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Team Spirit of '76

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  1. It was our Geocaching Member ID that he copied(most of), not a cache name.
  2. Thank-you mnt-man! I we will be sure to keep this option in mind when we get close to our 1000th find. If we come up short for the event because we lost a log again, then this will be a good way to make repairs!
  3. Thank-you Keyston Approver for the correction and moving this forum to the correct Thread! -Team Spirit of '76
  4. Recently a Geocacher in a neighboring city decided that most of our member name was better for him. We nicely asked him to go back to his original member name or use something else because the similarity in our member names was confusing other Geocaches. (If he lived a hundred or more miles away, then we would have never would have asked) He said no way and was rude about it. So we let it go. A couple of weeks ago we visited one of his caches and logged our visit. We had nothing but great things to say about his large size cache. Today we got an email notifying us of a "Log Deletion Notice". Out of the blue, the owner of this cache decides to delete our log. As a result, we lost a find. We don't know what's up with this individual, but we are starting to get concerned that he will start attacking the caches that we have placed. In fact we already have had to replace a cache (that we adopted) that is close to some of his caches (that has been around far longer than he has been in Geocaching). Yes, he has already logged a visit to it (before he changed his member name). Geocaching is a fun activity for our family and we want to keep it that way, for us and everyone else! We are looking for suggestions from other forum readers/Geocachers as to what we should do if things start to get real crazy! We are not about to lower ourselves to his level and start deleting his logs from caches that we own or tampering with his caches!!! Is there a place to report "Geocacher user abuse, or conduct unbecoming? -Team Spirit of '76
  5. Very interesting! Now that you mention this, I recall asking this lady if she had seen or been to Buxley's ( http://www.brillig.com/geocaching/ ) and she said she hadn't. When we were exchanging info I showed her our print-outs of local Geocaches in the area and see didn't seem surprised to see the print. She was interested in writing down some of the cord's that we had. We saw how she had hand written notes and cord's written down on paper. Maybe she was getting her info 2nd hand from a friend. It is kind of odd that she didn't seem to know about all of the caches in her own area. After all, there isn't much up there in Redding. It's funny, but I thought that women loved to write. We went over to the Shasta dam after wards and went on a tour inside of it (it's been back open for tours for 7 months now). The first thing my wife did when we got inside the dam was go straight for the visitors guest book and sign it.
  6. I'm not worried about it. One thing is, I think that it would take me a lot longer than a half of an hour to track you down on the internet. Second of all, I'd like to see you track me down in less than an hour. And if you did, what would you have to gain? I'm flat broke. Besides, don't we have something better to do, like going out and finding caches? All in all I think that the people that make up the Geocaching population are good people for the most part. I probably have a greater chance of making another motorists mad at me while I'm out driving and them follow me home to do me harm. Or I guess I might be attacked by a mountain lion or bitten by a rattle snake, scorpion or black widow. I'm not going to pigeon hole myself just because so many other people are afraid to do anything now days. Yes, I do take lots of security precautions, but I'm going to get out and have some fun to! All in all, what I'm saying is lets go have some fun, but provide for safety first.
  7. Please add me to the list. I would also like to put on a presentation for my son's class at his school. If you'd like to help me too, you can email your PPT to me at danaNOSPAMerick@itilink.com. (Just remove the NOSPAM from the email address) Thanks!
  8. My wife and I went on a out of town Geocaching trip a few days ago & met a "Geocacher" in the field for our very first time. It all started when we arrived to a parking lot @ (of a park near the cache we were looking for) about the same time a woman arrived. I noticed that when she got out of her vehicle that she had a GPS unit in hand & was looking at which direction to begin her search. I was excited to see this as we do not have a GPS unit yet (we were up to 29 finds so far), so I walked over to her & introduced myself. She was happy to meet my wife & I. We joined forces & went looking for the cache together. Even though a lot of time was saved with her $200 Magellan, I still spotted the cache first. She logged her visit in the log of the micro cache like she knew what she was doing. Being curious, I asked a few questions like what her user ID was with Geocaching.com. Then she also told me that she had only been Geocaching for a couple of weeks & she still didn't know how to enter waypoints into her unit. She referred us to another Cache that was a little further North than we had intended to go, but we asked more about it & she gave us all of the details & told us right where to look. Later in the day we checked out the cache that she referred us to & it was right where she said it would be. The funny thing was that I never saw any indication that she had ever logged a visit there(it is an active cache to this day) I didn't think much of it until we got back home & the next day started logging all of our visits from our trip. I began to really wonder when she hadn't even logged any visits (on the website) @ any of the two caches mentioned above, or any others in the area in the last month. I even checked for a likeness in user names and time frames & still came up with nothing. So, at this time I am starting to believe that there is a ghost going around the Redding, CA area logging into caches & meeting unsuspecting visitors. Let me know if you are in the Redding, CA area, maybe you too have seen her. Please share any odd encounters that you have had with supposed "GHOST" Geocachers. Thanks!
  9. Very interesting! For a few weeks now I have had my suspicions about why the rest area is closed down on I-5 East bound right near the Sacramento International Airport. A couple of weeks ago I saw a motor home parked in the exit ramp of this rest area. There where 2 CHP units parked by it and the officers were looking all around it like they were looking for who ever belonged to it. I think the owner might have run out of fuel or something and got a moped or motor cycle off of the back of the motor home and took a ride. I wonder if you can still ride on commercial airline flights now???
  10. Sorry, this Thread was accidentally started. Thank-you for your help.
  11. Is there any list any where that I can go to that has the acroniyms that are being used in the log books? Any place other than FAQ??
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