WalruZ
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yes, this exact thing happened to a cacher I know. Her first cache, in a public park, came up missing. She looked for it and archived it. I was in the park some time later scouting hide areas and looked for the cache for the heck of it. It was right where it was supposed to be. She had no explaination either, but took the cache and hid it somewhere else. Yes, it does happen. Aliens is my guess.
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Hey, I've seen the 4000+ crowd stumble around in the weeds just like everybody else. There's a certain satisfaction that comes from finding a cache that they can't.
Not that that happens very often, mind you, but when it does, it feels good.
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all is not lost (quite.) Construct a copy TB using a hand-made copy of your copy TB tag. grab it from the miscreant and turn it loose again. I've done that' it's very satisfying.
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afaict, he is po'd because his vacation cache was not approved. I know a few geocachers who are similarly disappointed. They got over it.
Vacation caches are not allowed. The debate was a big stink, bigger than anything you could raise, Scotaku.
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4000 caches. amazing.
4000 caches and still married. Really amazing.
I think Maddy deserves some congratulations as well. Perhaps cannonization into some GeoCaching sainthood...
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Word on the street is that there are no GeoCaches in the afterlife, so he's trying to find them all now.
TeamAlamo. 4000. Not bad.
I guess I'll have to pick up my pace.
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Indeed - you go girl!
(I'm 1/2 way there!)
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I looked at the tillys, but got a reasonable hat from my local army-navy shop for a lot less $$$.
I say go for it. remember, what you're trying to do is scare the muggles away so you can look for the cache undisturbed.
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like criminals...
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCGZY3
As far as rocks go, I've been thinking of using some for cammo. They have advantages in that they are good at neutralizing muggles. An area that couldn't accomodate a piece of rubermaid usually offers many more opportunities for a piece of rubbermade inside a rock. If difficulty bothers you, just state where it is - in many cases you're only cammoing for the muggles, not for the geocachers.
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an age old question.
there's not much you can do. some people try geocaching, take a bug, then never do it again, and don't respond to emails, assuming that GS's emails even make it through their spam filters. You're out of luck here.
One thing you can do is to 'make' another travel bug dog tag using an image of your copy tag. scan it or try to replicate it with a paint program, print it out and laminate it or just cover it with a layer or two of clear packing tape. Then affix it to another of the same or similar item. 'Grab' the TB from the deadbeat and re-release it into the wild. I've done this and it's your best bet, imo.
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I've done a fair bit. It's a great way to get those FTFs.
I don't carry a BFL or a headlamp. I usually just carry a single AA LED light and only turn it on when I'm checking a possible hide site or crossing an obstruction on the trail, and then only momentarily. I do this for reasons of stealth rather than blindness. Stealth is much more important when night caching, and stomping around with a searchlight or walking the trails with headlamps is just asking for problems, imo, but that's just me.
One tip I have learned for urban night caching is to find legal on-street parking some distance from the cache site. Don't just go into the park parking lot (if there is one) - park a little further away and walk in.
oh, and wear black. all black. gotta look the part.
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A wonderful opportunity. Since you are local, please place 34 new caches (1/10 mile apart).
Film canisters please. They're my favorite.
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I strongly suggest looking for a group in your area. They often have events (that always seem to involve food, funny that...) - anyway, don't be shy in asking for someone to accompany you for a day. I've found most geocachers to be very social and happy to show a newbie the ropes.
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Fact is, if you buy a unit and are careful removing it from it's packaging, saving all the materials that come with it, should you decide you don't want it you could sell it on eBay for around 60% (or perhaps even more) of what you paid for it. To the best of my knowlege you can't rent them - what would the rental fee be? It wouldn't take much to get up to $100.
Just go to target and buy the garmin.
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I think there's a more general form of the question that could be asked. What do you think of geocachers who have been active for years, who have found hundreds of caches - over a thousand even - and don't hide caches? Aren't they sort of 'sponging' off the work and creativity of everyone else around them who does hide caches? I'm sure you can make excuses or allowances, but isn't what they're doing similar to 'trading down' - taking, and not giving?
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(just kidding...)
I do believe that people who have > 500 finds and have not placed any caches should get off their duffs and do so. Even in our cache-dense area I still find places that are worth visiting.
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I can tie this all together. One of the very enthusiastic FTF seekers in part of Marky's range is the same fellow who hid 35 caches to commemorate his 35th birthday. His ratio isn't suffering. Marky got many of the FTFs on that set (and had to work for them, trust me.) I live in this fellow's zip code and have run into him caching. at midnight. often.
My ratio isn't that good. I suppose I should make a trip to the Costco Photo department... [
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2. We are playing a scavenger hunt game.
This is what I usually say. Most people understand at some level what that means and will not ask for further details. It can always progress to geocaching if that seems like a good idea, but it usually doesn't.
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Indeed...
National Trails Day Garin Park Event
Up to 100 volunteers are needed to maintain and rehabilitate narrow trails, install benches, mulch the apple orchard, and related tasks.Poo. There's a get-together event in Scotts Valley the same day. What to do?
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(WalruZ nags again about the travel bugs that were logged into the CITO event cache. Where are they? Why aren't they moving?)
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Jaded indeed. I'm willing to bet that most TNLN'rs would still be disappointed if they opened a full size cache and found only a logbook.
I sometimes cache with people who have in excess of 2,000 finds. Each of them enjoys opening the cache, examining the contents and trading for stuff. They may trade it back out into another cache, but they stir the pot and they have fun doing it.
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Having trouble finding caches is normal, for a number of reasons...
1. The coordinates are bad. This happens, and sometimes it is never fixed. Take a glance at the logs for a cache to see if finders have posted their own coordinates. Expand your search radius, within reason.
2. The cache isn't there anymore. It happens. Consider the 15 minute rule - 15 minutes of search time for each star of difficulty.
3. The cache is hidden in a manner that is typical but which you have never seen. A micro hidden under a light-pole skirt (they often lift up) suprises most newbies, but experienced cachers just make their kids go sign the log. Visit your local Geocachers group and ask for a mentor.
4. You are spending too much time looking at the GPS and not enough time looking at your surroundings. You also have to be pro-active. The cache is not going to hop up and wave - you have to move things, poke into holes, peer at things from different angles. It is not unusual for caches to be completly out of sight.
5. You are getting weak signal (overhead obstruction, ie, trees) or multipath (bounced signals). The GPS listens to many (usually 12) birds and uses the 4 'best' to calculate your position. Something as simple swiviling your body in such a way as to block a bird can alter your reading. Walk back and forth in a good visibility area and observe where the GPS points you. Then see item 4 again.
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i've just started using pocket queries (and GSAK), and like the control that filtering and offline manipulation are giving me. For example, I like being able to filter out puzzles and instead treat them as seperate projects, not in my GPS or gsak.
PQ has a 'That' clause that lets you filter things in or out depending on certain criteria, such as 'caches that have travel bugs'.
I would welcome a criteria which is 'caches whose last log is not a DNF'.
There are too many cachers who ignore what they've hidden, don't check up on them, don't disable them, etc. I don't want to inadvertantly try looking for those caches when I'm out with just my GPS and it's waypoints.
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oh, and by the way, what's the deal with all those travel bugs that were brought to the CITO picnic? The event page still shows them as logged into the event. Do people have them? Or could you put them in a cache so people could get them?
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SF Bay Area geocachers
in West and Southwest
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Caltrain will be resuming weekend service June 5. As a thank-you, the service will be free June 5-6 and June 12-13. This sounds like an excellent opportunity for South Bay cachers to load up some bicycles (which are allowed on the trains) and do some San Francisco caches. There is a great swath of caches leading from the Caltrain station, up the waterfront all the way to Fisherman's Wharf and Fort Mason.