Team Christiansen

Didn't you read my forum post that I typed with a UV font?

Got it. Thanks. I am considering attending GW XVII next May. If it becomes a giga event (a type which I have never attended) I would be more inclined to travel to it (especially since my oldest daughter lives in nearby Dallas).

I see that Geowoodstock XVI, in Cincinnati, was a giga-event. But I just noticed that the upcoming Geowoodstock XVII, to be in Ft. Worth, is listed only as a mega-event. Is that because the anticipated attendance won't be large enough to qualify as a giga? If a published event ends up having a larger WA response then originally anticipated, can the host ask to have the event type changed?

Its the same as in FaceBook where the profile photo partially covers the cover photo.

noncentric beat me to the punch.

You use to be able to edit a cache after submitting it and it would remain in the queue. But sometime within the last few months it changed. Now when you try to edit it, the submission is cancelled and taken out of the queue. In this state, almost as if you never submitted it, you can change coordinates using the edit function. But, after it is published, you can't change coordinates by editing, it can only do it by posting an Update Coordinates log.

I'm not sure why would GS go out of their way to add a limit on the counter. Wouldn't that just be additional unnecessary programming?

I just ignore the ignore function.

Nah. The map is still coming through the GC website, not the PGC site. The script mostly affects just the individual cache pages by adding stuff like elevation, decoded hint, challenge checkers, thumbnails of logged photos (rather than links) and country flags of those who post a log. It doesn't do anything to the map pages. I would add a couple screenshots of the individual cache page, but I'm already starting to wander off topic.

It's a Project-GC script which allows you to see so much more throughout the Geocaching.com website. Its never hampered my ability to see the various map types.

Let me guess ... it's not Verizon, right?

DNF: Corrected coordinates (but it reads cache_icon_badge_solved):

When you hover over it, a message stating you have a personal note. I saw it today as well. But later I posted a Found it log and it changed to a smiley face. Hovering over it now, it reads Found it.

On several occasions, I have found TBs in caches not listed in the cache inventory, that had been MIA for a long time. Once I found a handful in a cache that had all been missing for over 4 years. I can only guess some one was cleaning out their closet or garage and found long-forgotten bugs.

I just looked him up and it seems that since the news report, he did hit his 10,000th find at the Abyss Cach Cache virtual. Congrats @animjason!

Try this instead, but since they are both from 9news.com, it might end up with the same result: https://www.9news.com/video/news/local/geocaching-has-been-life-changing-adventure-for-one-man/73-8218274

I will be going and am looking forward to trying them out! The lab caches you mention won't be violating the Hide a cache 2.20 Help Center rules you are quoting, because those rules don't apply to lab caches. Instead, the rules found at Hide a cache 2.6 apply: Because the 2.20 caches are still experimental they can be included as 2.6 lab caches at Mega-events. They will only available during the event, introducing more people to the cache type helping GS with its evaluation.

Thanks. I did and am awaiting a response. But I'm curious how it was even possible.

How did this happen? I have a new 3-stage teamwork multi-cache that published on August 1. Stage 1 is a virtual solved with a puzzle. Stage 2 is a rust-painted magnetic Altoids tin with information for cachers to use in another state to find a cache in their state. Stage 3 is the final with a physical container found by information obtained by cachers in the other state. Two and a half weeks later (today), a new traditional cache is published. I was greatly surprised when I looked on a map, that it was in the same area as my stage 2. I know that whenever I create a cache and type in coordinates that are in the proximity limit of another cache, I get a warning that it is not permissible. Even though a number of cachers have found my cache, to include the stage 2, I thought I would go in and look at the guts of mine. This is what I see: That red-lettered warning language is there. Worse yet, it is only 55 feet away. Mine on one side of the street, the new one on the other. I also see this: showing that my Stage 2 (numbered "01" because it is the first physical stage) is smack dab in the middle of the other cache's proximity. The problem that this can cause is other cachers looking for the trad might very well find mine and tamper with the info needed to complete my multi cache, perhaps even signing it as a log. How did the website allow the new cache owner to place this?

Time to appeal?

That's funny, Project-GC shows the same thing.

Everyone above has given great advice on figuring out coordinate formats and conversion. But there might yet be another issue. How are you obtaining your coordinates in the first place? By looking at Google maps or by recording the coordinates with your smartphone (or handheld GPSr). I hope the latter and not the former.

Agreed. Souvenirs aren't anyway near my top 100 reasons to geocache, but they certainly DO affect my geocaching behavior. For a souvenir, I may turn left instead of right. I may drive an extra mile (or 100). I may get up an hour earlier (or two). I may choose to vacation near Seattle or Portland this summer rather than San Diego or Denver.

Could it possibly be that it is a newly published cache? Several times I have received an e-mail notification of a new cache and upon clicking on the link, the GC apps opens, but then gives me a message that it is an invalid GC code. This has happened only when I click on the link immediately when getting the notification (and only sometimes). If I don't have opportunity to look at the notification for several minutes, it always works later. Maybe it is just an issue of the app needing a few minutes to catch up with the website.

Yes!