Happy Bubbles
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Since so many people seem dissatisfied with the usual quality of trade items in caches, I was wondering how people would react to owners declaring their caches to be nice swag caches. They could stock them with nicer items and check up on them to make sure that the quality remains high, while the nice swag designation would let disillusioned finders who never trade anymore know that they might want to bring some good trading items to this one. I suppose this would work like theme caches or TB hotels, where the trading "rules" are described on the cache page and there isn't any actual enforcement. Is there any reason why someone would be upset about cache owners making this sort of declaration about their caches? Has anyone tried this?
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It's not just these courttv folks who have mentioned this. Our local news (which is all over every single detail of the story since we're right by Couer d'Alene) just had a blurb talking about how Duncan was also involved in "a high-tech game of hide-and-seek" using satellites.
Judging from his profile, this guy was barely even involved in geocaching. He only had ten finds in two years. I'd say that he's not a geocacher, just a guy who sometimes finds geocaches, just like a person who plays sports only five times a year isn't really called an athlete. So it's ridiculous for someone to refer to geocaching when describing the major parts of his life, or to think he's in any way representative of or connected to the rest of the people involved in this game.
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I read about this site that tracks books that you leave with a card inside...I can't remember the site name or I would do that as well.
A wonderful game! I love finding Bookcrossing books left in random places.
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Marbles. whenever I go to a cache I find a few marbles. it would be ok if it was a whole set, but I only find a few. (2-4)
At first it seemed that there were a couple marbles in every cache I found. So I decided to start colleccting cache marbles, and see how many I can get. Since then, I have been finding hardly any. So if there's some things you find too often, trying looking for them, and then you won't find any!
Most toys are fine, but little plush toys and other cloth items often come out of the cache with the scent of Eau de Ammocan. Ick.
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Seriously, if the person is gone...what harm?
Because half the time, geocides aren't permanent. Someone will get upset, leave, calm down, and come back again. But who would want to come back again to a game that makes cruel jokes about one's grammatical errors in a public forum? I would be upset if I made a mistake on my own cache that ended up being dragged up and flamed before the entire geocaching community, and I would imagine that others feel the same. Do unto others. It's just not nice to make fun of people. This person had a good number of hides and finds, and I think that the cache with many locks and combinations sounds like a fun idea. We should try to keep creative, active players in the game, not chase them away just for the sake of a few lame jokes.
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Isn't it kind of mean to make fun of this person in the forums? If they declared their intention to leave the game on their own cache listing, why drag it up here so that people can make comments with little eye-rolling faces?
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I collect marbles that I find in caches - got a lovely little jar of them on my desk. I love looking through them, thinking about the different caches they came from. But none of them are nice ones like yours - those are amazing! When I find my little cheap marbles in caches, I usually treat them as a set; if there are five or six matching marbles in the cache, I'll trade something nice for all of them. If I don't have a nice trade item, I'll trade something cheap for one of them. Again, this is just with ordinary marbles. If I ever find some as special as yours, I'll be sure to to trade something very valuable for one to give such artwork the respect it deserves!
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Just the day before yesterday I was in the woods, kneeling to peer under the edge of a rock, and I looked up to see a four foot bullsnake coiled up right next to my face. I must have come very close to stepping on it just a few minutes earlier. It sat still long enough for us to admire it for a bit, then slid off under a rock that I had been recently considering sticking my hand under to feel for the cache.
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I've been in and out of the caching world over the last couple years, and while comparing logs from now and then I've noticed that the phrase "TNLN" has largely been replaced by "TNLNSL." For some utterly irrational reason this has been bothering me; every time I see it I think, why? Why must you include in your online log the fact that you signed the physical log? Isn't that a prerequisite for logging a smiley face? Everyone just assumes that you signed the log whether you write "SL" or not, so why bother? And if there was something about the cache that made the fact of signing the log remarkable, surely it would warrant more than just a two-letter abbreviation. So I'm just curious - what explains the origins of "SL?"
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I found a cache a few weeks ago that had a miniature birdhouse as the container. I knew what I was looking for from the hints. The only problem was the actual birdhouse in a tree nearby. It's nice and visible, so of course cachers are going to go straight to it and disturb the birds inside. If you hide your own birdhouse cache, you might want to make sure that there aren't any feathery things nearby that would object to your changes to the neighborhood.
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I remember all my finds, too, though I don't have that many. (I'm almost to 100!) I can also remember a lot of cache pages I've read almost verbatim, which is nice when I'm out looking and happen to notice that something's nearby but I don't have a print-out.
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I like caching because it's so much fun to find hidden things and know little secrets that all the muggles are completely ignorant of. And I love hiking and running around in the woods! The numbers are fun, but I'm not competitive about them. I cache by myself on outdoorsey hiking type caches and when I travel to other areas, but when I'm at home I do lots of urban caches with my mom. No one else in our family is really interested in caching, although Mom will often drag Dad along with her when she wants to get a ftf on something and I'm not around.
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I'm twenty. One of the caches near my home is a virtual at a winery - I can't go find it for another year yet!
It seems strange that so many of the people who replied are in their twenties or younger. My impression was that the average cacher is much older. Maybe it's just because we're more likely to be posting on the forums?
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I lurk. I'd post more, but more of these topics devolve into scary fights than I am comfortable with. Plus I rarely feel like I have anything to contribute to the conversation. 'Cept I'm posting more lately, mostly because I want to increase my number of posts.
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This happened with a cache in my area. It was a three stop multi, but the owner decided to make a traditional cache out the final. He posted a note on the new cache saying that anyone who logged the original cache could just log the new one, saying "been there done that" or copy/pasting their original log. Perhaps you could ask the owner? He or she would probably give you permission to log both.
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If you ignore the person, how do you get your cache back?
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I'm curious about how the approvers are distributed. 38 for the entire world? Do some cover half a state while others cover entire subcontinents?
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Should I be happy that I am not the only one having this problem, or distressed because many other people are also inconvenienced?
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Yay Spokane! I live there some of the time, and here in Walla Walla the rest of the time. There's over 200 caches within ten miles of my house in Spokane, and less than ten here. Very frustrating.
I don't know of any multi-cache legs near Sullivan Park, and since I live in the Valley I've done quite a few of the caches there. Could you put you cache towards the west end of the park, near the parking area on Sullivan Ave.? That should be far enough from the other one.
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Next year I plan to spend several months in a foreign country. Would it be alright for me to hide a cache shortly after I arrive, leave it for four or five months, then either archive it or find someone to adopt it when I go? Would that violate the bans on vacation caches and temporary caches? It seems to me that quite a few caches that people hide near their own homes don't even last that long. I really want to hide a cache, but haven't thus far. There are so many caches in my home city that I feel that I can't hide any around here without being redundant.
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After finding three different caches that were micro containers on the underside of bleachers at softball fields in suburban parks, I'm wondering what kinds of hiding spots are overused. Are there any kinds of hiding places that are so common they aren't much fun anymore?
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I've been trying to get this avatar to work all afternoon!
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Can You Hide Then In The Air?
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One of my favorite caches that I found was in a tree. It was concealed in a tree with an open center shielded by low-hanging exterior branches, and the cache itself was suspended waaaay overhead. But you didn't have to climb to get it - the end of its string was down near the ground, and by unhooking a caribeaner you could lower the cache down to where you could get to it.