Panther&Pine

The first two things that came to my mind were "Deem that challenge caches are ALRs and therefore are now optional" and "Eliminate power trails". I was trying to think of some change that could bring both of those things to fruition at the same time. Since I couldn't think of anything, I opted to deal with power trails over challenge caches since they are harder to Ignore. I came up with this single instruction to the developers: "Hide all the Found/Hidden counts." I think you hide the numbers and a lot of people would lose motivation to place a large series of [usually] mindless caches designed for no other reason than to inflate those numbers. Humm, I wonder what the stats page would look like without totals, just the charts.

Platinum perk?

Yes It does?

Some kind of play anywhere Wherigo?

I'm not sure that is something GS can do, but heck it is always worth asking.

+1000 Alright, what are your proposed guidelines for reviewers to use to go by?

How do you decide which caches to archive or do you just mean going forward?

I'm going to go with validated email accounts, for the app and for the website. Every year on the date you joined you'd get an email that congratulated you on whatever anniversary it was and ask you to update and validate your information.

Okay, with all the changes we all comment we'd like to be able to pick what got worked on. So today I'm waving a magic wand and you get to be Jeremy for one post, that can ONLY cover ONE item to be changed. With your new power over the GS Dev team; what is the ONE thing you want them to change? Keep it clear, concise and plausible, so not overhauling the entire PQ format (unless you can get that into ONE paragraph or image).

I don't remember how I found the paid app, but it took more time than it should have. I'd have liked for it to know when I logged 3 caches and then prompted me to buy the paid app.... maybe that is a bad idea.

I still feel bad about when I did that... Editing logs makes visits for trackables much nicer.

I'd assume the bug owner had a stamp made of their personal tracking bug, it would be appropriate to log it as a discover AFTER checking out the trackable page.

You are a PM, you can edit your milestone to the right one. Also why change to notes? You found it then adopted it. It'll still show up in both places, just on the map it shows as a smiley for you.

Yep, the intro app along with a basic membership gets you 3 traditional caches that are in theory beginer caches near you.

A My Find's PQ will get the found caches. So will a PQ that includes finds, but only active caches. I'm not 100% on your gps but I assume if you plug it in to the computer you'll be able to access the files.

Almogoul, spelling suspect.

What is with all the caps and side-long faces? Also do some reading on the links that have been provided. The original stash is no longer active, but the stash plaque and unoriginal stash remember those. Both in Oregon. MINGO is the oldest active cache, it has issues and is in Kansas.

HQ but it isn't a regular cache. Then the stash plaque and the unoriginal stash.

Except that finders may not realize the rock was "privately owned" and brought in for that purpose. Same thing with cut logs and the like. They love the cache so much they want to place one like that themselves, so off they go into the woods with their chainsaws and and hammer drills... Isn't it safe to assume that most cache container and their camo are brought in by the cache owner?

That is correct. Rafael seems to find that ironic, but I don't see that. I know, I keep trying to come up with the way to explain in a tidy fashion difference between being made to take a picture to log the cache and the personal choice to attempt a dangerous cache.

Just found and unfound.

Well here in Colorado it is fairly easy to tell what is public land and what is not, No Trespassing signs are noticeable and land parcels tend to be huge and well marked. Plus BLM doesn't allow caches, neither does the tribe, and the National Forest doesn't allow new ones, it concentrates the caching area a bit. In Washington it was a bit more difficult, and the town I was living in has a bunch of public trails that are on road easements that well don't look anything like future roads. I usually went with a lack of No Trespassing signs and distance from homes to decide if the cache I was approaching was on public accessible land, also Washington has beaches so walking below the low tide line is legal anywhere but getting to the beach is another matter.

The rocks that I've seen done that way have been brought in by the cacher, so they are adding to the hiding environment not taking away from it.

I'm rather fond of my new Oregon 650T. I bought it from REI so if I ever have issues with it, they'll make it right (so far I've had three replacement/upgrades courtesy of REI). It holds more caches than are currently active in the world, has a flashlight (camera as well), is fairly sturdy, accurate and so far stable for me. The only thing it doesn't do is Wherigo's. That GPS, GSAK, a Premium Membership and a paid Project-GC account have really made for some great/easy geocaching trips.

*giggle* the poetry of lamp post hides and film containers. I wish you great luck, but I'm not sure this is going to work out the way you intend. This archived cache is about the only one I know that actually sorta worked the right way.