Is It Possible?

[+white skunk and redbull13]

I download the closet 300 waypoint to my home. Could geocaching.com future let me download only those caches whick are not offset or bogus. When driving I often have my gps on only to see when we are passing close to a cache and might want to stop to see if we can find. Sometimes we get home and find it was bogus I do like the caches that are offset or puzzles but it is soo fustrating in the instance above.

[+geognerd]

Pocket Queries allow you to sift out the puzzles and multi-caches.

[Mushtang]

Yes, use pocket queries to filter out the puzzle and multi caches. However, you're still left with offsets and other caches where reading the description is necessary to find the cache (or to be able to log it online once you've found it).

 

If you want to go caching without reading descriptions, you'll have to accept the fact that sometimes you'll end up wasting some time.

[+ar_kayaker]

Pocket Queries allow you to sift out the puzzles and multi-caches.

 

Actually this is only partly true, or rather it only works if the cache hider uses the right label on their cache.

 

I've encountered a number of caches listed as traditional that have some note burried in the text of the cache page that the actual cache is "across the fence from the monument" or ""fifty feet east down the road." Once or twice I've even seen puzzle caches listed as traditional.

[+sbell111]

Pocket Queries allow you to sift out the puzzles and multi-caches.

Actually this is only partly true, or rather it only works if the cache hider uses the right label on their cache.

 

I've encountered a number of caches listed as traditional that have some note burried in the text of the cache page that the actual cache is "across the fence from the monument" or ""fifty feet east down the road." Once or twice I've even seen puzzle caches listed as traditional.

I bet that the majority of these are old caches. It's my belief that the reviewers are pretty good at sorting these out and getting them changed before listing the cache.

[+Jhwk]

Palm + Cachemate = read before you search.

 

Of course it's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.

[+mtn-man]

Pocket Queries allow you to sift out the puzzles and multi-caches.

 

Actually this is only partly true, or rather it only works if the cache hider uses the right label on their cache.

 

I've encountered a number of caches listed as traditional that have some note burried in the text of the cache page that the actual cache is "across the fence from the monument" or ""fifty feet east down the road." Once or twice I've even seen puzzle caches listed as traditional.

 

In that case, email the contact address. If the cache type is incorrect, we are happy to correct it. I cache just like you do and it is frustrating to get an incorrectly categorized cache. It is environmentally bad as well since you are looking for something that isn't there and will spend much more time there than usual creating more damage. The benefits of pocket queries outweigh this problem though. This happens rarely.

[+Airmapper]

My GPS displays different icons for each cache type, so if I don't have my laptop with me I can just avoid it, but I still have the option to hunt if I have the info with me.

[+Wild Thing 73]

I download the closet 300 waypoint to my home. Could geocaching.com future let me download only those caches whick are not offset or bogus. When driving I often have my gps on only to see when we are passing close to a cache and might want to stop to see if we can find. Sometimes we get home and find it was bogus I do like the caches that are offset or puzzles but it is soo fustrating in the instance above.

If you are caching "on the fly", with no preparation for the hunt, I think bad finds should be expected.

"JKUH "has the best information...paperless caching...GPSr>PDA [GSAK] + [cachemate] +[googleearth] are really good programs . After downloading to your GPSr and PDA you will have all the information you need to filter those pesky and unwanted caches...Good luck and good caching, Guy

Edited July 19, 2006 by Wild Thing 73

[Mushtang]

When driving I often have my gps on only to see when we are passing close to a cache and might want to stop to see if we can find. Sometimes we get home and find it was bogus

Three questions for you:

 

Do you like going to see movies?

 

Do you ever just drop into a theater, buy a ticket for a random movie without knowing anything about the movie before hand?

 

If you did that, and didn't enjoy the movie, would you walk away saying, "there should be some way for me to know which movies are Action, which are Horror, and which are Romance, so I don't have to sit through another one of those again"?

[+KBI]

If you want to go caching without reading descriptions, you'll have to accept the fact that sometimes you'll end up wasting some time.

If you are caching "on the fly", with no preparation for the hunt, I think bad finds should be expected.

I've been amazed at the number of people who not only don't understand this bit of common sense, but actually get defensive when someone tries to explain it to them.

 

If you choose not to read the description, then you must accept responsibility for whatever trouble occurs as a result of that choice.

 

I agree that caches should be labeled properly, but the unpleasant fact is that a few of them are not. Hunting a cache without first reading the online description may enhance the challenge, but it also increases the risk of causing an unnecessary problem.

[+Miragee]

There was a cache here labeled as a Traditional when in fact it was a Multi. Since the "smart name" on my GPSr tells me what type cache I am headed towards when I do "Next Nearest," I often head towards a Traditional before reading the description.

 

I ended up in that parking lot on three separate occasions.

 

I contacted the Reveiwer and they changed the six-mile long Multi-cache to the correct designation.

 

On a recent Road Trip, I looked for a "Traditional" cache for quite a while before reading the description to find out the owner had, on their own, turned it into a "Virtual."

 

And, on another trip to Death Valley, I looked for a Tradtitional that turned out to be an "Offset" cache. I only learned that little "detail" when I got home to log my DNF . . .

 

The logs for that cache showed that other cachers were also frustrated with that mis-categorized cache . . .

Edited July 19, 2006 by Miragee

[+mtn-man]

I ended up in that parking lot on three separate occasions.

Please email the contact address. We are good about keeping your anonimity safe. Glad it got worked out on one of them! That's good for future fellow cachers.

[+ZSandmann]

If you wander into that old nuclear facility 'on the fly' you'll will be having some serious problems. I would suggest browsing caches in the area you are visiting ahead of time.