Search4Lancer

Glad this was finally fixed after being told over and over again by GC support that it was working fine on their end and must have somehow been my fault.

The way I see it, as long as you're not the FTF, do what you wish. For example, I have seen CCCooperAgency log finds on her daughter's caches, and vice versa. CCCA and I hid a couple of extremely similar caches a month ago or so while out on a hike together. She found mine a few days after someone else got the FTF on it, and I just went and hiked out to hers a week ago, signed the log, and logged the find for that one.

Right, that's what I'm saying. I know GPX files are XML files. However, they came through just fine before, up until two days ago. They still show as .gpx in the attachment list, but tries to save as blaaahhh.gpx.xml I was just seeing if anyone else was experiencing a similar problem. I guess I'll take it up with GMail Support (if I can find them).

Odd... The past two days, my PQs have been coming through just fine. I don't get them zipped up because that's a few extra steps that I'd rather not bother with. However, suddenly, when I click the download link for the files in GMail (which are clearly showing as .gpx files), it's wanting to append the .xml extension on the end of them, and save them as XML files. Is anyone else having this problem? I'm wondering if maybe GMail is trying to be "helpful" by recognizing that they actually are XML files when it scans them.

Now it appears they've got it working SO WELL that my PQs for the day all just ran a second time and arrived in my email. I'm sure a lot has changed since this morning

My PQs have been coming through perfectly since last Wednesday. We'll see how this Tuesday treats me compared to the last 2.

As far as I can tell, Tuesdays are evil. My PQs generally run anytime between midnight and 2:30 Pacific, but last Tuesday, they only ran at 3PM Pacific, and it's now past 3PM Pacific and they still haven't run. Edit: They're just now starting to come through at 5PM Pacific. Bit ridiculous if you ask me.

Yeesh! The one time I beat someone to a FTF and they showed up while I was still there, they bought me a celebratory Slushie! Two memorials about 10 miles away had new caches published at the same time. I got the FTF on the one closer to me, they got the other. In any case, I get 10 miles to my phone and 15 miles to my email. I just wish the coords would come over the phone.

And of course these, from the same area. Not just out in the field like this, but along the road as well.

We have some of these around here:

Because the CO obviously used demo software to create the barcode.

Guess what? You paid, great, but you still have to follow the rules of the people you are paying. Now quit acting like a little child and go find some light post micros.

Here's a thought: What about those of us who don't read cache pages before we go out on a caching run, because our only plans for the day are to drive around aimlessly and find whatever caches we come across? Or, for that matter, you have to go to the next town over for an errand and take your GPSr with you to cache your way there and back? You find a bunch of caches, but didn't know that there were logging requirements, and your log gets deleted. How about those who don't own a digital camera, but still want to enjoy your cache? How about those of us who use the Garmin GPSMap 60CSx which has no ability to store anything but a few bits and pieces of cache information (unless of course you discovered that you can use POIs for it) and do the whole wander around aimlessly thing... I can go on and on, but I won't. There is a Challenge of the Century: Micro cache near here, that you had to have logged finds on 100 micros to log a find on this one. I found it with a buddy back in January. He could log it, I couldn't. I was fine with that. Now I know where the cache is (which is good, because it took us about an hour to find), and I have logged over 100 micros, so one of these days I'll get back out there, find it again, sign it, and log it. Cool. I've accomplished something. There's the same for finding 100 caches in a day. I'm not looking for it anytime soon, because I haven't met that requirement - even with the rule change, I'm not going for it. I'm not a fan of ALRs, simply because I don't know about them. If I see there's a cache in the woods where I'm at, and I hike a half hour to get there, find it, sign in, trade junk, and hike a half hour out, only to get home, log it, and the find log be deleted, I'd be pretty pissed. On the other hand, a month ago or so I went looking for a multi in the woods, not knowing it was a multi. I found the first stage, which had the coords for the second stage written on a printed out log sheet. I signed it, enjoyed the sights, and continued on my merry way. I got home and went to log it, and found that it was a multi. Still thinking that maybe I somehow was that far off that I found the final, completely skipping the first stage, I logged the find. The CO deleted it, with some rather snooty words to go along with it. "Excuse me," I said, "but maybe you shouldn't be using a freaking log sheet in the first stage, and there wouldn't be any confusion." However, all in all it was fine by me - I screwed up, even though the CO was partly to blame with bad judgment. I drove 20 miles or so up there again the next day, got the coords, spent half an hour hiking to the final, an hour looking for it, and half an hour hiking my way out without making the find. Was I pissed? Yeah, but mostly at myself. The point is, most people will still do whatever you wanted them to do in the spirit of the game, but some of us didn't know we were supposed to do anything when we got there other than find the cache and sign the log. If I drive 20 miles one way to find a bunch of caches, and one find gets deleted just because I didn't take a picture of myself because I didn't know I had to, you can pound sand for all I care - I found the cache and that's what matters, and I'm likely not going to go do it again.

Well then maybe it could be set up so that everyone can give a rating, but only premium members can view the ratings.

How is that unfortunate?

I interuppted a drug deal once, in the parking lot of a nice woodsie park (that being, picnic tables and fire rings on the edge of the woods, w/ trails). One of them even took another trail for a smoke, kinda worried me when I realized that trail would bring him back to me.

I still can't figure this situation out: http://forum.delorme.com/viewtopic.php?t=5314 Jake is confuzzled. I almost dropped a brick when I saw it in the registry, and it works, and I intend to use it later today to get new coords for one of my caches, but... uhm.... yeah.

Good news - Recieved landlord approval, found a container, marked it up, am going out in about 5 minutes to place it and get the coordinates, and we'll be in business. Thanks for the help guys.

Our mailbox doesn't get used. All mail gets delivered to the office, on the other side of the block, because some neighborhood kid was stealing mail. Which is why the mailbox idea is out.

Mmm.... I see... I could actually do a multi cache for both here and my house, one for those arriving, and one for those leaving.... hand't thought of that. That'd save me the trouble of distributing them after I transport them. I might want to ask my landlord first... I know she knows about Geocaching, as I've talked to her about it before, and I doubt she'd have a problem with it. The bigger problem would be a place to hide it - lots of people cut through our lot on foot and, well, it's essentially just a large stone corner lot, and nothing more. They do also have a somewhat abandoned box truck sitting in a lot directly in front of the main entrance to the campus that essentially acts as a billboard, so maybe I could place them underneath it, just inside the tires. Golly this'll be fun. We certainly have a lack of caches around here (surprising, considering the size of the city) so I'm sure the hotel up here'll get plenty of business.

I have an idea. I know it sounds bad, but I want it to work. Somehow. My idea is to have a moving cache. Not only does it move, but it is a TB hotel, and the purpose of it is to quickly move TBs long distances. The cache? My truck. The back of my truck, to be specific. I park in the exact same place all week here at my apartment, and with a description included of my truck, it'd be impossible to mistake for one of the other trucks in the lot (one of a kind is an understatement). Then, every weekend, I drive to my house, 70 odd miles south of here, where I could drop off the bugs of the week in another cache. How would I do this? I figure I could very easily make a cache down south for bugs waiting to come north, no problem there, but how would I work it with my truck? The one thing I can think of is that if my truck happens to be somewhere other than the lot (preferably accompanied by me), people could throw them in the mailbox, or even just making the mailbox the cache. Thoughts?

Wrongo. Even here in the US girls are still being shipped in against their will to work the trade. Many here that are not from a foreign country were still essentially kidnapped. And of those who started under their own free will, a good majority of them want out of it, but can't get out of it for fear for their lives, as pimps generally aren't nice people. Just about the only girls in this country doing it completely willingly to get by are those who have only been working the streets for a few months (90% of which will not want to within a year or two, tops) and don't know what they've gotten themselves in to, and those working in legitamite, legal brothels. That's it. I did a 15 page paper on prostitution 2 years ago

Wonder if there's a real cache nearby?

And on that note, we should ban all pens and pencils from caches, as well as cache containers that aren't made of 100% cotton.

Just saw it without even knowing it was that episode! Tweaked what it's aout, for sure. I certainly wish there was a prize in every cache. Yeah yeah, just finding it is the prize in itself...