just Ami

i'm pretty new to geoacaching, so i haven't had a whole lot of problems just yet... but... the other day, i was browsing what geocaches i wanted to do, and i saw this one that has had a lot of activity, lots of recently found logs. so when i went to do this cache, the container was in a slightly hard to reach area, inside a tree, in a semi wilderness area and to get it, you had to brainstorm ways of reaching it on the fly. well when i finally got to the log and signed it, i noticed the last person who actually signed it was in 2014! i was kind of irked off. it was a little difficult to reach, but nothing picking up a branch wouldn't solve. you didn't have to climb a tree or anything. just use a stick to drag the container towards you, pick it up, sign, toss it back in the hole. a very basic amount of effort to reach it was all that was required. Also, at the same geocache, on the site it said there was a TB, but there was no TB in the container. So someone picked it up and did not log it. -.-

Ok, so I was looking at all the shop goodies and I saw display racks for your geocoins.... but I thought geocoins are trackable, and you should not hold on to them? I have not run across a coin in person, but I'm guessing that if the official site is selling displays, then there are some types of coins you get to keep...? How do you know if you should keep a coin or not? What do you call a coin you get to keep?

Ok, I have a questions... someone above mentioned something about just letting it die if the owner is MIA and not doing any check ups. well, i've run across a few caches in my area where the owner is basically a one hit wonder, sometimes not having even visited the site or logging found / dnf in a few years... yet, the geocache they have put down gets lots of activity. what do you do in that situation? say you come across a log only and the container is missing. if you sign the log, set it back down, and log a NM, and the owner is long gone, YET people keep showing up to the cache... how does it die? if you get no responses from the owner, and it is a popular spot, do you replace the container then? Or is this a type of situation where the broken geocache gets archived and you (or whoever wants to) put down their own geocache in that location as a homage to the former one? can / do popular geocaches get archived in a situation like this (MIA owner)?

i was having a day like that today... i think i searched for 4 and only found 1. they were all marked 1/1 and all the activity comments talked about how super easy it was to find and how it was basically right there in front of their face, etc., and most of the comments were as recent as a few weeks ago. i felt like a total clownshoe for not being able to find something that was supposedly so easy... but some days (or weeks) are just like that... like, for whatever reason, you can't get in the zone, or you have bad luck, or whatever you want to call it. sometimes you just hit an off streak. sometimes you do better if you check for it some other time, or see if you can get a hint. maybe you can send a message to the owner and ask if they could confirm that it is still there? i don't know how effective this is, i haven't tried it myself yet... but i noticed in the shop they have this -> http://shop.geocaching.com/default/geocaching-gear/tott/micro-mirror-magnet-tool.html i've thought about getting one myself after running across a big spider giving me an irked off look when i disturbed his hidey hole...