DadOf6Furrballs

Who's going to know... or care? Certainly I wouldn't, it's your game, not mine. Nor do I really care how someone figures out one of our puzzles. Brute force, PAF, stumbled upon, or begging me for clues until I finally give in. If they're happy with the end result, and can live with that, so am I.

Looks like it's part way up Dry Mountain in Utah. About half way between Provo and Vernal. 455 air miles from the palatial estate in Rapid City SD. I'd probably have to find a couple thousand caches somewhere in Ontario to balance the thing back out. Or never go back to Nevada or California to cache.

I do believe that this is what it's all about. The folks at marketing are trying to get newer cachers off the pavement so that they might actually stick around for more than a few months and discover that geocaching is more than PnGs. I don't really care about souvis although I am an icon ho and really want to attend a giga event to re-complete my set. But I might change my habits a bit just for kicks and giggles. I do not care about the August souvenirs, but if others enjoy them, why not. What surprises me however is that all the cachers who answered in this thread and showed their interest into the promotion are experienced cachers and not beginners. I find it hard to understand what's the attraction of the 7 souvenirs for experienced cachers. Cezanne I try to find good in all aspects of geocaching. Hikes, puzzles, park and grabs, easy or tough smileys, DNFs, and specifically arranged colorful pixels on our profile page. I try not to complain. Much.

I know for an absolute fact the reviewer in my neighborhood wouldn't publish them.

I haven't found a cache since Sunday. I'm going into withdrawals. I NEED one tomorrow though, to fill a hole in an imaginary grid on our stats page. Then we're good until October, providing on those 2 days we don't get another SD blizzard of biblical proportions.

+100. Thank you.

I guess that's a difficulty 5. Maybe I'll make it 4.5 to help people with their grids. Change it down to a 4 if too many people start finding it. Then watch the hand wringing in the forums.

They know about the font issue, and a fix is in the works. Website issue forum post.

We have several PMO caches, and although in the beginning the audit log was a bit of a novelty, I rarely look at them anymore. Too many other important things in my life than to worry about who's peeking at our cache pages. I've also looked at hundreds of PMO caches over the years - directly from the cache page, many of them several times, and I've never received an email from someone asking why I'm looking at their caches. Never.

6 pages now? Cheese Louise, when it's all over, in the grand scheme of life itself does it really matter either way?

I was FTF on a cache once, it had a $1 bill inside for a FTF prize. It said "In God We Trust". I wasn't offended in the least.

Honestly, I/we don't listen to music while I'm/we're caching, except when I'm/we're driving to a cache in one of our vehicles. Then it's just on whatever Satellite radio channel it happens to be on at the moment. But once I/we leave that vehicle and hiking to a cache, I/we much prefer the quiet sound of nature around us.

As a card-carrying Pastafarian, I've been tempted to toss a promotional spaghetti noodle into a cache now and then. But there's that "no food" clause in the guidelines, so I've always refrained.

I always tell someone what I'm doing. Especially if it's a land owner, or a LEO. Although I've never been questioned by an officer, I have with a couple land owners. One was quite funny, he actually forgot he gave permission for the cache to be where it was under the junk car next to his barn. (The CO did in fact have permission, and stated so on the cache page) It wasn't until I explained what I was looking for, he suddenly and miraculously was cured of his CRS, everything was cool and we all laughed about it. But if I had lied to him, he probably would have sent me packing down the road with a shotgun aimed at my rear.

I've seen a few of them on my caches. I must be in the minority, but I don't mind those logs. They found a cache, they're happy. They found one of mine, I'm happy. Win-win.

I must not be doing something right. I've never encountered a LEO in all my caching activity. Guess I need to amp up my suspicious look.

For now, yea. We still have all SIX of the monsters. However, over time as they succumb one-by-one to the great catnip field in the sky, we'll eventually become the parents of NO Furrballs. If geocaching is still around then, I guess we'll change our names accordingly.

I needed a break from what I was slaving over at work, so being curious I grabbed my phone, turned on the GPS and fired up Google Maps. My phone is just some El Cheapo Android based Verizon thing. I'm currently inside that building, where I am sitting right now in my office is slightly to the right of the blue arrow by about 6 feet. Not bad accuracy for being indoors. Or lucky, which is probably a more accurate statement. With that said, we've never had a problem FINDING caches with the official Geocaching app on this phone. It always takes us reasonably close, at least close enough to the hide spot it isn't rocket science to figure out where the cache is hidden. We don't always use it, mainly it's just a the spur of the moment thing, when we don't have the GPS with us. However, we ALWAYS use a dedicated GPS (Colorado 550T) when placing caches, or on longer hikes out in the middle of nowhere. Never had a complaint on bad coordinates with it. Anyway, YMMV. It was somewhat amusing to me, so I thought I'd post it.

My wife and I log everything under her account. We officially made that our "Team" account way back after our first find. With few exceptions, relatively speaking, the vast majority of the smileys we have we have found together. There have been a few I've found without her physically at GZ, and vice versa. For us, it was just easier to manage only one set of logs rather than duplicating the effort.

This.

About 5 minutes, +/- a few seconds or so. Got the notification while at work, looked at the map and saw it was immediately next door to the south about 300 feet from the front door. Since it was right at lunchtime, I just strolled over to it. No GPS needed, as it was an obvious spot.

Hmmm.... I wonder which is worse... fake logs, or a fake cache?

And what does that specifically mean? Probably that the cache is missing, thus the DNF log.

I always wondered what that screen looked like.

You could always just park the cache coordinates out in the middle of the Pacific somewhere, so it doesn't block anything. Work on it to your heart's content. Do an occasional update on it so it doesn't get broomed in the yearly sweep. Then when it's ready, move the coordinates to your planned spot and submit it to the reviewer.