SeattleWayne
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On 4/22/2016 at 3:18 PM, Harry Dolphin said:
Lock picking tools? It's almost impossible to buy a pen knife in New Jersey (It's considered a weapon. I buy mine in Pennsylvania. I couldn't take my pen knife to the top of the Empire State Building, or to the Statue of Liberty.)
I certainly hope you warn geocachers about the need to pick locks. If I hike a mile out into the woods and find a cache like that, I'd do my best to get to the log. NM.
If you read the description prior to making such a hike and read that it's a lock picking cache, would you still go? That's the question.
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19 minutes ago, jellis said:
filled out the form and got no email back
Maybe send an email to the help center. That's what folks have been doing to fix this.
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19 hours ago, HawkMan1999 said:
So you get permission from every single person that lives within a mile radius of every hide you have? Permission is only required for private property and park lands, otherwise there would not be many caches at all. Read my previous post for clarification, but if it was only a guard rail hide I would have no issue just moving it. There has been quite a bit of time and research done for these and other hides I have done and am currently working on.
There's a cache placed in my area on a public road that overlooks farm land near a guard rail and cachers have reported that the land owner would ride up on her quad and chase cachers away from the area. So yeah. Any land owner within the vicinity should be notified of the cache. Imagine how you look when you're looking for a geocache. You have your GPS out, you're pacing around in an area, you're kicking over rocks or pushing through brush or whatever...people get a little freaked out. We, as cachers know exactly what we are doing but for someone who knows nothing about the game might look at us as suspicious characters and soon you're explaining yourself to the local law.
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On 8/17/2017 at 9:56 PM, Keystone said:
The Washington volunteers are terrific.
Indeed they are.
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On 8/19/2017 at 7:06 AM, Wacka said:
In Livermore, CA there is a virtual cache IN the fire station (World Record Light Bulb-GC6B3A). It is a list bulb that has been burning since 1901. There is a webcam for it and they welcome visitors whenever the station is open.
I'll be stopping by for this one. Thanks!
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I guess because in some peoples' minds they assume tax dollars are paying for the building that its public property. With everything, there are limitations. My main concern with a firehouse would be cachers parking in front of the truck lanes or finding their way into restricted areas of a police station. My .02.
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7 hours ago, on4bam said:
Ever see a statue of Hitler in Germany? The very symbols of that era can land you in jail,
Are you sure about that? http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/in-a-german-village-the-bell-still-tolls-for-hitler-1739605
American history can be ugly at times, and so can other country's history. Either love it, hate it, embrace it or don't. But history is history. You can tear down all the statues you want. The mere fact that there are hundreds of thousands of people who lived in those days, have memories etc will always remember.
To call out Groundspeak claiming they're a racist organization because they allow caches to be placed around statues of men who were involved in slavery is a little over the top in my opinion.
HBO played "42" last night on HBO. Rough times back in those days for baseball players of color. Should HBO be banned from playing that movie? We can use those moments as a learning experience, and see how people lived in those days, and how ridiculous it was to discriminate against race, religion or gender and use that as motivation to not continue to act like that.
Not everything is pretty in this world.
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Lab caches are a lot of fun.
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3 hours ago, NYPaddleCacher said:
I discriminate against power trails.
Have you done any power trails in the Pacific Northwest?
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4 minutes ago, thebruce0 said:
I was just going to say the same. Could easily be a mistaken oversight.
As far as I'm concerned, "discrimination" means hate based on religion, gender or ethnicity.
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1 hour ago, Team Rascal said:
GC, you "have" to do a souvenir for the total eclipse path and perhaps another one for anyone who finds a cache on Monday. You did leap day which is way more often than a solar eclipse
i'll be sad if you don't do the souvenir for the totality path.
I think even without a souvenir, it'll be amazing to see and experience.
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Thanks for the info. My goal is to try to get as many as I can.
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9 hours ago, Les Pandas said:
We did the tasks, got the souvenirs, but as yet no e mail with any instructions. Checked my spam mail etc but doesn't look as if it has been sent to us. Is there a delay before the message comes out?
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4 hours ago, Harry Dolphin said:
I find it bizarre, and sad, that GS would discriminate against cachers who use the same computer.
Really? You really think Groundspeak is discriminating against cachers who use the same computer? That's a pretty big accusation.
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16 minutes ago, JPWAVE said:
I just picked up a really nice coin from a geocache. This one reads "Alabama Geocachers Association 2004". It has a tracking number and instructions to log it at http://www.travelertags.com This is the first time I've heard of this website for trackables?!? Very little info on the web for them. Unfortunately, it appears the company has gone under. Oh well. Cool coin though. It's got the Geocaching logo on it. Yeah, I'll probably drop it off into another geocache.
Maybe they have a Facebook page you can see about.
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22 hours ago, Geek & Sweet said:
Got this reply from a help request:
"Hello Terry-
Thank you for contacting Geocaching HQ. We are aware of the Email issues, the code issues, as well as "@,#,& etc... symbols in usernames preventing people from collecting the final souvenir. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to get this resolved soon.
Best regards,"
I'm posting this so people (like me) will be patient and let them solve the problems - I'm sure they are less than thrilled to be faced with these issues that must be impacting many otherwise happy geocachers.
Thank you. People are really losing their cool over this.
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15 hours ago, Pond Bird said:
Others have mentioned upcoming International Geocaching Day on August 19. On the home page it says you can earn a souvenir. Wondering what cache I should find this saturday?
Any cache will do.
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13 hours ago, Curiosity_girl said:
Is the final puzzle just for premium members?
Nope.
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I would find a cool lamp post skirt to hide a cache under...
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1 hour ago, HawkMan1999 said:
Maybe I am just too new to Geocaching or have not been looking in the right places. I am not sure what the trackable code is, I submitted the info for it and am just awaiting the email that is supposed to come "By August 24th", but I am just curious about what exactly the tracking code is for?
It's a trackable code. Read about Trackables and you'll have your answers.
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5 hours ago, gredel said:
Ok, i found the picture with the chest in my souvenirs. I'm supposed to find a word on the chest? I don't see anything. Maybe I'm blind...Can anyone help me?
Its not on the chest. And the instructions don't specifically say its on the chest.
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16 hours ago, Scook said:
Why should I have to resolve their lack of technical ability?
Next, you'll be telling me to go to another location and try doing it.
It's an ERROR on the part of Wufoo, they need to fix FIX IT!
Sir, please calm down.
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Log NM accordingly. The problem with doing all the maintenance for some COs is that they will just rely on cachers such as yourself to do all the work for them. Eventually if no maintenance is done the cache will get archived. If the Co isn't taking care of their cache, that's not a bad thing.
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1 hour ago, Manville Possum said:
Ignore them and don't bring attention to them by calling them out in the forums. I don't watch geocaching on YouTube for reasons you have pointed out. They do it for attention, and you got played.
Yep. The best thing anyone can do regarding caches being placed against the rules is log a NM/NA.
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Then you probably wouldn't report it to the CO so the next cacher to come along would. Any responsible CO would routinely check on their cache.