jtbrady01

In the same situation here. Queued up a few a couple hours ago and they still haven't ran.

Welcome! Hope you are having fun with your new obsession, er, I mean "hobby". Next weekend (May 9) is the IN Spring Picnic - would be a great time to meet some other cachers and get some pointers, not to mention to find more caches! Mrs. Car54 I will be there. TTI - We had an event today down at the new ball park. Where were you?????? I guess I missed it because I wasn't aware of the event for some reason ... hummmm Sorry I did miss it though hope you all had fun ! Star That's alright. Things happen. It was a beautiful day though.

Welcome! Hope you are having fun with your new obsession, er, I mean "hobby". Next weekend (May 9) is the IN Spring Picnic - would be a great time to meet some other cachers and get some pointers, not to mention to find more caches! Mrs. Car54 I will be there. TTI - We had an event today down at the new ball park. Where were you??????

Did a bunch on Saturday. Will probably do some this weekend. Some of us work during the week.

Okay, I think I did that once to see what it was about. Now if they can get my emails to work on the threads I'm subscribed to I'll be happy.

Here's another thing to think about. Attempting to look up his name he's still not registered. So, the question is how familiar was he with your GPS? I know the first time I took mine out and tried to do a multi-cache I forgot to bring along the manual and had no clue how to manually input a coordinate. In the process I wiped out the GPX file. I couldn't blame anyone but myself. Did you by chance show him how to use it or just hand it to him and say go for it?

I'm confused. Everyone's talking about the Google Earth KML. Is this the same thing as the "Find Caches Along a Route" feature?

With my cache run today my total is up to 190.

was the cache published after an event? Seen it before where event participants were given first dibs at getting a cache and then it was published a couple days later.

I've found two sprinkler caches. Both of these you barely touched and they came straight out of the ground since they weren't connected to any water supply. A real sprinkler would have been connected to a water source and not moved. Not sure what the issue is. My two cents. Off to another topic.

I don't rush out the house looking for the FTF's. For one it's a waste of gas. I have two FTF's that are memorable. My first one and the first one out of my home State. All the others have been my pure luck. I'll put in my log FTF. Other than that I don't get too excited over it.

And this was the one I couldn't reach. Guess it help to have an extra set of hands to get to this one and possibly help fetch someone out of the water if they fell in. I'm clapping my hands on your success.

This issue has been debated a few times. Here's some past threads I'm aware of. Thread 1 Thread 2 Thread 3

That's why they had to be marked as "?" not as Traditional. Do you go up to Puzzle, Multi or Virtual caches and search for a box without reading the description? Maybe you didn't read what I wrote. When you cache paperless and the cache is At the posted coordinates and you have read through the entire cache description on the Colorado and there is no ALR listed why should my log be deleted? It's not my fault that you (cache owner) decided to write an essay on the cache that caused the ALR to be truncated (left off) of the Colorado. I get home look up the cache page and it says at the very bottom to include a photo, or a transcription. I log the cache and send an email to the owner and they delete it anyway. Now, my thought. If I was going to do an ALR I would have put the requirement at the top of the cache page. Also, don't include a photo on the page and state to email me the dimensions of the object I'm pointing to. What are you pointing to? I don't carry my laptop out into the field and not everyone has a cell phone with internet capability. Maybe at the beginning the code word in the cache was a good idea. However too many got carried away and started asking for all of us to do some really stupid things that had nothing to do with Geocaching. If you really need to know who visited your caches do the maintenance and stop putting out 200+ caches. Sorry if that upsets some of you. But, if that was the way that you expected to maintain your caches then you were going about it the wrong way.

Honestly I don't see a purpose of me signing a logbook then taking a photo of myself on a piece of playground equipment in order to claim a smiley has anything to do with Geocaching. Or, why should I have to transcribe a monument nearby in my log. Again, what does that have to do with Geocaching. Absolutely nothing. The ALR's were getting out of hand. Other thing like I said before. I cache paperless. A lot of these additional requirements were embedded in a photograph or at the bottom of a very long cache description and were truncated. So, I found the cache at the posted coordinates and now what do I do? I sign the log book. Should my log be deleted because I couldn't read the ALR in the field? No, that's not in keeping with what Geocaching is about. However, I probably have 10 or so logs deleted because of this. Glad the ALR's are gone.

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... Not to tread on a slippery slope, but I'm convinced that many of the recent issues with irresponsible finders seem to stem from a reluctance to actually read the cache page first. Not reading the description can lead to cachers getting upset when their finds get deleted on traditional caches with ALRs (new guidelines or not, the log deletions will still continue, even though the cache owner is no longer right in doing so), cachers getting caught in parks and cemeteries after the hours listed on the cache page, cachers parking in the wrong place and crossing private property to reach a cache, cachers not sticking to trails and creating social paths, cachers compromising the location of a container by hunting at the wrong time of day, cachers unnecessarily putting themselves into dangerous situations- just to name a few examples that I've seen. Here's one issue I tend to have on this point. I do read the cache page on my Colorado. However, for those hiders who do a cache page totally as a picture or are get so caught up in writing a book and you waited until the very end to include the ALR half the time it was truncated from the Colorado. So, I would wind up logging my cache and later getting it deleted. Why? I found it. And based on my Colorado's cache page I read all I could and satisfied the requirements. I'm happy of this change. No more deleted finds.

All I can say is Thank you!!! I can't count the number of times I have come across a traditional cache and logged. Only later to have the log deleted and the nasty little note to say you didn't complete the ALR. What ALR? This was a Traditional cache. Well someone went in and edited the cache after publishing. Or, what about the cache hider who is too lazy to maintain their caches so, they want you to photograph yourself near the cache site so they can verify you were there instead of actually going out every now and then and checking on the cache themselves. Do you know how weird it is to take a photo of yourself on a piece of playground equipment for an ALR? This really has gotten out of hand. Glad someone has finally put an end to it.

Depending on the type of EarthCache some distance measurements can be now done on Goggle Earth. Others sometimes tend to pass the answers on from one cacher to another. I know I've done some EarthCaches where the log says to take the photo like they have. Well, I cache paperless and have no idea in the field what their photo looks like. My requirements are generic in that you must photograph yourself at the location. It doesn't say your face needs to be in it. Now, I don't really want any moon shots either. This is a family site

Ok, I finished up the yard work this morning and then grabbed my Colorado and the sky opened up. What gives???

I'll take the ticks. The weather wasn't too nice this year. Especially for a tent. The coin and PT are both nice.

22 is me not a muggle.

You can try Deam Lake State Park. I've camped there before and hiked part of the Knobstone.

How frustrating am I. I did some maintenance on my ISQ a few weeks back and there was nothing in the cache. This morning I get the below email from a cacher who found my cache. Why couldn't it be me? I found a Geocoin in there that says The Shadow and Indiana Spirit Quest but it hasn't been activated yet. I had to email them back and let them know what the coin was about. Anyone have any extras???

I just published a new ISQ... Some good stats to have