my actions are unethical..... I find the cache... I find a way of signing in... I log a find... I inform the CO if it needs maintenance.... Where's the problem?

Hi...I've been actively caching for about 6 weeks and have found about 70 caches. I try to find them without first using the hints, or reading old logs, which works about 50% of the time. Occasionally, though, the cache just can't be found, so I look up the hint and if I still can't find it, then I'll read the logs. Sometimes, even that isn't enough because the cache needs maintenance. For example, a few weeks ago I found, on the second attempt, a cache that turned out to have been vandalised. What I found, in the right place, was a camouflage bag with a pancil, but everything else was missing. I made up a log book enough for a few people to sign, replaced the bag and claimed it as a find, writing a 'Found it' log and a 'Maintenance log'. Was I right to claim it as a find....especially as it turned out that the owner of the cache had been informed, a good few months earlier, that the cache had been vandalised? Out of my 70 finds, 4 or 5 have been found in this way, so it seems that there's quite a few caches out there that need maintenance! Only yesterday I found a cache that was supposed to have been a 35mm film pot, attached to a piece of fishing line and dangled down inside a the hollow post of a sign post outside a railway station. Using a torch, I could see the film pot deep down inside the post, but the line had become untied, so no way could I get to the cache. On return home I found that the last cacher to try to find it had already logged that the pot was missing.

Help! I've just started geocaching and have a Garmin Oregon 550t. The manual glosses over things, giving very little information about how to use some of the more complex features. I want to use the waypoint averager for setting waypoints for caches that I'm hiding, but can't, for the life of me, work out how to use it. Anyone know how?

I've recently bought a Garmin Colorado 550t, which I'm delighted with. However, i can't get my head around the waypoint averaging feature. Can someone out there explain it to me? I'm trying to use it to determine exact (ish) waypoints for hiding new caches, but not having much luck.