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Why not just contact the reviewer who published the cache with your concerns?
You can send an email via their profile page same as any other cacher
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We were FTF on a cache 4 years 3 months and 15 days after published (GC113B1)
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An old tramline trail near to us, only a couple of miles in length, until recently used to have 2 good multis, now it has an additional 5 micro or "other" size caches.
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DING to Simply Paul - took a while!
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Phone a friend or PAF.
Why? Doesn't your ego allow you to admit you couldn't find it and therefore post a DNF?
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A Dam-Busting DING! for that. There's a Canadian one still flying, which is why I said 'pretty much' unique. Over to you!is it the name of the last (?) flying Avro Lancaster?Thank you, we have no idea where we picked up that bit of information, never mind remembered it!
Anyway, a bit of a change now - the TV series "Shameless" is set on which fictional Manchester estate?
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is it the name of the last (?) flying Avro Lancaster?
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On the subject of CM's - I have noticed an unsettling trend around the Cambridge area where any place of worship is being targeted just so a cache can be placed nearby.
I like the CM series as although I'm not particularly religious - I do like a nice piece of architecture and usually the history of the church in question in the listing is of interest. The very reasons I enjoy geocaching - taking me to places I may not have done without the game.
But now a load of CM caches have been placed at minor places of worship with no history and nondescript buildings with no appeal whatsover. IMO just so a cache can be placed and for no other reason. I don't know if sadexploration is aware of this 'abuse' (IMHO) of his wonderful series or not but its tainting it for me.
It seems to be the same in the part of Cornwall we live - they are sprouting up like weeds and almost all are micros, it takes away the uniqueness of them in our opinion.
Wow. Church micros are mostly micros. Who'd have thought it? At a wild guess I'd say they are placed near churches?
From the church micro website - The cache can be as large as you like, the bigger the better.
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On the subject of CM's - I have noticed an unsettling trend around the Cambridge area where any place of worship is being targeted just so a cache can be placed nearby.
I like the CM series as although I'm not particularly religious - I do like a nice piece of architecture and usually the history of the church in question in the listing is of interest. The very reasons I enjoy geocaching - taking me to places I may not have done without the game.
But now a load of CM caches have been placed at minor places of worship with no history and nondescript buildings with no appeal whatsover. IMO just so a cache can be placed and for no other reason. I don't know if sadexploration is aware of this 'abuse' (IMHO) of his wonderful series or not but its tainting it for me.
It seems to be the same in the part of Cornwall we live - they are sprouting up like weeds and almost all are micros, it takes away the uniqueness of them in our opinion.
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Drive by events where there is no need to stop sound great to us - no longer will we have to listen to the loudest cacher extolling the virtues of their latest 100+ film pots at the base of fence posts every .1of a mile trail or the latest D5 puzzle cache they've devised.
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If thread starters are snobs - then we are and proud of it too!
Edited for duplication.
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There should be a digital souvenir for EVERY FTF the cacher gets - they can sit alongside the meaningless 31 days of August 2013 souvenirs.
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We live in the UK, so how come we cannot take part in the recent survey (USA residents only) BUT we are allowed to send money?
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Just wondering - what on earth is so special about a supermarket car park that it warrants a cache there?
"When you go to hide a geocache, think of the reason you are bringing people to that spot. If the only reason is for the geocache, then find a better spot."
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We still think this feature is well overdue - in 2013 we wrote notes for 49 "ghost trackables" and we are not very prolific cachers with 185 finds during the year.
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I guess you're an urban cacher, lots of public rights of way go through fields ...
She may simply have been on her way to a cache
So true - this from a cache series we visited recently
"You should be able to see the next stile to cross when you enter each field - just keep following your GPS's until you reach No.7 - there is Livestock grazing in these fields for most of the year so please be wary and keep your Geohounds on Leads."
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That, IMHO, deserves even an armchair NA.
That's exactly what we have done as the CO has not logged into the site since February 2009, the cache has a number of favourite points too, so if feasible we'll place a new cache in the area.
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A D2.5/T4 local cache - the owner has not logged into the site since February 2009.
Cacher #1 04/04/2013 Didn't find it
Searched high and low, No joy, I will be back!
Cacher #2 05/04/2013 Didn't find it
Had a fun scramble up the hill. The co-ords seemed to be about 10-15m from where the clue implied. Went with the clue and had a good look round, not finding anything matching it. Nice views from here, though...
Cacher #3 14/04/2013 Didn't find it
Couldn't find this one today, had a good poke around and nothing obvious to see. Nice little scramble up the hillside though.
Cacher 414/04/2013 Didn't find it
My partner searched about with cacher #3 for a while with no luck, steep climb and lose under foot, pretty spot
Cacher #5 15/04/2013 Didn't find it
Climbed the bank. Had a good search but no luck.
Cacher #6 20/04/2013 Didn't find it
I was with cacher #7 and really had a good long search but could not find, is it still there?
Cacher #7 20/04/2013 Didn't find it
Had a good search around the area with cacher #6 but couldn't find it
Cacher #4 09/06/2013 Needs Maintenance
any chance of a check up as 6 + did not finds
Cacher #8 29/06/2013 Write note
This was on the 'to do' list today but only noticed all the DNFs and NM logs as we parked up so DNA.
Cacher #903/07/2013 Didn't find it
We fancied the scramble so had a quick look despite all the DNFs. It isn't there. Cool place though.
Cacher #10 24/07/2013 Found it
Found the site but due to the DNF's didn't attempt the climb. Nice hiding spot though
Cacher #11 10/08/2013Found it
didn't like the steep climb but tftc
Cacher #12 06/09/2013 Didn't find it
We searched for it at the tower, but we coudn't find it
Cacher #1304/11/2013 Found it
Found the hidey hole with the odd square stone. Nothing there
Cacher #1304/11/2013 Needs Maintenance
Found the hidey hole with the odd square stone. Nothing there
Cacher #1405/11/2013 Found it
Clambered up and searched for cache. Removed stone by square white stone to reveal space for film canister size container and it was empty. Had a good look around, including climbing about halfway up inside but could not find any cache. I am claiming this because I do not fancy the scramble up and down again.
Caccher #14 05/11/2013 Needs Maintenance
See previous log
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we have several favourites, top of the list is the now archived "The Hypnotist" GC16V4N which was a very clever idea followed by the "Got a Light Boy? series and many of the earthcaches.
Worst caches, for us, are any that are hidden purely because they are 528 feet from the previous cache.
EDIT - after further discussion we also don't like caches hidden "just because there was space"
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Run a pocket query for caches with "stealth required" attribute then add those caches to our ignore list - simple!
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A recent log on a local cache that has been disabled for quite a while
Found it 19/08/2013
Found but it is missing
The "finder" has over 1400 smileys, so definitely not a mistake.
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Our remotest placed cache is an earthcache (GC2JPKQ) WHICH IS 50.9 miles from the next nearest cache.
Our remotest find is a traditional cache (GC2H3G4) which currently is 206.1 miles from the next nearest cache, although when we found it was 393.5 miles from its nearest neighbour and 485.6 miles from the nearest cache in the same country.
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On our ignore list so far are -
Puzzles that we'll never solve
Wherigos, as we don't have the right GPS or a smartphone
Any cache of any size that includes "extreme stealth required" or "a cache and dash" in the description
Some local urban caches
A local power trail of identical micros hidden purely because they are 528 feet from the last.
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A "power trail" in an area already containing many caches in interesting places, when the trail cache listing is exactly the same for all the caches and no attempt has been made to explain why this fence post/telegraph pole is so out of the ordinary apart from being 0.1 miles from the last one.
"When you go to hide a geocache, think of the reason you are bringing people to that spot. If the only reason is for the geocache, then find a better spot." – briansnat
Placing Earthcaches away from home
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Shouldn't be a problem, whilst living in Saudi Arabia we developed an earthcache in Cornwall (discovered the site during our annual trip home).