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Mopar's story is much like mine. I heard about geocaching a long time ago, check the site and the only nearby caches were in NYC and the one I read seemed to be under a pier. Longer period of time than Mopar and I checked site in January 2002. Wow there is one about 4 miles from house. So I went out with jungle green and we found our first cache in a light snow storm. Have enjoyed finding many more since.
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quote:Originally posted by Jeremy:I determined there were too many nested tables, which was causing the problem. Please try it now to see if it works ok. Jeremy Irish Groundspeak - The Language of Location It works for me too. Thanks Jeremy.
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I finally had to log my finds using a current version of Internet Explorer on another computer. Since my old Window95 with Netscape 4.5 will no longer work to log cache finds with the new code base on geocaching. I can't upgrade my Netscape without upgrading my Windows which I am not going to do at this point.
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I can not seem to log my find. I go to a cache page click on log your find. This takes me to a page with a drop down travel bug showing NONE and my one unreleased TB. There is button to submit log entry BUT there is no date field or log note box to put my log. If I hit submit button then I get errors about no log in red. My browser is Netscape® Communicator 4.5. Any ideas or help?
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quote:Originally posted by CacheMonkeez:There is a leaderboard I looked at this a little bit yesterday and it doesn't hold a candle to the old stat site. For a site to be meaningful to me it must list every one. The opt in part makes it useless. I looked at NJ stats and there is no Stayfloopy or BassonPilot. (yet B/P is on overall leader board?) I wish someone would start up a site similiar to Dan's! (If only I would hit the lottery I would commision a site myself.)
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Congratulations! 2K just amazing! Look forward to finding you in many more logbooks.
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Distance between caches
orange replied to Cincinnati Bearcaches's topic in General geocaching topics
Knowing full well the 0.1 is here to stay is fine but after rereading this thread and thinking about it some more I wish it had been 0.25 between caches. I speak from what I like. I like to hunt caches in a park environment. Caches closer than this are 95% of the time the same park experience. Sure I like to find a cache but it boils down to I like the hike to the cache the most. Finding new trails and parts of parks I have never been to before that is why I like geocaching. Also I wish hiders would refrain from putting a new cache near a brand new one for at least a month or two. This allows hunters to experience that cache the way the hider intended without the experience being changed to a 2 for one special. -
Distance between caches
orange replied to Cincinnati Bearcaches's topic in General geocaching topics
I have always thought this limit was too close. I think a 0.5 mile is at least better but the 1 mile Bassonpilot proposes is okay too. I will admit I have violated this rule with at least one of my caches but I play by the 0.1 rule until it is changed. Why should geocaching let us carpet bomb a park or trail? Along a 1 mile trail you can technically have 10 caches. Great for up-ing the find count but how about just one at the end of the trail. -
Congratulations. My very first cache was one of yours.
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Right from the start of my geocaching experience I wondered who are these Stayfloopy and BassonPilot people. They are in every logbook I find. Well it hasn't changed yet. The logbook almost always has these 2 in it before I get there. Congratulations on your 1000th find. I look forward to seeing you in many future logbooks.
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I would very much like to see at the very least the same info I could see at the leader board. Especially the number of finds from highest to lowest in a given state (i.e. NJ) It would be better if the numbers were broken down by the cache type as is now down on our profiles here on geocaching. I too think a leader board for paying members would be a feature I would pay for just like the pocket queries.
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I agree with Brian's statements below. I only really looked at the statistics for NJ and wanted to know where I stood against everyone. Not just the informed or participating group members. Also it was interesting to see newbies who got hooked and quickly climbed up the chart. Often unknown to themselves that they were now in the top 100 or 50 of the NJ state cachers. quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat:Dan's stats site seems to have been extremely popular. ... Also, I don't agree with a system where users check a box that says "Yes. I think points matter." and only those people become ranked in the system. A system that only ranks some people, is not very useful. Besides, those don't care where they are ranked, simply don't have to look (but I'm willing to bet that many people who say they don't care, will look anyway
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Bump. This is still on for tonight for any local geocachers. Feel free to drop in.
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Monday August 18 8 PM Morris County Office of Emergency Management at the Morris County Police and Fire Training facility, 500 West Hanover Avenue Parsippany NJ. This coming Monday night jungle green and I (mostly me) are doing a presentation for the Morris Radio Club about GPS and Geocaching. Visitors are always welcome so any cachers in the area feel free to attend. The meeting is in the offices of the Morris County Office of Emergency Management. The coordinates below are close to the proper doorway that you need to use to find the meeting. Enter the doorway and then make a left into the OEM offices. We may try to recruit you as a ham radio operator but I may also get some new geocachers too. N 40 50.005 W 74 31.119 Bonus: There may be coordinates for a soon to be listed special Ham radio themed cache that you may beta test before the final release. Also if an emergency state is in effect or an Orange terror alert level then we can not meet at the listed location. I do not anticipate that being a problem on Monday night but if it changes I will post a message here cancelling.
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quote:Originally posted by WE4NCS:I need to understand the difference and what I need to do fit the mold and standard that was used to approve the cache. ... Can anyone please give me guidance or input here. I see your point. I would suggest you add a physical cache with a logbook that will be at your site for the FD duration. Then cachers can sign in. Hams can welcome them and give them a quick tour of your FD operation. But they don't have to go on a wild goose chase to find you if they don't want to. If you make that change then I say yours is the same as the first and either both are approved or both are denied. There does need to be a standard applied here. If they are substantially the same then they should be approved or disapproved.
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Are signature items identified as such in the cache?
orange replied to rabbitsong's topic in General geocaching topics
quote: Orange I'm not going to tell you what to do BUT...if you are ever in Utah and place an Orange crayon, if you will put a tag on it identifying it as _your_ Orange crayon I think it would be worth anything else that the cache might contain. Well Crayola has already labelled it for me. It says orange right on it. So there you go! It will be in a small ziplock bag by itself or with another crayon that says jungle green. -
quote:Originally posted by Jeremy: quote:Originally posted by Great Scott!:How do I make it stick? Each new time I open my nearest cache page, I have to switch back to miles. I noticed that this morning. It is stored in you session but if you aren't logged in it won't stay. I'll see what I can do to fix it. Jeremy Irish Groundspeak - The Language of Location Jeremy, My nearest is now in Kilometers. I want miles. How do we change that for each user? Also any chance we will show the submitted cache hider from the online submission form and cache title page and not the account holder? I have an adopted cache that no longer shows the original hider because it is hooked to my account.
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Are signature items identified as such in the cache?
orange replied to rabbitsong's topic in General geocaching topics
quote:Originally posted by brianmcm:Does one need to place the signature item in a bag with an explanation? Is an expanation card necessary? No, you don't need to label them cacher's will know your item is a signature item once they start to see it in caches you have visited. -
I don't think this has been mentioned so here is my one suggestion/criticism. I almost always hide my caches with jungle green and we go back and forth on whose account is used. But now the search list shows only the actual account name and not the submitted name. Some of our hides show jungle green and some show orange. But they were all submitted with orange & jungle green or jungle green & orange. I liked it better when it showed the info that was put on the submitted cache form. Since it indicated a combined effort and not that of just one cacher. Any chance of getting that back?
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quote:Originally posted by Web-ling:These Cannonball racers are on the Web-ling Express for Texas - with stops in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Speed & Cache The Pride of Brock Yates Tilly Tortoise Toby Tortoise Team Geo-Remdation Humvee Cannonball Mr. Toads Willy http://www.web-ling.com http://www.ntxga.org Thanks! I am thankful that some how I made it on this train. Whoo Hoo!
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Congratulations! But now the NY/NJ TC needs a new Treasurer.
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Congratulations on 900! More Kilocachers? I might make it there in the year 2012 at my current pace.
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Helping to clean up my home county. I am in, if the dates work out and I'm available.
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Congratulations.
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Congratulations! And continued Happy Hunting.