BBWolf+3Pigs
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Sigh. Just ... sigh.
If a cacher posts "TFTC", some cache owners will complain that they aren't composing a thoughtful log. But if a cacher posts a long, detailed log, other cache owners will complain that the long logs are hard to scroll past when looking at the cache entry out in the field.
If a cacher posts a cut-and-paste log, some cache owners will complain about lack of originality. But if a cacher takes the time to compose a unique log for every find, other cache owners will complain that the cacher is taking too long to post their finds.
Last time I checked, there were exactly three rules to this game: trade even-or-better, sign the logbook, and log the find online.
All we ask is that finders post a meaningful log that addresses the cache owner's cache. Something that says, 'Yes, I was there and I saw your cache'. Could be short or long, but make it meaningful and sincere.
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I'll second what gpsfun stated.
October is not a crazy time in RI, so you should be able to get some decent hotel rates in the Warwick, Newport or Providence area. If you head further North in New England you start competing with Leaf Peepers for hotels.
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When I am out caching with a group of friends, we usually sign with a group name (usually we try to come up with a very humorous name). However, are all together looking for the cache, and do not split up.
What is described in the OP is tacky.
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They are a delusion of the cacher that they are helping the cache owner. Because we all would love to have our missing caches replaced with a film canister.
In an email to the CO of the oldest cache in the state:
"We replaced the missing cache to help the CO maintain their cache"
(On a cache that has never been disabled for more than a couple of days. Not sure the CO needs any help.)
In the same email...
"We were in the area trying to find the oldest cache in your state so we can complete the 'Oldest Challenge Cache' in our area."
(Aahhhh..the truth comes out. You replaced it so you wouldn't have to come back and truly find it another time.)
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Found itIn view of no logs here for two years, have to assume it to be missing after giving the area a good search. Also I see the owner has not been active since 2010 so I replaced this hide as per the description. Co-ords maybe slightly off. Hope this is good with the owner. Signed log. TFTC.
By someone who has over 7500 finds
It's all about the numbers. Or a Challenge cache they are chasing.
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The commercial guideline prohibits business names in cache pages (point 5), however the Event guideline grants an exception, "owners can include basic information about the location on the geocache page, even if it is a commercial location." In practice, this means you can provide name of a commercial venue, be it restaurant, bowling alley, whatever.
Or you could just publish the coordinates for a parking lot and increase the difficulty rating.
I like that idea, especially if there are several restaurants in the shopping plaza. Keep 'em guessing!
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Hm, I must have a bad reaction to nettles, then. It's definitely much worse than a mosquito bite. I swell up quite a bit and it's very painful for a fair amount of time.
I think it also depends on the mosquito bite (and on the type of nettles too). Sometimes I end up with mosquito bites which are much more painful and where the swelling is very well visible for several days.
And, of course, mosquitos can carry malaria or dengue fever.
Or Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE).
From The CDCP: "EEE is one of the most severe mosquito-transmitted diseases in the United States with approximately 33% mortality and significant brain damage in most survivors."
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If I try to be stealth, I look really bad and it really get people attention! Especially when I am caching alone and being a male does work against me! Park area are the worse for a male thats caching alone.
Agreed. If I do a lamp post cache, I don't try to be "covert". I go up to the lamp post, lift the skirt and grab the cache. I try to look like I belong there, vice try to be sneaky.
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So, I bring up a subject and say my piece and then get told the problem is me.
It is getting harder and harder to place caches. The amount of hoops one now must jump through is making it very difficult for anyone to do anything out of the ordinary. It is almost like we can play, but only in the little sandbox, for which we're given.
Honestly, who the heck is going to sue the reviewers or GC in general? There are caches on the side of cliffs! If someone falls while trying to get it, whose fault is that?
It is exactly what I said up front, it sure seems like the reviewers are more and more like over-eager Home Owner Association board members. They want everything to be, look, and act the same. Some of the answers above seem to back this up.
The latest I got on a cache I just tried to publish is I now must go get the county's permission to place a cache on a county right of way. Like the county gives a hoot what is there. All this craziness is for, is to make it so difficult to do something out of the ordinary, that one simply says screw it and drops it all together. How is that good for the community?? What about the old phone booth caches? Would those now need the permission of the phone company to place them? Yes it is equivalent to this. I don't get it, obviously.
How hard is it to phone the county and ask?
Who at the county are you going to ask for permission to hide a geocache on a right-of-way? Who has the authority to give that permission?
And that's why I won't hides on Rights of Way.
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Whereas really poisonous plants can cause harm to people not aware of them, especially children that come along. Here also smaller children often are allowed to run far ahead and then wait at the cache. Knowing that deadly nightshade with berries waits there helps parents.
Stinging nettles could also cause harm to children. It isn't ridiculous to mention them. It isn't ridiculous to mention berries, if you think they could be an issue.
It isn't ridiculous to make your best judgment call on when to use the attribute.
It is ridiculous to tell other people it is ridiculous to use an attribute for the very thing it is meant to be used for.
Stinging nettles are simply a very temporary irritant, not a poison, and they cause less harm than a mosquito bite. Learn what Jewelweed is and you will have an almost instant antidote that frequently grows nearby.
So what plants do you consider poisonous?
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I disagree with #6. If there is a problem with the cache, the owner and those looking for it need to know. I've run into a few caches that were some distance from their published coords (over 200' in one case). I've also done a couple near poison ivy and stinging nettles that should have the "poisonous plants" attribute.
200' is one thing. But I've seen complaints that they were 10' off. Really?!
Sometimes they're not complaints. Just factual information that may help the next finder. These days with apps and crappy new garmins (I had a lemon of a 62s) it does help to read if someone else was off and by how much.
10' error is noise. Especially when you consider the hider's unit could be off by 10' and the finder's unit can be off by as much as 10'. It should be expected that the container could be 10' from where your receiver says it is.
I think there are people that just don't know how the GPS system works and what the limitations are.
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I disagree with #6. If there is a problem with the cache, the owner and those looking for it need to know. I've run into a few caches that were some distance from their published coords (over 200' in one case). I've also done a couple near poison ivy and stinging nettles that should have the "poisonous plants" attribute.
200' is one thing. But I've seen complaints that they were 10' off. Really?!
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There are several Facebook groups for New England. Or are you looking for something more forum.
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Groundspeak needs to stop publishing power trails. They are giving caching a bad name.
As I've been saying since the first power trails started appearing, no good would come out of taking a low impact, low visibility activity and turning it into a high impact, high visibility one. And that's precisely what these PTs and most of the "geo art" have done.
I was pretty much a voice in the wilderness in the beginning. Glad to see that more and more people are starting see this nonsense for what it is, a threat to the long term viability of our game. We're already seeing the fallout from power caching in NJ with a new, draconian state parks policy and a total ban on some state lands.
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Or...
Get one of those 'talking picture frames' for about $5 at Radio Shack. It's the same idea, but you get to record the message!
BTW, great idea!
RS also sells mini recordable modules. I actually placed one inside a gutted "Easy Button" from staples. It spoke the coords to the final stage. Cache was of course called "That was easy".
(Edit: added link)
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Use a soda bottle preform, with a wire tether, attached to a suitable weight (brick, concrete block etc.) If it tethered such that the opening is kept facign down, water leakage should not be a problem.
I have used preform for several underwater caches with no issue.
You could use rite-rain paper for extra safety.
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Even if you wanted to get a DAGR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Advanced_GPS_Receiver You would not want to pay $1832 for one.
The first GPS I ever used (before 2000) cost the state of PA $5000. It had a full rubberized keyboard and weighed 3.5 lb. I took waypoints for 3 3 minute sessions and then used correction software on the computer (differential correction) to get the spot within 2 feet (most of the time). The Corvallis Microtechnology MC-GPS had a rechargeable battery and we always carried a spare charged battery.
And even if you had a DAGR, you'll still need crypto keys to get the added accuracy.
(Edit: typo)
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(It's nice to see a useful thread getting hijacked)
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What you guys think of an in house achievement system thats set by GS only. We can give them ideas.
I can see padding/cheating to get those achievements but let them cheat because they will stand out like a sore thumb.
The best reward is a smiley count.
I've suggested this in the past.
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1) Have Fun.
2) At least one cache per state/province. Don't feel like you have to do dozens and dozens of caches. Try to find caches with history, great views, clever hides, etc.
3) Eat & drink at great local restaurants/pubs.
4) Try to meet the locals. Post in local forums or FB groups of your plans. Look for local events.
5) Have Fun (even if that means skipping 2, 3 or and/or 4)
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Deselecting the checkbox will only turn off the email notification; people will still be able to send you a message through the MC
So in this case I may have messages stacking up and people getting annoyed I am not responding. Couldn't you disable the ability for people to message me (if I opted out of receiving Message Center emails) so they know I won't be seeing the messages?
Any response from the lackeys on this?
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1) I would like copy message to my mail from this message center which I send, as the old messaging system. Can I do it? If not, why?
2) Why isn't text of message in notifications mail? I have to go to new message center to know whether the message is important. May you send message with notification mail as old system? If not, why?
3) I would like send answer to message from another geocacher directly through email as old messaging system, when he didn't check "do not send email". When I have to go from email to www.geocaching.com - it is for me complicated. And for server geocaching.com it's higher load (when for answer we have to go to server), when now (in last week) it goes so slowly...
4) I would like send notifications of all answers, not only about some messages.
How long will be messages on server? And how can we find between messages? Will be some finding tools? When I will after year look for something... Between my mail I can find by text long time ago...
This input underscores the bottom line for me: all of these requests are asking for things to make the new message feature almost as good as the existing e-mail feature.
The one improvement I can see -- attaching pictures -- would be even more useful on the existing e-mail feature. And I'd much prefer they spend their time adding the ability to CC other geocachers in the existing e-mail feature rather than waste time implementing a group messaging feature, especially since I expect most people to ignore yet another messaging facility tacked on to a side of a web site they use.
Agreed.
It appears they are trying to cater to the smartphone users who don't have email addresses registered with GC.com. So now the rest of us (who have been around for years) have more overhead to worry about.
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Deselecting the checkbox will only turn off the email notification; people will still be able to send you a message through the MC
So in this case I may have messages stacking up and people getting annoyed I am not responding. Couldn't you disable the ability for people to message me (if I opted out of receiving Message Center emails) so they know I won't be seeing the messages?
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Gripes:
1) Why can't I send a message to multiple people? (Or am I missing something?)
2) Why don;t I get notices that people have replied to a thread I am in? (Do I have to constantly keep checking the message center to see replies?)
Question:
1) If I deselect the checkbox to receive email notices of new message in the message center, will people still be able to message me? Because if I don't get the message notification, people will wonder why I am not responding to their message(s).
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