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That sounds like a cache that would drive me insane. heh. Is it still up? Got a cache number? I would love to make something similar.

Thanks guys! That is *just* what I was looking for!

G'day all. Hope you are surviving your quarantines. I have come across a few multi caches that give a bearing and direction to additional stages. I use an Iphone, and I can not figure out how to plot a point in a map application given a starting point, a bearing, and a distance. A compass works well for small distances, but for longer ones I have to think their must be a better way. I have searched online for such a way to plot, but the best I come up with is finding a distance and bearing between two known points. What do you do in such a situation? Do dedicated gps devices have an application for this?

Here's your log roller. $.76 for 2 and available off the shelf in virtually every town in America. https://www.homedepot.com/p/1-8-in-x-2-in-Stainless-Cotter-Pins-2-Piece-815348/204276203

You don't even need to buy a special tool to make a log roller. Any standard cotter pin from any hardware store will work. A log roller is a standard tool that should be in every cacher's bag. It is not obscure.

Interesting. It appears we have two pretty distinct camps here. I do not mind maintaining caches at all. I like to check periodically to ensure they are still good. Nothing is more frustrating than hunting for a cache that is no longer there or is waterlogged or is otherwise in poor shape. Don't get me wrong--I appreciate handwritten notes as much as the next guy. Context is key. If it's a larger cache and uses a notebook, then go ahead and use the space (not advocating skipping pages of course). Using a lot of space in a small log doesn't "bother" me per se--I shrug my shoulders and go on. I am merely talking about the impression it gives me. It's the same impression as people who leave their shopping carts in the middle of parking spaces. People who drive in the left hand lane for miles at a time going the same speed as the right hand lane. People who would rather throw their trash out of their car window for someone else to pick up than have to take two steps to put it in a bin when they get out. Granted, these are on different areas of a spectrum of behavior, but the base impression is the same. People will be people. Your mileage may vary.

I never leave notes on logs. Logs are for signatures. If I leave a note, it's digital. "Boring" is subjective.

Personally, I love micros and nanos. I couldn't care less about swag. To do away with micros and nanos would be lowering the standard.

Scenario: small log sheet. People signing with a stamp that takes up 5 lines or they skip lines. Am I the only one that finds this behavior annoying, self-centered, and tacky?

Cheaters are going to cheat anyway. I like to think the vast majority of people in this hobby actually like to find the hides. Why would a person even be a geocacher if they wanted to sit on their couch and fake it? It seems foreign to me. I can guarantee you there isn't a bunch of people sitting around researching the finds they can fake without being called on it.

Personally, I like the challenge of finding well hidden containers. Whether it's micro or not doesn't matter to me. If you prefer a certain type of cache, wouldn't it be easy to just use the filters on your search settings? If you don't want to find generic hides, how about sorting by number of favorites received? I'm not saying the annoyances you speak of aren't annoyances, but I don't understand how they affect your enjoyment of the hobby since it is *so* easy to tailor the types of caches you find. *shrugs*

I have placed a few caches. I have never checked the logs. If someone gets their rocks off by cheating in a game like geocaching, I'll let them. It makes no sense to me, but it doesn't hurt me either. I view my find record as worth nothing to anyone but myself. It's not a competition. I put caches out for people to have fun finding them. I have no interest in policing the way they play the game. Just seems overly negative to me and not the reason I play. But to each their own.

I am pretty new to this, but isn't the whole point of geocaching getting out, traveling, and exploring? If you don't want to travel and explore, why are you doing it? That's an honest question.