knabino

There were no outages over the weekend that should have affected submission of logs. Is it possible that you had no data connection or a weak data connection when you tried to submit your log? If so, the app keeps your logs in a pending queue and attempts to submit them again once your are connected. You can check whether you have any logs awaiting submission by looking in the "More" menu to see whether "Pending" is shown with a number indicating the number of logs not yet submitted due to lack of connectivity. Nothing pending. I had logged 9 finds before the DNF and another 5 finds after. Never lost data connection. Just tried to post a DNF again on the same cache, this time connected to wifi and again, the log does not show up. My caching partner had the same situation. No trouble logging finds, but the DNF does not show up when logging from the app

Maybe this isn't a new thing but I don't usually use the phone app (Android Galaxy S7 Active). This weekend thought (1/21/17) , I was using it and logged a DNF. I got all the way through, and it gave me a confirmation screen that my log was posted. Today though, I am at the computer looking at my logs and my DNF doesn't show. Someone else said the same thing about posting a DNF. I used the app last weekend (1/14/17) too and logged a DNF that DID show. Did something break during the week?

No, it is not silly. There are many cachers who wrongly accuse people who have looked at the cache page in case the cache gets lost. Cezanne So, they won't look at the page because they are afraid of being accused of theft, as there is a small chance that the cache might go missing in the future, and the owner will blame everyone that looked at the page? I'm sorry, but I find that being overly paranoid. Wait until you have received threatening emails from a PMO CO because you dared to look at their cache page. You might not find it to be paranoid then.

If you do nothing else, put in big letters at the top of your cache description that there is PI in the area. There are some who are HIGHLY allergic to the stuff no matter what preventive solutions they use. Its nice to know at the start that there is PI in the area.

YES you can do that any time you want and many cache owners welcome this. They know that TBs are being moved and they know that their cache is in good shape. If you notice that maintenance needs to be done to the cache, make a note of that as well as your note about moving a cache.

Or do like some cachers have been know to do - get slew of containers and have your friends sign the logs before you hide the cache. As soon as the cache is published, they can log it and completely bypass the hunt - instant FTF. The best part of a FTF run is in seeing who else is going for it and maybe meeting others at the cache. Its not so much that you are getting a FTF. And when a FTF is handed on a silver platter to you, it becomes less gratifying.

I find it somewhat amazing too. I did some very minor caching in SE TX in 2008, shortly after Hurricane Ike while working on the clean-up. I managed to have 1 full afternoon/evening to cache and only came across 2 caches that I had to DNF due to them being lost to the hurricane. I was watching the caches in the area every day for the 20 days I was there and the COs were out replacing those that had gone MIA, even if they had not been found in months.

You might be right about it being a regional thing. It also might be an issue of how many people are consistently hunting the cache. Are there just 2 or 3 folks a month or are there 2 to 3 folks every day? Obviously the former is not going to have as great an impact as the later.

I'm sorry but I have a hard time reading about responsibility from someone who 1) has under 200 finds and 2) has only found 1 cache outside of his home state. I am more incline to listen to someone who has a) a few thousand finds cached all over and has seen how other states/communities cache. While you are correct, there are cachers who will place caches and then forget about them, IMO that is a relatively small number of folks. In the 4+ years I have been caching, I have only found 4 that were abandoned and left as geotrash. 2 were owned by seasoned cachers and 2 were placed by newbies who never logged in to GC after they placed their hides. Perhaps a better way of making this site work out for what you are intending is to limit it to your general area and not go so broad until you have a greater range of experience in other areas.

I used to cache alone all of the time until some of the local cachers got on my case for caching in the forest preserves alone. Now I cache with my geocaching gentleman friend probably 90% of the time.

One way to help avoid creating the geotrails is going to the cache in one way and leaving from another. Even if the way you take out is only 3 or 4 feet away from your entrance path. Another way, follow a true deer trail (one that has been created by the creatures that live there). Some of the cache owners around here will put into their description "follow the deer trail to..." or "there are many deer trails that you can follow"

Yup, done this a few times, but one time stands out in my mind: My log from the now archived - The Mouse That Roared

If it is a reasonable request, and one that I can do, I will, even though ALRs are no longer allowed. However, things that I find as reasonable, Joe down the street might find totally out of the question. Most of the time though, unless I am hunting a puzzle, earth cache, or virtual, I do not read the cache description until after I have found the cache. After the ALRs were no longer allowed, we had a local who still 'required' cache logs be written in Haiku or limerick form. Neither of those do I write (never could). Instead, I apologized in my log about not being able to write in that style and proceeded to write about the nice location and the enjoyable walk to GZ and thanked the guy for the hunt. He didn't like it and, while he did not delete my log, he put a note on the cache bashing me up one side and down the other for not following his rules. I haven't hunted a cache from that CO since. Respect is a two way street.

Thank you to all who worked to organize this picnic. I really enjoyed the whole weekend

I am stuck in Marshall and Coldwater MI until the 25th of August. Working 14+ hour days which really limits the caching, but I would still like to grab a few GOOD caches. Any suggestions?

I would not necessarily call this a "power trail" but in Lake County, Gurnee Glenn has a series called DRT. They are placed farther apart than those on the Centennial but still close enough. DRT 174 is just one of them. They are all bike-able and were placed by the owner while he was out on his bike.

I grew up in that county and lived there for 30 years. In the past, the 'officials' have been known to make rash calls just to have something to do (including giving a 4-year old a driving record!). This is the second cache that has been at that location so I would not say that it is a 'bad' location, just some 'good ol' boys wantin' for somethin' to do'. Now, I am not knocking ALL of the law enforcement in the county as many of them are great people but there are the ones who lack in a lot of common sense (I went to school with several of them) and would rather make a call than to 'observe' what is in front of them

Thanks Glenn and thanks to the Gurnee Officer. Its nice to know that some in the area are willing to go that extra mile

I would use the ignore user feature as well. Just to be able to ignore 1 psychotic hider would make an extra $5/year worth it to me. When a hider has 100+ owned caches, it would be much handier to click 'ignore user' than to have to go in constantly clicking on their cache pages to hide those.

I knew that she changed her web site a long time ago so that folks would have to submit a user/pw combo. just found it odd to get it on the cache page. no way in H311 will I give my PW to her. thanks for taking a look at it

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I clicked on a cache to view the description before logging it. This is a typical cache, not a PMO cache. When the page opened up, I got an "Authentication Required" screen popping up that said: "A username and password are being requested by http://www.INSERT CACHE OWNERS NAME HERE.com. The site says: "Access for /PART OF OWNERS NAME" (I have substituted the CAPS for what would have been the cache owners name) Is this a bug on GC.com? or is this something that the cache owner has put onto their cache page? I have never seen this pop up before and am not feeling very comfortable with it. I have logged many caches by this cache owner before and never had this happen.

well, depends upon how you are counting. I usually try and solve the puzzles ahead of time. Often when I have some down time at the office. As a result, I may solve between 1 and 15 in one day. The finding of them does not happen, sometimes, for a year or 2 later (usually within 6 months though). By doing it this way, come the day of the hunt, most of them are now just caches with adjusted coordinates. In this manner, 7 puzzles found in 1 day is the most

years ago, we wanted to learn a foreign language that my kids would have no way of understanding, so we picked Esperanto - a manufactured language that was supposed to become a universal language. My gentleman friend began calling me 'his knabino' and i started to use knabino for all of my online sites. Since relatively few people speak the language, the name was available on all sites. When we started caching, it was only natural that I continue on with that name. BTW - knabino means 'girl'

I would not worry too much about what passers by might wonder if you are in a historic cemetery. Non-cachers visit the historic ones all the time for genealogy research. I belong to a site where people send requests for photos of stones in cemeteries around me and I know that a lot of non-cachers belong to the same site so folks are in them a lot more than some may think.