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It was some time during 2002. I don’t remember how, but I wound up on the GC.com website. I thought it looked pretty fun and filed it away in the back of my head. Sometime later, I was at a Gander Mountain with my mother checking out the GPS units. She asked me why I was interested in them, so I told her about geocaching. That Christmas, she gave me a GPSr. I played with it a little, then put it away thinking I would spend some time figuring it all out in the spring. Well, I did – in the spring of 2004!
I completely wasted 2003. What was I thinking? 🙄
One reason it may be set up this way is because you can use two different numbers to access the bug’s page – the 6 digit number on the tag (which you are using) or the database number that starts with “TB”.
If you have only the “TB” number, you can see a bug’s page, but not log a pick-up or discovered log. For the website to do what you want it to do, it would have to “remember” some how which number you used to access the bug’s page. Maybe this can be done somehow – I have no idea.
Does that make sense?
Since the original thread was in the camp-out topic which is now gone, I will post another pic here:
A few coins will be available at the picnic. I’ll be around during the lunch and the 5:00 picture time. If you want some, look for the short woman with the green geocaching hat with lots of pins on it. 😀
I think the problem is that you can’t drop a bug into an Earthcache and that is the only cache they successfully did there.
What would I do? Hmmmmm. I don’t see anything wrong with logging it into and out of that missing / archived cache, as long as you don’t claim a find when you do so. And, yes, it is possible to write a note / drop a bug / whatever on an archived cache. I would just be very clear in your note on the cache page about what you are doing and why. Then explain when you pick up the TB what you are doing and why as well.
It would be a shame for the bug not to get all those miles.
@NeverLost Mark wrote:
I guess one nice feature would be to sort the search results further by state.
This feature has been requested more than once, but it continues to fall on deaf ears at Groundspeak. *sigh*
@greyhounder wrote:
I’m sure I asked lots of stupid questions — too many to remember. I do remember a question from my mother that was too funny not to share (not a stupid question though). This was before she started caching with me, and I had dragged her along to a cache. She used to just sit in the car and wait for me. I must have taken a little longer to get back, because once I got in the car she asked, “are you sure you’re good at this?”
I remember that every time I find myself searching for longer than a couple minutes. It makes me smile!
Bec
I like your mom a lot – she makes me laugh! 😆
I have a question:
There are probably older caches on DNR land with absentee owners that are unlikely to submit this form. Is this being addressed in any way at this time?
I got one! I got one!
Its name is “Bear Mountain”.
Yep! It was definitely worth the extra gas money to get there. And after caching all day in 99 degree weather, the cave nearby was a welcome diversion.
Thanks for the tip!
@CB&MB wrote:
@LightningBugs Mum wrote:
I didn’t get one, but my mom did!
And is she being a good Mommy and letting you drive it to your favorite cache?
Maybe…………… 😀
Oh, another thing you can do if you are just looking to get some new icons or something: go to the cache, write down the number, and leave it behind. Then you can write a “discovered” log which will count on your stats, but the coin doesn’t move.
At my travel bug hotel, I invite people to return for repeated bug and coin exchanges and a few have. But sometimes I will put a special coin or a jeep into a cache of mine that hasn’t been visited in a while to get someone new to visit. When someone who has found it before goes and grabs it, it’s a bit irritating.
Now I am not the geocaching police and I will not tell other people what to do, but my recommendation would be: if your are going to grab a coin from a cache you have visited before, it would be *nice* to leave some other coin in it. That way you have not diminished it in any way.
I didn’t get one, but my mom did!
I saw that on the “?” stages I’m currently working on and thought it was pretty slick. So I added links to 2 of my puzzle cache pages as well. I surely don’t mind getting emails to verify coords, but I can be gone for days at a time away from the ‘puter. This way, if they are right, they will know it ahead of time regardless of whether I’m around or not.
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