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Whew! Thanks guys! I grabbed them back.

So all of my trackables that I have in my inventory were dumping into a cache. I never would have done this and for some reason it happened. I dont have some of them in my hands. Can someone from Groundspeak pull them out and put them back into my inventory? Thanks!

This year at the West Bend Cache Bash we introduced Lab Caches. There was 8 in total of which 3 of them were mine. See the page here: West Bend Lab Cache Each Lab cache has a description so I wont get into each lab in detail. Please see the page link. My thoughts as a lab cache mad scientist. It allowed me to think completely outside the box. We made challenges, we made cachers look for answers in a musuem, we made them go out on a swim platform in the middle of a swimming pond for a special code word. We also had people stick there hands in several mystery holes in a box to find a cache container with a code word in it. They had to touch worms, grasshoppers, and other gross things. One kind of flopped due to bad weather. We had the regional astronomy club help do a night viewing of Saturn. Unfortunately we had to cancel and I made up for it by hiding a traditional cache with the code and log book. They were fun to create and let our imaginations soar! Cheating is a potential issue. To make them honest we had a log book with a lock and lock container and code word. They needed to sign the log book when completed with the cache and the cachers had to log the special code word withing a week before the lab caches closed permanently. Which brings me to my next point. In my opinion the lab cache web page is terrible. It doesnt let cachers leave any kind of feedback. Feedback is super important to me as a hider and finder. It keeps them honest and it lets the hider know how things are going. It is the crux of geocaching period. Please make the lab cache pages identical with the regular pages. Integrate it with the system and add the accomplishment prize when completed. The other two cache hiders agree with me 100%. Also to the programmers, please integrate java scripts so you can post youtube videos and flash. This is 2015! Facebook is doing it, gc.com can as well. At least make it so that premium members can do it. Also please make them available to events not just mega's and giga's. Normal events should be able to do them as well. Overall the feedback from other cachers was excellent. There was a couple of cachers that hated it at first and then they did them and their attitudes changed and want to do more. I for one did them all and enjoyed them immensely. The WB cache bash will for sure be doing them for years to come.

Thanks for your input all!!

Dear Groundspeak. Geocaching for me isn't about the numbers. Rather it's about the memories, quality, and challenge of the cache. I live in an area that is saturated with numerous park and grabs which for me, makes geocaching in my area not interesting. I think the favorite pts. is an awesome addition to the game. My only request is that can you incorporate favorite points with building pocket queries??? My apologies if there is already a thread. Thanks! Have a totally awesome day!

"Way off" was 50 yards. I was at a playground and the cache would have been somewhere between 2 houses quite a distance from the actual location. We relied on the clue. And it was a nice sunny day.

My wife bought me a Etrex Legend HCx. I went out geocaching the other day and found out that the waypoints/caches were way off. I believe its either the unit or the Mapsource program that threw me off. My question is: Is there a link someone can post or tell me what the Postion Format (ie hddd mm.mmm), Map Datum, Distance, Speed, and all the setup information that needs to be inputted in order to do geocaching???? Thanks!

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