SillySailor

It's not true that they are only visible on the website. They are placed in the .GPX file for the cache. They are displayed by both my current GPS (a Garmin GPSMAP 66ST) and my previous GPS (a Garmin GPSMAP 62stc that I got in 2013). I would be surprised if any Garmin GPS from the last 7 years doesn't display them. They are also displayed by the cgeo app on my mobile phone. On both GPS and the mobile phone, when present, they are displayed before the entered log text. This means they are easy to spot when scrolling through previous logs. It is much harder to spot better coordinates if entered as part of the log text. Losing the ability to log better coordinates into the field in .GPX files specifically for the purpose is a BAD thing and I hope this function will be brought back. Which GPS or app doesn't display the coordinates? Probably because one of the limitations of the "new logging experience" on the website was that it doesn't have the functionality. I don't know about apps as I do my logging when back on a computer with a large screen. I used the functionality. e.g for https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC882C8_secret-squirrel in December. As I said above placing better coordinate suggestions in the actual log text makes them LESS accessible as they get missed when within the log text. Please re-consider and bring back entering coordinates using specific log entry field. p.s. I have read blog. I would have made the moving mascot or banner a trackable and not a one off cache type.

I'm getting this message from www.Wherigo.com on almost any attempt to use the site. I did get page https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7QF0J_grampound-Wherigo-2 loaded but now get the message whenever I click on 1) OK by "By using this site, you agree to its use of cookies as provided in our policies" 2) sign in 3) unlock Are other people seeing this?

My first cache GC51QBK was placed 2014-04-06, published 2014-04-20 (I've no idea at what time) and found twice the next day (at 12:40pm and after 9:00pm). It's now been found 327 times.

I use a Garmin GPSmap device and "Send to GPS". "Send to GPS" works on my laptop (Windows 8.1 and latest Firefox) and I don't want to see it removed.

I've seen a car with a sticker TB569WN and also a woman with a trackable tattoo TB72Z29. The largest one I've seen that is released for other geocachers to move is a four foot high teddy bear TB6BBX5 "Massive Pink Teddy". https://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?tracker=TB6BBX5

1) go to your profile https://www.geocaching.com/my/default.aspx 2) Click on the "Yours" in "Trackable Items (Yours)" which takes you to a page with a URL with the format https://www.geocaching.com/track/search.aspx?o=1&uid=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx where the uid value xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx applies to your login 3) Delete the "o=1&" to leave a URL with the format https://www.geocaching.com/track/search.aspx?uid=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx This page lists the first 20 TBs/GCs in name order you have found. You can now page through them or change the sort order to date of last log or distance I've bookmarked the URL from (3) and use it monitor what has happened to the TBs/GCs I've found.

I have 15 trackables released (plus 3 I received for Christmas but not yet released). One makes my geodog "Pebbles" trackable. Two were dropped in caches and later finders of the cache reported they were missing so are now in Unknown Location. Six are recorded as being in caches. One MIA as in an archived event. Three probably OK as zero or one finder of the cache since dropped. Two have logs on cache/trackable page showing may actually been grabbed (one in April so probably MIA, one this month so may turn up). Six are recorded as held by a cacher. One has visited caches this month. The other five have been held for months (two by the first cacher to grab the trackable).

As a wild guess, the switch from numbers only to alph-numberic may have occurred when the TB code changed from TBnnnn to TBnnnnn. I think this because the newest TBs I have recorded a numeric only secret key for are TBYQVN https://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=475749 and TBYXPW https://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=480436 both released by the same owner on Monday, 03 July 2006 (so produced by Groundspeak before then).

I logged a DNF on a cache today. The coordinates took me to wooded area. After searching all nearby trees, I read the hint. It said "tree".

More examples of a TB missing for years. "Hardworking Policeman" http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?tracker=TB27A4F was dropped in a cache on 16th Oct 2011. The first report (on the cache's page not the TB's page) that the TB was missing was on 11th Dec 2011. I found it outside the cache when looking for the cache on 13th Apr 2015. One I discovered in 20014, "JD the Little Tracktor" http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?tracker=TBJACB was placed in a cache 6th Jan 2007 and found in a different cache 10th July 2009 and also grabbed on 7th Aug 2011 and not dropped until 28th June 2013.

TB3FCZ7 went from Fiji to Tonga in January 2015. The text below the map shows a distance of 475.6mi SE. However, the map shows a route west across australia, the indian ocean, africa, the atlantic ocean, south america and thousands of miles of the pacific ocean. http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?tracker=TB3FCZ7

Today I found a cache which had one travel bug TB27A4F listed as present. The TB was dropped off on 16th Nov 2011. There were no later entries on the TB's page. On the cache's page there were no sightings of the TB and a number of reports that the TB wasn't present (the earliest from 11th Dec 2011). As expected the travel bug wasn't in the cache. However, I did find the travel bug outside the cache when searching for the cache.