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Guyute1210

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  1. Are these normal PQ's or Caches along a route PQ?

    I'm running just a Normal PQ centered around an event (GeocoinFest), and a couple others of the surrounding area. We're always told to get PQ's early, and I've been waiting since yesterday evening, and they aren't running. If I don't get my PQ's, it looks like my weekend will be shot unless I can get one from someone else. i know you aren't supposed to do that, but at this point, I don't care. I'm not one to normally kick and scream about things, but this is rediculous. Why change something like PQ's when there is a MEGA event this weekend? It's not like i can turn to GSAK for some out of date data, since the location is not part of my local caching area. The code needs reverted back and these PQ's need to be run ASAP. :):P:)

  2. My new pq's aren't running either. I set them yesterday. Today I unchecked them and set them for today, and they still haven't run yet. I even made a copy of one of them, and it won't run either. This isn't good for the people going to geocoin fest this weekend... grrr...

  3. When I drop my geocoins, I no longer get email notification of them being dropped like I used to. I do get them when someone else logs them. Is this a new feature or is the system broke. I looked at the release notes for the past couple months, but I don't see where they made that change.

  4. Has anyone ever hide a cache in a place such as an island on a lake or river? I considered it on one nearby that would require a canoe or something. It would be understandable that fewer would find it due to no access to a boat of some kind. But I wonder if most people, even those with a boat, would just write it off as too much trouble?

     

    Another option, our river gets very shallow during the summer months. There are points that are no more than ankle deep. You can wade out to islands. Too much trouble? Would I be held liable for anyone hurt or drowing? Are there other reasons it would be a bad idea?

    I own a boating multi cache, and i'm in the process of developing a couple more...I also have done quite a few. Go for it...the only drawback is that if it's late in the season (for those in the snowbelt) and it's marked as needs maintainance, it could go for quite a while until the spring thaw and good weather to get out there to maintain it.

  5. It would reduce the amount of competition you have. True FTFers thrive on competition and beating everyone to the cache. ;)

     

    As it stands now, its already a two tier system. Without the premium membership, you've got a snowballs chance of getting a FTF.

    Not true...We got our first FTF 6 days after we started caching, and have had more FTF's before we got our PM than after we did... :o

     

    Must not be much competition out there if it takes 6 days for the first find. Are you out in the boonies?

     

    Not our first find, our first FTF...we just happened to be logging when one came up...we did live out in the boonies where most of my caches sat for 2-3 weeks before being found...

  6. It would reduce the amount of competition you have. True FTFers thrive on competition and beating everyone to the cache. ;)

     

    As it stands now, its already a two tier system. Without the premium membership, you've got a snowballs chance of getting a FTF.

    Not true...We got our first FTF 6 days after we started caching, and have had more FTF's before we got our PM than after we did... :o

     

    OT: I would never pay more for something I already get for my 30 quid.

  7. I can not believe what I'm hearing. Basically, everyone in this forum is knocking the poster for not adhering to a rule which is more a reference than anything else.

     

    But, let's try and look at the larger picture here. Geocaching is supposed to be a fun sport/hobby/choose your word. Heck, most of the posters have pictures of themselves which illustrate the fact that geocaching is "down" time. It's not work, it's fun.

     

    I see no problem with the poster placing his cache within 500 ft of another cache. The rule is grey - at best.

     

    Chill out people.

     

    :D

     

    Sounds to me like you need to go find more caches and be a member longer than 12 days to get why the rule is in place. Personally I think the 0.1 mile rule should be 0.5 miles...

  8. We're surprised more hasn't been said about the quality of the coordinates. Let's face it ... anyone can place a tough find using awful coordinates. It's truly a special hide when the coordinates are spot on (less than 10 feet) and most geocachers still struggle.

     

    I don't think I've ever found a cache where the coords were <10ft (maybe a few, but it's definitely not the norm). Anything <30ft are considered good coordinates. Between GPSr Brands, models, the chipsets used. The Sat constellation at that point in time, user error, was WAAS used, # of trees, time of year, etc. To get <10ft consistently is next to impossible. I can't even get that (consistently) using the corner post on my porch as a point and averaging coords for 10 minutes.

  9. Just taking a quick look, it looks like it would be a fun cache, but I would suggest putting suggested parking for both with and w/o a 4x4. That would help. Also, it looks like if you have a kayak, you could put in near the mystery and go directly north, so that may be another place to put in. I know this one would be on my list if we ever took a trip to new jersey...in the summer.

  10. I think I need my waders on for most of this, and not just because it's winter.

     

    I just don't believe some who say they winter cache, well I guess it depends on where and what the conditions are like. Micros hanging in trees with little snow on the ground, ok, but I sorry, I just can't picture anyone going out in two or three feet of snow looking for a cache. My GPS at best only gets me to within three feet of the cache. So people want us to believe they pack a shovel with them, start digging a three foot diameter circle in the snow, all this to find a frozen cache. Then they say they move on to the next cache, and get five or six finds in a day? Sorry, I'm just not buying most of it. I do think it is possible to get a few, if your a die-hard, but not to the extent some are leading us to believe. If the snow is only a few inches fine, but not two or three feet as some are claiming.

    We went caching in ~4-6" of snow on the ground last saturday, and found 3 of the 6 we went looking for. One of the three was mostly luck, but the other two were found. We rarely get more than 1' of snow on the ground at any one time, but still try to get out most weekends for a hike or two...

  11. We've had CITO's the past two years in one of the State parks in our area, and we've worked with another cacher to have a couple new caches placed just for the event. It's a good way to give other cachers that have cleared the area some new caches to look forward to. That area wasn't as cache rich as some places, and were usually some great hikes to a vista or cool rock formation that was not usually visited by park goers. Last years the caches placed were there to highlight a few awesome little known waterfalls. These were all published the day after the event or later that evening. It's all about fun, and nothing nefarious.

  12. If you are lucky with a location. Just a few miles east of me, here's what I get in Google Earth or Google Maps.

    Not very useful..... :ph34r:

     

    +41° 14' 4.98", -80° 31' 8.52" (41.234717, -80.519033)

    hahaha...our new house is just inside of that Blurry section around Rt60...it does suck.

     

    I have found a few "easy" ones w/o a gpsr just b/c it wouldn't be a challenge using the gps...It can be done, and like others said, people do it all the time...no worries...

  13. just curious,,how many bother to take the time to check all your cache logs to see if the people who claimed a find realy did ? seems like a terrible waste of time to me..if you have alot of caches then thats all you,d ever get done..

    When I do maintenance checks on my caches, I do take photos of the logs and cross check them with the site. I find more often that people sign the logs, but don't sign online, which I'm fine with. I have found 2 names online that weren't in the log. I emailed both politely asking about it, and one never got back to me, so I deleted the log, the other got back to me and remembered the cache, so I let it stay. I have no problems deleting logs that I don't see a matching (or close) name in the log book. I believe that according to the cache placement rules, is something all cache owners should do. If you can't do it, then maybe you have too many crummy micros caches out there to properly maintain. :D

  14. Given the number of requests to show archived caches on google maps, it has been decided to return this feature. I'm afraid there has been no date set for their return yet, but I will let you all know when work on this is resumed. Thank you for expressing your feelings.

     

    Edit: I should mention also that this will be a Premium Member feature, as before.

     

    Thanks!

  15. To answer Twocat's question on how the GW sites are chosen - Sandy and Sonny (of Podcacher) had several shows (starting with episode 106) dedicated to GeoWoodstock V. During one of the shows, they interviewed one of the coordinators and it seems that first you have to attend at least ONE before you put your bid in. Then there is some type of bidding process that goes on and I don't know the details of that. I do know that this year's location is in Sacramento and I'm sure that they (PodCacher) will be there for interviews and such once again. They have also attended the Midwest GeoBash but I haven't listened to those episodes yet.

    I would love to have a GW event up closer to home but since we are going to Ireland this year, I won't be able to travel anywhere else. Maybe someone else could answer the question in more detail.

     

    That would almost seem to "load" the events westward/southward.....since none of the events have been in the Northeast, it makes it less likely (of course, not "impossible" though) that attendees are from the Northeast meaning that its less likely that bidders will be from the Northeast, etc.

     

    Maybe they should do like the Olympics or World Cup, where certain regions essentially can't have the event if they recently had it......despite what I say above I find it hard to believe that no one from the Northeast has attended/bidded before.

     

    I believe there was a group from Erie, PA that put in for GW5.

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