Sol seaker

are you kidding ? Sidewalks are very dangerous places !! To the thread owner: do what you think is right. If you report it, it will be out of your hands. It will be up to the reviewer to decide whether to do anything about it or not. Would you regret not reporting it? Generally I say 5/5 caches are great and really needed in the game. It's good if they have some warnings on the cache page. But what Knowschad said was true: there are some inappropriate caches out there. If you email the reviewer, he/she decides,.not you.

"Hi! How are you today?" As they say, I'm an adult so I don't have to explain myself. I'm not doing anything wrong, so no excuses are needed. Some will and do start asking questions. It depends on the situation as to what I'll answer. If they ask what I'm doing , I may say "nothing". it's none of their business . Most of the time I'll tell them I'm geocaching. If they're wearing a uniform, I'll definitely tell them I am geocaching.

Actually if it is a non-porous container you can clean it up. There's a soap that cuts poison oak oils. It's called, Fels Naptha. You can find it in the laundry soap section of most grocery stores. (it is a bar soap normally used for tough stains) Then after you clean your container, you can break off a chunk of the soap to put in your first aid kit to wash up if you come in contact with poison oak. It will wash the oils off of skin. The only thing I've seen it didn't clean was a wet-suit. long story I notice you did not get it (at least not yet, sometimes it takes a few days) from the container nor from retrieving the container. It is really common to not be allergic to it at first, but then through repeated contact to become very allergic to it, so be careful.

Yes, there are a lot of things to teach children associated with this game. Included among them are: The journey is often more important than the destination. This game is about the hunt rather than the find. The experiences rather than the numbers. Enjoy life to the fullest and don't let how others play get you down. That's a big one they can carry on into life that will serve them well!!! Another one is that life is not fair, and people are not fair. We've got to take these things in life well anyway. They can use this for instance, when they apply for a job and even though they're more qualified the boss hires a relative or friend. They've got to move on and not get mad about it, because they've already learned life is not always fair. This way they'll still have a great attitude for the next job interview which they will ace. If they learn to moan and groan at all of life's unfairness, they won't get far. Are they enjoying the game? Then they have succeeded. Have fun. It's a game.

Sounds like lots of lessons learned here. The shortest route to the cache is not always a shortcut. Park and grabs are made for lunch breaks. A good geocache always get you dirty.

I smell a zombie. This thread is from 2007. Some of the links don't even work anymore. Geocaching is meant to get people outdoors. This one should have been left to rot, uh, rest in peace.

I've run into cachers a fair amount of times. However, there are some caches I WISH someone would show up and help me find. There was one in a wooded area we were looking for. We walked up to GZ and there was a family there going through the swag. They looked like they had just gotten caught. They were trying to hide the HUGE cache behind them, but it was pretty useless. It was one of those big 24 gallon rubbermaid containers. We laughed and held up our GPS. We then chatted a while and we suggested they don't take the young children searching for a nearby cache that was dangerous. Once, early on in the game, my friend and I were searching for a cache when a pickup truck screeched up to us. He yelled out the window "Are you looking for the cache?" We nodded. He said, "It's under the fence cap." We would have rather found it ourselves, but the interaction we then had was another kind of fun too. There were many more to find by ourselves. It was fun to interact with another cacher.

Then perhaps the lesson is that the world is a very unfair place and that needs to not take away from their own joy and sense of accomplishment. There are a lot of unfair people in the world and we can't change them. Personally, I think this is an incredibly important lesson. Show them how to deal with unfair people with your head up and being unconcerned with what others do.

Perhaps this is a good time for the lesson on them not counting on external validation. THEY KNOW they completed the challenge. They should feel good about that and not need a cache owner to validate whether they should feel good about the challenge or not.

just put a note on the cache page. We have a lot of nettles around here. they won't hurt you , they will just hurt . It seems the more you encounter them the less they hurt. I use Fels Naptha soap on it, when I brush against them. It works great for poison oak too. it's easier to carry then jewelweed. it's not perfect but it helps. it's found in the laundry soap section of the grocery store .

Sure, then all those people who complain about paying too much for containers will really have something to complain about.

So what is this, internet geocaching? We're supposed to look for the bison tubes online?

I found a map with a lot of WA campgrounds Map link You can try that. There's also a great book on WA state camping. Link to great camping book That book lists campgrounds, and a lot more. There are a whole lot of campgrounds a whole lot cheaper than state parks. If your wife is disabled with a blue parking placard, she can get a lot of camping passes and get camping half price. If she does not have one, talk to her doctor about getting one. There is a federal disabled pass, available with a blue parking pass,at any ranger station, that will give you half price camping in a lot of places, including federal parks. A lot of private campgrounds take that pass also. Just call the campground first and ask. WA state park campgrounds used to have a disabled rate, but I don't know if they do anymore. I know they do accept that blue parking pass for entrance for day use, so they probably will give some discount for camping, but check first. Of course the cheapest way to go is to go midweek. This is because all the cheap campgrounds are full on the weekends. They fill the quickest. Go midweek and get your pick of cheap campgrounds. I'd call a local ranger station too. They have a whole lot of great info. If you don't like the info you get, try later and get another ranger or try another ranger station. There are some who are full of great info. Sometimes they are busy and can't be on the phone so long, so try perhaps earlier in the day. If they can't talk long, call back at another time. Ask when they are not busy. They should know of the cheaper campgrounds. This ranger station is the closest to Seattle that I know of: Snoqualmie Ranger District - North Bend Office (425) 888-1421 I'll keep thinking and see if I can come up with some more for you. Have a great trip. If you would like someone to show you to some local caches let me know.

I find it a bit annoying. I'd imagine a great percentage of cachers cache alone. also a great percentage are above the age of having kids to tote around. What? Do I have to go borrow some? Do adult children count? could I just go to the park and borrow some? That's definitely an ALR (additional logging requirement) which is now against the guidelines. It's also choosing who you're allowing to find your cache, which is also against guidelines. If I were in the area I'd find it and log that I found it alone. :ph34r:

Generally the way to go is as mentioned above. If there have been a lot of DNF's on a cache: Log a "needs maintenance" no action in over a month? Log a "needs archived". This will send a note to the reviewer. They normally take it from there. If it's a tough cache though, it may normally get a lot of DNF's on it, so if it's a tough cache, wait until there are many confirmed DNF's (by someone who has found it before, which will often happen when a cacher brings a friend back). There are a number of people who log caches on one account and place caches out of a different geo-account, so take that into consideration. And some people simply don't find many. I've seen many, many cachers who have been playing this game since 2003 and have only found 800 caches. So if they haven't logged into the website for a while it doesn't mean anything. That's just the rate at which they log in, although they're still active.

Since you've gotten no other replies, I'd suggest try posting this in the UK forums, or better yet, hit the "report post" button of your post and ask the moderators to move the thread over there. They hate repeat posts. They're more likely to help you out over there.

Oops. I posted this in off-topic too. There's a bigger article in off-topic (if you're a premium member you can see it) along with a video. It may disrupt GPS. The last time they said a solar storm might disrupt GPS I tried to find a cache in Seattle. No trees and only one short building nearby. Nothing around to block the signals, but there was no way I was going to find that cache that day. My signal kept bouncing around at about 75 foot intervals. It would be here, then it would be there, and then over that way. I finally gave up and went home. There were infinite possibilities within that radius. Then the next day they said the flare had had no effect at all. link to off topic and article

Well of course we have Seattle Centrism. After all, Seattle (Fremont district of Seattle to be precise) IS the center of the universe. Does the rest of the U.S. not know this?? And no, the icon was for the cache and not the cache location. The cache is gone. There was a huge uproar when the cache was stolen and many people asked, pleaded and begged Groundspeak to keep the icon. They decided not to since it was for the cache and the cache is no longer there. It would be hard to make ground in convincing them at this point. If they were not convinced by all the people asking when it happened, they're not likely to be convinced now.

Now that's funny!!! :laughing: I spent over an hour helping someone look for their cache recently. There were three of us looking and we didn't find it. Okay, well it is true that he adopted it out and the new guy seems to have moved it. But it's also true these two DNF'ed the cache many times before I came along to "help." I have had cache owners ask me where I found their cache so they could do maintenance on it. I found one cache in the dark by the light of my phone. I put that in the logs and the owner emailed and asked me how the heck I did that when he couldn't even find the thing in the day. I had one cache moved once. The person logging it said it needed to be hidden better. I was indignant. What was wrong with the spot I picked??!!!??? Then I went to check on it. Within the one year since I had seen it last, the tree filled in the hole in the tree the cache was in. The tree had shoved the cache out of it. I sheepishly thanked the person who moved it for me.

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Well... (did you or didn't you?...) Yeah, I don't think so. Although I did find another whole container of the stuff while searching for another cache. It was up in a tree. The person I was caching with asked what it was. I said, "If you don't know, I'm keeping it!!" :laughing: Not that I would, of course...

From my log of "The Battle of Nevermore" which is on the water in Federal Way: (Didn't find the cache) An interesting find we did make though, my friend says, oh wait, here it is. It was a container with writing on it, so he thought that was it. He started reading the container. It said nothing about geocaching, and was kinda strange. I took it and read it. It was an old milk bottle that had washed up on the beach. It said, "If you find this at Sea, smoke a joint for my cousin" and had the cousins name, someone McCormick I think, born 1971, died 2009 written on the milk jug. I noticed something knocking around inside. It was a baggie. Honest to God, there was the biggest joint in there I've ever seen in my life. No joke on this. Water had gotten into the container and it smelled pretty rank. It was wet and slimy. I left the milk jug near the trail at the water, so if you don't believe me, go take a look yourself.

GC2GNWQ is our cache. Do you know if the guard rail is being replaced or removed permanently? Oh Hi there! You got here fast, while I was emailing the other guy just in case it was his. I'd contact the city of Snohomish to find out. They are being so nice about it and holding the cache for you so you can place another cache, I would imagine they would be planning on replacing it if another guard rail were planned. That happens a lot actually. But this is a guess, you'll have to contact them to be sure. Try checking with Curmudgeonly Gal to see if she's got the contact info of where she found out about this to begin with.

Okay, I emailed the owners of a couple of caches there that might be next to a boat ramp. I've never been there, so if someone who has been there reads this, then perhaps you can let us know which cache is next to the boat ramp. There really only seem to be two candidates though, and only one likely, but I emailed both just in case. I asked them to check back, so I'll let you know if they email me. I gave them the link to this thread. SS

There are a few in that park. It could be GC2GNWQ Ferguson Park on Blackman's Lake Reborn. It's hard to tell from the description which is a guard rail micro. I'll email the owner and ask, when I get to a computer.