Mushroom finder

I think I conveyed my appreciation well enough. Hello. Glad you enjoyed finding my mystery cache and got the chance to enjoy the weather. Wish I had been able to get out caching today myself. I hate to ask, but would you mind editing your log to remove the spoiler pic of the cache container. I'd like others to be surprised when they find it. Thanks, Mushroom Finder It sounds like the CO did have some communication with you since you said they stated they didn't want spoiler pics. Just curious, how did you become aware that the photo had been removed? Did you visit the page and discover it gone or does Groundspeak send one of those no reply emails or something?

Huh, I missed that memo too. I had a finder post a spoiler pic of one of my caches just today. I love it when people post pics of their hunt, and normally I don't even mind if the cache itself is in the pic. However, this one is a D5 puzzle with a special themed container and only a handful of finds. The surprise of the container is the final highlight to a well earned cache to those that complete it. I really wish I had known that I could now delete the photo without deleting the log, because I just hated having to email the finder and ask him if he would remove the photo. I was polite about it, the cacher understood and promptly obliged, but I still felt as if I were slapping him in the face after he put in all the effort to find it. Would have been a lot easier to just remove the photo myself, glad I know about it now though.

My avitar is a picture of myself rappelling to a cave on a 150' cliff to hide GC1D7GO If you look close you can see the ammo can hanging from my harness. I will say that caches of this nature don't get found very often, but when they do the logs are very rewarding and people will go out of their way to take on the challenge. Mine didn't get it's first find for almost a year and has only racked up 20 finds in 3 1/2 years. But, the experiences and photos shared by finders have been fantastic. One group even did an awesome My advise is to be very up front about what is required so potential finders will show up prepared. You'll also want to be very clear about reinforcing safety and not encouraging people to take risks that are outside of their capabilities. You are welcome to use the disclaimer from my cache page if you want.

I always read through mine when I preform maintenance or stop by to check on them. When I first started people were still actually writing things in the log books and it was nice to read about their experiences. Anymore, 95% of what's in the log book is just a signature and date, so of the ones I've actually had to replace, I just toss them. Some people keep them as a way of proving the legitimacy of the online logs. I personally could care less about that but I do like to count signatures. I've found that my caches all have about 20% more finds according to the log book than actually logged online. Interestingly enough, I stopped by one of my most popular caches yesterday and even though the log book was only half full, it was falling apart from excessive handling so I decided to replace it. The cache has 98 finds logged online but I counted 138 separate finds in the book, a whopping 29% more! I enjoyed reading it but it's sitting in my kitchen trash can as I type. Hanging on to a bunch of loose pages doesn't really add anything to what I have already gotten out cache owner experience, but for others it might.

I'm loving this fix on my computers running Firefox. Anyone got any ideas how to make this work on my iphone running Safari or my not so smart LG phone running Opera mini? I don't use either to hide or seek caches, but they sure are handy for picking out caches that I want to look for when I'm out of town. Not being able to link to cache information from the maps makes the phones pretty much worthless as a means of researching caches.

Uninstalled it, reinstalled it, now works like a charm. THANK YOU x 1000!!!!

Could you have some other script running that is interfering? Shouldn't. I just downloaded Greasemonkey toady and this is the only script I added.

In the upper right corner of the map do you get a selection that include Google maps? Nope, exactly the same as it was before. Does it only work with the most current version of FF perhaps?

Can't seem to get it to work. I already run Firefox. Installed Greasemonkey, restarted browser, installed the script, nothing. Both Greasemonkey and the script show to be enabled but I still get the same crappy mapquest map. Any advise?

Another reason open source maps are not a good idea. With all the people out there who like to post spoilers, even going so far as to create spoiler websites, I predict it won't be long at all before the maps are littered with "hiking trails" that coincidentally have the same names as the nearest mystery caches. Won't be long till all the multi-caches on the map appear to be trailheads with dead end trails leading away from them too.

Put me down for another dislike. I'm a premium member but I almost never use PQ's to find caches, just the map. While the latest offerings are usable, I found them to be somewhat antiquated and less than user friendly. I discovered the change this evening when I found myself waiting for a prescription to be filled and decided to look for a nearby cache while I waited. On my Sprint LG phone, the maps would only partially load, I could not scroll around and only a few caches were even displayed. On my AT&T iphone4, the maps loaded and would scroll but tapping the cache icons did nothing. So basically, I could see where caches were on the map but could not see which caches they were or link to their pages. I was just getting ready to spend the ten bucks on the iphone app too, but won't be now. Let's hope this is just a temporary fix until a better alternative can be applied.

Remember, only premium members can award fav. points, so maybe they didn't forget, perhaps they were just regular members or were out of points to award.

I do too. I only give them out for caches that truly had some real thought and effort put into them, or for really creative containers. Some people pass em out like candy though. I've seen a few really lame, micro tossed under a bush type hides that had fav. points awarded. Not too long ago I found a fairly lame park & grab hide and by the very nature of the hide, there's no way it had permission. It almost bordered on vandalism to be quite honest. Nothing special or creative about it, yet over 20 fav. points

Something tells me this cache is already in the trash can in said nosy neighbor's garage.

I had just 7 finds (first 3 found without a GPS). My first hide was hidden just 30 days after my first find and it is still going 3 1/2 years later. My second hide, hidden just three weeks later was a 5/5 that still gets incredible logs and pictures. It's been said before and I'll agree, there is no prerequisite amount of finds that makes anyone more qualified to make a good hide. Some people are ready to do quality hides from the get-go, and others seem incapable of a decent hide even after thousands of finds.

I had the same thing happen to me this summer. I spent almost a month working on a D-5 mystery cache that ends at an extremely well hidden historic site. I created my cache page about a week into it and edited it as I went along. I made multiple trips to the final location to work out waypoints and measurements, and even crafted a special container themed specifically to the area and the mystery. On my final trip to the area before enabling it, I noticed evidence that someone had been there since my last visit just a day before, but didn't think too much of it since it is a public area. When I submitted it for review I was shocked when the reviewer told me it could not be published because there was already another cache just 250' away! I was devastated, all that work and time for nothing. My mystery and my container could only work at that particular location, so I wasn't gonna give up easy. The closest traditional cache was over a half mile away and I knew that none of the multi and mystery caches within a reasonable distance were related to the area at all. Of course the reviewer couldn't tell me anything about it, so I set about ruling out all of the multi and mysteries within 10 miles one by one. I finally concluded that this had to be a brand new unpublished cache so I set out to brute force it. I went back to the area and found it within 5 minutes. Sure enough, a brand new ammo can with a blank log book at the base of a tree that I had peed on the previous week. Of course there was no GC code, cache name or owner info so I couldn't contact to owner to work out a compromise. I did contact the reviewer because I didn't understand how an unpublished cache that was not there when I started mine could block me. As it turned out, it was submitted and approved a day before I submitted mine and publication was being delayed for an upcoming event in the area. However, the reviewer had neglected to perform the proximity check on the other one so he couldn't see that I was working on mine in the same spot. Since my listing had been created first, he ruled in my favor and published my listing.

One of the nice things about geocaching is that caches don't have to conform to any standards of accessibility. Not everyone can climb trees, yet there are plenty of tree climbing caches. Not everyone can swim or scuba dive, yet there are plenty of underwater caches. I could go on but hopefully you see the point. As long as you have permission, I wouldn't worry about it, those who can and want to get to it will, those who can't won't, simple as that. Just be sure to use the proper ratings and attributes as that is what they are for, to help people determine for themselves if a cache is within their means. One thing to keep in mind is that unless the cache is literally just inside the entrance, it will have to be a multi since there is no GPS reception inside of caves. You'll also need to provide an accurate way for cachers to locate the cache from the last coordinates, weather it's a written description, a compass course, fire tacks, UV paint, etc. I own this cave cache GC1D7G0 and have found this one GC1YV24 Hope to find more cave caches in the future.

Here's one that I have been working on for a while. Still needs a good paint job and some finishing touches before I can hide it, but you get the gist. Oh and BTW, the "tool" required to open it does get returned. ***** WARNING ***** Kansas City area cachers, if you like being surprised when you find a Mushroom Finder cache, you may want to refrain from watching the attached video. http://s82.photobucket.com/albums/j244/Turn4fun/?action=view&current=IMG_0031.mp4

Just use common sense, if you have to question weather something is appropriate or not, then play it safe and don't leave it. If I find stuff in someone else' cache that I don't think should be there, that's not my business or my place to remove it. Obviously if it's something very inappropriate like guns, drugs, alcohol or porn, then yeah, I'd pull that stuff out. But all of the religious propaganda, business cards, expired coupons, trash, website ads and other spam, it's staying there. Now when I find that stuff in my own caches, it's going in the trash no question. I will say that I think you should evaluate what you place in a cache on a cache by cache basis. What may be inappropriate for one cache may be very appropriate for another. Obviously, matches wouldn't be a very smart idea for a playground cache, but say there is a wilderness cache that requires a three day backpacking trek to reach. A container of dry matches, maybe some water purification tablets, or even a small pocket knife would be plenty appropriate in my eyes, and welcome by most finders. Fishing lures and hooks wouldn't be wise for a walking trail in a subdivision, but would be just fine in a cache at say a public fishing access.

Please exonerate my inconsideracy in failing to expound upon commonly known terminology. Henceforth, I shall endeavor to refrain from posting in verbiage of plural syllables in order to avert the ostracization of those lacking the ability to use Google. All cheekiness aside, only the OP need understand in this case, as that is whom my comment was directed toward. Clearly the OP does know what countersink means and possesses adequate tooling to accomplish such, as the clearance holes in the photo are clearly countersunk. Please forgive my improper usage of the word "countersink" rather than "counterbore", as only the latter would accept a plug to conceal the fastener.

Looks cool, but I'd counter sink and plug the screw holes. A lot of cachers carry multi tools and it's a sure bet someone with a phillip's head will take a shortcut.

Here's how I was able to make my narrow mouth aluminum water bottle work. One of my caching pet peeves is the acronym BYOP (bring your own pen). I've come to expect that when I see BYOP on a cache listing, 9 times out of 10 it's a boring, log only micro or nano, so I decided to do a cache to poke fun at that overused acronym. I called my cache "Bring Your Own Pen" and I did not designate a size in the listing. The listing itself pretty much just says don't forget to BYOP. My thought was that people would go out expecting to find a log only nano and then be surprised to find a quart sized bottle packed full of nothing but pens. It was intended to be a joke cache and people have certainly gotten a laugh out of it. What I didn't expect is that people would start trading the pens as swag. It works well because everyone who goes to find it is armed with a pen or pencil. Since all of the swag trading is pen for pen, nobody is cramming things in that don't really fit and have to be fished out. The screw off top is hollow inside and the log sheets are rolled up like a scroll and slipped inside. It stays in nicely and doesn't get trapped down inside the bottle. The top also has a key ring attached to it and a few travel bugs have been dropped by attaching them to the key ring. In fact, the first traveler that got dropped was a micro geocoin shaped like a pencil that was most appropriately named Bring Your Own Pencil. I got a kick out of that one.

I've found that one in the middle a couple of times and it was full of swag and a few bugs too. Was it easy to get the stuff out? Most importantly, could you get the logbook out without cramming it? You can indeed use bottles like the two on the left successfully with a little creativity. I have a cache in a bottle like that and no one has any trouble getting items in or out, same with the log. I have received a number of comments about how well it works. Just have to think outside the box, er, bottle so to speak.

Now you just need a mobile log generator :laughing:

This log says it all. I think I see a new acronym coming, TACLGW TFTC.