Saplings

Looking for help on Vantage Point with my Triton 1500. I build pocket queries which I upload to Vantage Point where I then see them in the Journal. Then I sync with my Triton 1500 and everything in the Vantage Point Journal is uploaded to the device. So far, so good. But once they are uploaded to the Triton device, I can't figure out how to remove them using the Vantage Point sync process. You would think I could delete the caches from VP Journal, sync again, and they would be removed from the device. But no. Instead the sync causes them to be re-instated from the device to VP Journal. The only remedy, which is rather crude, is to disconnect the Triton device, manually delete the memory, so that the device is empty. Then arrange VP Journal so that it has all caches that I want placed onto the device, connect, and sync. VP seems to work great at adding caches and way points to my device, but poor at ever removing them when I'm done with them. Any help from a Vantage Point pro would be appreciated. I feel like there has to be a way that is better than my crude method described above. THANKS!

While passing thru MI I picked up a GC that originated in CA with a goal of travelling the world. In the zip lock bag was a large laminated info card from a cacher in MI. By design, this GC had a hole thru the center, and thru it a chain. Also attached to the chain were 2 small laminated cards each with a hole thru the center. Both cards were from cachers in MI, one of which also authored the large laminated info card. I became confused because for a while I thought the laminated cards were from the GC owner. In fact they were bigger, more colorful, more durable than the original paper info sheet; but I couldn't figure out why there were two. What really caused me to research is when I got to a cache in the Bahamas and found the IDENTICAL laminated card at the bottom of a cache in Nassau. I thought I had stumbled upon a one-in-a-billion situation where the owner of the GC from the US had also been to this very cache in Nassau. What's the chances?! I went to contact the name on the laminated card and began to learn that this cacher had logged 24,100 trackables! - so probably not the incredible coincidence I once thought. That got me checking these forums, and then drop a note to the REAL GC owner to ask if she was OK with the hitch hikers. She asked that I remove the three laminated cards, which I did, documenting with before/after photos what it looked like when I picked it up in MI and what it looked like when I dropped it off in NY. I am in agreement with the moderators that these hitch hikers shouldn't be added without owner permission. For me it added confusion as to who the owner was, what the real goal was, and it changed the physical size of the trackable. Its hard enough to keep TBs aloft without somebody else monkeying with them and possibly impacting their success.

It would be nice if each cache had TB loss statistics somehow view able. Then before I make a TB drop I know if I'm dropping it in a SAFE cache, or one that has participated in the loss of dozens of TBs. Just an idea.

Here is another e-mail reply I got from another FBI effort on another lost TB. This cacher has 200 logged caches and 20 logged TB exchanges. He/She picked up this bug in May... "Haven't cached in quite some time and forget I even had it. I will get it back in circulation very soon. So very sorry. I should know better !!! 20 lashes... " Again, grateful for the reply.

Its not just the newbies. I was tracking down a lost TB and determined from the cache log that John Doe Cacher must have picked it up. John Doe Cacher had 10,000+ logged caches, so should be an expert. I asked him via e-mail if he possibly picked it up 20 days ago, but failed to log the retrieval. Here was his reply... "I must have, but I placed it into another cache w/o logging it. Sorry. I usually never bother with TB's unless I cannot close the cache container securely. Hope it turns up with a new owner soon. Regards,..." At least he replied and was honest. Usually I don't get a reply.

Here is something I've been wondering for a while. How can I view the current inventory of trackable items in a given user's possession. When I go into PROFILE and then TRACKABLES it shows all trackables they've ever touched, and you seem to have to go thru them one by one to see if they are still in their possession. To find this info for myself, its in the lower right corner of my "profile", I'm looking for same display for others. Any ideas?

Does anyone know how to do a bulk erase in Vantage Point? I used Pocket Query to find all large size cache's with terrain and difficulty <2.0 within 20 miles of home. One by one as we find them I delete them out of Vantage Point. That was two months ago, it was my first and only experience uploading from Pocket Query to Vantage Point and its working fine. But we've got a vacation trip coming up and I want to wipe out all remaining local caches and uploaded a bunch of vacation caches instead. Then once vacation is over I would like to wipe them out again as we return home. All I know how to do presently is to delete them one at a time from Vantage Point. Any assistance on bulk erase is greatly appreciated. Saplings in NJ.

I live in NJ, but will be in Vegas, LA, and San Diego at the end of May. I've been collecting east coast TB's, that I will drop West on this trip. As I scan the site looking for appropriate cache sites I'm amazed at how many lose the TBs placed within them. Other than manually scanning each cache, is there some sort of report card that grades caches on how safe they keep TB's?

Look up this trackable and its history: "0 AMTG Dragon Spinner Geocoin". Can you explain to this relative newby what is going on here? Its traveled 63,000 miles, but all with its owner. I assume this is called dipping, but what's the purpose?

Might be a similar situation. I visited a cache today called White Bridge, GC1P1ND, which is supposed to contained a TB called Glitter Gang #2, but when I get there it does not. Exploring further, I look into the history of TB Glitter Gang #2 and see that it was picked up on Mar 23 by Team Tripleplay - which is consistent with what I read in the log book at the cache site. Exploring still further, I look at the profile for Team Tripleplay and there is no mention of the TB. How could the TB's history show that it was picked up, but neither the site history or the cacher's history reflect that? And how can it be fixed?

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THAT WORKED! Thanks!

I see how to generate the Map at World66.com, and I see the long link that I am supposed to copy. What I can't figure out is specifically where to go within My Profile to paste that link, so that the map will appear in my profile?

Thanks DFX! Problem solved. YOUR PROFILE then the MAP IT icon - that's the ticket and the cat's meow!

When I go to Your Account Details, then Your Location, my Home Location is already correctly identified as my home in NJ. When I open up www.geocaching.com, then click Hide & Seek a Cache, under the green box called Seek A Cache it gives many options. By Address, By Postal Code, by State, etc... 6th option down is "or search with Google Maps". When I click that final option, I was expecting it to start at my home as a default. Instead it defaults to the same lake in the State of Washington every time. Can you follow same links and tell me if yours also opens up with this same lake by default? Saplings

New question, but it pertains to maps so I thought I would toss it in here. When I log in to the site, and click Seek A Cache, then Search With Google Maps, the default map it opens with is a lake in Washington State, not my home area in NJ. Is there anyway to make it default to my home area when first opening? Saplings in NJ