Team Thompson

I work with a woman who got Lyme disease from a tick about 10 years ago - she still suffers greatly from it. My geocaching has slowed down quite a lot since I found a bunch of ticks on me 2 years ago... I am too scared of Lyme disease. Especially in Long Island, NY - there is a very high rate of Lyme disease here.

No - thanks for the info but - I am talking about my Daddy-O bug. It was picked up and then placed a coule of weeks later, I never got those two emails. I am watching other bugs and other caches, I get those emails. I just didn't get the two emails I should have when my Daddy-O bug was picked up and then dropped off.

Yes, I am receiving tons of email from different watchlists - just not the travel bug. Maybe that one email was lost (the bug has only moved once... actually tewice, it was taken and then placed... hmmmmmm.....

On my own travel bug page I do not see an option to watch it like I do for travel bugs that are not my own. My travel bug recently moved for the first time and I was not notified, nor can I watch it for future moves. There has to be a way to watch it, I am assuming I am missing something obvious. Thanks

Looks like some geocachers went in and rescued al the bugs at one time.

The problem with standardizing is many define difficult differently, as brian pointed out. Unless there is a way to objectively quantify the difficulty, as in the above example, it is a matter of opinion. Edit: 40# = 40 lbs ~ 20 Kilos, geocaching is an international community, sorry. I think ClayJar's rating tool is pretty good, not sure how the more seasoned geocachers out there think of it. Clayjar Rating Tool

Don't they re-use the equipment? You could be on the road to the strangest felony conviction ever!!!

One other thing - when driving you should really have the WAAS turned off. WAAS is really for walking - it takes readings from many satellites to really pinpoint your position. If you leave this on while driving your car is moving faster than the WAAS can keep up, so you will constantly be off a bit on the map.

Never thought of a Google search, ingenius! As for the PQ using Watcher - I'll try that but I don't think it will owrk much for what I want to do. I want to create a travel bug along a theme and have it visit other caches of that same theme - so I was hoping to do a search of all the US caches to see how many have that theme.... my PQ would be huge to capture all US caches! Maybe I'll try a smaller area and exptrapolate from that. Thanks for the info, it was very helpful.

I'll say right up front, I would have assumed this has been covered before - but I did not find it in my searches. If it has already been covdered, my apologies. Anyway, as great as GC.com is, I would love to be able to do a detailed cache search for keyword which also encompasses the cache descriptions (and possibly notes added to the cache - though that may be a bit too much). I would like to be able to do this either from the regular search page, or from a pocket query. For example, I am about to place a cache out that revolves around a certain subject and I am interested to see if there are other caches out there that are also based on this subject, but the search features do not allow me to do that. The only thing I can search is the cache name, so if the subject mater in the name I am in luck, but not if it is in the description. Thanks, and keep up the great work on this site!

The kid won't reply unless you call him a name. A real question he will not answer.

I like how this kid responds to name calling, but he hasn't answered a simple question that has been asked about 8 different times in a number of different ways. Since his attention span must be minimal I'll restate the question again: "If a TB owner emails you and asks you to put their TB back into the general population, instead of in your planned prison, will you oblige and do it as quickly as you abducted the TB or will you continue to hold onto it and put it in your prison (once it is in place)?"

My biggest fear about this kid (he is obviously a 12 year old kid who has nothing better to do) is that after collecting a bunch of these TB's, he is going to lose interest and they'll live forever under his mattress in his bedroom.

Right on!!!!

I am still failry new at the game so I am pretty addicted to these boards (3,4,5 times a day). My expectation is that in a while the newness will wear off and I'll cut that down to once a day or so. A year and a half ago I built a Mame machine (Rebirth Arcade) and was completely addicted to the message boards on the topic, going to them every chance during the day I got - I'm not a 3-4 times a week person now. In fact, it is almost 7am and I should really be at the gym right now getting a workout in before work.

I like TotemLake's idea best. Regarding the issue that if you got the oldest cache in the state, and then that cache gets archvied - I would say that you could still hold on to that "oldest find in state" stat since you found it while it was the oldest. In this case, you could go after the "new" oldest cache and get another "oldest in state" find. Just my 2 cents.

Being somewhat of a noob here - I thought that geocaching.com frowns on putting a cache out that isn't someplace in your general vicinity so that you can go and maintain it when necessary?

Not sure what the outcome of this was, if any. I had a cache approved yesterday (GCJD4K) and it does not appear on the geocaching.com map. Not a big deal, just wondering if this is normal or there is still an issue with the maps. Thanks

Thanks all - I didn't think it mattered, just wanted to make sure from some of you have been at this longer than I have.

Come on!!!! You were really interested in the Assembler Language version of GPR? I was laughing my a** off after reading briansnat inclusion of that assuming it was a joke.... I used to love assembler.... haven't used that in years.

Seems like it would be common sense to the finder of the cache, but just to be sure I included a note on both the cache description on GC.com and on the cache itself to please hide everything again as well/better than it was found.

NOOB question. I searched for the answer to this but didn't see any posts - sorry if this is a dopey question. I assume everything is cool, just wanted to make sure. I just place my first cache (Caroon's Cache), and in the cache I placed my first TB (Go Daddy-O). When I created my cache page, I included a note indicating I placed the TB in there. When the cache was approved (approved quickly I might add!), the approver deleted the note about placing the TB in. The TB is still in the cache, shows as in the cache, but the note was deleted. I assume that is cool, or should I re-add the note to the cache page to make sure people know it is in there? Thanks

This certainly is a unique subject. I still think that the idea of creating a cache in a very hard to find location to imprison TB's AND going out an purposely purging other caches of TB's to fill your prison up is not in the spirit of TB geocaching (not that any "spirit" is posted anywhere). Just my thought. If you want to create a hard to find cache and call it a prison for TB's, I am not dead set against that. If you want to collect TB's and stick them in tough caches, I am not against that either. Doing both, being the one creating the prison AND collecting the TB's is where I have a problem. I guess I would ask the "warden" of the prison - if a TB owner emails you and asks you to please release a TB that you took back into the general cache population, would you do it? If so, then that clears up some of the problems I would have. That all said, who the heck am I to pass judgement!!!!

I feel that the idea of a TB prison is unique - but think that just any ordinary TB should be exempt from being captured. 99% of the people that release TB's want them to trvel around, not be scooped up by someone looking to create a stockpile of TB's in their "prison". If the prison cache is that hard to get to, that TB's may sit there for months at a time. I do not think it is ethical to go rounding up TB's to put in there for the sole purpose of taking them out of commission until someone braves the cache to rescue them. What I think is acceptable is if people were to make a "sport" of it, set up teams of some sort, and have team TB's - see which teams can collect the most TB's of the other teams... something like that.

Pure Genius!!!!!!!!