Car54

No, I am serious. I found the survey marker while setting up this cache. No code yet, as it is unpublished. Oops - my bad. Sorry about that. Mrs. Car54

Around our home territory, we use a 2011 Chevy Impala. The "good" news is that we don't really like the vehicle all that much, so we don't feel we have to baby it. If we're camping, we've got the F250 we use to tow our 5th-wheel. Even though Mr. Car54 rarely visits the forums, I won't mention the F250's mileage because it is so bad it stresses him out. It's got an off-road package on it, but not off-road tires. We did take it on one cache in a nearby state forest where we forded a creek (after checking the depth first) and did some serious "muddin'", I think it's called. Quite an adventure for desk jockies like us. We're thinking of an AWD Subaru once the Impala is paid off. Mrs. Car54

I suspect the OP was posting "tongue in cheek". Got a GC code? Mrs. Car54

Like a delicious pizza, your feedback has been rejected as we no longer like pizza. Oh, snap! Mrs. Car54

I see what you did there. Mrs. Car54

The longest I've gone so far is 17 days, when I was on a training exercise in Grafenwoehr, Germany, and not allowed to leave post. One of my goals is never to go that long again. I'm still at 21 days longest drought, and that was last Spring. Our longest drought is 123 days and we started in April, 2004. We're probably "doing it wrong" and need to "do it more". (wmpastor - keep that out of the "out of context" thread! ) Mrs. Car54

^^ This Mrs. Car54

I thought Oh Snap was so 90s... Seriously though, for us old coots: Howdy Pard! Thar's a new saddlebag o' nostrums, 'Way Out Yonder', 3 hoots and a hollar west of the ol' gallows Ugh! You get notification rock! It say Og publish new cache 'Sabretooth Travel Bone Hotel', long way to morning bright thing. or, the ever popular Message for you, Sir Oh my gosh - these 2 posts are hilarious! Mrs. Car54

After I opened a New Publication email I received, the above quote is the first thing I see and it makes me curious as to what the average age of a cacher is nowadays. Perhaps it's getting younger and I'm just some out of date old coot, but my belief is that the average user is old enough to remember when "Oh snap!" was common lingo, and it seems to me that 2014 is about 30 years after that phrase's peak. I imagine that someone on The Design Team thinks that this is a fun and cute and cuddly phrase that can be turned into a swag button or trackable to sell in the store, but to me it just seems unprofessional. Is the new target demographic 12 year olds? Who on earth says "Oh snap!" anymore? It was annoying back then and hasn't gotten any less annoying now. Almost exactly what I thought - we must not be the target demographic any more, but you must not be going for our grandkids either as they quit saying, "Oh snap", years ago. That phrase makes the e-mails just look silly. Are you planning on regular updates as lingo changes? Mrs. Car54

I think that you've broken the analogy. I have no idea what it is that you are trying to say. I thought he was making a kind of "least common denominator" argument. Mrs. Car54

What irks me is - entitlement attitudes, whether related to caching or not. Mrs. Car54

Oh my gosh - too funny! Mrs. Car54

A log like that would probably make me consider archiving my cache with the log "see GCxxxx for the reason". If my cache is not notable enough to warrant its own log, I would probably conclude that its not a very good cache. If the finder isn't going to make an effort, why should the hider? Mrs. Car54 One lazy log would make you consider archiving a cache? Of course not - we get "lazy" logs from time to time. The log above would most likely indicate that a power trail/number trail/call-it-whatever-you-want trail has sprung up around our cache. If that were the case, then, yes, I would archive our cache. Look on the bright side - someone would then have an opportunity to "fill in the gap" on the trail. In general, being a cache owner is becoming less and less fun FOR ME - not speaking for others. We don't have very many caches, but the ones we do, we take pleasure in. Once we no longer take pleasure in them, we will archive them. Mrs. Car54

A log like that would probably make me consider archiving my cache with the log "see GCxxxx for the reason". If my cache is not notable enough to warrant its own log, I would probably conclude that its not a very good cache. If the finder isn't going to make an effort, why should the hider? Mrs. Car54

I am so sorry! Posts like this help remind me to keep things in perspective. I am glad you are finding things in which to take comfort. Mrs. Car54

Muggles With Apps = MWA MWA-ha-ha-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! Mrs. Car54

^ This.

I think you misunderstand *MY* point. The quotes above, which admittedly were snipped, showcase a problem, in my opinion. While many folks will say, "Oh, your find count doesn't matter,", it is yet the first, almost knee-jerk response used to imply someone isn't quite up to snuff. I'm probably not wording that well, but if counts are not the point, why make it your first response? Mrs. Car54

Really? Judging someone by their number of finds in a certain number of years? We're another 10-year caching couple and we just hit 1,488. Is it time for us to "find a new hobby"? We concentrate on what *WE* like doing and don't really care if someone thinks we're doing it "wrong" or "not enough". Mrs. Car54

This is close to what we're doing these days. Used to be that we'd run regular PQ's of our local area and PQ's of areas where we were headed on vacation. Then we'd just hit "find closest" on the ol' Garmin and head off for a fun (to us) day that would usually include a variety of caches, including some micros. Well, these days we could spend all day and end up chasing "soggy film pots" (to quote a PP). Now we just look at new cache notifications for local hides and very rarely do we go after one of them. As for out-of-town trips, I do an on-line search near the zip code, search by fave points and start looking at individual caches. If I think we'll like it, I bookmark it. I continue until I'm tired of looking at pages. Then I run a PQ just over my bookmark list. After the trip, I log the caches, and delete the bookmark. A lot more work involved than there used to be in order to cache like *WE* like to do and I know we probably miss some good caches that way. The effect of all this effort is that we do a lot less caching than we used to do and we have longer dry spells. Who knows, eventually we may just fizzle out. Mrs. Car54 P.S. Note that this is not a geocide, either.

I didn't know you could do that! Thanks for the tip - I love it! Mrs. Car54

We've always appreciated your lists for when we are towing our RV. Other than running a PQ or CAR, is there an easy way to see what state a given cache is in? (I struggle with that on our own bookmark lists, so I always add a line in the bookmark to note the state). Thanks for your efforts! Mrs. Car54

11,192 Have fun!

I am ignoring the voice in my head that is telling me not to get involved in this discussion as I lack a thick skin, but my desire to register my opinion was too strong. I believe snarky statements like this one do nothing to enhance the discussion but serve only to imply that folks who feel differently are somehow inferior or motivated by a need for drama. We've been caching over 10 years now and are casually working on our Jasmer and D/T grid. I would agree with Briansnat's characterization of the Jasmer as a "side game", but anything using stats/maps provided on a dedicated tab of my profile seems to have at least an implied Groundspeak approval of it being a reasonable outgrowth of the game. Having said that, I get what the OP is asking and feel his pain - both at having that grid square go empty and at being denigrated for his opinon. You do not have to use someone's name in a remark for many people to know exactly to whom that remark refers. To imply otherwise is disingenous at best. It would be like my grandson saying that a 2-year old living in his house is "stupid", but denying that he called his sister stupid because he didn't use her name. As to the original topic, we had this very same issue work in our favor. I was checking on our grid recently - after some months of inactivity - and suddenly one of the squares had been filled in. We hadn't been caching, so it had to have been a D/T change, but I have no idea how to find which of our finds was affected. Has anyone else found that this issue sometimes works in their favor? Mrs. Car54

So THAT explains some of the log sheets I've seen. Mrs. Car54