BevanQ

Thank you! I did the update and I am glad to see the maps work again. The Waze option is a neat addition.

Yes this is basically what I am getting. Only I can see the app is running in the background, (when you double press the start button),it just won't open, is stuck on the message page, and every time you swap to it or try to open I get the same as you - 20 odd seconds and then the frame closes. Is anyone looking into this? Would be helpful to have a response like the first poster did. Not sure where else to post this to get a faster response.... I also had the problem of the app not opening, and yet still running in the background on the message page with an iPhone 5. I deleted the app from the phone and reinstalled it and the app worked again. I've done this twice in the last few months. Looking forward to the bug fix next time around.

I am really glad that Google maps are back -- much better aerial views than MapQuest. I have found it useful to switch back and forth between Goolgle and Leaflet for different views, though. What I miss most is the old USGS topographical maps. I know I can select the shaded topo features on the Google regular map view, which is helpful for checking the terrain. I liked the USGS topos for seeing town boundaries -- useful for finding caches in a certain town. Sure, I can work with GSAK or DeLorme Topo, but it was handy to have it as part of the map selection.

I do quite a bit of caching by bicycle, to combine two of my favorite things to do. Choosing between my mountain bike, cyclocross bike or road bike just depends on what I've got planned. (I've never cached with my BMX bike though!) I'm also known for bushwhacking and I'm not afraid to shoulder my bike and bring it with me. Maybe I'll find a better way out. When we planned a fifty-mile route so some of my Boy Scouts could complete their cycling merit badge, we made sure to hit some geocaches to break up the ride. Anytime there's a bike path cache or three, it makes sense to have a bike in the car to go get 'em. And I've hiked 2 1/2 miles, one-way, on an old rail bed to get a couple of caches, wishing I'd brought a bike. I use an old toestap to hold the GPSr on the handlebar stem. The rubberized back keeps it in place and the strap keeps it on. I haven't lost it yet! The picture below shows a black nylon strap, though I usually use a nice, old, Italian leather Binda strap that is kinder to the GPS unit. I'm on my trusty Specialized S-Works Cross bike. (And I'm only 41.3 feet from the real treaure (sic) GBT #2.)

Been there, done that, and in the lead for the moment.

I've done two tree caches recently, which I personally had no problem with, but I could see from previous logs that others did. Neither cache description said that the cache would be high up a tree. One, with a difficulty level of 3 and a terrain level of 3, was a 10 minute walk from the road up a hill and through a gulley. I gathered from previous logs that it would be in a hunter's tree stand and it was. The container was in plain sight about 25 feet up. Screw-in pegs were in the tree to get up there. The other cache had a difficulty level of three with terrain of 3 and a half. It was a two and a half mile hike from the parking area. Previous logs led me to believe it was in or near a tree. The tree could have sheltered a cache, but the only real spot in it was about twelve feet up with no way to climb it. Nah, it couldn't be there, I thought. After looking everywhere else, I thought I'd better check it. Then I realized there was a large stick stuck in the ground that just happened to lean in the right place to use as a support. (A second, lighter searcher would have helped here.) It was still a blind reach into the hole, but there was the cache. I could see from the DNF logs that otheres were irritated to walk out so far and not find anything. And the hint was, "will send a spoiler picture upon request." (That's a whole other topic, right there.) I had fun getting challenged by these, but a little heads up might be nice.

Here's part of the log from one of my finds in Worcester, Mass. a couple of years ago: I had to kill some time in the area tonight and happened to grab the info for the first few caches that came up in this zip code. A tower in a park sounded cool. I hoped this would work for a night-time cache find and it did, for the most part. I parked my car across the road and I elected to figure out the clue, to make the find easier in a muggle-prone area. As I was wandering around in the dark getting my bearings, as it were, a police cruiser showed up and started shining lights on my out-of-state vehicle and into the tower area. Two officers got out, one to check my car and one to check the tower, so I went over and said hi. We chatted for a few minutes, so they could figure out if I was a bad guy or not; one of them noted the fire dept. plate on my vehicle since he'd been on a dept. somewhere once. Anyway, then I found the cache and took it to my car to sign and swap. Another car drove up and parked but I was able to stealthily get out and put away the cache.