BlueRajah

As one of these is not a software API partner I am closing this thread.

Or a town boundary. They are constantly changing in some areas.

Once someone gets your email it can take months or even years for it to go away. Because it will be shared over and over again amongst the spammers

Remember that geology is broad, and there can be some various definitions of the different terms in various studies. Grains has a specific meaning to many. A grain is a size measure; silt, sand, cobbles and boulders, are all grains. A grain can be one material or many crystals. Common usage says to describe grains, (in fact I am pretty sure that is where the term granite comes from). The boundary between crystals is a granular boundary. Grains also implies more with sedimentary rocks. It is used a lot in classifying sedimentary materials. But I think discussing the makeup of most igneous material it is kind of odd. Kind of like describing cache size with difficulty. If you asked me the size and I said four star difficulty, it may mean something, kind of, but not really. You can say car, but the proper term may be SUV. Everyone will ask what car you drive, everyone understands it, but in digging down (pun intended) to the bedrock of the issue (another terrible pun) you would say a SUV, or a Ford SUV, or go into more detail and give the make and model. Grains is vague, being more specific might work better. I would not say grain size in a cache page, I would use crystal size, or "size of the feldspar crystal". I might use grains if discussing the small pieces coming off the rock. There is a local area here where they break off like small peas forming piles.

Hmmm not really about rings, but about the stone the rings are in. https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC49EG5_rhyolitic-wonder?guid=687597f4-0a4c-4f9a-8d52-663202822e40 and a website about the location https://geology.utah.gov/popular/places-to-go/rock-mineral-collecting-sites/the-rockhounder-wonderstone-in-the-vernon-hills-tooele-county/

Compare two fjords or parts of the same one. As about differences or similarities.Thow a few ideas in the write up.

Plus every state has different laws that would deal with liability.

This app is not supported by HQ and is not using the API or authorized methods to gather data from the website so i am locking this thread.

I have gotten to a few Earthcache sites and needed a special tool, others just needed you to visit another location. It was just way easier to look and read the cache page before I got there.

Most of the ones I see now that are listed focus on the rock, rock layers, and differences in the how those layers are eroding with the waterfall. Mostly there was a ton of cookie cutter caches about falls, that were not about learning the geologic process involved. So there is a shift in how you need to do it now.

You are looking at the big picture, look smaller at the rocks in front of you. It can be tricky, but much easier to do logging tasks. Good luck.

I looked at your Earthcache and would say that it is worth continuing. . Remember that signs are not the Earthcache, they are like the cache page. You can educate, and give them info from signs. Often the signs are far better than I could explain, sometimes I take info from the sign and put it on the cache page so if the sign changes my info does not go away. Use them like a textbook and ask questions like a jr high or high school teacher would ask to see if they learned anything. What evidence do you see of....? How do you think these tracks ...? Why do you think...? Compare the track/fossils/rock A vs B.... what similarities do you see, and what differences. People think too much like a virtual geocache at times and want you to just pull a word off a sign. Usually just a little tweaking and looking at it a different way gets you over that hump. However many people just give up on them.

Permission, science, and good logging tasks and you have it made.

I have not looked in a while but i am pretty sure if you were a premium member in the past, or used a trial, a new trial membership will not work.

Yellow card shown, a warning that things are moving off topic and personal. I removed much of the comments that strayed and were leading to arguments. Stay on topic please, or stay out of the thread lest further penalties descend from above.

This has completely degraded. I am throwing a yellow card here. If you are not discussing the topic, stay out of the discussion altogether. If you are discussing the topic, be polite. Failure to do so will be a forum time out. I have hid many posts that have nothing to do with the topic. Other mods or myself may still action previous comments.

Geocoin cryptocurracy is something completely different geocoins used or geocaching. Geocoins for geocaching or a physical product that are bought and sold, not an imaginary currency.

It should never be difficult to find an event. They are open to all at the coords. So there should not be an event with a D5, or challenges that require it. In my opinion.

contact someplace with a laser engraver. See what they would charge. You supply the tag, and they engrave.

A metal tag/nameplate?

Another note on the "no contact" guideline, there have been some instances where cache owners were being selective. Old challenge caches might say when completed contact me and I will send you the final coordinates. Some cashiers would get them others would not if the cache owner did not like you. Same with some puzzle caches or other caches. This is not a new guideline it is been around for a number of years now.

I do not how you made that big if a jump in logic. I am sure that I did not say that, and I am sure the post by Moun10bike is also debunking your comment. If reported they can take action. I was explaining how one of hundreds of thousands of ads slip in, and how to deal with them. It will happen again, to others or to yourself if you do not report it or take action through google as well.

Googles algorithms do not mean that you visited a site. If you do then you are likely to get more ads. However they compare your history with others, and they consider a if you have visited a related site, even a far distant relation. Plus that does not help if the ad purchaser miscatigorized their ad, accidentally or on purpose. Some may, just to get the ad in front of new people.

The advertiser selects some catigories for their ad. HQ can block certain categories. Then google does its thing. Posting thousands of ads every hour based on browser histories and other factors. Once an inappropriate one is shown the only way to deal with it is manually. 1- Let google know it is miscatigorized and find out why it is shown to you. 2-HQ can block their site manually. If you do not do the first you may get the ad on other sites google advertises. It should work across all google ad sites. If you let HQ know they can block that site here. But similar sites will still pop up. Kind of like leaving the door open and hunting for the flies that come in one by one. You cannot prescreen the ads shown on your site. They are custom chosen for you by Google.

How much weight can I load into my pickup.? Depends on the model and options. The resource mentioned by HHL is great, plus the pointers that things get bogged down when you approach those numbers. I had a lot on an old garmin oregon 300 (200 file limit). It seemed to randomly drop some of the files when I approached and went over its limits. (I had a number of quick one geocache GPX files for some caches). I don't know how it chose. Perhaps it stopped loading, or when I hit a limit it started to drop the early ones. However eventually tried to stay way under the limit to be safe.