the4dirtydogs

Guess it would be like geocachers pulling out into traffic almost causing accidents on power trails, or geocaches being blown up by various police departments. Or places of businesses on lockdown because of a geocache. So where's the real trainwreck. Every time a new game pops up the geocaching world goes into a fit and I find it hilarious. We are constantly fighting to save the game from the problems you've mentioned. In a matter of days, this new thing has caused more hassle than geocachers cause in a year. And our name is being associated with it. I expect we'll see even more parks and municipal properties become off-limits to GPS games including ours, despite all the efforts we have made to save it. What hassle are you talking about???? Too many people in one spot....like a flash mob? People walking into traffic? What hassle? It's a virtual game with NOTHING real to find,hide. Just some people walking around staring at their phones. What's the hassle? There have been numerous instances of people playing the game in places that are inappropriate, in a manner that is causing public alarm and inconvenience. People are playing it while they drive. They are walking into private businesses and bothering proprietors and paying customers. They are turning solemn historical landmarks into game spaces without permission from the property managers. This stuff is all over the news, and geocaching is being named next to it. We should be working to put lots of daylight between geocaching and this new app fad. I'll let you work on putting lots of daylight between this new app fad....I have way better things to worry about. LMAO. What little I've seen on the news....I have not heard one word of geocaching. SMH It's strange that you're paying so much attention to a stranger's take on the issue if it's so far beneath your concern. A weird topic to hone in on if it's not interesting to you. Maybe it was the way you were blowing things WAY out of proportion. But then again you were getting your info from the news and they NEVER do that :laughing:

Guess it would be like geocachers pulling out into traffic almost causing accidents on power trails, or geocaches being blown up by various police departments. Or places of businesses on lockdown because of a geocache. So where's the real trainwreck. Every time a new game pops up the geocaching world goes into a fit and I find it hilarious. We are constantly fighting to save the game from the problems you've mentioned. In a matter of days, this new thing has caused more hassle than geocachers cause in a year. And our name is being associated with it. I expect we'll see even more parks and municipal properties become off-limits to GPS games including ours, despite all the efforts we have made to save it. What hassle are you talking about???? Too many people in one spot....like a flash mob? People walking into traffic? What hassle? It's a virtual game with NOTHING real to find,hide. Just some people walking around staring at their phones. What's the hassle? There have been numerous instances of people playing the game in places that are inappropriate, in a manner that is causing public alarm and inconvenience. People are playing it while they drive. They are walking into private businesses and bothering proprietors and paying customers. They are turning solemn historical landmarks into game spaces without permission from the property managers. This stuff is all over the news, and geocaching is being named next to it. We should be working to put lots of daylight between geocaching and this new app fad. I'll let you work on putting lots of daylight between this new app fad....I have way better things to worry about. LMAO. What little I've seen on the news....I have not heard one word of geocaching. SMH

Guess it would be like geocachers pulling out into traffic almost causing accidents on power trails, or geocaches being blown up by various police departments. Or places of businesses on lockdown because of a geocache. So where's the real trainwreck. Every time a new game pops up the geocaching world goes into a fit and I find it hilarious. We are constantly fighting to save the game from the problems you've mentioned. In a matter of days, this new thing has caused more hassle than geocachers cause in a year. And our name is being associated with it. I expect we'll see even more parks and municipal properties become off-limits to GPS games including ours, despite all the efforts we have made to save it. What hassle are you talking about???? Too many people in one spot....like a flash mob? People walking into traffic? What hassle? It's a virtual game with NOTHING real to find,hide. Just some people walking around staring at their phones. What's the hassle?

Guess it would be like geocachers pulling out into traffic almost causing accidents on power trails, or geocaches being blown up by various police departments. Or places of businesses on lockdown because of a geocache. So where's the real trainwreck. Every time a new game pops up the geocaching world goes into a fit and I find it hilarious.

I know a woman who likes to find those stickers. She went to the states on holiday and found herself in a large parking lot at 2am going from sign to lampost, scanning all the stickers. I can't understand what she got out of it. She's driven around town here and pulled over at every signpost to put a sticker on it. Hundreds of times. Not surprisingly, almost nobody is looking for them. Oh, and you get Souvenirs... They're Badges to be clear. No Souv's in that game.....just Badges. Badges? We don't need no stinking badges. Sorry. Couldn't resist. I kept saying the same thing and they brought them in anyways. LOL

I know a woman who likes to find those stickers. She went to the states on holiday and found herself in a large parking lot at 2am going from sign to lampost, scanning all the stickers. I can't understand what she got out of it. She's driven around town here and pulled over at every signpost to put a sticker on it. Hundreds of times. Not surprisingly, almost nobody is looking for them. Oh, and you get Souvenirs... They're Badges to be clear. No Souv's in that game.....just Badges.

And how much money is wasted on BOMB calls on harmless geocaches? I have seen more public defacing and private property damage and crushed plants in this game than I have seen in Munzee. Some of you people need to get a grip....geocaching isn't the only geo-location game out there.

Why don't you just log the cache also and move on. Go fix the cache and log a find on it and move on.

Then they're a slob who left their garbage out in the woods. Being banned has nothing to do with it. That cache would lay there until the end of time because the CO is a slob, not because of anything Groundspeak did. See my response above. Banning someone does not automatically turn them from a responsible cache owner into a slob. OK the reviewer idea was a horrible one.

Maybe TPTB should send out the area reviewer to pick up the trash that they archived. I'm sure the CO isn't going to pick them up. So TPTB locked them out and leave the trash in place to rot. Doesn't make sense to me. The CO is banned from being a member of geocaching.com, not from being a cache owner. Does banning someone also cause memory loss so that they can't remember where they placed their own caches? If they are a responsible person, they'll go retrieve the cache. I really doubt someone that was banned from a game is going to go out and pick up their game pieces. I realize there are other GPS games that hide containers as well and could post those caches on their sites but I doubt they would. I could be wrong though. So now the containers will sit as litter until the containers break down and the contents just blow away in the wind.

Since it's Veterans Day here's the newest geoart. Pretty cool design as well. http://coord.info/GC4EXPT

The NO CLUE series started off as the CLUE series. Someone decided it would be funny to add the NO part.

I help fix up every cache that I come across. Keeps the game fun for everyone and less hassles all the way around. Heck I'll even replace missing caches if I have a container with me. It's all about having fun.

Maybe TPTB should send out the area reviewer to pick up the trash that they archived. I'm sure the CO isn't going to pick them up. So TPTB locked them out and leave the trash in place to rot. Doesn't make sense to me.

Oh, good idea. That makes a lot of sense. In my opinion it would make more sense to devote the caches to places of interest and offer individual cache descriptions from which one can learn what can be seen/visited where. The trail as it is rather creates the impression that finding many caches is much more important than anything else. But that wasn't the plan here. The plan was to dump a bunch of caches to create a P.T. for the record books. So finding many caches is the point here and nothing else is important. Just smilies...a bunch of smilies .

That's the thing...it took them over a year to plan and place these caches. It's not like they placed and published all these caches on the same day. So, I would say this is a record of nothing. Maybe the longest worked on and delayed P.T. EVER!!!!!

Nope. I thought it was funny too.

Does someone know if this is the plan? And will they only be allowed at Megas? According to the blog post they were available at the block party and will become available for mega events. Which means for those that don't have the luxury of living near Seattle or in a country which has enough cachers to create a mega event you're going to have to spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars to travel to a mega event in order to obtain the special icon. But you have the special icon and maybe a new Souvi for a country or state you haven't cached in. How AWESOME would that be?

But thats too easy and we can't have a couple pages of material to read about logging caches for FTF and laughing while reading. I like caching simplified.

Buy a spare battery(thats what I did for another game that uses a smartphone to play ) or buy a GPS.

I was with a group when we did the same thing. We found out where the trail was going to start and we spread out and started looking. Once we found the first one we marked the cache and headed out every .10 and found 135 unpublished caches for FTFs. One of the best times I've had caching. My daughter(7 at the time) was making fake hiding spots with rocks for the cachers behind us. Hey she was having fun making piles til we found the cache and moved on to the next one. Those same cachers still tease me when they see us. All in good fun.

I always wear sunglasses when I'm outside, so I have them on when caching. My shades have saved my eyes a couple times. Guess I don't need any safety glasses.

ahhh that games odd Kinda like finding tupperware in bushes isn't odd.

I really don't think moving the hide will do anything. Snakes travel and find different areas to nest. The only safe thing you can do is pay ATTENTION to where you are going and where you place your hands. Never stick your hand where you can't see or you will learn the hard way and hope it's not a rattlesnake that bites you. I've ran into MANY rattlesnakes on the trail. 3 in one day was enough to call our hike quits one time. I'm just thankful that most of the time the snake will rattle to let you know they are there. Mojave Greens are the bad boy of this species, they will come after you. So be safe out there and keep your eyes on the trail and not your GPSr.

One of these days i will make it that far west. if i do, ill do my best to remember to look ya up. Sounds good. Good luck on meeting new people. I've met some really cool people playing this game and hope you do as well.