Metro NY Geocaching Society

... and am trying to track down. It's killing me. I have monkeyed around with the "Custom Points of Interest" waypoints (added advantage of being able to save them to the memory card = no 999 limit), but without much success. I may not be using them correctly. Do any Garmin ninjas out there ...

... in a few minutes; depending on the back-and-forth with NY Admin (and NY Admin's schedule) it should show up in a day or two. Your sneak peak for being a part of the NY Metro Area GC Society is that it's a subway theme... This is also a good opportunity to plug puzzle caches in general. There ...

... required some deduction. Here's what I gather... The cacher was looking for Snug as a Bug in Central Park , our first hide. Although the GPSr was being difficult, he thinks he found the hiding spot - but there were three policemen nearby and he dared not put the cache at risk. He was hoping to ...

... either the current method or your suggested method requires at least two hikes out to the hide... which I guess is part of the hazard of being an owner now that I think more about it. Yeah, I think you're right. If you unknowingly submit a cache that conflicts with a hidden stage, I couldn't ...

... looking forward to more in the series. It would really blow if this all came down to an Admin banning a cache because of a reference that wasn't being made, and to a potential hider that had (jutsifiably) no idea what the hullabaloo was all about...

... of unfortunate police encounters when the cache site is near a bunch of children. Pretty sure that's why the guidelines really frown on geocaches being placed near schools and playgrounds. There are only so many news stories of police questioning creepy guys hanging around "Rainbows and Puppy ...

... Maintenance" logs for "Where Do I Go From Here?" also. I think it's safe to say that the Concret Rat era is pret-ty close to being over...

... if a new cache listing was submitted. At the time I was a littlle annoyed - I wanted to preserve the history of the cache and thought NYA was being unreasonably inflexible (it had almost 300 finds, I wanted to preserve that history, and I didn't see what the big deal was for groundspeak). ...

... just doesn't always know the specific hide style, and hiders aren't always forthcoming about exactly how the cache is hidden. Not because they're being deceptive - but if you don't know that attaching something to a mailbox can be construed as a federal offense (which it can be!) you may not think ...

... and is the second-oldest cache in NYC (oldest in the Bronx), but it's probably been missing for quite some time and is a couple of weeks away from being archived. After that, the next oldest is Cunningham Park #1 (GC6225) , oldest in Queens hidden in June 2002.

... will be published in that area in the coming days so that people can make informed decisions about what matters to them. For me it's not about being "fair" to people. As a CO I just like seeing variety in the FTFs on my caches. It's more about me than the FTF hounds.

... the webcam. Can I log it?" I'm really not much of a hard-butt when it comes to logging my caches. A couple of mine are in constant danger of being muggled, so if a concerned cacher visiting from a foreign country said that they saw the container and could have grabbed it but decided not to ...

Can any of our New Jersey friends shed light on the new caches being published by skeetsurfer in North Jersey? I've never seen his (her?) name before and didn't know if this was the new reviewer for the area, or just covering for vacation, or what.

... dead in the water. It would be very out of character for groundspeak to unarchive a cache that had been dead for several years, without the CO being involved. Even *with* the CO being involved, they usually say no if years have passed (fats tried to get some of his own caches in Brooklyn unarchived ...