brennan7

Hello, I am looking to find the old listing pages for a cache that I had tried to publish a long time ago but due to circumstances, wasn’t published. Now I am trying to find the coordinates to the stages of that cache (this was a while ago and I don’t have them) but I can’t seem to find the old listing of the archived, unpublished cache. Does someone know where to access this? Thanks!

Hey there! I've just solved (kind of) a mystery cache in my area, but the provided coordinates are in UTM/NAD27 CONUS format. So, I guess step two of this puzzle is to figure out how to interpret this, haha! So, if someone could give me a rundown of how to do this, I would be very appreciative! If I'm completely off and in the wrong direction, these are the coords Im working with (slightly altered to not give anything away): 13 S 0505236 4329392 UTM UPS -- NAD27 CONUS Thanks in advance! Nick

Well darn, that's annoying. Makes me want to go back to my old eterx Legend H. Oh well, I can deal with it! Thanks!!

Ugh... On my old Garmin it was easy enough to delete geocaches right from the GPS. How do I do it on my new etrex 20? Ive tried plugging into the computer and going through the files, but I still cant find any method that works. Deleting waypoints is perfectly simple, but not geocaches themselves. Help? Thanks

I want to log a find for today, but it keeps giving me an error message saying that I cant see the page. I then tried to look at other caches, and then my own caches, but it gave me the same error. I can look at everything else on the site except cache pages. Is anyone else having this problem? And can you fix it? Thanks

They may be changing account names, which can be done a much easier way, I think. So you dont have to go back and redo all of your finds and your hides are still under your control.

Now that they have come up with "Sort by favorite votes" feature, they should come up with the "sort by favorite votes percentage" so that people can find the best caches that may not have had as many visitors. But if it is still good and a lot of people like it, it will have a high percentage, putting it towards the top of the list rather than 10, 20, 50 pages out in the list. Maybe this is already on its way, I dont know. What do others think?

I just turned fifteen. I LOVE the sport, though it doesn't help to not yet have a driver's licence or parents who truly enjoy it. Seems like I am always begging them to go out, and I never get more than an hour. I bike on my own most of the time. There are two other teenage boys in the area who I know also en joy it, but I rarely find an opportunity to go with either of them due to extremely tight teenage schedules. All the same, I am a teenager who caches.

I've seen a lot of caches that require you to find a bearing of so many degrees, and walk a distance to find the cache. Could someong teach me how to do this with a GPS (I have a Garmin eTrex Legend H) and how to compute the coordinates?

This made me laugh!! http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=d8f431a2-0d95-4d24-b78a-662a3f408f98

Its been happening quite a lot in my area. I enjoy placing creative and fun-to-find hides, and people keep stealing them. You can look at my profile to see how close theses two multis are from each other, but the finals were a Pelican container and and ammo box. Both were stolen at around the same time, but the thief left everything that was inside of the cache at GZ and just took the box. If it was a muggle who who just happened to cross a pretty wide river, they would have taken everything in the box. Both of these caches were multicaches so the thieves had to have found the other stages, and even solved the puzzles to find it. It is sad that people are willing to ruin a lot of fun geocaches so that they can have the containers at the end. Its not just mine, I've found a few of caches that end up as a "regular" or "large" but the cache is gone, and the contents are still there.

I vote SparrowPI from the Colorado Springs area. He has such a good reputation for creating master multi-caches, that he could hide a casual LPC and get 4 or 5 favorite points after a week or two just because he hid it. But of the few of his hides Ive found, all of them are on my list. Check him out!!

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There is a cache that uses these not too far from my house. I am stuck at the final purely because I cant find it. But the first three stages had different QR Codes with the coordinates in them. I have an app on my iPod Touch that uses the camera and finds the code, then scans it right there. Works great, and it was free. The cache page is right here: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=4abb281e-82d0-4dcf-bbd2-9b88918b1c38

Love the video!

Personally, I enjoy the straightforward multicaches that follow a theme all the way through, with occasional easy puzzles. Those rock. I also like easy hides but ones that the CO has gone through a little extra trouble to make the container better, even if it's just for kicks.

What I was going to do was make it more of a multicache, and give clues at each stage with the next set of coordinates, and also give fake "cache logs" of people in order that they logged the cache page. Then at the stage before the final, it will give coordinates for different suspects, only one of whick is correct. This is just my thinking. What Im basically asking, how would other people set this up if it was their cache? *You guys are welcome to use the idea, just not in Colorado Springs, where Im setting it up. Cache name: "CSI: COS"

Once I saw this attribute on a traditional cache listing. When I found it, you had to open a "wordlock" that was the cache name. Pretty cool I thought.

Unless the cache is a moving cache, and you find it in a diferent spot, dont log it again. A moving cache is a cache that when found, is taken by the finder and moved to an entirely diferent location and given new coordinates.

Been thinking about making a CSI multicache. Had the basic outline of using local geocacher names as suspects of muggling a geocache. (With permission, of course!) but when i try to make it as short as possible to find the clues, and relitively easy to solve, there are no decoys or split-descisions. Its obviously one person. Any ideas on how to make this better?

Ive been trying to hide creative caches lately, but they usualy end up with a high terrain rating. What makes a good cache to you? What are the best cache-characteristics in your opinion? -Scenic hike with an easy ammo box? -Tough, annoying, 5/1 caches? -Long multi-caches? -Field puzzles? -Mystery caches? -5/5s? What do you like best? Please post.

I love finding those creative ones, ones that just make you laugh. I found an ordinary bison tube in a tree the other day, but because it had two googly-eyes glued on it, I gave it a favorite point. Even if the CO thinks of the tinyest thing to give to their cache, its great. Thats why I pride myself in hiding caches that are different, more enjoyable. Even finding an old dog-toy in the backyard and turning it into a cache will make it fun for someone to find. Its not what you expect to find. I also like to find caches that make you figure out how to get it, whether its a pully-system, or mechanical like "Totally Tubular III," makes it fun. I just recently hid one like that called "Roller Coaster" where the cache is a normal ammo box that is locked with three padlocks, and the cacher has to walk up the hill near the cache and make the pill bottles holding the keys slide down the rope to where the ammo box is. Just makes it more fun to find. All in all, the cacher really has to remember it, especially when they have found thousands of caches.

No job, no money, no high school degree (yet), I cant afford anyting for my caches. I get all of my micros from my dad when he finished a bottle of his medications. (So theyre all pill bottles.) I get all my ammo boxes and pelicans from family and friends on birthdays, Christmas, etc. The logs are usually a little spiral I got luck in finding around the house, or a few pieces of printer paper stapled together. Without using any money at ALL, I still manage to get logs like "Ingenious" because I spent more time on them, mostly just scavenging around. Works for me, although I have had some good cache ideas pop into mind but wouldnt be possible without spending a few bucks to put it together. Only thing I pay for is the $30 mambership.

I always assumed you were "The Doll," as there are nevery and logs from "The Doll." Only WingsAndTales...I saw a nametag saying "The Doll" at an event once. Maybe it was you...hmmm...haha

GSAK- Geocaching Swiss Army Knife. im still confused on how to use it though, its all very confusing. And it looks very time consuming.