Polarbz

Survey says... No. But heres a smiley for trying =)

Yup, its the compass. I recalibrate when its acting funny and telling me to go the wrong way. I just recal and its all good. I haven't upgraded to 2.51 yet.

I did study up before I got my Colorado, and I love it more every day.

We have our own little goals... 1. We like to look for caches that haven't been found in forever and find those. 2. We like to rescue travel bugs and move them along when they've been trapped for awhile. 3. We like to "clean up" my little area of the map and turn all the green boxes into smileys. Once we start an area, we have an obsession to clear it up too - otherwise it just makes my map look stupid... =) 4. If we're traveling we make arrangements to find a cache in the states we're going through.

GCNZ2F - in Missoula, Montana. Another book vault.

Here's our newest bug, can't find a cache big enough for it... Anyone got a big enough cache?

When I die, my wife is going to make me into diamonds (http://www.lifegem.com/) and then leave me as a FTF prize... or maybe a travel bug... =)

For our first (and currently only) cache, we put in a MP3 player that I got on WOOT for about $5 for the FTF prize. The FTF didn't take it, so the STF did! I'm just here to have fun - not to make a profit.

What exactly IS it?

I'm no expert but I think you would each need your own Geocaching accounts.

I find it interesting that GC uses Google Maps for searching but then uses Yahoo Maps for the little maps in the cache pages. Why use two different types of maps? Really, I'm just curious, but I noticed when I saw a little park on a Yahoo map in a cache page, but couldn't find the same park on the Google Maps pages. Weird, I thought. Any reason, or "that's just the way it is"?

I do geocaching for the fun of finding - I rarely even look at a bug list ahead of time - they are just bonuses!

Yay! Double post!

Funny, if I were in the area, a bad report like that would move this cache to the TOP of my TO DO list. If confronted with someone calling the police, I'd encourage them to do so. I'd also have my video camera running.

But in all fairness, Navicache doesn't even have US maps... thats not really competition.

I have the 400t and I think I recall seeing the same cache twice when I had overlap. One I found and marked "found" but the other didn't go away. They were the same cache. What I do is just to take a 500 cache radius from my home coords and then see how far out the furthest cache is and then plan my next PQ to come as close to that as possible (with minimal overlap). I load up three PQs that way and cover an area from Missoula, MT to Spokane, WA to Newport, WA without having to worry about a route-based PQ. Once I find some caches during trips, I rerun the PQs, delete the old and add the new. I haven't used the 400t to upload any logs yet, I still do it the old fashioned way.

I think this article is an example of why caches need better camouflage and placement. If a non-cacher accidentally found it, it needs to be better hidden!

I agree with the above statements. That's what difficulty level is for and it will keep the rif-raff away.

OWE $3334

I don't know how many people use INATN on a regular basis, but I'd be willing to drop a few bucks a months to maintain it.

Funny that this is STILL going on. But, for my third cent - Geocaching.com simply advertises the caches and hosts cache pages- you could put them wherever you want and advertise them in another manner if you wanted to. I think there are alternative "find the box in the woods" resources out there. Geocaching.com just has the most listings and the widest following. If you don't like the rules/guidelines/decisions, you CAN go elsewhere without actually quitting altogether. I DO think that the agenda rules/guidelines should be modified to be more clear - but if they aren't, I'm still satisfied with how the game is run in my area.

Just to add another 2 cents. It doesn't appear that the "Agenda" in the cache in question is any more or less of an agenda that the other 1000+ caches supporting troops, breast cancer awareness, diabetes, or whatever else. The fact that it was already reviewed and published just makes it that much more allowed. I just found a "Go Army" cache here the other day, should I call a reviewer and have it archived for having an Agenda? I think the reviewer here would laugh at me. As he should. This is much ado about nothing - except they want to remove the cache for no reason and are willing to selectively enforce rules to do so. Well within their RIGHTS, but maybe not best for the geocaching community as a whole.

Experience is key. Every cache you DO find makes finding the next one that much easier.

You know, maybe it MIGHT have been inappropriate, but before I pass further judgment, I'd have to SEE the article in question in use... THEN I will have a better idea about how appropriate it is. Now THAT ^^^^ might have been inappropriate, but I don't think just have a bra in a cache would be.

I'm still not clear on WHY its inappropriate... what is it that makes it any more inappropriate than some other piece of clothing? No one makes you take anything to carry around, so if you don't want to answer questions, don't take things you have issues with. But that doesn't make any particular item inappropriate.