ScooterDawg

Here's another one to look at for ideas: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC2582G_pencils-only

I'm having the same issue using Safari.

Geocachers I meet in person are the nicest bunch of people... so why are there so many rude geocachers posting on these forums? Calling someone a "ho" is inexcusable, in my opinion. And so what if someone is in the game for the icons? Let them play it their way, and you go play it yours.

A red one (221115840745) and a green one (221115323094). At this moment the red one is at $81.00 and the green one is at $83.50! :o I thought $40 was bad enough... who the heck is paying over $80 for these?

Nobody has mentioned Richard Garriott yet... Lord British? Creator of the Ultima series of games? Recently appeared on an episode of the Discovery Channel's Oddities? Son of an astronaut, one of the first civilian astronauts, put a cache on the space station (and took a TB there and back)? Has some of the coolest hides in Austin (that I wish I had done when I lived in Texas)? There's a famous geocacher for ya.

A person may not be active caching, but can still receive notices of TB movement. And other cachers can watch the TB travel. Great points, yours and Snoogs. I hadn't considered the idea of TB watching as a spectator sport. Mark my words well, cachers: NOBODY will survive the TB HOLOCAUST!!!

I found this TB a while back. It was launched in 2005 and has been happily travelling about ever since. I checked the TB's owner info and found that s/he hasn't logged in for over four years. It makes me a little sad to think that this little TB may be an orphan now. My question to the community is, what should happen in a case like this? Say a TB's owner passes away; what's the protocol? If the cacher has caching friends they could adopt the TB's, but that could be a difficult process - logistically and emotionally. Might make for a fun wake/event though. I suppose such TB's could just wander the land forever, but it seems to me that eventually there would be huge hordes of these orphaned TB's all over the place. ...but now that I think of it, maybe that would actually be a *good* thing.

You're assuming that the premise is true, that it's not a Geocacher selling these. I'm not so sure. I also doubt that non-Geocachers would bid on such an item, when it only has some "value" within Geocaching itself. Ebay (and Groundspeak) ignores this at their peril. The can of worms has just begun to open. You may be right about the seller. But here I was really referring to the various people who would be involved in an ownership dispute: law enforcement, judges, the entire eBay legal department, the viewers of that particular Judge Judy episode... Okay, in this light I guess I was thinking of the seller, along with the general public. These old adages came to mind: "Finders, keepers" and "Possession is nine-tenths of the law." Self-centered dishonest thugs works too.

I think we, as geocachers, have a different perception of "ownership" when it comes to TB's than the general public does... not to mention the law. It would be interesting to see a court case where someone tried to prove ownership of a TB. Sure, you have an ID tag on it... but didn't you abandon it in a public place on purpose? It's a can of worms I'm betting eBay prefers to ignore.

I also find my bellybutton on a regular basis. It has never migrated, though...

I'm glad we're discussing this. On a related note, what can we do about the term "Troll"?

Shoot! I saw this too late! I was thinking of going hiking last weekend, possibly to Monte Cristo... but I decided to go scooter caching in the San Juans instead. Hit me up if you need a hiking buddy for any other caching hikes - I'm hoping to do a few more this year before the snow comes.

IBTL...? I'm Beating The Llama? Irene Bastes Turkey Lovingly? Idaho Beer Tastes Lousy? Invited Bikers To Luau? ...yes, I could just google the acronym - but this is SO much more fun!

Buried and had food in it. The second cache also had alcohol. Wait stop you can't put alcohol in caches? Whew, I almost had a heart attack there. At first I read it incorrectly as, "you can't put alcohol in CACHERS" and I was envisioning the apocalypse...

I'm a caching fundamentalist, and you're all heathens. If it was in the original stash... if it was good enough for the Ulmer, Our Lord and Founder, then it's good enough for me. Cash, videos, slingshots, cans of beans... these are the Holy Relics, and these shall always be acceptable in geocaches henceforh. Now, go ye forth unto the woods and seek ye the tupperware. I'm off to bury a five-gallon bucket...

Great story! I'm interested in why you called him long, though. Unless you meant to say "long-lost" instead of "long, lost"? Commas are important:

Hmm... something to meditate upon as I hike to the next cache: "What is the sound of one cacher caching?"

I hope she put her gun away when you flashed her your Spelling Police badge...

Well said, good sir! Oh... sweet irony, thy sting is exquisite!

I would contact those schools immediately. This is an outrage. It has to be stopped. We simply CAN NOT let our school children get away with inappropriate verb tense.

Not to mention the frequent stories of their suspect handling practices. From what I've heard, they're well-known for making round packages square, and square packages round. Hey, now! When I was in college I worked for UPS as a loader, unloader and sorter. I really have to say that I resent what you... Ok, yeah, we did that. Nevermind.

I could never give up caching with my iPhone. I'm looking at getting a GPS plug-in for it, like the Bad Elf. When overseas, just hit the wi-fi spot to download caches, then go into airplane mode and cache away!

Ah, a Harley... you know, 97% of all Harleys ever made are still on the road! ...the other 3% actually made it home.

Not sure about other smartphones... but the iPhones didn't get good GPS hardware until the the iPhone 4. The iPhone 4S added support for GLONASS, the recently-completed Russian GPS equivalent. Not sure if that adds any functionality or not... but more satellites are better, right?

I use a great iPhone app called Perfect Mark. You let it run until it has a good number of readings, and then it does the averaging for you. The standard iPhone disclaimer applies, though - iPhone 3gs and older just aren't accurate enough without an external GPS device (like the Bad Elf).