Thick or Thin
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I am a premium member and have the same problem
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Same problem!
Macbook pro, all software and OS up to date. Safari, Chrome and Firefox.
I access "using my current location", then select first cache listed, click on Geocaching.com maps and then scroll along the route I will be traveling the next day and select some caches to find. I try to plan driving breaks where there are caches to find. Obviously for me the Geocaching site will be useless, at least for tomorrow.
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Thanks for all of your replys. It looks like Google Earth gives a more accurate date for the imagery while the Google Maps is pretty much up to date, at least for this area. I guess when dealing with the imagery I will just have to check various sources if something looks a little odd.
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Sorry I was getting tired and my fingers want awry. The correct cache id is GC52D50. Also I am referring to the images from the map choices on the cache page, not the map shown on the page. Google earth shows the same result with imagery date of10/7/2011. It also used to show the completed Route 202.
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Refer to GC525A and look at the various map options. Google maps "map" shows US202 and the trails but "earth" shows construction and a big flooded cut but street view shows the finished road. The earth view used to show the finished road too. Bing Birdseye shows no roadwork at all but Aerial is up to date.
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I have just noticed that satellite view on ALL the map programs that I have access to have reverted to old views. Where they used to a new highway and even more recent bike/hike trails they now show raw earth and construction equipement and none of the newer trails. This highway opened 2 tears ago. Anybody know what happened?
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Hey everyone! I was wondering if any of you had ever cached while on a cruise? I'm going on a cruise in December. We are going to Costa Maya, Belize City, and Cozumel. Have any of you cached in these port cities? I'd love to hear everyone's cruise caching stories!
Kim
(stirfrie2005)
Here is my log from Skagway cliffs - GCG627. As you can see caching on a cruise can be exhausting.
"This has to be the easiest cache ever. I woke up this morning and didn't even have to get out of bed. There was the Sun Princess directly across from my balcony. I did, however, have to really exert myself and get out of bed for my binoculars to read the name. Seems like an awfully lot to ask of someone before breakfast. There is some vegetation beginning to encroach on the sign thet could cause problems in a few years.
Answer emailed."
Thick or Thin
Chalfont, PA
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Check This one out. GC 16MA4 I found it and got a good laugh. Every bit of the description is true. The "carels" have hidden quite a few very interesting caches in the State College PA area.
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Ok , been doing this for a little bit and this is the first time i ran across this, so i ask a moderator or someone who is really GOOD with the nooks and cranny's of the rules.
I have now wasted a bit of gas driving out to this cach a few times. So now i have not found it, his post reads. ((If you come up empty, post a DNF and e-mail me for a hint.))
Cach info: The cache is an ammo box that blends in pretty well with its surroundings.
So after no luck, and we have been good on finding ammo boxes type cach. I send e-mail. PLEASE HELP! : )
The reply i get is, (( The hint is, its a small 35 mm film container, cammo.
OK, So here is my question. Can you post its a ammo box, but its not? It is really a little 35 mm film container?
Cause if that is ok to do, then i should step my hides up on difficulty and say, its a med lock and lock, and then hide a micro / nano. ("Now guess what size your looking for")
Even the smallest ammo box i have looked up at 1/35th scale is twice to almost 3x the size of a 35 mm film container, by size.
So, is this wrong to post it this way? To me it seems misleading and wrong. I think my gas tank does not like it either.
Maybe it should be a mystery cach? or something? It just seems misleading, and we are not the only ones posting, they cant find it, or spent 45 min, with no luck.
THANKS to any one, that can help on this.
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Ok , been doing this for a little bit and this is the first time i ran across this, so i ask a moderator or someone who is really GOOD with the nooks and cranny's of the rules.
I have now wasted a bit of gas driving out to this cach a few times. So now i have not found it, his post reads. ((If you come up empty, post a DNF and e-mail me for a hint.))
Cach info: The cache is an ammo box that blends in pretty well with its surroundings.
So after no luck, and we have been good on finding ammo boxes type cach. I send e-mail. PLEASE HELP! : )
The reply i get is, (( The hint is, its a small 35 mm film container, cammo.
OK, So here is my question. Can you post its a ammo box, but its not? It is really a little 35 mm film container?
Cause if that is ok to do, then i should step my hides up on difficulty and say, its a med lock and lock, and then hide a micro / nano. ("Now guess what size your looking for")
Even the smallest ammo box i have looked up at 1/35th scale is twice to almost 3x the size of a 35 mm film container, by size.
So, is this wrong to post it this way? To me it seems misleading and wrong. I think my gas tank does not like it either.
Maybe it should be a mystery cach? or something? It just seems misleading, and we are not the only ones posting, they cant find it, or spent 45 min, with no luck.
THANKS to any one, that can help on this.
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I never feel guilty. But I sure do feel uncomfortable with playground caches. A lone middle-aged man poking around a children's playground is just wrong and we should be cognizant of non-cachers comfort level when we are around. I won't do anymore playground caches until I get a grandchild to accompany me and give me a reason to be there.
Make that an older man and you have made my post for me. My solution has been to do playground caches on foul weather days whenever possible. It may be a little rough on the log pages but I feel more comfortable. I don't have any problem when caching with others.
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Mine came from an incident that occurred on a camping/canoe trip that I took my Scout troop on to the Fulton chain of lakes at Old Forge, NY in June of 1973. We were using dehydrated food and back then the amount of water to be added to a pack was exact. There was very little room for error. The number of campers we had required the use of two different size packages. In our case (2) 12 man and (1) 8 man packages. The boys who were cooking dinner the last night had the water on the fire and it had just come to a boil. I noticed that the water level was almost at the top of our largest pot with no room to add the dry ingredients. fortunately by measuring a correct amount of water into our next largest pot all would be saved. We could add (1) 12 man and (1) 8 man package to the larger pot and the remaining 12 man package to the smaller pot. Some how the instructions got garbeled in trnasmission and the (1) 12 man pack was put in the large pot and the remaining 2 packages in the smaller pot, so when all had cooked for the required time, 30 min I think, the cooks informed me that "something didn't look right". They were correct! When we served the troop, each Scout had to make a choice. "Thick or Thin". We have had so many laughs over the years about that meal that I chose to commemorate it with my trail name.
Thick or Thin
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The calendar says 70. My mind tells me a lot less but then my wife claims that I lost my mind long ago.
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What gets me is there is little effort to move travel bugs toward stated goals.
GeoForse
Guilty! (Well once anyway). Early in my caching career I had grabbed, logged and moved on several TBs. None had any stated goals attached and I was not aware that any did. Some did have tags saying that they "wanted to see how far they could travel" but that was all. Until one day with rain starting (I melt) I grabbed one, signed the cache log, and hightailed it back to the truck. When I got home a few days later and went to log the TB I saw that it had spicific goals which I was in no position to fulfill. The best I could do was log the grab, put it back in circulation as quickly as possible in a location similar to the stated goals and send an appology yo the owner. Needless to say I examine all TBs carefully before grabbing one now.
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How do I get rid of the [edit], [delete], [permanently encrypt] and [upload image] items after I have logged my find on a cache page?
New Send to Garmin
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Am I missing a step? I create a list then click on the (...) icon which gives several choices. I select "send to garmin" which opens garmin express which tells me that my download is complete and I am up to date. All seems good until I try to access a cache. All I get is the GC number and the cache name. If I go the pocket Query route I get the complete cache listing including hints, logs and all the usual stuff. It seems to me that the send to Garmin should also provide all the needed data. I haven't found any posts where others are having this problem so Where am I going wrong? I would like to use the send to Garmin option as it eliminates a couple of steps but not if I have to start printing cache pages again.
I am usinf a Mac Powerbook Pro with the latest OS and an oregon 450.
any help is appreciated.