ObeyTheCorgi

No caches showing up for me either. This happens every so often. I also have the problem with the bubble not showing up when I hover over the cache. I've logged off and then back on and tried Chrome and Internet Explorer. It was OK earlier about 7 am. I'm in Fullerton, CA USA

Thank you so much for the clarification. I'll update the firmware as well.

yeah, so when navigating to a waypoint, the large compass will point to the waypoint, but the upper part of the screen (the dashboard) won't, which includes the small compass and the distance shown. don't use this dashboard for navigating to waypoints. Maybe my confusion is because in the title bar at the top of the compass screen, it still lists the cache name. It's true that the small and the large compass are pointing in different directions (if the cache and the waypoint are in different directions), but I assumed that, because the cache name was displayed instead of the waypoint name, that the big compass was still navigating me to the cache.

I'm looking at the actual compass screen. It has the large compass, a small compass in the upper left hand corner, a distance measure in the middle and a Geocaching.com icon in the upper right corner.

The cachers in my area do a good job of looking out for each other's caches and some have adopted caches to keep them going. I'm not shy about post NA, but sometimes it's a good hide and it would be nice if we could adopt a cache that has been abandoned in order to keep the original cache going. A few of us are "foster parents" to caches. We maintain them by putting them on our Watch Lists, but it would be easier if we could just adopt them. Thoughts?

I use a Garmin Oregon 450 GPSr. When I use it to find a cache, I select the cache, press GO and I get a little map with my location and a pink line directing me to the cache. If I back out of this and go to the main screen I can pull up the compass and it points me in the right direction. The problem is that, if I'm doing a multi - let's say, and I have multiple waypoints I need to navigate to, I can't do it. I can select the Waypoint in Waypoint Manager, but when I go to the compass, it always goes to the cache. I've even tried deleting all my caches and leaving one waypoint. No luck. Is there some setting that I need to change to allow me to use the compass for waypoints and other non-geocache needs?

Thanks for your comments everyone. I was able to make contact with the CO and we're going to work on a joint placement.

A CO in my area had a poorly maintained cache that also got muggled frequently, so he has Disabled it. I have a cache location that is within 400' of the Disabled cache, but can't place my cache due to proximity of this, now, Disabled cache. I have contacted the CO several times to see if they intend to replace the cache, or have even asked if we could work together to help find a new location that would enable both of us to place our caches, but have not received a response. So, can I request that this Disabled cache be Archived, or can the CO keep it Disabled indefinitely?

I have replaced caches that I thought were noteworthy after contacting the CO. In most cases the CO was no longer geocaching. Although, once I replaced an ammo can that had gone missing. I contacted the CO first, but didn't get a reply. They had been really busy and didn't live super close to the cache. When they saw the note I posted to the cache page that it had been replaced, they were really appreciative and thanked me. I do request archived if it looks like it's been missing for a long time and it's one I haven't found. I hate having DNFs for caches in my area that just aren't there anymore.

Well, I am a crappy smart phone user (I have a Garmin too so that I can actually geocache) and I can tell you that I "earned" three souvenirs just for doing a search. I was pretty surprised. Plus, they seemed really random. I earned the 10-10-10 souvenir on 10-9-10 and I earned a souvenir called "Badenburg, Germany" when I was in Santa Ana, CA. Even though all three show up on my iPhone, only the 10-10-10 souvenir is listed on my Souvenirs page. Hmmm...

I always appreciate it when the CO provides a more permanent way to attach a cache in a bush or tree. I think it really helps with cache migration. I have a cache (a bison tube) in a tree that is in a small hollow, but I inserted a cylindrical aspirin container into it so that it can always be replaced in the same spot. Even if it's a cache that is a bush hide, if it has a little hook or something you can be more certain that it won't fall through the bush. Thanks for all of the great ideas for attachments.

I DNF'd on a cache off a trail in Monterey, CA and then later learned that the CO had died. There are lots of legitimate reasons why a cache may lose its mom or dad, but I hate to see those unmaintained caches on my search list too. A couple of times I've posted NM, then e-mailed the CO to see if they need any help, but I never know what to do if I don't hear back from them. I don't like to post NA. Once a cache near my house, that I had already found, went missing. I knew what the missing cache had been, I'd posted a NM, e-mailed the CO and the CO didn't contact me, so I replaced it myself and now I have it on my watchlist so that I can maintain it - more like a foster parent, than an adopted parent. Since the CO doesn't seem to be around anymore, I wasn't sure how to go about adopting it. It was a cool hide and I didn't want to see it archived, but I'm not sure if it's OK for me to keep maintaining it in this way. There's another cache near me in the same situation. It used to be on an electrical box and frustrated cachers are tearing the thing apart. Again, I e-mailed the CO, posted NM and I'd like to replace the cache, but not sure if that's the proper etiquette. Thoughts?

The central portion of Santa Ana, California has no caches. It has a reputation as being a tough place, but it's really not. I think it suffers more from not having cachers living within the area. It would be interesting to see, on average, how far a cache owner's hides are from their home location. Fewer cachers in an area, would equal fewer overall caches. Some have said that an area might lack caches because there isn't anything interesting there. As someone who has spent many a morning "touring" industrial parks and random shopping center parking lots in search of caches, I'm not sure that theory holds true. There are plenty of featureless 'burbs with high cache saturation. Probably more cachers living there is my guess. Fascinating stuff. Maybe I'll go back to school and make this the topic of my doctoral dissertation.