Fish Below The Ice

I'm afraid your TB is guano forever. dave

Good enough. Your question. dave

You're partway there. What I want to know is why I recently started seeing two "W"s whereas previously I could only get one. dave

Here's a super-easy one to start the new year right: Recently, my trusty Magellan started showing two "W" satellites: Why is it doing that now, and why wasn't it doing it before? dave

Blondie. dave

Obviously, it must be Mary Worth. Her no-nonsense approach to telling it like it is would be just the thing the nation needed to protect against the Red Menace. (Speaking of which, maybe it was Dennis the Menace.) dave

Groundspeak is worried that other websites are unavailable too often? That's hilarious. Seriously, though, I agree with the argument that the cache owner should be responsible for keeping external web pages up and running in exactly the same way that he or she is responsible for keeping the cache container well maintained. dave

Check out the various "Couch Potato" bookmark lists, such as this one. Here's a cache with over 2200 logs. Personally, my #1 hide might hit double digits over the Christmas break. dave

I moved one from my mailbox into a cache. dave

I also see the same thing for Earthcaches. There's a shadow, but no pin. dave

It looks like Feep #29 was washed away. GCYC6B. R.I.P. dave

OK, but what about this guy: It's a swamp if you can find Keith Watson there? dave

I assumed that the OP was affiliated with the city somehow, already. The cache he mentioned is a multi with the waypoints semi-permanently installed in the gardens of a city park. I figured he must have some good connections to make that work. dave

I did a cache today that used a projection to calculate one of the stages, so I brought along my laptop and used GeoCalc to do the math for me. Now to get FizzyMagic to port GeoCalc to the Palm... dave

Actually, I think what happened here is that Google's web crawler doesn't have a gc.com account, so it couldn't see the real page. So it archived the "Sorry, Charlie" page for posterity. dave

Or you're starting *mumble* meters north of the south pole, so that your 143m journey to the east will take you in a circle around the pole back to where you started. (Penantry: or will take you in n complete circles around the pole) dave

Ooohhh! I love doodles! It's a pregnant woman trying to hide behind a tree. dave

Yeah! Why does a snow person require ear flaps on her hat? dave

Looks like Cache-Tech and Cache Agent are also getting into the game: <click>. Apparently their coin has a secret message on the reverse. Maybe something along the lines of "This coin must remain a minimum of 528 feet from all other coins"? dave

Ha ha... their picture is upside-down. dave

Woo hoo! I'd like to thank the Academy, etc etc. Here's the link to the winning entry, complete with pictures: <click> I dropped the Feep into a Star Trek-themed Toronto-area cache that was owned by local Trek junkie and all-around geo-hero 1701eh. Ever since 1701eh's untimely death, this cache has turned into a bit of a TB and coin hotel as people dropped by to pay their respects. LFD had asked me to drop off the Feep at a cache that he had been to on the opposite side of town, but once it became apparent that I wouldn't have the time to make the run out there I knew that the only place I could make the drop was in STARDATE -318232.3. So thanks (in advance) for the prize, LFD, and thanks to everybody else involved in geocaching that make this silly game more than just electronic gizmos and tupperware. dave

I can't imagine that you'd have many takers for your offer. Most people can tell the difference between using the Phone-A-Friend lifeline when you're totally stuck and having the cache handed to them on a platter. dave

jaredl, I really think you should consider de-escalating on this issue. You've got a cache where every single finder has posted at least one DNF before finding the final... just how miserable are you trying to make everyone who searches for this? Much of the enjoyment that people are getting from this cache comes from the folk knowledge that is passed from one finder to the next. 1701eh helped Tequila, Tequila helped me, I helped GordEtob. Partially this comes from the fact that the coordinates to the final point at private property on the wrong side of a fence about 15m from where the cache is hidden, but also partly because this is genuinely a hard cache to find and people need hints. Now you say you want to move the final to eliminate this social aspect of caching. I personally don't see why you think that's necessary. (And as an aside, in your log when you disabled the cache you said that you'll replace the missing stage "eventually" because you don't live in the area any more. But then you updated the listing to say that you'll be back to the cache every month to reset the final. These two claims are somewhat at odds with each other, imho.) dave

I mean that if you go to a cache page and click on the "Print PDF" link, the page that comes up does not have the "Child Waypoints" section. dave

CA, If I understand your point, the cache that BQ linked has a waypoint called "PARK", but if somebody else has a waypoint called PARK, they'll collide with each other in GSAK and one of them will be lost. So by your algorithm the waypoint should be called PKMGE7, right? Or maybe you should post a link to a cache that does it the way you like it. :-) Also, I noticed that the additional waypoint section gets stripped when you generate a PDF of the cache page. This seems 100% backwards, since the only time I generally want to print a cache listing is when there's a bunch of waypoints to visit with questions to answer. So either this is a bug that Groundspeak should be fixing or cache listings should have the waypoint information duplicated in the long text portion of the cache description. dave