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  1. The service is unavailable. Server is too busy Hm. The hamsters aren't sleeping. They are busy kissing and groping frogs. Maybe I should post a "challenge" that says "Go to Groundspeak Datacenter. Add more capacity and bandwidth" ? Everyone adding ".logOwnerAvatar {display:none}" to their user style sheet would likely do the trick, too. At least until GS sees the light, and does it for us.
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    Area Challenges

    Agree, same here. I clicked through a challenge, created one of my own ... and then went back to delete everything. What a monumental waste of space, armchair caching at its best. I bet by writing this post, I have completed at least three challenges, albeit without knowing ("sit in front of your computer", "listen to music", "have a beer"). Gimme a clanky rusty ammo can at the far end of a 10mi trail any day. Facebook sillyness and associated geotagging has already been invented. I don't get why Groundspeak aims to imitate, particularly not given the looong list of feature requests that really make sense. Sounds like they should get their butts off the boardroom chairs and go caching for a week, instead of listening to marketing drones touting the virtues of what was probably sold as "highly innovative cloud-based interactive social networking challenges" or some such blah.
  3. Fully agree. One of the most moronic site updates ever. Bring back the dates -- I am perfectly able to count, and "August 16" is a lot more useful than "oh something like maybe two days ago" Lose the avatars -- if I want to know, I can click on the cacher's name Lose the challenges -- or hey, keep them, but kindly move them to armchair-geocaching.com, where they belong. -wesi
  4. So far, I'm down one maglite and one pen. That's it, after five years of caching. I hope I'm not jinxing things now . What I found .. well .. is mainly CITO material, surprising how many cachers still seem to be dropping spent GPS batteries in the woods. The low point was a dead dog, out in the Nevada desert, that someone had dumped smack dab on top of a cache. What made matters worse is that there were scratch marks that suggested that the mutt had been alive when dumped, and had actually died there -wesi
  5. Just came off a week of backpacking sections of the Florida Trail and caching along the way. Thanks to everyone in FL who hid the 42 caches that I found . And yes, Florida, I forgive you for fouling up my trusty water filter with all that Gator Snot or whatever it is that is in your stagnant pools of water that I had to use to supply my drink while backpacking. Picture attached. And no, this ain't pee, it is Eau de Floride, Vintage 2011. AFTER filtering. Should the question ever come up why Floridians like to hide Micros in the woods, the answer obviously is "there must be something in the water" (Link to Picture)
  6. I was out last weekend, plowing through the surprisingly deep snow drifts in Havemeyer Hollow. But this weekend ... nope. I got a couple days off coming up in February, and spent this Sunday scouting maps for caching hikes in Florida. Yes, I guess planning to run south for a week does make me a wuss. Then again, I'm Swiss, I kinda know about snow and effing cold and glove thumbs freezing to the GPS display, I don't think I have to practice
  7. I never heard of Hereford MUA before ... the only thing I associate with Hereford is a bovine life form that produces juicy steaks . But Google Maps helped, and I found out that this MUA is to the North of I-84. I'm still hiking/backpacking/mopping up caches to the south of that line. But once the 2ft snow is gone or going, if anyone wants to repeat Waylesswood's and Brian's loop on a weekend, let me know! -d
  8. C'mon, an occasional puzzle cache is good for the grey matter. Geocaching can't be all hamstring and gastrocnemius To add to the substance of this thread , I suggested Rocky Point Pine Barrens earlier as a good destination for caching on LI.
  9. No water view except occasional swamps, but I liked the Rocky Point Pine Barrens Preserve http://www.geocaching.com/map/default.aspx...;zm=13&mt=m . Downside is that you have to get a permit (http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/7780.html) upside is that the preserve has hardly ever hiked trails, and some pretty whacky caches, like Euclid's Secret http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...70-b1537e0165a4 which gets about one find per year -d
  10. I agree ... "The owner has not set a collectible preference" only confuses newbie TB/GC finders even more. They seem to have a hard enough time at logging their first trackable, even without this latest addition. GC.com, if you want to keep things this way, then please at least give us an option to mark all our collectibles as non-collectable in one single bulk operation. I don't fee like clicking through all my trackables individually. -wesi
  11. So why does the owner of the cache have the option to mark the TB missing? for nothing???? Well .. this group here is big on etiquette. Not all the powers that thou hast been given are powers that thou shallst use . As you can tell from this thread, there are cache owners who don't care about TB's. I'm sure there are also TB owners who don't care about cache owners, and will start a WHY DID THE CACHE OWNER MARK MY TB AS MISSING thread here. Then again, I'm sure they will start this thread whether my question gets answered or not, so you can consider my question unasked, the net result is likely the same :anicute:
  12. Corollary to this thread, and etiquette question: If, as a cache owner, I know that a trackable listed in my cache's inventory is in fact not present there, do I (1) use my power as cache owner and throw the TB/GC out, by marking it as "missing" (2) email the owner of the trackable, asking him/her to remove the item (3) ignore the situation, and follow the earlier suggestion to have a Margarita or two tnx -wesi
  13. Finding a cache and not being able to log it because I can't meet the ALRs is annoying. Just as annoying as NOT finding a cache and later determining via the listing that I was hunting a virtual or puzzle that just "happened" to have a traditional icon for whatever reason. Both exist, and both make paperless GPS-only caching difficult at times. IMO, if it ain't a pure traditional, it shouldn't have the tradi icon.
  14. www.geocaching.com/map/default.aspx ... I love it, and frequently use "show nearby caches" as a starting point for a weekend hike. But one bit annoys me: I DONT want it to refresh the caches every time I nudge the map for half an inch. There already is a button labeled "Refresh Map". How about offering a map that does NOT refresh the caches unless one clicks on that link? I'd like to scroll the map until I see the region I'm interested in, and then check for the caches thereabouts. Right now, scrolling over >5mi takes several minutes and puts a completely unnecessary load on the GC database: I *dont need* all these refreshes. If what I'm looking for exists and I'm simply too dumb to use it correctly, don't hesitate to enlighten me -wesi
  15. This can be solved ... they can either be listed at the last cache they were seen (with date and handle of person who logged them out), or they can be listed at the place of residence of the cacher who has them, etc etc. Yup there's some questions open .. all I wanted to encourage is a function that makes it easier to watch my TBs than to click them through one at a time. Thanks!
  16. How about a pocket query that returns a GPX or KML with the coordinates of where my travelbugs and coins currently are?
  17. Seeing the 22 pages in this thread, it looks like we should start lobbying the government for a cacher version of SOX 404. Every cache owner has to swear and testify that his control framework is working and that the logs of his cache are pure. Every cache owner has, at his/her own expense, to retain outside counsel and accountants who independently review his/her attestation. Failure to comply results in de-listing and fine. To improve tracking, cachers will have to be implanted with an RFID chip, and caches hidden starting from Mar/1 2008 will have to contain a tamper proof RFID reader bolted into the cache container. The reader has to be sufficiently shielded so that cachers in Germany who hook their RFID to an 100MW amplifier and directional antenna cannot log caches from afar. Sounds like caching finally gets to be a fun hobby -wesi
  18. Am I only too dumb to log them, or are they indeed not in the DB, or both :-) ? thanks -daniel
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