SeattleWayne

What makes a cache my favorite? Not being in a rock wall.

I meant why did they stop allowing new Virtual Caches?

Even with specific directions on how to retrieve the cache, people still manage to ruin a good thing.

Why did they remove the Virtual Cache? There's a few around my area.

I'd also like to add onto this. There are certain cachers out there that have a very creative mind which results in great caches. Then you have some cachers that love to saturate their hide count with lamp post caches and guard rail caches. To each their own. Creativity doesn't all of a sudden come after someone finds 100 caches.

I don't know. And I don't care. I'm not the one concerned about new cacher signing up, finding one cache then hiding one cache and then moving on with their life never to think about geocaching ever again. I found a cache today placed by a member who signed up in 2009. The cache was placed in 2012. It was in bad condition so I placed a NM log. I also clicked on the member's profile and saw that they've only logged eight finds since 09'. Their other cache they placed was archived after several DNF's went unchecked. So I suspect the NM will also be ignored on this other cache, and eventually (if no one tends to the needs of the cache for the member who is MIA) the cache will be disabled and then archived. And the severely damaged container will stay in its hiding spot until the city grounds crew comes along and hits it with a weed eater or a lawn mower sending the container into a million shards of plastic which will eventually find their way into the local water stream which empties out into the Puget Sound and then either fish or seabirds will eat the small pieces of plastic which then the fish or sea bird will eventually either die from ingesting too much plastic or be swallowed up by an apex predator. So the cycle continues. It's just a game. Life goes on.

How many new members join in your area a month, place a cache on their first or second day, and then walk away from the game leaving their cache behind? Any ideas?

How much of this have you actually encountered? And what difference does it make, anyway? So someone joins, logs a find or two, places a cache and decides "hey, this isn't for me" and bails. The cache is still active until it's not then it's archived.

You can apply that same logic to someone who discovers geocaching for the first time, hides a cache and quits all in one weekend. Eventually, the cache will be archived and life goes on.

Right. And what about the geocachers who create an account, and three years later start hiding caches and then decide to move on, and leave behind a bunch of caches?

How about not. There already is a video to watch, and plenty of reading material on how to hide caches. Just because someone is new to geocaching doesn't mean anything. I've seen caches in my few short years of being active not being properly placed OR maintained by some seasoned geocachers.

Same.

Welcome back.

I've never had any issues going out and finding caches, and I've only used an iPhone.

There's one TB in particular that I am in possession of and the mission statement is "to visit as many caches as possible". Another TB that I am holding, it's mission statement is "This TB's goal is to log miles". What does that mean, providing no added value? Isn't the point of a TB to travel around and exchange hands? Providing the mission statement isn't specific to any goals. The cantankerous attitudes of some caches in this community over frivolous, petty things is baffling. Most TBs that I have ran across have a mission statement of "travel the world!" Or "Go east!" So what difference does it make for a TB to visit 25 caches in one day or 12? I could see where excessive visiting might take place on a power trail or something but a day of caching shouldn't annoy anyone. TBs are supposed to travel around. TBs are seemingly becoming more trouble than they're worth with all these unwritten rules people want to make up. God forbid some eight year old picks up a TB and begs his parents to visit every single cache they find that day, and then at the end of the day they receive an email from some TB owner stating "my TB you have has visited too many caches, and it was supposed to go North not South, and if I wanted to see your cache activity I'd just go to YOUR profile! This provides NO value whatsoever!"

Interesting how YOU play the game regarding TBs.

So visiting a TB to every cache found is an act of selfishness, and a cry for attention? And are these actual rules for TB's or is this just a bunch of people annoyed how others play the game...?

Scrolling through pages and pages of logs. What a chore.

Log your DNFs.

Yep.

There's a cool challenge cache in my area that can be logged after you turn 50 DNFs into Finds.

Same.

I've used the ones in my area. I haven't found anything worth reading, though.

I recently adopted a cache, and yes, you'll need an active CO for that. You can also log a Note saying you'd like to adopt the cache. Maybe that'll prompt the CO to come out of hiding and give up the spot sooner.