CABass
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This afternoon, while out geocaching with my granddaughter (who has just gotten bit by the caching bug within the past two weeks), we were about 40' from ground zero when she found a red container with a white lid by one of the bushes. It was NOT the cache. But before I'd gotten to her she'd picked it up and shook it, saying she'd found the cache. I took it from her before she tried to open it. When I turned it over, I saw the label indicating it contained used sharps and had a Biohazard icon on it.
Needless to say, I took it back to my vehicle for proper disposal tomorrow as I do NOT want some other kid to think they found the cache (and CITO, you know), and we both washed our hands with hand sanitizer.
Then and there, I had a chat with her and told her that from now on she stays with me and does not pick up any more caches but may only point them out when she finds them. Unfortunately this will dampen some of her enthusiasm for geocaching (she's 10 years old), but I shudder to think what could have happened if she had opened this container.
Oh, we did go back in and find the actual cache.
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OK, I am totally frustrated here. I have installed Cachemate and GSAK. I ran 2 PQ's thinking I messed up the first time because my attachment looks like this 1408711.321C02.efw. Something called a UmxAttachment File. I did click on the gpx box and to zip it. Is there something I'm missing here?
Thankyou in advance
I read in another post that if you rename the .efw to .zip it will work fine. Hope that helps!
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Did you check the box for "Home Coordinates" and limit the search to your State?
I believe there is a problem when you do that. If you enter the coordinates manually, or use the GC # of a nearby cache, the PQ works.
This is how I check the boxes on one part of the PQ form.
That fixed it! Thanks for the fast reply!
Craig
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I tried getting a pocket query for the first time last night and although I selected 100 caches within 100 miles from my home, that I have not already found, that I don't own, the report tells me that no results were found. I tried it five or six times (viewing the preview each time but not actually setting up a send date) and got no results each time.
Anybody able to tell me what I am doing wrong? I followed the instructions in http://www.markwell.us/pq.htm to the T.
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I was meeting with a group of railfans (train watchers - one of my other hobbies) at a campground this past afternoon and while there I decided to place a cache. At the mention of geocaching, one of the guys looked at me funny. He told me about an incident that happened with a geocacher at a nearby railroad tunnel. I didn't believe him so I googled it and found that this one has to take the cake for trouble with police or landowners while caching:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=21328
Briefly, for those not wanting to read all the logs, the cacher placed a geocache near the entrance to a railroad tunnel. Said cache was in an ammo box. Some cachers were observed by a member of a train crew while they were replacing the cache as a train exited the tunnel, a call was made to law enforcement, the town was alerted, the railroad and highway was shut down, the bomb squad blew up the ammo box. Apparently through the Geocaching.com lable that was on the ammo box, law enforcement tracked down the cacher who placed the cache, arrested him, charged him with Terrorism, Criminal Trespass and Criminal Vandalism (he had spraypainted a rock with the name of the cache on it). After talking with the cacher they dropped the Terrorism charge.
To quote the logs: "The sentence was then read. It goes as follows: 1 year jail time, 1 year on probation to stay out of any kind of trouble, 1 year license suspension in the state of California, and to pay all the expenses incurred for the bomb squad, the railroad having to change 2 crews out because of a 4 1/2 hour detainment and closing down of Hwy. 97. They had to taxi 2 crew men in to change shifts and 2 crew men had to be taxi'd into K.Falls and put up in a motel for the night then be taxi'd back to Redding the next day. The expense just for that was $1650.00. With all the fines and fees attatched to all of this, the grand total was $2030.00, which we had to pay right then and there. To be kind, for the moment, the judge told him he would drop the 1 year jail time. "
Unquote. It sort of makes me a bit uneasy!
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EXCELLENT IDEA!!! Thank you!