euicho

Nope. The button is grayed out.

Good advice! I haven't had this happen to me yet but only because I treat mine like smeagol treats his precious: Mine doesn't leave either my hand or pocket until I walk through my front door... but I'm just weird like that

LOL That's certainly true but in that line of reasoning they could just make the website pay only, and people have the "option" of paying to use it if they want the "option" of finding caches listed there, IMHO. At any rate, I was more debating the fact of whether being able to find any listed cache was in line with keeping "all of the site basic essential functions free". However I now realize that since the option of making a cache PMO is a user decision, Groundspeak can't really be faulted, even if they were the ones to implement the feature. Heck I'm a newb; for all I know they did so at the request of those who came before I ever picked up a GPSr and made this sport possible

Why is it I have to pay to see some caches (premium only) in my area then? Are those caches just considered optional? Would that still apply if they were the only caches in say a 50 mile radius of my house? Just curious. Yes, they are optional. You could make a case if you lived in an area where there were only PMO caches available. I imagine that it would be extremely rare and only possible in foreign countries, but neverless, there still would be plenty of regular caches available somewhere. PMO caches make up a very small percentage of actual hides. Oh ok, that does make sense. Might I ask why one might choose to make a cache premium members only?

Why is it I have to pay to see some caches (premium only) in my area then? Are those caches just considered optional? Would that still apply if they were the only caches in say a 50 mile radius of my house? Just curious.

Hmm, I may be ignorant or just naive, and this isn't a personal criticism, rather one of the Groundspeak membership system in general, but doesn't "premium members only" invalidate the earlier comment of "Caches here should be available to anyone with the desire to find them."? I'm genuinely curious of your thoughts on the subject (maybe this has been hashed out already but I've yet to find it by searching the forums).

I LOVE my iPhone for caching. It's been a godsend. I still consider myself a noob (54 caches) but I've tried caching without it and I don't know how you fine folks do it. Whenever the urge grabs me, I open the Groundspeak app, search for caches near me, and away I go. I certainly it's nowhere near as accurate as a dedicated GPSr, but I've never had any trouble finding caches. I'm very impulsive so I can't see myself printing out or inputting by hand all the descriptions, when it was last found (in case it's been muggled), hints if i need them, etc. I love that the app finally lets you store data for offline use, as that is the one *major* drawback (MotionX helped with this but it means a lot of manual inputting). The battery life also does suck, but I just plug in to my car charger when driving between caches and that seems to work well for me. I too was concerned about hiding caches however. I currently use MotionX for getting coords. I wait to get a good signal and take multiple readings, and my averaged coordinates look good on google maps, but aren't dead on (off by ~10 feet at times). That makes me wonder, is that just the normal accuracy for GPS, or are the google maps slightly off? Or are they dead on, and my iPhone just isn't quite as accurate as other GPSrs? I'd love some feedback on this. Maybe the iPhone isn't perfect by itself, but I'd say paired with a good GPSr, and using offline storage, most anyone could go paperless.