J the Goat
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There are 33,000 McDonald's. If you ate 3 meals a day for just over 30 years, you'd have eaten at them all.OK....here is another perspective...Are you more likely to:
1) Eat at every McDonalds
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2) Find every cache
There are 1,740,710 active caches according to GC.com. To find all the caches out there in the same 30 year time frame, you'd need to find 159 caches a day for that same 30 years.
Consistently finding 159 caches in a day might be impossible, but so is your heart surviving 30 years of "McFood".
Think of all the swag that would come with that
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My g/f and I found our 1st cache on accident too. Had no idea what it was, except that it was most likely a bomb (lol). I spent 10 minutes using a tree branch trying to open an ammo can. That didnt work.
Finally I shook it and figured it was just loose items, so I opened it, read the sheet and learned what geocaching was.
I went straight home, made an account and logged the find.
Even traded swag :-)
:laughing: :laughing: I would have loved to see you trying to open that can. That's great 
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one of my caches is a little bit hard to find SMALL..
and I located an EMPTY AMMO box 2 meter from the real hide out.
inside the ammo lit is written very big : THIS IS NOT THE CACHE !!
you be amazed how many paper notes with logs I find in the WRONG container,
the hint, discription, size, diff, do NOT match the ammo..
when I delete peoples logs, I tell them nice and friendly.
if you did not find something that say : GEOCACHE
and written in its LOGBOOK, you did not find the cache,
it is that simple, the idea with my cache is simply to educate people :-)
Not always true, only one of my caches has a sticker on it that identifies it as a geocache. I should label them, but I generally dont.
The idea of throwdowns is funny to me. Funny in a shake my head and facepalm sort of way usually...
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Harry Dolphin has named the bears that like to chew on his caches. It's pretty funny to read some of his cache logs. I've never had one chewed on, but it's pretty common.
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Yesterday, I got a notifications of a just published caches. Made a mad dash out the door and had the gps locked and loaded. While driving (the hubs was driving) to the caches I realized that they were placed on a large university campus. I was reading on FB and discovered that the campus was on lockdown due to a gunman on campus. Having the kids with us and not feeling like dying we turned around and went home about 6 miles from the campus. I wrote a note on one of the log sheets about heading down there then realizing about the gunman we turned around. Hoping that other cachers would heed the warning and wait till all was clear. Apperently, that didn't stop two people for going after it. This college campus is huge and it is possible that the caches (there were 2 of them) were on the opposite end of the campus. But to me it just didn't make sense to risk it. Still can't believe that people would put their lives in danger for a FTF.
It seems to me that it is always the person that didn't get the FTF complaining about ones that did for whatever reason, with lots of details left out of the post, and we here are trying to wade through the situation, to really find out what happened. There are always 2 sides to the story, we are only hearing one.
You turned around you made the choice to not go after the FTF so live with it. If NOT getting the FTF bothers you that much, that you have to come on a forum and complain about it, looking for sympathy I would suggest that you find a different facet of the Geocaching game that does not get you so upset. If you can't handle heat stay away from the fire. JMO
Failed comprehension?
No where in that post did anyone express displeasure for not getting a FTF. They were expressing their surprise that someone would risk a confrontation with a gunman simply to get a FTF.
I find it hard to believe that you still haven't figured out that not everyone shares your compulsion for FTFs. Instead of actually reading the words in the message, you simply wrote it off as another complaint about FTF'ers and responded as expected.
This exactly.
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Here is my latest creation:
That really is cool. I'm jealous.
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I'd log the locations. Maybe the containers were switched, or mislabled in the first place. Or maybe not, but you don't know either way. Log the locations and NM logs and call it a day
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Meanwhile, I have progressed with my concrete base experiment:
By ohiosiouxfan at 2012-04-28
By ohiosiouxfan at 2012-04-28
By ohiosiouxfan at 2012-04-28
By ohiosiouxfan at 2012-04-28
Very nice
Now you just have to find a way to lug that thing 2 miles up a mountain. Where does that ammo can go?
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I doubt there is any reviewer that would let a cache be published that was undeniably, not to mention stupidly dangerous be published, things like, ... "Cache is hidden in a rattlesnake den"
I would approach these examples as situations where it wouldn't be reasonable to assume that adequate permission is in place - NOT as an issue of safety. In the rattlesnake den example, it's well known that front yard caches need permission because it's private property. I would only publish after being assured that the rattlesnakes have given permission.
:laughing: :laughing: Thanks Keystone, next to my coffee that's exactly what I needed this morning.
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A friend sent me a note saying that he had to take down a bunch of hides that employed the typical chain link fence cap and pill fob glued inside. He asked me if there was some change that made these impermissable under the "defacement" guidelines. I knew of nothing and so I told him. This is a fairly common hide technique in this areaand I was wondering if there was something new that disallowed them.
Also, the over the branch on a sting cache hide technique was outlawed as he used a screw eye into the tree to tie off the string. Also under defacement guideline.
Any thoughts, other than the one I gave him that the Reviewer just doesn't like him ?
I'd be willing to bet the reviewer had no opinion on your friend either way, and that suggestion seems a bit out of line.
As far as a screw in the tree, to my knowledge that's never been okay. I think I've heard of caches being archived for things like that in the past, as it should be. There are other ways to secure caches to trees.
If I get the gist of your post, your friend had fence post caches archived by a reviewer based on the new defacement wording that were glued inside fencepost caps? That's an interesting interpretation, one I hadn't thought of with the new update. It doesn't matter to me much either way, as I don't hide caches like that and don't actively search for them either, but I can see where it's going to twist up a whole department store section full of knickers if it's enforced on a large scale.
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I'm actually going to agree (on some level) with the OP. Homeless encampments have no business being cache locations for a multitude of reasons. I know, if you don't feel comfortable don't look. Some places just aren't appropriate for caches either way. The area may have changed over time, changing the location from a spot that's alright for a cache to a spot that isn't. You have two courses of action, neither of which will gaurentee any action. Notify the CO and suggest the issues that have arisen make the area a bad one for a cache. The other one is an NA log to alert the reviewer, however if the cache still fits within the guidelines I'd be surprised of a reviewer will do much about it. (That's not meant to sound as if they should and they wont)
Unfortunately, caches end up places they shouldn't. The NM log you posted will alert people in the future about the issues with the cache and will allow them to make their own decisions about hunting the cache.
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did you drive around and see if there is anything interesting in the small town? statue? neat tree? river? pond?
This.
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My absolute least favorite is when people call me on the phone 3.6 seconds after sending me an email, starting the conversation with "did you read my email!?!?!!!!")
My big one is the people who don't answer when I call their cell phone but when I send a text immediately afterwards (leaving a message of sorts) they text me right back. On occasion it's situation appropriate, but I have friends who just won't answer their phones. Drives me nuts.
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I know that guy personally, and trust me, he's a really nice guy.
That may be, but he smells bad and sweats a lot.
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If you have the ability to borrow a dedicated GPSr, I'd go that route. Battery life is better, and you can see if it's a model you like.
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Very nice hat, but who would wear it on the trail? My trail hats end up wet, muddy, salt and very used looking. This looks like a hat to wear to an event.
Ya, my caching hat is pretty gross.
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Hey All...
Hoping you can help me out. We had basic membership the last few months... and I downloaded many many geocaches in my area. Now I have gotten them premium membership. To have all of those geocaches display the descriptions and hints do I need to re-download them in to my Magellan? Or is there a way to snyc my computer account with my device and not go through them individually!?
Along the same lines.... when I clicked that we found a cache on my device it didnt show up on my computer account when I connected the device to my computer!?
What am I missing??????
THANK YOU for any help!
Tara
Having the information on the Magellan will depend on which model you have. I don't know anything about Magellan, so I don't know which ones will display the information, sorry.
As far as the finds showing up on the website when you connect the device to the computer, as far as I know there isn't a functionality that allows you to do that. You still have to log the caches seperately. If I'm wrong, I'm sure somebody will pipe up and letcha know. Welcome to the addiction
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Oh, and I didn't mean to ignore the OP, that's quite the vehicle to use for some caching. I've got one or two they might be able to do that with, do they take requests?
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I had a cache that was (probably the first and only cache) found by hot-air balloon.
It was intended as a rock-climbing cache, but one of our locals is also a balloon pilot, and since nobody had claimed the FTF, he decided he was going to do it in his balloon.
Way to go Scott!
That's a tremendous picture. Looks like a great cache, too bad it had to go.
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I made one of these as a give-away at one of our local events in a different color and got a custom order from one of the attendees. You will definitely be able to see her out on the trails!
That is very cool! It also looks way too small for my giant, fat head
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10. New "Event Cache Logging Guidelines":
An event cache can be logged online if the cacher has attended the event. Event cache owners can request that cachers sign a logbook, but this is optional and cannot be a requirement for logging an event cache.This is just plain wrong.
According to this, any jacktard can claim an attended on any event.
Period.
No need to sign the logbook as proof of attendance? Redonkulous!
'Oh, I came in through the back door and I was only there for five minutes 'cause I had to go see me mum in hospital. I guess you didn't notice I was there, but I was!'
I agree, the event log was essentially the only requirement before, now that that's gone there's no way to keep anyone from logging any event cache they decide want to say they attended. Is there a reason for this?
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I believe Coldgears and Ambient Skater are under 18 years old and do a lot of caching. They are forum regulars. You might want to ask them how they do it.
FYI, for the kids out there - you need parental supervision to use the GC site. Here's what the GC Terms of Use site says:
By using the Site, you represent and warrant that you are 18 years of age or older, or under the supervision of your parent or legal guardian. If we believe that you are under 18 years of age and not under the supervision of your parent or legal guardian, please be advised that your account may be terminated without warning.
I was thinking the same thing about those guys, they'll have good advice on how to get around a bit. I think CG is NJ actually, or near there.
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If you didn't find it and you think it was missing or destroyed
Posting a 'NM' because you think a cache is missing is (IMO) not the thing to do. You should post a 'DNF' and note in that log that you think it may be missing.
Actually finding pieces of an apparent cache is a different story.
If you read the rest of that post, it makes more sense. If there's construction or a signigicant obvious change to GZ, a quick search if possible is fine, but there's nothing wrong with a NM log just to let the CO know that something may have changed with their GZ.
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There's a trip planned this weekend to capture it back to our side of the state.
That's really cool!
I picked one up that wanted it's picture taken with food. A surfboard that wanted to visit surf spots around the world.
On a side note, one of my generic goal TB's made it to and had it's picture taken at the Super Bowl, I thought that was a pretty cool photo for a TB to get randomly.
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Rating system
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As I was toasting my bagels for breakfast this morning, a thought occurred to me. I'll start by making it very clear that this is not a complaint, suggestion, or anything that causes me any sort of angst, I was just curious.
Does anyone know why we use 5 star ratings with half stars instead of a 10 star rating system without half stars? Anyone know the official reasons? Want to speculate?
I think that if there were a 10 star system, you'd get people asking for a rating between 3 and 4, even though essentially that would be like asking for a rating between 3 and 3.5 right now.
I dunno, just struck me as interesting this morning.