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Here is an interesting one but its not in the NGS database. It does have a nearby geocache commemorating it though. 4 - Corners Oregon It looks to be a flat marble monument with an etched map and inscriptions. The top inscription says: "In the State of Oregon of 36 counties this is the only corner common to four counties. Erected October 1982" The bottom corner lists the names of the four respective county surveyors, while the mark itself is the point where the four corners meet on a map etched into the stone.

I use GEOCAC there are a few that do INDIV that I am aware of. It is whatever you prefer. There was a thread a while back that I think wound up with the consensus that if they were over 6 months they shouldn't be submitted, thats what my rememberer is telling me anyhow. As for me, When I started reporting to NGS, I submitted some from a few months prior but actually revisited other marks so I could make a "proper" and up to date recovery report. If it truly was a rarely visited location with very minimal chance of disturbance I might feel OK about going back a year but in the city were change can happen overnight I wouldn't do it personally. That's the only one I know of. One thing to remember if you are a fan of Holoscenes stats page you need to be consistent with your initials or your recoveries will not be reflected properly. I made this mistake and reported using AS and ADS and some of my recoveries wound up in the unidentified section. I didn't see your name on his list but he does include users who do not report if they request it. I think the stats come from reports that are made using the GEOCAC identifier so this may also decide you on whether to report as an INDIV or not depnding on your preferences. If you are not familiar with Holoscenes be sure to check out some of his other pages. I really enjoy the Notable Recoveries and Extreme Stations page.

I claimed a FTF on a cache once and someone else logged in later that they had found it first a few hours earlier. I had signed a blank log booklet....or so I thought. I went back and sure enough there was the other cachers signature.... and mine wasn't there. I had signed in on the last page thinking it was the front. really, doesn't matter. If with a group I sometimes (in my log) give credit to the one who made the actual find but claim a co find. Other times I give them all the glory in my log. Ie: "I looked all around it but xyz made the find." And I do the same if I make the find with someone else at ground zero. Sometimes I'll give all credit but other times like if I was out with my brother in law I might rub his nose in it and claim that I stole first to find from him while he was looking 4 feeet away. So it doesn't really matter in my book.

TFTC This usually means. "I was here but there was no redeeming value at this cache site that warranted a real log"

Just look at all that green space. You could get lost wandering around in there. Well the old site is at the Internet Archive. Wayback Machine. See if you can look at the GS home pages using these links. Wonder why you cannot see them.

Yes, thank you. I also don't mind the changes.... that much. Ahh. Looking at that familiar old page was like a stroll along the street of my hometown. Fun, but I am glad I don't live there anymore.

Similar story but in mine someone ran a light and I did T-bone them. We where just starting out caching and it put a crimp in the caching schedule. Mapleton Hill Pioneer Trail

Any possibility the latest might make it into the DeLorme format? Thanks to all concerned.

I thought we could only do this with non geocache waypoints. If I load a GPX file from the waypoints menu where I have the file functions available does it load all the currently supported geocache details? I am a new PN-40 user and was able to load them just the way the rockhounders indicated with all of the geocache details.

Mine has a build date of last June and came with a card.

Wonderful. Bright spot in the day so far.

Is there rough coordinates for the Oceans in View marker that anyone has?

Agreed

Its not to off topic since Groundspeak and the Lakey's are in Washington State......right. Very nice photos of the coins.

Without more information about the marks you are referring to it is impossible to assist you. Location? Photos? There are many benchmarks in the US that are not in the Geocaching database. It is possible they are indeed benchmarks but even more likely they are not listed here. This post in the "read me first" thread in the neighboring Benchmark Hunting forum may also give you insight into your find.

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You didn't get the correct URL Here is the link. www.ThatDarnMarkHasToBeHereSomewhere.com

I thought the official greeting for cachers you didn't know was; "Excuse me, sir, This is private property." Spoken by Meercat to Mr. Bean around 2003 and reused countless times.

RINGBONE....is that you. Why does my post say CacheDrone Yes Skippermark makes some good points. I have always held that even if the stats page supplied a statistic like the benchmark statistic for waymarks more people would participate. I also appreciate the respectfulness of the thoughts and can in turn respect someone who plainly states that they "are not interested". Someone earlier mentioned that waymarkers seemed to be elitist. BQ took me to task for a comment once that seemed elitist but was merely an attempt at humor. So Geocaching has its champions in the Waymarking forums. It is good to have reasonable people in these discussions because after being verbally backhanded time after time for engaging in a personal preference in GPS games I find myself distancing myself from Geocaching more and more because of the ugly stepsister treatment given to Waymarkers. These reasonable people help me gain perspective (I hope). It is regrettable that on occasion the ugly step sister finally says "enough" and does something regrettable in an email or in the forums. Seems that Waymarkings detractors often paint with a wide brush and for some reason cannot get past WM1 even when there are WM100 Mailbox Peak , WM1000 Bedford Springs Hotel Historical District and a few hundred thousand more. The majority of which are not commercial by the way. In the blog A Number of Ways the 50 largest categories only have two "commercial" categories in the mix. When many of Waymarkings detractors begin to rant it would seem they are all McDonalds. Personally I have posted one McDonald's, and out of over 600 other listings there are very few commercial ones. A few because I like to fill my grid but still not a lot. Yet, here, I still find mocking, complaining, whining about virtuals, and misinformation about a past time I enjoy. And then I am accused of being an elitist. WOW

This was the first message I got from anyone on the Waymarking site in over a year. Well now we have a He said, He said. Let me throw this out as a thought. Recently I made a waymarker mad. I had sent several emails requesting an update on a particular waymark that was in error. As a category officer I politely let them know that I was happy to assist with the edit and if I didn't hear from them and it wasn't edited by a certain date that I would do the edit after that time. After the time elapsed and I made the edit I got some very irate emails about changing the waymark.... The waymarker had never received the emails I had sent him. We were able to hash it out amicably because I never resorted to strong arm tactics and even (gasp) apologized for my part in the situation, but I was frustrated with him and he was frustrated with me all because of an email fail. I wonder if that could be a contributing factor here as well.

Logs are deleted all the time if they do not meet the category (or cache) guidelines. I have a feeling the whole story isn't being told. How many messages did the OP get before the waymarker started deleting his "visits". The..... in the OP's post indicate that these comments are snipped out of a larger body of text. Sometimes this kind of post lacks proper context and shows only one side of the story using CONtext.

One cache I found some time ago was in a problem area and the hider requested that finders CITO. The hider supplied regular plastic shopping bags that had individually been stuffed into film canisters and then they had a CITO label on each canister describing what the intent was. Worked well enough it seemed.

The collection is online and includes the photo mentioned in the OP in the slide show.

True, True..... I am another former radio news guy. Small town market. Radio news is more accurate but a disturbing trend in my area is the local news station is generating a majority of their news directly from the local newspaper which is often biased, wrong or both. I get frustrated every time I hear them rehash a news story that I read in the morning rag almost verbatim.

No that is government math. a 12.6% increase plus taxes and fees = 18 dollars.