DENelson83

And as it turns out, I'll never have the right gear. I suffer from hyperhidrosis, meaning I sweat buckets after walking only a kilometre, no matter what the temperature.

You can also just use words, like "green flag", "yellow flag", etc.

Miffed: When you get eluded by a MIF, or "micro in forest".

And besides, the GPS is maintained by the US military. North Korea considers the US to be "imperialist".

That will most likely never happen.

I guess I use HDDDMMSS.S because I just want a "second" chance...

Well, split hairs if you will, but every time it rains where I live, it's humid enough to stop my sweat from evaporating, making me saturated. Ergo no geocaching in the rain for me. End of story.

I do not go geocaching in the rain. Full stop. Whenever I try to stay dry in a rainstorm, my body betrays me by sweating profusely, and I start to sweat after only walking less than a kilometre, no matter what the temperature is. And since the relative humidity is always 100% when it rains, the sweat doesn't evaporate, and I get saturated. I call this unfortunate situation a "water vise". This makes it absolutely unpleasant for me to cache in the rain, no matter what I'm wearing. Heck, I just might as well go topless in a rainstorm--it won't make a shred of difference.

Just install nRoute on it and hook your GPS up to it.

Here's my area: I restrict my cache hunting to within a 10 km radius of where I live, just to save gas.

GMT? That's not the right abbreviation for that time zone. It should be UTC.

Then the reviewers need a layer of coordination themselves. They should be communicating with one another.

I got a breathable coat and a pair of gummies. Hopefully it'll make caching in the rain a little more fun for me.

That's a bug on wap.geocaching.com that really needs to be fixed. We don't like being mislead by that error when trying to log a cache on our mobiles.

Uh-oh... I smell geocaching Christmas carol coming on...

West Coaster here (Islander, actually), and I cache alone, although not by choice.

I made such a sound. It's simply two arpeggios of chimes, with the highest notes being "G, C" for geocache.

I use lat/lon, in the form HDDDMMSS.S. That's the coordinate format I've always used. I also enter coordinates into my GPSr in that format.

You then add a shaded circle on the map centred on a coordinate estimate which randomly changes with each search and having a random radius in a range given by the CO. The final coordinates are guaranteed to be in that circle. On the search page, it would say "within (radius) of (centre coordinates)".

You know those puzzle caches where at the top of the description it says "ignore the above coordinates, the cache is not there" or something to that effect? Well, why not update the geocaching website to allow the cache owner to set the posted coordinates to "not given" or "not available" or something to that effect? The true coordinates would still be in the database to enable trackable travel distances to remain accurate, but hidden and embellished in a way that they'd still show up in search results as being within a certain distance of the centre coordinates for a given search, but to within a degraded accuracy to discourage brute-forcing, like cloaking the coordinates in our own version of "selective availability"?

Well, time-waster if it frustrates you, no longer a time-waster once you finally find it. Stop me there but... What does 'NIH' stand for? 'Not in here'?

How about striking through the icon on the map? Would that make it more obvious?

I haven't had to use that many attempts on one cache yet, but there have been a couple of caches that took me seven attempts each before finally finding them. I call such caches "time-wasters".