lowracer

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There may be something special about Austin. I hope it continues.

Moving caches are fine, all naysaying to the contrary. If you want to post one and can't get any of the listing services to accept it, just deploy it and make a web page for it. Use a free guestbook for the online "logbook" and then email your local group of cachers to start the hunt. You don't even need to update coordinates as they change, because the folks who log it will do that for you, in their log entries. Just put a note saying that the latest coords are posted in the online logs. I have a roving cache called "Rolling Blackout" that's currently listed on aNother caching site right now but it started on my own website. Contrary to the usual comments that moving caches will cause the nuclear meltdown of geocaching as we know it, they're fine. We've got a couple rover caches in Austin right now and they've never been a problem. Never been anything but wildly popular and the most fun you can have geocaching. Now you could argue that all it takes is one bad apple to spoil the whole thing, and you may be right, but that caveat applies to geocaching in general. "The Rock That Rolls" GCCF79 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=%7BAA4746FA-A6B3-4074-9F33-4F0BD1CBB21A%7D "Rolling Blackout" N008BD (you'll just have to find it yourself, I'm sure the link would be censored)

do any of you people ever go geocaching?

doesn't anybody go caching any more?

got a virtual cache approved...

I keep a backup of my caches here on that other site. I also keep cache types on that site that are not supported here. For instance I have a moving cache over there that would be a no-no on this site. In the future I can imagine some cache types that will not be acceptable on either site and I'll expect serious cachers to look for these with google or some other geographic url searching site.

I disagree that our community *only* exists in cyberspace here. The Austin TX group meets on yahoo. It's a subset of the whole geocaching community, but meet elsewhere in cyberspace we do. Likewise for the Texas Geocaching Association, which meets elsewhere in cyberspace, and so also for the other regional geocaching groups, not to mention some other sites that have their own communities, which when mentioned get this post deleted...

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...was getting her back shaved...

Sorry I'm checking in late. I was getting my back shaved. Are we going to get an "other" forum?

This is just another case in point why all ammo cans should be banned as cache containers!

watch out for trigger words. I just posted and it went into the moderator queue. Must have been 0penc@ching dot com?

There are many cachers that do not even have an account on any cache listing service. You'll see their scribblings in the paper logbooks out in the field, but you'll never see them log online or post anything in the forums. These folks are not reading the forums and thus will not be posting a response to this poll.

-mark.

It would be really fitting if the waypoint ID for that cache were something like GC0001.

Cachers into Shooting sports? You Bet! Come Join Us! Home on the Range (GCGRMJ / N00878) http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=89238 -mark aka "lowracer"

quote:I'd like to be able to put 2 points in and have it list all the caches in a set corredor inbetween. Ie; home and edmonds wa where I was for a bbq. give me all the caches 10 miles left or rigth of that line. Mapquest offers something similar to this for their "driving directions" feature. Have Mapquest plot you the best route between anytown USA and anyothertown USA and they offer to tell you where the hotels and pizza parlors are within two miles of the highway as part of the trip plan. This caches-along-route (CAR) feature could not be difficult to program considering that geocaching.com already knows the coordinates for many of the caches, and if Mapquest is able to tell you there's a pizza hut within 1 mile of mile marker xxx on any given highway, then someobody else knows the coordinates of the mile markers. Let's hook these two databases together and vacationing will be a heck of a lot more fun.

In Austin it's the ubiquitous Unnatural Rock Pile. Sometimse a few sticks are thrown in for variety, sometimes not. We have recently snagged 500 50 cal ammo cans at surplus auction, so most of our caches here are being upgraded to Ammo can in a pile of rocks. I like to paint my cache containers flat black; makes 'em dang hard to find even when staring right at it.

I was hoping this was going to be a place to post those caches that we thought were lame. Maybe that's a new topic, the 'Hall of Lame?"

Excerpted from 'Hoyles Rules of Geocaching' Copyright © 2007, 3rd ed: 'Upon approval of a new physical cache, an activation code called a _Lid Code_ shall be randomly generated and emailed to the cache owner (similar to the activation code that was once used for so-called _travel bugs_, before all such travelling items were banned back in '05 following the tragic Eastwestern Airlines incident over Dallas). This lid code shall be written in indelible ink on the inside of the lid of the geocache. Finders shall make note of the Lid Code before leaving the cache site. The Lid Code shall be required to be input to the online log entry screen. Failure to input the proper Lid Code shall prevent the log entry from being posted to the online cache description page, and thus block the finder from adding a point to his total score. No penalty shall be assessed for forgetting the Lid Code, save the penalty of having to go back out to the cache site to record it again.' Nothing can make you sign the physical logbook, but according to our friend Hoyle, you'd at least have to conspire to steal the lid code from someone else in order to cheat. Now here's an even deeper question, one which has no doubt been debated at length here and I'm sure someone will be happy to "Markwell" me over the head with it, but what good is the logbook when it is full?

I appreciate all the offers to take my bugs off my hands and really I'd like to give them to you but you are all missing the point here. There is no way I have found, nor can anyone tell me: HOW DO I TRANSFER OWNERSHIP OF A TRAVEL BUG THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN ACTIVATED AND IS CURRENTLY OUT IN THE FIELD? THERE SEEMS TO BE NO WAY TO RE-ACTIVATE A BUG TO ATTACH IT TO A NEW OWNER. Sorry for shouting but it doesn't seem to be getting across any other way. When in doubt, SHOUT, I always say!

Hi, I still have all my bugs and I do not want any of them. Though I still enjoy caching, I simply haven't got time to deal with these travel bugs anymore. I have emailed contact@geocaching.com with no response. I bought them, activated them, let them wander for a year out in the field, and now I simply want to give them to whoever finds them, and most importantly, get them off my page and stop receiving all those emails about their whereabouts. Can anyone tell me how this may be accomplished? I have been emailing the activation code to anyone who finds a bug and emails me the tag number, but when I email them the activation code, they can't do anything with it. Is there some way I can de-activate a bug so they can re-activate it? Thanks very much! -mark aka "lowracer"

I have learned to email my local cache approver to give him a heads-up that the cache is ready for checking. This has worked well for getting caches on-the-air quickly. Sending him a case of cheap beer every two weeks has also worked wonders.

I've decided it will be easier to just let whoever finds them keep them. Anyone finding one of my travel bugs may simply email me for the activation code. I still do not know if this transfers the ownership of the bug or not.