thelanes

My question is more directed to Groundspeak, but i cannot seem to find a blog for them. Why did Groundspeak unpublish event cache GC7MX8K? It was scheduled for May 12, 2018 in the Minneapolis, MN area. From what I can decipher from FB is they (Groundspeak) decided it was best for the game to unpublish this event. How is this helping the geocaching game?

Any thoughts on a 12-13-14 souvenir? This date alignment will not happen again for 97 years, so a little recognition for cachers that found a cache or attended an event would be fun.

The basic issue is Why should I have to change to a different web browser? I use IE 10! Was using a previous version of IE and it had performed very well. Now all of a sudden, the PQ map doesn't work and I see that if I used a different browser, my problems will go away. I upgraded my IE to v10 and it didn't help. Who can we contact to get this bug fixed?

Try this: If the Tools menu isn't displayed at the top of the Internet Explorer window, press the Alt key to see the menus. In the Tools menu, select Compatibility View Settings. It's about halfway down the list, at least on my copy of the program. Remove geocaching.com from the list of "Websites you've added to Compatibility View" if it's in the list, and uncheck the box for Display all websites in Compatibility View if it's checked. Hope this helps! --Larry Larry to the rescue again. LOL Well I have a little circle top right that says tools. Print zoon file etc. Internet Options About Internet Explorer etc but nothing about compatability hmmmm I wish Microsoft hadn't labelled things the way they did in Internet Explorer.... That's not the Tools menu you need. With the PC's focus on Internet Explorer, press the Alt key and menus will appear at the top of the window: File, Edit, View, Favorites, Tools, and Help. Then look in that Tools menu for Compatibility View Settings. --Larry Finally. Thanks. Took some searching but got it. Disreguard my last question.

What is this compatibility mode? I am not a programer. Is there a link that Groundspeak can supply that helps with us users with IE9? Not sure why we need to reprogram out IE to use the GC website. thanks.

I actually enjoyed the photo challenges. If done correctly, the photo challenges were quite entertaining. I saw a lot of places that I would have otherwise missed if not for these challenges. Now we have to start all over again. Great.

I think you are kind of on the right track. I can claim that one of the caches I hid was the 1,000,000 active cache on March 8, 2010. The cache is called Bridge Over Water, two and the GC is GC24NYH., It is just a 1/1, mainly so that anyone could find it. So, somewhere out there will be number 2,000,000. Cache on.

Wow did I ever set off a long string of comments for logging a NM on a cache I did not visit. I have only been caching for 6 years and I still don't have all the answers. However, I have noticed in the past that an e-mail to MOST CO's just falls on deaf ears. I hardly ever get a response. I can say, based on the string of comments above, all of you would have contacted me and would have informed me that you checked on the cache and it is still in play, and I appreciate that. As for me, I am not going to travel 800 miles and look for a cache that has not been found since May and has been DNF'ed by three people that were all looking for it at the same time unless I have some assurance that it is still in play. Finally, I thought I wrote a very polite request to have the CO check on the cache. I did not add anything in the NM log that came off as me telling anyone to drop everything and go check on your cache now. thelanes

Obviously, starting with a T=1, but if it is up in a tree, a higher T is expected. I would give it a 2 or 2.5. that would at least tell cachers it is not a P and G and may actually take a little work to grab.

it's not about new icons. for example, if you get a traditional, a multi and a mystery on the same day, then you got a 3-icon day, even if you had already previously found any of them. Are you saying you revisited three different caches you had previoulsy found, or just found three different types of caches? I think going back to find ones you already logged as found doesn't really count towards the Busy Day (6 or more different icons in a day). Then again, this game is all in how the individual wants to play it.

I have placed a cache near one that was archived a couple of years back. it is not in the exact same spot, just in the same part of the woods. Only one or two cachers noted there used to be one here. To everyone else, it is like a new cache, just like quoted above. However, just archiving and reactivating without doing anything is wrong. If it wasn't worth finding before, why should it be any better this time around?

That is funny. There was an intersection on my way home that the light would only turn green when someone came up to the light from the other direction. When coming home at 2AM, I could have to wait a long time. I usualy just ran the Red. Back on topic, I would have to try realy hard not to send that CO some nasty flame mail. TB's and GC's are made to move. If I find one, I take it. If I go to a "TB Hotel", I go there with the intention of taking at least one TB. If there a lot of TB's, I grab the ones I like regardless of the number I take or leave behind. I would not respond back to the CO. All that is going to do is get you in an e-mail writing contest, which is a waste of time. I think you are in the right on this one.

When I got started in this, all I wanted to do was find 200 caches a year. I figured that would be a good number to shoot for. The first year I hit 207. The next year yielded about 230. Then I started meeting other cachers and the next thing I know, I am finding 20 or 30 per outing and over 400 a year. Milestones become what you make of them. Ffor me, it is still reaching 200 a year. After that, it is finding that next 100th cache. Now it is finging the next 100th with one of my best geocaching friends, Imtomcat. It is not about the quality of the cache as much as it is the fun and adventure of reaching the milestone and seeing the name of the cache that was 100, 200...My latest one was a cache named "On the way to Weewahootee." The cache was a nice medium, but the name is hillarious. That name will show up on the milestone list from here on out. Basically, make it one that will remind you of how much fun the adventure is.

But what is the reason for this? I can see placing a TB to travel from cache to cache and following its journey to unknown places but if you never let it out of your hand then you know where it's going and where it's been. So what do those accumulated miles mean? What purpose do they serve? I have a GC that I "drop" in caches in new areas that I visit. for me it is nothing more than just putting miles on the GC and logging it in caches I enjoyed visiting. One the other hand, when I am travleing AND I have a TB that I grabbed from a cache, I will drop that TB in each cache along the way so that the owner get the enjoyemnt out of "tracking" his TB across either one state or several states. i will also post photos of the TB on it's journey also for the owners enjoyment. I know I like getting photos of my TB's.

At least I am not alone. I have not ben able to 'receive" my PQ of my finds for the past two weeks. However, I still get announcements on new caches and when my TB's are moved. It is just the PQ's that I can not get sent to me. I have 5 that I have run begining on 5/26 and none of them have showed up in my in-box. The geocaching page shows they have been run, but I have not received them. It has to be someting with the geocaching page. I have never had this happen before. I have always gotten PQ's almost instantly.

I have tried to run the PC of my finds for hte past two weeks and i have not received a response yet. The latest was yesterday and it has been over 18 hours and no response. I am begining to think there is something wrong with the cache page that is not sending out the PC's. Anyone else have this problem?

I downloaded the gsak and the Garmin POI loader and ran both programs. When I open the GSAK and the POI Loader, I am not getting any type of screen that looks like the ones you pasted to your posting. Also, the only files "my" POI Loader is reading is the gsak file. When it lodes them to my Nuvi 260W, all I get is the Waypoint name and just the name of the cache. I dont have any of the other options shown on your posting. Is there another file I need to download, because the two I have are not getting me the results everyone else is getting. Please help.

Not really. I either post a note if I am dropping off a TB or grabbing them. I don't post the cache a found if I have been here once already.

My motto is "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." Start out by ID'ing who got to the cache first. Then come up with an excuse why you ddin't get to it first. If there is a large group (4 to 9), all the better. You can single out one of the group and highlite them in every one of your logs. If they are truly in this for the fun, they will get a good laugh out of what ever your write. Just don't make them a butt of a joke, just comment on how long it took them to find it or if they were first to find and how the group as a hole made the find. I usually mention how one person pretty much carried me all day making the finds when i could not. constantly thanking them for making the find (for you of course). There is a website called It's not about the numbers. You can post your cache stats on the website and it will give you all kinds of good info, including the number of words in your shortest and longest posting. I am on a mission to boost my average number of words above 75. I am at 66 right now. There are still days when a short group of letters is all I really want to post. For those, I usually have a beef wtih the fact I just found a micro where and army tank could have been hidden. Two log options; 6 letters or a huge dig about how a micro was hidden were an army tank could have been hidden. Better yet, I post my gripe about a cache on the next 3 or 4 that I find, usually referencing the fact is was a crummy hide and could have been much better if it was really worth finding. Hope this helps you with your writters block.

I got kicked out of Kindergarden because I don't play. I am one of those that try to grab FTF's. However, I really only concentrate on about a 5 mile radius from home or work. We make caching what we want to make of it. If I am not the FTF, then I post a note clarifying why I didn't want to be the FTF, usually with some hugely fabricated story of saving hundreds of people from certain death, or saving them from purchasing poorly fitting clothes with pictures of Homer Simpson on them. So what there are FTF Hogs out there. There are people out there on a mission to find every cache hidden in the next year. Do you have a problem with them too. Because they started caching three months ago and already have more finds than you, and that is killing you. So what. We make this what we want of it.

I have a new in-car gps, nuvi 260w. The salesmans stated I can not upload caches to this unit. I don' think this is true. Does this unit connect to the computer like the other garmn handhelds? And if so, can I "send cache" to this garmin? thanks.

I have been trying to verify if the nuvi 260W is compatable with downloading caches from the geocching page. I have a handheld but would like to have an incar that gets me near where I need to go (roads to the general area). Is the 260W compatable with the caching page or do I need to enter them individually as noted above? thanks.

I do the sme thing. In Orlando, we have "off your rocker" caches. they are hidden at cracker barrel restaurants. they are hidden but the muggle traffic is very high. I walk up with a notebook or clip board and act like I am inspecting the exterior items until I find the one with the cache. Then I even act like that location is also an area I am inspecting. So far it has worked like a charm and I have never been looked at twice while caching.

Holly cow is that funny. I had a muggle as me "how many bars I had?" he thought I was looking at my cell phone. I told him I was not getting good reception and moved on. Mostly I try to explain what I am doing to see if they are interested. Most are.

I have never logged a cache that I have not laid my hands on. However, I have found the remnants of a cache that had been muggled or hit by a bush hog or other land mowing device. the parts I found were enough to verify I found the cache, just no log sheet to sign. After verifying the remants with the cache owner, I looged the find. I also found a cache that I litterally could not get the top off. After pulling on it for 10 minutes, i gave up. It was a pill bottle and I could have broken the top, but that would not have been right.