Me&Geppetto

There is one here in Los Angeles that I've found recently, it's quite clever and nice and big, in LA it's hard to place/hide larger caches for travel bugs, etc. SO this one is getting a lot of use. White picket fence with a 6' 4x4 post about a foot behind the fence. Hanging from the arm of the post (think sign holder) is a chain. You have to pull the chain up and voila, there is a nice, big, fat, 4" PVC pipe with a screw top with all kinds of goodies in it. Easy to find, straightforward. There is a small pin or marble or something like that with the geocaching logo stuck on the post. Can't miss it

If it were me, I'd take it up the mountain, dip it, take a picture and write a nice log. Then take it down and move it somewhere out of Russia based on what you said about TB's there. As a TB owner I'd be thrilled I had a TB make it all the way to Russia and would be even more thrilled to see it ascend a mountain. Go for it.

Premium members get emailed of new caches published in their area, therefore a change to FTF. Also, access to Premium only caches. Those, are two valuable features of Premium, as well as pocket queries but I think as a new member you don't really see that value until you use lthem for a bit. I'm new. I started with iphone and added GPSr. Reason? Because iphone runs out of juice, sometmes doesn't have signal if doing caches out of city but most importantly, a GPSr unit goes off one or multiple satellites thus giving you a fantastically accurate position. That's my main reason. SO I cache with both, all the time, unless I'm way out in the bush then no point in taking phone. I use phone for reading logs, descriptions, looking at the satellite view picture and logging the find. The GPS is used solely for positioning for finding the cache. Hope that helps

I was at a scrapbooking weekend (my other hobby where I spend LOTS of money and don't move off my butt) and since I'm new to geocaching wanted to get the cache right near the hotel. After about 2 minutes of explainnig to my group what I was going to do I had 6 women following me asking questions. The hunt was on. After that 2 of them became hooked, one of them going out later that night at 4am and finding more caches. I found out on Facebook that she'd been out tramping around with out me!!! I was ticked off I wasn't invited but also thrilled I had a convert. LOL

Roger that, I am contacting the CO to get the co-ords so I can go get them.

There is a puzzle cache in the hills here. The CO is no longer in the area but still active. I've contacted him and he's willing for me to adopt it. But I'm wondering if it would be better for him to archive and me to go pick up the geo-trash and re-publish. There are 4 caches total. An ammo can and 3 plastic containers. 2 of the containers that I found shattered with plastic fatigue. I never found the 3rd or the main puzzle cache. For some reason the CO archived 3 caches but not the main puzzle cache. Since it's a puzzle cache I'd probably want to change the puzzle to something I can deal with. So, does it make a difference? Archive then re-publish or adopt?

Thanks, just did that. Thanks for the clarification

I'm new to geocaching and am just getting in to the whole trackable thing. I have a few questions. I saw my trackable was "dipped" at a bunch of caches. I assume this is to show it travelling and visiting places. How do I dip a trackable I have? Is that the "discovered" choice? When I retrieved a trackable and "retrieved" it I didn't put in the private # that was actually on the trackable so it is still showing as in the previous cache. I dropped it off the next morning before I got a nasty email from someone that I hadn't retrieved it properly but the trackable was already out of my possession. I went back to the cache i put it in the next day and its gone, someone else picked it up. I assume that it will "work itself out" when that person "retrieves it" or something? So there is a public and a private TB # then. The private is onthe TB itself and the public is the one Groundspeak assigns? So besides retrieving and placing it properly what are other good ettiquette rules for TBs? Do you normally try to place them in TB hotels so they are moved around? What if you retireved one and you had no way to keep it going on its mission, should you just drop it in a cache at the first opportunity?

crap, so which model should I have bought? Suggestions? I jst want something easy but that I don't have to deal with

I just bought the new Explorist 110 Magellan as my first GPS. I tried to download some new caches (it comes with 500 caches downloaded from Geocaching.com. So, I looked through the manual I downloaded and didn't see anything about this. Did I buy the wrong one? How do I delete caches? Like I suppose I could delete the 10 caches I found.

I'd like to see a filter added for searching by cache size. If I have a trackable I want to search for other size, excluding nanos or micros

duplicate logs deleted, I figured out how.

Wow, that generated LOTS of replies. I'm mostly an urban cacher and the caches I have found are small, there have been 2 that there were no real room in the logs at all, just scraps of paper with chicken scratch. I do notice that cachers carry replacement logs and if I find a word file or something I can print to make a log I will do that. I appears I'm going to have to have a little cache pack. Course I've only found a couple caches. Now if I could only figure out how to delete the two duplicate logs I made. I logged it on my geocaching.com app on the iphone and it didn't post, so I just did it online. Then I figured out how to do it on the iphone...hence, 2 logs. I understand the point of the logging concept, so signing I will go... And seriously, why would anyone sit in front of a computer and say they found it when they didn't even go out there. THat's just silly

If I find the cache why do I need to sign the log? Is the log reconciled with the online log? Sometimes the log is a tiny piece of paper with tons of scribbles on it, most illegible so it seems a little pointless to sign it. What am I supposed to sign on the log? my geocaching username? time/date?