snapshot7

Yes I know how to change my name and thank you for the extra info, but it didn't give me a solid answer to my question. Will my previous logs change to snapshot or remain logged as my old name 77snapshot?

Oh god don't even get me started on this topic I live in a pretty nice suburban area and the LEO's are always out looking to catch people for the silliest reasons. My fellow cachers and I have had several run in's withe cops out here. So far 1 out of 5 know kinda what it is and of course we always get bugged by the 4 that dont. It seems there are a lot of caches in business area's with security and a couple of 25-28 year olds poking around with flashlights never looks good. We have only ran into one cop who had heard of it and was very interested in the details of caching. So him and his partner pulled out there mag lights and helped us grab one from underneath a booger. That situation was cool, but I wish I could say the same for our most recent LEO story.....So my buddy p72pi went to go grab a cache in our local town. He drove up to a business build on a Sunday night around 10pm and as soon as he got the gz (booger) and pulled out his flash light 3 cops pulled there guns on him and tackled him to the ground. Turns out a silent alarm had just went off when he arrived and the cops thought he was breaking into the building. He tried to explain that he was geocaching and even showed them the cache and the app on his phone, but they thought it was a cover up story. After an hour of holding him there to sort everything out the cops finally released him say "if it wasn't for the evidence on your phone (geocaching site) we would have taken you to jail on the spot!" Now that really makes you think twice about how dangerous this game can be in certain area's. To the OP, yes I would recommend a geo sticker for your car or better yet, a Geocaching.com t-shirt so support your story. I myself have a TB decal on the back window and a small geocache symbol on the side rear windows. I have always thought that most cops would know about it, especially where I live because the game is HUGE in this county/town. Infact the 10 anniversary took place in my town back in March of this year.

anyone? (sorry for the typo in the title)

By default the friend request feature is turned off (which I think is annoying), she will have to go into "view your account", scroll down to "Your Preferences" click edit and turn it on. I like the friends feature because my friends and I are always keeping tabs on each other and checking out the caches we have logged. Since this is kinda not a social networking website, your friends list can only be seen by you and no one else. Which I think in some cases makes it kinda pointless.

Yeah GPS units are not linked to the site at all, just save the GC code to your gps device so you can search for them on the website for logging. If you own an Android or iPhone there are Geocaching apps that are connected to the site and allow you to log caches from your phone.

I kept it a secret when I first started because I was told it was this under the radar elite group of people who wanted to keep it secretive for the sake of the game (less chance of muggled caches). But as I got more experience and more obsessed with caching I really wanted to share the creativity and awesomeness of it all! So I only tell those that are curious or willing to listen. I tell them the quick simple term and if they want to hear more I go into crazy geo-chatter box mode.

Hi my name is 77snashot and I have been wanting to remover the "'77" in my username for quit some time now. I want to remove the numbers because when I would meet other cachers and tell them my name, speaking it just doesn't flow right and it really bothers me (I think I have OCD lol!) I've had snapshot has been my nickname since high school and 77 is my lucky number. it would also save room on those nano logs too! Anyway my question is, will changing my username show up as "snapshot" on all my previous logs? as there ever been reported glitches from changing the name that cause accounts to get messed up in anyway (exp. # of caches)? Thanks~

Thank you so much, it worked! Man I was freaking out there for a minute, but all is well now.

Ok I found a Geo-Gem (TB) from a cache and logged it as retrieved. Later that day I went to edit it and accidently deleted the log. aaahhhh! I tried to re-log it but the retrieve from cache option is not in the window and the Geo-Gem is no longer in my trackables list? However it is still in my inventory. How do I get it back in my list and on the log showing that I have retrieved it? The only idea I could come up with was to place it back in the cache and just retrieve it again, but I'm not sure if that is a legit way of solving this problem. Please help, thank you.

I found 20 bucks in a flower bed while out caching with the wife. Stumbling on cash while cach'in was a big reward lol!

Yeah I retrieved it correctly from the cache I found it in. Wow thanks for the detailed answer! I placed it.

Hi, I just dropped a geocoin in a cache and I want to log that I placed it in that cache. I have already logged the cache that I found it and said I put a coin in there. How do I log the coin so it's not on me anymore? I checked the FAQ's and got confused sorry for the noob question, I'm sure you guys get it a lot.