Gustav129

I've biked to locations when I first started. That was part of the fun.

I was at a cache, and my GPS started taking off, saying that I was traveling at 300mph and I was miles away from where I was at and climbing fast. I was standing still. I turned my GPS off and turned it back on. That's the closest I've had to a "furthest from GZ" find.

Should have just edited the original post instead of quoting everything a few times.

Awesome Possum!

What's with all the quoting and no reply?

I see you edited your cache page. It was the last sentence of your cache description, which I copied and pasted from. It was also your hint, which is now gone.

Wow. I'm almost speechless. All I know is you are going to give geocaching a bad name in your area.

Oh man! I would have done that!

To expand: http://coord.info/GC3MZC5 Comparing the two maps, you placed it up against or near a persons fence. Archived right away. http://coord.info/GC3M5TA You have all that open area, so you placed it up against someones property line. http://coord.info/GC3JY9N A micro on a sign in somebody's front yard?! Seriously? http://coord.info/GC3JJXG On a power pole in someone's yard. Did you let the homeowner know you put a cache in their yard? And I only picked a few at random. All of which are what I consider crappy spots. Your caches would definitely get ignored by me. You aren't "conserving space". As a 15 year old, maybe you don't realize the implications some of these caches could put people in. It also looks like many of them had been found once or twice and then archived a few days later. Yes, I have one that I archived right away because I thought I could maintain it out that far of a distance, but couldn't. But all of yours seem to be in the town that most of your caches are in.

i don't agree i believe they should be spaced every 0.1 mile! http://coord.info/GC423D1 This looks like it's in someones back yard (or at the edge). How many people will park in the cul-de-sac and walk through their yard to get to the cache. Personally this is a crappy spot for a cache (the reason why the guidelines say just because there's 528 ft doesn't mean there needs to be a cache there). After a few of these done, I'd end up putting you on my ignore list, so I wouldn't see or do anymore of your caches. Another thing. The fact that you have to put "please note i place the cache before the listing gets published so if gone muggles likely took it" in your cache description is a VERY GOOD indicator that the cache is in a crappy spot.

So it will automatically populate in the PQ now that I created an event? This is my first event cache, so I wanted to make sure.

All right! Submitted at my last post and published already! http://coord.info/GC430ME

He could try Waymarking too. Sometimes the same building can count for 4 "finds". I was just signed in at Waymarking the other day for the first time in 4 years.

Oh, I put in "Getting Started" because this is the first time for me to host an event. So I talked to a local cacher that hosts quite a few events in the area to get some pointers to host my first event. He suggested another not so well known local hill that's free and free to park at. So that solves that problem. As for guidelines, they don't say an event has to be about geocaching (discuss geocaching, etc.), just "a gathering of geocachers". I also noticed when I was editing the page, there's an attribute for "Access or Parking Fee".

I agree, it's TOO concentrated. I'm for an expansion to .25 miles apart.

That's the Discovery Pass needed to park at any state public property. There's people getting tickets from jut parking on the side of the road to watch elk for 15 minutes. So many "regular" geocaches in Washington require you to "pay to park".

I can see it as getting in the way if a cacher has to scroll through hundreds of "condolence" posts to get to an actual log.

LOL @ Fecebook.... If a local cacher is not fine with it, then it's too soon.

I'd rather have the slightly higher terrain hike than "other more accessible hides" along the side of the road. What you are describing is like a "rural LPC" to me. I would put it on my ignore list or wait until winter so it's more of a challenge to find. In fact, I'm hoping for one of these roadside "rural LPC's" to get archived, because I have a perfect hiding spot in a cave 200 ft away.

It was suggested at a snow event last week that somebody should do a tubing event for New Years Day. So I'm debating to take this on. One thing, is the places locally that are guaranteed snow is at one of three ski resorts at a higher elevation. There's a few spot in Spokane, but snow isn't necessarily guaranteed. I've I do one of the ski resorts, that would require people that would attend to pay $10-20 for 1.5-2 hours of tubing time. That's why I'm debating. Would it be right to put on an event that would require people to "pay to play"? Maybe it'snot an issue because I live in an area that requires a purchase of an annual "Discovery Pass" to access or park at any state land (so you have to pay to geocache). Also, I know that many geocachers in the area are older and wouldn't want to do an "active" event. Basically, this is a "Should I or Shouldn't I?" type of question. Maybe a quick meet and greet fo the people who don't want to go tubing, and then the tubing. So people can sign the log, chit chat, and leave if they want.

Thanks!

And please, STOP posting the tracking numbers of the coins. It opens them up to virtual logging, which can lead to the trackable being locked.

What it sounds like is possibly that he put the wrong trackable into the cache. Did the cache page say that a geocoin was a FTF Prize? Get a hold of the CO and see if that was the possibility. There have been CO's that have posted that they put an unactivated coin in a cache for a first to find, but now they are getting bogus logs on thier personal coin that's activated. That's exactly what happened, he put his coin into the cache and still had the unactivated coin.

This is an entirely separate subject. Geocaching.com's policy for quite a long time has been that a cache owner can "reserve a spot" for a cache in the planning stages, but the time period is a matter of weeks or months -- not a year. This is to be fair to other cache owners who reasonably believe that an area is free for hiding a new cache. Did the cache owner post periodic updates, like "I am still working on this" or "this submission should be ready by January after I obtain land manager permission?" If not, then the archival of a page that appears unused should not come as a surprise. Cache listings are never "deleted with no warning" and they are not "gone." Cache listings are "archived." Write to the reviewer to inquire about unarchival if there remains an intent to submit the archived listings for review in the immediate future. And to add on, those caches are not deleted, they are archived. I have two that I made when I began. Too close to others, they didn't get published. One was archived a while back, and the other finally archived about 9 months ago when I started back up. I was going to use the GC code for another cache, but it was archived just before I had a cache ready.