NicknPapa

I kinda enjoy being FTF as long as it doesn't interfere with eating or sleeping. My boss would add "working" to the things it shouldn't interfere with

A week and a half isn't really very long. Give it some time.

Our most memorable would have to be our first one, CTF I - Magic Orbs. We were fairly new to the game (just over two months) and after 6 days of trying to figure the puzzle out I WANTED that one. Wanted it bad enough to go climbing around on some of the loosest crumbled rock I've ever seen, in the middle of winter and in the middle of the night, then turn around and make the 40 to 50 mile round trip drive again the very next morning so I could look in the daylight. Edited due to use of incorrect brackets....

I'm reading between the lines a bit here and could be way off base but this is what it looks like to me. Since you say the note was to alert you to a "possible" problem I suspect they wanted to get a message to you. Then they archived the log in case they were wrong so they wouldn't effect other searchers. Myself, I would have logged a DNF and sent an email with additional information but maybe they didn't want to do the extra step.

You can change it but personally I would add a new found it log and leave the original DNF in place. I like to be able to see my complete history, not just the good parts....

When you search by coordinates in Google Maps you should have two markers on the map. The red balloon is the location of the nearest found address, the green arrow is the location of the coordinates. My version of Google Earth doesn't show the nearest address unless I select to show it, don't remember just how I did that though....

Unless it's pretty extreme it's probably normal. On a semi quiet day most power poles will hum.

A boat. Not a very good one but a boat none the less....

It's sort of traditional for Nick and me to to have hot peanuts and a drink at some point in the day. The drink can vary, the hot peanuts, well, we feel like the day was a failure if we don't have those.....

$30,000 a year wouldn't hire one half decent IT person in SW MO, much less enough to run a website this big based in Seattle WA. I doubt it would pay for office space in Seattle but don't quote me on that one, I haven't tried to rent any there. I suspect that salaries and office space are the cheap parts too, there has to be a fairly large amount of cash tied up in equipment. I suspect that the biggest expense would be bandwidth though. I don't know how much is used but based on the front page record of logs in the last 30 days it has to be a huge amount and it isn't cheap, especially when you start talking about big numbers. If the $30 each for premium memberships is the only income they have I am surprised they can keep it all going.

NiraD has good advice, especially about the size recommendation. Urban (seems to be most of what you have found so far) micros can be painfully difficult to find, some are not much bigger than pencil erasers. I would add that when you get reasonably close to the coords put your GPS in your pocket and start looking. It's awful easy to overlook a cache while staring at the screen of a GPS and most of them don't agree with each other anyway. Look for things that don't look quite "right", i.e. s pile of sticks all lined up, an electrical box cover that doesn't have any screws, etc. Sometimes you won't know just what it is, only that "that spot over there looks funny".

See Knowledge Book

Swiss Army Knife, not one of the cheap one either. Nick found it so I didn't get to use it at all

It's on your Public profile

The PDF file will need to be hosted on a website and then you insert a hyperlink to that web page. You can find out how to insert a hyperlink HERE

I'm afraid I would be in the Google crowd with this one, until reading this thread I had never heard of Everquest. I haven't really experienced people solving the puzzle in unexpected ways, NOT solving the puzzle in unexpected ways would be a bit more accurate. Our second hide, Secrets From The Past, has a two part puzzle, one part for the latitude and one for the longitude. I expected some people to have difficulty with the longitude because I know a few that simply can not see the images. I didn't expect many to have difficulty with the latitude but after five finds in nine months and talking with several people that have tried to solve it (including one math teacher)it seems to be latitude that has everyone stumped. I may have underestimated the difficulty on it.......

You can do that, just click the blue ribbon at the top of the list.

It turns out that it is trivial to reduce the number of avoidable geocaching deaths to zero. Just ban geocaching. Every human activity carries risks with it. Reducing needless deaths is important, but safety always comes at a cost. Those who claim safety can be improved for zero cost are either ignorant or lying. It is a mathematical fact that the only way to bring the number of deaths from an activity to zero is to not do the activity. That's why it is important to not implement new safety features based on what we think will make things safer. It is far preferable to use techniques that have been proven to improve safety. Your call for a new log type, for example, comes from an emotional need to do something, but I doubt it would have a measurable impact on safety. Perhaps the biggest cost of an over-emphasis on safety at all costs is that geocaching would lose its essential nature. Part of the allure, at least for me, is the promise of adventure and a little bit of danger. That's why geocaching.com has wisely chosen to leave it up to the individual cacher to use his or her judgment to evaluate the risk level they find appropriate once on-site. I agree with Fizzymagic. While it is tragic that someone lost their life imposing more rules will not reduce the risk of the same thing happening again. Frankly, I don't understand people's need to impose restrictions on other people "for their own good." As long as I don't endanger anyone else the risks I take with my life are my business and no one else should have any say in the matter. As an aside, I feel much more in danger while driving to the cache that I ever have when I start the search.

This is the only issue I see with your case and it shouldn't happen. I would say that whoever has the TB should be logging it, the other person should not.

The bold red line is what is holding you up. You will need to enter your cache page and check the box that says "enable this cache" or something similar. I don't know the exact location as I haven't published one since they changed it.

I addition to the guidelines I would recommend reading THIS. Also, after you decide where and how you want to hide your cache step back and ask yourself "Would I enjoy finding several caches like this in a row?" Like others have mentioned, it helps to find several before hiding one, not only to give you ideas of what to do and what to avoid but also to be sure you enjoy the game enough to stick around.

IMHO it should be listed as a multi WITH field puzzle attribute unless you have to go home to solve the encryption,. In that case I would call it a mystery cache and note in the description that it is multistage and possibly the number of stages.

What did they think was happening? Terrorists were about to blow up a tree? Lord, what fools these mortals be.....

I hope you didn't do this for my benefit. That looks like a bunch of work. I already have one job, that's enough for me.

Check your PC for left over parts of programs, especially any that you did not reload. Often those will cause conflicts of the type you describe here.