Gill & Tony

Is this the only souvenir you can earn without leaving home?

I use a couple of macros for all my databases. I have 6 permanent databases, of which two are for unfound caches. I create new temporary ones ones for caching in areas not covered by the permanent ones. I create saved settings for the Get Geocaches menu item and use the GetCachesOnOSMRoute macro to define the temporary area. I then use the GetCachesByDatabaseName macro to populate and update the database. Much more flexible than PQ's, but it does take a bit of work to set up.

I started caching as a basic member and after a few cache finds, I found one that had a real Wow factor. I discovered that I could thank the owner by giving a favourite point, but only if I bought a premium membership. I gave the favourite point about 20 minutes later. That is why I became, and remain, a premium member. Finding PMO caches is way down on my list of reasons for being premium.

I use GSAK and haven't used a PQ for several years. (Not that the two are mutually exclusive - some folk use both)

To be honest, that was just a nice-to-have feature and if it will be tricky to implement, then I'll be happy to stick with 10 per page. There is one feature I would really like to see: Include in the review list everyone who has completed the adventure, even those who didn't leave a review. Just name and date and a blank review would be great. I keep all my hides, including adventure stages, in a GSAK database and I create found logs for each lab cache for each review. (I do not scrape the page, rather I manually copy the source code from the page and analyse that in a macro). Having "Found It" logs for everyone who found it would be a true reflection of the history of the adventure.

While you are looking at this, it would be nice to have an option to change the number of reviews on a page. At the moment it is 10 and I don't think it can be changed. Thanks Tony

Since this is the irk thread - that is one of my irks

I think it is a bug in the display from https://labs.geocaching.com/builder/adventures Other sources may show all the reviews.

My adventure "Five Beaches" has received 23 reviews. I know this from looking at the source code for the reviews display page, where it says var reviews = {"totalCount":23, When I display the reviews page it only shows 20 reviews (two pages at 10 per page). The missing ones are the last 3 in the list (or actually, the first three chronologically). EDIT: "One Track for All" has 53 reviews and only 5 pages are shown.

I just did a quick Google and found that a typical cup of coffee from a cafe in the UK is a bit over 3 quid. So 25 Quid as less than a cup of coffee a month. I'd give up the coffee before my premium membership.

Like most things, the first one got an FP from me, for the concept that I hadn't see before. Mind you, I also gave an FP to my first LPC

This has made me not to want to cache in April. I have no chance of getting 100 caches this month and I don't want a souvenir for not completing the challenge, so I'll sit this one out.

I was once hunting for a cache and found a container containing a log sheet with several names written. I turned it over (actually i dropped it and it fell other side up) to see "This isn't the cache. keep looking!"

But how do you know that what you found was the real cache if there was no log to sign? Maybe a deliberate red herring or maybe a trash container discarded by a muggle.

Skagway. It was a coach up to Carcross and a ride back on the White Pass and Yukon railway. There was another trip to somewhere which sounded Yukon, but didn't actually go there. Yukon Bridge or something like that. If you are planning to go, make sure it is the Carcross trip.

Back in 2014 we did the traditional cruise up the Inside Passage and took a shore excursion to Carcross in the Yukon. I spoke to our coach driver and asked if we would be stopping at Carcross desert. He had planned a slow drive-past, but I persuaded him to stop just long enough to let me take a photo. There's an earthcache there (GC2G4WW) and I needed a photo. He stopped and everyone on board was amazed to see a desert there. I think it became a regular stop. Emerald Lake was beautiful, and a second earthcache. I would love to go back and see more of the Yukon. A one-day tour just doesn't do it justice.

Add me to the list of people who would prefer one souvenir at the end of the month.

I've cleaned out my local area of caches I'm physically capable of doing; and there isn't anyone else hiding caches in my area, so I only cache these days to get a souvenir or when I'm travelling. I'll plan trips, solve (or fail to solve) puzzles and generally poddle about in GSAK. Otherwise, geocaching sits in the background until the next souvenir or trip looms. I don't have the thrill I used to have, but that's fine. I enjoy it when it happens. I found about 120 on a trip to Tasmania recently. I'm heading to Wodonga in October and hoping to go to Adelaide via the Great Ocean Road next year. That will keep me happy.

I keep all my FTFs (and everything else) in GSAK, which let's me organise them how I want. See the "Special" tab on my stats via my profile page

Or with GSAK

That's strange, I have got it. Maybe have a word with HQ.

New Caledonia is available. Int came out a couple of months ago.

Yes, GSAK can do that for you. It doesn't need a macro

On a couple of occasions a log said that they would give a FP, but didn't. Then I asked if they had changed their mind and got an "oops, forgot". I would never ask for one out of the blue.

A real cache is one with all the database fields in place. The only reason lab caches aren't real caches is because the don't have D/T, attributes and all the other stuff that traditionals do have. That is a (relatively) simple database change to make those features available.