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    Can anyone help make this a game?

    in How do I...?

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    Or just split into teams and see who can do the most in a day.

     

    Be warned -- if these are eight people who've never cached before -- some people "get" geocaching right away, love it and are hooked. Some people never get the point and don't hugely enjoy it.

     

    Sounds like you're in Group A. Don't be shocked if some of your friends are in Group B.

    Parking Garage

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    I did a multi with a stage on the top level of a parking garage. My luck, it was closed for repairs and covered in snow and my hiking companion was on crutches and we got shoo'd out by mall security.

     

    Not much fun.

    Long time cacher, first time forum member

    in How do I...?

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    Try to make it fun for yourself. Read the description and other people's logs and photos and see if you can pull up everything you remember about the day. Then write it down as your log.

     

    Or not. I realize not everybody finds writing stuff down fun. But I know I vividly remembered every single cache I did until I hit 500 or so. I still remember nearly all.

    Is there a place to shamelessly promote our created products?

    in General geocaching topics

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    I would rather be watching out for folks that don't see the text, "Read the Forum Guidelines" at the top of the page, and in doing so, see the following:

     

    8. Commerciality and postings with a larger agenda: It is Groundspeak's desire to maintain forums for the purpose of promoting the activity of geocaching and GPS usage. As a result, we intend to limit forum discussions that promote a commercial, social, political or charitable agenda insofar as the agenda does not reasonably relate to the activity of geocaching and GPS usage. Therefore, threads or posts perceived to have been made with the intent of promoting any of the above agendas will not be permitted. Please note that our Volunteer Forum Moderators are authorized to exercise their discretion in providing some reasonable latitude for forum discussion postings relating to local events and issues in local discussion forums. Notwithstanding the above, Groundspeak reserves the right to include or permit the inclusion of limited commercial content in this forum, in its sole discretion.

     

    Bolding mine. I don't see how that answers the original question at all. If dude is selling caching t-shirts, how does that not reasonably relate to caching?

     

    OP: put a link in your sig. Lot of it about.

     

    Ahem.

     

    Just saying.

     

    <koff>

    Why is there so much negativity on this forum?

    in General geocaching topics

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    This is easily one of the tamest and politest forums I've participated in. One thing is certain: no matter the tone of a forum, from time to time someone is ALWAYS going to pop up and ask "why is everyone so negative here?"

     

    I consider the question extraordinarily hostile.

     

    The question itself is negative. It puts regulars on the defensive -- especially if it's not true. It's likely to start trouble -- especially if it's true.

     

    It's like walking into a neighborhood pub or a cafe full of locals and saying, "why is the wallpaper so horribly ugly in here?"

     

    Why would you do it? No good can come of it.

    Best GeoTips

    in How do I...?

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    If the GPS is pointing more than 500' off the trail you're on, you're probably on the wrong trail. Lost count of the number of times I bushwhacked .10 only to find a lovely trail leading right to the cache.

     

    The hider almost certainly didn't mean you to ditch your car as soon as the cache looked close enough to bushwhack for. I bet there's obvious parking and a trail somewhere.

     

    If you've been looking in one area a long time with no luck, try walking in a totally different direction, way past where your GPS is sending you, then turn and walk back again from the new angle.

     

    There is always more than one of the hint item. And you will always go to the wrong one first.

     

    You're most likely to see wildlife when you've been quiet and still for five minutes. Rest a lot. Spend time looking over the log book.

    I feel bad

    in How do I...?

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    Huh. You probably left before the paedophile craze hit the UK. England is the only place I've ever been chased out of a public park by a pack of jeering, hooting feral children. Wasn't even a school; just a small bit of public land with a duck pond.

     

    We're a harmless, gray-haired couple in late middle age. But I had a camera around my neck, so they decided we were there to take pervy pictures of their scabby selves.

     

    My least favorite caching experience ever.

    How do you like it? You're cache logs

    in How do I...?

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    I'm a chatty logger -- though the length of my logs will be vaguely in proportion to the degree I enjoyed the cache. I'm not going to write a novel for a lampskirt hide-a-key.

     

    Unless something interesting happened while I was finding it.

     

    Also, pictures. Pictures are excellent in logs.

    newbie needs swag ideas

    in General geocaching topics

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    I think the California quarter is a great idea for a European trip. Coins make really good swag, provided they are old or from far away.

     

    I used to leave European coins, buffalo nickels, mercury dimes. I left mine in little coin envelopes with a rubberstamp of my avatar. It pleased me when the next finder logged that he'd taken it.

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