stargazingwoman

So sad. Not enough time in my life to download all my photos before they're deleted. Never was a place to enter notes once I'd figured out actual coordinates but not found the mark yet. Sometimes I use waypoints in nearby caches. With the limitations of the Geocaching.com website, I still love Benchmarking. I encouraged and educated cachers in my area, some of whom have now found more marks than I, and had fun researching and finding them. Geocaching.com puts out lame souvenir challenges with random points and gets rid of benchmarks which were part of my transition from traditionals to non-traditionals, challenges, learning, growing, having fun, interacting with other cachers. If any of you here are interested in a few more benchmark challenges before they vanish...take a look at the challenge series Bravo - Be a Better Benchmark Buddy - starting with GC5KCZV This is like losing a hard drive or having a phone crash. No way to recover all the personal data. And what about the marks I hadn't gotten to yet? Now I won't have the photos and coordinates from previous finders' logs to help me. I'm disappointed. If Geocaching.com were planning to make it all available somewhere somehow in an accessible archived format for us to easily view even if we couldn't log anymore, I could maybe live with that, but deleting it altogether is heartbreaking. Instead I hear "this door is hammered shut, we aren't serving you anymore, go somewhere else" and "we don't care that you're losing your data"... Don't pretend to understand how I feel about this. I haven't been to headquarters or Ape caches and for me those are far more unreachable. I'm disappointed.