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Happy Bubbles

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  1. If moving the cache would make hunting for the cache in the new location a significantly different experience from hunting from the cache in the old location, I would archive and post a new listing. New experience = new listing, new smiley. But if people who already found it would feel like they`re finding the same cache all over again, I would just let them keep their current smiley on the map and just change the coordinates of the current listing.

  2. I'm fine. I am indeed 400 miles away. I couldn't even feel the earthquake, and my bit of the coast of the Sea of Japan wasn't affected by the tsunami at all. Other than the constant stream of horrors on the news, life is pretty normal in my neck of the woods. I'm mostly just worried sick over the things happening in the northeast. I visit Sendai a lot, and while everyone I know there personally is OK it's still awful to hear about all the people who aren't.

  3. I am very suspicious of this person's logs. http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=c46257ca-be01-4e25-83c9-92ad4b816780 He found a ton of caches, all over Miyagi prefecture, in one day. That's a lot of driving! Yet he somehow didn't get around to logging them (all with TFTC) until a month later. He even found one cache weeks before it was published. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=488a470a-ac6a-4175-9be7-683cc28fcfb5 I had a lot of the Sendai caches on my watchlist for months, and those logs just appeared in the last few days. Normally I would ignore it and assume the CO would take care of it, but obviously this is not a normal time in that area. What kind of weirdo writes fake logs for caches in a disaster zone?

  4. For the first time, we'll have caches archived, and unrecoverable, for reasons of radioactive contamination. I really want to make a funny one-liner about a new "radioactive" attribute, but the situation just gets so much graver, and so much worse than we were being led to believe, that even gallows humor is a tough sell for me today.

     

    I was caching a lot in Eastern Iowa both during the historic Cedar River flood of 2008 and the very damaging smaller floods of 2009 and 2010... A lot of caches were lost, rising water does a number on them. I can't imagine how many cahces were lost in the tsunami this time, or in Indonesia a few years ago.

     

    No, we won't. Fukushima Daiichi is located at N 37 25.378 E 141 01.975. The nearest cache is an earthcache 20 miles away, which is outside the current evacuation zone. It's extremelyunlikely that there will be any lasting radioactive contamination in an area wide enough to include any caches.

  5. I'd probably send them something like this:

     

    Dear Whippersnapper:

     

    Thanks for your email! Unfortunately, I`m rather fond of my cache, and other people seem to be enjoying it too, so I don't think I'll archive it now. I see you already have a few hides of your own, so you know that part of the fun of geocaching is finding a brand-new spot for a cache that no one else has thought of yet. Looking at the map, I can see that the north end of the park would be far enough away from my cache, or there's plenty of space in Zzz Park down the road. You could maybe put your cache there. When you do find a good spot for your next cache, I look forward to finding it!

     

    Good Luck,

    Veteran-Cacher-Who`s-Stayin-Put

  6. As a resident of a non-English-speaking country, I strongly prefer that cachers write logs in their native language. Google translate does a terrible job converting between Japanese and English - the results are often incomprehensible. If I have the cachers` orginal text, I can translate it myself and gain a better understanding of what they meant.

     

    Also, it is very common for Japanese cachers to write one line in English (Thanks for the cache) and then several lines in Japanese. If I were to require finders to write in their non-native language, they might limit themselves to just the TFTC part and I would miss the richer detail provided in their native language.

     

    For example, here is one log on a cache I found recently:

    DNF.

    Give up!

    -in J

    最初、荒い地図を見て、えっ中央分離帯?と思いましたが、行ってみると素敵な歩道が。

    ゼロ地点の怪しいポイントは一通り見たのですが見つからず、これ以上は土下座ポーズが必要ですが、除雪あと状態だったので土下座は断念して諦めました。

     

    "DNF. Give up!" is not very informative. The Japanese text provides greater detail about their cache search - they were looking along the pedestrian walkway in the center of the street(which is the correct area), but because of the snow chose not to kneel and look under the benches (which is actually necessary for finding the cache.) "DNF. Give up!" might suggest to an owner that the cache might be missing, but the information in the Japanese text shows the searcher just wasn't looking in the right way. If I had been the owner and had demanded English-only, the cacher would probably have left it at "DNF. Give up!" and I would have missed out on the details.

     

    I hid a new cache several months ago, among some ruins on a mountain that is currently covered in snow. Yesterday, someone finally logged it, and all they wrote is "I found it in the snow." I`m guessing it`s a Japanese person without much confidence in their English abilities. I wish they had gone ahead and written some Japanese, even if I would have to translate it myself. I would love to know how the heck they came to be finding my cache at this time of year.

  7. "Collectible" means someone can take it home with them and make it part of their personal collection and keep it forever and ever. It sounds like you would want to select "This is not collectible."

  8. When a reviewer first temporarly disables a cache and the owner never replies how long will it be until the cache is archived? For instance a cache was temporarily disabled on August 21, 2010, the owner still hasn't replied. When will this be archived because I would like to place a new one in the same area.

     

    Email the reviewer who disabled the cache, and say "Hey, what's up with that cache? I want to place a new one in the same area." Odds are good that they'll either tell you they're in negotiations with the cache owner, or that your message will bring the cache to their attention again and they'll archive it.

  9. I would like to add something to the description I submitted, namely a list of the items I enclosed. One of them is a hitchhiker (a toy monkey) with a TB attached that has a mission to travel to all the other 49 states and then return home to me, so I am very anxious to have him found so his journey can begin.

     

    Go to the cache page you created - it should start with http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details. . .

    On the upper right side of the page, select "Log your visit." On the "Type of Log" option, select "Write note." Write about the items and the TB you`re leaving, then at the bottom of the page where it says "Dropped off any trackables?" select the TB`s name and hit the "Submit log entry" button. The TB will now be listed in the cache`s inventory. If you want to leave the log there you can, or if you want a clean cache page you can delete the log and TB will still stay in the inventory.

  10. Just did a quick search and seems to me there are more caches in Afghanistan than there are in Mexico. I KNEW there's a reason I will never travel to Mexico again! Geocachers know where the danger areas are. :(

     

    I think you`re making too broad of a generalization about how dangerous Mexico is. Parts of it are very dangerous, yes, but parts of it are as safe as anywhere in the US. The economy of the whole country is going to be in serious trouble if people stop going to the nice, safe beach resorts because of scary things happening elsewhere in the country. A better explanation for the relatively low number of caches in Mexico is the language barrier and economic differences. Gc.com is in English while most of the locals speak Spanish, and a smaller percentage of the Mexican population has enough spare cash to by a fancy GPS unit.

     

    Meanwhile, there are more caches in Afghanistan because of the military presence there. Military men and women have the best GPS technology readily available to them. Wherever there are lots of soldiers/marines/sailors/ airpeople , there are bound to be tons of caches nearby.

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    sign up for a free account with another name,

    one you use simply for complaints, and such like this, with no ties to your real name, or other username in it anywhere, and go about your business, do what has to be done.

     

    that way you can do as you see fit without tarnishing your other name. you will essentially be anonymously doing the dirty work you think needs to be done.

     

    In other words, make a sock puppet account. That`s a banning offense here in the forums. Does that rule also apply to creating a sock puppet account for writing cache logs?

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