penwith pirates

I was looking for a GSAK macro for something else when I noticed this one for translating. Might be worth giving it a try - assuming you are using GSAK of course. does this allow you to save the translated information to your GPSr?

Well the comments are as expected. This is not totally a serious list but maybe a list you can find some caches that will challenge you or you can be the 'nah nah nah nah nah' for those that cant find them. But I would love to find some challenging caches when I am on holiday and not just go for the numbers. So thank you for adding your nemesis caches and the more the better Karl - Penwith Pirates

Oooh, which one is that...? clicky I swear I get some kind of personal 'stooooopid' filter applied when I get within 50ft, note the difficulty I have added this one to the list

Hi I am making a bookmark list of Nemesis caches. We all have those that take multi visits and become a nemesis to the caching group. please message me with the gc code and why you think it should be added to the list best wishes Karl

Hi I have noticed that a PQ for france contains all the descriptions in french. Is there any software / GASK add on that will automatically translate the file to english?

the constructive email would tell you the problem and where there could be a solution but not a rant on the log

hi I have been a running a thread about negative comments on newbie cache logs and this came up so I would love to hear your ideas on what makes a good cache as this could be useful to newbie cachers here is my ideas good size containers on trad caches interesting places or walks that are in lovely areas that are missed generally by the public micros are ok on multi or series caches as long as the end cache is a good size container challenging hides, not just a 2 second hint ok over to you karl (penwith pirates)

[rant mode = ON] That's OK as far as it goes but remember that a log written on a cache page is not just for the cache owner... it's also there for future cache seekers to read and glean information about a cache so that they may make in informed judgement on whether or not to go and look for it. Tell things as they are. There's absolutely no point in writing "Great location, terrific cache. Thanks for placing it." if it's a soggy micro in a rubbish strewn hedgerow and you hated it. Sending a PM or email to the cache owner is of no use to future seekers who will never get to read it. State in you log... "This is a crap cache in a rubbish dump. Don't bother coming to look for it." If the cache owner get the hump and never places another cache... so what??. His/her crap caches aren't going to be missed with two or three hundred more coming on line every week and it's the only way that we're going to reverse the decline in cache quality that everyone talks about and nobody does anything about. If people were less sensitive and more truthful in what they write in their logs, maybe we'll start getting better quality caches hidden. [rant mode = OFF] I accept your point, but maybe a more polite log entry like' some problems with this location will contact the owner' and then a constructive email to the owner would be better?

I think this really sums up this thread 'No point being negative in a log, just give you experience and send a PM to the owner with positive advise to improve their listing and cache' but it seems that a number of cachers are more interested in finding them and not helping

maybe there is a bookmark list for the caches in the area that will help, or maybe start one?

I've been a member for seven and a half years, have less than 100 finds and can't remember when I found my last cache. Reasons for me stopping for so long include: - starting a family - busier job - degradation of cache quality and dawning realisation that some caches are in fact little more than litter - interest in other things - broken GPSr which I haven't got round to replacing - changing attitudes of cachers to numbers-based activity instead of the discovery of interesting places I haven't got round to starting again yet. I agree caching should not just be a numbers game or even a FTF game. It should be interesting places or locations you would have never know were there. We have been caching for a few months and have found some very interesting place thanks to the hobby. It's about getting out there, seeing what is in your local area and sharing with other people via a cache. Not who has done the most, who is nearing there X 1000. but who his found the most interesting places or had enjoyable days.

I don't think it was meant that way but it sums it up for me. Too many people seem in too much of a hurry to make the transition from new finder to new hider and their inexperience shows up leading to negative logs. The worst example of a first cache we've found was from someone with zero finds when they hid it. We got a lot of stick (which almost prompted us to jack it all in - but that's another thread) about waiting until we had way over 50 finds before placing our first cache but so far none of our albeit small number of hides has had a negative log. We're still learning how to hide/how not to hide a cache with every find. Encourage new cachers, yes. Encourage them to wait a while before placing their first cache, YES. MBF I agree that you should not rush into hiding your first cache but if another experienced cacher took a newbie under their wing with some good ideas and pointed out problems it would help. It is not the inexperience of the new cacher but the harshness of the log entries. Surely a polite email offering help is far better than a scathing comment about gps co-ordinated which have then found to be spot on by other cachers?

it's up to other cachers to not log these if they think they are dangerous and mention it to the cacher so he moves them if he wants to get logs

I am not adversed to criticism, but politeness has seemed to have been lost

I have seen coords off by even up to 30 or 40 feet. we started caching without gps. I think sometimes people expect the gps to do the work for them and not using their eyes and common sense

I agree, also it's ok playing the go, find, log but after a while you need new challenges. We have 13 out at the moment all with some different twists to them. I look for caches with loads of DNF's. They become a challenge to find them. Maybe we just need to think what sort of cache we would like to find that would be more interesting to keep people involved.

Hi I have noticed that some of the geocaching community can be very harsh on their logs when the co-ords are out or they have a DNF on a new cache. They don't look to see if this is the persons first cache and could do with some encouragement and assistance. Surely as a community that relies on new cachers to hide caches to give us something to find we should encourage them. Some of the logs i have seen could put off a new hider completely. remember if someone does not hide we don't have a hobby anymore. Karl (penwith pirates)