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I might mention that this is not something that will be done with every park. Most parks will not be involved with this program since the caches there are not a problem. However, when a park starts getting problems, whether related to the caches or not, but that the park attributes to the caches, then this policy can kick in. This is not the cache police, but a way to work with the parks to keep caches in the parks. Only caches that disregard park guidelines will be dealt with. Those guidelines may be above and beyond the normal guidelines for cache placement.

The nearest US government office would be the consulate in Florence.

I have friends who are heading that way in May, but that's probably too long of a wait. Hopefully she can get help. Good luck! If she is an American citizen, she should take her military ID and go to the US Embassy. The Embassy is in Rome not Pisa. If she has funds to travel with, travel within the European Union does not require any passport. In fact, there are not stops at any border. If she can, then take a train to any city with an American base. Germany comes to mind.

I can't do it this year, but this is a great experience. If you can free up the time, I will guarantee that you will enjoy the time.

A sad ending to this one. Details here.

The Send To GPS button does not work for Magellan units because Magellan has never written the code to do that. Garmin and DeLorme have and it works for those units only.

A container is a good weapon in a pinch, but it depends on the cache you find. If its an ammo can, a whack on the head with it will stop a creepy from doing you harm. If its a micro, well then you're out of luck. Another reason I don't like micros. Thank Navigatorz.

I am in the recovery process now. My surgery was Sept. 29 and have not done many caches that require trail work. I did not find any caches for over a month after the surgery. I was able to drive after 3.5 weeks, but most people take six weeks. They keep telling full recovery is about a year. Spend as much time as you can in the gym and work on your legs. The stronger your legs are when you have the surgery, the better off you will be. Within a week of surgery I was walking up to two miles a day, but that was on the sidewalks on my short dead end street. That worked out to 18 laps a day. Can you say "boring?" Too bad there weren't any caches along there. The reason I didn't go any further is that that would involve hills and stairs, both of which are hard on your new knee. Do expect to use a cane for a few months. Feel free to email me or PM, if you wish.

Ah, but this one was on private property, namely Groundspeak Headquarters, and was not on the sidewalk itself.

That is precisely the cache I was looking for. THANKS! I had speculated that it might have been archived ... sorry to see ones like this disappear. -eP 1. I wasn't certain it was in Seattle, or even in the Northwest region. All I was certain of was that it was in a big city. 2. I may be nuts, but at least I'm polite! 3. Social networks in general and forums in particular were designed to answer exactly those sorts of vague queries - to wit, see the successful response above. Welcome to the internet, noobie! 4. Darn, I knew #2 couldn't last for long ;-) Since it is archived, I won't be giving away any secrets here. The container was a newspaper vending box with a combination padlock on it. There was a copy of Today's Cacher in the window. It sat right outside The Lily Pad.

I recall reading somewhere that (I believe) OpinioNate said the next release is in February. If I could find the post I'll edit to add the link. Edit : here you go. Post 49 of this thread. In general Nate does not announce a particular date for a release because things happen and the date gets pushed back causing complaints about that as well. The release will come when they are ready to release it.

That was supposedly fixed in the last push of code. Since I have never used that feature, I was just going on memory and suggested a possible solution. It turned out to be the obvious, but I didn't know that then.

Click here for instructions. I got that from the linked thread above in the pinned area on the FAQ.

Are you checking, My Home Coordinates? I seem to recall that some people are having this problem with that as the center of the search. Try actually entering your home coords or check the postal code and see if that helps. I concur, don't check the day until you know it works.

All that re-register means is to come into the forums from the main geocaching website. That process updates everything needed. If you come into the forums directly that information is not transferred here.

One point I'd like to make is that the people who live in these areas where it rains most of the time are prepared for the rain. Around here where rain days are much rarer it is much less likely the average person will have the rain gear you all do and we are much more likely to say "Lets wait until it stops", because even all day rains are not very common here. Raining in the morning, dry in the afternoon. Also I have been in the Pacific Northwest during the wet season and to be honest even I didn't notice the rain much, I'd set out walking uptown without so much as an umbrella and not think twice about it while here I generally hate getting rained on. A few years ago I was going to be in Des Moines, Iowa for a track meet. We were told it would be 80°, but there was the possibility of rain so bring rain gear. My rain gear is for temperatures of half that. I don't have rain gear for 80° weather. In Seattle, if it is 80, then the sun is out.

Someone finds $60 in a box and it makes the news? Wow. It must be a REALLY slow news day. A little over a year ago I found a 100 dollar bill in a parking lot. Where's my 15 minutes of fame??? That happened to me too, only it was a bit further back. I think that was almost two years ago.

I'm assuming this is the place for this. In any search for caches, the column headed Last Found is not wide enough for "5 days ago*" and so the row is double height. If that column were wider, then some of that white space would go away. I note that "yesterday" fits in the column so it doesn't need to be much wider.

Disregard that last. I tried it again and it was my error.

I have read all the pages of this thread and don't see this one. I'm not sure if it is new as I have not tried this before. I was adding some caches to my ignore list by entering the GC#. I was looking at page 2 when I did this and after I hit enter, the page refreshed and page 1 was shown as expected. I could no longer get to page 2. When I tried, page 3 showed up even though the page number list at the bottom showed page 2. I did this by using Next, by clicking on 2 from page 1 as well as a later page. None of that worked. Edit to add FF 3.5.7 on my Mac with Snow Leopard

You might check out the HOTM and AHOTM threads below. There is a separate HOTM thread each year so if you go back, you can find the threads from 2008 and 2009 as well as the 2010 thread.

I know of several people with high find counts who have logged many "finds" on caches they didn't find. They claim they found the right spot but the cache was missing. Sometimes it was, sometimes it wasn't. Either way it's a bogus find. I have also had people place a "replacement cache" because the original was "missing" and then log the find. I went by and removed the extra box and verified that my box was in place. They were asked to delete the find and they did.

This is not the first time someone has taken a poor road in winter in Oregon. People using a GPSr for navigation should use common sense. The system does not discriminate back roads from highways and if the road doesn't look good, don't take it. I think for myself while on the road and I am not a slave to the nav system I'm using. This needs to be especially the case in winter when some roads do become impassible.

They mean manually entering the coordinates into the unit. And that is usually done by Marking a location (there should be a button for that on the unit) and then editing that location.

Its one of the options under Log Your Visit