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NevaP

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  1. I checked and mine TB6BHZ3, a non-seven DD entry, did get the icon. But I still don't know where and when the badge will appear. TB was released today 7/20
  2. It's working again. I guess I just hit a down day.
  3. Is something wrong with the google earth viewer? Caches aren't coming up on goggle earth and I try to reload the viewer I get a 500 server error notice. It was working fine not long ago.
  4. I will be in Longyearbyen for 24 hours arriving June 14, about 4PM and departing on the cruise ship Ortelius at 4 PM on June 15. Our tour group (a bunch of birders)is staying at the Coal Miners' Cabins. I should have time to find a few caches while visiting the local attractions. I've used google earth and a pocket query to find information about caches in the area. I will have travel bugs with me and it appears the m&m 6 Bug Hotel and the Skogen#8 At the Governors are good choice to leave and pick up travelers. I also would like to visit the sundial since no one has done a waymark for it. Any advice and help you can offer will be most welcome. I'm an old lady with a gimpy knee but I get around well. We will be in Oslo and Copenhagen after the cruise.I've spotted and event in Oslo on 6/23 that we should be able to attend.
  5. Yes right after I posted I realized the lab caches from Coinfest last fall are not showing up in the My Finds PQ. I knew that but I had a senior moment about it. Thanks.
  6. When I run the My finds pocket Query it comes up 14 caches short of the number shown on the geocaching.com website. I know what four of these are. I have a double log (by owner permission) on a cache that was moved many miles without getting a new GC number and way back in 2003 when we didn't know better we logged temporary event caches as finds with the event GC# ( I logged 3) so those four are in there as duplicates and don't show up in the query. But I have no idea which caches I've found that are the missing 10. Everything was there until recently. Query number was only 4 less than website number.
  7. I installed the new app. I hate it. Can't figure out how to move around and use it. Nothing seems to respond. I rely on my GPRS unit for caching and use the classic phone app mainly to have the satellite maps tell me which tree I should be looking at (Coords are always off). Occasionally I will log from the field. Right now it's stuck on an not found cache showing me walking to it directions and map but I can't find the compass arrow or the satellite maps. This thing is a nightmare. I may get a new phone next month and it looks like I won't be able to buy the classic after march 23. I'm not happy.
  8. I can change routes as long as I want to travel by road; but the routes I want are all waterway routes and I can't make it go that way at all. Any ideas? Do a route along the closest roads (if there are any) and ask for caches in a wide range from the road. You can go up to 10K/6.2 miles.
  9. I will be in Brazil Aug1-11 on a birding trip in the Pantanal and of course I checked to see where caches are in Mata Grosso. It seems to be a cache desert. It looks like my only chance for a cache in Brazil is the parking lot at the Sao Paulo airport. I know that parking lot. I got a bird (Sayaca Tanager)on my life list there in 2000. But if by August 1,anyone happens to hide a cache in Cuiaba (close to the Golden Tulip hotel) or at one of the tourist lodges (Pousda Piuval, Hotel Pantanal Norte, Pousada Rio Clara, Currupira das Araras, Pousada do Parque) Please let me know. Brazil is not on my notification list. But it does look like this trip will be for the birds. NevaP
  10. It would help if you post on Brazil forum, instead of South America... but I suggest you place an Event there (in Cuiabá), maybe some local geocachers or from nearby states may plan to attend. Thanks. I hadn't noticed there was a separate Brazil forum. I'm with a scheduled tour group so no time to do an event.
  11. I will be in Brazil Aug1-11 on a birding trip in the Pantanal and of course I checked to see where caches are in Mata Grosso. It seems to be a cache desert. It looks like my only chance for a cache in Brazil is the parking lot at the Sao Paulo airport. I know that parking lot. I got a bird (Sayaca Tanager)on my life list there in 2000. But if by August 1,anyone happens to hide a cache in Cuiaba (close to the Golden Tulip hotel) or at one of the tourist lodges (Pousda Piuval, Hotel Pantanal Norte, Pousada Rio Clara, Currupira das Araras, Pousada do Parque) Please let me know. Brazil is not on my notification list. But it does look like this trip will be for the birds. NevaP
  12. I made a new route just last night and moved things around all over onto different roads than it originally generated between the start and end point. You just have to do this BEFORE you do anything else. Once you click save route it's fixed. Until then, on the very first screen, you can grab the route and drag it just like before.
  13. Thanks Moun10Bike and PHOOEY! I loved making routes along back roads. Now it appears I have to do it one teeny segment at a time. I just checked and it looks like only the routes that were created before the Google api update are broken. I just created a new route and was able move the Start/End points as well as drag the route around on the map. I was working on a new route and I've just started another new one. Yes, I can edit it by moving the start end points and dragging the route but only on the first screen that comes up. Once I've started a pocket query and I click to go back to the associated route I can't edit anymore. I think you used to be able to go back and edit. So I just have to get my route fixed before I go onto set up the PQ. I can cope.
  14. Thanks Moun10Bike and PHOOEY! I loved making routes along back roads. Now it appears I have to do it one teeny segment at a time.
  15. What has happened to the edit a map ability when setting up a pocket query along a route? I've been doing this for years and once I had the route between city A and city B all I had to do was go to the associated route page, pick up start or end point or the route anywhere along the map and drag it to whatever back roads I was planning to travel. Now I can't seem to change the first route generated. Nothing will pick up. What am I missing? Is there a hidden edit button somewhere now?
  16. HISTORICAL CACHES as earth caches, historical caches could be a great alternative to know the history of a city, a building, a particular site or someone influential of that particular place. It could refer to the same process of an earth cache, just think about those different historical tables placed in the cities of the world. it would be a great way to get to know the environment in which you're geocaching and like the earth caches knowing about new places that we would never have visited otherwise. Yes! I've thought this way for some time. Only problem I see is that people would want to place every historical marker as a HISTORICAL CACHE. But then half of them at least already have a micro cache stuck on them or sometimes a regular size one hidden nearby.
  17. One of my TBs, TB1D1R3, Paradux, was placed in a cache in a Cincinnati park on 11/13/2010. The cache was disabled (due to deer hunting in the area)in 2011 and then archived in 1/2012. The last log for the cache said TBs were in there. I suspected the cache was still in place and about 10PM last night I asked Tb-rescue.com for help. About noon today I got an e-mail - a local cacher had retrieved my bug!!!! And two others in there too. Happy TB Day Many thnaks to tb-rescue and olbapo83.
  18. eMail from Amazon this AM. New shipping date for Oregon 600T June 24. Sorry for any inconvenience. Well the 62S is still performing just fine. It will serve for late April trip to AZ and mid June trip to SD.
  19. Challenge caches have a detailed description of requirements for placing. These should be in the general guidelines for placing caches, not hidden on the support site as they are now. Now that the poorly named "challenges" have disappeared, removing the confusion with Challenge Caches, which were there long before them and which are an entirely different thing, it's time to get a separate designation and icon for Challenge caches. The mystery category and ? icon now includes both Puzzle Caches and Challenge Caches and they are not the same thing at all. Challenge caches are very popular where I cache in Eastern Nebraska. They seem to bee popular everywhere. shell1fish's bookmark lists of Challenge Caches has 5354 listed for the United States as of today. They are a great preventative of caching burnout. One does get tired of urban micros after a few years. But I find myself going for them happily when finding one helps reach the qualification of a Challenge Cache. I logged a lamppost cache today just for that reason. Let's get them a category and an icon.
  20. NevaP

    KOREA Roll Call!

    Hi, I just discovered this topic in the Asian forum. I will doing my first (and probably only) trip to Korea August 17-28 accompanying my husband to attend the International Congress of Entomology(ICE)which is being held at EXCO in Daegu August 19-25. We will have a jet lag recovery day August 18,staying near the Incheon airport and then fly to Daegu on the 19th. After the congress we are doing a Jeju Island tour August 25-27. We will be back at Incheon overnight August 27 and I have noted that the TB hotel cache is close to the hotel we are using that night. Looking at caches using the geocaching app on Google Earth I see that there are none close to EXCO. We are staying in the Interpark Motel in that area. The congress offers a variety of local area tours and I will be doing a number of these. I might have a chance to grab a cache but this isn't always possible with a tour group. Once we have the details of the congress schedule I will look for a day my husband has some free time and we might be able to take a taxi to one of the parks which has a number of caches. I see a lot of caches on Jeju so I probably will have a chance to get a few there. I'll welcome suggestions and information. It's a busy week but I would be happy to meet local cachers if possible. And I would be delighted if anyone could hide a cache(large enough enough for small travel bugs) in the EXCO area. I see what looks like a big park with no caches (Daebul Park?) right there. Thanks. NevaP Neva Pruess NevaLCP@aol.com Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
  21. I nominate James Bridger, who is based in Valentine, Nebraska. As of today 612 hides in Nebraska, South Dakota and a couple other states. The caches range from ordinary micros and diabolical micros to difficult and very imaginative puzzles. There are lots of ammo cans and other regular sized containers, most of them in interesting places including some lovely remote locations. Also some fine series. My favorite is Triskaidekaphobia which requires finding 13 caches (mostly ammo cans) in rural cemeteries in Cherry County Nebraska(an area larger than the state of Connecticut, with a population of about 6000 people and 200,000 cows in our beautiful sandhill county.) Read My log for You Only Live twice (part of the Office of Sandhills Security series)as an example of what JB offers. JB also hosts a great event at Valentine, in June. Cache and Splash.
  22. We get some really good ones in the Lincoln, NE area. FTF adventure FTF adventure -part 1 part 2 of the above (This cacher's logs tend to exceed the size limit) The adventures of the local fauna at Big at Big Blue cache Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 - the found log Winter caching on minimum maintenance roads Beware of Zombies part 1 Beware of Zombies - note There are more but that's all I have time to look up
  23. I had 280 something when this started and I went back through my finds database and handed out a bunch of them to caches I had liked. I have 67 left right now and the number has been staying fairly constant. I tend to give one every time I find a real ammo can cache.
  24. I've logged two of them. I picked up GCC6B, Fly...Mars Rover, the very first one, which has been traveling since June 2001, in a cemetery cache in Washington DC in May, 2006 and I moved it to Nebraska. Then CarleenP and I took it to Midwest Geobash. She grabbed it and took it to Groundspeak Headquarters and the volunteers meeting where it met a lot of people before moving on. It's in Alabama now. Last winter, along with a bunch of other people, I logged GCC6B, Corp.of Discovery, at an event in Illinois. I think it was considered to be in transit at the time. I'm glad there are still a few around. But it's too bad they don't get a map like a TB so you can see where they have been.
  25. Oh if I decide to do this I'll just make it part of the morning-still-in-my-houserobe-routine. Get up-brush teeth-comb hair-feed cats-pour coffee-create challenge-eat breakfast-decide what to do the rest of the day. (I am retired so I don't have to worry about getting to work)
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