metherk

Some one recently found one of my caches frozen in 3 inches of ice. He emailed me a picture of it and logged it as a find. No he didn't sign the log book but he did find it. What's wrong with that?

Thanks BlueDeuce.

Can I get the info too?

We started caching at the end of June 07 we are currently sitting at 118 finds 2 hides. our best single day was 16 when we were pushing for the century mark.

Check the history of the TB if it has been listed in there for quite some time then it's probably missing. If not then maybe another cacher beat you to it. Dissapointing I know, especially if you set out specifically to get the TB or coin

This TB is currently listed in one of my Hides, (The Maple/Dunkirk Connection) It has been since April. It's not there and God knows who took it and didn't log it. I don't want to log it as missing just yet. Any one seen it?

I had another cacher email me a picture of one of my hides encased in solid ice with the corner of the container sticking up. He asked if he could still log it as a find even through he could not sign the log book. I told him yes and he agreed to sign the log book when it thaws.

Fair is fair and all that but it is annoying to see the same 2 or 3 people constantly getting FTFs. I'm not saying let others get the FTF's but jeez sleep in once or twice. I don't have any yet the closest ive been is watching the FTF sign the log as I pull up. All the instant notifications, maps on cellphones and PDAs takes away from caching. Whats the point if you get turn by turn direction to every cache. I have a hard time seeing how that's any fun.

Try snowmobiling, buying a sled, insurance, trail pass, trailer if you don't live near trails, gas, oil, carbides, track, studs, the list goes on. But you can cache on one.

It's important to log the DNFs especially for cache owners. We had a very frustrating DNF that we logged. I checked back a week later 3 other DNFs prompted the cache owner to check on it. Turns out the cache was missing and the owner replaced it. If no one logged DNFs the owner would have never known.

We got stopped by the Police once. It was near a snowmobile trail and 2 cops were checking snowmobilers for valid ownerships and insurance ect... We had parked on the side of the road before they had arrived and went into the bush to find the cash. We come out and one of the officers is looking at our car and our footprints while the other is talking to a sledder. He had no idea what caching was and though our car was stolen. We began explaining it to him when the other cop piped up and said, "you've never heard of geocaching before?"

I am in the Canadian Forces, have been for about 5 years, Including a tour in Afganistan in 2006. I wish I was a cacher when I was over there, I hear there a a few caches on the base in Kandahar. I started in the infantry then I wised up and went armoured.

I think that some people get intimidated and quit because they think its not for them. I've come accross some other cachers that have an attitude where they think that caching is a competition. They have to have the most finds, FTFs, and have hidden the best caches. I'm pretty new to caching and love it, ive got a little over 20 finds and have just hid my first cache last week. For the most part the logs have been great, but there are a few that say that the hide is bad, in the wrong spot, too easy, visible whatever. I get the impression that these people with 1000+ finds look at me with 20 and think that I don't know what I'm doing and don't deserve to be a part of the geocaching community. 99% of cachers are great and are encouraging and want to see growth in this activity but there are a select few that are too high an mighty to help a new guy along.