Seaglass Pirates

The context of that statement was as an example and was qualified by the following paragraph. It was implied as a potential use, not as a specific or singular reason to do it. Other outcomes of doing it are obvious also implied but not mentioned by the OP. Edit - to qualify my claim and exain further sorry the OP begins with "what if". Therefore this reflects an example. Sorry should have explained why it was implication of use rather than anything else.

Anpefi don't worry. Your English is superior to some who have already posted - your context of the word bias was totally clear. I'm confused where did all this rubbish about FTF come from. Reading back through it was implied that this would favour the FTF gang. Implied. Since then you've all run with it claiming it would favour them and thus be a detriment to the game. What? If a reviewer tends to publish at a specific time - ours sort of does, the previous one did and the one previous to that always did. Tended to publish half a series on the night time at midnight ish and the rest of the series during the next day. Not "always" but generally. While this in no way makes them lazy it does make the process predictable to a degree. For instance when we saw a series being published on the evening we didn't rush out to get FTF on the series (some series were not numbered, they were named so you had no idea more were there coming), we would wait for a day so we used one lot of fuel to get to the locatin instead of two going back to get the ones we missed. Some however were playing a side game of a FTF for the month etc. others like having large numbers of FTF's. So what. Whatever, it was specifically as a consequence of the roughly predictable nature of the publishing times that we altered our behaviour with regard to rushing out to get FTF on a series. We changed from going to get it to setting a distance that we would be prepared to travel to get FTF. But a side game wasn't the focus as such, spending two lots of fuel was the main focus - or rather avoiding it. Yes you can ask your reviewer to publish a series all in one go at a certain time so that people don't suffer the two lots of fuel scenario but it's down to their good will and available time. But surely you can see that by giving the publishing function to the CO of a series or even a single cache it will: Release the reviewer from extra work and effort. Randomise publishing times incredibly so the FTF mafia will have no idea when a cache is bing published Reduce traffic on the servers (I know when ours is in for review we are refreshing constantly to see if it's live) Open the opertunity for FTF to a wider audience These are facts. Implying that some will give their mates the heads up to be at a certain location is hilarious. While this happens anyway (we've had a prefound cache situation that caused all hell to break loose) it's rare and caused those concerned lots of hassle. The logistics of setting this up rely on one thing - human nature. People like surprises the thrill of the chase and competitiveness is key. This would be in conflict with setting a mate up for a FTF. If anyone were to set their mates up for a FTF word would soon get round and the mocking would begin. Blimey if you think the cons outway the pros well imo it's just being bloody minded about it. Edit: Besides if the FTF game is so unpallatable to some and it's such a niché detrimental aspect ... why on proprietary log sheets does it say FTF: Name: Date : Time: at the top. I think categorising FTF as a side game is idiotic when clearly it is an unavoidable outcome. Someone has to be FTF. It's inevitable.

We have seen at least three cachers logging finds on archived caches. Some blatantly ... most logging finds after the archive with a simple tftc, some with the dubious "found this sometime when last in the area". It's an easy hit to get the numbers up I guess. Been interesting looking at the found its for caches in America one day and Europe the next all archived recently. But we have also seen the "logging under new account in my own name. Was previously such and such if there is a problem with this log please let me know". Some people get wound up by that for some odd reason. I think what you're asking is - is it a legitimate log as per geoccahing common practice within the community. The answer is yes as has been stated if: The cache is still there to be found because it has not been removed by you. A late log (and we witnessed one the other day that was from 8 months previous), depends on you really. No one would be against you if you deleted it. But it could be genuine. You could satisfy your doubt by looking at other finds/caches by that cacher locally. Were they in the area that day etc. Or maybe if you have them still look back through the log books. Check for their name which maybe abreviated to initials or squeezed in out of date order. Some people use puppet accounts for various reasons - they will legitimise the account by seeking out archived caches and logging finds on them so that their puppet account has a good number of finds and creates a legit puppet cacher that does not rouse suspicion that it's not a genuine account. Maybe for a puzzle element to a cache or just to do it for another reason. Whatever if the cache is still there to be logged they can. Otherwise it's your decision which you will have to live with lol.

Sure sorry I missed this post Basically it's how long the battery will be able to serve you. The higher the mAh the longer the battery wil last. From battery specialist.com (other sources available) - http://www.batteryspecialists.com/mah.htm As for which type they are you can choose which type are inserted into the GPS but you must select that type in the GPS battery menu system. Quite what happens if you don't is a mystery to me but if it involves genitalia and pain I follow the rules and I've been warned.

Cache available 24/7 all a cacher needs to know as per the attributes. Thank you and goodnight. Oh sure maybe some uppity official of a sport in its death throws can cry "I'm in charge" and come across as a bit Jaun Sheet stand back pretty ladies, but at the end of the day ... people have to remember ... it's not "geocachers", it's people who just happen to be "geocachers". The attitude is all "people" not geocaching. Poor instruction on cache page. Poorly informed official. Poorly implemented arrangements. As a side note what hilarious terminology on that link lol. It's all a bit thunderbirds and the posts are hysterical. Some poor soul hammering away at various characters attempting to mash out a post.

pot and kettle ... Dear god you murdered that and then you rushed it to a vet and then hammered it to death all over again. Sort of fixed it for you - what's left of it. That aside it would be a good idea if the cache were reviewed by a reviewer and then cleared for publication by the CO. The facility already exists in the form of enable/disable by the CO. Once reviewed and cleared by the reviewer it could go into a enable/disable mode which is actionable by the CO. Reviewers have a que system where they stack them and hit publish so just leave the publish step to the CO. Yes yes he should not have used the word lazy but his offence is not aimed at a specific person so is not personal to anyone specifically. However your personal attack "suggest you get off your lazy behind" is against this very forums rules and is bullying. And yet magically is ignored by all and sundry. Glossed clean over. How thoroughly disappointing ... Edited to be specific.

well i hope you like it. When you sort it make sure you log into garmin and get the latest update. It will be glitchy until you do this. Switching itself off and crashing lots. Its the same with most of them apparently (garmin products untill they have been out a while) Then - Case - yes they do ship to the uk and they send it fast. When we bought ours it was a bit convoluted but I think its simpler now. However they do NOT make your GPS float like the Oregon 450 case did. Its just too heavy - http://www.gizzmovest.com/GizzMoVest_OREGON_600.cfm Screen protector - You can get cheaper but these are what we bought. Arrived fast touch screen unaffected - http://www.amazon.co.uk/atFoliX-Garmin-Oregon-650-Protector-1-FX-Clear-crystal-clear-3-pack/dp/B00B8CGL0M Rechargeable batteries - http://www.7dayshop.com/aa-rechargeable-batteries/7dayshop-aa-ni-mh-high-performance-rechargeable-batteries-2900mah-4-pack You can get the batteries in bigger amounts at a slight discount I think. You need to get the 2900 mAh ones though. And make sure you select the correct battery on the GPS. Happy Reading - http://support.garmin.com/support/manuals/manuals.htm?partNo=020-00244-01&language=en&country=IE

Unless there is a problem with mileage calculation at GC there is one way this could happen Funtime dipped it in the wrong cache. Whatever cache is that far away. This would add the mileage. Realising they had never been to that one they delete the visit. Mileage but no log. I would say that the mileage corrector would have sorted that but it has t always worked for me when I've done just that. Usually when we've had use the iPhone. Which brings me to possible cause two The app. The app sometimes overlogs finds. Something to do with the send log function. If the signal is dubious it keeps attempting to run its full cycle. However geocaching have receieved the log fine. You see your log uploaded and your happy. Visted TB's so that's happy. Walk away. However the cache page has (maximum we have seen is 11 in one go but 3 repeats is common) repeated logs by Funtime. . The cache page owner tuts and deletes the extra logs removing proof this happened but does not touch the TB obviously. So maybe it's accumulated mileage of the same journey repeatedly logged. Maybe. Or ... GC have screwed up.

You have no idea what you are ranting about. You've taken a post from the OP and launched into legal ramification mode up in arms about something that is a) nothing to do with you concerns the CO, Landowner, grounspeak. By all means advise from your perspective how you would deal with it. But don't add or imply "issues" that you are guessing at. And don't point at the OP and say "but they said" because they may be a cat licking air biter who doesn't know Wednesday from turnips. So dial it down a few clicks and chill eh and remember we are a community not some 60's cop show leaping into an over sized wobbly car with tires squealing to save the day. I might be a cat licker too ... I've snuggled a few

This is terrible advice. A disgruntled land owner is perhaps the best reason to log a Needs Archived and get a reviewer's attention. +1 Maybe I'm not understanding something. People are climbing a movie screen support. It's natural that people would do this if a 30 foot pole is not supplied. The drive-in owner doesn't like it. I can't imagine any owner thinking it would be OK if people climbed onto their movie screen. Neither can I. From a liability standpoint, I'd expect that the owner needs to explicitly deter climbing. Permitting it, either explicitly or through lack of action leaves the owner wide open to big problems should someone get hurt. The suggestion that it's the CO's business is absolutely preposterous. This is exactly the sort of nonsense that causes trouble for everyone. Well it's your opinion. Youre going to have it. You're entitled to have it. Perhaps not ram it down everyone's throats so emphatically. "Preposterous" is perhaps a little 1960's outraged drama teacher, but I see where you are coming from. I think "nonsense" was a step too far but it's your drum you're gonna march it up and down thumping it like an telly evangelist so "you go girl whooop whoooop". Personally I thought we were a rational community where the simplest solution was the best. Land owner shows concern - geocacher explains geocsching and offers to contact the CO. Job done. Move on to more caches. Buuuuut apparently it's lunge on here handing out pitchforks ... Only in Ame ... nah you know what I can watch judge judy instead. She's qualified and she ain't bad for an old gal.

It's not all about the numbers but The CO has nearly 11 thousand finds. You have less than a thousand. Perhaps cache more, cache police less, and just leave other peoples stuff alone once you have found it and enjoyed it. Walk away and concentrate on enjoying the hobby. Why you're involved at all is confusing. The natural order of things is find the cache and log it. If confronted by a disgruntled land owner contact CO and explain what happened and leave it in the CO's hands. Thats why they are the CO. Broken beams and risk do not concern you. That's land owner and CO territory. As for it being dangerous .... The terrain rating tells you all you need to know. It's not a 4 so no climbing rewuired. But climbing 40 feet up is nothing. There are caches in Chernobyl. Now that's a risk.

I think I see what could have happened. You don't actually have a physical tag. This was from a visitor type stamp they left. With the tracking code showing for subsequent visitors to discover. The log book photographed shows the stamp. The stamp is the travel bug logo and your fingers in the picture you supplied are presumably covering up the tracking number. The idea being that you see this in the cache log/or well known tag travel envelope (ignore that for one the sec). Anyway you now have the tracking code at your disposal. Once you have that you can do the usual Retrieve from cache Receive from somewhere else Grab Write note Discover Are there more options if the person who activated the tag made it collectable by accident initially. I'm not sure as never done that to ours. So I can't use ours. And none of the ones we have here are (other people's. So can't check) If they have and it's an option it may be that you have collected it by accident. I mean it's drop down menus. Easy to select the wrong one. But this is all conjecture because I don't know if you can collect it into your collection if it was made collectable when activated. Either way the person who owns it is clearly the named person on that stamp. Gawd get rid of it quick. Your inbox will be heaving with discovery logs.

But he might get bored carrying his car battery around charging the thing if the series he is doing is more than 7 caches big ... I just had a quick look and for a small amount more (if I've got your model number correct) you can get a 650 which has a lovelly camera on it. It is supposed to be equal to the iPhon 5 one. I would say it is but the GPS picture is darker. But then it doesn't shatter the GPS battery when you use it a lot and as you say they are geotagged. Has GLONASS which in our experience is a good addition. Though everyone you speak to moans about it being useless. We don't have a problem and we have two. Slight variation on the odd day at maybe one cache. Else they work exactly the same. The touch screen is excellent. Paperless - excellent. GPX file transfer with either gsak or drag and drop excellent. Battery life excellent. Has a torch intergrated and permits searching with the torch on as you continue to navigate to the cache. Processor speed with 4000 caches on is no different than if it has 1000 on it. To be honest we had the 450 before and it was a dream. Had a go of one of these and it is the best of the montanna (a relative has one of these) and the best of the 450 (we had two of these (all rolled into one). We live it. Pinch screen - map touch rotate. I mean it does it all but find them for you. One moan - I don't trust the back securing method. Pin and twist affair. Like the 450's clamp. If you don't care about the camera garmin 450. Cheap robust ... cheap.

Post an Owner Maintenance log for this, "have checked my cache it's still there". A few dnfs by a novice are simply going to drop off the page. Problem solved. I personally don't find any the logs offensive enough to delete as profanity, but if the last of them strikes you that way, you certainly can delete it. Your personal preference isn't relevant I'm afraid. When giving advice as a person you are guided by your own personal moral compass. When giving advice as a representative of grounspeak you will do so with the companies best interest first and foremost. The term in the log references a minority group. That should flag up to you as a potential issue immediately. Both morally and potentially legally and politically. When used in that context in the UK it is a derogatory term meaning rubbish/bad/negative. Quite how that does not flag up to you as offensive or potentially offensive to anyone who may use geocaching is quite unfathomable to me.

I see from your profile that you are a Groundspeak reviewer - and your advice is "a few DNFs by a novice are simply going to drop off the page "problem solved"" remove note which contains an unsolicited attack ... And the derogatory log by the novice? That's just problem solved is it?

it is a very inappropriate comment. For some time now that word is thrown out there to reflect something that the person finds rubbish. In this instance I would just delete all his logs. You're leaving is there to show that person they are disgusting. And you have also referenced them as a note. Thereby forcing you to leave their log as explanation for it. However you are unfortunately condoning the comment by leaving it there and complaining about the repeated DNF instead. I know you're not but out of the two - the disgusting comment is the greater offence. Below it the person who has three finds has referenced the cache with the log "G". This is short hand for the offending log. So I would delete both and all. I would then make it premium members only forcing them to fork out for membership if they wish to locate it and of course you will need to hide it better and slightly move it. Else they may attend it and remove the cache as retribution for deleting thier logs. But I'm surprised to you left it there to be honest. It's neither a good advert for you, or geocaching.

Agree with Kuarion We have found plenty of soft toys. Always dry. Never thought about it till reading this thread. Some have been in bags and some not. Agree with attaching the tb. The only thing we remember happening to them is that the keychain which is usually cheap base metal - rusts. Keeping it safe in other ways - state on cache page not to go into events will help. Plenty of events encourage new cachers to attend. Not all TB's get logged out correctly if ever. And also include no TB hotels. Same thing. You could say premium member caches only but to be honest that is a waste of time. If your toy is the size of a cup it can squash into most caches. If it's bigger it will only go in regular caches. Again it does have an effect - too big and some cachers will leave it because they know it will be harder to place out again. Too small and it will be taken by anyone and is easier to move on but also easier to lose. Make sure it's not collectable in your country so it's unlikely to be lusted after by a child with a doting parent (yes they have been removed because "I just couldn't say no they had fallen in love with him I'm afraid"). Seen that reported on here a few times which is astounding. Attach a clear plastic keyring that you can insert a photo in. Instead of the photo write it's mission on the paper. Use biro because printing it or using felt pen and it just leaches into a blob. This also helps cachers with a bunch of them to see what the mission is without having to load up the TB page Get a spare toy. If it goes missing you have a duplicate you can send out with the copy tag. This means the TB photo you've taken will match the original or if the toy comes off the tag you could send it out to the cacher to replace on the tag. We made something for someone when their ornament went missing. We just found the tag. They were less than impressed ... you try to help and you get a wet kipper slapped round your face. State geocachings rules on the TB page prominently. Keep no longer than two weeks as per geocachings rules. Unless you contact the CO for permission and you think you can help it on its mission by keeping it longer. It does get ignored ... by anyone with over 5000 finds ironically. But most newer cachers are very diligent and had no idea before reading it on the TB's page. Ultimately you are dealing with the human race. There is no one size fits all thing that you can do. It is chance, educating people ... we posted the rules about having NO rules with regard to tb hotels, on a TB hotel we visted. We did this because the previous Finder to us logged it with "obviously some cachers can't count!" The previous finders have not caching long and are nice people so we stated that there is no restriction with regard to how many TB's can be kept. Because of the previous finders log. They had been misled by the instructions. Blow me if not a month later the owner posts "remember to keep at least 3 TB's at ALL times in the hotel". You just cannot prepare your TB against arrogance like that. And with the introduction of a CO being able to vanish TB's out of their own caches we cannot see the level of missing ones.

When we have had this happen to us it turns out It's the app. The app is appalling for multiple logging ... anything. If you have a gander at power trails you can see newbie cachers and non newbie cachers alike have hit log your finds and it blasts them off. If the signal isn't great it will resend and resend until it's happy. This can mean a signal log or as many (the most we've seen), 11 times. This was a newbie cacher who had found 11 caches and it was 11 x TFTC and worse we've seen locals here get their caches disabled from an app multy logging a DNF. The reviewer has no idea so it's not their fault, but it looks like the cacher has made several attempts in that day. And the reason I blame the app is that it's happened to us on the very rare occasion we've used it. The iphone also (for some wierd reason), sends two emails. Looking in the sent box sometimes I am amazed at how many times this happens.

In busy areas TB's will be taken very quickly. If the box is in a tourist location they will also get dropped off regularly. Minutes later taken by another cacher. If it is a tourist location (and even if it isn't sometimes) TB's can often be placed enmass so that there is a chance that they will get taken and spread all over the world. Airport caches for example. Or caches that will get a lot of traffic. Often weeks go by before the taker is home again from holiday, and gets a chance to log them. One cache near us regularly has TB's apparently go missing from them. Retrieved by Americans or others. Then it will travel on the coach for weeks. Cornwall scotland all over the UK and on to Europe and elsewhere and will only be logged once in the states. It just happens that not all cachers use the app and can log them out right away. Amsterdam is a massive hub for visitors so unless it's been months since they were dropped off ... assume it's normal and they are fine.

Same on iPhone. It worked before the last update. Was glitchy on the update before that and now it's trout again. This will be the last i anything. It's becomre tiresome being controlled and spending over the odds to do it. Now I'm not allowed to get the stupid photos off it unless I have I tunes on the pc. It forgets I have unlimited POWER!!!!!!!! ... off switch.

Whatever a TB's mission is there is always one constant - it will end up in Germany. Because of this we specifically put please do not take me to Germany. Recently we had one that was just over the border of Germany. And people keep taking it into Germany for the day out of devilment which we think is funny. But to be honest if it does ... sorry when it winds up in Germany it will be treated well usually. It'll never escape of course but it will travel continuously. We have a jailbreaker TB that's supposed to be left in tb hotels and you remove every last one that's held prisoner. Leave ours in their place as that's its mission. Had some fun with that. Buz lightyear was supposed to get to Nasa - that's lost in America (think it's that one) with people that don't answer emails. Two pirate ones that want to meet the cast of pirates. - both missing Long list of missings

You don't know what to do? Here is what to do. Get loads of snacks in. Enough that you don't need to leave the house for a week. Then go on Amazon (other websites are available) and order the entire box set of 24. Then sit yourself down and begin watching. Well after the initial shock that season one will give you, you will settles down and before you know it you will be watching season 8. Trust me, by the time you finish watching season 8 ... you will know what to do.

Yes TB's is the assumption on my part not that this person is inclined that way. The point was ... what a farce lol. There are two types of premium membership. App premium membership and website premium membership. We paid 4.99 for our full access app but it's gone up. Website is now 25 is it. In UK. But if you log on using phone in any way - browsing via your profile (smart phone), it does not log that on the website as a visit. So if you exclusively use your phone it does not register that you visit the website. But we saw the log and thought awww we'll email them and see what they made a mistake on or where they were looking and the we saw their profile. Never seen non validated premium member before. Plenty of members but never a premium member. In this case it looks like a Valentine's day thing maybe. But how the hell do you contact them ever. Wierd.

Had a log on one of our caches yesterday ... and its a premium member who has never found a cache and never logged on and has not left a footprint on the audit trail and has not DNF'd anything in the area ... http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=1c50b30a-02ed-427b-8ff4-bdb5590f91c6 so they could empty every TB for miles around and no way of contacting them. Ever ... but they must have a validated email address for groundpeak to send their receipt.

Once you have your average waypoint as another check for your coordinates you can navigate to those coordinates to make sure they actually work as you intended. Things like high hedges and trees will (no other way to describe) - skew - your readings. As will the car if you park right next to it. We call it GPS bounce. If the GPS leads you to the right hand gate post - it wil be on the left lol. Within your settings you will have a dashboard. Geocsching has its own. But (and it's probably something we are doing wrong) when you try and navigate to your waypoint you don't get the geocachjng dashboard come up and see the countdown in feet. You get a basic map with a small red arrow. It's not terribly helpful. We found a work around but sure there is a better way but this works. Choose find geocache (pick a multy or puzzle cache) and then navigate to it by pressing go. Click on the geocache details and change its coordinates to your waypoint ones. Then click go. This will now replace the existing ones with yours and you will have the geocaching dashboard with feet and direction to the cache showing. Like i said there is probably a way of doing this which shows the better geocaching dashboard, from waypoint manager. It's just we do it so infrequently we use the above work around to show us what other cachers will see. If it points to the other side of the road than you need, you can play with coordinates to shift you a few feet each time, back towards the actual location of the cache. But you will soon be told if your coordinates are out lol so make sure you know how to alter them on the cache page. Don't just post a note saying what the new ones are like some people do. Welcome to hell .... Ooooops .... I mean geocaching.