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Thanks for the link, Tom. That list also includes two that are not covered by this announcment. Gaylord Nelson Wilderness is administered by the NPS, which requires formal permission for geocaches, and the Wisconsin Islands Wilderness is managed by the USFWS.
It is actually kind of a funny choice. Alice Springs is, literally, in the middle of nowhere. I can’t imagine this becoming a destination for people heading to Oz. Just too remote. At least is wasn’t in a Walmart parking lot!
Thanks to Trekkin and Birdin for giving me the info on this situation.
We had several incidents where caches were placed in private cemeteries using obnoxious placement techniques (nanos hidden in flower beds, cache hidden in vases on grave markers, etc.) which forced us to take a closer look at these. The guidelines for these is the same as for any other cache. You should have permission for every cache that you hide.
Everything should carry over if you install it in the same place. You might break a few macros with the upgrade, but by now, there should be a replacement for anything that might break.
@Mister Greenthumb wrote:
@Frizz wrote:
I’m about 1/3 through the book, and am enjoying it. Please don’t post spoilers here!
The gang of bald guys did it!
And the cache is in the cedar tree…
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Thanks for the insight into the early days, DeeJay. Interesting piece of info. I kind of suspected that geocaching.com did some trolling and/or co-opting to build their base before people got around to discovering the site.
Well, it wasn’t quite like that, Pat. As geocaching began to get more popular (well, more popular than 3 or 4 active caches in the world), the posters on the GPS newsgroups thought it would be a good idea to move all the listings on to a website. Jeremy stepped up to coordinates the site, and it became geocaching.com. As the site became popular, people stopped using the newsgroup for listing caches.
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Yes, but who really HID the cache?
Are Andy Hill and iryshe not one and the same?
No. Many of these very old caches were extracted from the GPS news groups and added to the site manually by Jeremy through his reviewer account, way back when. While he was involved in the sport near the beginning, he was not that prolific of a hider as his reviewer account would imply. 🙂
Sounds like you want to use a feature of the site called pocket queries. You need to be a premium member to download a list of caches.
Descriptions over 15000 characters will break Delorme 60 GPS units. (Earlier Delorme units break with shorter descriptions).
I remember a time when maybe 2% of geocachers ran a laptop setup in their vehicle. Today, it is A LOT cheaper to do the a NUVI, versus all the mounting hardware you need to do the laptop thing. (Not to mention laptops are fairly fragile.)
Did you “like” the page?
Yes, write to Groundspeak and complain about it.
There was a bug in today’s site update. It has been fixed.
Thought I would check back in and let you know of my progress. Out of the 2000+ caches with the NM attribute set, I have managed to process about 650 of them. Of these, around 85% were fine and I just reset the attrtibute for the owner, 10% needed maintenance but had not reached the level of reviewer action and maybe 5% got started down the road to Archiveville. I would note, however, that of the 650 caches processed, I have found exactly TWO listing where the NM attribute had already been cleared by the owner (Thanks Mofongo!) For everybody else, please clean up your listings so they don’t show Needs maintenance if you are maintaining them.
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