Metro NY Geocaching Society

... pathtags if possible The event is limited to 20 under local ordinance, but we'd be delighted to meet even a few of you while we are there. Any other geocaching tourists will also be most welcome to join us for a short chat.

... visiting your fair shores from Ireland for a few weeks holidays,seeing the sites and caching We would love to meet up with some local cachers and other tourists alike So we're having a little get together to hopefully do just that By the time we get to New York we will have visited Portland, Seattle, ...

... originally created for the 1939 World's Fair and designated "Freshwater Wetland" Over the years it fell into disrepair. Pat Dolan, with other concerned residents, wanted to restore the area to its original state. In order to accomplish that goal, Pat organized the Flushing Meadow Corona ...

... the owner and asked her to check its status. I thought it was only 5.5 months since anyone posted anything about it? I also sent a request to 2 other cachers I hold in high esteem about my situation and asked them if they could find it if they were in the vicinity and interested. That's the ...

I'm planning to run it. How many other 60+ runners will be there, I wonder? Should I stop for any caches along the way or run for time? At least now I can mix my newfound hobby with a renewed motivation for training.

... the maps I loaded? If there isn't a way to eliminate them, does anyone know the right combination of settings to minimize their intrusion? Any other suggestions? Other than asking Garmin to hire an Apple engineer for a week to overhaul their software and UI.

I understand buttaskotch's point - it's not about competing with other groups for awesomeness or anything like that, it's simply about whether or not we want our edition of the WWFM to stay true to the "FM" part of the concept. The original point ...

... Gate, also on March 10th. But that cache wasn't even published until about a week later. Curious. Then I poked around a little and noticed other odd logs... Like a log for B339, dated three days before EVF replaced the muggled container. A log for Crossroads of the World, but without the ...

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=0fd03a4f-d3d8-49fd-9c20-a06b4f57f570 Saw this cache the other day... The first couple of finders noted that the coordinates were way off, more than 100 feet, and one posted the readings he got at the site in his log (since ...

... The way that TPTB used to phrase it was that caches had to require use of a GPS receiver at some point. But those who use Google Maps and other non-GPSr caching techniques are growing in number, and starting to push back on the implicit "you're not really geocaching" nature of ...

... it's just my M.O. now. But I've never figured out why I should *require* finders to sign the log. If it's just for proof, I'm willing to accept other evidence.

... of 900 miles. On a given year, only one or two will attempt this do to the enormity of what it takes to pull it off, including fundraising and other logistics. To help with my fundraising, my daughter designed a beautiful trackable geocoin to honor my mom and others who have been affected by ...

... open source phenomenon that predates Garmin's appropriation of the brand name by quite some time. There are sister opencaching sites in Europe and other places (opencaching.de, etc.). Worth checking out for those who haven't already.

... :lol: ) in over seven years, I'm thinking I've got to be pretty high on the list of Finders of Caches in New York County. Wondering what other cachers' stats are on this. My first guess is that you aren't just "pretty high" but are probably #1. What's the easiest way for me ...

... cache is meant for CHILDREN!!!!!!" Since a lot of GPSr's will display the first bit of the short description, I think when the OP in the other forums pulled the cache up on his handheld, he was greeted by the waypoint number, the cache name, and someone yelling about ALL-CAPS CHILDREN!!!!!!! ...