Warturtle

I'd love to, if they didn't affect my find count. I just think that is lame. What am I finding? A webpage? I would love to do challenges if they were counted separately from finds.

I just wrote up my first geocache page yesterday, at a place that I could not believe there wasn't already an EC. I know the knowledge books say that it might take over the normal three days, but it doesn't give much more detail than that. I'm pretty antsy during the period of pre-reviewing. It's not that I'm disappointed in the reviewers for being slow or something, I'm just excited, so I have to wonder... On average, how long does it take to get an EC published, assuming there are no problems with the listing?

Thanks for the info StarDoc. I'll definitely try to go find the metal structure one, and see if I can convince my grandpa to see the rest.

On Saturday, I'll be driving with my grandpa through Minnesota. I live in Logan, UT and am on my way to Deer Creek, MN. I would like to do some caches on the way. However, my grandpa is not a cacher and probably won't be willing to stop at every exit, since the ride is already going to be plenty long. What I'm here to ask is if there are any super cool, can't-miss caches right off the highway (no more than a block or two). Here's my route: From Fargo, I'll go on I-94 through to Fergus Falls, at which point we'll hop on to State Road 210. From there we will drive through Vining, until we turn onto State Road 29 to go to Deer Creek. Any input will be appreciated!

On Friday, I'll be driving with my grandpa through Idaho and Montana. I live in Logan, UT and am on my way to Deer Park, MN. I would like to do some caches on the way. However, my grandpa is not a cacher and probably won't be willing to stop at every exit, since the ride is already going to be plenty long. What I'm here to ask is if there are any super cool, can't-miss caches right off the highway (no more than a block or two). I'll just be driving straight through on I-94.

On Friday, I'll be driving with my grandpa through Idaho and Montana. I live in Logan, UT and am on my way to Deer Park, MN. I would like to do some caches on the way. However, my grandpa is not a cacher and probably won't be willing to stop at every exit, since the ride is already going to be plenty long. What I'm here to ask is if there are any super cool, can't-miss caches right off the highway (no more than a block or two). Here's my route: US 91 from North Logan, UT to I-15 I-15 to Dillon, MT (we will probably spend some time here, my grandpa that has a friend here. Go through I-15 until we hit I-90, then go to Billings. In Billings, switch from I-90 to I-94. Stop in Mile City, and probably spend the night there somewhere. Continue on I-94 to the North Dakota border. I'll post the rest of the route in the appropriate forum section.

I've began to get frustrated with that too. There are caches around me that have tbs/coins listed, but a note on the trackable page (from 2009!) says it isn't in the cache anymore! I e-mailed the owner of a geocoin that had been missing since 2009, and once I told them it isn't there, they marked it missing. I'll probably start doing that more often.

From what I see, that looks like it would work. You could just write down the coordinates, and wait until they match up. I have one of the uber-fancy $400 dollar GPS's (it's my dad's, who had it before I started geocaching), and I still do it that way. I don't like doing it paperless!

Well, this is the thread that convinced me to put my address on the mailing list!

Float Plane. Or, a bush plane on a rocky beach.

Think about it. There are about 5,000,000 geocachers worldwide and lets say about 3,000,000 of em are premium members. Each premium member pays 30 dollars. That would be $90,000,000. Don't forget that most PM's renew their membership an average of three times- so that would be- about $270,000,000 dollars. Also remember about the other things like the official app, the geocaching store etc. But $270,000,000 is probably what GS probably makes out of PM's. Just a guess. Wow. How did you come up with 3/5? First of all, I don't know where you got 5 million. This link says that geocaches have been found by 4 million collective people. Think about how many of them are still active, probably not many. Maybe in the range of ~100,000. How many of those do you think are actually PMs? If you make a conservative estimate, that's 20,000 PMs. I'm sure that number could be off, even by a large margin, but I am also 100% sure that it is closer of an estimate than "3 million".

Mosquitos. And not having enough consecutive time to do the big hikes.

If you're using a 13 year old phone then I'm sorry, but I just have to say, you're dumber than your phone and a bag of hammers put together. Nothing personal. Sorry Brother. I was not aware that the age of my phone had any impact on my IQ. Could that be why most puzzles elude me? My phone is making me dumb? Hey, it's gotta be something killing all those brain cells, right? Might as well blame the phone. Back to my original question; I don't know anything about the processing steps for QR barcodes. I'm assuming that the software on a smart phone extracts the encrypted data as the image is downloaded to the device? Maybe? If I took a picture of the QR code with my digital camera, (which, being 5 years old, is almost as dumb as my phone), could I download the image to my desktop and extract the data there? I went ahead and googled it for you. A blog I found talks about how you can e-mail a picture to scan@scanlife.com and they will send back what the QR code said. I don't know if it works, I haven't tried it.

Email sent to get an invite.

A program that automatically delists anything that isn't a park n' grab? No thank you.

Sell it as an antique and get a new smart phone!

I like the idea. Perhaps like a letterbox hybrid, a munzee hybrid? Exactly. Except I just can't get over how terrible of a name "Munzee" is.

Someone made a topic about dead drops (USB's plastered to walls and such) a few days ago, because they are sort of similar to geocaching. Now I've stumbled upon this: http://www.munzee.com/ It is basically like a geocache, except instead of a logbook, you use a QR code that a smartphone reads. Could this have a possible tie-in to geocaching?

If it's a facebook clone, I'll move to G+. I trust google way more than facebook!

I answered the question. You thought to share a personal experience and I responded to you. So let's spread around that off-topic responsibility a bit more evenly. If you place a cache with the advertisement that it is a place to put travel bugs, not that you put a large container, not that it has easy access, not that people find out on their own it's a handy place to drop a bug, you said 'Hey people, this is where you can put your bugs', you took on responsibility that it is in fact a good place to put a travel bug. It is in no way just another cache. edit: clipped a couple words and had to replace them Wow man are you high? you never answered any question that warturtle or myself have asked you. all you did was call me an irresponsible cache owner. How can I,as the TB hotel owner make my cache any safer for TBs? My cache has never been muggled or stolen. any Tbs that have gone missing out of my cache have been to members not logging them. Bluedeuce? more like BlueDOUCHE. If your cache is no safer than any other cache you shouldn't be telling people that it's a place to exchange travel bugs. Stop avoiding the question. Yes, it would be nicer for it to be safer. But how can it possibly be safer?

[smiley] July 12 by littlebfish (19 found) No luck looked for ten min.

Good question. What makes any cache a good TB hotel? A responsible owner would be a start. Apparently that doesn't seem to be a concern for some people. I'd say a good TB hotel is any cache next to a route of far-going traffic (interstate exits, near airports, etc), that is hidden from public view and has an owner that does maintenance (which includes logging missing TBs as missing). Bradley's cache seems to have each and every one of those things. Anything you would like to add?

As a TB hotel owner you should be a bit more attentive to your guests. You invited them with the offer of a 'good' location to place bugs. As for the details I'd have to know which bugs had a problem. TB hotels are just as safe as anyother cache. As the owner, theres nothing i can do to make sure that everyone who takes a TB logs it. Not even close. You advertised that your cache would be a good place to put a traveler. How does that make it like any other cache? I'm not sure what you would want him to do about it. He already said it's a good hide. It's not like he's going to install security cameras on it. S*** happens. TB's get taken by noobs. It's not like it's bradley's fault.

I don't know what to say about rodents and animals. What I WILL tell you is two things: 1. Make sure the birds in the area like the kind of food you will put out. If it's ducks and finches, don't put out millet. 2. Don't put out Nyger at all. It goes bad pretty quick, especially in heat.

There a few challenges in Utah that have to do with elevation sums. Is there somewhere on the site you can see the altitudes of caches you've found? Or am I just going to have to scour a topo map?