Gustav129

so the event people placed all the caches and they were published early that morning for the event that day. You went and got FTF on all of them before anyone was even awake and didn't attend the event later that day? did I read that right? can you provide the GC code to one of these 40 caches? The caches were published 2 days before the event. Open for everyone to hunt! Yes, we hit the trail at 4am and hiked 5.5 miles in the dark and the rain for 27 FTFs. IT WAS BRUTAL! We worked for it! We got the other 13 PNG FTFs on the way home after we hiked 5.5 miles in the dark, in the rain and yes, while everyone else was sleeping and no, we didn't attend the event. In reality they didn't do anything wrong. If event attendees want to wait for the event to find the geocaches, then that's their prerogative. But they were published 2 days before, quite a few people could have hunted them out before the event. I will post these guidelines: In my mind, the caches were not "published early" and the event shouldn't have been published. I wanted to do a big multi-cache and have it published as I was holding an event in the area. But that was a no go. So I changed my event and my multi, and still working on the multi.

And don't place it behind the business either, where a cacher would be looking around loading bays and such. I personally hate caches like this.

Yeah, I moved to an area that was full of them. That caused me to stop too.

I used to know how, but how do you go back to see your archived unpublished caches. I'd actually like to use the GC codes for caches that I plan on putting out.

I'll have to look up a few here in Washington. There's the Three Dam Challenge that you get a patch when you finish it (get your passport stamped at all three dams). Also, there's a small town on the WA/OR border that has it's own caches out and when you find them all and fill out your "passport", you get a prize.

Same here, with accompanying DNF!

After thinking about it for a few minutes, that's a moot point, because a reviewer sees the final anyways.

THe puzzle of mine that could be considered hard, all the details are in the description. The reviewer doesn't have access to the trackable that is needed to solve my puzzle, so the reviewer doesn't have an advantage to solve it before anybody else.

Heresay says it happens around here once you log a NA on a particular CO's cache because you were told by police you were trespassing. The CO will delete any logs you may have logged on any other cache this person owns.

I noticed the same thing. Thanks for the answer.

I have an idea for a cache, the idea is to get to the first waypoint using GPS, and in the container is a treasure map of sorts (or a few copies just in case more than one person or group is out to look for it at the same time). Then the map is used to find the final. Finally, hopefully the map is returned to the original container for future cachers to enjoy. I got the idea from reading "Treasure Island", because the Captain knew the Latitude and Longitude of the island, but hadn't seen the map. Would this be considered a puzzle cache or a just a multi cache?

I use the Audit log to see who is working on a puzzle cache. If I notice somebody has looked at one of my puzzles many times over a period of time, I'll get a hold of them and ask if everything is going good. I even found a flaw with one of my puzzles that way.

I made the .5/day average for 2012. "2013 1 0.5 caches/day" I'm really on my way this year too. Weird, because it's still day one of 2013, with 1 find, and only .5/day for the year.

You have two #2's. Besides that, the goals 1, 2a, 2b, and 5 apply to me. Others: -Use GSAK/Google Earth more. I'm just learning, and I can see the power that can be done. -One Hide a month.

It's a fine of upwards to $10,000 if caught with a vehicle on a closed trail, off the trail, or straight up destroying public lands. A few fines like that issued in this area took care of most of the unresponsible offroaders around here.

As for the green cover, the burying guideline also includes pushing items (PVC, stakes, etc) into the ground. If you create a hole, then it's not allowed. There's a CO that has one of the green valve boxes in his yard, but it was put there by the sprinkler company. He popped the top and set his geocache into the valve box. That would be ok in my mind. If I pulled the lid off to find a fake valve box, then it would not be ok. I have a geocache container that I have to put out. I set it in concrete and spread it out. It's a mount of concrete with just the lid sticking out at the top. Then I'm going to strap it on my elk pack and pack it up into the mountains. That one isn't going to get muggled anytime soon.

Looking at my profile, I noticed a section in Statistics called Milestone Overrides. It has different caches than what I know my milestones are (100, 200, and 300). For #1, it has a certain virtual cache I did, so I went to the cache page and scrolled back to see my log. In my log, I stated that that was my 3rd cache find for the day. I know my 300 is off from my logs, because I had found out I had traveled and done a virtual and didn't realize there as a virtual (at a time I was not geocaching, I visited my parents and had pictures taken). So I went by what was in my pictures and logged the virtual for the dates I was home.

There's one south CdA off of 95 if you are coming back through this way. I would have figured you found it already, with the amount of times you show up in the area. http://coord.info/GCNEA0

The Grenade is pushing the limits. I would only do that if it was on my own property, or if I had permission to put on at an Army-Navy Surplus store. The huge mouse trap is awesome!

Hey, we are planning on holding a GPS Accuracy game...

What about those 24 "stacked" events for a 24 hour period (one every hour) that was featured on PodCachers this summer? I would say that was the precedent.

Spaghetti Westerns!

Now I take offense to that. I have never been on an ATV but I have met several RESPONSIBLE riders, a lot who use them for work as well. You're just assuming they are all bad people because of a few who actually hard. These people work hard to get rid of their negative image, maintaining dedicated trails and even helping local search and rescue groups and having charity events. It's just like a land owner assuming us geocachers are looking for something buried and won't allow a geocache because he thinks we will dig up the land-even though the guidelines prohibit anything buried. That's just it. That's why I posted Tread Lightly. We in the offroad world try VERY hard to show that we all aren't like the stupid few.

What makes you assume that ATV's will be digging up the landscape? Most ATV trails are already dedicated Forest Service roads, and some are closed part time, especially during hunting. Me personally, I'll take a few hours to go 10-20 miles one way on an ATV on a Forest Service road in back country Idaho over taking a weekend to hike and camp for the goal of one geocache. We (most offroaders/ATVers and I) either a members or follow the principles of a program called "Tread Lightly", advocating being responsible off roaders, like staying on trails only, pack it in, pack it out. http://treadlightly.org/ There's even a link about "responsible geocaching" on Treadlightly.org. http://treadlightly.org/tread-lightlys-tips-for-responsible-geocaching/ How many times have you hiked off trail 200ft to retrieve a geocache? I'm sure these ATVers (and most off road clubs) are doing MUCH LESS damage than you think. I'm pretty sure they would leave the ATV parked on the trail and walk the 200' to the "geocash". As for them burying the containers, I'm not a fan of that much. Actually, this is what got me into geocaching in the first place. A 4WD magazine posted coords at the bottom of a page and a High Lift jack was hidden at those coords. I never partook in the contests, but it sparked my interest.

According to Cacheopedia, the "Wherigo" type was added in 2008 and the "Groundspeak Headquarters" and "10 Years! Event" types were added in 2010. I believe the "Lost and Found Event" and "Groundspeak Lost and Found Celebration" types also were added in 2010, while the "Groundspeak Block Party" type came in 2011. Except for the Wherigo I would hardly consider those new cache types. They're more like "special icons that you can get easily if you live in Seattle, but for everyone else, you'll have to spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars". Hahahaha! Great post. Because that's how I feel too, I live on the other side of the state. I'm not saying that those wouldn't be fun to do, but I definitely wouldn't consider them a separate "cache type" More of Mega Events.