ludozone

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I would like to start a group in Kathmandu, Nepal. If anyone interested, please message me.

Sorry I missed your message and I missed you in Nepal. I hope you had a good trip and enjoyed the country. I am embarking on placing more caches in Kathmandu/Patan (#NepalMoreThanMountains) so on your next trip you should have new stuff to hunt for.

Quick Update: The owner of the cache in Question 2 responded and made the correction!

Well, we have to start somewhere so I will move forward (hopefully with the remote help from Crow T Robot) and try to do good things. I have started a "clean-up" effort by contacting cache owners that have problems and either suggest description updates or even adoption. Here are two questions (somewhat related to each other) that perhaps someone can help with: 1) In Kathmandu, there are two caches that were placed via a school program (GC50HKN and GC5CT2D). The caches are fine and active, but the owner (SAMS School) is an unverified member that has not logged in since October 2016. I tried to contact them via message but no answer. I wanted to offer to adopt their caches for the next 3 years since I am local, but I am afraid there are not tuned in at this time. What is the proper course here? Wait until maintenance is needed ? 2) There is a multi-cache in Kathmandu (GC2JG4D) where the formula for finding the final location is wrong. People still find the cache because of the numerous photos and log entries, but it would be nice to have the description corrected. I wrote (and emailed) the member-owner (Kathmandoodle), but they have not logged in since October 2016 and I have received no answer. What should I do? Can I enlist the help of Crow T Robot to fix the formula? Next step will be to start a few more hides and see how it goes.

Sorry NYPaddleCacher, I was responding to Raivis_s but since you didn't have the Nepal flag I gave it to you too!

Just gave you the first (and only) non-square flag: Nepal!

Hello, I am a Geocacher from the USA, and I just moved to Kathmandu, Nepal. I will be based here for three years as I am following my wife who is a diplomat. I will have plenty of time on my hands during these next 3 years, so I would like to re-insert myself into one of my passions: Geocaching. Geocaching in Nepal is very interesting. Here are some facts for you: The country of 56,000 square miles (approximately the size of New York State) only has 57 enabled caches. 25 are Earth or Wherigo caches. There are only 7 caches within 10 miles of the capital. 40 caches (70%) have a terrain rating of 4 or above as they are targeting trekkers in the mountains. There are only 7 caches with a terrain rating of 2 or below. Only 5 caches have been added in the last year. 47 caches are more than 2 years old. 6 caches are more than 10 years old. 43 caches have been found in the last year. The most popular cache in Nepal is the Thamel TB Hotel (GC1353G) located in the most touristic area of Kathmandu which has been found 1564 times in 10 years (That’s once every two days on average!). Most of cache owners do not reside in Nepal. There are no local reviewers in Nepal either. The reviewer for Nepal is Crow T Robot. Given this picture and the fact that 800,000 tourists visit Nepal every year, and that many Nepali speak English and have phones with 4G, I believe there is a real opportunity to grow GeoCaching in this part of the world. Therefore, I would like to call for volunteers to join me in creating a steering committee in Kathmandu with the purpose of expanding, promoting and chaperoning GeoCaching in Nepal. I think the first step would be to create a SubForum for Nepal here and then to host our first meeting (I can take care of that part). What do you think? Ludo.

When I run a GPX Pocket Querry on Geocaching.com, the icons don't display on Google Earth. The data is there and if I select it from the location list it shows a "pointy bubble", but no cache icon. Any idea what is going on?