JuleeD

I'm never on the forum, so I just saw this. I downloaded a program to my Windows phone called "GPX Viewer". After I correct the coordinates on the cache page, I run my PQ, send one .gpx file to my GPS and email a copy to myself. I check my email on my phone and save the .gpx file to the phone or to OneDrive. When you tap on the saved file it will open in GPX Viewer. You can navigate to the cache with the program but it's a bit clunky. I also run the GSAK cache route macro, but with the GPX viewer I can get an idea of where I'm going. If I'm feeling particularly ambitious, I edit the .gpx file before I email it to my phone and replace the GC codes with the cache name (e.g., #44). Hope that helps!

Hello! I received a CacheKinz TB and entered the number to activate. Unfortunately when I read the tiny number I mistook a "z" for a "2". The site let me activate the TB with the wrong number so now I have two in my inventory. I've marked the incorrect one as "missing", but I'm certain someone has (or will have) a CacheKinz with this number. Is there a way for me to totally remove the thing from my inventory and deactivate it? Thank you!

Unsolicited animosity....lovely. I would imagine the same people who "enforce" the other geocaching rules....it would at least be a guideline which one would hope would make people think twice before taking a trackable item if their intentions were less than honorable. Have a nice day!

That is a very good idea, I believe I will start doing that as well. I am very frustrated with the TB's I have out which turn up missing. Personally, I can't believe it could be a lack of awareness.....I always include the "This is not ordinary SWAG" message attached to my TB's. I also explain how to log the find, and how to release the TB once they place it in another cache. You can explain until you are blue in the face but if someone wants to keep it, they are going to keep it. There is a cache near my house where trackables appear to go to die...each one that is placed mysteriously goes missing. I have half-wondered if the CO is taking them! I think there should be a rule that you cannot TAKE a trackable unless you are LEAVING a trackable. At least then there will be some assurance that the person is of reasonable intelligence and understands the concept of trackables.

I have ten out, of those two (that I know of) are missing. What I don't understand is why people pick them up and then don't follow the instructions. Do they think they are souvineers or something? Mine are all the "Cachekinz" type, which could attribute to their "missing" status. They are all cute. I think if I do it again I am going to get the dogtag-type and attach it to some sort of little car. Perhaps then it won't be nicked so easily. I've noticed that some of you have mentioned putting out "duplicates" or "proxies"...how is this done? Does it only apply to the dogtag-type TB's?

I live in the Clear Lake area South of Houston. There are several caches around here that have not been found in months and no one seems to care. One CO who has placed several caches directly around my home location has not maintained hers and in fact has not logged in to the site in months. Despite many DNF's, NM and NA logs no one seems to want to do anything about it. One cache was posted in July and HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND. I was caching in a State park last week; there was a cache there that had a couple of DNF's-including one from a person who had found it previously-I went looking for it, didn't find it, and posted a NA log. It was temporarily disabled the very next day. I know that being a PR for an area is a difficult and thankless job but what's the deal? It appears to be the same PR but the standards are clearly not the same. BTW-I sent an email to the PR after they temporarily disabled the cache at Palmetto SP to thank them for their quick response, so it's not always a thankless job. Insight?

I've never reported a NM just because I didn't find it-that would be ridiculous. If I use the "Needs Archived" choice, what happens then?

There was a cache nearbye where I live that hadn't been found in over a year. It had 12 (?) DNF's in a row. The reviewer nerver spotted it. Somewhere in that 12 months, the CO checked it saying its always been there. The cache was only rated a difficulty '3' - which - is ridiculous. If a cache is that hard to find, then the difficulty rating should be changed to be much higher. A group of us were there and finally found it. I would've rated it a 4.5 difficulty. But anyway, never log a NM log unless there is a good reason for it (and not because there are a lot of DNF's). If you see a lot of DNF's on a cache, email the Reviewer and they can & will take care if it. (at least, our reviewer does). He/She will put a note on the cache warning the CO to check it in 30 days. After 30 days, they will temp disable it. At least in those 12 months the CO went and checked on the cache status, that is all I was trying to get the CO to do. I wasn't aware we could email the reviewer, I would think that would be one step further than just logging the NM. I suppose I thought that perhaps the CO wasn't paying attention to the DNF's but would at least check it out if they got a NM.

Thanks for your answer. The first one is a regular cache and it was found frequently up until February; not since then. Difficulty, 1 - terrain, 2. The second one is a micro, found frequently until March. Difficulty, 1½ - terrain, 2.

All very helpful answers for a newbie, thanks! I guess I was just figuring if the cache had gone for months and months with no one finding it perhaps the CO should go check, and the NM would alert them to that. Thanks again!

Thanks for you input. The DNF's to which I refer are multiple DNF's, all in a row-the first since February and the second since March. As I said-no one has found them. It's not like I went out and since I didn't find it, logged a NM. I wouldn't do that. So, after multiple DNF's for months, you would go check, yes?

I am new to geocaching and so far am loving it! I do have a couple of questions for you experienced cachers, especially CO's. -If you get a lot of DNF's, how long before you go check it's still there? Specifically, I have two that I did not find after extensive searching; when I got back to the computer I could see that one had not been found since February and the other since March. It should be noted that on the second one, a fellow geocacher logged a find on the same day I was there. If he did find it, he should be working for the CIA because my friend and I searched extensively for two days, and others have been looking for months. -Does it help to log a NM for the cache? Obviously, I am not going to log a NM for every cache I don't find (some days I am lucky to find my car) but when I log the DNF and see that it hasn't been found in a long time I will log a NM. I always make sure I have made a decent effort (>45 minutes) to find it before logging the NM. Is this helpful? Thanks! Julee

No I just linger around the bath rooms scoping out where I think the cache could be then I offer kids candy to make sure that's where the cache is..then I quickly grab the cache sign it and speed away in my windowless van..

Hopefully, I am posting this is the correct forum; I have a suggestion for the Windows Phone Geocaching Live app. I am using the Nokia 900. Allow us to be able to see the logs - at least the last few log entries. This would help to determine when the cache was last found and also whether it actually needs maintenance. Sometimes the cache is actually missing and has the "needs maintenance" flag, but sometimes the cache is good but the CO has not cleared the flag. Currently we have no way of determining on the Geocaching Live app. Thank you!

Thank you!

Hello, I often cache with a friend who is not a premium member. Does this mean that he cannot go with me to PM-only caches?

Hello, I picked up a TB and aside from the keychain it is on, attached is a little instruction tag. It has all of the TB information, along with special instructions. I am thinking about purchasing a TB and sending it out into the world, but I need to know what the instruction tag has been laminated with. It seems indestructable, and is not the "normal" plastic laminate. I would guess that others are laminated the same...any ideas? Thanks!

If the TB owners wants the TB to go on a whirlwind tour, then good for all those people who helped it on its journey! If you want to only take a TB to one cache, that's fine. Others try to help it along by bringing it to more caches, which means more distance and more history and more photo opportunities. Maybe the intermediate caches they brought the TB to weren't big enough to leave it in, so they logged the TB as visiting those caches, but couldn't leave it there. This happens quite often! Thanks for the reply. For some reason I was under the assumption that I needed to get it in to another cache ASAP. When I look at the log, some of them kept it for months.

Hello, I am relatively new to geocaching, and this past weekend I picked up - and logged - a TB. When I look at the TB log, it looks like a handful of people took it to a bunch of different caches....sometimes the caches were just several hundred yards apart. Is this what I am supposed to do? I thought the purpose was to pick it up and then drop it off in another cache - not to take it on a whirlwind tour. Help? Julee