Don_J

I'm starting to lean in the direction of the last three posters, as well. My three duplicates were done on purpose.

Amazing how both replies take my topic, off topic. This has nothing to do with power trails!

Honestly, look at some of my listings before making assumptions. I don't drop cookie cutter power trails. My frustration is that what used to be a simple process is now much more complicated. I shouldn't to have enter dummy information into a series of sub forms, just to get back to the real form and replace it.

hillster, please read my post carefully. In my image is the fact that I clicked the box "Mon". If you open your PQ and click the box Wed, (since today is Wednesday), then scroll to the bottom and "Submit", your PQ will run and you will get an email that will tell you how to retrieve a single GPX file that will contain all of the caches in your PQ. When you create a PQ, there are two things that you can do with it. You can preview it to see what caches will be returned, or you can allow the PQ to "run", which means that it actually creates a GPX file of all of the caches that you can load into a third party database or onto our GPS devices. You are actually previewing the PQ, but not actually running it. Double click on your PQ, click the box for today, scroll to the bottom and Submit, wait for the email and follow the instructions in it. You will get the GPX file that includes all of the caches in your PQ. Clear your GPS of all LOC and GPX files and then upload the new GPX file from the PQ.

I don't see a blank spot in her position on the world leaderboard, so unless there's a Mars leaderboard or something, it looks like she's been nuked. And I checked Nunavut too, just in case. Whew! Our long, national nightmare is over. I think not, I'd hate to think what would happen if a Martian walked into one of her local events and asked her how many caches she had found? What if she really emptied her bladder on his head? It could start an inter global war...

I placed a new cache today. Two pages into the new form and totally frustrated I simply gave up. To be honest, I was being distracted by other important issues, like life and family. The fact of the matter is, if I had the old one page flat form to work with, and knowing the efficiently of my local reviewers, the cache would be published by now. I'm honestly considering going back and picking up my container and never hiding another. This "Geocaching for Dummies" cache submittable process is a major setback to us experienced geocache hiders. You honestly need to consider a "Basic" and "Advanced" approach to the submittable process. The "Advanced" would be to simply give us our old form back. PLEASE give us our old form back. I have hidden 201 caches, I do not need to be stepped through the process through multiple forms.

This is where I see the problem, your find count on geocaching.com went up by one by logging from thousands of miles away from the comfort of your own home. If it becomes possible to increase your find count regularly in this way then the find count will be rendered useless. If the find count is useless you will see geocachers quitting by masses. The worst thing GS can do is mess with the find count. So many inconsistencies. Groundspeak will archive and lock an older Virtual cache if it becomes a couch potato cache, yet will create a "Lab" cache which serves the same purpose? I haven't really looked closely at all of these new "Echo" caches, but because of local knowledge, I could log two of the Hollywood ones right now. Once people start passing around the code words, (the reason why code word caches were banned), the sky's the limit. Groundspeak has spent almost nine years enforcing the idea that with the exception of Earthcaches, a "cache" is a physical container that contains a log sheet, that should be signed before you log it online. I remember when Google Street View started to show solutions to some of the older Virtual caches. It was a common topic, "should I log it when I never visited the location". The the resounding answer was, "no", at least visit the location and try to experience the reason why the virtual cache placer wanted to bring you there. Now, it's Groundspeak creating caches that violate at least four of their published guidelines and people logging the caches from thousands of miles away by simply doing research on their computers, or sharing codes with each other. If this is an experiment, I'd have to say that it is a giant failure. The fact that good part of your recent forum post, as well as that on your api partner's forums have been about how these cache have screwed up people's stats tells me that Groundspeak has made true on their promise to make better mistakes in the future.

It's always been ultra competitive to some people. Acting that way won't poison the leaderboard contest for some people. It'll just change how they feel about you. Congratulations on getting yourself totally removed from cacherstats. How did you manage it this time? I'm not going to go back and review it right now, but it has never been clear to me exactly how Cacherstats knows what state to rank us in. Perhaps, the site owner was actually able to move her to the land of the Ice Road Truckers, or maybe even Germany, where her numbers would be way down on the list?

For some reason, you seem to think that it is inappropriate to discuss geocaching at geocaching events. I can assure you if I approached you with an innocent question and you countered by asking me the size of me genitalia, I'd grant you your wish to stand as far away from me as you desire. i'm delighted to discuss actual geocaching at events. you know, like, "been to any fun caches lately?" "how'd you like that railtrail?" "loved your logs on that cache", as well as "where's a good place to get lunch in clarendon?" and "how's your mom?" and "how do you like your new GPS?" This is my entire point. There is absolutely no reason why you can't steer the conversation around to any of these other subjects that interest you, especially if it is a newer cacher that might be confused that Geocaching is only about running around town, lifting lamp skirts. Instead, you insist on being offended and seem to want to respond by being insultave and abusive. I find that I lack certain social skills, but even I can deflect, "how many caches have you found?", to "more than I ever thought I would, you should check out so and so's new cache on the ABC trail, it's really cool". They'll respond with, "that guy hides some really clever caches, have you found blah blah?. Suddenly, we're talking about caching and not numbers".

You are previewing the PQ, not actually running it. You need to open the PQ's settings and set a day of the week that you want it to run, (it can be today), and then set what you want to happen after it is run, (see attached image), finally scroll to the bottom and Submit. This is what generates the GPX file that you need. You will get an email when it is ready. If the GPX file has 500 caches or less, it will be attached to the email. If it has more than 500, you'll get a link where it can be downloaded.

There is a current topic on this... Finding adopted caches

Roman, these "Lab" caches actually violate a number of Groundspeak's own guidelines for placing caches. They are temporary, they don't have log sheets and they use code words.

For some reason, you seem to think that it is inappropriate to discuss geocaching at geocaching events. I can assure you if I approached you with an innocent question and you countered by asking me the size of me genitalia, I'd grant you your wish to stand as far away from me as you desire.

I'd have used it as a teaching experience as to why such things are so unimportant.

You can see a listing of all your DNF's here. I've got 409, because I suck at geocaching. I celebrate it by keeping close track of my unresolved DNF's -- see the bookmark list linked in my signature line below. I have some unresolved DNF's dating back to early 2005, but to clear them, I'd have to travel to Chicago or Jacksonville. I have a DNF about 100 miles from home that turns 9 years old on July 4th. Hmmmm, that's a thought. Up until now, my longest interval between DNF and Find was six years and two months, at one of Dayspring's famous "Totally Tubular" caches in Seattle. 479 DNFs. It took me over eight years to find the second, (maybe third), cache I ever looked for.

Why don't you concentrate on finding a cache to drop that trackable into? After all, this is how the trackable game is supposed to work. I honestly wish that Groundspeak would abolish the "Visit" log. As I read later. it's your trackable, so you can really do whatever you want with it. I made the false assumption that it was someone elses TB.

How can it visit a cache that may not even exist?

Why don't you concentrate on finding a cache to drop that trackable into? After all, this is how the trackable game is supposed to work. I honestly wish that Groundspeak would abolish the "Visit" log.

What about find logs that warn you about potential issues before they warrant a NM? It is of less priority because the issues isn't immanent. Personally, I would likely catch that reading the logs of the website. I don't read the found it log emails as they go directly in the trash bin when I finally get time to spend weeding through the thousand or so emails. I save the NA, NM, and critical logs. If a found it log really needs to be saved, screenshots work great. I can't even imagine hiding caches if I was not willing to read ALL of the logs posted to them. The whole point is to read about the experiences that other cachers are having when they find my caches. To just have your email program dump all of the found logs in the trash tells me that this is probably the value of your caches.

That's just common sense. As I have camped for years in Nevada and California, I have found it best to call or stop at the local NFS or State Park office to check on fire restrictions. When the fire danger level is low to moderate, I have been issued a permit to have a ringed fire and to use my propane stove, but only after showing the ranger that I had a camp shovel in my trunk. Since you do not have any plans for using fire, just leave "leave no trace" and you'll be fine. As far as the parts on Google Maps that aren't colored green, I have driven 20, 30 miles up dirt roads in Nevada, set up my tent and camped and never had a problem. I'm not sure where you are coming from, but you are heading into one of the more desolate areas in the country. I'm sure that you will find a nice safe place to park your truck where you can get a quiet nice night of sleep, unless the million stars in the sky distract you.

Good post but also hilarious! There was a UK forum, that wouldn't let users from a certain town register with their address. The place name was Scunthorpe. (because it includes a slang term for a female part of the body) I was born and grew up in the UK, and never thought of that in relation to this town. Never will I be able to look at it in the same way again! Wow. Thanks for the heads up. I'll be careful not to use the word "thorpe" in the company of British women.

Log it as Found. My feelings are, so long as the CO you've adopted it from hasn't given explicit directions/description, explanation of the cammo, go for it! Log it, claim it! If it's a 5/5 multi or Puzzle, and the CO has given you the final co-ordinates and you've gone straight to the cache with them... Don't tell me! I wouldn't log it. After all, I'd simply be doing maintenance. One of the hardest caches I ever found was when someone found one of my easy caches and decided to, "hide it better".

I honestly don't see any problem if you just want to sleep in the back of your truck. As long as fire isn't involved and you put yourself someplace safe, you should be fine.

Now we can only wonder if it was voluntary. I'm thinking that someone with a sense of humor at Groundspeak may have changed it.

Usually when I feel icky my knee caps don't smell that great and my nose is not that clean. I won't even mention other orifices. I wear shorts to work and because I frequently have to kneel down to check the tire inflation on our fleet of trucks, my right knee is always dirtier then the left knee. It still doesn't make me feel icky.