Stem
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Out of curiosity, why are they closing the park? Do you know, briansnat?
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I just listed a cache last week, and it showed up under "mine" before it was found.
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I base my response on my first impression of the person who spotted me. If they seem to be ok and not muggle material, I will explain to them in as much/ little detail as they desire. If I think a muggle they may be, a well fabricated mis truth about whatever pops in my head will do fine.
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Here's another idea, I don't know how workable it is.
Reduce the open-to-the-public coords to minutes only. This would make the search area quite large and certainly thwart the less sophisticated maggot. But it would also allow new visitors to see the number of caches around them. They can view logs and most of everything else. Maps and such will not show--instead use a graphic detailing that maps will show when signed in and have it clickable to example maps.
Use "xxx" to replace the decimal place numbers in the coords and have it clickable and linked to a page explaining why it is so.
Allow owners to designate any of their own as "beginner caches" where they are open to the public. This will allow newcomers to hunt a few example caches before signing up. I know there are plenty of cache designated as beginner caches around here already.
Next stage in the scheme would be to allow you to designate your cache at a stage between signed in and MOC. This stage is defined as the cacher must have found at least 10 physical caches, has been a member for at least one month, and has a valid ISP email account on file. (The last part, while difficult, is workable.) I think that 99.99% of all cachers can meet those requirements.
While this is not a perfect scheme and I can see how a very determined maggot can get around it, I think it would stop the vast major of them that aren't members of our ranks. Those you have little defense against.
I like this idea, and think it has some merit. Beginners caches would be a good idea, because if a noob jumps in w/o checking details, they could hunt a 5/5 for their first find w/o knowing it. That probably will end up with a DNF and an uninspiring beginning for them. One problem that would need to be made clear to people, is that you need the full coords to make the search plausible. If a noob doesn't realize this, and goes hunting w/o the full coords, again a DNF and unhappy soon to be ex geocacher
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I actually thought this was a joke at first glance. I don't think this is a good idea in any way. There is a laundry list of reasons that this cache doesn't meet the guidelines for approval. I think most have been covered here, so I won't be redundant. While I like the idea of having something to do while waiting for a connecting flight, this cache will probably cause more problems than it is worth.
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You don't have to be a member to download waypoints. If you aren't premium member you can download .loc files, if you are a member you can download .gpx files. .Loc are like cliffs notes, gpx like the real novel. There is a great deal more info in the GPX files, almost everything on the cache page.
Ps welcome to the addiction
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I tried this the other day for S&G using city select. Unfortunately, I prompted the gps to follow the route after I was a couple of miles from my house. It calculated a route back to my house to start back the way I was heading. In theory, you may be able to accomplish this. You will probably have to start following the route from the exact point it began in MG for it to be effective
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Nobody talked about firewallIf you are on Cable or DSL, get a broadband router. Right now.
Routers have built in firewalls. It is refereed to as a hardware firewall.
I use Alwil's Avast AV and Spybot S&D to keep my computer clean (and a d-link router) Both avast and spybot are freeware. Both work very well. Avast updates at least once a week automatically, which isn't very common among freeware AV software.
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My wife does stained glass ornaments, but could be talked into scrapbooking if she met the right person. Is there a 12 step program if she does?
There is a 12 step program. As soon as she breaks out the scrapbook supplies, take 6 steps to grab your gps, and 6 steps to the car. You're outta there. She won't even know your gone
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Spend the couple of bucks on Sissy 'n' Cr's stencil. They work great and no exacto cuts. The few $ it is far out ways the time it takes to make one yourself. They work and look great. See for yourself
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I can't view the cache. I get an error saying it hasn't been approved yet. WTF, this thread only started minutes ago. Did the cache get yanked that quick
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I use a hydration pack whenever I go hiking. That also usually involves caching too. I drink a lot of h2o when I hike, and I like the hands free operation bladders provide. I won't buy another pack that isn't hydration compatible. I also took one on our honeymoon. I didn't do any hiking, but when the cruise ship docked in Mexico, I took ship water with me, no Montezumas revenge for me
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Now that I passed the test, I'm off to this playground next to the train station with a pizza box full of tuna sandwiches,m-80s, and nudie mags to hide a cache in the river. If it isn't approved in ten seconds I'm going to flame every approver and archive the rest of the caches in my pizza box series
Just kidding, they are ham sandwiches
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There seems to be some discussion on first to submit gets first dibs. My question is this. When I prepare a cache page, it goes through many edits. The first time I submit it, is that when my "reservation" of that area goes into effect? Or is it when I submit my final and mark the cache as active? I know that when submit my rough draft, is when I get the email stating I submitted the cache. Just curious.
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I have to wonder about FTF prizes. I look at it a different way. I've hidden three caches, each cost me $20 give or take a dollar. If I add a $10 or $20 dollar FTF prize, that reduces the number of caches I can afford to hide. An FTF prize is for one person, a cache is for the whole GC community. I'm not against FTF prizes, I would rather take that money and put it towards another hide. Some may (and probably will) say I'm cheap, I would just prefer to have more funds for hiding caches for everyone, than providing a gift for one person. Gimme a second....ok, flame retardant suit on, have at me
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Props to RK on this one
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Bringing this thread back to life because of dinoprophets post in the W.A.G. thread. My wife is an avid scrapbooker, I an avid geocacher. Just like dinoprophet, neither of us were into our respective hobbies when we met. Just checked the dates with the wife, and we started our hobbies within two months of each other. We are both happy, neither of us care to participate in the others very much, but we are both supportive. I even went on a scrapbook retreat with her last year. It was held in a WV state park with miles of trails to hike. We both had fun
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I never remember.... is this the one that will work with my new GPSmap60CS?
Thanks
yes and no. City Select is the one you want for auto routing. MG's maps can be loaded, but it wont auto route. I used MG for a couple of weeks on my 60c, before I got CS. I am much happier now that I have CS. W/o CS you are only using a portion of the power of the almighty 60 series.
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a couple of months ago the Target in York, PA had it for 60 or 65. The last time I was there I didn't see any copy's left. What about the website?
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Perhaps you and your buddy should join your wives in one of their activities and maybe they might be less likely to hate geocaching. Scrapbooking anyone?
Scrapbooking works great in my parts also. We have several separate hobby's. I buy ammo cans and gpsr's, she buys die cuts and albums. I buy batteries and swag, she buys stickers, and 12x12 paper. 2 weekends ago, she went to a scrapbooking retreat, and I saw more woods than carpet. She goes to "crops", I go caching.
Only drawback, every time I go to an outdoors store, I also have to go to a craft store. Small price to pay for a wife that lets me cache whenever I want, unless she says otherwise. dadgum family commitments
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It is difficult to get a virtual cache approved these days. Traditional caches are preferred whenever possible. I suggest to keep looking for a good site. You may consider hiding a micro if there isn't a good location for a regular sized cache container.
If you settle for just any spot, because you want to hide a cache there, you run two risks. You could end up hiding a cache that will be muggled easily, which makes nobody happy. You could also end up hiding a cache that you're not happy with. Not every location is meant to have a cache hidden there. Some places that are wonderful to visit, may pose problems for having a cache there.
Keep looking and the right spot will eventually come
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I truly appreciate that such a fine hobby is free to participate in. Equipment costs are obviously real, but actually participating is free. I am a premium member, partly because of the benefits, partly to support something I truly enjoy. Would I pay a fee to geocache. It would depend on the details on the fee. If I felt they were acceptable, then I would. I would not be one of the people to ditch this site, or geocaching all together, if I had to pay to play.
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When the caches were rehidden, the hider chose a completely different spot. They have stated on the cache page that the spot is so different that they are allowing a second smiley for the caches.
Wouldn't it have been smarter to have just listed it as a new cache? Then it'd show up on the nearest page of people who have already found the old version....
I stumbled across this by accident one day while sifting through GSAK. I would not have known about this, except by accident. I am not trying to speak for those cache owners, but here are my opinions on why they approached it this way.
In one case it was a cache that was placed for an event. It had gone over so well and received so much positive feedback, that it remained after the picnic. It is a theme cache, and one of the better ones I have hunted. It is a multi with the first part near the original first part. Since I haven't re-hunted it, I don't know where the final part is located in relation to the original final.
The second one was changed from a regular to a micro, and the hiding spot is very close, but new enough the owner believes a second find is acceptable.
I would provide links, but I don't wish any bad press to the hiders. Some people would find this ok, others bad form.
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That is strange
Were they close enough that the owner could have found it while checking for the missing one? Or did a cacher rehide it in a terribly incorrect spot. I've never had that happen to me, however I just recently found out about two caches very close to my house. I had found them two years ago, and they had both been muggled since. When the caches were rehidden, the hider chose a completely different spot. They have stated on the cache page that the spot is so different that they are allowing a second smiley for the caches. Thats a form of double your pleasure, I guess. I'm real happy about one of them, because I had a great time hunting that one. I had run into some other cachers while in that park, and it took all 4 of us close to an hour to find the darn thing. I'm hoping the rehide is just as hard!
Geocaching Interview With Jeremy Irish
in General geocaching topics
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Wow, to hear the voice of TPTB. He almost seems human now. I was convinced he was really HAL. My favorite part was -not direct quote"there are 1000 caches world wide". Gives some perspective of how this game has exploded. TFTL (thanks for the link)