cerberus1

I did not write the post you captured for this...

Realize that even though you can find someone's "profile", there's now an option to block others from viewing segments (or all) of it. I feel if they join the hobby, they should remain open (that "history" thing...). I'd bet trackable hoarders are finding the option convenient too...

When the Intro app came out, we'd find our ammo cans miles away from where they were placed. - Cachers saw them (usually out in the open) walking to another cache and notified us, The few we could contact said, "I thought that's how this game is played..." Fortunately, that ended quickly...

If I find a cache I can't access because it's stuck or frozen in place, I leave a NM and move on. It's just a cache... And I'd know that you were there how? This is a fun, very basic hobby... Find the cache and sign the log to show you were there. The rare time I head somewhere that has a nano anymore, I can write C1 in it's tiny log, even with my arthritic paws, and mention it in my log...

Like Lellynelly, I don't recall one. If it had an opt-out I might have hit it. Every GPSr I ever owned had a proximity alert though...

All that is based on your condition before the event, and what you're doing now to make yourself better. Not weird at all... Two knees (1 medial meniscus, the other lateral meniscus and Trochlear groove), shattered coccyx, one "small" heart attack, and three different cancers later (ended chemo, just starting BCG treatments now...), and a paaarrrtridge in a pear tree... I still want and intend to cache, and do it when I can. I went on a good walk just before starting treatments (solo too), but pouring rain cut me short. Got a cache on National Geocaching Day too. Not sure about an Earthcache... The point is... Get outside. It's good for you. Archery's out for me, but I know where the state set one heck of a lotta pheasant loose. The big browns are running up their spawning creeks already, and my fly rod's ready to go. Anything to get outta the house.

Pretty much every hardware or auto parts store have cabinets of O-rings. We have an assortment of bisons, and all take a different size ring (and matchstick holders use washers...). The last batch we bought years ago online were the right size, but too thick to secure the two pieces. So maybe it's just me, but a simple stop in the store when passing by is worth it to be sure it's the correct size I need...

Maybe we're just lucky that our Reviewers look around once in a while, and multiple DNFs would get a Reviewer note with maybe a TD. But I have an example why we don't leave NM. A CO left an ammo can in a park... It was looked for by numerous people, a buncha DNFs and NMs, and the other 2/3rds (a FTF hound) asked the old fart to stop by. I found the little "ammo can" that apparently held chocolate at one time in just a few minutes. - Not one person noticed the "other" for size on the cache page... If I don't find it, I leave a DNF. Here, odds are that DNF is the only one logged. This past July my NM on a pill bottle that was 90' off since 2013 that had a science project inside since it's throwdown replacement in 2020, was only the second NM logged.

The three Sunday hunting days for the '23-'24 seasons, (in addition to foxes, coyotes, and crows on all Sundays) have been approved on PA game lands. Last three Sundays in November '23... Nov 12, for Archery - deer/small game. Nov 19, for bear/small game. Nov 26, for rifle - deer. This is the busiest (and most dangerous) season to be in the woods, and it goes from Nov 25 - Dec 9. A heads-up folks, be safe.

Looks like an odd total privacy thing, everything on their profile locked from view. Maybe that removal was to be positive. A lot of history gone... Their geocaches are still in play...

Weird... And PMO to boot... That sucks. Worthless for anything other than a planter. Maybe someone has a buncha tops? I don't feel it was cachers. Not welded steel chain, one coulda snapped it with a Leatherman or remove the twist with a screwdriver. Kids maybe?

My online bank has "zeros" with a diagonal line through them (slashed zero). But most know if one doesn't work try the other. Just Sharpie (with a ruler) a slash through it if it bugs you. Find a couple of old Travel Bugs and you've got S and 5, I and 1, list goes on....

Well, yeah... Unlike these new things, the original ones had to be a different spot (coordinates) than any previously. Groundspeak gave a certain time frame for them to be sent to Waymarking if COs wanted. Closest to the cache type... I have a few examples under Geocaches in my profile if you're interested.

I'll pass thanks... Maybe it's just me, but I never saw any sense in "recreating/reinventing" cache types (the new ones aren't like the originals at all BTW...) just to fill in people's stats. Now that the hobby is played by many as a game, there really needs to be winners and losers. "Stats" mean nada when someone meets a goal needed for it, and it gets "re-presented" years later for one who didn't meet those goals to earn that icon/souvenir earlier... For example, many folks years later were asking about reissuing the 10 years Geocaching event. - It got bad enough the name was changed on to "community celebration" event. Stats...

Yep. I was going to say something completely different than the rest (but still showing why it's probably not a good idea...). But halfway you could already tell, the OP didn't want to hear it wasn't brilliant...

AFAIK it's simply a trackable used like any other. If you were going to send it out, I'd lock it and keep the keys... Looks (to me) to be a fun item to secure a bag or ammo can used for a collection at an event. I've never seen one in a cache/"hotel". The heft alone might make me just Discover it in caches. At least you'll know it's still there...

Our only webcam visiting (in '05), we had to go to the site, capture the image (we did it in a relative's kitchen), then enter it on the cache. Today you simply use your phone... It seems (to me) that even though it was a sorta complicated process years ago, WCs got less fakers than now, when you just use your phone and done. Stats... The last thing I'd like to see is "awarding" them like Virtuals, if a person only needs to meet a simple cache goal and have all his friends Favorite it.

We leave unactivated geocoins as swag often. The cache simply needs to be a decent walk and container. We mention on the coin's cover and the Found It log that we left an unactivated coin meant as swag.... We already have issues with people and the irresistible urge to be "clicking" things, 'collection' and 'collectible' particularly annoying. Either you mean the trackable to be swag, or you don't. We see an easy half of trackables found incorrectly logged. We still see long-time players trading trackables for swag. Please don't confuse people any further. Thanks.

Yep. I'll sometimes check "all nearby waymarks" on the cache page if it's a tough area to walk through, or for access/parking to a cache. Sometimes I'll visit the waymark if it's a unique area or has a great view, but don't log.

When COs were given a time frame to turn their Locationless caches into Waymarks, many who enjoyed finding Locationless were interested at the time. - Then just as many found they no longer counted for "smiley points" for geocaching, and lost interest... We've found a few, if you want to see what real Locationless was all about, click on "Geocaches" on our profile and scroll to Locationless.

We see the opposite... Many older caches that were placed well-before FPs were even a thing (Dec 2010), rarely had folks place FPs on them. The first thing we did was place FPs on old caches we enjoyed, some were already archived by then... Other than "oldest" in a state and similar with hundreds of FPs on 'em, those longer distance caches rarely catch up to a pill bottle in a guard rail.

More than veering OT, but similar to fizzymagic, if/when I'm doing maintenance, I'll be happy to move a trackable along or mark it missing. When we had a few caches out (all ammo cans...) sometimes a TO would mail, asking us to check our cache for their trackable. Most were a decent walk, and since they were ammo cans, required little maintenance here. "When I do maintenance" wasn't good enough for most, and finally I rarely responded...

Virtual Caches were for areas that wouldn't allow a container IIRC, and ended in late 2005, so that's just a few years before you joined... People started going for "points" rather than unique areas, and it simply didn't work out. They've been "awarded" a couple times, something needed to qualify, and a large bunch issued weren't placed. Probably what you saw. You'll need to put out at least one cache that receives 4 Favorite Points by the end of December '23 to be eligible for this new one. Have four of your friends give what you put out a FP and you "qualify"...

I feel your pain on this, as my other 2/3rds no longer caches because of newbs with no finds placing caches. She was a FTF monster. The best, caches way-off from coordinates. The worst, not even there because "I thought I hid it when it's approved by a Reviewer...". Her last was 400 feet off. She found it and quit that day... But, Anyone can find two hundred pill bottles, all hidden the same way, in line on a rail trail, and now they're good to go. Was the cache in disrepair and you replaced it, or did you leave a throwdown? Either way, use of our action logs (DNF, NM) seems warranted. Did you leave an action log? For some, It's all about that smiley... Replacing a hide for someone no longer in the game only prolongs the inevitable NA and archival.

By the time you get your designs approved by Groundspeak, and meet all guidelines, that buck-fifty a "code" is costing a bit more than you realized. You didn't say what the intention was, but if it's simply sending a Trackable out every once in a while, buying the cheapest Trackable at any one of the International retailers. gives you a code to work with...