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Here are two more mileycyruss Trevino4728 Many same day logs that would take you one day just to find one! Why would people do this??

As it looks like this thread has turned into another FTF bash, I thought I'd let the OP know that their request is simple... All you need is to set up a filter in GSAK. I just ran a quick test by setting the Dates filter to select only caches where the publish date is newer than the last found date. I limited it to traditionals. It pulled 39 out of 2353 caches in my local database. I flipped through the list and they are all yet-to-be-found. A couple of them have finds logged prior to the publish date, but none afterward (your so-called "beta testers"). This naturally relies on the found logs to have been dated prior to the placed date, which we all know is hardly foolproof, but it is a starting point. A few more tweeks here and there and you could probably get a pretty accurate list. Just to toss my thoughts into the rest of the debate... since there is no official "FTF" log, anyone at any time can claim to be the FTF. No one will know any different, nor can anyone say any different. GS doesn't administer or track anything to do with this silly FTF thingie. GS is also not the only way to have a cache listed. If you think that the guy who hunted down the cache right after the CO placed it wasn't really the "First To Find" the cache, then go ahead and puff out your chest and claim that you were in fact FTF before that other guy who found it before you did. Of all the pre-publish hunts I'm aware of, the CO hides the cache without the rest of the group seeing how/where the cache was placed. Then they regroup and the CO shares the coords and the others get to go find it. Just because it hasn't been published by GS doesn't mean they aren't having to hunt down the cache the same as everyone else. Or just do like everyone else does and call it FTFAP and be done with it. Great! That’s as close as it can get to answer my question. I will give it a try and see what happens. Thanks

Thanks Toz, This is what I was not aware of. I thought the programs you ran your own stats on picked up the FTF from the first found it log. As far as being a beta tester I will never get the way people are doing it but that was not my initial question and I could care less what other people do. I beta tested a couple of caches. I did not know the hider on one of them and I was not with either one of them when they were placed. They both emailed me and asked if I would check it out and gave me the coords. After I found the caches I waited until the FTF was claimed then logged in using the date before the cache was published since I had the coords before they went online.

Wow. I haven't seen that done yet, but it sounds like a pretty poor practice. People can go on all they want about how silly an FTF race is, but it's certainly an exciting part of the game for a lot of people. When someone logs a find before the cache is even published, they oughta go sit in timeout. As should the CO, if he/she allows that. If you're gonna allow that, why bother to publish the cache? Just make up a bunch for your friends to find. Sorry -- I don't know of a way around this kind of behavior. GC20c4Q GC20B0K GC20c4R The list can go on and on.... These are all found caches while with the hider. If you go to nearest caches all of these were logged as found but still no FTF?

I'm not sure I understand your question. What do you mean by a "beta finder"? Running a pocket query to find unfound caches returns lots of hits with notes on them, including DNF's (such as mine, here). When a cache is hidden and there are people with the cache hider many times they post a find and date it before the published date of the reviewer and claim a “beta find” Once they do that it will not come up as an unfound cache even though it predates the reviewers published date. I don’t agree with the practice but it happens all the time and if you want to run a PQ for unfound caches I guess you are out of luck.

Trying to find caches that have not been found after they were hidden. With all the ”beta finders” logging in even before the published date the caches still come up as being found. So, if you do a PQ with beta finders already logged in who ever logs in first gets the FTF running a stats PQ? Are there any filters to use to eliminate the beta finders and see the unfound caches? Pezcachers

Thank you. Happy New Year!

Once the cache has been repaired how do you remove the needs mainteance attribute? Do I need to delete the should be archived note on the cache page? Thanks Pezcachers

December 23 by xxxxx (3225 found) "As I drove up, I saw a homeless woman, talking loudly to herself, carefully searching GZ. Although I knew where, and what I was looking for, I had to forego signing the log for fear it would make her search too easy. Methinks she is on to something." Just drive close to ground zero then log your find!

August 30 by xxxxxxx (104 found) Found the location and the magnet. Cache is gone...

Willow Creek Trail GCWY1A February 18 by PezCachers (3464 found) Have never been in this area before and we enjoyed the loop. As we were signing in we heard a family coming up the trail so we hurried and did our trade and put the cache back in its place. At the switchback... before us stood Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula), of the Star Ship Enterprise NX-01 and his crew! WOW!!! Playing it cool and not wanting to get beamed anywhere we answered their questions about the trail and made our way back down to the kiosk. Thanks for the stash! T- Pez, yes, we took a pez imagine that! L- Sponge Bob in a bubble Ken&Jill

January 27 by xxxxxx (3500 found) The picture was taken by xxx from across the cyn on our way up to Sandstone Peak. We did periodically see balancing rock again from closer distances between breaks in the fog. But by then the rain & mud had made a visit to the rock unsafe. TFT(virtual)C though!! [view this log on a separate page] ...from a distance... January 27 by xxx xx xxxxxxxxxx (12074 found) Came out here with xxxxxx prepared for a longer hike, but as we ascended, the fog rolled in... then the rain! We took the loop back anyway, and both of us were soaked, wet rats. I look forward to returning to see the VIEWS!! We got photos from across the canyon, and by the time we got over to the rock, it was completely socked in with fog and we couldn't see it at all! Hope the photos we got will suffice... This hike was fun, if a bit dramatic in the weather.... mud... mud.... wet foliage... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This person has over 12,000 finds? maybe..... At least one of the hikers said they did not get to GZ. A lot of people log this cache as a find with the cache page stating you must be at the rock with a photo.

I’m not sure where that .gdb file came from?? I did another map set and pushpin file and it was .mps & .psp file. Obviously I do not know what I’m doing! It’s all a bit over whelming for me and I probably would not own a computer if it were not for gaocaching. Then throw a PPC in on top and I’m stressing. Ken

OK, I got my push pins on my map! When I create a map for export in streets and trips it creates a .gdb file. I changed the name of the gsak push pin file to add .gdb to the end of the name and it puts the pins on the map when I open it in my ppc.??? I don't know anything about this stuff but this worked for me. Thanks for the help! Ken (one confused ppc user!)

Help Please.... I can not view a push pin set on my mapset in my PPC. Renegade Knight tried to help but I could not get it to work. I have Pocket Streets and trips 2006 in my Axim X51V. 1. In street & trips I create a map set to export to ppc, put into ppc in documents folder ( no problem) 2. in gsak, using a gpx file I click, file/export/pocket streets psp file. On my desktop I drag the push pin file into explorer and it goes to the documents folder with my mapset. 3. I have the map set and push pin file in my documents folder named the same in the ppc. I can open the map set but there is no push pins. If I click on the push pin file the mapset opens with no push pins. I can see the two files with different sizes in my documents folder in the ppc. I need step by step insructions, I think I'm missing something easy but I'm new at this ppc stuff. Thanks for any help. Ken

Assumptions: You have Installed GPXsonar on your PDA. You have installed Pocket Streets and Trips on your PDA. You have made map regions and copied those to your PDA for the pocket version. Yes, I have done these things. I will try using your guidelines. Thanks You. Ken

I can not get waypoints in my PPC. In gsak I go to file / export / pocket streets psp file then generate. It creates a icon with three pushpins. In activesync I cut and paste the three pushpins next to the map I have loaded in the ppc but I can not find the waypoints and they are not on the preloaded map. Is there a thread somewhere that gives a newbie a clue? Thanks Ken

Shaggy, Do not see any list but the locationless cache is one where you find a 30 km or 30 mile marker on the side of the road. I read a recent log last week but did not write down the GC number. Thanks Ken

I am looking for the 30 mile or KM marker Locationless GC number. I have looked at many cache pages and thought this might be faster. Thanks Ken

Here is another one. GCJ9YK

We did one over the weekend called " The Boneyard" GCHAQQ Guess where the cache was hidden. Got there right at sunset too. Perfect! Pezcachers

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This person has over 2100 finds----- well maybe? Never signed the log OR made it to the top. Cache owner said it was ok since they had to come back down for safety reasons. I guess if you drive-by and know there is a cache there you can try to log it.

Southern California. I'm a true Californian born and raise in the sunny south. Not too many of us here.

I agree that two weeks is nothing in moving a bug from one cache to the next, but to log a bug out of the cache should have been done when they logged their find for the cache. Ken