wandererrob
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I can't say I agree with removing it. If it was placed independant of geocaching.com, it's not bound by our guidelines. As somebody said, it could simply be a local cacher doing their own thing and you may never finds out who it belongs to uinless you happen to stumble on it somehow.
Put it back, continue looking for the owner, make a note on your cache page.
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I've actually been waiting for this one to come back online. I work right at 128 and 2a. One of them small, relatively unknown start-up type plces
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only 194,472 more to go. Good luck! Now get out there!
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There are many caches placed underwater. Garmins are waterproof. My old 3+ went swimming on several occasions, sometimes by accident, others just to get the mud off.
My eTrex has also gone swimming a few times whilst kayaking.
Never missed a beat. I beleive mine is rated for 30 submersion at 6 feet or something along those lines. -
on the subject of sig items, one thing I've wondered about... are the sig items left for the cache owner as a "thank you" of sorts? Or are they regarded as a trade item?
The thank you idea makes the most sense to me so I always leave them in the cache when I come across them.
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ok, I can't count. I'll go back to my corner now.
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I was looking at my find count the other day and am nearing the 50 mark. Then it dawned on me that the TB I found is counted as a cache find. This struck me odd. I'm not saying this shouldn't be necessarily. But to me that isn't a cache find. It was there IN a cache, I grabbed it.
I just seems to me like they should almost be a separate count. Once you get into higher numbers that could throw things off quite a bit.
Not that I'm really much intot the numbers mind you, but still it's fun to hit certain landmarks (e.g. when I hit 100). But when that happens my count will be higher by the number of other items I've found along the way.
Thoughts? I'm just pondering.
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Ah, much better. Thanks! I actually never even noticed that function.
Is bookmarking specific to premuim accounts (in which case, a newly available feature to me), or have I had it all this time and didn't know it?
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Can a cache be added to your watchlist without having to get the daily email every time a new log is added? I flagged a few locationless caches so I could come back to them quickly without dredging through the search pages over again. But I don't really need to see every log that is entered, or at least not be notified of them.
I guess what I'm saying is, I'd like to be able to flag the cache for future reference and check on it at my leisure sans updates in my inbox.
Thoughts?
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What model/brand do you folks use? Where did you get your radio? Are they really useful, or just another fun toy?
Gabwp
If you are splitting up at all, they are very useful. But if the person is within easy earshot, not worth bothering. And depending on terrain and such, if they are more than maybe a half mile from you they aren't terribly helpful. Unless of course you're in an open level field under perfect atmospheric conditions, then they're good for "up to 2 miles".
To answer the first part, I have a set of cheap Cobra FRSs that have served me well for a few years now. I got them free from Nissan for test driving an XTerra, which is funny b/c I already owned one at the time. It's still my geovehicle
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That's the entire cache description. No hint. It's in western Alaska near Nome. The only guy who attempted it had to abandon his quest as a Tundra fire blocked his path. <BR><BR><A HREF="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=4697" TARGET=_blank>Kougarok</A><BR><BR>Ok who's ready to go??<BR><BR>Alan
OK, I'm intrigued. Sounds like my kinda cache. I'll keep it in mind if I ever make it up there.
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Warm Fuzzies - Fuzzy:<BR><BR>"You can find it."<BR><BR>Where the cache is hidden, there's a very unassuming rusty old can. Guess where the goodies are.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Fuzzy, that's clever. But that falls under the heading of "It's only useful once you know where the cache is." Having read that hint in the woods, I would have been irritated, and probably not have looked for a can, but after finding the cache and noticing the can, I would have put it together. Not sure how many folks would use this clue to its potential.<BR><BR>Jamie
I don't know about others, but I like it! IMO, that's how hints should be. It's a HINT, that's why they call it that not a "give away".
What can I say? I'm a weirdo.
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I've only met one other cacher (or cachers, it was a family) on the trail. My girlfriend and I were up in Bangor, Maine looking for a few in March, when we came upon fellow cachers. We tag-teamed the search since we met at the site. none of us could find it under the snow though.
Never did get their names though.
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Nope, not yet. Probably not in the forseeable future either. Of course I don't cache so much that it adds a huge amount of milage to my everyday driving anyway. I tend to go in spurts, or cache when I go someplace. Caching tends to sort of be a part of my life rather than an activity unto itself.
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Not sure it's all that odd, but the wierdest thing I've come across was a skelton of a critter that apparently didn't make it out of the prescribed burn in the area. The cache was nicely toasted as well.
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Speaking of archived caches, is there a way to see caches that I've found that have become archived, without going through the all of the pages of all finds?
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Nevermind, that doesn't work like I thought it would.
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I just grab a coupe of items from my supply that lives in the truck and stick them in my pockets in case I see something I want. But most times I don't trade. There's not often something there I just have to have.
I am curious though, and I don't mean to be a wise-a**, why carry so much extra stuff into the woods? I mean, unless one is hitting several caches in a single trip on foot, why the bag full of swag rather than 2 or 3 items? Just wondering and getting a different perspective. I know everybody has their owns reasons and motivations for the game.
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Would you tell people it looked like a wasp's nest in the hint? If not, you may not get many finds. Too many people would never go near a wasp's nest.
I wouldn't say a word. I think the fun is to see who does find it and not worry about who would "chicken out". Not every cache needs to be spoon fed.
Salvelinus
agreed. In a case like this, only the truly brave would even think to check it. All others will simply DNF it.
Personally I think it's a brilliant idea and would certainly welcome the challenge.
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Where's George was created to track the natural circulation of money.
Unfortunately, you had some people who thought that they had found a cheap travel bug. A dollar bill tracked at Wheres George only costs the one dollar. The problem is that this is not considered natural circulation because the Wheres George bill, or in some cases just the dollar bills serial number (and series), was being circulated between a small group of people ,geocachers.
Wheres George frowns upon leaving a Wheres George bill anywhere specifically for a designated person to pick up. The goal of the website is not to see how many hands can touch a dollar bill. The goal is to were your dollars end up after you spend them.
I logged 2 in the past. Both never surfaced again.
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I guess it depends on the complaints and the distance involved. I have none currently hidden, but I suspect my thinking shall be roughly this...
I'd first make several trips to the site and find an avaerage as best I can, see what my GPSr's accuracy is telling me, then assume a fellow cachers accurancy is roughly similar in that area, then make my judgement from there. I also intend to take my GPSr with me when making maintenance runs and confirming coords that way.
If my GPSr is saying it's accuracy is 30' and yours says 30', we could theoretically be up to 60' apart while showing the same coordinates. So if the cache is well within that range... I'd chalk it up to GPS doing what it does. If under said circumstances it turns out they say I'm off by 100', well time to double check my numbers.
The same logic applies when I hunt a cache. I double my accuracy, or error depending on how you want to look at it, when figuring out my search area. I don't think I've ever come across a cache more than 30' from it's posted coords according to my GPSr.
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I also registered to the site you are talking about and the nearest cache from me was like a couple hundred miles. I 10x prefer Geocaching over any of the other sites.
I had a similar experience over there. Got picked up quite quickly, but only 1 TC witnin 100 miles of me.
They appear to be growing though and I like the general premise. What interested me in particular is that the members can rate the caches they find. Granted everybody has different ideas about what constitutes a "good" cache, but I think with enough ratings some trends would emerge and give you a general idea of how good the cache is.
But this place is still the best.
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Yikes! Can we stick a "Not Work Safe" tag on the subject here?!
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I have to say I like to find toys in caches....only because my kids are usually with me, and this keeps them interested in huntng for the next one. Personally, I don't hunt for them to get more trinkets, but for the fun and adventure. And its much more fun if the kids WANT to go. Even the dreaded McD toys works for us!
There's a multi near me that REQUIRES a McD toy. LOL!
I'm going to hit it just because it made me laugh.
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Problems:
One good storm could potentially move the cache quite a ways from the posted coords.
My inability to join my father on his lobstering trips during the weeks would hinder any necessary cache maintenance.
He doesn't lobster in the winter so winter maintenance would be impossible.
How many cachers would actually go out there to log it?
Awesome idea! Depending on where it's located, I might put the kayak in for something like this
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How about attaching a geocoin to a beanie baby?