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I think your question is more about TSA security rather than Costomes Officers at the boarder. PS When you are in New Brunswick, try to check out either the Fredericton Tour or March of the NB 104th geo trails. Both of these have rewards! Geocoins and such.

Anyone in Winnipeg that could drop a TB off in a cache for me? I have a TB I would like to start off in Winnipeg. Would someone there be willing to help me out? (I could mail it to you).

Wow, I remember asking this same question a two or three years ago. The unanimous consensus was the inner size of the container. It seems perceptions have changed. I think that the guidlines should be used, which discusses what the container can hold. The plastic skull is not part of the cache. The fake plant is not part of the cache, nor is the log. That is all superfluous to the actual container.

I think this overstates the obvious point that the seeker is ultimately responsible for their own safety. A CO that willfully leads a seeker into a dangerous situation that isn't obvious still bears some responsibility. At any rate, if the CO isn't responsible, then clearly the reviewer isn't responsible, which was my point. The reviewer will still be concerned about safety, and any reasonable CO will be, too. The reviewer is not concerned with safety at all. The whole RR issue is strictly a tresspass legality.

There are comercialy available replacement tags. I have used both pre stamped replacements, as well as ones I wrote the code on with a sharpie. In addition, you can do fun things like making a wooden nickle or something like that.

Each of my 4 kids (well actualy only the older 3) have accounts. They don't use them though. Each acount just owns a TB that I have in possession of my account. I dip them in each cache that they are with me. If they ever decide to do caching as a hobby on their own one day, they will need to turn the TB dips into cache logs themselves. I had started by logging each account for each find, but that is a lot of work. I gave up.

The events I have had at my house, in addition to the coordinates, I included a house number. I have also seen this done with front yard caches. Alternativly, I have seen house descriptions on the cache page. I don't Think I would search for a front yard cache if there was not a way to positivly identify the house. Coorrdinates alone are too sketchy.

And if nobody finds it, it's garbage. If one person finds it accidentally without GPS usage, it's not really a geocache. No, notice the word "intent" in my defenition.

This is very common. When I come across this situation I tend to make mention in my log something along the lines of "Before long I had this Micro in hand" or something. It's a public service. I like that! I have used that techniqu a few times, but will work on using it all the time. That said, I am currently try to avoid micros like the plague, so not sure how often that will be.

I define a geocache as a container hidden with the intent that others will find it using gps coordinates. publishing on a website is irrelevent.

It is just a question of credibility... One of the world problems, it is that there are idiots full of certainties and geniuses full of doubts... I think we need to choose wisely our own path. And I don't think that it's very wise to infer that the OP is an idiot that is not credible, while at the same time being quick to say for certain that it wasn't another cacher. Geocaches often disappear frequently without any malice, but when several are missing at once with someone leaving taunting notes, that's a different story. I'm rather curious how someone could be so certain that it wasn't another geocacher. Your words, not mine. Personally I only would make such a harsh claim with proofs, without any proof, would not be credible. Simply that. As for proof, it would appear that the evidence (as mentioned in 4wheelin_fool's post) is as close to proof as anyone is likely to get (without having video or something like that). But this is all way off topic. The original topic was about Throw Down caches, right?

I wouldn't classify this as a throw down. It was requested help for maintenance, perfectly reasonable. At least, to me. To me too. The OP also discussed a replacement with permission of the CO. Seemed reasonable to me. Maybe the cacher in question should have looked for the original a little better, but still reasonable.

While a good idea, I don't think GS will allow it. Also, it doesn't address the map clutter issue. While the map clutter issue is not insurmountable (i.e. ignore list), I really would like to see a different icon on the map for challanges. I may even try some if they were somehow distinguishable.

Yes, it is appropriate, expecialy if you put them in a hard plastic case. It would be kind of rude to give someone tetanus.

I have the problem. No Maps, No Logs. I have to click the "View Logbook" link to see the logs. (IE9) Here is the thing. You should really not do changes that will not work for a significant % of customers. User end or not, all the other web designers manage to make their web pages work for me.

Arguably, that is arranged and approved maintenance not a throwdown,... While I would agree with you, the CO started by critisizing a very similar situation. The only real difference was the one the CO discussed was a old unfound cache.

Here is a great success story about through downs. A couple of years back, I was planning a hike up a mountain to find a few caches. The CO of one of the caches found out I was heading up, and asked me to replace a missing cache. I graciously accepted his request, and placed a new container where my GPS zeroed out. I logged that cache, and so did another cacher the next day. There was absolutely no drama. Everyone was happy. The point? There is no single answer that covers all scenarios. Stop trying to make blanket statements like "never leave a through down".

Here is my first post on this topic. Personaly, I see the problem as confusing my map. It kind of bugs me that this totaly unique cache type is bunched in with all the other ? on my map. At the very least, I would like to see a new cache type. In a perfect world, I would like to see an achievment based system, kind of like the badges in project-GC. All the basic typical ones could be run automaticaly by the GS server, awarding some sort of digital badge (similar, but seperate from souveniers), and the more local, specialized, unique ones could be administered by the author, and a digital badge, designed by the aurthor, could be awarded as well. I guess it may look a bit like the old Challange thing, but a geocaching related, and not so lame. Like a lot of others, it seems silly to me to require that last cache find to somehow validate your already great achievment. It seems kind of like making the winner of the olympic marathon run one more mile to claim the gold medal. He already won the race, why make him do more?

More like a geocoin tattoo I guess...?

Is there any chance GS would change the names of the International Geocaching Day Souvenirs so that they are consistant, thus ending up all next to eachother on our souvenir page? It kind of bugs me that they are scattered all over the page. Here are the current names: International Geocaching Day (This is the first one from 2011) Second Annual International Geocaching Day (2012) 31 Days of Geocaching 17 / 31 Int'l Geocaching Day (this is for 2013) International Geocaching Day 2014 (this is the first one to include the year in the name)

Lakedogs needs to "grab" it from you. PS, it is not ownership, the cacher who released it still owns it. You and Lakedogs are just the current "holder" (or caretaker).

Is money a factor? If you don't mind shelling out the cash, the Garmin Montera (sp) runes Android, so you actually could run the app. Otherwise, for something different, the Magellan Explorest line may be a fit as it would be quite a bit different than the garmin.

Stun-guns (the predecessor of the Teaser) are powered by a single 9V battery. Capacitors, transformers, and yes, low current are how they work. Apparently, they will leave the perp. "repelled" for 5 min.

Personal, I would wait for a bit longer, say January or something... Then if it had not re-surfaced, mark it missing, then if you like, you can release the copy tag, one of the various brands of proxy tags, or a home made proxy tag.