lowracer

That's why some of the last caches I placed contained no "additional" clues or listed coordinates to only two decimal places. Should I ever decide to place another cache, it will definitely contain no clues, in any form, whatsoever. Sometimes the whole point is to stump the finder, as in puzzle caches like "M13" GCHB5C http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=106065. I provided no clues whatsoever. I originally did not even reveal that it was a micro but later realized that was not puzzling, just cruel. Now they know it's a micro with a secondary bonus cache of normal 50 cal ammo can size. And since there is a logbook in each cache, they get 2 smileys for their trouble. I've done blind caching on occasion, usually where I end up is some random parking lot or middle of a lake, circling endlessly. Look up the cache later and 9 times out of 10 it is "the posted coords are bogus, you have to figure out the puzzle to get the correct coords." I hate puzzle caches...

Would like to have some way of telling gecocaching.com that I'd like to "Ignore this cache," either as a note to the cache page, or by clicking a checkbox on the search results page. For example, there is a cache nearest to me called "Scuba Doo." I'm not a scuba diver and never will be. Yet there it is, always first on my nearest list. Would like to just be able to tell geocaching.com that I don't want to see this cache anymore. I've thought about posting a "found it," then explaining in a note on the post that I didn't really find it, just want to ignore it, then go to some far away state where I cached on vacation, and change one smiley there to a 'post a note,' to sorta even the score, but that's really not a very elegant solution. Thanks, -mark.

I haven't been recycling caches that ever saw the light of day, so no one would be confused by finding them with new names and types. These caches were originally rejected, archived, and no one ever saw them or posted to them. As I've currently used up my supply of this class of caches, I won't be reusing any in the future. Too much work to get them visible to the approvers anyway...

Thanks for the replies. I have a few event caches that never saw the light of day due to initially not being approved, so I have been recycling them into other types of caches. They are still archived from the initial rejection, so usually I have to email somebody to get them unarchived. Fortunately I'm out of those types of caches now so I can just use the normal method of reporting a cache. Thanks for the assist! -mark.

I've had a cache waiting for approval for a few days now. Has everyone gone home for the holidays already? This anticipation (whether this is going to get approved or rejected) is killing me. Hell even N&vic@che hasn't acted on it yet!

Rock and Roll! Thanks for the WAP. I've got a Samsung A500, which I've been using wapGoogle with to look up by waypoint ID. Now I can go straight to the horse's mouth for the cache info while out in the field and encounter a waypoint that I don't have a sheet printed for. Feature requests: 1) Difficulty/terrain display 2) Logs? Maybe not all logs but the last 5 are usually very helpful. Sometimes logs have got better coords if the original placer had a crappy signal lock. 3) If logs can't be displayed, at least a smiley face or a frowney face to indicate if the last person to search was successful. -mark.

Humor me here... I am thinking about placing a cache which has a specific content theme, for example, postcards. Do you think it would be kosher to: 1) require that traders comply with the theme? 2) prohibit TNLN or TNLNSL? 3) delete find logs of cachers that didn't comply with the theme? 4) remove and redeploy non-compliant swag into other caches? What say ye, and be nice dammit.

We've got bugs on our teeth here... all smiles. Love the new profile feature and gallery. Hmmm... a similar concept could work for the "my geocaching" page. One tab for caches I've placed, one tab for caches I've found, one tab for travel bugs I own, one tab for travel bugs I've found... BTW also love the guidelines that have been posted. Great show, keep it up, you're making me glad I decided to re-up for another year of premium membership! -mark aka lowracer

What is an Avatar? Why would I want one? I tried Guinness once. Once. I'll stick with Shiner Bock.

I always ask the cache owner first, after reading the logs to see if the cache might need some help. Then with the owner's permission, I'll go out and upgrade the cache container.

Ten bucks. We took the money and went to Amy's ice cream and spent it all! We didn't have any $10 worth of swag on us, so we simply traded one of my cattle dogs for it. She didn't fit into the Ammo can, no matter which way we turned her or folded her legs, so we just chained her to the tree the can was hidden under. Hope someone found her, since we couldn't leave any food (against the rules to leave food in caches, you know.)

I don't know what counting coup means so I voted for the car. I used to drive a little coupe, now I drive an MV. I think it's great now that we can transfer title of travelbugs to other players. 108 tags? How do you keep them all straight? I had trouble keeping interest in the 16 that I had. -mark aka lowracer

Cool, thanks. That worked. I'm back in black.

Would like to see a field on the "edit cache" page for permanent notes that are visible only to the approvers and the cache owner. For example, on a multicache, I would like to have a convenient place to store the waypoints of all the redirectors. The approvers need this info now for approving, and it is helpful to have this info stored with the cache in case maintenance needs to be done and the coords cannot be found. This Permanent Notes field would not be visible on the published page, only on the edit cache page. What say ye?

OK I go in for new glasses next week. Will check back with y'all then. These spectacles I'm wearing now are so scratched that it may be making things look grey. I urge the others reporting grey text to get their lenses checked too! Is there some way I can upload a screen shot?

I just checked it again, using Safari browser on Mac OS X, still grey. Also checked Netscape 7.1 on OS X, also grey there. Haven't got a PC handy to check it with... Look for example at this page: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=0bce8de1-ea54-4f0f-9e98-28fa67213399 , then compare the main body text with the words "Texas Geocaching Association." I'm seeing those words in black, and the rest grey.

Make it black. Please. Why spend so much time designing new icons and making the text colors unreadable when good feature requests are going unimplemented?

That would be fine for use with a PDA and a PC but I'm talking about the search list on this website, using a mac.

I'm guessing that neither Watcher nor GPX Spinner run on a Mac...

Here's a feature I would find quite useful, see what you think maybe there's some way to do this already. I am searching via the website for caches near me. There are a bunch I will never want to do because they require scuba gear or mountain climbing and I don't want to see these in my search results because I'll never go scuba diving or mountain climbing because I'm physically not capable of these activities for example. How hard would it be to put in a checkbox that says "Ignore this cache permanently" and once I check it and hit Submit, that cache never again shows up in my search results. What say ye?

This is a great story of Geocaching bringing together old friends. However, it does not change the fact that if your friend did not sign the logbook, he cannot claim credit for the find!

I've been having very good luck with SprintPCS and my Samsung A500 phone, bypassing WAP by using google (Menu 4 to get to the internet, then Menu 4 to bring up search). Be sure to select the 'internet' radio button before doing the search or you get no results as the default is to search the PCS web. I just type the waypoint ID into google and it brings up the cache description page. My typical use for this is when out in the field, I notice a nearby waypoint on my GPS, so I go look it up on the phone to decide if it's worth pursuing.

Not only do I keep spare cache swag, my self-inking stamper and my hiking boots, but I also keep a fully-stocked and ready-to-deploy 50 caliber ammo can cache box complete with blank logbook, in case I run across that perfect hiding spot while out running errands.

It's grown to epidemic proportions here in Austin. Every day the TV news is showing another hiker or jogger being hauled off by ambulance, with bloody shins from banging into all the ammo cans scattered everywhere along the trails. More and more parks are being shut down because the park rangers can't distinguish from the thousands of ammo can caches the ones that are really ammo can bombs. It's getting harder and harder to find a hiding place with the new tenth-mile rule that many hiders have defected to a plethora of other lesser quality sites to list their caches, and some are even just placing them willy nilly without using any listing service and letting muggles stumble onto them. The local grocery chains, H.E.B. and Randalls are reporting shortages of tupperware, even the cheap disposable kind. The tupperware party is a thing of the past here. We've had to resort to storing our leftovers in wax paper and foil. It's gotten so you can't find an ammo can either, so we've taken to storing our ammo in clay jars. I'd say there's not a serious cache density problem. I'd call it more than a problem, it's becoming a crisis. A cache density crisis. Yeah, that's the ticket...

I caught some fool trying to bury an ammo can in my front yard one evening about two years ago. I confronted him, then clubbed him over the head with his own shovel. While searching the body for a wallet and other valuables, I pulled a curious little printout from his jacket pocket. It described an interesting game of hide and seek using technology. Needless to say, I was intrigued by the new pastime, having been a GPS user for many years. After I finished burying the fool in my front yard, I went out the next morning and hid the ammo box properly, on public land, with permission of the land owner, without burying. It was of course immediately approved, and it's been there ever since.