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Anyone who believes that explicit permission was obtained in all cases should avoid land deals in Florida. I know of a case where a reviewer had to archive a cache *they* hid because they failed to get permission first and the land owners noticed a sudden uptick in the traffic in their parking lot and people searching. Then there's a cache that was archived because the person who hid it *believed* it was public land until the owner complained. The archival note was "Who knew that was private property?" I know of yet another that had to be moved when the rod and gun club finally posted a "No Trespassing" sign on the trail where it crossed into their property. When the cache was hidden, it was impossible to tell that you'd left the public land. And I've been accosted by an irate property owner because I parked (legally) on their side of the street to hunt for a cache with bad coordinates (middle of the street when it was really in the cemetery on the other side) despite the fact that I had been nowhere near his property, but his neighbor reported that there had been people all day looking around his house. When I hit the "No Trespassing" sign, I stop.

My first eXplorist 400 survived the first two falls off the roof before the third impact cracked the case and it wouldn't maintain battery contact. Attempted amateur repair and while the power problems were fixed, the buttons never worked well after that. The second eXplorist 400 was either lost off the roof or left at a cache on a bike trail and never returned. The third eXplorist 400 remains with me to this day although the rubber over the joystick is completely worn away. My PN-30 came with a lanyard and I now never put the unit down anywhere but on the car dash. So far, so good.

Mine was conveniently delivered an hour after I got home from the trip for which I needed it and more than 8 hours after I submitted it.

Facebook recently rolled out this interface for third parties to "Like" things that aren't Facebook-related and have it appear on your facebook profile. This is nothing but a FB hook - it's got nothing in common with a ratings system. FB itself only permits "like" - there is no "dislike" button (despite a number of attempts by the user community to sway TPTB.) I have a Facebook account, and even though a couple of my geocaching pals are friends on FB, I keep my Facebook and Geocaching worlds apart. Up 'til now I have trusted Groundspeak with credit card data, for example. I wouldn't trust Facebook with a wooden nickel. This new feature is making me look askance at Groundspeak.

I would prefer that Groundspeak, which has never given me a reason to worry about my information, not associate with Facebook which has been known to play fast and loose with their privacy policy.

The "Lost & Found" ad is truly annoying.

Add me to the list of people who think this is a bug. The name string in informational and informational data should be easily human readable. The file names are a string of digits.

On a 5+ hr layover in Frankfurt on my way to Bangalore, I had a coworker watch some of my stuff and I went out, took a hotel shuttle to a nearby hotel, found the TB hotel in the park across the street, swapped some TBs, signed the log, then took the shuttle back. I wandered around the airport a bit, then passed back through passport control and security and rejoined my coworker. The guy in passport control looked a bit suspiciously at the exit stamp from about an hour earlier, but as a US citizen, I don't need a visa to enter Germany and he stamped me back in. I thought about doing the terminal virtual at that time but that would have meant clearing security twice in a short period and I thought that might be pushing my luck with respect to interrogation. (My Indian coworkers are not so lucky. It's difficult for them to get even a transit visa for Germany ,so they're stuck within the security perimeter no matter how long the layover.) I did get the virtual on a subsequent trip while changing planes on my way to Stockholm.

Road Easy in Maine is a classic example. Check the logs for a spoiler picture if you're interested.

Don't you CITO the dead bodies you find? It's impolite to leave them there for someone else to deal with.

Oops - duplicate post!

This cache got an attribute added after I suggested to the owner that it needed one.

Bangalore, India NE 8113.8mi from your home coordinates

Right click on the underlined word.

Finding boating caches in the winter is known as "walking on water" around here and is generally considered an acceptable approach in light of the fact that the hide itself may not be winter/snow friendly. Also, not everyone can afford the cost or storage space (speaking as the owner of 3 kayaks) to have a seaworthy craft on hand at all times.

I've always used the map method. (Well, I found Spoonhead's original GZ by dead reckoning, but after that I switched to the map.) I was puzzled when he disabled a bunch. Converting from signed degree decimal to dd mm.mmm form isn't a big deal for me.

I use 4 or 5 systems fairly regularly to obtain my caching info. I have no desire to try to keep a GSAK database in sync over that many systems (nor can I on a couple of them) My recent pocket queries are available in my web-accessible mailbox and other than GPSBable , I don't have to install anything to transfer from PQ to GPSr. So yeah, I'd like the site to do it for me, but I can deal if it doesn't. I've tried GSAK and I have to say it has never grown on me. Having to maintain the database locally when the live one is available over the web seems like too much effort. Even though I write OS software for a living, I'm a Luddite about some things. I don't own a cell phone and certainly not a PDA.

I confess that I'd like to sort "north-to-south" or "east-to-west" because once you get a fairly significant cleared radius around your home coords, it would be nice to know that two that are each 20 miles away are not in fact 40 miles apart. It would be possible to "list newest in <state>", then check the ones you're interested in, then "sort checked by <distance from home | lat | long> and get a useful list. It's all a SMOP. It's just a case of what features are important.

Then perhaps all of us having issues should call Comcast and see if we can be more of a market force.

I just called Comcast about the PQ throttling. The guy I spoke to claims no throttling is taking place of the IP addresses I could supply (from PQs that have actually arrived.) I have PQs from before Christmas that have never arrived and tried one three hours ago to my Comcast address that has not arrived. Switching to gmail, my PQ arrived within seconds of the run time posted on the PQ page. ***SOMEONE AT Groundspeak NEEDS TO CALL COMCAST***

As an OS developer with more than 20 years of experience, I can tell you that while I understand the current behavior from a programming point of view, I think it's crappy human factors. Data should be presented in an easy-to-understand fashion -- not for the convenience of the programmers. Even something as simple as a visual break between days would improve it. The best solution would be a true last in, first out display. I also understand the programming-resources-to-features tradeoff, but I'd gladly trade in the very-broken-from-initial-implementation "events I plan to attend in the next 30 days" feature for a fix on that.

I was FTF on a cache yesterday that had 3 TBs starting a race. I took 1 and discovered the other two so now I can find them again easily from my profile. (The other two have since moved on.) I do still browse to see where some of the trackables I've seen end up. It's interesting to see how things move some times. I have one TB that's managed to move 3400 miles in two hops. But I certainly never discover anything I've never seen...

The first time I took my niecephews caching they found a letterbox in roughly the same location. One of my nephews even knew what letterboxing was. I solved one of Team Spoonhead's mystery caches and on my second visit to the location found a container with a soaking wet log. I reported it, only to be told that I had found an older version that had gone MIA in deep snow more than a year before. The newer container is supposedly nearby.

I picked up "Winthrop, United States" in NH on 1/4/07 and dropped it in MA 3 days later. It made it to Winthrop MA less than two weeks after that. (It's since been on a side trip to GA.)