Happy Bubbles
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If you've visited the location and found the answer to the question, you've certainly fulfilled the spirit of the cache. Many active virtual owners don't even respond to every email they get; if there's a a problem they'll speak up, but if there's no response most people just assume it's all good.
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I've got one that people keep hiding "better," and it drives me nuts. It's in a rock wall. It's not covered by anything; if you stand on a certain rock you can see it, but if you're not at the right spot you can't. I say on the cache page, "You don't have to move any stones" but twice now I have checked it to find that someone else has moved stones to cover it. That means any future finders would have to move stones to find it. I don't want cachers moving the stones. I don't want any over-zealous seekers to damage the wall, so I deliberately made it easy to spot. I'd rather risk it getting muggled than risk damage to the wall. But people keep thinking they have to hide it "better." Sigh.
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Search for caches near you and scroll down to the "published" log at the the very bottom of the logs. That`s probably your local reviewer, and the person to whom to send a mail asking about the coordinates.
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Went down to search for it yesterday and sure enough it had been replaced exactly where it was originally placed. The cache has now been removed for use at another location. Cheers. Dave
You can re-submit an archived cache. You could have just got it up and running again.
You can't unarchive a cache if it no longer complies with the guidelines. In this case, after the missing cache was archived a new one was hidden 240 feet away. Unarchiving the old one would result in a proximity rule violation.
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pagans are cowards.
Please tell us your religion, so we can insult it. After all, your signature says to treat others as they want to be treated, so I must assume you`d like to be called a coward or something similar.
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My Garmin works fine here in Japan. I`m not familiar with your particular unit, but most units should work anywhere in the world. After all, GPS does stand for Global Positioning System. It should still be able to find the satellites, although you might not have any maps unless you download them.
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I am the building trustee, and no it's not hazardous at all. Just a sour grapes cacher who wants to ruin it for others. He sent me some very rude emails after I tried to help him find it. Thanks to all the ppl who have emailed me in support. I am going to move on and ignore the sillyness. It's not hazardous, not very hard to find and the building is my responsibility. If you don't wish to find it, move on to another...not every cache is placed just for your pleasure.
win!
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I think that if cachers are tired of a certain kind of cache, they should go ahead and say so in their logs. If every cache in an area is hidden the same way and everyone`s logs are all fawning and sycophantic, new cache hiders are going to get the false impressions about those cache`s popularity and just hide more of them. I`m all in favor of honest feedback. Especially those that use "I" statements, like the one referenced in the original post. "I`m sick of LPCs," is a much better log than "This cache sucks because LPCs suck!" and worlds better than "TFTC."
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maybe people that don't sign up for premium accounts shouldn't be able to pinpoint caches in google maps and see the location of the cache, and download it to there gps if they have one.
i ran across one cacher the other day that didn't have a gps, but had a whole notebook of printed cache pages, this bothered me also, i was polite to him, and we talked about our finds, but he wouldn't tell me his screen name, and i suspect he was a total freeloader.
Wait, so you think only people with money should be allowed to geocache? I for one am glad that Groundspeak has said basic geocaching will always be free. And what does paying for a premium membership have to do with logging caches online?
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Why does this stupid thread keep getting bumped?
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There's been a bit of a controversy over a nice young man's excellent and creative cache hides which have 'suggestive' albeit hilariously appropriate cache names--appropriate in the sense that they describe the way the cache is hidden.
E.g., the cache named 'Desert Morning Wood' was a cache embedded in a piece of wood at the end of a street called 'Desert Morning'. 'This cache is really hung' was the name of a cache that was hung in a tree. 'Suck me dry' was a great cache, hidden in an empty hummingbird feeder in a really interesting spot.
The caches were published, and after some local old biddy-type busybodies complained, the reviewer--who had published them--archived them, or, what really gets me, retracted the listings. (Archived caches can be logged; retracted ones cannot be logged.) I felt as tho' the reviewer second-guessing himself was telling: he didn't see anything wrong with the cache names, until someone complained. The complainers were heeded, but the defenders of free speech were not.
There are many examples of double entendre cache names out there; the following caches are currently published on geocaching.com:
Blown Dick by arisjunior (GC1DCMG)
Blown Down by jREST (GC1MQYY),
This Cache Has Been Blown! by HMB Lipripper (GC1V52J),
BBES #4 Blow Me Down by CachinSpree (GC1MMN2),
Blow It Out of Your (beeeeep)! by graniteman84 (GC23ZGQ),
Blow Me Away by Red Bear (GCG7KW),
Blow me down by cookie42 (GCZ3H6),
Doris doesn't Blow by markellie (GC1W378),
Sucked Dry by JDandDD (GC1R310). <---- This is almost the exact name of one of the caches retracted
It Sucks? It Blows? by LandSnoopers [Charter Member] &Cat-city cachers (GCHTK5).
Why is this inventive cacher being discriminated against and censored while none of the above cachers are?
What does the forum geocaching community think?
I think that censoring double-entendre cache names is ridiculous. Take the "Desert Morning Wood" example. If a child or someone else doesn`t know the racier meaning of the term "morning wood," how could they be affected in any way by the cache name? They`d just see the literal aspect of it, the piece of wood at Desert Morning road. And if someone does already know the other meaning of "morning wood," they`ll get the joke but will hardly be corrupted by it, since they`re presumably already corrupted enough to have learned it in the first place.
The retroactive retraction of the cache is a stupid thing to do. Couldn`t Groundspeak have asked the owner to change the cache names? Or GS could have simply archived them, leaving the cache history but taking them off the maps. Better yet, they could have foreseen this sort of situation and worked it out with the CO before publishing the cache. Or hey, best of all, they could have just told whoever complained about the cache names to grow up and deal with it!
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Can you have the cache name in another language? Does it auto translate when viewing the site in English or is English just the standard?
You can have a name in another language.
I'm not sure if there is an auto translator on the website, but it wouldn't translate cache names, descriptions, logs, etc. I would imagine that when viewing the website in a country with a different language, the site text and button and stuff would be translated, but I don't know.
Nope, no auto translator, at least not for Japanese. It`s all English as far as I can see.
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Any puzzle/mystery cache you hide would have to end in a physical container with a logbook. A photo alone is not enough -otherwise, what's the difference between that and a virtual?
The only container-less caches publishable now are Earthcaches. For these you need to create a cache that educates about geology, and get very explicit permission to list it as an Earthcache.
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Bad bad bad bad no!
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Marbles
Locally prodeuced goods and souveniers related to where the cache is hidden or the theme of the cache.
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Thank You all for your help. I do not expect the co to find the cache for me. This cache has not been found for a long time with everyone discovering the same thing problem with not finding it. The area has recently been very cut down with many large brush pile with one in the gully that is mentioned in the new hint, Also the 6 foot wide wood chip pile does not exist. My concern is that the area has been altered so much that the owner may not know this and the hints are not valid.
The first step in this situation is to get in touch with the cache owner, which you have done. Good job! Describe the area and your concerns that the area may have been altered - sending photos can be very helpful. The onus is then on the cache owner to go and check out the area. Until that happens, there is nothing you can do and you should just stick this one on your watchlist and forget about it until the owner confirms that it is or is not there. After you have politely told the owner your concerns and given them all the useful information you have, do not send any messages to them as they might consider it to be pestering or even harassment.
Reviewers are best contacted for caches that do not meet the guidelines or are being neglected by absent owners. Since this owner is corresponding with you, a reviewer would be highly unlikely to get involved in the situation. They can`t make anyone go out and check their cache.
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r. I found out what I wanted and got a lot of not so nice answers I could have done without. From now on I'll just do my own research and not ask. If you want to continue to debate where my question should have been posted or if I have any business placing a cache have fun. I've already sent a note asking that it be closed. In the mean time I'm going to try and get some much needed sleep. Thank you for making me feel so good about myself.
Shucks, you`re being way too sensitive. People were disagreeing with you, not attacking you. Re-read the responses you got; people answered your question about whether that kind of cache is allowed. Just because it`s not the answer you were looking for doesn`t mean it`s a personal attack. If responses like this affect whether you "feel good about yourself" it sounds like you maybe have some issues you need to work through with a professional counselor.
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Or you could sign another scrap of paper and leave it with the logbook.
I've used a twig dipped in berry juice to sign my initials before.
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When I first started caching there was a nearby virtual I couldn`t get - because it was at a winery where minors aren`t allowed and I wasn`t 21 yet.
A few months ago I did a maintenance visit to one of my more remote caches. In the hours I was gone, five new caches were published - along the trail I was on.
I once had a would-be FTF cache that was literally out of my reach. It was in a hole in a hollow wall, attached to a cord that used to pull it up. I tugged the cord and the cache was stuck, so I tugged a little harder and pop! The cord came off and the cache fell down inside the wall, never to be retrieved again. The owner replaced it quickly and invited me to change my note to a find, but I held off and finally logged a smiley when I went back almost three years later.
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Annalena, I did a search for caches near the ones you mentioned looking for. This cache or this cache might be good searches for a family of new cachers. They are larger containers, have low difficulty ratings, and lots of "Found" logs with few "Did not find" logs.
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Wow, I just had this exact thing happen on two of my tree climbing caches this past weekend. Here are the logs:
"Found it, though didn't want to climb to sign log, it was a cold, rainy day."
"Wow!! That is very high up!! We found it looking up, didn't climb to retrieve it. It was a cold, rainy day, was afraid to slip."
The cacher is a newbie so I sent them the following email:
Hello and welcome to geocaching!! I see that you searched for two of my tree climbing caches but was unable to climb the trees due to the weather. In geocaching it is required that you sign the log in the container in order to log the cache as found. If you could please delete your logs or if you would like I can delete them for you. Hopefully nice weather is on the horizon and you can return to climb the trees and log the finds. Thanks and happy caching!!
In both of our cases I consider them DNF's since the whole point of the cache is to have cachers climb the tree.
That sounds like a very friendly and polite way to handle it.
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I forgot that some caches were designed to exclude people from "finding" it.
My bad.
Tell those cachers that their physical inability to reach the cache is no excuse. Deny them the find. Make no excuses. Let them know, in no uncertain terms that people who are unable to climb are not welcome at this cache.
~note substantial dose of sarcasm~
Dude, you already made your point twice already. Why do you have to add more sarcasm?
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If you don`t want to make people climb a tree to claim a find, don`t hide your cache in a tree.
I say it`s not a find.
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I wish I could turn the emails off temporarily. Normally I'm fine with an email now and then, but a hundred emails at once when a cache machine rolled through was a bit much!
Should there be a minimum age requirement to post a cache
in General geocaching topics
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Picture this:
CacherMom and CacherDad and CacherKid go caching together all the time. It's their favorite thing to do as a family. Mom and Dad drive while Kid reads the clues out loud to them. Kid loves getting to hold the GPS, and often finds the caches before Mom or Dad. Kid always signs the logbooks, and loves choosing just the right swag to trade, never forgetting Mom and Dad's instructions to trade up or even.
In this situation, why shouldn't Kid be allowed to register on the site and post their own log, get their own find count, and collect their own smilies?
Now, after finding all those caches with Mom and Dad, and even helping them make their own hides, Kid wants to make a cache all on their very own. Kid chooses the theme and name of the cache, and carefully chooses what swag to fill it with. Mom and Dad take Kid to their favorite park, and offer gentle feedback on the potential hiding spots Kid chooses. They help Kid write the cache page, and help read the owner emails that come after people start logging the cache. When the cache needs maintenance, they take Kid to fix it. Kid loves being a cache owner, and seeing all the logs people write and all the treasure they leave in his/her cache. They love looking at their very own profile, and seeing: "Found, ##. Hidden, 1"
If there was a blanket ban on kids owning caches, Kid wouldn't get all that fun. Kids love being able to do things for themselves, and getting all the credit on their very own account can make them feel very proud of themselves.