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33 minutes ago, fizzymagic said:
Here's a cache that was archived as a result of the so-called "friendly" CHS email when it was in perfectly good shape. The CO is an active cacher and is good about maintaining his caches. The cache in question is rather difficult to reach and is hard to find; it has a history of multiple DNFs between finds.
He got the email, saw the list of possible actions, and archived it. It was still there and in good shape. The difficulty might be rated a little low, but otherwise this was a needless archive.
Please, please, please, could some text be added to the email explaining what to do in case of a false positive like this one? Or maybe the CO's conclusion is correct. He posted:
IMO, if the CHS is causing perfectly good caches to be archived, then it needs some work. My personal preference is for the email that is sent to be completely rewritten to actually be friendly, which is most definitely is NOT.
The CHS may need work but I find it very difficult to sympathize with a CO who says this: "With that said, I n response to any Needs Maintenence or most any DNF on my caches... I Archive. This cache now meets all requirements for being needlessly archived."
The cache was not NEEDLESSLY archived. I leave it to others to decide WHY is was archived.
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On 9/4/2018 at 12:47 PM, mark913 said:
I totally agree, i've spent hours trying to load caches onto my etrex. I've about had enough. I rally enjoy geocaching, but looks like i'll be forced to pack it all in.
WHY HAVE THEY REMOVED THE SEND TO GPS OPTION AGHHHHHHHHHH
Because, as been mentioned several times above and innumerable times in the last couple years, the technology that enabled it to work is a security risk so modern more secure browsers deliberately do not allow it. This is not something that Groundspeak or Garmin decided. It is the decision of browser providers to avoid the consequences of known hackable software. While I do not expect GS to say this, it would not surprise me that the legal staff have come to the conclusion that continuing to offer access to known hackable software put them at some risk. If it were my decision, I would have deprecated this functionality two years ago.
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Do you mean a souvenir? There are lots of countries that do not have them yet. After the first release GS has doled them out fitfully, mostly based on the number of geocaches in the country rather than any political consideration.
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I cannot let this pass without mentioning that these symbols were introduced by Arthur Conan Doyle, M.D. in his story The Adventure Of The Dancing Men.
This first appeared in Collier's in 1903. It contains a nice discussion of frequency analysis by Sherlock Holmes.
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21 hours ago, BillyGee said:
Can you stand up in front of the mirror and tell to the person opposite you:
"Most of the geocaches are well-maintained."
(and by "most" I mean 50% + 1, nothing fancy like 90+%).
I know I can't.
But what is the difference between a well-maintained and an abandoned geocache for the muggles? There isn't any. They don't care about the dampness of the logbook. All they see is plastics.Yes, I can stand in front of that proverbial mirror and make that proverbial statement but I will admit that I do not do much in the way of power trails (I hate getting off the bicycle every 528' to look for a cache.)
Regardless. If I took every geocache I have found and weighed them, they would not equal the weight of material I have removed from the environment during CITOs. Dragging several truck tires out of a muddy river bank or a couple hundred pounds of old roofing shingles out of a local WMA once in a while still keeps me to the good.
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So far, I have been a part of 8 CITOs that have collected tons (seriously, tons) of plastic, tires, roofing materials and other environmentally unfriendly stuff from woods and waterways in my area. I have informally collected lots of smaller garbage as I pedal along on my geocaching adventures. I have had one cache go missing when water rose higher than I have ever seen it on a local river (the container was in a tree at least six feet above normal level and four feet higher than I have ever seen)
I think, on balance, I'm good. I suspect most of the rest of us are, too.
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4 minutes ago, niraD said:
If you submit your photo for publication in a magazine, you can't demand that all copies of that magazine be burned just because you change your mind later.
More to the point of the forum posts, if a person submits a letter to the editor of a print publication in the EU and it is published (normally requiring more specific personal information than just a geonik) that letter and any subsequent replies are not going to disappear no matter what the original writer might desire. The only difference is that this forum is digital media. To treat print and digital media differently in this instance makes little sense to me.
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Why would you compare one player's last 80 day rate to another player's last 24 day rate?? How can they be considered equivalent?
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12 hours ago, wmpastor said:
Plus some of the readers and posters in this thread. Plus thousands of other players.
We may feel that other achievements are more important (like curing diseases), but why the tallies and why the Guinness Book of Records? Because even "irrelevant" achievements are achievements! People care - big-time! Even if they deny it! Especially when they deny it!
Even if a percentage of the big number finds can be challenged, the remaining 98% are awesome! They did it - we didn't. Period.
Did 100,00 finds change the world? Did breaking the 4-minute mile change the world? Not really...but they are achievements.
You significantly underestimate the impact of Dr Bannister's achievement. His accomplishment inspired many to attempt personal challenges they might otherwise have seen as impossible. His training methods continue to be relevant today.
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I'll have to check for the longest time frame but I know the longest distance (just under 9,600 miles) Ubin Quarry is a multicache on Palau Ubin, a jungle island in the Staits of Johor between Singapore and Malaysia that I DNF'ed with Susancycle in Aug of '07.
My DNF:
"Spent a good 30 minutes here with S'cycle. Could not find stage 1. S was facinated by the mudskippers and the tiny crabs so it was not a wasted trip. Don't know when we might ever get back to clear this DNF, though."
As it happened, S'cycle had to go back in Mar '09 and I went with her. Grabbed a bumboat ride out to Ubin, rented a mountain bike and this time I found it!
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Thanks for the update. Sorry you are being mistreated but, if it helps, I know I am not alone in saying that your efforts are appreciated!
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On 7/2/2018 at 10:49 PM, h2o z said:
We are going on a 3 week cruise with Viking called the Iconic Western Mediterranean cruise. I would like to do some geocaching at each stop if possible. How can I get either the address or GPS coordinates for each one of those ports of call? Thanks.
The Viking website shows that cruise as 8 days long. Did you mean you are going in three weeks rather than for three weeks? If you are going in three weeks your ship is listed as the Viking Orion. If you go to www.vesselfinder.com you can see the current position of that ship. If you click on "track" (left side) you can see about a days worth of positions and as of this post you can zoom in and see the precise location of where it docked in Napoli (see attached screenshot) I followed the tracks of Hurtigruten ships along the northern and western coast of Norway for several days to nail down the exact location of each of our ship's 33 stops. Some were as short as 15" (working boat as well as a cruiser) and occurred in the middle of the night so we had to plan very carefully to grab some of the caches we got. Good luck and enjoy the trip!
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Most the caches I have to "feel" for are in places I get to on my mountain bike. I ALWAYS wear sturdy full fingered gloves when riding that bicycle. I also carry an extendable inspection mirror and flashlight in my pack/ water porter that have made searches easier in many situations.
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I checked the cache you referenced. The hints listed on the cache page for each stage look very helpful
and strongly suggest the trees have nothing to do with the first stage.
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I cannot answer the first question. But as for the second: if it takes me to an interesting place that I might not otherwise encounter, NO, it should not be archived.
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4 minutes ago, wanrex said:
Oh, thanks for the link, then i can log PM only cache easier now.
Btw, any similar easy/convenient way to "VIEW" a PM only cache?
Not that I m aware of, why would Groundspeak allow such a thing?
The "backdoor" logging method is open, at least in part, to allow family members of premium members the opportunity to log caches in their own accounts without having to pay for another premium account. GS decided that they did not want to allow "family" premium memberships and this is a compromise position. Susancycle logs PM caches this way occasionally (although she doesn't log online much, I think she is about 3,000 caches behind
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1 hour ago, barefootguru said:
Unfortunately the FAQ says:
I do not take that to mean that the caches/events must be logged online by that date. It could mean that but I take it to mean that you have to have found/attended by that date.
The FAQ is not precise about the date either:
"How do I play?
From June 27 through July 25, earn up to 13 mythical creature souvenirs by finding geocaches and attending events."but a little further on
"Can I join Hidden Creatures at any time?
Of course! You can earn all 13 souvenirs as long as you log caches and attend events before July 25."(bolding mine)
So I think HQ has some work to do cleaning up these loose ends.
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13 hours ago, TriciaG said:
@Michaelcycle might have some thoughts on this.
If I am on the road bike I will only be searching for a small number of caches (usually no more than 1 for every 10 miles pedaled) so I identify where the next one I want is on the map and stick my Garmin handheld in a jersey pocket until I get there.
On the mountain bike the Garmin rides in a holder on the right side of the handlebar (this mount would hold my iPhone if I used that to cache.) I choose the next cache I want and set the unit to show distance to the cache. I have the audible proximity alarm on and I slow down when I hear it, glancing at the reading on the GPSr as I approach.
Regardless of the bicycle, if I am (and I often am) in unfamiliar territory there will be times when I choose an intermediate point (say, after the first two turns) to stop and check on upcoming turns. Trying to follow the small screen of a GPSr or a cellphone along complex route just isn't safe for me, especially on singletrack in rough terrain where slowing down to stop the bike from bouncing enough to see the screen may very well cause me to crash ("speed is your friend".)
Remember that the first thing to worry about when geocaching by bicycle is...bicycling. I decided long ago that the ride comes first. The geocaches are the icing on the cake.
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14 minutes ago, The Rat said:
Mike's First (GC4) hidden 5/7/2000 is the oldest active listing. It has only two logs: 1 find and 1 DNF, but there's no solid indication that it has been replaced or gone missing. It's almost certainly gone, but so far as anyone can tell from the cache page, it's still out there and in its original state.
I would not call that cache "active" in the usual sense of the word. The page is locked. If you type it into the search page it will come up but if you click on "nearest caches" on a nearby cache ( GC5Y0BT for example) it does not appear. "Memorialized" seems a better description.
Oh, and the guy that logged it...I don't know if we can trust him
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Same problem when using Safari 11.1 and Google maps. Problem resolves when using OSM
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14 hours ago, colleda said:
Scored our Slovakia souvenir today. Can anyone tell me what the item is illustrated over the mountain background? BTW, we found Bratislava a most pleasant and enjoyable city.
That is a fujara, a musical instrument. We enjoyed bicycling into Bratislava on our 1000km trip along the Danube.
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This question caused to wonder about that other International Cache GC1BE91
It is listed as being in Kazakhstan
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1 hour ago, cerberus1 said:
IIRC, any opportunity for discussion with cachers was ignored by a caching organization, who "needed the property" for a series of caches and an event, and the "policy" somehow carried on to other parks kinda by default. Close?
No. I'm am not going to rehash the events in this forum but that would be a mistaken reading of what happened.
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7 hours ago, justintim1999 said:
Our town abides by the open meeting law. All meetings are posted and anyone is welcome to attend. It's at these meetings we discuss land conservation, management and possible activities in which the land can be used. We've had people disagree with some of the decisions we've made, people who have never attended a single meeting. Of course you get the few locals that were previously using the property to ride their ATV's and are now upset that they no longer can. That's understandable to a point. My response to them is always the same. "The citizens of the town voted, on a ballet, to purchase the land and protect it as open space for the use of everyone now and in the future. It was decided in an open meeting that ATV's would be prohibited. All voted in favor with no further discussion."
My point is I'm quite sure that any decision to prohibit geocaching on public land was held in a public forum. That would have been the time to voice an opposition. No one is going to stop a meeting and say "Hey, did anyone call justintim1999 and ask him what he thinks?" It's up to us to get involved in the process or live with the decisions others make.
I can assure you that no open meeting was held when the decision was taken by DEP to require the removal of hundreds of geocaches on public land in New Jersey.
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and strongly suggest the trees have nothing to do with the first stage.
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CHS notifications causing archival of good caches.
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You haven't done the Original Fizzy have you?