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If the area around the cache has changed enough to change the level, then change it. If the cache isn't as hidden as it use to be, and you feel it needs changed, change it. The rating is for the cache as it stands at the current time.

This information is posted on the website, no need to e-mail anyone to find out what the public information is. When you submit a cache, you check a box that says you read the guidelines. They can be found at http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx Like just was posted, drop the reviewer an email. The location can lend itself to under 528'. Some reviewers will allow a less then others won't. Thus I learned it saves you a lot of headache to simply drop your reviewer a note and ASK... It beats submitting the cache and getting a denial.

One of my favorite movie mistakes!!! I log the COORDS then when I am closing in on time to place a cache, I send a email to the local reviewer and get their feedback. Yesterday I didn't do this, turns out I put my cache within feet of a mystery cache (did I say I hate mystery caches!!!!) so I had to pull it. But in the return email I asked the reviewer a quick question that should have answered all I needed to know. Talking with your reviewer will solve a lot of ills in hiding your cache. I use Google Maps to do the distance and go from there.

Contact your local reviewer. You can then ask them nicely what their rules are on distance. I've done this and know what my local reviewer goes by. This helps me in locating my caches. My reviewer has a set number he uses and I now know what it is. If there is one in a spot you want, its pretty much a tough stuff thing. I have a cache that would be perfect for a location, but I can't get it published because its too close to another cache. What is that cache? A film cannister at the base of a tree. Yes, in sight too. Oh well.... Its what I've started calling the "Tough Shiz rule"

Sorry, there are health implications with this stuff. Poison Ivy/Oak and so forth are one thing, but human waste is something entirely different. This is something that Groundspeak should look into doing away with, banned and move on. If your not smart enough to stay out of poo, there is that old saying about the monkey...we all know.

Its location may or may not allow night caching. Cemeteries being one. We have a local cache that is highly suggestive of a night cache. Its in an extreme muggle location and its better to try it after dark. Thus far I have logged a few DNF's and a few no logs because of muggles. No need to give up a great hide!

Prime example of this thing. This evening we placed another cache and had to run into town. We decided to stop by a couple of caches that are located in "possible high muggle territory". We arrived the first location and several people are out gardening in the local gardens. We moved on. We arrived the second location and found evidence of the cache, or parts of it. So, knowing from other info that the cache owner owns a location around the corner. We saw him and let him know. He said it was part of it, but not all. He told us to just log it, it was cool with him. I told him we could grab it later. I told the wife not to worry about it and when she questioned why, I said "pulling a cache in front of muggles will kill a good cache location" and "that is wasn't worth it right now!" Stealth should mean more then just stealth, it should mean COMMON SENSE in not pulling a cache when others are in sight of you.

Check around your area to see if any other cachers are having this theft taking place. If not, then you have someone that wants to mess with you. Otherwise, its just one of them deals.

If a cache sticks with you, you tend to write more about it. If I find a lame cache, I just give it a quick note in the log and move on.

We need a land mine icon that can be placed by these threads. NO NO NO NO, don't bury the cache. You can camo it enough that you don't need to bury it.

The cost of gas does effect the general majority of the population, thus affecting geocachers. Some live in locations that don't have caches in nearby locations. So travel is a must. We decided not to even go out caching this weekend because of gas, but that was our choice and other things got done! Sometimes its not all about caching, or is it?

Thanks For The Cache Thanks For The Hide (Hunt) FTF=First To Find STL/SL =Signed the Log TNLN=Took Nothing Left Nothing

Family caching is done with a TomTom One XL. When you use the COORDS segment, you can get right to GZ without issue. In a month, we have over 45 caches with just a TomTom...! Not bad. Now, if you are caching in the woods, I don't suggest it. Otherwise, search this forum and there are tons of RECENT topics on using the TomTom One xl...

We are still debating getting a wireless card through our cell provider to use our laptop when out. I can't count the amount of times we have said "wish we could review it again on the computer!" Oh well, move on and be happy I guess.

That's just not RIGHT. Just meaning the only right answer would be from Geocaching.com or Groundspeak itself, not from us general forumites.

I can't say, but I think it is more a commercial business rather then a "sponsored" cache. I would email your reviewer. As long as its not advertising, or is it? Just email them and ask. Asking here will get you a 100 different answers. Most of which will be WRONG.

Here is a good one, and nicely named "MEAN STREAK" Its only a 4.5, but 80 DNF's and 2 finds and those 2 finds happened as co-FTF's. No one since. There are 91 notes posted also. It took over a year to be found and finally, it was found. It made me do this one "Backseat Driver" Its not a needle in a haystack, it challenges you to think, uses many clues and well, its been called EVIL by several veteran cachers 2 of whom made me upgrade it to a 5 star. The locals have put together a nice hunting party to go after it...! And I say, GOOD LUCK.

You should never need a shovel, as burying a cache is prohibited. A leatherman is carried by most cachers, but I tend to stay away from caches that need tools.

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I guess I don't get it. IF the person is causing an issue, why would you delete anyones logs who associates with said cacher? They aren't the issue, the cacher in question is the issue. We all have had associations that at some point we haven't been proud of. Mistakes are mistakes. As for deleting logs, why? If someone finds it, they find it, its their find. If you don't like said cacher, don't associate with them. Otherwise you cause more issues then you will want. Piss them off and caches come up missing and cachers that aren't involved pay the price wasting their time looking for a cache that isn't there. So it now moves beyond you and effects the community. Someone said "gradeschool" couldn't have said it better. PETTY is a good word too. At some point you just have to move past it and get on with things.

Its simple, you have a question...EMAIL Don't clog the log with junk. If someone says in a log "I emailed the owner information" then obviously they didn't think YOU needed to know and only felt the owner needed to know it. If its something that important then the owner can clarify it on the page.

Don't believe. Well worth the $3 a month fee! To the other question. You should go back and make sure everything is ok in your notifications. You should receive email notice. You can set it up to receive notice when anything is done, from logging a find, dnf, notes, published, and so on. you will get an almost instant notice.

Honestly you can cache without a GPS. Tougher to do, but you can. Write down all the info for a cache in a notebook, then using google earth, pinpoint the location as close as you can in the viewer. Thankfully in Indiana we have a high resolution, so we can see a tree. But you can get close. Most cache owners will give you more then enough hints to really pin it down, and then they usually give you a good idea of what the cache itself is. Just spend time.

I want a face with its tongue out at you like "haha" for DNF's. Perhaps that will give you more incentive to get back out and find them.

Your local reviewer does this when they have reviewed the cache and everything is in order on their end.