karen rinora

email address is correct and has been validated.

I never get ANY notifications when someone logs my caches, or for any other reason, and never have. It's especially frustrating when discover an old "needs maintenance" message for one of my caches. With this in mind, I usually try to check on them reguarly by going to the cache listing, but it would be so much easier if I could get an email. Will try verifying my email address though.

I understand that there is a way to get notifications of new caches in my area, "needs maintenance" notices, and notifications of when my caches are found. I tried to set up the "new notifications" through the geocaching website, but nothing ever comes through. The only way I can see if my caches need maintenance is to keep checking their pages on the website. Is there something I should be doing with the security settings on my computer? BTW......I have only dial-up connection here in Bloomsburg.

I was in the same area the day after you, trying to do the complete "LL" loop. Congratulations on your team achievement!!! I really enjoyed doing teh Caledon Trailway caches last October.

I have been reading over the past 4 pages of banter, and all I want to know is, WHERE IS IT?? (the millionth, or what we believe to be the millionth). Does anyone have any idea? Or a rough idea?????

Has anyone else encountered this problem? I recently purchased a bicycle mount for my GPS. It comes with a new back to attach to the GPS when clipping it to the mount. Tonight, I discovered that it will not attach because the manufacturer neglected to allow a space to go around the memory card. I was wondering if they have changed the design (ie placement of memory card) so that the new back fits some, but not all. As far as I know, I have the correct mount - the packeage says it will fit my GPS.

Thanks for all the good ideas and hints. My reviewer unarchived my series this morning and I have made necessary corrections. It seems that the only problem was that of "cookie cutter" descriptions. So I rewrote the long descriptions and hopefully they should be all up & running by the weekend. I am still fairly new to cache hiding, so am still learning. It has certainly been educational. Karen

Many thanks for your explanation. I am getting a better understanding. All the caches are already 2 - 5km apart from each other. One is too close to an existing cache, and I have removed it from its posted spot. Being a series, I'm not sure how I can get away from a "cookie cutter description" (which I have seen in other series listings). The series is called "GOLD SERIES", (Gold Spike, The golden Egg, Golden Golf Ball, Gold Nugget) because I have put a "gold" namesake item in each GC, in order to add interest for younger GC'ers. I also would prefer to keep each cache as an independent, rather than "stage of a multicache", becasue I think that would appeal more to families. I find that kids don't want to spend too much time doing calculations, etc or seeing only coords in a cache. So, should I move the caches further apart? How long does it take the appeals to go through? And how do I re-establish communications with the reviewer, in order to reconfigure the series to meet his/her requirements? Maybe I am wrong, but I understand that (s)he is awaiting word from the appeals?

sorry...screwed up...have never posted on this forum until tonight

Can someone please help me? I tried to set up a series - 4 GC's, each with a clue in the lid that led to the finding of a 5th. Because they were to be a series, I sent them all in at once. I was told that this could constitute a power trail......but I do not know what a power trail is. I have seen other series, where clues in the GC's lead to a final. I also made the mistake, in my zeal, to activate them all too early.......What had happened was that I opened one, saw the red message at the top that said it had to be activated by me, but didn't scroll down far enough to see that there were problems (mentioned above) with the series. Consequently, the reviewer told me I had to contact appeals@geocaching.com rather than the reviewer (who perceived that I had not followed his/her instructions). So, now I sit in "GC Jail", awaiting word back from the appeals. Can anyone make any suggestions about my next move: start again, set them up as a multi, etc?? And.....what is a power trail???? I can't seem to find out just what it means. Another comment related to the number of GC's submitted at one time. What is an acceptable number? How does one go about submitting stuff about series? Or are series not acceptable?