Troutonthebrain

Well don't you hate the non-geocacher terms spell check! Anyway, thanks for the input. Losing it kinda took the only thing that made our skirt lifter cache special, but oh well, we can archive and hide something new if we want to.

Awhile back we bought something that we turned into a geocache container (well, actually, the camo of it.) We hid it once and then it appeared it had gone missing, so we archived. About a year later we went to hide a new geocache at the spot. When we got there, however, we found our old container! After that much time outside it looked hardly anything like it had originally. The cameo had bleached and had a very unique look now (one that would be very hard to duplicate.) Thus we put in a new log and rehid it elsewhere. After a couple months, we got a note from a previous finder that went with a friend that our camo was no longer there. Recently we went to find a cache and it was the same theme as ours, so we though, "cool!", we should be able to find this one quickly. When we found it, the camo looked exactly like ours, I mean exactly. One can buy our camo in a local store, but the year or two of bleaching gave ours a very distinct look that would be very hard to duplicate. So, what would you do? Just assume it is not yours and move on? Assume it is yours and move on? Email the person to ask where they got it? (Though this is the other dilemma, we know the cacher kinda well and don't want to step on toes if they did get it honestly.) Thanks for the help, Troutonthebrain

That shelf is SO cool! Great job! I also approve of the open website on the left hand monitor! I have been wanting to do that with mine but just haven't had the time. There were no concert tickets or geocoins in the mailbox today. Sad day at the mailbox.

Congrats Hot Pepper Crew. And the OP's son is wearing green in the picture for a drawing from an Irish Joke Cointest. How appropriate!

Hey but those acorn-throwing squirrels are quite vicious!

Yikes! Yes poison {anything} is bad. I had a good case of it last year. The doc told me it was in my bloodstream so that can't be good. Itchweed isn't anywhere near as bad as poison ivy (since you usually can wash itchweed off.) A kind of unfortunate caching story I have of itchweed though happened on the North Shore of Minnesota. We went out caching and found an ammo can burried in a pile of itchweed. We had to kick the itchweed off to log. Turns out the poor person before us comes from an area without itchweed and didn't know what the stuff was. The cache is in a virtual forest of itchweed, so the previous guy camoed the cache with it. Poor guy! Hope the posion ivy heals quickly. Not a fun experience!

Around here, pretty much every 1000 milestone (1000, 2000, 3000, 4000 ....) is celebrated by a tribute cache (if you are liked by the community that is ) where a group of cachers come and watch as the honeree has to find the cache. Some of the really special people get an event to go with the tribute.

There is a caching couple in our area that has put out thousands of crystal charms in caches. Some of them have gotten quite intricate and beautiful.

Sweet! If only I wasn't 1700 miles away.

We just ran into the same problem. We found the mission sheet of paper in a cache in Washington. The trackable had been missing for about 5 months. Now it seems to have surfaced again. At least it it not gone.

Hey cool! I have one of those out traveling too. It hasn't moved much but it is cool to watch when it does. Here is my TB.

Treasure Island or Gilligan's Geocache

Hey, cool to see another one of these caches getting hidden. They are always a fun cache to have. We have hidden two: Wheredoigonext and Brule Hatchery Pict-o-cache. Our two caches show two ways of presenting the pictures. You could put them up individually or put them in one image and upload that one. I personally think the first one is better.

Well that brings back a funny memory! I was caching in one of those "school forests" near a middle school and our final cache of the day was a micro in the woods. Took us awhile to find the cache but right next to it was a 6 inch tall action figure with a hole drilled in his chest and a travel bug attached. Turns out he had been marked as missing about a year earlier. He went missing again now. Hope someone else finds him resting near a film canister!

Oh that is low... One of my geocoins was missing for a year in the hands of a cacher. He then "dropped" it into a cache. The next person who found the cache said it wasn't there. Oh well. RIP.

Me, I hate it when a NM is posted, and the CO posts a note or even an OM that says "I'll check it this weekend", then nothing. Often for months. Those are the times I'll post a 2nd NM. BTW, I think you're being silly to complain about someone saying something perfectly reasonable even though you happen to find it redundant. It shouldn't be a surprise to learn that not everyone reads all the old logs before posting each and every find. I fully agree with the first half and I think that some reviewers would agree. As for the second I can agree. But I remember a cache of ours that got 3 or 4 needs maintenance logs within two weeks and that got annoying. Oh and the OP didn't say the pet peeves had to be logical!

Oh and one more owner pet peeve. CACHE OWNERS NOT ABIDING BY LOCAL PARKS GUIDELINES! There is a park near us that had a few guidlines. 1) 20 Cache limit in the Park 2) Had to have the park name in the cache name 3) Had to be less than 25 feet from a marked trail (not enforced well) 4) Had to be approved by the park To our knowledge it broke three out of these four. It might have gotten permission, but I wouldn't have thought so since it was the 21st cache in the park, didn't have the name of the park in the caches name, and didn't say on the page that it had gotten permission. I am just using this as an example where someone didn't seek out permission and thus took a spot that we would have taken had we decided to break guidelines. Oh well, the park has changed its guidelines now so caches have to be .25 apart (so we can't archive any of our old caches without losing the spot)!

Probably been said, but I HATE when cachers do not put caches back where they were meant to be hidden. We have one cache that we have found away from its spot say 20 - 30 times now. One time it was 50 feet from its spot! What part of Please replace as found! on the cache page says "put it back where you want to" for some people. I also hate when the finder thinks they know better than the cache owner. Some examples are when they say that this spot is not a good spot for a cache or that we hid it poorly when we have been getting nothing but compliments from others. I also hate when people post "Needs Maintenance" logs when there has already been a "Needs Maintenance" log on the cache page and we have posted that we will check on it. WE KNOW IT NEEDS MAINTENANCE ALREADY!!! You don't need to say it again!

On the line of what Gatoulis said, something random just popped into my head... Sorry for how corny it is! A small child whose "r's" sounded like "w's" and had very bad grammar. "Irish I could think of an Irish joke for the cointest."

Well it published without a hitch so it should be ok. We have given people a socializing option and made the cache finding optional. Thanks for the opinions. Oh, and sorry to the moderator for putting this in the wrong forum.

We have had all of the caches checked and they do fill all guidlines and we are not making it a requirement to find the caches. I know a lot of people just like the social events but there are plenty of those in our area (a couple per week most of the time.) We just wanted to put something out there for the overly competitive cachers. Oh and the only reason I said not to go off on that certain rabbit trail is because I read a forum the other day where someone didn't even try to answer the OP's question, they just said that they didn't like the idea since they just like events with socializing.

We have been planning an event for a couple of weeks now. One of the things we wanted to do is publish 5 new caches and people could find them at the event. Whoever comes back with all of the information from the cache would be entered into the drawing for the door prize. We haven't been told no yet but one reviewer got me worried (when we had them precheck the cache listings.) So I then went and checked the Guidelines myself and here is what the Event Guidelines said. The bold part is the part that puzzles me. Does this mean that we can't do the geocaching competition part of the event, or does this mean that we should have something else as an option for those who don't want to enter the competition. We have seen many events focused around finding a series of caches for competition. However, is that because they had other stuff going on or because this is a newer guideline (maybe?) Oh, and for those that don't like geocaching competitions and would like all events to just be social events, please don't start that conversation up here. I just want an interpretation of the Guidelines. Thanks for any and all help, Troutonthebrain

And sometimes micros can be fun if it is a special kind of cache say you have to fulfill a task to extract it or is camouflaged uniquely but I despise a film canister hidden boringly in a woods filled with ammo can sized holes in trees! The other kind of caches I hate are those that are hidden in an area with little cover that is surrounded by houses. You just never feel comfortable, especially when the cache owner didn't get permission. It also annoys me when a cache gets published in a county park where there are guidelines, they followed none of them, and yet they can still get published. It was annoying since we would have put a cache there otherwise.

We owned one of those dog poop caches where we lived. Someone said it went missing and we couldn't find it so we archived the cache. Fast forward a year and a half we went back to the spot to hide a new cache and found the dog poop! We published our new cache at the spot and hid the dog poop elsewhere. For some reason now somebody stole the dog poop part from the new geocache and left the container. Now why on earth would someone want fake dog poop. I will never know... Do the Dew II, right? I remember the original. I found it in my first few months of geocaching, and it really inspired me to do caches that go beyond simply hiding a container in a stump. No, sorry. I think I have heard about that cache though. You out geo-age us by awhile (you started in 2005 according to the profile and we started near the end of 2008 and we started hiding in 2009). Our first dog poop cache was GC1XAYG DIPO Dirty and the second was GC35N6Y Somebody Ate Something They Shouldn't Have!

We have had a lot of fun caching without a gps. A friend and I cleared out a local park (say 5 caches) by just looking at the size, container, local landmarks to see from in the woods, and the clue and found all of the caches. We also did the same on a recent trip to British Columbia when we had forgotten the gps back where we were staying. We found half of those. However, with how inaccurate our gps seems to be sometimes, it feels like we often are looking for caches without a gps!