jhauser42

The only 2 datums that I am aware of are WGS84 and UTM. Of course there may be others I do not know about. Fizzycalc can convert to UTM right on the front page.

You can also download a program called fizzycalc. It does a nice job of conversion.

Travel Bugs and Geocoins are meant to be travelers. They are never meant to be collected by anyone other than the owner. If you find one in a cache you can take it and hopefully help move it along to its goal (if it has one). There is no need to trade for a trackable.

Post a NA log. This will call it to the attention of the local reviewer.

There is a school district near me that has caches on the property of almost all of the schools. These were actually placed by the students and teachers and each of the cache pages state that explicit permission was grnated by the principal for these caches. The pages also explicitly state that caching is not to be done during school hours. This is defined as 8:00 am-4:15 pm school days. I have never had an issue going to do these caches and am looking forward to a weekend or evening when I can get the rest of them. Some of them are really nice hides.

I had a very similar experience with my first hide a few weeks ago. On mine I asked the local reviewer to publish it on a specific Saturday as I was attending my first event that evening and the cache was not far away. The reviewer published it that morning and I had 3 finds and 2 DNFs by the time of the event. It was great being able to get feedback from these people in person that evening. Joe

I would not say that most like Earth Caches. I certainly do not. I personally see Earth Caches as just another type of virtual that should be over on Waymarking.com. I also suspect that the majority would not be upset if Earth Caches went away. No container = no cache. Simple in my mind, but I am not TPTB that make the rules.

Check your junk mail folders. Also, some email providers, including roadrunner, hotmail and yahoo have been known on occasion to block all mail from Groundspeak. That is the reason I got a gmail account and am transitioning my email away from roadrunner. (This, of course, assumes that the PQ is running and that the site says it ran at a certain time and you just are not getting the emails.)

I use FF at home, Opera runnnig off of a thumb drive at work. I see no differences between the two.

Wow. Col. Flagg even talked about bringing this topic up again on Friday and here it is....

Some caches are also cross-listed on other sites and could be published there first.

I love it! Wish it wasn't across the country from me. I wuold go find it in a heartbeat.

I would have no problem with you posting photos of my cache containers. I have also posted pics of my daughter holding cache containers. However, having said this, if it was a really unique container or posting a photo of it would really give it away, then I would not post it. An example of this would be the hollowed out log I found recently lying on the floor of the forest between two trees (although I did take 2 pics of it to show my wife and some friends). Posting a pic of this would be a complete giveaway for future finders. I know that is not what I was looking for when I found it!

My favorite thing is being led to all of the really cool parks and other areas in the city that I never knew existed.

I have only hidden 2 caches so far. In my first one I started it out with a bunch of collectable coins. Nothing super valuable, but stuff you di not see in commerce every day. People are taking them and trading back in what the item is worth to them. Is what the item is worth to them equal to the retail value? Maybe, maybe not. Do I care? No. Everyone trades how they want to and no amount of griping in the forums is going to change that. Also remember that the majority of cachers do not even read the forums so your pleas are certainly falling on the wrong ears.

I use a Nuvi 205W for caching. If you go here and get Pilotsnipes macro for GSAK you can have fully paperless on your Nuvi, including the cache description and the decoded hint. Just follow the instructions as he wrote them and you should be good.

I, personally, see it as a waste of web space. What fun is it to just go get an answer when you can actually try to solve an interesting puzzle or go for a great walk in the woods? Is it the end of geocaching? Not even close!!!

I have exactly 1 hide. Working on a 2nd one now.

I am fairly new to geocaching, but I do enjoy the puzzle caches. For me cahing is about having fun and as a gamer the puzzles just add to the fun for me. Now, having said that, I have actually solved more than I have found, but the corrected coords are in GSAK and I will get there eventually. Of the ones I have attempted so far I am truly stuck on 3 of them outof about 30. But eventually I'll get them!

Why, in fact it is Tuesday. As with most others, I'm in the no camp. Micro is good enough. Exactly. Adding a category for them will only encourage people to place them and do we really want more of the annoynig things? I would just filter them out.

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Why? Do you actually want the wrong people fiding your hides? They are also two different things. A terracache is competing with a geocache, but a letterbox is a different type of hide and seek game.

Exactly what I was trynig to say above. If the parking is obvious enough that the parking available attribute should be clicked, why include parking coordinates? I only find parking coordinates useful if there is no obvious parking, and then the parking available attribute should not be selected. Joe

I suppose that would depend on how you are defining "Parking Available". If the parking area is a few hundred feet from the cache site, that would likely mean there is parking available. If the parking area is a 2 mile hike from the cache site would that qulaify for the "Parking Available" attribute. My opinion would be that people that are searching by that attribute would be looking for close parking, not just a recommended parking area a long hike from the cache. Joe

I don't like the idea of being able to grab a TB from the cache page. THe way it is set up currently you have to have the physical TB with the tracking number in your hand. You have to log it by that number. If you allow people to "grab" a TB by just clicking on a checkbox on the log page you could end up with arm chair loggers claiming they have grabbed the TB when in fact they have not. This will then remove the TB from the cache even though it is still there. I believe that this will mess up the logging and tracking of these TBs even more than it currently is. If, however, you modify your proposal a bit I think it could work. If after grabbing the TB via the checkbox the site then asked for the tracking number to confirm that you have it you may have a workable solution. Joe