Trekkin' and birdin'

Thanks for getting on this bug and making the fix quickly.

Add us to the list of error 500 folks. Without being able to access that page, we can't empty the Montana to get it ready for a new PQ and many other functions we use all the time. I've tried logging out of the site and back in to see if that helps. Nope.

Getting the same message. I can do most things from the drop down at the top of the home page, but would sure like to be able to go back and read our logs and so on.

If others struggle.....I got it working properly. I removed the html, went back to certitude, deleted my solution I'd generated and made a whole new checker. Put it in and it's fine. I honestly don't know what was different, but it worked, so hurray!

I am struggling with a certitude checker. I have created these before, and every time I add it to the cache page, I have all kinds of issues. I have set the editor to "source." I have unchecked the automatic solver box. I've tried completely signing out of gc and coming back in. I usually have trouble getting it to "take" properly, but this time I just can't seem to get past the html appearance. All the others, I eventually bumble through somehow. I've figured it out somehow before. What am I missing? Thanks.

Thank you! I do hope TPTB can find a fix, though.

We have that very same situation where we live. We're still frustrated that because we have apostrophes, we can't view even our last 1000 finds or our hides from our profile, much less all of them. I really miss that and being able to see what state a cache is located in, and when it was last found. Our membership payment is pretty soon and we'll probably pay, but I'm not feeling like we get the same value as in previous years.

This explains then why I can't click on "all finds" or "hides" and see them listed at all....in any order. Will we now have to change our caching handle by which we've been known for almost 15 years?

Many have already expressed the many things that are terrible with this update, so I won't repeat them except to say......this "upgrade" (ahem) does not get one of our coveted favorite points.

Thanks for the insights. We'll be checking which of the pieces is being stored, and then edit the description as well as any questions. Ugh. Those things have been sitting out there for several years. It figures. 2020 On brand, I guess

My question is this.....we based our Adventure Lab on a local public art project. Because of COVID, they are offering up some of these pieces for sale to help cover the operating budget for the local arts venue. In other words.....some of our birds are flying the coop. Some may re-appear in the spring but they don't have definite plans as of now. Can we somehow disable our AL until the pieces are available again? I do know how to edit things should they move to new locations and such. Thanks.

We wondered if that might be the case. I suppose we could post around in groups that it's available, but until the bonus publishes.....I'd rather wait. We were offered one of these when they were first being put out about a year ago and said....naw. We got an offer this spring and decided...well, okay. We have only completed three of them, plus one at a mega, ourselves....so it shows 16 in our found caches.

Thanks, we do see it listed in the area lab caches in the app, and on the builder site it shows as ours. We don't have the little icon for "lab cache" in our regular gc profile. That is really bothering one of us on the team, and I did add a reviewer note to our bonus lab, in case they're holding publication of that pending seeing the lab cache in our regular profile. Definitely a learning experince!

So we created our AL, tested it until satisfied, removed all the tests both on the computer and in the app, and made it public. It shows up when searching for ALs in the area on the app, but in our geocaching profile, there's no sign that we own one. I've read all the Help stuff, re-read the builder guide numerous times and searched on these forums. What am I missing? Thanks.

After a lot of hair pulling, I was able to get the link sent to my email, then open it into the AL app for testing. All little goofs are fixed and hope to go live a little later!

Another issue I'm having is this....I got the test link to open in the app (Android phone) but when I try to test the first location, I have the stupid driving directions from google and can't get to the actual screen to check that location. Tech challenged here for sure! Thanks for any direction.

No matter how we try to view the maps from the site, it either doesn't ever work, or takes too long and times out. We are on Chrome. This has been an issue for at least a couple weeks. I know weekends are usually more troublesome, but this is all the time lately.

Those are awesome photos. I wish I'd taken one of our guy, but we were busy trying to avoid a serious confrontation. We did get to see why they have the name they have! I've seen some really big Timbers, but never in such a situation to get a nice photo. It's not unusual to scare them up along our gravel bike trail near home, sunning themselves. There are logs from various caches in our area with Timber encounters. We have some old quarries in the area that are now recreational areas and they'll hole up in the crevices there. When our son was in high school, he told us about one that showed up on the soccer practice field and one of the crazier dads picked it up at the tail end and flung it over the bluff. Stupid. Just let the poor thing go where it wants to go, they are generally more afraid of us than most realize.

It was a really unusual situation. It was a few years ago, when there wasn't really any winter, and we were doing a multi in a Corps of Engineers recreation area. The cache is owned by friends of ours, so yes, they heard about it, LOL We were actually up high above the shoals, and my husband had just said...."Walk a few feet behind, that way if I jump because of a snake, I won't knock you over." The setting was reminiscent of what we know, Timber Rattlers. Next thing you know, here's this snake crawling across the trail, so we stopped to check it out. It coiled and leapt, then continued into a tree hole at trail level. A knowledgeable person told us it was kind of early for them, it was probably just heading out for the season and going back to its hole....and we came between it and that hole. From what we were told, they head for high ground during the colder seasons and go back by the water once they have a sense they won't be flooded. That's what we were told, anyway. Our friend Jeff said in all the years they'd hiked there, they'd never encountered one. Go figure. We're used to finding a pokey stick before putting our hands into anything, so we know that much. We met another cottonmouth when we were doing the Exclave EC in Kentucky. We went as far as we could, then sent our answers as best we could determine, and the cache owner allowed us to log our find. We had less than 500 feet to the coordinates, but decided we didn't need an EC that badly!

Thank you, that is all very helpful. The first cottonmouth encounter surprised us with its method of striking (it missed). Our vipers are pretty timid and not really aggressive like that was. It's good to know where they like to hang out there....we can keep the dog's nose away from those spots. Thanks again!

Okay, so here's a question from a Northerner.....we're going to be spending the month of February in Natchez MS. There are some caches that look interesting for day trips with our dog, but the last time we were south, we had 2-3 encounters with cottonmouths in Arkansas...mid-March. What kind of viper activity could we expect say, going for the oldest cache in LA (GC763) or similar searches? My google searching didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know in general about snake activity. We aren't total snake newbies....we have our Timber Rattlers and massasaugas where we live. It's just...those are *our* snakes and we know what to expect of them. That first cottonmouth encounter was quite startling to us. Thanks for any guidance. We're looking forward to this whole snowbird experience.

I am experiencing a similar issue with my iPod. I like to use it in the field to read EC writeups more easily. It is the iPod version right before they added a camera to them (version 4.2.1) and it doesn't get wifi outside a hotspot. So the last few times I've tried to get to the geocaching site to upload my PQs onto the device, I get a message that says it "can't establish a secure connection to the server." I can get to other sites online when I'm at a hotspot. I use Geosphere for storing my PQs in an offline location for use in the field. Thanks for any advice.

We found a couple five pointers this morning while out doing tons of maintenance, but we're holding off on logging them until we hear things are working as they should. Glad we've been kind of on hiatus and in no real hurry for this!

Well, then there you have it. Deleting and relogging took care of this week's points. Thanks!

Thanks, that's what I was figuring. Why in the world did it give me seven points, then? Maybe next week that's all people will get for events? Who knows?