Sagefox

Often one person signs the log for everyone when the others are standing right there with them. Do you know if this is the case?

Thanks!

I got a message this evening from "anna99pop" https://www.geocaching.com/p/?guid=58fe5922-e44c-42ba-a5c0-47fc8ec26ae2. Profile page shows a "babe" photo. They claimed one find today in Illinois: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC8FBF_stone-faced with a log that says "Hello, follow me" and posted another babe pic. And then send me a message in Washington State that only says "Hi". I suspect that account sent messages to other players also.

I'm thinking there does not need to be a final draft since all the chatter here about caches with problems says they are all fixed. Thank you DGB and Seabeck Tribe as local CM Ambassadors and anyone else who is helping out. My prep for the CM day: 1. Printed out the TT's bookmark with the cache route numbers and made notes on it for where the Adventure Lab stops are and other helpful notes like the solution to the puzzle cache, parking notes and such. 2. Ran the TT's GSAK macro to add the route number to the cache name field and will download that into the Garmin Drive Smart and 64s. 3. Exported the CM database from GSAK to Garmin BaseCamp and printed 14 zoomed-in pages so I can see the local streets. I suspect very few people use BaseCamp but there must be other options if people want a map. 4. Made a bookmark called BCM Adds for the lunch stop, pre-dinner and a few other caches and will add that to the gpsr's. (Sooooo... I am hoping there are no changes to the route numbers.)

I had never heard this phrase before but it sure is perfect here. "I don't have Benchmarking, therefore on one else should."

My brother (Wienerdog) and I each discovered geocaching on the same weekend back in November 2001 and it was a big hit for us and our wives and a few select pre-cache era friends. Most people we know could care less about it or don't see any value in it. But... some of us really get into it and for me the intensity and enjoyment have never waned. As others have said it is a combination of tech, being outdoors and "the hunt" that is appealing. For me it's: The planning: at the computer The hunt: in the field Reading and writing log entries I'm not a big challenge cache fan but I do love the DeLorme and county challenges. I love posting progress maps on our profile page that show where we have concentrated searches. My goals of turning county colors to the next level of number of finds kept us traveling a lot in the earlier years. I like seeing all the counties we've covered in the western states and completely filling in a state.

And this is all well and good but I think the additional precision makes little difference in this game. It won't help much when I'm searching because the game uses three decimals. It might make my cache placements slightly more accurate but I'm convinced that the error factors at the time of placement and again at time of searching will make the additional precision a moot point. My question was not about accuracy or precision or how to round to three digits or just to add zeros. It is about the annoyance of having to deal with it when doing field puzzles. I will look into the recommendation of using older firmware but that doesn't seem like a viable solution. I assume periodic firmware updates contain important coding that I would be missing out on.

They make it hard to see the screen during input and verification when making a waypoint.

Anyway to change it back to the three decimal points that Garmin handhelds have always had? The Setup menu apparently doesn't have an option for that. We've had several Garmin handhelds: eMap, two Map60, two 62s, and the 64s which came with the additional point. It is annoying when out in the field, in the heat of summer or cold of winter, and rain on the screen to make waypoints.

You must be thinking about the movies. I just checked our copy of The Sorcerer's Stone (1st book) and the copyright date is 1997. Bing says the first movie release date was November 16, 2001 so the word muggle was well known in 2002.

When I earn one additional souvenir I get the popup (right side slide in) notification and then keep on getting it with each new cache find I post. This is redundant and kind of annoying. Shouldn't it just slide out when logging the cache that earned it and only for that cache?

Agreed. We are at 19 years also and have enjoyed every bit of it.

Thanks. I will look into this.

Yep. This is the way I use it too. I want to see where all the caches are first and then make my route. Thanks for the info everyone.

When on a cache page and clicking on View Larger Map it defaults to the Search Caches map. This map has very powerful search filters but for my purposes I never use it. Is there a way to make the Browse Caches map the default? I tried the search forums tool but it didn't find what I was looking for.

This is one of the weirdest topics I've read in a long time. Have posts been edited? What am I missing? How is that image supposed to help us figure out what cache you might be talking about. What is the location of the cache you found, as in coordinates or a letterbox type description as Keystone requested? And what type of mod approval do you think is required to post a topic in the NW forum? I am really curious about what you want help with.

It now appears to be corrected. Signing out and back in with the new name seems to have fixed it.

Agreed!

That was it! It took less than two minutes to make both changes. I would not have thought about the space because our name always had that space in between the team and sagefox. Things have changed over the 20 years. Thanks, again. You made it easy.

Thanks a bunch. I will try the no space option and the throw out the sos if that doesn't work.

I want to change our account name from Team Sagefox back to the original Sagefox. We own both names so first I tried to change the Sagefox name to Temporary Sagefox and the Sagefox Temporary. That way I could then move to Team Sagefox and change it to Sagefox. But... In trying to change the S name to either of the temporary variations the response is that the name is unavailable. But for what reason? Neither of these names are an account. What can I do next?

Check out Lake Saint Clair in SE Lacey. 14 to 16 paddle caches. One or two of the paddle earth caches require collecting tools needed for the geology experiments so be sure to read those pages. A few of them are challenge caches which you likely qualify for. To find the lake, get on the gc.com cache map and center it on the Nisqually River delta and then scroll straight south. You'll see it.

Sorry for not being more clear. I was referring to posters in this topic, not cache site visitors.

I agree with lee737. A person lost their life here earlier this year and it seems to me that the cache should yield to the memorial. There are plenty of other places for a p&g micro. The callous comments here are making me think that people are not taking a moment to understand the seriousness of what took place and how it has affected so many people in that girl's former life. There is no correlation here to a cemetery cache. This is active grieving. I have been to three or four memorial caches at crash sites over the past 18 years but they were by close friends and meant to be a memorial. This is not that and nor should it be if you don't know the family and especially if it were simply to justify a cache at this location. Why not archive it and place a new cache, or two, somewhere away from here?

It's late and I didn't get all the way through this but I thought I would add that the Washington State governor's order has an allowance for outdoor activity with social distancing. I don't have time to look that up right now but I'm satisfied that geocaching in some areas meets the intent.