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Too bad you missed the bbq in Augusta this summer. GPSfun stopped by! He lives down south, but has lived up here in the past. I'm sure he'd take a bribe :)

Maybe you could bribe him with one of our new Maine geocoins or trade for one of his from Georgia.;)

Quoting Tat:
This past summer, a bunch of us went to a very remote cache that had not been found when we left home. When we got there, we were all sure it was a race between the three of us. Sure enough, someone beat us by a day.

Ahh yes, The Tramway..... I remember it well, the paranoia, the guy coming out with the gps was a dead give away so we thought. And you blew out a sandle on the way out.

Thanks for the memories

so in order for him to publish a new cache, does he actually go and visit every one before he does?

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Originally Posted by Haffy6

Hey Beachie, on your account page at the top it has member features,click on that and then scroll down til you see a heading for instant notification and that will bring you to the page to set it up.

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Perhaps I am missing something, but I don't see "new caches" or anything similar in thist of choices.

beachie, when you go into "my account" on geocaching.com, at the top of the page will be "quick view" and "member features" will be in this list. click on this and then on the new page (my membership details), scroll down to "instant log notification feature" and click on "visit insta-notify page". down at the bottom of this page will be "create a new notification" and you will have to set a notification up for each kind of cache you want to be notified about. i get some, but not all the notifications i've requested. i'm not sure what happens to the rest of them - they are floating out in space, i guess. i usually just go to geocaching.com home page several times a day and do the "choose a state" option and it brings up all the new caches - especially the ones that don't make it to my email - lol. good luck!

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Originally Posted by Hiram357

so in order for him to publish a new cache, does he actually go and visit every one before he does?

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No, caches are not visited by approvers. They do thier homework. And, are quite adept at weeding out caches that do not meet the rules. But they cannot posibly visit all the caches. There are way too many.

Thanks Becket - I have done that for a couple of types of caches, but don't recall ever getting any e-mails so thought perhaps I needed to do something different. I am going to delete them and the re-establish to see if that makes a difference. In the meantime, I will continue to check the list regularly as well.

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Originally Posted by Hiram357

so in order for him to publish a new cache, does he actually go and visit every one before he does?

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No - it's as Tat said.

And keep in mind that our approver - GPSFUN - lives in Georgia and approves caches in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, RI and New York. Haven't heard much about any other approver, but having met him, and having had several discussions with him before that, I know we've got a good one.

:D :D :D

I made the changes and voila! I am now receiving e-mails for new caches - awesome! Of course, that is the extent of the energy I will likely expel on getting FTF's - LOL - unless they are in my backyard or on the way to work, it is unlikely I will get them. Have fun!