firennice

I had one find before I listed one.

If you have to register on a site, I am pretty sure it would not be listed. Minecraft is a commercial product. It would require registration (#1), would talk about minecraft (#2), have a link to minecraft or mention it (3 and 5) If you got permission from Groundspeak (#6) Then you would need to give coords on the site. Groundspeak requires a GPS to be used to find caches.

Oops.. should try and make sure I am logged into the correct account

The reviewers job is to list caches, and deal with serious issues and NA. Those are the most important duties they have. As a player you have to decide where that line is drawn. Many do not post NA at all, others will at the drop of a hat. It is the players that police the game. Cachers are the ones that are on the ground and get the info to reviewers if there is a problem. Many reviewers do maintenance sweeps to clean up areas, not all do. NM logs may be taken into consideration when a cache seems to have prolonged problems. When you go to a cache page what do you think? NM logs, or NA logs by people that never visit the site are not given the same weight as those that were there. I use NM when there is an issue. Cracked containers, caches that may have been damaged/moved by others. A NM is that you need the cache owner to go and take care of it. I use a NA when there is a specific issue. Buried, No Trespassing signs, etc. Every cache page is different, and a reviewer looks at each one differently.

I thought about regrouping, but only if I get the coins I want. However I have so few coins listed (6) I am better off where I am. So none for me.

Woo hoo some trades came in today..

I am interested.. if I could get an invite.

Before people email me and ask.. Yes I did forget about the icon. I just have to complete it and send it in. I completely forgot. I will do that shortly. Christmas got in the way.

It is an option for any cache. Perhaps the owner wants to reduce the number of people going there, or other reasons. So PMO might reduce the regular number visiting. Who knows, but I see no reason why it should not be here.

Coins came in tonight. They should All be out by Thursday. If anyone is interested in them, they are $11 (except for the three that reserved them, I will email you as soon as I get the others mailed) (email the bluerajah account not this one)

Ultimately you have to look at the sellers and your situation. There is no blanket answer. Is the seller new with 0 finds? or 200? or 5,000? Are they new to the forums? Have they presold before? Can you afford to loose $12 or $40? (Whatever you put into it? Is there a benefit to a preorder? (lower cost?) Is there artwork? Samples? Not yet ordered? or actually ordered? There have been some great designs come through pre-orders. So killing them would not be a great idea. All I can say is, review the entire thing and look at your situation. If you can't afford to loose it don't spend it. Even the best intentioned preorder could fall through when the person dies, or something happened. If there was no benefit (limited quantity, price, etc) I would not jump in.

I have a few fixes .. thanks for keeping me up to date. On my next update I will fix the errors. I went through one GC code at a time, and listed them based on the year 2000, and earliest GC codes. A few are just not there. for various reasons. I included a few I should not have that were archived, and missed a few, that i plan on adding. There are so many that were placed earlier, and submitted later. I may place Some at the end pointing them out. But I think the original GC codes, and approximate published dates are what I will use. If they were placed in Nov, Dec, etc and published mid January to later I did not include them. I have been torn on GCBBA. I have kept it because it appears Jeremy adopted it out. The way he did that was to archive it and create another. Plus I do not want people storming my house and waterboarding me. They consider it the oldest cache. However part of me would say it is GCA6. The oldest continual GC coded cache. The GC184 it may have been dropped earlier, but it did not receive its GC code until into February. That was just too late for me to include it. There are a few like that, though not many that extreme. However I just decided that no one could find it in 2000, and no cache page was put together in 2000 so I did not include it or a few others. Those that were placed in 2000 and published in the first few weeks of 2001 I included. (there was some method to my madness) For those looking for Jasmer challenge, we have an annual camping event at GC3B Potters Ponds every year in August. This coming august will be our 11th annual event there. You can drive to the cache site in a car. Ask before you come. One road that GPS units route you on is rough on an ATV. So plan ahead. I hiked the last .3 miles (easy hike) with 5 cachers, four of them finishing their Jasmer Challenge there from San Francisco, and Washington state.

Technically that is not true. They state Just because pathtags lets you do it, it does not mean there are not trademark/copyright issues. If the twilight author were to come after them, they would just point at you. The chances are slim to none, but the threat is there.

This is assuming that there are some road restrictions out here. This is how problems arise. Many uses of the desert are put off because it is "the desert". At least in Utah they really look at road formation. If Sierra Club were to find out, they would go to the BLM. They would then require (or sue) BLM to make sure it does not happen again by creating rules governing geocaching. Congrats .. after that now have regulation on geocaching that covers vast areas of the west. Because of one instance. That is how many forests set limits on it. One discussed the problems, and that forest banned it or made permits mandatory. Then others followed after. I am not a power trail hater, if they are along roads and such. But like this? It will be a problem.

Today ... mine Geocoins by firennice, on Flickr Geocoins by firennice, on Flickr

What was the largest size coins made? I am not talking about taking a code and slapping it on an anchor, manhole, or other object I am wondering what the largest size that was actually made as a group. I would guess with codes sold as a minumum of 50 that it would be at least a series of 50. And the entire series, not just one that is "blown up" out of a group. Thoughts?

My personal favorite

We are just completing the next round in updating our Utah Geocachers site. Thanks a ton to Marcupio, who is the best programmer, guru of all things computery. http://www.utahcacher.com/index.php?do=/ Is the new forum, site. It is based on a Facebook shell. So if you use Facebook, it will be second nature, except everyone uses their handles, and not real names. If you were registered before. You will need to just select "forgot my password" at login, and go through the process to reset. Because of the spam blockers you will have to request an invite. Feel free to email me for one. If you do not contact me through geocaching, let me know your geocaching handle to weed out spammers. All welcome.

Yep a logging task is pretty tricky in highly photographed areas.

Nope... If a cacher wants a hint on a puzzle that they looked at last night I usually will not help them. If they have been working on it for a while I am more inclined to help them out. Why would I just give out answers? I at least like them to try. Though I cannot be sure, (sometimes)I am willing to point them in the right direction if they have been trying.

I have a few issues with them so far. People can place a cache where ever they like. That may seem good, but we don't need more that get blown up. A friend mentioned one stapled to the back of a sign, ink running. Sorry, to me slapping a sticker anywhere, hanging it on a fence, whatever it may be in the open, just looks like junk and smacks of vandalism and trash. We have younger kids that slap a sticker on stuff for their "gangs, group, whatever" and run off here. Google maps are not the answer. They are not always at the correct coords, sometimes they are a ways off. So tweaking them can make them worse. Though in most areas they seem to be pretty good.

Take a picture and ask the cache owner. If there is no logbook, then post a NM. A munzee is not a logbook.

Agreed. In desert areas a damp log will dry out in a few days and will need no maintenance at all. I use write in rain paper as well. So a damp log is annoying but when the summer air hits all is well. As to the other, limiting the caches is dumb. there are people in my area that have dozens of hides and cannot take care of them, they are being regularly archived. Others have far more hides, and far fewer issues.

Some people argue about having strict rules about bringing them back to avoid the trash virtuals (virtual powertrail anyone?). Then you have the argument going in Earthcaching forum about the reviewers are too strict. You cant have both. The reason virtuals are well loved is that they were reviewed to the "wow" factor before, and pretty much the best ones are left. If it was opened do I care about every historic building in town? Special tree? Waterfall? Train Track? Rock? or endangered animal burrow?

I agree with Junglehair. It is in a museum. Perhaps at a Kimberlite deposit.