SeattleWayne
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9 hours ago, LizzyRN said:
6 caches today = 77 points.
I found two caches yesterday which equaled 22 gold coins.
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5 hours ago, Isonzo Karst said:
I'm not aware of any effective repellent for either pigs or bears - and a pig repellent would likely be a human repellent.
Wasted some time hunting pics of an ammo can disassembled by a bear in the Ocala National Forest posted to old archived hide there. I expect the bear was merely curious; it has the bite force to reshape the can. Owner replaced can once to the same outcome.
Florida is lousy with feral pigs; old Spanish stock mixed with more recent escapees. I've seen white banded, Hampshire types, and some spotted pinks. A bit of European wild boar in the mix too, those were deliberately released for hunting. Ammo cans on ground they'll shove, open, bury, or move so far that you can't come up with them.
I hear Texas has a real wild pig problem, too. A bunch of friends of mine when I was in the military would always take hunting trips to go kill as many as they were allowed to kill.
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2 hours ago, cerberus1 said:
You don't need to "wait for confirmation", even if it's posted on the cache page, as explained in the Help Center with, "Once you send your answers, you may log your find online before hearing back from the cache owner".
Didn't know this. Thank you, Cerberus. Not like I ever waited anyway.
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13 hours ago, Laval K-9 said:
I don't have the same question but I think someone can help me with this.
The Event I attended on July 15th was the Midwest GeoBash in Ohio. Does it count for the challenge even if it was not pirate related?
Thanks for your help!
Wait. The event wasn't pirate related? Ohhhhh boy.
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10 minutes ago, dubidubno said:
I don't, because surely publication time can be scheduled? It should be easy enough for Groundspeak to implement.
Entirely not so. Reviewers are volunteer basis which means they give their free time to the game. Caches get published when reviewers have the time to get them published.
Besides all of that, there is no real reward for being first to find. Except bragging rights. And in my experience so far, there aren't too many people who really care about any of that.
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4 minutes ago, mvhayes1982 said:
What would be the purpose of scheduling publication time? Reviewers publish caches when they have the time to review and publish them. To schedule publication to accommodate an individual (or a particular group) of cachers would only invite MORE claims of bias (and perhaps claims with actual basis, unlike the claims made here).
The purpose of scheduling publication times would be so dubidubno can be the first to find a cache.
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On 8/3/2017 at 2:24 PM, hzoi said:
How about...not worrying about who's the first to find your caches when you hide 'em, and either hide caches, or don't?
I don't care who's first on ours. (Nor do I mention who might or might not have gotten "FTF" on the cache page.) That's for finders to argue about, not my problem. I just want to give back something to those who have hidden caches for me to find.
Your mileage, of course, may vary.
I second this. On one of my hides, I gave a shoutout to a FTF-er then a second finder came a long and stated they found it too, and no one had signed the log before them. So then I'm like, "okay. so you're the first to find.." then the original FTF-er said, "no, I am! I didn't sign the log but here's a picture of the cache! I forgot my pen!" blah blah blah...
After all that, I don't care anymore who finds what first.
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9 hours ago, WarNinjas said:
To your question about cost. Yes it can cost $5 or more to replace a cache. Or it could be a container you already use that doesn't cost anything. It still costs in time spent and all but this is a hobby. My other hobby is fishing. It also takes time and money. I have often found a new type of fish I want to go for and the rod and reel set up has ran me over $300 and sometimes use a lure that might cost over $15 and I might loose that in a single cast getting it snagged. I have also bought boats and tuns of other gear. Heck the fishing license costs me over $60 a year.
I own over 200 caches and spend more time lately caching over fishing but my guess is I still spend more on fishing then caching per year.
Yep. Hobbies can cost money.
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9 hours ago, TheVoytekBear said:
Nope, the rules changed. If the reviewer archives your cache there is no way backnother than publiching a new cache. The cache can be unarchived if the owner archives it but it isn't guaranteed because someone else can take the place or the cache is unpublishable according to the new rules.
Edit: my reply was obviously about unarchiving, not the costs which were posted in the mean time...Oh. I stand corrected then. Thanks for the update.
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I've only ran into one other cacher while out looking for them. We both knew what we were there for so we just approached each other, and introduced ourselves.
I don't think there are any unwritten rules about what to do so I say just go look for the cache with whoever is already looking. It helps to have an extra set of eyes. If you don't feel like socializing that day, then wait them out. Or leave.
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Yeah. You'll get a digital souvenir some time on Wednesday for the prior week. Either you'll get an email notification about it or it'll just show up.
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As long as you're communicating with your local reviewer on when you plan to replace/fix the cache in question, there shouldn't be any issues. Reviewers will leave notes for you to respond, and if you decide to ignore those notes then they will archive your cache.
If your cache gets archived, you can always ask to have it unarchived. But I wouldn't make a habit out of letting reviewers archive your stuff only to ask to have it unarchived because you all of a sudden became serious about maintaining your caches.
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13 hours ago, Spacemann Spiff said:
Here's something I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned yet (but I'm not going to read 37 pages of posts to find out)-- :-)
It bugs me that the reviewer/publishers for my area (Maine in the summer; Tampa Bay, Florida in the winter) almost ALWAYS post new caches first thing in the morning (generally 5:00 am - 7:00 am). Believe it or not, there are some people in the world who don't get up at the crack of dawn, and would still like a chance to be FTF once in a while.
Yes, I understand the reviewers are volunteers, and yes I appreciate their time & dedication, and I understand they have their routines. And yes, I understand it might not be a good thing to publish new caches in the late evening or at night, which might encourage over-enthusiasts to wander around in the woods in the dark and perhaps hurt themselves.
But why not vary the publishing times at least somewhat during the day, such as around 10:00 am? 11:00 am? 12:00 noon? 3:00 pm? 5:00 pm? As I said, some people have schedules other than 9 to 5 and would like a chance to be FTF. But the publishing "schedule" is biased toward those who get up early in the morning. Whenever there's a new cache published in my area, someone has almost always already found the cache before I even get out of bed.
OK, rant over. Thanks.
It seems you already have a clear understanding as to why caches in your area are published at those times. Read Keystones reply, and that should give you a more solid reason other than reviewers are just biased.
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On 7/18/2017 at 9:22 AM, MysteryGuy1 said:
Another thing that frustrates me is getting reasonably close to a cache and then being unable to figure out how to get any closer. Two similar examples from my recent adventures...
I followed a trail from the parking coordinates to a stream. All indications were that the cache was on the other side of the stream, but there was no obvious way across. All of the recent logs suggested that it was a quick grab from the trail. Nobody said anything about having trouble crossing the stream. And the location of the parking coordinates rules out the possibility that I was supposed to start somewhere else. So I left frustrated.
A few weeks later, I came across the same situation somewhere else. This time, there was a very unstable looking log going across the stream, but that was it. I couldn't decide if the log was supposed to serve as a "bridge" and had perhaps been destroyed by weather, but there seemed no other way across and it looked too risky to climb on the log. And yet, after I was there someone logged a find and didn't mention having trouble.
You should've signed the "unstable looking log" and called it good.
Aside from wet feet, streams seem safe enough to walk through, no?
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1 hour ago, Mudfrog said:
Like i say, i'm sure there are some store owners and managers that are ok with this but i'd bet money that most aren't. Well, it probably has something to do with the general area a person lives too. I doubt very many that even ask for permission. Not sure of the exact number but i'd say that we've been approached by store managers/employees around 10 times over the years, asking what we were doing in their parking lot. They didn't even know about geocaching. I admit, some were ok with it after telling them about geocaching but the majority asked us to remove or get word to the CO to remove the cache
In my experience the majority of store owners are okay with it. I've never been asked to remove the cache or to tell the CO to remove the cache.
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7 hours ago, Mudfrog said:
For grins, i've asked store management a couple of times and their replies were that they would never give permission to someone to place a cache under a light pole in their parking lot.
I know of folks who have asked for permission and it has been granted.
There are a lot of caches in my area where store owners know about the cache and encourage them to be placed in their parking lots.
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5 hours ago, Team DEMP said:
I'm surprised some of you haven't come up with scenarios where a cacher just follows their GPS right through the parking lot, across the stream, up the hill along the trail before bushwhacking with their vehicle the last 200 ft. We should stop caches that a driver might not be able to reach with their car in case they don't realize they can't drive to the cache.
No one is trying to stop any caches here.
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8 hours ago, Team Microdot said:
Flashes home-made ID card and strides in through front door...
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On 7/28/2017 at 8:37 AM, Mudfrog said:
Looking at the cache page again would be the logical thing to do, to see if the yard/backyard was even mentioned. If nothing was found there, then i could always go up to the front door (i've done this a few times), knock on it, and ask if i'm in the right place. I could always just leave if no one answered or if i didn't feel comfortable knocking in the first place.
I do know there are times when trespassing is not obvious and there have been lots of instances brought up here in the forums. But i don't remember any of them being because someone followed bogus mystery cache listed coordinates.
How cool would that be for a complete stranger to come knocking on your door asking about "geocaching".
"Hey, there's a geocache icon on your roof, ma'am. Do you mind if I take a quick look around?"
I don't see how any issues could arise from this.
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On 7/27/2017 at 3:58 AM, Team DEMP said:
I guess geocaching is a good measure of the reverse evolution of humans. It took 15-17 years of this working ok to get to the point where humans have gotten less intelligent to the point this rule needs to be enacted.
Soon there won't be any caches or logs and we just participate in an online logging experience so everyone can log and feel good about it. Maybe instead of a participation medal we can call it participation logging - create an account and log. Maybe we can all get a virtual hug after the log is submitted. At least there won't be any maintenance threads with no caches to maintain.
I seriously doubt it would come close to this. I'm sure there are plenty of D5 caches out there to find who desire such challenges.
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On 7/26/2017 at 2:29 PM, Mudfrog said:
Send all the complaints you want,, i'm certainly not worried about my mailbox being overwhelmed.
If this has come from GS, then it's yet another change in guidelines that inhibits cache placement. It sure seems strange that there's worry about this but then it's perfectly fine for a person to place all the parking lot caches (without permission) they want.
Parking lots are mostly on public property. There are some businesses in my area where caches have been placed, and the CO has noted in their description that permission was given.
And that's apples and oranges compared to a cache icon in someone's backyard as opposed to one in a Walmart parking lot. If a cache icon (puzzle, traditional etc) popped up in my backyard, I would certainly email the CO to remove it away from my property, as probably you would too. If not, like Keystone said, there'd be newbies tromping through looking for non-existent cache containers.
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12 hours ago, WarNinjas said:
You don't need to do that! I will do it for $12!!!
Nah, I'm good. Thanks though.
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11 minutes ago, jellis said:
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Yes I have an example(s) A few cachers in our area got excited about caching and put of lots of hides, then out of the blue they up and quit. Who cleans up the mess?
It's supposed to be the CO that went missing.
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8 hours ago, noncentric said:
That's not what your online log said.
I saw what you saw.
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