scuba dude

I have 10 coins out in the caching world and I'm about to release 10 more. I check up thier movements about once a month. I have sent email to holders of my coins if I they have held it for 2 months or more and are still logging caches during that time. I keep it polite and friendly. Basically saying 'please don't forget about my coin, and drop it into the next cache you feel appropriate for it" I have gone caching in faraway places with the intent to drop coins and bugs. Then I get there and see terrible hides/re-hides, lots of muggled caches, etc and I won't drop into that area. I treat moving coins as if they are my own, and I won't drop them into a spot they are likely to dissapear from. SD

AAHHHHHH!!!!! That's horrible. I had to stop eating my sandwich for a couple seconds.

I like several of the ones you are thinking about. But like others have said, the cache really has to name it's self. I won't submit a cache for review for several days after making the hide. Sometimes I have to wait for the name to come to me. Some of my caches are kinda lame-named, and others use clever play on words that just fits it's surroundings.

It seemed like the camera was mounted at about waist level.

Even though the views were amazing, that it just plain stupid. When you see the concrete crumbling and falling away and still walk on it, that's stupid. Now having said that, I think it would be kinda cool to go do. I guess I have a little bit of stupid in me.

I've used mine on a cruise ship, and was never challenged about it, but then again I don't think anyone else saw it. I don't think that cruise ships are worried about interference, I think thier fear might have more to do with piracy. I know it's not much concern in the Caribbean, but other parts of the world it's a real threat. Most (if not all) ships are outfitted with secret anti-piracy equipment that goes completely un-noticed by the passengers.

I've had my walking staff for about 23 years. I saved it from a pile of firewood. It was formerly an Aspen sappling. It has been worked and smoothed, and the top is nice and flat. I carved an inset at the top and tightly wound 550 cord using a noose knot to make a self locking handgrip. I have used it almost every year since it's rescue. I still have plans to inset a medallion of some type into the top, and carve some designs down the body. I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Several months ago, a local cacher (about an hour away) had become active in placing new caches. There were several new ones that hadn't been logged yet, so I headed up to claim some new FTFs. As I got to the first possilbe ftf (in a tiny pocket-park) I saw 2 people standing in the middle chatting away. I sat in my car and pretended to have a purpose while I waited for them to leave. After about 10 minutes of impatiently waiting and fiddeling around, I saw a GPS in one persons had. So I got out, with my GPS and walked up to introduce myself. Turns out it was the cache owner and another cacher from up in Kansas. We stood there and talked for about half an hour. Then we parted ways and proceeded to sign as STF of the cache. I headed out in search of the other ftfs. I was 20 minutes behind on the first. I missed #2 by 10 minutes (passing him as he left), missed #3 by 5 minutes (again, waving as we passed) and missed the last one by about 2 minutes. He was walking back to his truck as I pulled in. It was a fun chase, even if I didn't get any ftf's that day. I found it funny to find his name as the last to sign a log (the day before) on a cache a couple hundred miles away a month later. Seems I am forever chasing him.

I haven't found anything worth more than a few dollars so far. On my 13th cache "lucky #13" I left 13 dollars as the FTF prize. I am currently working out the plans for a 5/5 multi to place when I get back home. Kind of my way of celebrating the homecoming. I am planning on a MAJOR ftf prize. Like a new GPS, or silver bullion, or just a big pile of one dollar bills (like a couple hundred)

I tried this very same approach last year when I got started. But for some reason, people seemed to be looking at me MORE, as I made those Walmart and Lamppost cache grabs.

My favorite cache so far has been this one: VIEW CARRE ' GCE02C

Hey now, My kid absolutely LOVES the McToys. He'd be happy to take every one of them. You may be depriving a child cacher of what he wants to find.

My furthest cahe to date is Grinding Mill by Tiki Treasure (GC1183B) W 1296.5mi from your home coordinates. Of course I plan on getting some MUCH further away in a few weeks. SD

Thanks for the story Snoogs! Interesting that I am only a few miles from that area right now. I won't have time to go after any hiking caches, but interesting story for my (temporary) local spot. SD

OK, so apparently some <censored> thinks they are funny by rating all my caches as 1's. Jeez, just when I think there is something of value here, some <censored> comes along. I'm truly sorry that I ever posted my first comment on this board. I'm going to say good bye to you trolls, and go back to regular caching without all this needless <censored>. [Edited by moderator for potty language.]

I have already begun loading my caches onto that site and linking to it from my cache listing pages. I think it has a lot of potential. If it gets a lot of abuse, all I have to do remove my listings on it. That's pretty funny! SD

Thanks TAR! I have already begun loading my caches into that database and posting the "rate me" link into my cache pages. So far I am the only Oklahoma cacher to list any. Maybe as other locals see my cache listings, they will in turn add thiers to the list. I think it a great idea. Maybe could use a few tweeks, as mentioned above, but great overall I think. If I start seeing low numbers for any of my caches, I will know that I have not fully lived up to my end of the caching bargain. I can then re-evaluate the site/container and make changes or archiving as needed. Has this been posted as it's own thread before? This is the first I've heard of the website. I think it could use some broadcasting to the masses. SD

OMG! I agree with Egami!

I have only performed maintentance on one cache so far. I went looking for a disabled cache that hadn't been found in many months even though several had searched and logged DNF's. The owner had disabled it almost a year prior and hadn't done anything to it since. When I found the cache (a bison) I found the logged soaked and the o-ring in tatters. I replaced the o-ring and the log. I had planned on an absent-owner adoption but when I emailed, they actually responded! I don't know why they were waiting so long to do anything with the cache, but they thanked me and re-enabled the listing a couple weeks later. It was a great hide, and I was trying to keep a good cache alive for future cachers. I ended up feeling like a stooge for doing the work of a lazy (local!!) cache owner. You should try carrying them when they are full of ammo! SD

Yes, people who think that they are the only thing that matters in the world can ruin any group they join. These are the same type of people who find a cache, then leave it laying out in the open. Cachers who are too lazy to put a cache back the way they found it really get my goat. It shows a lack of respect for the owner and all future seekers of the cache. I know that these people are (thankfully) in the vast minority, but just one sweeping through an area can ruin dozens of great hides. SD

I don't think you did. I think that statement there is the crux of this entire thread. Who was it that said someone or group was a "horrible abuser"? The "horrible abuser" would be the cachers who do things that bring a bad light to caching as a whole. Since that is the basis of this thread "Detrimental behavior that affects geocaching as a whole" I think it fits nicely. OK, so detrimental behavior and abuser are not exactly the same, they are similar enough for the sake of debate. For clarity, it should be realized that what is minor to some is major to others. I personally think that trash caches are a negative on the sport of geocaching. Feel free to debate, just don't think I will change my mind. I might respond with the reasons I feel the way I do (even though we've recently had an entire thread on the topic), but I don't expect to change your mind either. Just give honest opinions. SD

I don't think you did. I think that statement there is the crux of this entire thread.

You'll never get straight answer from him. He's saying "yes" without saying yes, so that later he can claim he never said that. I'm done with this thread now. But I have another person to add to my ignore list! SD

Well, you labeled yourself as troll in earlier discussion, so back under your bridge. I have never labeled myself a troll. I don't "troll" topics. I just find it ironic that you have a habit of falling back on that in recent discussions when things don't go your way. This is another topic that should be closed by the mods...it's gone way off base and is just generating more chaos. You admitted you were holding to a false belief simply to provoke a response by others. THAT is being a troll. If you could answer truthfully, or constuctively this could be a good discusion. SD

Look at all the hostility! Just becuase I pointed out that you STILL failed to answered a simple question. This is a public forum, NOT a private conversation between yourself and BKI, or anyone else. So, are you willing to FINALLY state your position, or are you still going to keep making diversive comments about things you have to ask for anyway. Honestly, you keep dancing around the questions.