hikeatrail

We had never had that problem before. My husband was finally able to get the maps to work late in the evening and we passed on trying to create a pocket queary, just creating our own list of caches to check out. I'll pass this message on to him. Thanks for your reply!

We have spent over an hour today trying to build a pocket queary for an upcoming trip. The site will pop up a route from here to there but won't let us adjust it to the route we are actually taking. While in the middle of trying to make it work the map will suddenly start scrolling from right to left and won't stop. So we went to the regular map to see if we could just select caches along the way ourselves and the map won't scroll at all. It will only let us zoom in and out. Sigh.

Interesting reading. One thing I notice - to each his own. Some like Dollar Store trinkets, some prefer homemade ones, some prefer none at all. It takes all kinds of people to make the world go 'round and all kinds of swag to make caching the experience that it is. The male half of the hikeatrail team is not into the swag. Female half (that would be ME) enjoys it. I like leaving things I think kids would enjoy, especially. I pick up clean little toys at garage sales and bargain bins. One of my favorite things we took from a cache was a crazy little wind-up figure. I also like my giant black ant. If we find something that seems to be just trash (leaves, unadorned sticks, etc) we toss them out. Once we found a glow stick that had gotten overheated and the chemicals had reacted inside the ammo can. We cleaned out that mess, too. The worst thing we ever found - in MY opinion - was a condom.

I've read this entire thread hoping to get some clarification and I'm coming away even more confused than when I began. I agree with the writer who said to explain this in 8-year-old terms. Been caching for a year so still relatively new, but it seems to me this new feature has only muddied the waters. We have less than a dozen travelers ourselves, so maybe that is part of my confusion. I don't understand why a cacher would have a collection of travelers with no intention of sending them traveling....! Is this for numbers or bragging rights?

Just noticed this on my trackables' pages: "The owner hasn't set their collectible preference." Not familiar with this. What does it mean and how do we set our preferences?