Rainbow Spirit

I found 100 in 14 hours using a combination of riding (mtb), walking, and driving. Most were some form of PT.

A month has gone by and no sign of the OP? Trolling?

As far as I know, yes it does.

So if a person becomes a reviewer they have to cut into their valuable caching time by reviewing and publishing other peoples caches? Refrain from FTF hunts (assuming you are into that), or have people assume you may be taking advantage of your position. Gee, makes me want to be a reviewer

Not any different to say a husband and wife team, etc. One member of the team finds a cache and signs the team name on the cache log. I rang just such a team for some help the other day, 'sorry' said the wife 'I stayed in the car and my husband found and signed the cache log'.

This is the first time I have had this problem, when I click send to GPS off the cache page, I get a message to download the latest Garmin plug in (which I have done) if I am having problems. It shows no recognition that it has found my GPS (Dakota 20). I am using Windows Vista, IE. Possible solutions? Thanks.

The Socceroos are off to the football World Cup next year, how goes the All Whites funkymunkyzone? Lets not say too much about the Aussie cricketers.....NZ Mega, I doubt it, oh well...

funkymunkyzone, at least your logs are not a cut and paste of everything you did that day, including what you did to find other caches. I've seen very long logs that have been cut and pastes that include nothing or very little about the cache in question. You can post a link to that sort of stuff if you want to. Each to their own I suppose, we all play the game differently. Doubt I'll ever get to Lesotho....looks fantastic.

So this is how long cut and paste logs effect me. I follow my GPS (Dakota 20)into GZ, usually looking at the description on the way to find out the size, and ratings etc. At GZ I give the area a good search for about 5/10 minutes, still no? Then I look at the hint (if there is one), search a little longer, still no? Then I look at logs to see if anyone has mentioned something that could assist me. Now here is where long cut and paste logs effect me. They can fill my limited GPS pages with useless information that has nothing to do with the cache in question, so instead of being able to read say 10 logs, I may only get to see about 5 logs. I don't want to know what you had for lunch, how much fun you had at another cache miles away, etc, etc. I know others won't agree, but that is how I feel. Happy caching, RS.

I use previous logs in the field, to possibly help me get clues about difficult cache hides that I am having trouble finding. Long cut and paste logs that have no direct material about the cache clutter up the limited space I have on my Garmin 20 when I read the log entries, so I get to see less logs. Someone locally was doing long cut and paste logs, so I sent them a PM politely requesting that they limit their logs to the caches in question, since the PM they have shortened their logs, which was nice of them.

I placed a cache outside my house, I was expecting to meet heaps of fellow cachers. I met one! Seems they came at night, or when I was away caching...

I usually cache once a week, mostly midweek (I'm retired) and make a specific caching day of it. I take about 30/35 cache downloads with me, and find around 25/30 of them. As others have noted I have to travel further and further to find them now days.

Kind of reminds me of a time when I was a lot younger than I am now, about 9 yo I guess. I climbed this tree on our farm and got wedged in a fork in the tree. Micky the wonder dog went home and did a Lassie trick and brought my mum back with him to help me down...

OT, the worst cache container I have ever come across was a match box, (the paper and thin wooden type), no baggie, stuck in a brick wall, it was soaked!

Throwing down a cache just because you can't find the cache is not geocaching, for whatever reason.

I'm not a fan of ziplock bags, better to use another smaller plastic container, eg a small Lock n Lock in a larger outer Lock n Lock, or something along those lines.

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The log book is the most important part of a cache, so using waterproof paper is a good start, as is using a second small waterproof container just for the log book inside the outer container. +1 for real Lock n Locks, or the Rolls Royce of containers ammo boxes.

Same here, map shows, but no cache icons!

I have a friend who I have known for about 35 years, not long after I started caching in 2008 he came caching with me and created a GC account. He logged his first 25 or so caches but since then hasn't bothered, I would guess his count to be close to 500. He considers it a hassle, and he doesn't feel like doing it. He only caches when he comes along with me. Each to their own I guess.

I have introduced eight people to geocaching over the years, guess what?, none of them have kept it up past a few months. In fact where I live there seems to be less and less cachers then there was when I first started in 2008. When you look through an old cache's logging records you see lots of people with a low find count who were very enthusiastic about this great activity, but their(old)log records rarely go past about 20 finds. I don't think we need to worry about caching becoming mainstream at the moment, at least where I live.

Going by forum posts, there have been three cache deaths that I know of, one in Texas, one in the Pacific NW, and one in Germany. I am sure there may have been others. All activities pose some sort of risk, I remember trying a 5/5 with a cache buddy, and when the going got dangerous his words were, 'my life is not worth signing a piece of paper' so we turned back.

I would look for small sized caches and up when caching with your 4yo, and the micros when alone or with another adult. I used to cache with my family, but now days it is mostly solo, as after a few months they tired of the game.

Here in NSW Australia, I have met the police twice at caches. One was at cache I was trying to get a FTF on. I had been there before, as had a number of other cachers, and I had no GPSr or any GC paperwork with me, as I knew where to look. It was dark, about 10.30pm, and I was down a track off a busy road when I saw some car lights near my car, OK, cachers out to help me! No, the police, 'What are you up to?'. So I gave them the spiel and asked them if they wanted to help me find it! They laughed and drove away.. Next one was at a cache I own, and I was going to do some maintenance on it (it is a PVC tube in a tree in some bushland). As I approached it a voice coming from high calls, 'Keep back, there may be a bomb here!' It was a cop up slope from the cache. 'You mean that thing?' pointing to the cache, 'Yes' he said. 'No problem' says I, 'It's a cache' and I walked over and lowered it down, and opened it. By then his sargent had shown up and they were not happy! They said the bomb squad was on the way! I told them what it was, and even offered to come down the the police station some time and explain geocaching to them. They declined and told me to mark my caches next time..

I had a DNF recently, the hint was, 'A white tree is the key'. This is in Australia, and I can tell you there was no white trees about, even with the most vivid imagination!