Buggheart
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Isn't "TFTC" a little like "LOL" in internet-speak? Why spell it out when everyone ...well, almost everyone ...knows what it means?
Do you spell out "United States of America" every time or do you use "USA"?
I was thinking the same thing. Well except for the USA part, I mean
I don't think I've ever seen a log that simply says TFTC without any other text. I write it out sometimes or write TFTC sometimes but try to always write at least a sentence or two in addition to it. A few weeks ago someone found a bunch of caches that were on my watchlist so I received the emails with the log info and the person only wrote "F" in each of them. Not "found" or "found it" or TFTC, just "F". I thought that was kind of odd. I mean, even if the person has problems typing or some other issue, it surprised me that they couldn't at least write found it or thanks and copy and paste it into each of them. But now I'm totally off topic so I'll shutty. -
My dad introduced me to it, and pronounced it 'geo-cash-ing'.
Had he pronounced it 'geo-cash-ay-ing' then I'm sure I would have just ignored him and never taken it up.
.....therefore, if you are going to sashay or saunter, sway or swagger towards the geo-cash,
then you are Geo-cash-ay-ing.
Thanks for the laugh. The mental image I've got right now is hilarious. LOL.Yeah, now I'm picturing Capt Jack Sparrow searching for a cache...
"I can't find the little bugger... maybe if me had more rum? Savvy?"
OMG you totally read my mind!
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One of my favorite methods for finding interesting caches is to preview my pocket query results and then click the link at the top of the results page to see the image gallery for all the caches in my pocket query. When I see a nice picture of a scenic overlook or of people hiking up a hill in a pine forest, I investigate that cache. I put the good ones on a "to-do" bookmark list.
If the pocket query image gallery is ever "Cool Iris" enabled, this process will be even more fun and fast.
WOW! I'VE BEEN GEOCACHING FOR TWO YEARS AND NEVER KNEW ABOUT THIS!!!
I just looked up the gallery for one of my Pocket Queries and have come up with some MUST FIND caches. And you guys were keeping this all to yourselves, weren't you!
I didn't know about that either so thanks for the tip. I guess I better start using PQs.
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Great topic. Is there any kind of official guideline on posting pics in the gallery of a cache? I have only done it once or twice and made sure I was not holding the container in the pic nor standing near the hiding place. But I've seen many pics where people are holding the container and/or (possibly) standing right where the cache is. Cachers obviously have the option to not look at the gallery before, after, or anytime at all, but is there any kind of official statement on this?
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Please read the cache description for this cache. Out loud. In a group of people.
Here's another one just begging for a group reading out loud.
Both of those are great. I read the NC one out loud to myself (yes I talk to myself sometimes) and I'm sitting here laughing still. I'll have to go back to that one again once I wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes.
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What outfit?
Nudecacher
Wow! No outfit, no kidding! I'm anxious to go back and check out the rest of your gallery when I get some time.
I actually have an official geocaching outfit. It's a green shirt that I bought at Kohls. I paid full price for it. I never pay full price for anything. But I loved that shirt and had to have it even though it was overpriced.
The very next day I wore it while geocaching and ripped a hole in the front of it when one of my girls rubbed up against something sharp that was stuck to the wall under the cache. So now I wear that shirt when caching since I can't wear it anywhere else now and now that it's ripped I don't care if it rips further or gets dirty. Which, of course, will not happen in a million years now that I've officially stated that I don't care.
Oh and I wear pants or shorts with the green shirt
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We already had our GPSr for a few years, and used it a bunch for work and play. In May, was scrolling through the state wildlife and parks webpage, looking for fishing reports, and stumbled across a link to their statewide park geocache challenge. Complete a 2-stage multi at all 29 state parks by November 1, chance to win a free weekend camping. Since two of the parks are within 5 miles of the house, thought we'd give this game a try, and 4 ammo cans later, we're hooked!
What is it about ammo cans that's so addicting?
So are you still working toward the challenge to win the camping weekend? Just wondering if you were actually trying to meet the challenge or are just having fun caching.
And I
ammo cans as well. There's just something about them that makes my day when I find one. Maybe it's because I still have problems opening them and feel like a dork trying to flip the thing open. -
I bought ‘The Hotties of Geocaching’ pin up calendar at a Star Trek convention and joined in hopes of meeting one of them someday.
~Snort~
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I replied and am in the 2nd most populated group.
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My dad introduced me to it, and pronounced it 'geo-cash-ing'.
Had he pronounced it 'geo-cash-ay-ing' then I'm sure I would have just ignored him and never taken it up.
.....therefore, if you are going to sashay or saunter, sway or swagger towards the geo-cash,
then you are Geo-cash-ay-ing.
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I heard about it twice within a 2-week period but I cannot remember which was the first. One was a segment on a show about lost treasures on the Travel Channel. The other was a class at a program called Becoming and Outdoors Woman (BOW) which is a program sponsored by the DNR targeted toward women who would like to learn outdoors skills (kayaking, archery, skiing, survival, etc) in a non-competivie and stress-free environment. One of the courses was about using a GPS to mark a waypoint before going into the woods or hiking so you can find your way back out. They hid some things in the woods and gave out the coordinates for the women to find them and introduced the basics of geocaching. I didn't take that class but heard about it from some of the other ladies and that's when I decided to investigate it further. The rest, as they say, is history.
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I got a craving for Hershey's kisses now. Thanks
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Well I'll just go along with the consensus then. There are several caches that I've already found on my watchlist so that new logs are sent to my email. There are some caches that I found particularly enjoyable or funny so I like to read what other people have to say about them. For example, there's one called FTF For Everyone where the person who logs it has to come up with an acronym for their log to make the find unique. Something like FTFWBIBAPT would be FTF While Being Impaled By A Pine Tree. I have that one on my list just so I can read the witty FTF acronyms others come up with.
I also keep event caches on my watchlist for a week or two after the event so I'm alerted when others post to it so I can read their synopsis of the day. But to answer what I think the original question is, no I don't go back to read logs to check up on what other people are doing.
Getting out of line now. Next!
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Standing in line behind the others scratching my head.
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Before I answer this I would like to make sure that I understand your post and the question. Are you saying that caches hidden in lightpoles or phones (that's a new one for me but I haven't been doing this very long) are trash or somehow sub-standard?
What was unusual was the amount.......maybe 20-30 caches or more on telephones ........my wife looked at me and said, "we drove all this way to a beautifull section of the country and we're doing this".......we then shifted our activity toward a more scenic area with caches a little more spaced out.
In the other instance it was lightpole, after lightpole................
I have no problem with a couple lightpoles and a couple of phones in a days caching.......its all part of it.
I think my point was while it can be overdone I'm not seeing a lot of this in places I've been.
Now that my original suspicion has been confirmed, perhaps y'all need to stop and take a look around you when you're visiting those lightposts. I'm sure that if you were truly in a beautiful part of the country that you had your eyes open during the journey so all was not lost.
Wouldn't it be great to always find large, creative caches in beautiful areas that meet everyone's standards? Of course it would. I live in an area where there are some parks but the majority of the caches would be considered urban. I.e., In a lightpost, a magnetic nano stuck to the underside of a guardrail, meter, pipe, or downspout, things of that nature. As a result, the majority of caches I have found are the type I just described and only about 5 of my finds are large enough to hold even a few small trade items. There have also been a few that have seen better days and need serious maintenance and/or archiving. Some are really great, like the lightpost skirt I lifted which caused a huge rubber rat to pop out at me.
But the fact of the matter is that someone took the trouble to find that lightpost, write it up, submit it, create and place, and (hopefully) maintain it for our enjoyment and I think that's really flippin cool. I'm sure the people who placed those caches are proud of them. I know I would be proud if they were mine. Only then I'd be disappointed when someone came along and called my baby trash because it didn't meet their standards. It's topics like this that confirm my desire to not place any caches of my own until I dream up something super fantastic and worthy of being called good and not trash.
The area in which I live may not be the most beautiful zip code in the country and when I stop to take in the view it may not be all that great. I have seen a lot of lightposts, guardrails, smelly natural gas meters, and trash. But what really matters is that another person I may never meet has secretly placed this little cache at that particular location so that I can find it and make a memory with my family and share some laughs.
BTW, what exactly does "trache" mean anyway? Is it all Frenched up and euphemized to make one feel better about saying something mean instead of not saying anything at all?
Woah-de woah-de woah... I happen to know BAM pretty well and he's and up and up fellow. Also happens to own the best cache experiences I've ever had but that's neither here nor there. BAM wasn't calling those caches you describe trache (trash cache) he was commenting on what others in the forums have said. He was looking to see what the over-arching theme of other areas of the country are, IE are there a lot of lampskirts in Miami? Are there a lot of piles of rocks in Arizona? Are there a lot of UPS (unusual piles of sticks) in Alabama? There was no venom in his questions, and I'm surprised it got thatg kind of response.
I guarantee I'm not the only one who read it that way.
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As a result, the majority of caches I have found are the type I just described and only about 5 of my finds are large enough to hold even a few small trade items.
OMG! You poor child! The type you describe do exist but there are so many fun, exciting, beautiful caches all across the country that is is a shame to hunt the urban micros just to rack up a smilie.
Last time I checked I was geocaching for the fun of it and to find those hidden in my vicinity, not to rack up smilies. I don't consider myself "poor" for finding what others consider trash either. I've seen some very poorly maintained caches out there but I'd never call them trash. If it's good enough to be reviewed, approved, and published, it's good enough for me. What I find more disturbing is the lack of proper spelling and grammar in cache listings.
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Before I answer this I would like to make sure that I understand your post and the question. Are you saying that caches hidden in lightpoles or phones (that's a new one for me but I haven't been doing this very long) are trash or somehow sub-standard?
What was unusual was the amount.......maybe 20-30 caches or more on telephones ........my wife looked at me and said, "we drove all this way to a beautifull section of the country and we're doing this".......we then shifted our activity toward a more scenic area with caches a little more spaced out.
In the other instance it was lightpole, after lightpole................
I have no problem with a couple lightpoles and a couple of phones in a days caching.......its all part of it.
I think my point was while it can be overdone I'm not seeing a lot of this in places I've been.
Now that my original suspicion has been confirmed, perhaps y'all need to stop and take a look around you when you're visiting those lightposts. I'm sure that if you were truly in a beautiful part of the country that you had your eyes open during the journey so all was not lost.
Wouldn't it be great to always find large, creative caches in beautiful areas that meet everyone's standards? Of course it would. I live in an area where there are some parks but the majority of the caches would be considered urban. I.e., In a lightpost, a magnetic nano stuck to the underside of a guardrail, meter, pipe, or downspout, things of that nature. As a result, the majority of caches I have found are the type I just described and only about 5 of my finds are large enough to hold even a few small trade items. There have also been a few that have seen better days and need serious maintenance and/or archiving. Some are really great, like the lightpost skirt I lifted which caused a huge rubber rat to pop out at me.
But the fact of the matter is that someone took the trouble to find that lightpost, write it up, submit it, create and place, and (hopefully) maintain it for our enjoyment and I think that's really flippin cool. I'm sure the people who placed those caches are proud of them. I know I would be proud if they were mine. Only then I'd be disappointed when someone came along and called my baby trash because it didn't meet their standards. It's topics like this that confirm my desire to not place any caches of my own until I dream up something super fantastic and worthy of being called good and not trash.
The area in which I live may not be the most beautiful zip code in the country and when I stop to take in the view it may not be all that great. I have seen a lot of lightposts, guardrails, smelly natural gas meters, and trash. But what really matters is that another person I may never meet has secretly placed this little cache at that particular location so that I can find it and make a memory with my family and share some laughs.
BTW, what exactly does "trache" mean anyway? Is it all Frenched up and euphemized to make one feel better about saying something mean instead of not saying anything at all?
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Before freaking out, cancelling anything, or assuming you've done something wrong, you might want to head over to the Geocaching.com web site forum (should be the 3rd one down in the list) to read some of the threads there. There was apparently an update made to the site that may have caused the issue. Many have already reported this issue and it is being discussed there.
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Before I answer this I would like to make sure that I understand your post and the question. Are you saying that caches hidden in lightpoles or phones (that's a new one for me but I haven't been doing this very long) are trash or somehow sub-standard?
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I almost always read them as well and usually read the most recent logs too. There's lots of good info there. Tonight I went to a geo party in a park and had intended to look for a nearby cache placed near the park entrance. Fortunately I read the most recent log which indicated that the last finder also found snakes and had to cross a swamp and was able to avoid that one.
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Sounds like a great place for a cache. I've spent too much time in hospitals these past few years and it would have been nice to have an area such as this to take a walk and blow off some steam or, even better, find a cache! Go for it.
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Whenever I get stumped while trying to find an easy cache I find myself whistling the song from the Wizard Of Oz, "If I Only Had A Brain". It just seems fitting sometimes...
That's funny! And reminds me that sometimes when I find the cache I think to myself "ding dong the witch is dead" as I'm crossing it off my list.
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It sort of depends on the location and time of day but quite often the Harry Potter or Braveheart themes pop into my head when I'm out in the woods. If I'm out at dusk or night or trying to get a FTF the Mission Impossible song comes to mind. I sometimes purposely hum them to myself when out caching with my mom as she has a tendency to sing aloud the Bye Bye Birdie song and/or complain about the amount of trash we've come across so I do it to drown her out.
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I keep these little guys in my caching bag, does that count? I have no idea what or from where the orange one came. He doesn't speak English. The green guys glow in the dark and there are 8 of them. They came from a tiny city called Plastic Bag which is on the planet of Partycity. Their leader's name is Brinkley and he resides on my nightstand where I use him to annoy my husband who doesn't like the plastic-y smell.
Edited cuz I'm a goomer and forgot to include the pic.
I don't think I've ever seen a log that simply says TFTC without any other text. I write it out sometimes or write TFTC sometimes but try to always write at least a sentence or two in addition to it. A few weeks ago someone found a bunch of caches that were on my watchlist so I received the emails with the log info and the person only wrote "F" in each of them. Not "found" or "found it" or TFTC, just "F". I thought that was kind of odd. I mean, even if the person has problems typing or some other issue, it surprised me that they couldn't at least write found it or thanks and copy and paste it into each of them. But now I'm totally off topic so I'll shutty. 
Thanks for the laugh. The mental image I've got right now is hilarious. LOL.
What is your geocaching outfit?
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That's a really great idea. I should do that and get some shoes that I don't care about. I know it will be just a matter of time before I'm stuck in the mud and end up ruining good walking shoes or boots and then I'll be bent.