Traditional Bill
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+1 I've been wanting this for a long time now. This feature is included when you delete a picture from a log on a cache you own, so I don't see why it couldn't be included when you go to delete an entire log.
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So, for this one, I found the magnet, but not the container. I'd hate to leave a DNF on a cache that required so much effort because I don't know if I'll ever be back this way. So if I found part of it, I'll claim it.
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Yep. WhereYouGo is still working flawlessly for me on my Samsung note 4. Try uninstalling the app and then re installing. As far as I know, WhereYouGo is the only Wherigo app ever to be available for the Android platform.
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I've found that if I adjust my screen to be a bit dimmer, the batteries last about three times as long. I've had my explorist for almost 4 years now. Still going strong.
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This doesn't irk me "most," but it IS a minor irk. Here's the Retrieve log from a TB I'm watching:
[^] [^] [^] Happy Holidays from your trackable!Thanks from [GCName], Platinum EarthCache Master, 1700+ hides, and the Hosts of 40+ Geocaching Events, logged 19,700+ trackables. Happy travels!
And We Geocached/Smiled/Lived/Loved/Logged/and Laughter Happily Ever~after [^][^] 44,400+Finds
That irked me a bit, because there's NO info about the trackable or the cache. I went to the cache page to see what they had logged there. So far, they haven't logged the cache the TB was retrieved from. (Their cache logs from that day were all in a neighboring state, though.) Their other cache logs are all generic, aside from posting about TB drops/retrievals/swaps. At least they do that much.
I tend to have disdain for anyone who feels the need to advertise like that.
Me too. People who feel the need to gloat about their high numbers and/or stats in their logs are particularly irksome to me. Like those copy and paste logs that say something to the effect of "Your cache has become find #13,573 in the caching history of (power cacher). That's 200 finds for today with 0 DNFs. Thanks to all of the COs for placing and maintaining these smilies for all to find!". Hate those logs.
There's a cacher who used to cache in my local area who would post needs maintenance logs whenever he couldn't find a cache with the log almost always ending with "Cachers want to find caches....Not look for them! Caches that can be found are good caches!"
Thankfully, he doesn't cache around here anymore.
*Edited for a typo
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Not sure if that park is in NC or TN or both, but here's links to both of their known regional geocaching policies. Click on national parks for the information you're looking for. It looks like in NC, caches have recently been allowed on National Parks with permission. In TN it appears there's a total ban on physical caches of any kind on national park lands.
North Carolina Regional Geocaching Policy
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So, is your wedding going to be listed as an event cache?
Sorry, no can do.
Why do you say no can do? A local geocaching couple here in NJ had their wedding listed as an event just last year. See GC51KBQ.
*Edited for spelling
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That's the my point in the second paragraph, when they made challenge caches to be at the listed co-ords the requirements went from something to do before finding the cache to an ALR. When you had to qualify first (before hunting the cache) it put it at the same level as puzzle caches - do something before you can find the cache. In a way, TPTB made the problem themselves (the "I can't log a cache I can find" complaints).
Says who? I own a plethora of challenge caches. Not one of them are hidden at the posted coordinates. This is done simply by the choice of the CO and there's no requirement that says challenge caches are to be placed at the posted coordinates. Folks tend not to go out of their way for my challenges until they've qualified because of that reason.
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(unless the cache description notes that pre-signing is not 'allowed')
I could have sworn I remember reading something about this actually being added to the challenge logging guidelines. If I remember correctly, "pre-signing" a challenge cache is now okay whether the CO detests or not.
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If I know a CO is regular with maintenance, I'll leave a RIR strip until they can do their maintenance themselves.
Like others, we respond to mention of a rare full or wet log, with no need for a NM.
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I don't believe most cache owners appreciate others "fixing" their caches.
I'd bet less than half ever notice.
It'd be interesting to see the percentage
of thank-yous from folks actually needing a bit O help and care enough to send a mail, to the almost thousand crappy caches another claims to have repaired.
I couldn't agree with this post more.
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I've never thought that "Camping available", "Public transportation", "Picnic tables nearby", "Telephone nearby", "Fuel Nearby" and "Food Nearby" were really needed attributes. The fact that there are picnic tables nearby doesn't really aid me in my selection of a cache.
Likewise, "Part of Power Trail" with both "Yes" and "No" is an attribute that I think would definitely aid seekers to refine their search.
I agree that a "part of a power trail" attribute would be much more useful than a "shelter" attribute. I dream of the days that comes to exist.
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This is a common thing for puzzles in our part of the country, for some reason,Twinklekitkat. I've had countless puzzles spoiled on that Facebook page along with many others that I know of in NJ and PA. I do believe it has something to do with the geocheck website that you used. It gets hacked fairly frequently, from what I understand. If you want my advice, don't use a geochecker at all on your next puzzle. Use a checksum instead. If you must use a checker, use one of the less popular ones, such as evince, to keep your puzzle off the radar. Certitudes and geocheck puzzles are normally the ones I see get plastered over the spoiler page.
I found the FB page that J Grouchy mentioned earlier. I looked at a few of the posts and there are actually explanations of how the puzzles were solved, along with reference links. I don't believe the coords are from hacking a geocheck website. It appears that people are actually solving the puzzles before posting the solutions on the page.
There are at least two FB groups devoted to puzzles. One is a flat out spoiler site, while the other, called "Geocaching Puzzle Help" is more about helping others solve puzzles.
They have a policy that no hints will be given on a puzzle that has not yet been found and frown on giving out *too much* help (don't post actual solved coordinates). It has links to numerous help sites that can be used to help solve puzzles (cipher solvers, stenography tools, etc).
The page I looked at was definitely the 'spoiler' page, not the 'help' page. All posts were from the page owner. No posts had comments from others. There was a separate post for each puzzle cache, and each post contained solved coords along with an explanation of how to solve the puzzle.
I've seen the 'help' page before. Different people post puzzle caches on the page, and tips for the puzzle are discussed in the comments of each post.
I've observed both groups and not surprisingly, most times when a cache is brought up for help in the "help" group, it makes it to the spoiler page. I believe some of the "puzzle spoiler" network are members of the "help" page as well. I remember when a fellow cacher and I stumbled upon these sites a couple of years ago. It really bothered us at first and we did all kinds of research to try and figure out who these people were until we realized it didn't really matter anyway. There's not anything anybody can do about it except not let it get to you.
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While I agree that cache maintenance is important, and I try to do my best, I think that all cachers should carry a few extra logs with them. I always have ten or more in my kit. I have replaced hundreds of logs over the years. Damaged logs, full logs, stupid logs ( store receipts, food boxes, etc...) get replaced by me all the time. So instead of posting "needs new log" or "log is full", lets see a lot more "replaced log" in the cache notes! Thank you!
Yeah I see where you're coming from, but I have no interest in maintaining other CO's caches when I could use those spare logs in my bag to maintain my own caches. Feel free to go about helping absent COs with their caches, but don't expect others to do the same.
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This is a common thing for puzzles in our part of the country, for some reason,Twinklekitkat. I've had countless puzzles spoiled on that Facebook page along with many others that I know of in NJ and PA. I do believe it has something to do with the geocheck website that you used. It gets hacked fairly frequently, from what I understand. If you want my advice, don't use a geochecker at all on your next puzzle. Use a checksum instead. If you must use a checker, use one of the less popular ones, such as evince, to keep your puzzle off the radar. Certitudes and geocheck puzzles are normally the ones I see get plastered over the spoiler page.
It doesn't help, of course, that we have a famous "power cacher" relatively close to our area that proudly touts that he has "a team of puzzlers" that solve puzzles for him because he doesn't have time to solve puzzles between finds. At least that's what he told me at an event. This could be the reason why so many of the ? caches in the NJ,PA,DE area end up on the spoiler Facebook page.
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"I'm on a road trip and trying to pick up as many webcams, 2000s, wherigos and reviewers as I can so I can qualify for xxx challenge."
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Dear lord...how about the smilies? Aren't you folks going to complain about the smilies too?
Or the ugly teal-colored buttons at the top? Aren't those ugly?
What about the size of the avatar images? Too small, right? Hurts your eyes, no?
Oh oh oh...and the 'Reply' and 'MultiQuote' buttons should have different icons, shouldn't they? I mean, it's impossible to tell them apart! (aside from the different text).
And that green color of the quote boxes just totally clashes with the surrounding gray color of each post! What were they THINKING?!?!
I LOL'd
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What you're likely assuming your answer is would probably turn out to be correct. At least here in NJ, I've never heard of or seen anybody get permission to place a cache on DOT property. I see them get published regularly, though. Funny, you can stick a magnet on an electrical box with "assumed permission" and it will get published, but here in Jersey they want full disclosure of permission on any and all climbing caches because evidently ropes made to non invasively climb trees are considered invasive to the local reviewers.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. Just an estimate here, but I'm thinking it's a 99.9% chance that every MassDOT cache on your bookmark list has inadequate permission. Just like all of those lamp skirt caches that are in poles owned by the power company and local land owners. I'm willing to bet that they'd be thrilled to find out people are sticking their hands in and around the wiring on their light poles.
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Hi
2 questions please.
Do I have to leave a comment for every cache I find to allow me to upload it to my profile?
What does the CLEAR ALL FIELD NOTES and BULK DELETE buttons actually do?
Thanks
Si
To your first question - it is entirely up to you what to write in your log, however us cache owners who take time to place those caches for you to find appreciate some sort of comment when you log a find.
As for your second question,"CLEAR ALL FIELD NOTES" will clear all of your field notes. "BULK DELETE" will allow you to delete multiple things at once.
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I have no idea why those buried caches in Belgium are allowed to be published and why the existing ones haven't been archived by HQ yet. It really doesn't make any sense. One of the most fundamental requirements of hiding is that geocaches are never buried. Groundspeak spells that out very clearly in the guidelines. It looks bad when they say "never buried...unless you live in Belgium". I think some guidelines can be given slack in certain situations without harming the game but the never buried rule should NEVER be broken, anywhere.
If you think it's ok to bury caches because the landowner doesn't mind, fine, go dig up the countryside, bury your caches and start your own geocaching website to publish them. Why they are published on this site is mystifying.
There was a cache published here in Jersey a few years ago that is very explicitly buried. In fact, it's in a pvc pipe about two feet into the ground. CO went back and forth with our local reviewer until he finally got it approved. Evidently, the fact that it is on his front lawn is what eventually got it approved. It's still active to this day, and has lots and lots of favorite points. No big surprise there.
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Obviously, you are missing the point entirely. I had a GeoArt series. (Archived them when my Geocaching partner died. They were in his area, not mine.) Most of the hides were similar. All twenty-four puzzles were different. Most easy. Some very difficult. Great views, if similar. Eight-mile hike/bike ride. Total of 112 favorite points for the twenty-four caches.
But I kept getting the same logs, over and over... And over and over.
We took a look at the cache map the night before we left for our one week vacation in XXXXXXX and we spotted a dolphin in the XXXXX. This aroused our curiosity. The first cache we took a look at was number 23. The puzzle turned out to be a Sudoku and we know how to solve those, the second one turned out to be a different kind of puzzle. There was no time to investigate further. We printed the Sudoku puzzle so we could solve it in the plane.This proved to be a pleasant pastime. We solved it slow but sure and after quite some time we had nice coords on paper. This inspired us the check out the other dolphins and we managed to solve a few more on the plane. Since we also wanted to visit some caches in XXXXXXXXX, this series was a great opportunity. We decided to visit XXXXXXXXX the last day we were in town so we were able to spent some more time in the evenings on the varied puzzles.
On that particular day we took the public transportation to xxx and we went for what turned out to be a great hike. Although it was a bit chilly, we had a clear blue sky and a the sun was shining. The waterfront turned out to be very nice for walking and offered stunning views of New York city. We walked back after sunset so we also could also enjoy the beautiful city lights.
Although it was a beautiful day, the waterfront was quite deserted. We met just a few people walking their dog. This gave us the opportunity to search undisturbedly for the caches. Although due to the exact coords and the clear hint we usually found them fairly quickly.
All in all this series gave us a lot of fun solving the puzzles , a great day outdoors combined with sightseeing and 15 founds, a perfect combination.
Thank you very much for this great series and the well maintained caches. Excuses for the general log.
Nice log. But the same log fifteen times? And that's what we got: Mostly the same log over and over, and over and over. We spent a lot of time to make the views interesting, and the puzzles interesting and different. And people could not rehide the caches properly?
That's the best geocachers can do? Despite the effort into hiding these caches, and providing interesting puzzles, this series was ready to go.
I'm sorry that geocachers found this series so boring. I won't try that again. Archived.
FWIW, I really enjoyed the five in that series that I found. I had a few more of em solved and would've liked to have made it back up the way for the rest, but couldn't find the time. Like any series though, it attracted some power cachers and we all know that with power cachers comes the "Your cache was #X in my caching adventure today" logs.
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Since the new Message Center has gone on-line I am getting messages all the time for hints on how to find caches, this did not happen as much when they had to send an email. Maybe they are standing at the cache and cannot find it and think I will drop everything and tell them the location of the cache before they leave ground zero by sending me a message. In addition it seems like a lot of people think this is a social media system like facebook and everyone should take part. I for one am not big on social media and want to turn this feature off. Is it possible to turn off the Message Center and if not can this feature be added for at least Premium Members?
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Unfortunately it's not an option to simply "turn off" the message center. Many cachers wish there was, but there is not. Also, although I don't have the links at my disposal right now, there's multiple other threads on this topic if you use the search function.
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Signed in with our team stamp [team name]. The weather was [great, perfect, wet, cold, etc.] for the day's trip. Our goal was to find xxx number of caches for the [name] challenge. We found [xx] caches and met our goal. Thank you [high numbers cacher] for organizing the hike. Thanks to all the cache owners for their cache placements and contribution to a great day of caching. TFTC
Last week I paid back the favour on a cache hidden by a power logger. I wrote:
Out caching with my dog. Thank you geodog for organizing this adventure, although you didn't get much of a walk because I did mostly roadside caches. Our goal was to find at least 3 caches after work and we surpassed today's goal by 8. Thank you Tim Hortons for supplying the coffee. And thanks to the cache owners for the finds.I LOL'd.
I hate getting these types of logs. It's irritating. There's one I see all the time that starts with "WELCOME TO THE ADVENTURES OF (ANNOYINGLOGGER)" and ends with some lame tag line. In the middle is the usual filler about how awesome their day was finding X number of caches and of course the "Thanks to all of the cache owners (especially "specific cache owner") for placing and maintaining these caches". Then they'll boast about how they personalize every log because they include the cache owner's name in their copy and paste cookie cutter log.
Writing actual logs about each specific cache takes time. Power cachers don't have time for that crap. They have hundreds, even thousands of caches to find/log.
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I guess this one would be a classic example of a head scratcher >>> http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC2XN1R_scuba-steve
Clearly, SOMEONE wasn't paying attention.
This one had a real sad end. Especially since it cannot be re published due to new NJ state land regulations. Would have liked to see it active at least until it had to be permitted or archived. Such a fun search that nobody will get to have ever again (of course unless they look up the archived listing and go find it....Because it's surely still there).
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I've just had someone log some of my caches with just TFTC logs. One was an earthcache and the answers were duly sent. I managed to resist the temptation to reply with TFTA.
My absolute favorite is when a seasoned geocacher finds one of my Earthcaches and says "Your cache is #xxxx of xxxxxx caches found today. Great hide. TNLNSL TFTC."
Getting people to email, NOT message center me?
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I have upwards of 50 some unread messages in the message center. I get notifications of them via email, so if they need to be responded to, I just respond in my email browser. This fixed a lot of issues with the message center for me at least. I remember when the message center was released, this wasn't an option.