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It's being done here in States as well. There is a local challenge where you have to find the five D/T combos on the matching calendar date (i.e. a 1/1 on Jan 1st - 1/5 on Jan 5th). So, what does someone do? They list an event on May 1st, rated 5/1 (a 5 difficulty event in a park?!?!?!). It's all devolved into silliness. [Edit: typos]

That sounds interesting. GC code? I wanted to look at it to see how you'd actually verify something like that? Meanwhile, I wonder if there's a good reason that Found It log entries don't embed the D/T rating as it was when the log was created. I think this was requested awhile back but I gave up grappling with the nerfed forum search feature. Ten years and two historical floods later, there are some river-side caches in my area that are definitely different terrain than they had been when they were originally placed. It is good that owners are allowed to change this, because the earth does change. I kind of like the idea of embedding your D/T with your log, or at least making it a permanent log "9/15/2011 D/T rating changed from xxxx to xxxy due to cataclysmic natural events." If two floods wipe out not only the cache, but the whole area surrounding it wouldn't it make more sense to create a new listing? But what if the listing date is one of those rare old dates people need for a challenge? If you arachive it, you cheat people out of a cache hidden on that particular date.

The D/T grid is not a side game, it's on your stats page. Yes, it's on your stats page. Wanting to fill it in is a side game.

And they would be correct, of course. And it's something I would do. There's a rails-to-trails bikepath that goes from Brattleboro, VT to Keene, NH (~26 miles long). There are 100 or so caches (I don't have the exact count). I would like to bike it one day, and would skip most of the caches, maybe stopping every one to two miles.

If it shows up as a big boring line of caches every 1/10 of a mile apart along a trail, it's a powertrail and something I'd prefer to remove from my PQs. I'd be way less cranky about the whole issue if I could just filter them out. They are not remotely the same at all. the only similarity is proximity to each other, noting else. I disagree. Whether it's 1000 geocaches 528' a apart or several 50-60 cache mini power trails, both promote the notion of quantity over quality. Personally, I'd rather see a handful of 500+ cache power trails out in the middle of nowhere then the proliferation of 50-60 caches trails that are becoming commonplace in smaller cities all over the U.S. and Europe. To me, proximity is not the issue as much as monotony. To me, stoppng every 528' on a nice scenic trail, regardless of cache size, is monotony. [Edit to correct nesting]

We've done the same thing. Cache in other states is great, but meeting the locals is even better.

Groundspeak seem to think it's a game too - http://www.geocaching.com/guide/default.aspx Then what rules are broken in any of Oxford Stone's examples, to qualify them as "cheating"? None of Groundspeak's that I can see - but then we already covered the fact that behaviour being considered cheating did not actually require the breaking of written rules earlier in the thread. Well, then I guess *I* don't considering all of those cases cheating.

Groundspeak seem to think it's a game too - http://www.geocaching.com/guide/default.aspx Then what rules are broken in any of Oxford Stone's examples, to qualify them as "cheating"?

And the practice could actually keep the Traveler from reaching its goal.

+1

And either way, I've learned not to worry about it too much.

How about if none of them had actually solved it? Depends. Was it a case of PAF? If so, then see: If someone figured out where it was some other way, "Oh well". I guess I didn't make the puzzle hard enough.

While a CO might choose to interpret it that way, that's not the only possible conclusion. We can't read minds. It's unfortunate when a CO chooses to view this in the most negative way possible, but it is a choice. As a CO, I have no problem with a group of people going out together for one of my puzzles, when only some of them have actually solved it. (Not much I can do about it anyway) I don't like it when folks contact each other with the query - "Can you give me the solution?". Not much I can do about that either, but I would rather have them contact me for a nudge or a hint than PAF for the solution.

While living in the Pax River area of Maryland, we used to go up to Calvert Cliffs area and look for fossilized sharks teeth. We never foudn the jumbo sized megaladon teeth, but found hundreds of small fossilized shark teeth, stingray teeth plates, bone bits, crab claws and turtle plates. All very cool.

I stand corrected. Project-GC does list all five counties.

By the way, it still only looks like 4 Counties on the project GC Map. Is that little finger of land where Bristol is it's own County? I could look this all up of course, but why not keep the thead going. Project GC is wrong. Yes, that finger of land is Bristol County. The others are Providence, Kent, Washington and Newport.

Five counties in Rhode Island (and there is a county challenge). I plotted a 45 minute route through all five, and if you are selective, you can do it in 1-1/2 to 2 hours, easy.

Two sources that refute this: Source 1 Source 2

If I coudl make some suggestions: Kubota Gardens Kerry Viewpoint Park Top Pot Donuts The Space Needle (especially if the weather is clear and sunny)

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Yep. Not enough to be 'obvious' especially on a phone... Maybe a blue shaded diamond (square background rotated 45 degrees).

Disabled are gray (see pic above your post - the gray icon is on the right side near the park).

Here's one I held in RI...we all conga'ed in the center of Newport.

Maybe in Ibar's concept, but I don't see it as an issue for a "two country cooperative" cache. (Edit: correct the sentence to read as I meant it to) Yeah, you could certainly have a link to the other cache on the cache page and set them up in some way to be related, but I don't think you can insist that people log it in a particular way. Which mine doesn't.

Maybe in Ibar's concept, but I don't see it as an issue for a "two country cooperative" cache. (Edit: correct the sentence to read as I meant it to)