The Jester

Wow! I guess there is an advantage to living near GC HQ - you need to move to a denser cache area! I just looked it up, my nearest finds to you is just over 30 miles south by Schellsburg (1806 was a good year) and Stoystown (Caterpillar tracks), found in 2018 on our way to Gettysburg.

We took the train to Portland OR awhile back. They have a great transit system that can get you most places in town. Washington Park is a neat place. One great virtual is "One For the Little People" GCA4BC - it takes you to the smallest park in the world. Check out caches by 'goblindust' (also up the I-5 corridor to Seattle and over to Bremerton), he has some great gadget caches.

If you have to pay, you really didn't "win" anything. I'd bet you find that there are more 'fees' that would have to be paid... Pretty much screams Scam!

Not me. I should have been a CPA, as I heard there are three types of CPA's - those who can do math, and those who can't.

It could very well be a person who is not a creative writer, and falls back on common phrases. I do something similar, in that I write the same thing, only phrased differently: "On our way to XXX...", "While traveling to XXX...", "Our route to XXX...", "Our journey to XXX..". Programs like GSAK also allow you to insert pieces of data from the cache info automatically, so it's hard to say bot or not.

Yep, and that's a local restriction that we would follow (not that it bothers us, as we live just a short ways away). "Not every where has restrictions" does not preclude some places do have restrictions, I thought it was obviously implied. See my Colorado example above.

I was reacting to your "We shouldn't traveling now" and "why are you doing touristy things". As Scaber pointed out, there are less and less restrictions, so we have no qualms about traveling and doing touristy things. But while doing so we follow local guidelines. If a place is closed we don't go there - whether it's GC HQ or the visitor center at the dam in Flaming Gorge, Utah (don't know if it was covid or too early in season, they weren't stocked inside, but we did enjoy the outside exhibits). Even within a state the guidelines vary, in Colorado we went to a Golden Corral in Denver - masks required and gloves for dishing up food; in Grand Junction the Golden Corral didn't require masks and no restrictions for dishing up. I just thought it was big jump from "GC HQ is closed, so you can't find the cache" to "You shouldn't travel or be in town doing touristy things".

Dang, we're heading in the opposite direction for the weekend (Gorst). It sound like fun, maybe we'll take a couple of days to that side of the mountains soon.

You must be a parent - or had folks that often used the "every day is Child Day" when asked why there is a Mother's / Father's day.

Because not every where has a travel ban or restrictions. We drove out to Kansas for Mingo Madness a couple of weeks ago, and the various states ranged widely on the Covid guidelines - some were strict with masks & distancing, other's more relaxed and a couple were, more or less, not using masks at all. So don't judge to whole world by your local regulations (we're from Washington State and had about the tightest regulations for the trip). We took our trailer and living in a RV is pretty much isolating in itself. No more interaction with people at the RV camps then a grocery store (often less). So we had no qualms about doing "touristy stuff" as long as we followed local guidelines.

We found a cache a couple of hundred feet from the door of the clinic after the second shot.

Interesting. The checker said "You control 490 Electoral College votes, 98 Senate seats, and 395 House Seats!" The only state I don't have votes/seats is Hawaii as I haven't been there since geocaching started. Hmm, don't know when we'll down that way to find it though...

The longest I've taken to complete a cache is 15 years, 1 month, 11 days. I DNF'd it twice in 2004 and finally found the stage I needed in 2019. I published the first History Challenge (Washington) on 5-3-07, I didn't qualify for it until 2-20-13 (the rules were different back then) but still haven't "Found it" (since I own it ).

Sorry, it sounded like you were complaining that the logbook was replaced, not that you weren't told about it. Every time I've found a wet log (to the point of not usable) I add a sheet in a separate baggie, but mention it in the log & generally a NM.

I'm not seeing where he said "replace" the wet log, but "add" a dry sheet signed.

Look at the 66sr - has everything the 66s has plus the multi-bands of the 65s. The 65s is basically a 64 with the multi-bands, so isn't all "younger" tech.

And I haven't been really trying. I have friends who started about the same time with twice (or more) the find count. It really depends on how obsessed you are and how much you like (and do, once this pandemic eases) road trips.

Congratulations and welcome to the obsession! I can remember back when we started how exciting it was to hit x00 milestones (now it's x000 but I have 20 years on you). It didn't seem I'd get close to 10K finds back then, but keep plugging away and have fun. ETA: a contraction that reverses the meaning of the sentence.

Um, "suggesting various possibilities" is guessing. And there is a correct answer, but only OP can say what that is, the rest is all guessing. In all you posts you kept insisting on "found logs within the last month" - doesn't sound like a 'trend' to me, but a "single count". Whatever, you'll keep doing what you are doing.

Quite a bit of hot debate over something the OP considered trivial. Guessing exactly what he wanted, when he wanted, trying to define if 'active' is equal to 'involved' - I think Moun10Bike (thanks, Jon) gave all the answer needed. Come on, really, you guys need to get outside and do something active - geocaching related or not.

I'll celebrate 20 years in this RASH on the 25th. Living nearby to HQ I just can't seem to run out of caches. A number of years ago I had the 10 miles around home down to about 20 caches left, went on vacation for a couple of weeks, and came back to over 50, which quickly grew to 90+. There are currently 368 caches I haven't found within 10 miles and 23 within 5 miles(mostly puzzles I can't solve). I keep an off-line DB of caches within 25 miles and it's currently at 4409. I've found 2631 caches within 10 miles, and 4788 within 25 miles. In the last few years we've been doing a lot of traveling (over 75,000 miles in our trailer we bought in April '15) and doing most of my caching on the road. Last year we bought an inflatable, 2-man kayak and have been enjoying the paddle caches around here. Since retirement I haven't done as many full day grab-a-bunch-of-caches days. Several reasons: wife isn't as obsessed (but does enjoy it), her mom's condition going down hill limited our time 'away' (she just passed last month), and the distance to travel for local caches.

I don't know the timing, but county guidelines do limit outside groups to a maximum (to keep this generic I won't list our's - but it's more than a handful or two, or three). So the reviewer who told me to remove the count verbiage (to limit to county guidelines), said that they don't expect attendance to exceed the limit, but if it does the event may have to be canceled. Mine is more that halfway to that limit - since we haven't had any events for a year, people are excited to start again and signing up.

Well, around here we're starting to have a few events, but they have to be outside with limited size groups (per county covid guidelines). Strangely, you can't say you'll limit the group to the county limit as that would "exclude cachers" (against GC rules), but if the "will attends" exceed the county limit the event will have to be cancelled (which excludes all cachers).

I use the Usort field also, but I started doing so early enough to have an accurate numbering of my caches. Bamboozle is just starting the process, but has 16K+ finds and may find it hard to remember the exact order each day's finds were in. I believe there are ways in the macro language/SQL to see/sort by the log id, which could sort each day's log into order by log creation (assuming all caches were logged in order of find, early on some of mine were not logged that way, but I was able to remember or had a track of the day saved to show the order). If he wants exact order, it will take a lot of work. But the basic/simple sort I suggested will go far in getting the milestones he was interested in - and if they fall on multi-find days, he only has to figure out that day's order. Checking out the Macro Library on GSAK forums may yield macro's to help with this. Lab caches and, now, AL's do have to be added manually - just adding to the work/difficultly. It never bothered me, as I never logged Lab caches and don't do AL's. Again the GSAK forums have people & macro's to help with this.

Run the My Finds PQ and load that into a separate database. Sort by date found by me.