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    long winded logs

    in General geocaching topics

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    I can see where the co is coming from. It is nice to see a log that describes what the cacher saw at the cache site. What it took to get there, what the cache site looked like and was cache still in good cond. Over all how was there experience. However if the cacher is doing or has done a lot of caches then the cut and paste method is easiest to do for them. I try to do logs that are fun to read, but sometimes there is not much to say. There is a web site out there that will give you your average log size in words. Right now I have a average size of 99 words per log. I too have had just the one word logs of "TNLNSL" because there was nothing to say about a LPC cache.

    Ok to log an accidental find

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    So a while back I went on a day of caching in a local park and when I went to look at the bulletin board with all the flyers of stuff to do the the area I found a micro hanging from a tack! Im still debating whether or not to log it as a find, what do you think?

     

    I would say if it is regular cache then yes logging it would be ok. However if it is part of a multi cache then you need to do the entire cache. I found the end of a multi but have not completed the rest of the stages so I will not log it until I do all of it.

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    Magellan Explorist GC and Windows 8.1

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    I wanted to say something about the Magellan Explorist GC and the recent update, the Magellan Communicator for Geocaching.com, and Windows 8.1. None of them work. I got a Garmin Nuvi a few weeks ago and caches download to it just fine. When I try to download to the Magellan, nada. "Not recognized". When plugged into the USB, it comes up as a drive, but 8.1 says "insert a disk in the drive". Duh, there is data on it! I saw on another forum where a lady say she was putting a call into Micro$oft. (!) Perhaps she needs to call Donald Trump too.

     

    It is a problem with the software, not Windows 8.1. I was having this problem, and saw where all kinds of people were installing it with Windows 7, and I have a Vista machine (I LOVE Windows Vista!), and took the whole shootin' match over to it. The Explorist comes up as a drive, and shows me the contents of the "disk". Communicator installs quite nicely. I am in the process right now of installing the software update; it just finished and waiting to see what the GC does. It do what it do. Came up with all new software (2.15)!!!

     

    It is not a problem with the software, the device, the computer, or the operating system; it is that Magellan is too lazy (?) to update the software for Micro$oft's new operating system!

     

    Happy Caching

     

    Alex

     

    When I try to download Magellan Communicator plug-in from ceocaching.com it says "This browser is not supported yet." I have windows 8.1

    When will there be one available for 8.1

    Pictures from todays adventures.

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Uh oh. Who drilled a hole in the gazebo?

    If there was no wooden hub there, then it's a cool hide.

    Otherwise, I'm not so sure that's such a good idea.

     

    It looks like it has some type of light hanging from there at some time and the person that hid the cache used the hole that left over to hide the cache.

    GeoCache Magazine

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I also thought this was a good issue. I had a picture in this issues also. It was the one of the goggle car that does the street view for goggle maps. Also if anyone would like to see a full copy of the magazine, go the the web site and view a full issue for free.

    The Lost Art of Logging

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    If I have a story to tell I tell it. If your cache is cool or unusual I say so. If it's just another LPC then "TNLN TFTC" is how I log it.

     

    Of course, when you do that, you also don't claim a smiley, right? <_<

     

    Why wouldn't he? I don't get the question.

     

    The letters SL are not in his online log.

    Numberless Geocoin

    in Trackables

    Posted

    This will sound blasphemous to all the Icon (*$'s) Chasers, but there was a time (back in the old days) when nearly no coins were trackable.

     

    You may have found one of them.

     

    You don't say? :anitongue:

     

    You had a great coin, tracking or not.

    What Do you do.

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I think that we have a consensus. FTF is a game that a few chose to play. Some make it a friendly game, some make it a cut-throat game, and many don't bother playing at all. You make up your own rules.

     

    Since you've been caching since 2001, I suspect there is a back-story here. That wasn't just an idle question, was it?

     

    I just want to see what others do. I don't go after the FTF. I don't have a smart a** phone so I don't get a text when a new one is published. I my self will not claim a FTF unless I was the one to find it. Others will if they are in a group and that is ok.

     

    What is funny is a few times I have been at events and everyone's phone will start to go off and then most of the people that were at the event run off to get that find. I guess if you are the one hosting a event and you want it to end at a pacific time you could just have it published at that time.

    What Do you do.

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by GeoCrickets

    Lets say you go out to try to get a FTF and when you get to the GC area there are other people looking for that cache also. If someone else finds the cache do you log as a co-FTF or would you count it as a FTF on your stats?

    There is no official FTF.

     

    Everyone has a different view of FTF.

     

    The fact your are questioning whether it is a FTF or not? Don't log it. If you question it, you have your doubts. Go with your doubts, they are your stats, nobody else cares about them.

     

    Personally? I'd count it as FTF.

     

    I know there is no official FTF and I am not questioning if it is a FTF. I know how I log it. I just would like to know how others log the FTF's. There is not right or wrong way.

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