Troutonthebrain
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I agree with pretty much everything that has been said. I have one travel bug who is in a competition to be in the hands of and to be discovered by as many cachers as possible by a certain date. I have a list of all of the people who have discovered/picked it up on the cache page and for the people who picked it up I recorded how many miles they brought the travel bug. One guy (I think he was a trucker) added 314 or so "visited" logs and those were just a pain to add all of the miles together!
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Ok, so MAYBE this is a little extreme and MAYBE this breaks the guidelines a bit, but we love how hard this cacher worked to find our 1 on difficulty cache that had upgraded itself.
Log Date: 6/25/2012I ended up with the same situation as the previous cacher. The container had been pushed past the bolt that goes through the sign. Now the cache could just barely be touched with a fingertip. Hmmm? What now? Give up? HA!! Back to the car for some tools. Got my workman's vest on and went back to gz. Tried a 6 inch tweezers...no good. Tried my tire iron, but that missed the container. Hmmm? I felt comfortable working on the sign with my workman vest on, so I carried on and used one of my tools to take the nut off of the bolt. AHA! The bottom of the sign popped up and there was the cache! Removed the container and re-assembled the sign. Signed the log and put the container where it can be easily accessed. Mission accomplished. TFTCSL See picture of me with my vest. I love a challenge!
P.S. He wasn't making this up. He actually disassembled the sign to get the cache (and put it back together again.)
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And now I saved the html code of my profile to my computer!
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There are also a lot of people that hide a ton and don't find as many. I guess people will enjoy the parts of the game they will want to enjoy. It doesn't bother me one bit.
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JoergWausW That is really cool! I like the simplicity of it. If cachers pitched in information it could be a really cool site.
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Sorry, I should have put a quote with it. I was talking about the person that posted previous of me, and now that I look at it he just got 19 coins or so. There has been much worse. I guess the double change of timezones clouded my mind up!
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Someone has the obsession...
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I guess I spoke too soon. I did get a coin in the mail today.
Mirpets Tree Geocoin: Spring Edition
When we were at Groundspeak HQ I bought two geocoins also...
Lackeys 2010 geocoin (this thing is a 2.25 inch coin, which looks huge in one's hand!)
And a Groundspeak HQ Log the Lillypad geocoin, which I can't seam to find a picture of and I don't feel like taking one right now.
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Ok, so it wasn't in the mail box, but it was a geocoin and it made my day. We went to Groundspeak HQ and I grabbed three trackables and left some. I grabbed a geocoin and when I got home, geocaching.com told me that it was unactivated. I went through the list of tbs in Groundspeak HQ and I did not see any of this kind of geocoin there. It didn't have a mission attached either and it had activation information. Correct me if I am wrong though.
Here is the coin...
I can't tell what metal the coin in the picture is but the one in my hands is gold with the the dragon on the back being silver/nickel.
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Looks like I have no chance. We are on a mac so gsak doesn't work. I may be able to get it with a lot of work through pocket queries.
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Also take a look at the "attributes" section on cache pages. Some cache owners don't take the time to fill these in well, but there is a "kid friendly" attribute:
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This is for 10000 found it logs, not accounts. I would need more help introducing me to GSAK. I don't know it well since our old computer was not compatible with it and we just upgraded.
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Thanks so much for the great responses. I will put some thought over what was said. I have a few design drawn up, I just have to figure out which one I love and not make it too cheesy!
Thanks Again!
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I have to admit I was at my brother's BBQ this weekend ogling his new evergreen bushes. He wouldn't agree to move them to the front yard!
Funny! Our neighbor wasn't fond of people looking through his either!
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Oh, and don't even get me started on geocoin addictions!
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Basically every piece of plastic or wood in our house has, at some point, been looked at by one of the cachers in our family who wondered "what kind of cache could I turn that into?" We have also turned into the family recycling police. - "Hey Craig, how's it going? ARE YOU DONE WITH THOSE PRETZELS!!!!! COULD WE HAVE THE CONTAINER! .... um .... please?"
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Is there a way to view all of the "found it" logs that have ever been logged on our caches. I am trying to figure this out for my caching partner under whose name we have 129 caches hidden. I had been keeping track of how many finds have been logged on his caches and we were going to give a prize to the 10000th logger. The problem? I found a way to majorly miss count. Not by just like 50 logs or so. We have now had 10368 finds logged on his caches. So, is there a way to view all of the found it logs logged onto his caches in the order that they were logged? It did not sound like something that would be possible, but I thought I would ask.
Thanks for any responses
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Multiple TB's, a geocoin maybe? I don't really know.
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There was one really smart guy in our area who, a couple years ago, decided he wanted a challenge. He began brute forcing un-published caches. I have no idea how he did this but he found one of ours about a week before it was published. I don't mind it sometimes, as long as it is not a tribute to someone else or is a cache we wanted a group to find during an event. He also gets fun out of brute forcing puzzles and the final stage of multis. Whatever floats your boat I guess. I would never be able to figure that much out.
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Personally, at least in my area, I think that a unique location is becoming hard to find. Space is filling up and many of the best locations are long gone. Now the trick is getting fun caches in a high density of muggle area!
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I have a heat laminator and it is great! Haven't had a tag fail on me yet, but my Tb's have not been embracing the "live long and prosper" memo as of late!
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Is a heat laminator an actual machine or do you use heat (like an iron) to set it?
Mine is a machine, but I bet an iron would work the same way. Mine is a little box that looks like the picture below. One plugs it into a wall outlet and lets it heat up. The package come with plastic sleeves and you can buy refills. Whatever is going to be laminated goes into the plastic sleeves and then is fed through the machine. The plastic stuff melts and hardens leaving a hard laminated coat over the tag. It works well and protects the tag nicely. Mine was about $20 at a normal retail store. They also are sold at craft stores, I think.
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I have a heat laminator and it is great! Haven't had a tag fail on me yet, but my Tb's have not been embracing the "live long and prosper" memo as of late!
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Hello Fellow Geocachers,
My husband and I love this. We have been doing it for just a year now and have just hit 127 finds..we took time off. Our 7 year old Autistic son is really loving it as well.
With that being said, I have some basic TB questions because we just went on a road trip from Texas to California and ran across our first TB's and there were a lot of them!!!
1- How many does a geocacher take? For instance we were in Paradise, CA and there were 4 TB's sitting in a cache for over 6 months. So we took 2 each...we only did that because of the length of time they had been sitting there. Is it proper to only take one per registered geocacher?
2-Getting ready to place our first TB's we just bought. Do we have to create our own cache to place it in? We have yet to hide any, kind of do not feel "qualified" yet
3- WHY is it that people do not log that they retrieved a trackable from inventory??? We went to dozens of caches and they all supposedly had anywhere from 1 to 3 TB's and there were none. It makes me mad
I guess if that is all I have to worry about I am ok Thanks in advance. I ask all these to help others as well. I do not want to mess anything up for anyone.
Aneedleinahaystack
aka Brenda
I may as well answer first while I am on.
1. The rule used to be "trade even trade up", which I liked. Since Groundspeak abolished that anything goes basically. Since they were in the cache for that long, if I were the trackable owner, I would have wanted you to move mine.
2. You wouldn't have to hide your own. Find a nice secure cache to put them in (In my experience, new caches can be good since the active cachers will find them first, but there is also the chance that the cache is not in a good spot and may get muggles since it has not been tried much) and they will move.
3. People are people and do dumb things sometimes. Maybe they didn't get the chance to log it. Maybe they lost it. Maybe there are odd ball people out there that have collections of stuffed animals with tags on them and pieces of paper with them that have big red letters that say DO NOT KEEP ME!
If you want to drown in answers to this question just go back to the Travel Bug forum and scroll down the page (lots and lots of "Travel Bug Thieves", "Travel Bug Hoarder", or "Someone took by bug and won't give it back" )Anyhow, hope no one gets upset with you about this. I personally think you did the right thing.
P.S. I love your username!
Glad you found some trackables since in my area it seams like finding trackables in caches is becoming a search for a needle in a haystack! 
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I don't know about everyone else, but it sounds like earthcaches are looking down the Waymarking trail.
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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...