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  1. oops... see what happens when i try to be funny after a night of imbibing adult beverages with friends... sent the email after composing on site, but forgot ( mea culpa) to delete original thought processes... guess i'm not ready for primetime... this was practice for the upcoming MWGB Area51 - yeah, that's my story now and i'm sticking to it... Well, *I* thought it was funny, anyway. Thanks for the chuckle, even if not everyone saw it that way. I think it went completely over my head - apart from the somewhat menacing retort In a nutshell, the GeocachingHQ account, who recently sent out a Spring Maintenance newsletter reminding cache owners to clear their NM logs and replace full logbooks (etc) had multiple NM and full log book reports on three of their own caches. The OP perhaps took it a bit too far by sending an email to HQ (and possibly, from the sounds of it, posting notes to the cache pages. If so, those are now deleted). </nutshell>
  2. I get that you're talking about a separate trip once the challenge is complete, but unless I'm mistaken, they already are on a trip (or they wouldn't be there to sign the log in the first place) and are signing the log as they think it's a worthy challenge/worthy cache to consider signing it, even if they don't qualify. If they have no intention of completing the challenge, why stop to sign it? Personally, I don't do it that way (and apparently you don't either), but I have no problems with anyone who does because it has no bearing on me whatsoever, even if it's my cache. Why should anyone really care about how others play the game, in this situation? I've seen notes on challenge caches that we "just in case" because they were in the area. I'm not advocating any sort of rule change. I'm just trying to wrap my head around this because it's kind of strange to me that people make such a fuss about challenge caches but don't actually seem to value the cache itself. I believe you are absolutely correct there. It is NOT about the cache. It is about the challenge met. The cache itself, for them, is simply a way to finalize their goal. But what's new about that? Power trails aren't about the cache, either. Nor are LPCs, stop sign bison tubes, even may puzzle cache finals.
  3. oops... see what happens when i try to be funny after a night of imbibing adult beverages with friends... sent the email after composing on site, but forgot ( mea culpa) to delete original thought processes... guess i'm not ready for primetime... this was practice for the upcoming MWGB Area51 - yeah, that's my story now and i'm sticking to it... Well, *I* thought it was funny, anyway. Thanks for the chuckle, even if not everyone saw it that way.
  4. Actually, that was also posted here: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=332936
  5. The subject of this thread is "50 State Traveler (GC4241) Discussion This is a discussion group for the moving cache 50 State Traveler". I think that answers your first question. As to your second question...this isn't "every cache". This is one particular cache that is apparently subject to a bit more drama than most and some locals wisely decided to take the discussion here. Seems like a good idea to me.
  6. Yep. Perhaps that might bother you; it doesn't bother me. Vive la différence! Obviously, you are allowed to log on whatever date you like, but I can see a couple of potential problems with logging on the date you qualified, rather than the date you visited the site. Let's assume you came to Australia some time ago and found my 2,000Km challenge. You also found a number of similar challenge caches at various times, maybe in other countries and then you qualified for them all sometime within the last 3 weeks. When I received notification that you had found my cache I would be mildly suspicious because the cache was actually disabled and the container was sitting in my shed. So, I look at your finds and discover that you had logged finds all over the world on the same day. Unless your found log was crystal clear, I would delete your find. If the container was sitting in your shed, it would be likely (albeit not absolutely certain) that you also had the logbook in your possession, would it not?
  7. Why not? Different people geocache differently. Vive la différence! That happens all the time around here. If folks are in the neighborhood, they'll find and log the cache, then wait until they either meet the challenge, or verify that they already have, before logging online.
  8. That's one man's opinion. And it really doesn't apply to this question anyway, does it?
  9. The world I live in isn't black and white; there are many shades of gray and a rainbow of colors. My world might be more complex, but it's well worth the complexity. The world may be complex, but this issue isn't. You find a geocache when you find it. You visit a place when you visit it. Ah, but what constitutes a geocache "find" involves shades of gray (and even, perhaps, a bit of color). Or maybe you can offer us a simple definition of a geocache "find?" I'm gonna have to go with Narcissa on this one. Even the guidelines make a distinction between "finding" and "meeting the challenge". You found it when you saw it, picked it up, and signed the paper log. You met the challenge when you completed all of the tasks that the cache owner required. Now, which of those situations you chose to use as your log date is what this is all about. Me, I'd use the date that I found it, because of the few challenge caches that I have done, I had already met the challenge. But that's just me. I obviously agree that you find the physical container on the day you find the physical container, and the date I put on the challenge cache's physical log is always the date I found the container. But simply finding the challenge's physical container isn't enough to log on online "Found it" on Groundspeak; you also have to meet the challenge's requirements. Personally, I date my online "Found it" log to be the day I am eligible to log my online "Found it," which sometimes will be long after the day I found its physical container. But I'm okay if others always date their challenge cache online "Found its" as the day they found the containers. As I noted before, vive la différence. The key is the word, "Found". It isn't a Did It log. It is a Found It log.
  10. The world I live in isn't black and white; there are many shades of gray and a rainbow of colors. My world might be more complex, but it's well worth the complexity. The world may be complex, but this issue isn't. You find a geocache when you find it. You visit a place when you visit it. Ah, but what constitutes a geocache "find" involves shades of gray (and even, perhaps, a bit of color). Or maybe you can offer us a simple definition of a geocache "find?" I'm gonna have to go with Narcissa on this one. Even the guidelines make a distinction between "finding" and "meeting the challenge". You found it when you saw it, picked it up, and signed the paper log. You met the challenge when you completed all of the tasks that the cache owner required. Now, which of those situations you chose to use as your log date is what this is all about. Me, I'd use the date that I found it, because of the few challenge caches that I have done, I had already met the challenge. But that's just me.
  11. In the "Difficulty and Terrain of Caches I've Found" section, above the D/T matrix, I am getting a broken image link for the URL http://www.geocaching.com/statistics/DifficultyTerrainImage.aspx?d=1.86&t=1.91 Is that the section this is discussing? I have tried a Ctrl+F5 refresh to no avail.
  12. Nice job of deducing the problem and implementing a fast fix! Well done!
  13. That may well be the OPs only option, but that's a rather flippant response to someone that just spent a month trying to work out a multi that may only be possible in that one location. As you know, that is often the case with multi-caches in particular. You can't always simply pick up and move them. You end up trashing the entire project, and that can be very frustrating and discouraging.
  14. Did you create a cache page when you first started the project? That reserves a "GC number". The reviewer was telling you that somebody else had reserved an older GC#. What they will do generally, when they see that, is ask the owner of the older GC# if they still plan to use that spot. If they say "no", or don't respond, he'll probably give it to you (assuming it meets other criteria for publication).
  15. I can't believe that "Bring Back Virtuals" is not on the Forum Schedule!
  16. I TOTALLY disagree about your last point. If I feel my D or T rating needs to be changed, I'm gonna change it. Even if I WERE to care about the side-game, a change is just as likely to help as to hurt somebody's side game.
  17. One more thing: treat your car seats.
  18. The instructions that I've seen indicate to hang dry but it sounds like using a dryer worked for you. I suppose you could always hang dry for a couple of hours then finish them off in a dryer. The usage instructions indicate the it will still be effective after six washings and at least one site I saw indicated to use a washer and dryer for that. I stand corrected... I do hang to dry, but then "set" them in the dryer. Some good information about maximizing the effectiveness: https://sawyer.com/maximize-effectiveness-permethrin-fabric-treatment/ And here is a place that will give your own garments a commercial treatment that will last for the life of the garments (70 launderings): http://www.tickencounter.org/resources/InsectShieldYourOwnClothes_TERC.pdf (that last site is also a superb reference on all things tick-worthy)
  19. I believe you are SUPPOSED to dry them in a drier to set the permethryn. I have been using permethryn for tick prevention for about three years now. I treat an entire set of clothing, including shirt, pants, tshirts, socks, underwear, and even a web belt. As soon as I get home, those come off and get stored in a spare room. The only ticks that I've picked up since have been a couple of times that I went out without the treated clothing.
  20. Having found several caches hidden by the OP, he ranks very high on my list of quality hiders. I find your presumptuousness to be uncalled for. If he chooses to hide a power trail, I am sure that I would find it well done and enjoyable. I took a look at the OP's profile and their geocaches after reading their post and I determined that they wanted those features for creating more power trails. I would have no use for those features, but would enjoy a power trail attribute to filter them out from my PQ's. So what if it facilitates power trails. Best I can tell is that power trails are allowed. Either ban power trails or take the request seriously. Purists can go hunt for mushrooms or scan barcodes. I saw that.
  21. I think the maps are still in beta stage. Be patient.
  22. Photo notification would be great! Log editing, not so much. You could get way too many notifications sometimes. "More later" is an unfortunate trend that seems to be sweeping the globe. The cache FINDER should have to receive regular notifications until they edit their log when they use "More later"
  23. [EDIT: Responded to an old post on a recently bumped thread. My point had already been made anyway]
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