Viajero Perdido

Why, #1 of course. It's the one that changes your life forever.

Same here, with 2.0.0.8. Mostly it works, say 90% of the time. I think the problem is simply, sometimes the server doesn't return the map like it should. In the same way that certain pictures in cache logs take a looong time, or forever, to load. (Why certain pictures, I couldn't tell you.) Is there trouble in the boiler room? Has anybody checked the gauges lately? What's the PSI on the '/' application?

Then there's orienteering - geocaching's distant cousin. (Both involve finding things hidden in the woods, after all.) Oh look, there's an "O" event tonight in a park where I still haven't found those 3 new caches. So I'll go and do: * Control 1 * Control 2 * Detour to GCABCD * Control 3 * Big detour to GC1234 * Control 4 ... Done this way, it can be a challenge getting back before the course closes. (And no, I don't get a very good time. Oh well.)

There's a local cacher who uses a Garmin 60Cx, the same as I have. This is one of the many newer models that has the SIRF chipset, meaning it'll even work indoors (!!!). Whenever I go to this fellow's hides, usually my unit reads 2m or 3m (meters, they're like yards). I consider that the gold standard. When he plants caches, I'm sure he lets his unit average 100s of readings before hitting Save. That's what I do, and even with my pre-SIRF unit that technique has given me pretty good coords. I try to average at least 500 points; once I took 2500.

Maybe it depends on the reviewer. I've had helpful reviewers un-archive caches for me on at least two occasions. One was by request from the original owner, so that she could then let me adopt it. The other was a cache where it was obvious from the absent owner's logs that the cache still existed and was meant to be available. I went out, found it, pinged a reviewer, and presto - unarchived! Reviewers have amazing powers. I hear they're given 10 lightning bolts per week to use as they see fit.

In the case of School (above), that was the first thing many people did - they found the exact viewpoint (in a tree) where the branches lined up just like they do in the picture. So far that hasn't helped, other than to annoy the squirrel that lives in the tree.

I usually let FTFs go to folks who enjoy them, but... if a cache has gone a long time without being found, then I really want the FTF. The longer it's been with no find, the better. Almost pulled off a year-old FTF today, except we couldn't find it. Next year when the mountain is in good condition I hope to co-FTF one that's been unfound since 2001. (At 7 years unfound - that would be W00T!)

Hmm, good point - they call it something else. Internet Options > Security > Custom > Scripting > Active Scripting > Enable This is waaay at the bottom of the list, at least it is in IE6. In IE7, who knows? (Good thing I had a VM with IE lying around. I don't normally use it, so I had to look it up.)

Make sure you've got JavaScript turned on in your web browser. (Not Java, they're different beasts.) I had exactly the same behavior after I'd temporarily turned JavaScript off for an unrelated reason, and forgot about it. Turned JS back on, and presto it worked again. Good luck!

I use Firefox as my web browser, with an add-in called gTranslate. I select a block of text I can't understand, right-click "Translate", and in a moment the translation pops up. I love it! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/918

I haven't seen this before. On the search results page (eg, nearest caches, PQ preview, etc.), I see a handful of caches with "Today" in the Last Found column. That catches my eye because it's only 9:30AM local time (Mountain); somebody must be up really early. But no, when I look at the cache page, I see the last find was not today but yesterday. This is happening consistently with the newer version of GC.com (the "verbose title" edition).

Awesome! I look forward to seeing it on your production servers - of course once it's gone through the normal QA process on the test servers with the beta group.

Oh my. Now it's GCXXXXX - A Traditional Cache in Location, Location called Clever Cache Name created by Cache Owner That'll keep some people happy with the GCXXXX in front. But really, look at all the "noise" you have to read before getting to the interesting stuff: A Traditional Cache - It'll almost always say that in Location, Location - That'll always be my home territory called, created - more filler Clever Cache Name - Finally! Now I know which cache this page is for. Please please please, could you at least put the cache name second? Then I'll be happy and go away. I don't think of caches as GCXXXX. (Those are all the same to me.) Caches have names. Like people, that's how I tell them apart.

Glad to hear this'll be fixed! While you're at it, why not put the most important stuff right at the front? To me, "most important" is the cache name, and the hider's name. The GCXXXX stuff, whether it's a traditional, etc., belongs in the page, not the title. IMHO. Clever Cache Name by Geocacher Name (GCXXXX) These pages are user-generated content, and having the ability to express yourself creatively is a big part of what keeps the game going. Let's show some respect for that content by putting it first.

If you're looking for ideas, I've put out a handful of orienteering-themed caches. This one: A Walk In The Woods is my favorite, and seems to get good reviews. If you search for the nearest caches to this one, you'll find four others with similar names. Feel free to use any ideas you find there. Have fun, VP

Also... It gets entertaining if the hint contains a "&". For example, at this cache: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...c5-bcce9735e152 As you toggle the encrypt / decrypt setting, the hint gets longer, and looonger, and loooooonger... Mostly harmless.

1) Turn Javascript off 2) Log in 3) Turn Javascript back on Now, does anybody know how to make "Next>" in the find results page do anything? On my N800, nothing happens, and it's quite a feature stopper.

Many of the cache log images never load when you click on them. Ever. 1. Look at a cache page. 2. Click on an image link in somebody's log. It loads after a second or two. 3. Click on another image link. Wait. Do something else for an hour and come back. It still hasn't loaded. 4. Cancel, try that image again. Wait another hour. It still hasn't loaded. 5. Click the image that DID load earlier. It loads after a second or two. 6. Try the image that won't load. Nothing happens. This is strange; certain images (a good fraction of them) seem to have this badness. Workaround: View the cache gallery. That always works. Noticed frequently with Firefox 2.0 on both WinXP and Linux. (N800? Don't know; please fix login.)

It's never been easier. Just google-earth for "Area 51" (type that into the search box), and it'll take you right there.

The good: I really like the new Yahoo map (the bigger one). It shows the context much better for urban caches, at least here in Canada. The not-so-good: You now show event cache dates in US format, like this: 5/6/07. Canadians can't parse dates like that, because we never know if that's d/m/y (our style) or m/d/y (your style). The format you use elsewhere on the site, 6 May 07, is nice and short, and completely unambiguous. Can you use that for events too? Thanks for listening and responding quickly to all the feedback!

You say, Description written by Viajero Perdido: (that's me) I'll have to say, No, description written by original owner:

While CITO-ing through an urban park last Saturday, my group stumbled across no less than four unlisted caches that had been planted by various classes from the local schools. Different schools - they've got some sort of project going on here. None are listed on GC.com, nor are they likely to be - they're pretty close together. One cache caught my eye from a distance, because it was just too brightly colored to be a piece of trash. It was a plastic box covered in bright yellow/red/orange fake leaves, in best New England style - which really stood out against the shades of grey that are common around here right now. All in all, it was quite charming. We TNLNSL'd with kind notes and re-stashed carefully.

All righty. I only have one minor thing to whinge about. "more... in the Bookmark Lists box on the cache pages. Sometimes that's not true; there's nothing more. I've got a couple of caches that are on exactly 3 lists each, and I keep clicking the more... to see that, oh, there aren't any more. (Minor, I know... I kill time here on the forums while waiting for the regular website.)

Can I nominate one of my own? I like humor where the joke isn't completely handed to you, but you're given enough to figure it out. When the light comes on, you laugh. I had fun writing up "Beach It" or "Park It", which was just another box in the woods until I thought of the "angle" for the writeup on the way home. People seem to like it. (I'll bet you didn't have to read too far before you "got it".)

I stumbled across the archived listing for a cache, where the 2nd-last log was the owner archiving the cache, and the last log was a reviewer note from the owner, saying "It's back, here's the new location". Well, reviewer notes don't automatically get noticed, so the cache just sat there in the new location, but the cache page stayed archived - for months and months. I went out, found it, logged it, and asked the reviewer to un-archive it. Done! This is why I like trolling through archived cache listings - occasionally there's a "lost gold mine" out there to be found.