SSO JOAT
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I have challenged myself to try and find as many caches in a day as I could and had a great deal of fun doing so. That day was 18 caches and I covered several hundred miles of driving to do it. It's all a matter of perspective.
We now have an actual "power trail" in Alaska that went in last summer. I plan to tackle it this summer, probably over 2 days and I'll bring a tent. If I were off for the summer solstice, I'd hit that trail and attend the 3 events being hosted along the route...
Sounds like a lot of fun to me. Over 120 caches on the power trail, plus many others nearby, plus 3 events. All out in the wilderness with the bears and skeeters. What could be better?
Oh yeah, check the MAP!
And quite frankly, when I do get up there, I'll be keeping a notebook and taking lots of photos. I guarantee that I will have a unique log entry for every cache I find and many of them will have pictures. If you're going to do it, do it right.
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Go down to your local Parks & Recreation department. Ask to see the manager or director. Tell them all about geocaching. Ask for a blanket permit for geocaching on all the lands that they manage. After they say, "yes", return the favor by setting up a CITO event at one of their parks.
Form a local, regional, or state geocaching "club" and solicit members to join together to obtain blanket geocaching permits for various public lands in your area. Post blanket permits with their stipulations on your website. Now the whole community can cache away without the land manager being inundated with dozens of separate permission requests.
If we could get the entire State Parks of Alaska to formally bring nearly all geocaching activity under just a couple blanket permits, I'd think most of you little states could round up something similar, if not just in a local area or city.
You'd be amazed at how receptive public land owners/managers actually are to geocaching.
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The last time I had to do this, I had to stand on one foot and touch my nose.
K = 6°Ba
Good luck with kekemes substitution cipher mystery puzzle (blatant search term injection)
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An awesome traveling CITO camping weekend! Looking to run a repeat (over a new route) this Fall. Ya'll ought to try this!!!
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Yeah, but just wait until Congress shuts down that Garage Sale Loophole on pressure cookers. The days of $1 pressure cookers are numbered, my friend. Get 'em while you can!!!
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Personally, I've never been able to dish out more than half of my allotted favorite points, because I've yet to find caches worth assigning them to. When I see outstanding caches, I give points... if I remember to utilize that feature while logging. Problem is, there just ain't that many outstanding caches. I think they would have been closer to reality if they'd allow 1 favorite point per 50 finds. The system is far too diluted with the current ratio.
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That would be illegal, but if you stick a coil of copper tube inside the pot you'd have a nice wort boiler.
The pressure gauges are pretty cheap. Head to the hardware store and pick up a new gauge and grommet. Then you can start canning stuff.
Or... scuff the outside with sandpaper and slap it with some camo paint. Then go hide it in the woods, well away from the urban sprawl, and it can still be a great geocache.
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Shouting into the wind is better than doing the "other thing" into the wind.
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Start here... http://coord.info/GCVEKR
And use this site to keep up with it in the future... http://project-gc.com/
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You're missing something. I've put in many NM logs along the way and my caches vs distinct stats are exactly the same. And nearly all of my NM logs are coupled with a separate Found log, excluding a time or two when the cache was clearly destroyed and there was nothing to log a "find" on.
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See... they all play it their own way. No need to worry about what others are doing with their hobby. GS guidelines indicate that the physical logbook is the true measure of logging a cache. So, I'm going to go with that.
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Yes, the only difference between the 2 is the addition of the 5mp camera (and the color of the case). If you don't need the camera, don't do the upgrade.
More importantly, the "white" marks on the buttons has no effect on the function of the unit. That is just the outer black coating wearing off. I have some very old and very well used Garmins that have notable wear on the buttons. The unit works just fine. No different than wearing the letters off your keyboard. After you've used it a few times, you never have to look at the key labels to run the unit anyway. Save your upgrade $$$ and just keep the unit you have. What are they asking these days for the trade in, still $100 or has the price gone up? That trade-in is a good deal if you actually break the unit, but just a waste of money for a little paint worn off some keys, IMHO.
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There was only 1 cache hidden outside the Alzheimer's Care Facility, but the residents had hundreds of finds logged up as they went outside for a new cache hunt every day!
I seriously don't understand why a CO would give a rat's patootie about who logged their cache and how many times. I've seen brand newbies double-tap a cache with the same log twice on one day. I've sent them a note pointing out the obvious error with a pre-emptive explanation of how to delete the duplicate log. And then I walk away as it's none of my business as to how each cacher chooses to play the game.
That said, GS could easily make CO involvement easier by allowing us the option to convert someone's Found It log direclty to a Note instead of deleting (technically, archiving) their log. That way you don't have to arbitrarily pick the "worse" log and delete it. You can just convert the 2nd entry to a Write Note log type and the whole world can still see that the knucklehead logged the cache twice, and yet all the find stats will remain "accurate".
From the finder's point of view, GS should drop some code in their log entry page so that it detects the case where you are attempting to enter a 2nd Found It log on the same cache and then pops up a confirmation note (like it does with NM or NA logs) to warn you and ask if you wish to continue.
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Wayyy up north. I actually still have a couple caches left to find around my hometown. And one bastard puzzle as well.
It's actually all of those stars that causes me some regret. As soon as it stops snowing (hopefully soon), I have to go out and put hands on each and every one of those to do the mandatory Owner Maintenance.
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Points being missed... the hand written log in the cache's logbook is the only log that truly counts. The cacher who gets the "FTF" will know they have the FTF because there will be no other log in the book. Everyone coming along after that will know that the FTF is already logged because they will see it written in the logbook. This debate is moot.
The computer based log is optional and some people take weeks to get around to entering computer logs, especially when they're on vacation or long road trips. Some people never enter online logs. And probably the most important point: no matter the order in which everyone enters an online log, they each get exactly one smiley.
Play it your way.
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This got me thinking... I may consider changing some of my urban caches that I made out of pressure cookers (those things are totally waterproof and stupid-simple to open and close correctly).
Dang terrorists are ruining our game!
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Just go with the 20% rule. If you like an idea that you see somewhere else, change or improve it by at least 20% and then put it out. There are no original ideas, only variations of a theme. If you get bothered by someone duplicating "your" design, then stop designing such unique stuff (j/k).
I could care less about people copying my designs, though I have had people contact me and ask first. Of course I tell them that they are free to copy. Actually had a puzzle guy contact me recently. He was sure he had come up with the most unique puzzle idea ever, but he searched for some key terms and got back one of my puzzle listings. Since he was over 3,000 miles away, he could have just copied it and I'd never know (or care), but he chose to ask first. And that's fine, too.
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Hello? Daycaches anyone? Why get all bent out of shape with permanent caches and all the rules that go along with placing them and then maintaining them when you can toss out as many temporary daycaches as you want. They can be placed with no regard to spacing between each other or any "real" caches out there. And if you make some kind of fun competition about it, everyone who shows up to your event will stay for the whole thing!
Here are some examples....
And we're doing it again this summer...
Will probably have on the order of 3 dozen Daycaches at this event. They'll all go out the day before and get picked up by 5pm on the day of the event.
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Don't get sucked into the FTF thing. The only FTF on a cache is the CO who First found the spot and then First found the container that s/he hid in that spot. Everyone else is treading on used ground and it doesn't matter a bit. From my observations, people who don't worry about FTF are much happier cachers. The FTF chasers can be downright grumpy and rude people. I know of one FTF chaser who was dashing after a FTF and ran into a friend of mine on the trail just 100 yards from the cache. The FTF chaser saw the other guy's GPSr and asked if he found it. The guy says, "yes, it's just right up the trail and very easy to find". The FTF guy gets ticked off and turns around to head back to his car without even going to the cache for the "2nd".
You log your caches online whenever you get the opportunity to do so. Do NOT rush back to the computer just to log FTF, but then don't intentionally sit in front of the computer and NOT post your log in an effort to trick others into playing the FTF game. I'd recommend that you treat a FTF cache exactly like you'd treat every other cache that has already been logged.
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What's going on with gc.com's website over the last 2 days? When viewing under Firefox, I can no longer log out one user and log back in with another user. Any attempts to log in with a different user brings me right back in with the first user. As the guy in charge of our club's separate geocaching account, I have to be able to switch between accounts pretty regular. Not to mention that other family member's accounts are now locked out because only 1 account will log in.
So, I opened up IE (as much as I hate it) and logged in with our corporate account to conduct needed club business and the source code entry fields for building pages doesn't work. Only the wysiwyg editor is functional, but I have html code that I must enter into a source code box.
Anyone else having problems? Have they fed the hamsters lately?
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This one time, at caching camp, I found a ported stainless Thompson Center rifle barrel. Then I made the FTF on the cache a few minutes later. Was a good stop.
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Pretty much everything inside a cache that isn't logbook or trackable IS a trading item. Laminated cards are signature items and signature items most certainly are trade items. I've used laminated cards myself and have dropped off a couple hundred of them around Alaska over the years. They are quite durable and I still see my cards floating around out there. Keep 'em, trade 'em, or ignore 'em.
Unless something actually is a piece of garbage or your container allows water in to destroy the non-durable contents, why on Earth would you throw away anything inside a cache? Just keep 'em dry and let the cachers drop off whatever they want. What business is it of anyone else what kind of swag accumulates in a cache? If an individual doesn't "approve" of a particular item, they are welcome to ignore that item. Just sign the book and move on.
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I don't understand why the need to ask the international forum if this cache listing is OK to use. It follows the guidelines and you've put more thought and effort into dressing up the listing than 97% of the other cache hiders out there. That in itself is saying something.
Do your thing, man.
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What you should do...
Take a deep breath, hold ten, let it out. Now, go play the game the way YOU want to do it and stop fretting over the way others cheat against themselves in how they choose to play it.
It's just a game; yet it is a game against yourself. There are no referees to "report" your perceived violations to. There will be no penalties imposed. The other team isn't going to spend any time on the bench. If everyone would stop worrying about how that other guy did it and refocus themselves on just enjoying the aspects that they like to do, there would be a lot more smilies out there.