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Maybe then "My First Hide" would be appropriate Or "Sock Puppet Cache"

If the count had nothing to do with cache counts I would probably do a few of them. They should either be separate like trackables or separate like Waymarking.com. As long as the numbers are integrated with cache count I will not participate. I play around with apps like foursquare on my phone and have fun with them but that is for a different sort of experience than why I geocache. I don't want to blur the lines between the 2.

Nice! I had to come back and look at it again. Very well done. I just did a "modern day night" sort of thing for my neighbor's son. I used this coin... http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=2015220 I definately will keep this one in mind for the future. (Plus I want one now!)

67 if it is not too late. (or taken)

47, 5

Zoinks

Sweet! Won one on ebay last night for 11 bucks... no S&H.

IF they had some sort of approval like Waymarking it could be managed and no extra work for GC.com staffers. (Of course cache reviewers are not normally staffers anyway...) Also the world wide challenge examples that Groundspeak created started a bad trend and turned the notion of good virtuals into locationless. I think the vote count in the feedback tool says it all. And sadly their response says a lot also. This is my last response on the subject. I hope that between refining the implementation and listening to feedback "challenges" will not hurt the overall experience and joy that GC.com brings to "Geocachers".

Signs of a stressful day... (they forgot to look at the vote count...)

But archived? Maybe retracted back with feedback. It went into the black hole.... which I do not appreciate

But Kissing a Frog has somehow been expempted from the process.... I think someone should check Signal's code...

I created a challenge earlier today that was location based. I got feedback through my account and comments from the community that I should update the text to make it broader accepted. I updated the text thinking it would be a good world wide candidate. It now has disappeared. If challenge caches do not need a review process then why do they get deleted without any sort of feedback or dialog. I would say someone is playing God... but that would have meant that the feature was based on intelligent design (sorry I had to say that).

Virtuals served a purpose when a container would not surive due to muggles or that it was not appropriate. Waymarking has actually done a not too bad of job coving virtuals. (however I would prefer a virtual on gc.com to truely be the excellent spot to go and locate and not just be every mcdonalds or any cemetery). Challenges feel more like the locationless caches which are not tied to any location. The world wide challenges quickly removed the location based validity of challenges. I think that having thier own site would give people a new game but they need to be cleanly removed from GC.com. (The self policing features of WM.com might also help keep the new challenges a bit higher quality...) The challenge cache type I was hoping for was to clearly identify the type of puzzle cache we have today like find a cache in every country or something like that. So naming convention and integration with GC.com = FAIL. New idea and fun for a new group of people = good.

The middle of who's day? Believe me.... better to have GC.com down during normal peoples working hours than on a friday through sunday.... GC.com does not have normal users...

My 2 cents.... Interesting idea. Great replacement for the locationless cache type. Just please move it to it's own domain name. Waymarking is fine and I am glad it is not too integrated with Geocaching. This is another fun idea for people but it is not Geocaching. I hope to see the backlog of GC.com requests invested in. Challenges are not a replacement for virtuals. On a new request note however.... I see the notion of challenges not tied to a location "world wide" is what they are called... but there is no apparent way to make one that way.... (world wide also leads them away from the notion of being tied to a specific location, therefore not a good fit to a GC.com)

That is a great looking coin.

As part of a coming of age event I am giving a symbolic coin to a young man. I have had my caching friends discover it before hand and add thier sage wisdom in the log. (Yes they have seen and touched the coin) I am tempted to release a proxy for the coin so it may gather more wisdom as it travels. The young man probably will not become a geocacher and if he does I doubt very much he would release the coin. Given the lack of enthusiasm with proxies any feedback on this idea?

Anyone have a US connection to this little fellow... http://www.newgeocoin.com/2010/12/signal-tag-jeep.html Or have an extra they want to trade a Geocoin for? Thanks

The Feast Series was a great group of caches that are now archived. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=34ac5d02-fc69-424a-8330-eda734ac9faf I love the bushwhacking and thoughfulness in the placement. There all also a lot of great containers and puzzles out there but there is something about finding big container in the middle of the wilderness that is hard to not like.

Aug 7, 2011

7 please.

I agree with the last poster. Using the bench mark as the coords is a great idea. You could also tell them it is an offset cache with a prize at the listing... but don't tell them what the prize is.

KC7QXE here.... I have the wouxun and an old Radio Shack HTX-202. http://www.kc4x4sar.org and http://www.kcesar.org/ are a couple great ways to have a reason to use my radio and get some nice caching in at the same time! Volunteers wanted!

The secret to this is someone talking to a person inside the new movie about the insane attention the other cache locations got from the old movie. Who knows they may have a couple geeks who would drive it.

Bottom line is we need to check boxes. The first is set by the object owner. Is it collectible or should it always travel. That way as an owner I can set my intent. The second is set by the person who is holding it (at the time). Is it in my collection or not. This way I can simplify my inventory for items I will not be moving around. Decide on nice names for them and this would solve all the problems. Currenlty we are trying to do too much with a single check box and it does not allow the owner or holder to really do what they want to.