CryptikFox

I've been considering purchasing premium membership but have a couple of questions with how that works with the iPhone application. _______ As a college student, I am tight on money and can't just dump over a hundred dollars on a good GPS (that I'd use for hiking and backpacking as well, not just geocaching). In other words: don't rant about me being a "smartphone cacher" because it's the only GPS I have available at the time. That's not what I'm here to talk about or ask. _______ If you purchase premium, whether it's the $10 or $30, would you get the full app as well? Or would you have to pay an additional $10? If you bought the $10 app without purchasing membership, what would that do?

Yep. Being much more of a hiker I definitely prefer the lone cache or two way up on some mountain or ridge that'll be an adventure to get to. I don't like the bread crumbs either. Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate a nice puzzle (which may or may not be a micro cache), and have enjoyed several. I however definitely prefer the lonesome cache atop a peak and it just looses some of that feel knowing there's a trail of bread crumbs leading up to it.

What irks me most is how people absolutely FILL hiking trails with caches as close as possible to make a trail of pointless caches. It's a lot more like littering to me. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=324875

How do favorites and favorite points work? First, Can anyone favorite a cache? Or is this a Premium feature? (Is favoriting the same as "bookmarking"? What's the difference?) Lastly, what are "favorite points"? Thanks.

Just because you're not sure why the fence is there doesn't mean it isn't there for no reason. I personally have jumped a fence that I deemed "pointless" at the time only to be kicked out by an angry land owner.

Here's my question: Why do geocachers "fill in gaps" by placing caches every couple hundred feet from each other? (Namely on hiking trails). Here's why I ask: These caches are fundamentally pointless. Their only point is for the sake of filling geocaching maps covering every possible square foot in caches. These caches have no value. They are not placed in a special, unique, or interesting location. They are simply crammed in between each other for the sake of "filling gaps". They are not a unique cache in general—there is no puzzle, no interesting container, no special hiding spot—they are the most basic caches imaginable. Isn't geocaching meant to be about bringing people to unique locations? Isn't it about the journey there and maybe solving some intricate puzzle when you get there? Isn't it about finding a unique hiding spot or elaborate way of disguising a cache? It seems geocaching has become more of a laundry list of finding every single possible pointless cache crammed in as close as possible to each other. At this point it seems this is more like glorified littering than something noteworthy and meaningful. Sounds a lot more like geotrashing than geocaching.