fuzzybelly

That is a cool TB. Never seen one like that before.

Everyone gets to play the game their own way. I've seen this one. I think it's to slippery.

Ok, we've heard most all the views and I'm on the side of "write a note", so how about lets take the next step and ask the next logical question What about if you as a CO notice another cacher has double logged a "found it". Do you contact that cacher, leave it as it is, or delete the log entry?

I personally don't log an "attended" on events that I hosted that where my own events, but I will on events where I hosted for another organization like GeoAK!. In that case GeocachAlaska! is the "event cache by", person,or group, and I'm volunteering to host for their event.

Moun10Bike has already said "scores of thousands." A "score" is "twenty." So, we are talking at least 40,000 listings. If an automated process clears out 39,000 abandoned listings that just cause "noise" and delay, then the reviewers are happy to unarchive the remaining 1,000 manually upon request. There are hundreds of reviewers (if you count dogs, too). We can handle it. Total unarchive requests I've received in one of the USA's top ten regions for cache density: zero. Two of my own listings were caught up in the sweep. I haven't written to myself yet, but I'll get around to it. The actual count when all is done will be in excess of 131,000 caches. That amounts to more than 5% of the current active cache count, which is not insignificant. Note that these are just the caches that have been untouched for more than 1 year. The count would exceed 175,000 if we dropped back to 6 months (which we do not plan to do at this time). That's even more amazing. Thanks for the #'s Bike. 5% sounds fairly insignificant to me, but everyone will have a different opinion on that. I'd probably wait juuuust a bit before doing the ones 6 months old HEY, I need to get to planning some caches

Moun10Bike has already said "scores of thousands." A "score" is "twenty." So, we are talking at least 40,000 listings. If an automated process clears out 39,000 abandoned listings that just cause "noise" and delay, then the reviewers are happy to unarchive the remaining 1,000 manually upon request. There are hundreds of reviewers (if you count dogs, too). We can handle it. Total unarchive requests I've received in one of the USA's top ten regions for cache density: zero. Two of my own listings were caught up in the sweep. I haven't written to myself yet, but I'll get around to it. Thx 4 the reply Keystone. WOW, amazing, and I hope the note don't get lost in the mail, it is a busy time of the year.

I remember you rustynails, how could I forget that name love it. You all came up to Alaska. We all got together at a fun diner event at the Sourdough mining company. Northwes was the cacher here in Anchorage who helped organize the caching adventures here. I tell you, you all where the talk of the caching community for months before you arrived and months after. A lot of folks had a great time with you all, we hope you all had fun. Northwes, by the way is up for "Cacher Of The Month" COTM, at Groundspeak.

Wasn't trying to hijack ooppps, sorry

You know what the say about small towns...........long names Ruth-er-ford-ton, just seems like it should have stopped after the "ford"

I live in Anchorage, Alaska. I knew we had a lot of caches in the anchorage bowl and Chugach mountains, but was shock to find out how many. 1450 caches within 10 miles of my home cords. We're really starting to get an active communitee of cachers here, and there seems to be more and more joining the ranks, and placing caches......ya gotta like that

I'll only grab "coins", never was much for the "dog tag attached to a doll or something". I use the sport fishing rule for my TB rules; only one in possession. Although I may keep it a while and take photos with it while it's caching with me. finally I'll find a nice active cache to place it in for the next finders to enjoy it.

I'm sorry blue In 'history" I meant like with annual sweeps where old caches with many DNF's or a string of "Needs Maintenance" posts, lead to archiving. BTW, one of my favorite movies. I like "The shoveler". I get to do a lot of that.

I wonder the #. Just curious. How many cache might this affect? If you can even say. Actually might not be a good idea to say. At first I didn't like caches being archived, for history purposes. But now I don't mind the idea so much. In this case I could see it really causing issues for reviewers, and potential publishers.

When you say "1 year", do you know is that referring to the placed date on the cache page? Or do they have some way of determining the date the cache page was crated? Just wondering, as I have gone and change the dates on my unpublished caches to today's date. I'm sorry incredibles, I don't know that answer.

Just saw a forum post on GeocacheAlaska.org forum pages from our local reviewer, Greatland Reveiwer. Groundspeak opted to automate the archival process. Un-published caches two years old will be archived today and ones 1 year old will be archived Friday. Some reviewers have already archived those caches 3 years old. He urges contacting your local reviewer to un-archive or keep a cache from being archived.

Our local reviewer ,Greatland Reviewer, here in Alaska actually wrote an article in the GeocacheAlaska! newsletter warning of this taking place. Apparently with the abundance of caches being published and those waiting to be published, such as when work is being done on a puzzle cache, they're starting to worry a bit about over saturation. Archiving dated, unpublished caches sounds like they're avenue to keep ahead of things. I've heard of shorter times being allowed while creating a cache. If you want to keep the location and continue working on the page, sending the reviewer a note and asking it to be unarchieved has worked in the past for me. Keeping in touch with that person really seems to help. I've actually worried about this for some time as I've been kept from publishing caches a number of times by cache locations that where seemingly in perpetual preparation. Not only that but I worry about newer cachers who would love to have the thrill of owning their own cache like we do, getting bummed out by a cache listing being rejected and possibly make them not want to play the game any more.

I personally don't like taking hints, and luckily for me the community I play in knows it, so they keep them from me. If it takes me a number of times going to GZ, that's fine by me. Everyone plays the game a little different from one another, there are few hard and fast rules. I've ruined someones fun by offering a hint, and felt terrible about it, so I be very careful about how much of a hint I'll offer, if at all. It's correct cachers (most) want their caches to be found, but I also want the searcher to get that satisfying feeling of finding that smiley That's one of my favorite things about caching.......finding a cache I couldn't find.

Thank you LACKEY

fuzzybelly here. New to the forum pages....any forum pages. Only found it today. Not new to caching, I've enjoyed the game and the people since 08'. My caching grounds are Anchorage, Alaska. You may not think There's a lot of caches here but it's a big state, so big that if you cut it in half.........Texas would be the 3rd biggest state Sorry Texans I just love caching in the snow. Strap the snow shoes on and wander through the trees in the hunt of a smiley, what could be better than that? I'll be lurking and posting as I go. thanks for having me folks

In fact it's GREAT, it only took you 4 days to become addicted, that's really, REALLY good. Remember; The log sheet belongs in the cap. You'll know what I mean soon enough

Hello everyone, I'm one of the 300 active cachers in the Last Frontier, and I'd like to let you know a little about our very own Northwes. Northwes is the president of our states geocaching organization, GeocacheAlaska!. He works closely with many land managers in our little part of the country He has helped work agreements with land managers such as Anchorage parks and rec., the Bureau of land management, Chugiak State Park, and many others, to make sure geocaching is allowed in all these beautiful areas. You've gotta see this guys Earthcaches. Want to learn about the 1964 Alaskan Earthquake? How about learning about how Glaciers work, or watch a Bore tide roll down Turnagain arm. These are some of the type of informative Earthcaches Northwess has created. This summer Northwes helped a group of cacher cruisers get a geocaching tour of south central Alaska(over 60). He gathered local cachers to help take groups of out of town cachers to some of the most beautiful caching areas in our state. He planned and hosted an awesome get together diner event for the cacher cruisers (GC4E3CQ). So much to say, so little time. Northwes really is an awesome representation of a good cacher. He encourages new players, and always has a warm smile, which is important up in these parts He organizes CITO event throughout the year, and he educates the public about caching and it's Creed. I hope we can get more support from all over the country for Northwes. I'm sure many of you have meet him and would be happy to help him with this nomination. Please vote for Northwes as Geocachings COTM