IndyMagicMan

Thanks for listening and responding to your customers feedback.

Perhaps a more customer service orientated approach would have been to find an acceptable solution first before shutting off a valued feature.

May 01 by Mike N. (1 found) My first find. Coords off a bit. TFTC

1 of 200 here. No point in waiting for it to be gone to chime in. I use this a lot. It is the fastest way to do longer road trip planning. PQ's and export are really not a viable option here because of the limit on PQ's. The GC Googlemaps in the site are very nice but way too slow to look at bigger area and as has already been mentioned the ability to have my own overlays in GoogleEarth is extremely useful.

They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary. -John Keating, Dead Poets Society

Of the many great things ISQ did for Geocaching, one of them is it brought ‘branding’ to Geocaching. If I see “Indiana Spirit Quest” in the title, I know what I’m in for. Love it or not, you know right away what to expect. I’m going to a cemetery or burial area. The cache page has well researched information and photographs that are meaningful for the location. In general the finds are straightforward; the prize is the location and not so much the cache itself. As cache density continues to rise and planning what caches to do takes a little more time, it’s nice to be able to know just from a title of a cache I can add it to my list for the day. Overall my logs on Spirit Quest finds do not truly show my deep appreciation for this series. Some days the stops just flow one into the other, but I really do appreciate all of them and stop at every ISQ I can. Many thanks again to Lead Dog for planting the seed and setting and maintaining the bar of high standards. Thanks to The Shadow for the generous gifts. Thanks to all hiders of Spirit Quest caches.

doobies, you have my respect for owning your part in this. Thanks. We have a series a mistakes, poor to no communication, and horrible fallout. It was a shame that even after the initial incident gg felt he had to tell the entire story because there was still no communication. I hope we all can learn something from this. The price we paid was high.

The answer to this is three. Don't see why? I don't have time to explain, but feel free to discuss among your selves.

They have taken the bridge and the second hall. We have barred the gates, but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes. Drums, drums in the deep. We cannot get out. A shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out... They are coming...

OMG, I need some kind of warning before I read something like this. I was in the middle of a drink and just shot water out my nose. ROTFLMAO.

Ammo can are the *only* container that I have found to be consistently dry. Even my five year old gets excited when I tell him the container is going to be an ammo can because he knows that content on the cache will be in good shape. The one thing I've read and seen on the forums that seem like a descent idea is to label the outside of the can, but I'm also convinced that is a bomb squad gets called any kind 'geocaching' label will not make a difference anyway. BTW Stem, amazing paint job. Do you have you stencil in Word or some such format?

OK, here's my serious suggestion, and one that's been brought up several times. Cache rating system. A simple 1-10 rating is all we need. If www.imdb.com can do it without getting into all of the details/genres/etc, we can do it to. No need to worry about the type, hike, view, etc; just 1-10. The best will rise to the top, even if you personally don't agree with that '10' in your area. This will: #1. Allow me to put lower rated caches at a lower priority to visit if I choose. #2. More importantly, some people *may* think before putting another breath strip container under another bench because they may care about getting a reputation for have 100 caches with a overall rating of '3'. I think the #2 effect could have an important impact on the overall quality of caches, and better Geocaching overall.

If today is your first day of geocaching, you have to cache.

Do what you can, not what you can't.

There are several caches in my area that have been "temporarily unavailable" for about a year or longer. Can someone tell me why this is? Is it all the owner's responsibility? Thanks.

As others have already said, there are quite a few micro's in walking distance downtown. Bring your camera and do the virtuals 92 Counties and Time of a different kind! at the state museum. Also, Something About Space Buffalos? is the kind of virtual that'll make you say, "Who'da thunk it?"

Most of this thread just makes me think yet again that caches should have user ratings. I have seen some micro's that were fun and challanging, and a few that I would consider pointless. If something with as many varying factors as a movie can be boiled down to a simple 1-10 user rating, we can have a basic system like this too.

quote:Originally posted by Renegade Knight:Trading Tupperware for ammo cans is frowned upon. Trading Ammo cans for tupperware would be a big thumbs up in my book and you can do that to my caches any time. Wow. Now that's very interesting to me. I have found ammo cans to be consistanly better caches than tupperware. They are the only type of cache that has always been dry. Why is tupperware better to you? Because it is see through and therefore there could less paranoia if happened upon (I could see this a bit for ammo cans). [This message was edited by IndyMagicMan on October 29, 2003 at 12:27 PM.]

A very optimistic perspetive. Thanks.

quote:Originally posted by sept1c_tank:Of the 60-some caches I found in central Indiana, most are ammo boxes behind a fallen tree and *bark-o-flauged* or covered with sticks. Most caches here also require some bushwhacking through stinging nettles or briars, and involve a fair number of mosquitos. ===============_"If it feels good...do it"_================ **_(the other 9 out of 10 voices in my head say: "Don't do it.")_** . I'll agree with this, with the exception that tupperware seems more common than ammo boxes (ammo boxes have been the only consistantly dry caches around here though, but I dirgress...). Lot of stick piles, tree knots/bases around here. I recall reading an acronym once that cracked me up. Some like USP for Unnatural Stick Pile, but it was longer and hit the nail on the head.

I saw it last night. No mention of Geo-Caching. They did show several hand held Garmin units though.

You did it.

I guess people cache for differant reasons, but for me it is in no way a competative sport. So if someone else fakes thier count i'm in the 'who cares' crowd. I realize it does matter to some. Buy why I bring it up is it would be just about as easy to fake most regular caches. 'Perfectly acceptable' was a poor choice in words for not signing a log, but TNLNDS is a recognized term. The DS part of this is what I refer to. You can't prove you were there if you didn't sign the log, and this is an accepted entry (I guess an owner could nuke it if they didn't it). 'Warm Fuzzies - Fuzzy' made me see for the first time why flase entries are bad from a cache owners perspective. You wouldn't want to see a lot of entries and think your cache is OK only to find out the last 10 visits are fakes and your cache has been missing for 2 months. But this just adds to the 'so what' for virtuals. I can also see it a bit from the side of making the submitters having some level of ownership of the 'cache', and making them have an interactive part for the life of the cache may keep down on the pointless caches. Thanks for the replies. I guess if I though something was cool enough to be a virtual cache I would want as many people to come and see it as possible. If the added step of e-mail (as minor as it is) keeps some people from bothering, then it is a bad thing. (yes, yes, I could still go and just not track it on this site...). On the other hand 1000's of pointless virtuals that require no tracking would not be fun. IndyMagicMan

The virtual caches I have looked up require the finder to e-mail the 'hider' with some sort of 'proof' that you were there. Why? If the reasoning is so someone doesn't fake a visit, that reasoning is very flawed. Visiting a regular cache and not signing the log seems perfectly acceptable, and I doubt the hiders go back and confirm every single entry anyway. I guess it's not a big deal for most people, but why have this extra pointless step for virtuals? I'm grateful you gave me an interesting (hopefully) new place to visit, and enjoy using this site to log and track where I have been for my own records, but why do I need to e-mail you?????

Yea, Dom was buried in Fandango, but this is a great example. It's actualy a pretty good movie too.