GeoGeeBee

Oh, good grief.

I use this, as well. I think it conveys the idea that the items we are seeking have no significant value. This avoids the unfortunate assumptions that often go along with "treasure hunt."

The oldest active cache in North Carolina was originally a traveling cache. But it has now been placed in a permanent home and no longer travels.

This may be the other shoe. Not having all the details, and just going by this statement, it does appear that the "breakfast" is the place to meet to get started and the "dinner" is to end the day. If I have misunderstood this, it is possible the reviewers, albeit with the super powers they do posses, may also have not understood it. In addition, if the scavenger hunt is going to happen with or without the geocachers, then it can't be a geocaching event. It may look to the reviewers that you are simply trying to get two smilies for something that the town is organizing which is not a geocaching event.

The one that says "Ammo can in the wooded area of a neighborhood park." OK, seriously, I see your point. And frankly, I probably wouldn't be excited about stopping for either one of those. I like long cache descriptions, and not just when I'm traveling. Tell my why you hid it there. Tell me the history of the area. Tell me SOMETHING besides "bison tube in picnic area with easy access from the highway."

I went to google images and searched for Spam flag. I found one, but I don't dare post it here.

It's a concept known as full disclosure. You tell people how it works not so that they can abuse it, but so that they can tell you how to make to immune against abuse. I agree. Security Through Obscurity never works very well.

Yes, posting spoilers is bad. You aren't spoiling anything? You sure picked a funny name for your YouTube channel, then. I think it's rather disingenuous to post videos under the name "geocachespoilers" and then pretend to not be spoiling anything. Look, you do what you want. You asked for opinions, we gave them to you. Sorry we aren't telling you what you wanted to hear, but the fact is that spoilers aren't very popular around here.

I don't think that word means what you think it means. Yes I do: In that case, your sentence needs a verb.

So who complained to Groundspeak?

That's funny. I generally find that having the coordinates and a GPS makes it pretty easy to figure out how to get to a cache.

^^ This.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

I've never hosted an event, so I don't really have any advice. But what's up with "make some hides?" According to the guidelines, a group hunt is not an event. http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=308#event

You can also use your GPS to find benchmarks. But you don't get your smiley just for finding those things. You only get it after fulfilling the task given to you. Well, maybe we should! I'll go create a Feedback request. Post a link, I'll vote for it!

Just because she thinks she started them, doesn't mean that someone else copied her idea. Sometimes multiple people have similar ideas. Often they even have them at nearly the same time. It's Newton v. Liebniz all over again.

The last one I found was a prescription bottle with a wadded up piece of paper jammed in. It still had half of the prescription label on it. I could almost read the name of the person who was taking the Doxycycline. And the wadded up piece of paper was wet. I know pill bottles aren't the best containers, but you'd think the protection of the lamp post skirt would keep it mostly dry. But no. Soaked.

You need to find a more manly boyfriend.

I think that for someone who is neither a cache Nazi nor a 'rule wonk,' you sure do have your undies in a bunch. Go ahead and delete the log, but spare us your sermonizing.

I don't think they should count as finds. They aren't really caches, are they? I mean, there's not room in there for anything but a log. And it's not even a real log book, just a tiny slip of paper that barely has room for initials. Nanos are a different game. They should have their own website.

What bickering? All I see is people trying to help. At least two of us have said if you'll post the coordinates we might be able to figure out what's wrong.

^^ This!

I'm trying to understand what you mean by this. Are you saying that the coordinates are showing on your phone/GPS as, say, 51 degrees North and XXX degrees East? I don't think there's anyplace in Canada where that would be correct. If the East number is greater than 180 degrees, try subtracting 180 and using that. But you need to account for the minutes part, too, which means subtracting in base 60, so it's not really that easy. If you PM me with the coordinates that you are trying to use, I'll see if I can convert them to something that makes sense for you.

I agree, I also wish benchmarks counted as finds.

challenges are like ice cream. geocaches are like steak. I like both. I don't want them mixed. You asked for it. Steak-flavored ice cream, yeah, I could dig it! If they come out with bacon ice cream I'm done for! Here you go: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/claire-robinson/maple-bacon-ice-cream-recipe/index.html