J Grouchy

Not knowing your location, best I could do was pull up your previous finds and work from one of those using a 100 mile radius. Here are a few (non-premium): http://coord.info/GC1XVM2 http://coord.info/GC2Y9WW http://coord.info/GC2VF98 http://coord.info/GC2Y9RW http://coord.info/GC3Y6VE http://coord.info/GC14RPA http://coord.info/GC36F3W http://coord.info/GC1F4NV ...and others...

Well then put a QR code in the log book and have them scan it. It could be called a "Funzy", or something similar. It's a nice thought...confirm or verify a visit... Then I realized I don't really care. If your life is so sad that you have to pretend to have actually found the cache, fine...claim the find and move along. When you're on the honor system, there are always people who will "cheat". It can't be helped. It can if the OP's idea were implemented. Sometimes a Cache Owner doesn't even know if the cacher was in the general area. With a Certified log, they'd know. Which is why I said after giving it some thought, I decided I just don't really care if they were actually there. I've come to the conclusion that I'll play the game the way I want and understand that others don't do it that way. Some think it's enough to see the cache, not bothering to sign it. Some just want a higher number next to their name and will lie to get it. Some folks in here - I imagine - would look at me with disdain for using only a smartphone to play. They're entitled to feel that way, but it doesn't make me enjoy it less because I didn't spend $200 or more that I can't afford right now on a GPS device. My one instance of not signing a log had me itching to go back and sign it days later just so I could come by my number honestly. Way I see it, unless it's some special awesome radically evil puzzle I created and waited six months for someone to find, I'm probably never going to go back and compare the paper and online logs. I won't feel like some special justice was doled out by deleting someone's 'found it' log.

Well then put a QR code in the log book and have them scan it. It could be called a "Funzy", or something similar. It's a nice thought...confirm or verify a visit... Then I realized I don't really care. If your life is so sad that you have to pretend to have actually found the cache, fine...claim the find and move along. When you're on the honor system, there are always people who will "cheat". It can't be helped.

I don't know if this applies to the multi you are referring to, but in regards to stages of a multi, the proximity rule only applies to the distance of physical stages from another cache. It does not apply to virtual stages of a multi or the stages, physical or virtual, of itself. I haven't gone to Stage 2, but I believe from the description the Stage 2 of this multi is a physical container which holds the coordinates for the final. Per the description: "You now have the coordinates to stage 2 where you will find a nano containing the coordinates leading you to the final stage." This Stage 2 is roughly 200 to 250 from a Traditional cache.

There's a local 3 stage multi in my part of town that has a stage 2 just over 200 feet from a traditional cache. I just noticed this yesterday when I was working it out. Not sure if it was overlooked during approval or if the reviewer let it slide since it's just a stage that provides coordinates to the final.

I thought about a noisy one, but it just seems like a good beacon for geocachers (and muggles) to find the cache. Now, if I could just devise a TB to give a very small electric jolt whenever you touched it...

I have a Galaxy S3 I use pretty much exclusively...and it works better than my wife's iPhone and zeroing in on a cache.

All this discussion about trackables that go missing from either being stolen or forgotten got me thinking about devising some trackable that nobody would want to keep. What sort of trackable would you imagine coming across that would be fun to log but you'd either not want to keep or not want to be seen with? Fake dog poop with the tag epoxied to the bottom? A "Gore/Lieberman" campaign button? A big block of wood with "I stole this from a geocacher" burned into both sides? What other ideas do you have?

Something tells me this is a good thing...the losing interest part. something tells me your out of line...and your letting a good geocacher go? shame shame How is a quitter a "good geocacher"? Isn't one of the points of this game persistence? Instead of making adjustments, this person hits a single roadblock and decides this game is stupid and she can't play anymore. Anyone willing to actually search for a geocache and occasionally log a DNF ought not to be thrown off by this very minor setback. each child is different if your daughter likes puzzle caches koodos but if his kids dont well thats life. Each adult is different. Some use punctuation, some do not.

Not to mention those times of year when the water level may be way down, thus exposing the cache or the mechanism in place for retreiving it...

I'd hardly call myself "hard core". I'm a casual geocacher armed with only a smart phone and a pen who's willing to take on a little puzzle or multi-cache occasionally. I generally go on my lunch hour or occasionally when I'm out with the family doing other things, so I'm not sure why you would say the family can't get involved. If they enjoy hunting for a traditional cache, why wouldn't they enjoy gathering clues or following a trail of caches? Heck...you should even get the family all together and create your own multicache. Make a family-oriented one that you yourself wouldn't mind solving. The game is what you make it. If you only see puzzles you don't want to solve and think others might like to see a different sort of puzzle...make your own and demonstrate to other family geocachers what sort of fun they can have.

Has anyone looked at Google's Field Trip app? This is how I would imagine a Waymarking app could function, though there would have to be an additional function for logging a visit and adding a comment.

You're referring to virtual caches, I take it. They don't create new ones here anymore... Instead, those types of caches are put on the Waymarking site. http://www.Waymarking.com/

I like it too. Not only on the main site, but showing it this way in the mobile app too.

Odd...so I go to a mapping site and find those four listings. When I pan the map around, every time I stop the positions change. Obviously the online mapping tools are glitchy, but I've never seen markers dance around like this.

Hey...at least you wrote something about yourself. Too often all I see in a user profile are all their stats that I don't care about.

I've noticed when you go to the "Geocoin Home" page, you get a map showing the locations of geocoins near your 'home' location. Why doesn't the Travel Bug Home page have this feature? I know trackables go missing frequently...but I'd bet that geocoins go missing at least as much as TBs (if not more because of their collectibility).

You know when you drop your phone in water 'they' always tell you to put it in a baggie overnight with uncooked rice? I bet that would be an effective way to draw out some of the water. Maybe save those little packets that come in electronics packaging (or shoe boxes) and throw those in a container with the log. Basically a desiccant to draw out the moisture. None of my caches have been out there very long and nobody has made any comments about the logs being wet, so I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

Everyone seemed to think it was the FTF comments...but I wonder if it's just some anti-military nutjob. Whatever the reason...it's just creepy and weird and bordering on stalking.

Translation: "I looked at the map and there is a gap here large enough to conform to the 528 foot rule."

There have been several occasions when I was sincerely grateful to have one or both of my kids with me at the time I was looking...otherwise I might have been viewed as pretty suspicious. As a parent AND geocacher, I naturally surveyed the area around my daughter's school (as I do for almost every place I go to these days) and just knew there was no way to do it there without appearing suspicious to someone. Better just to let it go than try to figure out some way of getting a cache in the area. I probably wouldn't try to find one in such a location, so I figure a lot of other folks wouldn't either.

I dunno...I'm sure it's been debated already, but I just don't think "visits" should be allowed. Either the trackable is in the cache or it isn't. That's the only verifiable state. This "visiting" thing is just a false way of racking up mileage, in my opinion.

This app actually gives me great readings and better accuracy: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2&feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmVjbGlwc2ltLmdwc3N0YXR1czIiXQ.. It serves as the "radar" for c:geo and I also use it for getting coordinates when placing a cache. There's also a Pro version that allows you to add and store waypoints.

How about when you click on a geocache link(from email or whatever) you get the choice to open it in the app, or using the phones internet browser. It will also give an option to set either of those as default so as to not have to ask again... That's a great idea!! So great that they already have it in both Iphone and Android Well...I'm well aware that it gives you that choice, but I've yet to see it actually WORK. I just get a "Searching..." message...and it never opens the app.

Personally, I'd like to see in-app notifications for the Geocaching android/iphone apps instead of emails. At the very least, I'd like the links to be able to open the appropriate geocache in the app instead of opening in my phone's browser.