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An easy way to find duplicate logs: http://project-gc.com/Profile/FindBadLogs I just started placing caches. I'm not sure what I'd do if someone double logged and didn't respond after I let them know. If read enough of these forums to know people get really bent out of shape if you delete logs even with good reason.

Given than the label on most geocaches goes something like "Congratulations you've found the geocache (intentionally or not)" you should definitely sign the log and attempt to log it online. Hopefully the GC code was marked clearly on it. Edit: I found this: https://www.geocaching.com/articles/geocachenote.txt

My daily streak has hit 60 days. After chasing too many lamp post caches and micros on dumpsters and on other totally disgusting places, I can see how someone might say the game is dead. However I think really all it is that the game is changing and giving people more options. I've only been caching for a little over a year, but I have an idea of what the caching experience use to be before the phone apps, the rise of urban caching, and caches that require special technology. Even on my lamp post streak, I have had several that were what I consider a traditional geocache experience. I've found several parks I never knew existed, found caches dedicated to people that history has forgotten, seen several beautiful sights I never would have seen otherwise, and encountered some very unique caches. Then there's the new part of the game...the FTF race, racking up numbers, and fulfilling some stupid challenges. I'm doing that on my daily streak too. These are all just different aspects of the game. Yes hiding 10000 nanos around the city seems to the growing thing right now, However that's because the focus originally had been on other kinds of caches. They're just catching up. If you don't like lamp post caches or the numbers game, you don't have to do them. It is fairly easy to tell just from a map or the cache description if it is something you don't want to do. Basically to me it looks like the options for playing the game are expanding. So I don't think that means the game is dead. Quite the contrary actually, the game is growing and is alive and well.

Add my name to the list of people who wan the 30mi limit problem fixed. I just missed an event b/c the "Find events in my area" won't expand beyond 30mi. The event is definitely within my metropolitan area and should have shown but didn't b/c it is closer to 50mi away.

Wow! That's the first time the new search page returned results for me. Thanks.

So I've solved several mystery caches and entered corrected coordinates. However I haven't been out to find most of them and at this point I can't remember where most of them are on the map. Is there any way to search for caches that I have entered corrected coordinates for? Thanks in advance.

If the CO really wanted a photo emailed to them, they'd list their email address. When you log the cache online just upload the photo with the log.

The incident occurred near dusk and the waspy bees were not flying in and out. The cache had not been found for a while. The shopping center it was in seemed to only have the McDonald's in business. As they started swarming I let the skirt fall which blocked the swarm from me. I fled without figuring out how they normally got in and out. Based on these answers, I'm going with my original plan and keep a can of wasp killer in the car and spray it down before attempting. Thanks.

I was travelling and stopped at a McD's. There was a cache in the parking lot behind it. It turned out to be a lamp post cache. Needing to further stretch my legs, I walk over to it. I go to lift the skirt up and a 100 angry waspy-bee-like things swarmed out. Fortunately I dropped the skirt before any got out and fled the area before I got stung. Searching the forums I see this is not exactly an uncommon experience. However there seems to be no advice for avoiding this problem except to just not do lamp post caches. While I can certainly appreciate and understand the anti- lamp post faction's view, lets just agree that I'm one of those nutcases that wants to keep doing them. Other than carrying a can of wasp and bee killer and spraying each lamp post before lifting the skirt is there some good way to detect a nest under the skirt. If there was a way to detect the nest, I'd rather just skip the cache alert the owner. Any thoughts?