dutchmaster

I'm afraid there is another reason, the owner of the cache has removed the TBs or coins and allowed the icons to remain to get more visits to that peticular cache. These same people will drop bugs and coins into their own cache(s) but log it as a find because posting a note or a maintenance check doesn't update the "last found" date. The cache looks more appealling if the last visit was a recent one instead of a cache with no finders for half a year or more, raising the question "is it still there?". The most unacceptable, downright rude, nasty, etc., practice, is when someone picks up a sought after coin/icon and doesn't log it until the next finder visits the cache, comes up empty handed and reads the next day that the item is a (forgot to log it) or was dropped into another cache days ago. You know, like not logging a FTF until after the next guy finds it. feeling depressed? dutch

Let not forget that in some cases the trail doesn't go where it should have because of politics or whatever and we ride the other (better) options. [OK we won't be going there] Thanks though for posting the links to the old rail bridge along the trail in BC, dayum that's good! dutch(semi retired gear jamming)master

Greetings from Ontario, Canada. HELP!!! I came across a coin while doing cache maintenance today and I can seem to track or find the owners. "The Bard of Avon" #50, 2006, SHAKESHEARE COUNTY GEO-CACHERS WARWICKSHIRE UK. along with a bust of Skakespeare is on the front. A wonderful depiction of his birthplace is on the back of the coin. Any help or information about this coin would be appreciated, thanks. dutchmaster

If your choosy, you might get a cache container with HARDWOOD FLOORS. HEY, wipe your feet!!! I've been in enough containers to know that those doors are ALWAYS very stiff to open, once inside there can be some strong aromas and they become "easybake" ovens in the summertime. A container that size should have a special order-from-the-papermill logbook that will never be full. dutchmaster

OH DEER I like the big postal bags/cache containers, need more of them, hint, nudge. I'm thinking any aquacache in Canada wouldn't be very winter friendly, unless peering down through the ice at it would be an option. dutchmaster

Wow, it's about time. I just went over to my favourite spot in the forest and I'm pleased with the information, showing bush roads, trails, swamps and NON drive-by cache locations. Thanks for posting that link. dutchmaster

What this thread and so many other like it need is for an agreed definition between WATERPROOF and WEATHERPROOF. I'd say a normal cache container only needs to be WEATHERPROOF unless you want insurance against flooding, being submerged or inundated for periods of time, capable of floating as in seaworthy, then you'd want it to be WATERPROOF. For simple WEATHERproofing, I'm using multiple layers, ziplock bags inside a (lock'n'lock, tupperware, etc) container inside or UNDER another camo'ed container. The latter provides initial protection from most if not all weather. Added internal layers protect against humidity. Maybe I should post a jpeg record of my successes......somewhere. dutchmaster

Don't feel bad about being the LTF, maybe your the first cacher with enough cajones to speak up as to the condition of the container/hide and for whatever reasons the hider bailed. DAWGPILE Then again your log could be the perverbial "last straw" that finally pushes the hider to archive the cache, give up on caching, life and head to a tower with a rifle. Spooky dutchmaster

Got any examples. Like is each logbook page it's own jpeg or spliced together into one long one, vertically, horizontally? Just wondering because to the 600 pixel limit. dutchmaster

Those of us who've lived in the country our entire lives, fear the same thing when in the city. My neighbour has a perpetual fear of finding a body in the forest, she just moved from the city. I've come across 2 grow ops, marginally illegal in Canada, in really braindead spots where I wouldn't even hide a cache unless it was a 1:1. Lots of poached deer remains, illegal vehicular traffic of various sorts and the everpresent littering but for the Hollywood stuff I'd have to go the big cities. The forests as with anything else just appear spooky to the unintiated. dutchmaster

There are already too many aquacaches out there now, thanks to the poor choices of containers used and the difficulty in finding one the DOESN'T leak, let alone putting one underwater. Make sure the logbook, all paper inside is waterproof. I'm not even going to mention the environment thing about disturbing a water course, etc. dutchmaster

If this is the 2006 Canada Geocoin you should be able to get the code here. Geocin Canada If it is some other coin post a pic or describe the coin and I'm sure someone will know where you should go next. Yup that's the site that doesn't work, hasn't worked since Christmas when I got the coin. I also went to the links in the previous post and checked a couple of sites there also and nothing works for Canadian coins. My coin is the "Canadian caches from eh to zed" coin with the Canadian flag on one side and a Canadian map on the other with a flag planted in Saskatchewan. tks dutchmaster

I'm having difficulty activating my first coin, a Christmas gift, because when I go to www.geocoins.ca the site doesn't exist. Is there something I'm missing or another site where I can get this coin ready for release? I've searched the archives and pinned posts with no success. Any help would be appreciated. tks dutchmaster

I check my logbooks regularly to see if the logs match the ones online, my attempt to weed out the SLACKERS that only virtually visit caches. My logbooks are a great collection of personnalized stamps and slicker/photos that seem to be popular with the older and/or legendary cachers around. The well written logs are so much more personal and are valued more than those generic online logs. There's something special about a written log mentioning how bad the bugs were and then finding the squished body of a 'sqeeter between the pages!! Granted there are those who do regularly post multiple digital pics of their adventures in the online logs and are tied in first place with the hardcopy. dutchmaster

Well over here in Ontario, Canada we have our share of "icon tarts" and hardcore icon whores and I myself have on occasion indulged in this questionable act....but only on fact finding missions to see what all the fuss is about. I may now need therapy for my new addiction of chasing icons. Seriously though, icon hunting has reached new levels here and I'd like to pass on some twists if they haven't already taken hold there. Regardless if the cacher picks up the coin from an already visited cache, any moron can do that, they will now drop it in the most difficult cache possible, even if it's one of there own. Instead of just "discovering" coins dropped into one's cache, the owner will REMOVE the coins!! A cache owner will drop coins into his most difficult cache to increase visits along with the usual hate and discontent. A coin in a MICRO is worse that a micro in the forest!!! In my defence, I would like to add that I try to trade coin for coin especially if I've had a coin too long and will visit an old cache for a swap. I'll admit coins are a strong motivator to seek a certain cache and anything that promotes geocaching, can't be that bad. I do distrust cachers with albums full of coins almost a much as those who just copy down the numbers or trade numbers online. That's so shallow, looking at pages of icons, I like watching the travels of coins and can't imagine watching hundreds of coins. I do like putting coins on my watchlist to see if they will pass nearby but so far I yet to discover my powers at prediction or the rewards of anticipation. dutchmaster

Yup, same here, works great, especially with a camera. On a recent mtbike/caching trip, I leaned the bike against a wild apple tree where the cache was camo-ed to look like a pruned branch, only inches above the bicycle seat. I dropped the cache into my helmet, grabbed my water bottle, camera and had the easiest time caching on that busy trail. The taking pictures thing works great too. I'll bet muggles will leave you along if you're using the gpsr as a tri-coder or just mumble to yourself and watch how quickly your ignored. dm

In defense of the icon ho's, they certainly will go the extra mile to harvest a trackable at a nasty cache and therefore are above regular armchairish drive-up event cache city slickers. Seeing how popular a long list of icons has become, I only wish that visiting waymarks would also generate an icon and get more people "out there". dm

How about inputting your home coords and labelling them as "0 HOME", so it shows up at the beginning of the list and your name and phone number is in the message section of said "cache" coords? dm

My wife put my caching shirt in a hole! Due to some missing buttons she developed a dislike for my Shania Twain belly button look. dm

Why is that? I'm also confused and at a loss to explain this. The link below is the results I get when I click on nearby waymarks, none within 6 miles. http://www.Waymarking.com/search/results.a...rchlon=-75.4906 When I expand the search area, I can tell that it is searching from that cache location but not listing anything nearby. The reverse, check nearby caches works great. tks dm

Nope, same deal, I double checked and then went back to the start of it all. Here's the chain of links that got me wondering and BTW the cache is 10 (ten) metres from the waymark and nothing shows along with the rest of the waymarks in the city of Ottawa. THE CACHE http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...70-abc23e067c0d THE WAYMARK (10 metres or thirty feet away) http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/details...2b-f693869f5dcc THE RESULT http://www.Waymarking.com/search/results.a...rchlon=-75.4906 dm

There's a whole wack of waymarks in and around Ottawa, Ont. that aren't showing up anymore, as if they're cloaked or something. When I clicked on "nearby waymarks" from THIS cache: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...0c-475e52e02063 THESE are the only results/listings I get: http://www.Waymarking.com/search/results.a....143983&rad=100 There used to be more, e.g. waterfalls, parliment buildings, etc. I've checked and the individual waymarks (waterfalls) are still active but don't show up in searches and aren't on the main directory page either. Any ideas? tks dutchmaster

Ah, no, that's only the id number for the TB and not the one needed for logging the Hitchhiker.

OMIGOD!!! I do so like that idea, thanks. Anyway, I'm on the fence about the dipping thing as the last bunch of caches aren't "worthy" of the last cute little TB I found and I feared the worst but it still got to travel. Also the digging thing, in retrospect is tedious when the cache page is a slow load and I'm on dialup. On a related note, what about the act of allowing others of your group or those at an event, to dip while your dipping? In other words, allowing other to copy the numbers so they can log their own dip and up their count? Or does that support the "pickup and drop" instead of the vise versa. dutch(feeling enlightened)master

Ditto!.......after how many DNF logs though, would you like to see a note from the owner? Please do post DNFs, as a hider they let me know if I need to check out that cache or better yet, as a finder, they let me know that I hid my last find properly and it wasn't muggled. dm