Team FIREBOY

We recently had an event. GC14RME We had the general TB and Coin exchange. Now we are getting emails saying that the TBs and Coins that are still listed on our event listing page are missing. They go on to say that events are places that leave tons of trash (including TBs and Coins) that will lead to Geocachers REALLY doing a c.i.t.o. We are not responsible for people logging the TBs and Coins they traded. NO trash was left behind as we really cleaned up after...... left it even cleaner that when we arrived. We made a $100 deposit that we got back. Is this just someone that is upset because they didn't come to the event? Or just a person upset because they don't know where their TB is? We did request that all trackables be logged before these emails started. Has anyone else had a someone complain about their event? What was the complaint and how did you deal? We want to repeat our event next year, but don't want to get nasty emails.

New to this. Have just 3 coins to trade. We don't know what we want yet. If you want to trade, just email and we will look at your trade offer. We have: Navstar GPS coin Appalachian - New Jersey Travel Gnome - blue (traded)

I had the same problem and called their Support hotline. They sent me a new gasket and the tape. Pretty easy fix. Just make sure you line up power button properly or it will be hard to turn on and off.

To update the count. Nurses = 49 Firefighter = 6 EMS/EMT = 9 Lab Tech = 1 OT = 1 Manager = 1 Health/Safety Specialist = 1 Police = 3 Pharmacy Tech = 1 Ophthalmic Tech = 1 Yeah, Mudblood Squad, I have thought about using our "bullet" blood tubes for cache containers. The problem being the tiny logs to sign. We would have to maintain the darn thing weekly d/t replacing the log. Plus all the "I can't find it... are you still sure it's there" logs. I didn't know Gram Cracker was a nurse too... we should start a nursing geocacher coffee group here.....Oh the stories we could tell.

We just had a scavenger hunt event last Saturday. We hid 25 temporary caches (it took us 2 days to do that) and we also hid 10 listed caches( published at 1500, the time the event was over) We had 87 people attend the event and only 2 people did not participate d/t health reasons. We gave the coordinates out at the event and there was a two hour time limit. They had to find the caches and bring back one item from each cache they found. After the scavenger hunt, awards, raffle prizes, and coin discover we gave the coordinates to the 10 freshly published (on GC.com of course) cache hides out to the event attendees for the mad dash for FTF. All said they had a good time. Questions? Contact us through our profile.

bump Because reviewers need thanks for working so hard... come on fellow geocachers tell the reviewers how much we love them!

We just placed a cache about 2 weeks ago in prep for our event. It was listed, not published, as we were holding the publishing for just after the event. Two days after we placed it we went back to make sure our coordinates were dead on. The cache was ~poof~ gone. It was a "saw box" ammo can, filled with goodies and some new unactivated coins for FTF. We were upset for about mmmm 1 minute, shrugged it off and replaced the missing cache with a scuba tube. We use these losses (our 2nd) as a learning tool, perhaps the location was not a good place for a ammo can. Maybe some kids just wanted the "stuff". I am sorry to hear that the cache you placed as a celebration for your recent adoption was muggled. I hope you try to place another one as a second attempt to celebrate. Please don't let others spoil your wonderful news of completing your family. Good luck. Great news too... a new child in the home... enjoy!

This thread is to heap praise on Rocky Mtn Reviewer. Please stay on topic. Hi. As the OP I meant to post a "Kudos" for Rocky Mountain Reviewer AND to solicit other "you did a great job" for other reviewers who work so hard to publish the caches. I am amazed at how hard all of them work. I also wanted for this to be a place for praise and not a place to thrash our hard working reviewers. I think that all the comments have been wonderful so far. Can I change this thread to also get kudos for all reviewers? Edit: speeeeling

Thanks Hemlock. I wanted all to see... not just our region. RMR has done such a great job and we think everyone should know!

Not 100 percent sure this is the correct forum, if not can a moderator please move it. Thanks! We just wanted to let the world of Geocachers here in Geocaching.com know that we think we have a WONDERFUL reviewer here in WYOMING! He/She did a fantastic job with our recent listings that we placed and then held for publishing for after our event. He/she guided us on the proper way to list caches and then publish later. It sure helped to make our event even more successful. SO KUDOS TO YOU ROCKY MOUNTAIN REVIEWER! We are lucky to have you in our region! Please keep this an angst free thread. We need to thank the people who work so hard to help this game/hobby along and not thrash them in the forums. Without them.. where would Geocaching.com be?

Hmmm, must be doing this maintenance thing wrong. We visit our caches every other weekend to do maintenance. Ours are in a city though. We just placed some in the mountains and anticipate maintaining them once a month when there is no snow on the ground. We do watch logs though and will immediately go and fix any caches that finders log "needs maintenance". If we can't get to it immediately because of work then we temp. archive it, but not for longer than 30 days.

When you do get your Pathtag we would like to trade if you are willing. Ours is in the gallery, # 5380.

Hi, Sorry to burst your bubble. We had our Pathtag with the Geocaching LOGO on it too, although it had gone into production. If you plan on producing more than 25 pathtags (and I know first order is 50) then I suggest that you get permission from Groundspeak FIRST. Read their guidelines under Logo usage. We had problems because we produced 150 Pathtags.. We really like your design though!

WOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!!!!! The Geo_Leprechaun visited our event (GC14RME) today. We were double lucky, one POT OF GOLD for our Raffle. One POT OF GOLD for us!!!! Nice to meet the Geo_Leprechaun! We feel SPECIAL NOW! THANKS - you know who you are.

The goal of the Groundspeak Forum is to promote the activity of Geocaching and GPS Usage. It is an open forum sponsored by Groundspeak Inc. for discussing all aspects of Geocaching, Benchmark hunting, GPS Usage and Groundspeak related GPS Gaming. HOW MANY NURSES GEOCACHE USING GEOCACHING.COM LISTINGS? HOW MANY NURSES USE Groundspeak FORUMS TO ANSWER QUESTIONS POSED IN THE Groundspeak FORUMS TO GET AN IDEA OF HOW MANY NURSES ACTIVELY ENGAGE IN GEOCACHING. Better now? Seeing as this thread is a month old and a moderator has not moved it to the "off topic" section IMHO makes this thread a Geocaching related thread. Moderators please... can you help a girl out? If I am wrong I will say I am sorry.

Um, I don't know.... do you think the words "how many nurses geocache" make this a geocache related thread? Would it be better if I asked " How many nurse geocachers out there have placed a cache made out of a peanut butter jar, shrinking it using one of the cool cache container threads instructions, to place said shrunken peanut butter micro cache under a lamp post and how to you keep your log from getting soggy, how often do you maintain your cache, do you have any muggles or geocaching thieves who have stolen your cache and what did you do to solve your missing geocache problem, has anyone reported you for using a pb jar and it being a "lame" hide and did they do so by writing a "needs archived" log or did they just thrash you on your caches listing page and O.B.T.W. who made your geocaching forum avatar? I must go back to counting cheese now. But that is Off topic.

Groundspeak.com then click on domestic and international partners. This will give you a web list of places to shop that cater to geocaching.

My grandmother went geocaching with me after she got out of the hospital, She is 89. We did one cache at a Cracker Barrel in Indianapolis. She enjoyed it so much that next spring (she will be 90) when she comes to visit family in CO. she wants me to drive down from Cheyenne and take her caching "for real"- her words. Amazing woman!

I agree to a point with FireRef. To say that "teenagers" will ruin the sport of geocaching is too big of a blanket overstatement. I have two teens, and they have been"raised" in the out of doors. They love to fish, hunt, camp, hike and absolutely love to Geocache. The difference between them.. and some other teens is that we have taught them from babies to be good stewards of the land passed on by the generations. We have spent time with them and taught them morals and ethics. Some people don't spend time with their offspring and sometime those kids are destructive because they don't know better. I don't pretend to understand all the social ills that plague this nation that end up producing "hoodlums", but you can look at almost any generation and find kids of that generation doing something the adults would find offensive. It's like when we reach a certain age and we say.. "darn, these kids today don't know anything" Our parent's said it about us as theirs did about them. Just like teens don't trust anyone over 30. My 17 year old daughter takes her friends to caches (our caches) during lunchtime at her school, and those friends end up going on caching trips with us. But, then again all of those friends do camp, fish, hunt, hike...ect. Birds of a feather flock together. It brings me back to..... go ahead and spread the word of Geocaching, to select groups... not mass marketing to the "General population" edit: i really need vinny's speel and gram mar chek pro Gram.

While we learned of Geocaching from National Geographic Adventure Magazine we really don't consider that a "mainstream" way of finding Geocaching. It is a magazine that is read by people who already enjoy the great outdoors and all the "wild" has to offer. We would be on the side of not promoting caching to the general public by advertising with the "big" internet sites. Perhaps teaching to select groups who are already good stewards of the land would continue to be the way to grow this sport and evolve it into the future. Of course that is in a "perfect" world. We think we are heading the way of trying to manage the fallout of too many people being aware of caching and not playing with ethics. We are just noobs, that's our story and we are sticking to it. edit: speeeeeling dahling

Updated stats: RN = 28 Firefighter = 5 EMT/EMS = 8 Lab = 1 OT = 1 Manager = 1 Health/Safety Specialist = 1 Police = 1 YEP, the RN crowd is still winning.

There is a group in COLO. is is called Geocaching Colorado or GCCO. Here is a link www.geocachingcolo.com If you go to their forums and post that you need someone to adopt your caches because of moving I think you will get replies.

NO, the original thread was about MUGGLES in general. It did not become about safety until weedboer posted his/her reply. The reason people respond better to yelling "FIRE" is most people are smart enough to not yell the word "FIRE" unless there is truly a "FIRE". IMHO if people heard "FIRE" being yelled frequently they would begin to tune it out just like when the hear "HELP" yelled or a car alarm going off. A person yelling "HELP" is a request for help from someone. An individual plea that the person hearing the "HELP" be screamed can choose to or not to respond to. Same as hearing a car alarm going off. Upon hearing "FIRE", people panic and act immediately because of ADRENALIN being pumped into their bloodstream due to the sympathetic/parasympathetic reaction to their OWN safety issues. See Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs or go read a book at the library about neurotransmitters and how they mediate the human's response to perceived dangerous situations. FIREFIGHTERS have to fight the urge to leave a fire that they are fighting because of the flight aspect of the fight/flight response. They train to have a stronger fight response. Go ahead and yell "FIRE" when you find yourself in a dangerous situation. You will either pay a lot of fines for citations and/or lawsuits brought against you by victims who got hurt trying to flee or you will be thought of as "The Boy/Girl Who Cried Wolf" If my husband, the firefighter, gets hurt while responding to a FALSE ALARM I certainly would sue the person who caused the false alarm to be called. Negligence on the false alarm caller's part causing harm to another vs. responsibility for your own actions and safety. There are other threads about safety while caching... please go read those too. Sorry about this being off topic. I just hate it when people misuse the word FIRE because they are not paying enough attention to safety while out caching or elsewhere and end up finding themselves in a dangerous situation.

I've sometimes wondered if you couldn't pay 'foxhunt' as a game at a bigger event if you could get enough people that have garmin Rino units. Otherwise I think it would get pretty costly to buy special equipement just for doing so. We have done a "Foxhunt" at an event. Please see this listing, GC116K1

If you yell "fire" in the USA and there is no fire.. you will be ticketed for inciting a riot. (and people might get hurt fleeing) Not a good thing to yell fire.. you want people to hear "FIRE" all the time and block that too from their "Alert.. warning... danger.... fight or flight human reaction. Just like car alarms, nobody would pay attention. There are lots of ways to be safe while caching.... but that is another thread(s). edited for spelling.