EcoPit

Mine is kind of a melding. I used to eat as if I had a bottonless pit for a stomach, so my uncle nicknamed me Pit. It quickly caught on with the rest of my family. I am honestly not sure that uncle even remembers my real name. That screenname was taken though. I have a graduate degree in ecology and teach environmental biology, so I threw it all together.

I remember reading through this thread, the sex one, and others like them and thinking "I never see anything interesting while caching--I'll never get to post a story." But, read my log for I Love Chicago! - Neighborhoods - Greektown

I don't trade at all, so whether or not a cache is described as 'log only' would not deter me. It is partly peoples' expectations that a cache-placer include items that has kept me from placing more caches (laziness plays a part as well ). I have decided I don't care what others think though, and that a non-trading cache is better than no cache, so I have a few micros and small caches in the works. I don't think I would ever specifically ask people to stock my cache though.

I just wanted to repeat this is bold. Thank you! I felt that this bears repeating again although, in my opinion, the corrosive fluid in the batteries are an even bigger reason to not use disposables. Anybody who thinks alkaline batteries are okay needs to look up alkaline in the dictionary. You don't want that leaking anywhere, especially into groundwater supplies. Environmental reasons aside, I have been very happy with my NiMHs. You definitely have to get the higher milli-Amp Hours. My first set were 1800 mAH (came with the charger), and they were very disappointing. All those since have been 2400 mAH and I have been very happy with charge life and performance.

Try mentioning it in the Geocaching.com Website Forum.

Thanks everyone. That's exactly what I wanted to know.

I only have one cache, and I placed it a few months ago, so I can't remember how the submission process worked. If I go to hide a new cache, does it just save the cache page under my profile and I can keep coming back and working on it until I am ready to submit it? Or, when you start that that do you need to submit it right away?

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I got so tired of sorting through all that geocoin dribble for serious, interesting TB threads.

I actually never said that. I said GC was a pain in the rear when it came to Where's George? being improperly used. I actually like Geocaching. I've even thought about going and finding a few caches in my area, and muggling them. (JOKE!) If I hiked more, and got outside more, I would probably have a number of caches logged, and might even have placed a couple of my own. That is correct and I apologize for putting words in your mouth. You did not say you hate geocaching. You do seem to have a pretty negative opinion towards geocaching though (at the very least where bill tracking on WG is concerned). In any case I was trying to support your right to your opinion, it was not meant as criticism at all (well, I suppose it was meant as criticism towards those attacking your opinion ).

I do not understand how this thread could have gone on for so long (I guess the off-topic ramblings help)--there just seems no room for debate on the issues. Hank hates Geocaching. So what? That is his opinion, and he is absolutely entitled to it. I think Where's George? is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard of. Again, so what? Each of us is entitled to our opinions and they in no way change the others' appreciation for his respective hobby. He did express his opinion to Bob&3LittleBears, but it isn't as if he cold-contacted Bob&3LittleBears with a negative note--this was a solicited response. And, Hank was in no way rude or disrespectful (in my opinion) towards Bob&3LittleBears, he just expressed his dislike for GC and declined contributing to a GC event. Nothing wrong there that I see. The money does not belong to Hank or any of the people who logged it on WG. Whether it belongs to the person holding it, the Federal Reserve, the government or whoever, no one can stop you from putting it in a cache if you want to. Do whatever you want with your money. Hank runs the WG site and game/activity/whatever. He has the final say over how bills get logged on his site. No question. If he does not want bills logged on the sute from caches that is completely his right. That's how I see it anyway. And P.S. I am fairly new but I got the crippled children reference.

Thanks THC, that worked great. I didn't realize there were different types/levels/whatever of HTML. I guess this is why you are a software engineer and I am a biologist. Thanks.

I tried, but it showed the code as text. I am pretty certain I used the correct code because I have been using it in log entries and it works fine.

Exactly how I feel.

I want to put a link to an event cache's page on my TB page. I have looked through old threads and think I mostly understand it. If I go to edit my cache I see the box to check for HTML code, but when I go to edit my TB I do not see that option. Can you use HTML in TB pages?

I have to agree with Jamie. It is not their fault the log was lying on the ground and I would not punish them for it. But, it is your cache, and if you want to demand they find the container for a find you can. This actually happened to me a couple weeks ago on Jim Morrison gravesite in Chicago. Went to where I thought the final cache must be, but could not find it. Amazingly, my wife found the log just lying there on the ground. No plastic baggie or anything. I got the impression from past logs that the container was missing. In any case, I signed the log and stuffed it back where I thought the cache had originally been, came home and logged it as found. Two cachers since say they have found the container. I have not changed my log, but if the owner wants I will change it to a DNF and go back to look again. (I will look again anyways the next time I am there. I want to know where the darned thing was!)

I agree with everyone else. I have never actually been in that situation, but I just wouldn't feel right changing it to a find.

That's what I was thinking as I was reading it. My sister and I left our spouses behind and went caching together yesterday though, so I guess you never know what the situation could be. Great to see the system actually work, and greater still that you did not need it in the end. I hope her ankle heals up quick.

That is the exact thing I was thinking of. Very funny! Were they getting frustrated by you hanging around the cache site before it was all figured out? I do not think I would take a used t-shirt, but a new geocaching t-shirt would be a very cool item (although I do not trade items at caches, so I would not be carrying anything to trade for it ).

I have read this in logs and forums, but never really understood it. In my area people will put log books in plastig bags inside of the cache, but I have never seen an entire cache inside a plastic bag. I agree with you--the cache container itself should be weatherproof and waterproof. There should be no need to put a normal cache in a bag. (Although there are probably rare special circumstances that might call for it on specific caches.)

Oh!...I've been Markwelled. [insert dramatic death scene here.] Thanks Lep. Humorously, I had already found "markwelled" in the glossary while looking for OP, and I knew it was only a matter of time before it happened to me. I am embarrassed that the post you pointed me to was only from earlier this month though. I should have seen that. I am also a little embarrassed that I did not think of 'Original Poster.' It seems pretty obvious now that I know it. For me I think 'Opinionated Punk' is more appropriate though. Thanks!

I have figured out what it means, based on context in other posts, but I can not figure out what it stands for. Couldn't find it in any of the glossaries either.

That is funny! I frequently fish at the park near my cache. I always expect to see someone trying to discreetly look around for it, but never do. Maybe they are waiting at a picnic table for the stupid muggle fisherman to move away from the cache!

Since my first idea was received so well, I will press my luck here. I think it would also be neat (and helpful) if there was a way to map all the caches in a bookmark, with the option of hiding or displaying all other caches within that map area. That might not be so easy to do, but I would definitely use it.

What on earth were those guys doing? Now I know what my family and friends think when I explain geocaching to them.

I got to thinking about a funny potential situation this weekend while caching with my wife. We were sitting along a heavily used bike path along Chicago's Lake Michigan shoreline. I had already signed the log, but was waiting for the area to clear out before replacing the cache. (Based on the hiding spot, it would be impossible to do discreetly with anyone watching.) There was a group of people a little ways down the bike path, with bikes, but just standing around, looking our way. I got to thinking--it would be funny if I was waiting for them to leave to put it back, and if they were cachers and were waiting for me to leave to look for it. I don't think they were, as they left soon after that. Has anyone else had that happen though? Have you and other cachers mistaken eachother for muggles and tried waiting eachother out?