NYPaddleCacher

I would agree with this to a point. However, if someone has made a legitimate attempt to solve a puzzle, has driven for a few miles on a seasonal road, hiked (or worse yet, bushwacked) a mile or more up a steep hill, then searched for a half an hour (ignoring the couple making woopie in the woods), asking for a coordinate verification (assuming one has phone service from the cache) via a PAF is certainly understandable. Last weekend I went out with a couple other cachers to search for a group of caches in a nearby forest. One was a puzzle cache that required a short drive down a seasonal road, then a .3 miles hike up a steep hill (rated 3 1/2 stars for terrain). We were only the fourth this year to enter a log for a cache that really wasn't that difficult. There have been no DNFs logged on the cache either so I suspect that most won't even make an attempt on a cache that has a difficult puzzle and a high terrain rating.

There are a couple of local cachers in my area that have geocoin hotels in their yards. Their intent was to have a safe place to keep nice geocoins. In one particular cache they only keep three coins in the cache at any one time and have the rest in the house. Cachers are welcome to send email if there is a specific coin they would like to grab/discover. That, however, didn't stop someone from cleaning out their cache along with a few dozen more coins in a Labor day weekend sweep covering a good portion of western NY and about 25 caches (all of which had coins/TBs previously logged in them). The first cache that I placed is in a park just across from where I live and I have encountered several people searching for it.

I've got a set of bookmarks I've been working on for a trip to California next week. Since I'll be traveling to a couple of different areas I've accumulated 67 items in the list. Due the the paging issue described in a recent post managing multiple of pages can be somewhat painful. Wouldn't it be nice if one could create a second bookmark (for example, Lake Tahoe Caches), then go to the "California" bookmarks, check a bunch of items in the list, then select "Move Bookmarks". That could render a select list of bookmarks choose from, and a Submit would move the selected bookmarks (with comments) to a different list.

When I am looking at a cache list and select the "Bookmark Listing", first time it renders the Create a Bookmark page the "Select A List" select list doesn't contain any of my bookmarks. If I hit the backspace button then select "Bookmark Listing" again, the select list renders fine. Not a big issue but I didn't see it mentioned before. I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.6.

I was planning on posting something about this and went back six pages in the forum before I saw this thread. The multi page handling for bookmarks seems to get real confused when there are more than 20 items. Setting the number of caches to 50 doesn't always solve the problem. Sometimes it still only renders the first page. I typically have to go back to my bookmark list and then select the bookmark list again. Something that would help would be to allow premium members to set "Number of caches displayed" to 50 (even 100). It also seems like there may be some caching going on as I often will bookmark something and it might take 2-3 reloads before I see it appear in my list. Last weekend I added a bookmark for puzzle cache and added a note with he real coordinates then printed out the list. When I arrived at the parking coordinas (about 30 miles from home in the middle of a National forest) I discovered that my listing didn't have the updated entry. Fortunately I had cell phone service and called my wife. She looked at my bookmarks and sure enough, there was the correct coordinates.