Nazanne

The day after my last post I opened up Cachly and discovered it had been updated. Sorry it took so long for me to come back and respond. Cachly has been working great since the update. I've had no problems since the update and I really like the updated compass. Thanks a lot for a great product. It is definitely the best Geocaching app that I have tried.

Cachly is a beautiful all and has become my favorite geocaching app. But I have been frustrated by frequent hangs. I can't figure out a pattern of when it will hang, but it mostly seems to happen when the compass is open. I sometimes find myself opening the official app to navigate to the cache because the compass has been more reliable. Even with this annoyance this will continue to be my go to app.

Topo! seems to work OK under Mountain Lion. It has some issues, but I'm still using it. For an alternative try Route Buddy.

That locking up issue sounds bad. I've had my Colorado get off track and start giving incorrect track locations a few times when it is having trouble picking up satellites. I need better reliability so I've been trying to figure out what to replace it with. But I'm not trying too hard and your issues sound much worse. With lithium batteries I'll get one and a half or two days out of a set of batteries. Alkaline batteries only last a few hours.

I've been using my Colorado on backpacking trips as long as 8 days. I use lithium batteries and it does OK, but I like to have it on all the time while I'm hiking anyway so I carry a supply of extra batteries. The lithiums aren't as heavy as rechargeable or alkaline batteries and last a lot longer. For the record I use PhotoLinker for geotagging.

Geocaching is something I do when I can't be in the mountains hiking to (and fishing) lakes. So I named myself after an obscure lake with a distinctive name in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. I knew the guy who named the lake but he was getting old and couldn't remember what the name meant. So I don't know what it means or how it is properly pronounced. Figuring out how to get to little blue spots on the map with no trail is a hobby not too unlike geocaching in many ways.

I am constantly seeing damage by geocachers. Perhaps the underbrush in the area I live (western WA) is more sensitive then other places, but there is a trail and trampled area around almost any cache placed in the woods. I found one cache in some local woods by following a trail through trampled and broken salal to the base of a tree where the moss and underbrush was completely flattened and torn up. I never had to even glance at my GPSr. It looked like a herd of elephants had been through. And that cache had only been up for 12 days. A couple days ago I went for a cache in deep woods that, as it turned out, had coords that were fairly far off. The entire area around the original coordinates was trampled. In the description they put a set of updated coords. The area around those coords was basically flattened. The area around the cache itself turned out to be in good shape. But where people had been searching extensively looked terrible. This is a touchy subject with me because I've really been noticing a lot of damage recently. A local park has a cache hanging in a bush. The bush has leaves that are turning brown because the branches are broken and freshly broken off branches were obvious. When you are walking around in the woods it is impossible not to leave some sign of your passage. But if you show a little bit of care it is easy to minimize your damage. For instance, if I'm in the woods I try to return via a different route so I don't pound in a geotrail. If I find smashed down brush I like to fluff it back up so it isn't so obvious to the next person.

Duplicate Post. Sorry, I can't see any way to delete my mistake.

This sadly disabled cache encapsulates all the issues in this discussion. This is a small community cemetery. Things start out on the wrong foot because cemetery is spelled incorrectly on a large sign. Later somebody put up a sign that said ("Cemetary" sign photo available in the above link. See the logs for the below sign) NOTICE USE OF GPS TRACKING FOR TREASURE HUNTING IS PROHIBITED. ALL OTHER FORMS OF ENTERTAINMENT IS (sic) ALSO PROHIBITED. PLEASE RESPECT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE BURIED HERE. The OP asked why cemeteries are kid friendly. This seems like an odd question to me. I truly don't understand it. Why aren't they kid friendly?

I love puzzle caches. Many, if not most, of my favorite and most memorable Geocaching memories involve puzzle caches. But I can understand how they are not everybody's cup of tea. But this is nothing new. This topic brought to mind this cache that was disabled because of "...lack of interest in puzzles." That cache was archived in 2007 so I don't think puzzle caches are becoming less popular. In general they just aren't solved as frequently as traditional caches. The way I figure it, the best puzzle caches will have the fewest logs