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Really? If you had an anal-retentive CO hassle you to the point of having Groundspeak step in, maybe you'd think otherwise. After three others, I haven't done a PMO since '08. I can imagine an Audit Log becoming a hit list for an overzealous CO when their cache goes missing.

There may be a technical wall to making an audit log for non-premium caches as non-members can see those pages. Premium caches are guaranteed to only be visited by members. Yeah I know they could just enter Visitor into the log, but how worthwhile would it be to have a page full of Visitors? Also do search engines crawl those pages as well?

This might be something that should be brought up over in the Geocaching website forum as a bug. Hopefully it will get in the hands of a programmer.

Went to the Amish Country for some cache magic. A picture for halloween:

Why do I feel like a rabbit? Comparing this hobby to surgery is too much of an exaggeration. There are no babies dying here. I would rather compare placing a cache to writing. Are you saying that only the great writers should write? How is one to become a great writer if one does not write? I may not like every book in a library or every article in a newspaper, but they should be allowed, maybe even encouraged to write them especially when they are young. Speaking of young... The dude could indeed be anywhere from 10 to 18, so definitely a minor, but how are we to know the exact age and that he doesn't have the permission of a parent. Also the argument that he shouldn't even be here anyway is lame. Actually posting on a forum full of people who have seen a lot of caches seemed like a step in the right direction to me. Maybe I am more miffed that this wasn't a topic full of cool ideas.

You actually don't have to create a geocache at all. There are three other options for earning the merit badge. If you plan on going head with option C then please fulfill all the duties outlined in option C including coming up with a six-month maintenance plan and following through on the maintenance plan for at least the entire six-month period. I also suggest that you make a plan to either adopt out the geocache or archive and physically remove the geocache after the six-month period is over. Unless you find you really enjoy geocaching in which case I suggest creating and maintaining more geocaches! If you feel that you won't be able to maintain a geocache for at least six-months then I suggest going with options B and creating a Scouting-related travel bug. Wow! I think he made it clear he wanted to explore doing a cache. But instead of offering him creative suggestions we lay the guilt of all the past failed scout caches at his feet. I think he gets the point. Now lets be on topic and give some suggestions. We all know the more work you put into something the more you want to take care of it.

Let them go. Maybe someone else, or you, will put a new cache in their place.

Just spitballing here: Why not do a scout themed cache? You could make a puzzle or multi cache where you have to identify knots or merit badges. Maybe wrap a container in rope. Anyone going for a woodwork merit badge? Could make a box and use it for both badges.

I found the video well put together and honest. The selection of geocaches is typical of what you would find within an hour in an urban environment. Good or bad. Also to defend smartphones, they are a great way to introduce new people as almost everyone has one and they already understand how they work. If they get serious they can plunk down the change for a real gps later.

You're on the Internet; give us links!

I have found that people don't read unless they absolutely have to. I am guilty myself. I was looking for a cache in a graveyard and found a box at the coordinates. It had some bling, a log book and a letter. I ignored the letter, assuming it was the standard "This is a Geocache letter", and went for the log. The log was kind of odd, more of a purple book really with very large non-lined pages. I just found a spot made my X, took off and logged the find on the app. Half an hour later it dawned on me why the log was so strange. When at home I flipped my find to a note and confessed to my crime. Reading the logs and description would have definitely helped me, but, while on the hunt, I only tend to read those when I am stuck. Much like the way people treat technical manuals.

Antisocial

What is the difficulty rating on the cache?

http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/ is nice for when you are at home base. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/arg-tools/id374959430?mt=8 is a portable tool for your iPhone with more reference material. Both are the right price.

After the Needs Maintenance/DNF log your responsibility ends. What you do after that is your business.

Might this be a letterbox?

Actually, I did not have battleshipping specifically in mind. It also can happen easily in cache-dense areas that someone who has found a lot of caches gets too much information if you provide the information you provide now. The conflict can easily turn by coincidence - it must not have been part of a strategic plan. It of course depends on the conflicting cache. There are easy mystery caches almost everyone can solve and there are short and easy offset multi caches. The situation changes for D4+ mysteries or multi caches which span 20km or sometimes even 100km and more. For such caches the information you provide is too much and if one of my caches would be effected, I would archive it right away and make those very unhappy which still would like to go for it in the intended way. If you do not give away the distance and direction to move, this helps a bit, but certainly there are cases where even knowing which cache is effected tells too much. Such cases might however be rare in your area. I do own at least one cache (my last one and probably also other caches) that would heavily be effected and would get destroyed. By knowing all the other caches around, one can easily narrow down the location and find it by brute-forcing, and yes, I would end up very annoyed by that and would not take it as "someone ruins it own fun", but as someone ruins my fun. So there is no easy solution. By trying to be friendly to some hiders, you might end up to annoy hiders like myself and if something like that happens more than once to me, I's probably archive all my caches (some of which are older than 10 years). Cezanne Wouldn't this only effect the one cacher that was placing the new cache, because only the hider would get the distance and direction information? Or are you saying the resultant pattern from the new cache placement would out your location? Or is it that you are worried the cacher will tell all their friends? I guess I am not getting how it would ruin your cache nor why you would pull up stakes if one of your caches were compromised. Seems very drastic. Also you probably wouldn't know it happened. It would just be one more find on your cache. Are you going to be suspicious whenever a new cache pops up and there is a find on your cache by the same person? How would you know that that person "battleship"ed instead of legitimately found your cache so they could hide theirs?

I have been leaving Buckeyes in caches outside of Ohio, an educational nugget from the Buckeye state. Also have been leaving Lucky Stones that we collect on the beaches of Lake Erie. Both are kind of a "What The?" for people not in the know.

The Guidelines has the answer for you under 1. Fundamental Placement Guidelines . http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx Once you've got that open, click the text: 7. Physical elements of different geocaches should be at least 0.10 miles (528 ft or 161 m) apart. B. That's an answer to a different question, Pup. It's correct. The only distance stipulated in the guidelines is: 7. Physical elements of different geocaches should be at least 0.10 miles (528 ft or 161 m) apart. It is nice to say on the cache page, if your stages are rather a long distance from each other... Not required, but is nice. That reference only says that stages should be "AT LEAST" that implies a minimum distance, not a maximum. I know of at least on cache that has a stage in the US and a second stage in France, and the final is back in the US. Exactly, it doesn't state a maximum distance. So, quite literally, there isn't one.

Yeah me too! My band is called The Randy Disher Project. Instead of handing out promotional CDs, we may just stuff 8 track cassettes into the sofas at Macy's. But Monk references are sufficiently kitschy.

Angst, really? They are not saying it would be life or death if they don't have this option now. They are just saying it would be nice to have. What is the chance that this group of posts will change anything? Slim to none, but its nice to banter about ideas. However my favorite post in this thread is Which I translate as: Everything is perfect as it is. We don't need your ideas here. Get off my lawn! Needed to add appropriate smileys as it is a joke.

If you buy a second monitor or hook up the old one from your old dell(assuming its a desktop) you will have more room to spread out your references. I find screen room more useful that processing speed as far as puzzle solving goes.

Are these the ones? GC252MR, GC1FDE2, GC21C43 Kinda weird that they are talking about maintenance logs when there is none on those caches. GC220XM is the only one that makes sense. Did the reviewer just disable all your caches that haven't been found in a while? Sounds hokey. Looks like the only thing you can do is to pay them a visit to confirm or replace.

GC2953X seems to be an example of this. Seems more like a hostile takeover though.

That's an excellent idea. I think most COs try not to think about the end life of their cache, so dealing with that as an explicit part of the merit badge requirement would be very useful. It looks like they don't intend for these caches to last for more than 6 months anyway. Also who is responsible for the next three months of the plan?