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If you can pull up these 2 archived caches. GC3TJBN and GC3TJAK. Both of these were set up by a junior college instructor and only for his class. If the way they are written was the way they were submitted for reviewer approval it's hard to believe they were ever approved and obviously should have never been approved. There were hints only provided to the class and no one else making it impossible for anyone else to find. The instructor intended to activate these caches only certain days during each semester. When legitimate cachers questioned these caches the cache owner sent private messages which were not at all professional. Finally a reviewer permanently archived both of them.

Throwdown mom throws down a container at the one below. Then a few miles away at another cache Throwdown Mom found 2 containers at another cache location and complains because someone threw down a container when they couldn't find the original. ===================================== Throwdown mom Premium Member 827 Write note 11/29/2020 Since it has been a dnf for 8 months, we went ahead and replaced cache container, log and baggie. View Log throwdown junior Member 110 Found it 11/29/2020 TFTF! We left a new container but about froze are toes off. Replaced and ready to go ,thanks! View Log not there 1 Premium Member 2811 Didn't find it 09/05/2020 Gave it a good go, Nothing in the usual spots. Dug around a bit, no dice. View Log Not there 2 Member 7 Didn't find it 05/15/2020 Could not find was not there any more Looked for a while

We found this cache in May 2006. This is not a great place in St Louis to hide a cache. Definitely not a place anyone would want to look for a cache after dark. I get to SLMO every other month or so. Next time I'm there and if no one has looked for the cache/TB I'll make a stop to see if it is still there.

We (wife and I) got 202 in one day. It was an easy power trail. There was a match case at the base of every other power pole along a country road. No other traffic. I could pull up to the pole, jump out, sign the log, and the wife kept the record so I could log the website when we got home. It went for several miles up and down country roads. The only reason we did it was just to see how many we could log in a day. Honestly it wasn't fun and got to be very boring and tiring. Normally the goal is to find the cache. That day the goal was to log as many caches in a day. Our next highest daily count was 54. It too was a power trail in Louisiana. It was along a backwater road. It was more interesting since there all kinds of animals we saw along the trail. It was the same tho as the 202 day. A string of match cases tied to brush.

"But We Tried So We Deserve a Smiley" cacher Premium Member 6749 Found it 05/02/2010 Note to owner and following cachers at this site: We stopped at this one with skepticism, knowing it hadn't been found for the past 1/2 year and a previous DNF and realizing its difficulty was a 1 1/2. With the box 1 & 2 teams, we thoroughly scoured the area, finding the "obvious" neat place where the container should be. We assumed it was muggled; therefore, we're logging it as a find to justify our time spent here. If the CO disagrees with this, please edit accordingly. Our apologies for not having a container to place here to help the situation. A virtual SL on this quiet little area.

About 1/4 of Russia landmass is in Europe. About 80% of their population live in European Russia. The Urals are the dividing line between Europe and Asia. Yes the largest country in Europe is Russia by a considerable amount. European Russia is about 16 times the size of the UK. If I remember correctly Ukraine is the 2nd largest country in Europe. European Russia is about 6 or 7 times the size of Ukraine. Why would anyone think Seattle is in Asia? The Asia-North American dividing line is about 2000 miles from Seattle in the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia. Here's a bit more for your geographical education. Near Island which is the farthest western island of the Aleutians off the coast of Alaska is barely in Asia. Since you're worried about Seattle, Near Island is about 2800 miles from Seattle. Yes it is a matter of geography. One should study geography so they would know quite a bit of Russian land mass is European and most of their population are European.

Don't like them and won't do them. We initially had this one on our list but when we drove by it was at someone's house. Nothing around the location appeared to relate to the name of the cache. We did find a location 1/4 mile away that related to the cache name but without accurate coordinates we couldn't look in the 2nd location. I posted our belief there were bad coords as a note and sent the CO a PM explaining why we thought the coords were off. Don't know if the cache owner ignored my PM and note or hadn't seen it yet but 3 days later another cacher posted this after he attempted to locate the cache:

Rookie mistake? Four other of their finds logged as find with just a K in the notes that all had a string of no finds prior.

Go to www.geocaching.com. At the top part of that page you'll see a box with the grayed words "city, state, coordinates, GC code..." Type in Florence, OR and click on the green button to the right. I show 373 caches within 10 miles of the center of Florence. There are caches all along the coast road. Good hunting and enjoy the hobby.

Are you loading the caches directly from geocaching.com? Or using a program like GSAK? If using GSAK there's a way you can set it to drop the GC off of every cache listing. I haven't played with EasyGPS for a while so I don't recall if you can do the same with EasyGPS. If you're loading directing from geocaching.com I don't know if there's a way to drop the GC.

This cache was initially posted with the wrong cords. They were about 1/4 mile off. This was the result posted by one cache hunter. Read the log dated 06/20/09 on GC1TQ3G . "Super bad coords!!! Farmer chased us off with a shot gun, looked like he was going nuts about people walking around his yard."

Our best day was 202. It was a power trail with match stick containers at every other power pole. They weren't hard to find. It got to be where it wasn't that much fun and got really tiring. We did it because it was there and see how many we could get on the trail in 1 day. You don't have to cheat to get high numbers in a day. You don't have to 'forget to change the date' as another suggested. You don't have to group hunt and all log finds for each others finds. There are power trails all over the country. Some more interesting than others. With power trails high daily find count is really pretty simple process.

Off topic but - we did over 200 in one day on a power trail. Got to where it wasn't fun, just another match holder.

Which is why this now exists This cache would not have triggered a Health Score alert because cachers continued logging it as "Found". It appeared to be a healthy cache based on those fake finds.

Lid loggers. No cache. In over a year not one person entered a Needs Maintenance or Archive post. Log the lid, get a smiley.

Many years ago had that problem with an old style Etrex 10. Contacted Garmin and they told me how to do a hard reset. Forget how now. Do a websearch and you can probably find a how-to.

This cache hadn't been found for 10 months and logged as no find by 3 prior cachers. Here's their way of fixing that, and getting themselves another find to add to their count. Of course, then thank the cache owner for placing the cache that they had just placed so they could log a find.

These 2 guys are notorious for their throwdowns. At one time over 10% of their 'finds' were their own documented throwdowns. If they can't find one then they throwdown a "replacement". Then they sign it with "thanks cache owner for placing this cache." Several times we've been to caches where they've throwndown their 'finds' and located 2 caches in the area - 1 the original cache and then also their throwdown.

Easiest way is using EasyGPS. Free software. Do a pocket query for the caches you want. You'll get them all at the same time. Transfer that file to EasyGPS. Connect your GPS to your computer and have EasyGPS send all the caches to your GPS. There are other programs available that do the same thing. EasyGPS is free and simple to use.

Simple and free method is use EasyGPS for multiple caches. Free software at EasyGPS.com. Go to the cache page you want to download. Click on either the LOC or GPX button which will save that cache info to a file on your computer. Once you have all the caches you want in the file on your computer transfer those to the EasyGPS program. Simple click and drag. Connect your Etrex to your computer, click on the Send button, go to GPS settings and find your Etrex listed, then EasyGPS will transfer the caches to your GPS.

There's a local cache theme about Lincoln and his time as a surveyor. The cache description has this: "From the point of beginning, (the above listed coordinates)go thence West a distance of 6 rods and 14 links to an iron box. Thence North 90* a distance of 5 links to the cache." It's constantly getting DNFs, Needs Maintenance, or Needs Archived claiming the cache is not at the listed coords. Or if they look around and happen to find it then they write the given coords are way off. Of course they're way off. They're off by 6 rods and 14 links west and 5 links north. There have been a few who couldn't find the cache so they threw down pill bottles as 'replacements' then claimed a find. That put 2 containers at the location. All they have to do is read. If they don't know the solution to the clue there's this thing called the internet with all kinds of available help.

Why don't you follow the discussion in this thread. I gave an example of an obvious commercial cache. It was reported by several as being a commercial cache but a reviewer was adamant it wasn't a commercial cache because he said it wasn't. Then someone commented they couldn't see how a reviewer would let the commercial cache 'fly'. Obviously the reviewer was unable to understand what was pretty obvious. For your further edification I did not name the reviewer, or any reviewer, by name. So who's the rude ones? I simply pointed out an obvious. I never identified anyone. You and knowschad tho are the ones to first call another identied cacher names. so are 2 rude? Actually more than that. You're the ones violating the forum rules. Read them before you start calling people names. If you don't like it then don't click on this thread. No one is forcing you to read this thread. Sorry you're so upset over it. Maybe you need to get a real life. Find something important in your life to be upset about.

(snif, snif) Boo hoo! I think both your responses are rude. So there! So you don't think some reviewers aren't all that bright? Get a life.

Ouch. That's pretty harsh...and rude. Oh my! I'm so sorry you're offended. How am I going to be able to sleep at night. Guess you haven't dealt with very many reviewers. Most are good. Some very poor.

There were several of us who believed it to be an obvious commercial cache and posted NAs. The reviewer disagreed. Some reviewers aren't as bright as others. Remember there's no intelligence test or background check to become a reviewer.