DadOf6Furrballs

But you can still have a calzone eating event. You can provide a knife to all the participants so they can cut open their calzone and unfold it so that it looks like a pizza. You might want to screen the "will attend" list to make sure there aren't going to be any combative participants as passing around a knife could result in things getting ugly. All this talk about food and pizza and calzones is making me hungry, even though I just ate about 2 hours ago. Maybe the wife and I will go out tonight. Maybe we'll invite some friends. Pizza, Calzones, and Beers with the Furrballs. I bet we'll have a blast. And we won't even need to get an "official event" smiley to do that.

Nice. CRW much?

That's my bad. I had it in my mind that you could do that, but that's not the case. I'll edit my post, accordingly. BTW, kudos on your username. Maybe that could be an addition down the road? Just a wild thought. I get those from time to time, as a civilian.

Don't enter a location in the search bar on the Search page. Then click "Change Filters," deselect everything but Events, Add your state (or multiple states) to "Search Only In..." and "Click Update Search." You can bookmark the resulting URL for easy future reference. How do you add multiple states? I can't seem to get past just South Dakota.

But those caches do comply with German guidelines. Where are these special German guidelines posted? I thought there were only one set, applicable for all. http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx

I have never been to an event, ever, that required the event host or event attendees to stand or sit shackled and chained to the posted coordinates, and not allowed to mill about at will. I've never been to an event where everyone had to stand in a 8' x 8' circle for 30 minutes and not move. I doubt anyone else has had to either. And I strongly doubt anyone in the future will, even with this minor tightening of the event guidelines. On the other hand, I've been to events, in parks for example, during the posted event times, where if someone wanted to go on a nice little "walk" and smell the pretty flowers on the other end of the park just did it, without permission from anyone, and without the world coming to an end. I've been to events where if someone (or a group of someones) wanted to leave for a few minutes and - on their own free-will - go grab that new cache 842 feet to the north, just did it. Including the event owner. They came back and enjoyed everyone's company for the duration of that event. BBQ'd burgers and had a brew or 3. Nobody took away their smiley or birthday for doing that. The universe survived. *gasp* Having posted coordinates are there for a reason. So people can find it. It's really that simple. This is a GPS based game. Whether the event is at a pizza joint, or a picnic shelter in a park, the posted coordinates indicate that's where people (the event) will be. Nothing says you MUST go there and stand frozen in place for a half hour. Or 3 hours. This isn't rocket science. Why are we making this so complicated?

You have to create each listing and submit one at a time, but if you know how many there are in your trail, you can add to your reviewer note; "This is 1 of 100. (or 2, or 3, etc) Please don't publish until all are submitted. If any of them have issues, hold the entire series until they're all fixed and ready to go. Thanks!" Also, as mentioned above, emailing your reviewer to give him / her a heads up would be nice. Be sure to submit the whole series with enough advance time so they can go through the whole batch without having to be rushed. That should cover most of it.

Pretty easy answer, really. When it's no longer fun. Fortunately it still is, with either hat on.

I pretty much avoid tree hides, not that I don't like them, but because the wife and I have some certain limitations on what we can do, and how high. We did get one a few months ago where I stood with my back up against a pole that just happened to be next to the tree, she climbed part way up, and then backed up and sat on my head. Not the shoulders, but squarely right on top of my head. At that height she was able to reach the branch with a TOTT, pull it down, hold the container with one hand while unscrewing the cap and retrieving the log out of the bison tube with the other, sign it, thread it all back together, then let it all snap back into position... all without breaking my neck. Teamwork. Good thing there weren't any cameras nearby, else someone would have posted it on YouTube.

My husband uses "no camp fire" on all of his caches because it's funny. I used "no camp fires" and "no horses" on an event once... at a frozen yogurt place in town.

Hey, I know you... As wmpastor noted above, the date format 12-13-14 isn't the same globally. Usually if there's a date specific souvenir that is globally recognized (i.e. 10-10-10, 12-12-12), the weekly newsletter would have been reminding everyone to log either an event or a cache that day to receive it. As there's been nothing said in any official news or communication from HQ, my best assumption would be a no vote. But you never know, they might surprise us with something this time.

I've used "not recommended at night" for a few specific caches with higher D/T ratings, and "not 24/7" in parks with daytime hours only.

From the listing guidelines on cache maintenance: (Emphasis mine) It doesn't say "the caching community" is responsible for log replacements, fixing damaged containers, throwing down a film can so a find can be claimed thus avoiding that DNF. The CO is responsible.

I wouldn't, but that's me and how I play. You're free to do what you want. The help center has a good article about logging your own cache, although challenges aren't specifically mentioned. Also, what this wise man above said is very true:

As a cache owner, I go by blind faith. Unless someone's online creates a false impression that a cache is in place when it actually isn't, I'm not likely to worry too much. That's pretty much how we do it. Neither one of us spend hours doing a line-by-line audits of the paper logs v the online logs. I pretty much trust cachers to be honest.

We have a few caches we've logged finds on that we now own, they were found before we adopted them from someone else. We also have found and own a cache that was placed (2002) BEFORE we started caching (2009), for the same aforementioned reason. Some people do log finds on their own caches, but that's their game to play, not mine to judge.

It's not complicated. Someone, whether it's just my wife and I, or if we're in a larger group will find the cache before anyone else. Someone has to. If there are stragglers, oh well, they'll get there hopefully before the end of decade. But that almost never happens. If it's just her and I, the log is signed usually by the one who found it. If it's a little soiree of cachers, we pass the log around and we all sign it. Rehide, on to the next. Wash, rinse, repeat. Works for me, works for them, and I sleep at night just fine.

If you ever find yourself in the Black Hills, gimme a buzz. We have plenty of caches (and events) around here that I know you'll enjoy. Don / Do6FB

Our first one was Robbinsdale Forest. I think we had about 40 finds at the time. It was originally a matchstick container, gorilla glued and spiral wrapped with para-cord. When the glue was still tacky, I rolled it in some patio sand to help with the cammo. Just hung it on a large tree branch laying next to the trunk with a small para-cord loop. It blended in almost perfect. Lasted for about a year at that spot until a huge wet T-storm moved through with high winds and took the tree down. Unfortunately I couldn't find the container. I liked the hide area and really didn't want to archive it (since it was our first hide), so the replacement ended up being just a short bison tube wrapped with cammo gun tape, and cable tied to a small tree-bush nearby. The gun tape really hides the cache in the branches and foliage, it looks like a small "growth" hanging there. Simple and effective. Still going strong after 5 years / 3 months, 177 Finds, 8 DNFs, 4 maintenance logs, a couple of minor coordinate changes, and a few complaints about the occasional skeeters in the summer. And lots of compliments on the cammo.

3 or 4 years ago we went to check on one of our caches in a small wooded area in town that had a couple of legitimate sounding DNFs. Arrived on site, and yes, the cache was gone, so we replaced it. Then I noticed a black back pack about 50 feet away next to a fence. Thinking that lady luck had finally shined her smiling face after all these years, and it might be fully loaded with unmarked $20s $50s, etc, I opened it up and looked inside. Nope. Just somebody's soiled laundry. Good thing I had hand sanitizer in the truck, it was pretty nasty.

The icon will go away if the CO posts an Owner Maintenance log after checking / repairing / replacing the cache. Too many people will just post a note, or just enable it stating all is well. That doesn't clear the icon.

Back OT, we have about 3/4 of the highway done, stopping at 581. We had previously done the last 30 + about 25 extras on the back side on a fast drive out and back from Phoenix one day the previous Fall. On our final trip Memorial Day weekend 2012, it was about 110º in the shade according to the thermometer, our rental was in the red-zone of overheating due to the repeated stop and go, and we were verging on heat exhaustion. Since we were on a hard time schedule, we elected to bag it at that point and head back to LV so we could be alive in the morning to head up and start ET. It was fun. Seriously. A lot of good memories, laughs, and cranky moments. Maybe someday, if the trail and the road are still around, and we find ourselves nearby we'll finish it.

Yes, we've done that. Fairly recently too. And there's nothing wrong with that. We cache as a team, the vast majority of the time we're together, with a few exceptions. For example, the Furrball momma went to visit her brother in Austin TX, while I stayed up here in South Dakota. She found caches that week, as did I. There was no way I was going to sit around on my hiney all week and refuse to find / log caches while she was down there having a blast. We log all our finds under one account, together or separate. It's easier, we don't have to duplicate the work in writing logs.

Cache pages, maps, and logs all look fine for me, using IE10 / Win7. I don't have any IE9 in the building where I work so I can't test that. FF looks OK with Win 7, and so does Chrome and Safari under IOS 7.1.2.

I have one of these I want to put out someday (the one on the right), but I'll probably need to half fill it with concrete AND chain it to a tree.