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Abn_Stubby & FlutterBy

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  1. Wow! I thought until recently that I was just a cacher having fun learning a new hobby and having some cool adventures with my family & friends. After reading a bunch of threads (in other areas of course! ) and following an awful lot of complaint posts, I have now discovered I am a lurker, a newbie, and a nasty micro-cache hiding, ammo-can using, lame-cache-idea having thorn in the side of geocaching! DOH! ...sorry bout that! I'm still learning here! Seriously though...99% of the folks I have heard from or met or even read about in cache logs seem like fantastic people. I love this sport/hobby and it seems like an awful lot of other people do too. I guess if any of the labels fit, it would be the lurker label. I am definitely guilty of reading and not really posting. To all of you who sit there and scroll through the pages like I do, HOWDY! Are you guys having as much fun as I am? CACHE ON!
  2. I have only been caching for a few months and have a little over 100 finds...I have no idea where that puts me in the caching pecking order...not that it matters I guess. I have hidden 12 caches and generally I am having a blast. Most times I read through the logs left by previous cachers before I go on a hunt. Sometimes there are clues, sometimes there is good advice on what routes to avoid, etc. I can tell if a cache has been found successfully over a period of time or if it has been plundered. The most important thing I have seen is the folks who DO log their "no-finds". My neighbor took his family hunting a cache but he didn't read any of the logs. No one had found that cache...ever. It was gone...taken by a park ranger in the wildlife refuge. There were at least 6 or 7 "no-finds" posted that would have helped him decide whether to attempt the hunt. He and his family got lost, spent way too much time looking for the cache and almost put themselves in a dangerous situation. As the owner of a few caches, it does make me feel good to know that folks enjoyed hunting them. And when a DNF gets logged, it does encourage me to make sure the cache is still there and that my coordinates and clues are appropriate. I have found some rather bland caches and I still logged a TNLNSL just to let the owner know that I was there. I have also had a cacher email me for a clue when they couldn't find the cache and they never logged their "no-find". Is that a stats thing? Maybe I never thought or worried about someone using the caching logs, statistics, etc for harmful reasons. I guess I understand both sides of the discussion. Stay safe out there, y'all Maybe I'll see you on the trail. I promise not to follow you home!
  3. Is not showing the # in the post normal? I am fairly new to this sport and have only found one TB (which I quickly took to Colorado and released). I guess I never guessed someone would try to "cheat" on a TB find. It just seems so "High Schoolish".
  4. A couple of thoughts... First, sort of like everyone else has been saying, the person who set the cache could have been off 5 to 10 meters (15-30 feet) when they first set the cache in place. If you have the same margin for error on top of theirs...you could be dead-on or off up to 20 meters (about 60 feet!) So I recommend taking the others' advice and looking for possible hiding spots when you get within a certain distance. One other thing that has worked well for me. Using Topozone.com (making sure you use the correct datum and coordinate format of course) I found a road intersection by my house, zoomed in pretty close. Holding my mouse cursor over the map gave me the coordinates; then I just walked outside to the road intersection and took my own set of coordinates. They were VERY close. It is a pretty good way of checking your GPS.
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