G & C
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Thanks for the heads up on this one, he'd hit a couple of mine too. Gone now!
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in FL Orlando, you can hire a helicopter for 5 mins for 80 $
I did this once with my kids and it was worth every $ :-)
man it was a great ride,
I am sure you can pay a bit extra and get him to fly a special place to take a cache if you like,
why not try ?
5 minutes for $80 is insanely expensive.
I bet you could walk into a helicopter flight school and find a CFI willing to build some time and make some cache (pun intended!) to fly you around for an entire hour for around double that $80.
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I do quite a bit of geocaching by bike. I ride my mountain bike a ton of places, and a lot of the designated bike trails in the area have a ton of caches on them.
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Any room for one more?
- StarWolf013
That fantasy playing guy
If you need two more, I'd be in. If it's too late, that's no problem, it's my fault I took so long to look at this thread!
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Seen all kids of variants on the theme.
Coords on a TB.
Keys to the padlock on the cache on a TB.
Info on the CO's profile.
Info on sock account profiles.
Some others I cannot recall right now.
All of these examples are find and should be published without issue.
The common factor with the two posts who claimed they had issues with getting a cache published is that they carried the item in question with them instead of setting it free or hiding it so that it would be available to anyone who wanted to find it.
Keeping the puzzle object on your person is too close to email me for coords, a level of control over who can and cannot find your cache that CO's cannot have.
That's not how it was explained to me. Even setting the trackable free was supposedly against the guidelines according to the reviewer that I was "working" with. According to him it had to be stationary. Fixed to something that doesn't move.
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I tried that once, and it turned out to be kind of a pain.
The reviewer told me that it had to be based on a trackable that was stationary. It couldn't be one that was moving with geocachers. Yes, there are some that are like that, but those were "grandfathered" in apparently.
Seemed kinda stupid to me, since mine was based on a trackable that I carry with me at all times and could be logged by anyone who met me or saw me at an event. But in the interest of actually having some fun in geocaching, I changed it per his demands, and made it so a chirp beacons out the coin code at the cache site, and the coin is glued to the inside of the actual cache. Not nearly as cool as it was gonna be, but whatever.
Here's the cache: Brady's Bug. It actually got published, and then archived because it was "published in error." Not exactly the most stellar experience with a reviewer, truth be told.
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Yep, although more frequently I read the entries on my personal geocoin that follows me to the caches I like most.
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Works on the 550 too apparently. Thanks for the hint!
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I turn my Oregon 550t on while I'm flying all the time. I also use a Bad Elf with my iPad when I'm in any plane that doesn't have heated windshields (for some reason, heated windshields block most GPS reception). It really isn't a big deal.
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One thing about the forums some starnge things are posted... This is for those of us who have friends who have no idea of the sport.
Hey, I'm super conservitive like you. Actually, more along the lines of Libertarian, but I see you're from The UK, and that doesn't translate anyways.
No, I do not feel the need to spread the word via social networking to people who've never heard of it, and think it's actually a bad idea. People can just find out about it as they always have.UK? no way, me veeery far from UK... how u come to that conclusion?
Never mind. Don't drink beer and post, boys and girls.
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Be careful selling coins that you've allowed to be discovered at events, or have moved in the past. If you sell them to some folks, they'll delete those logs on a whim to try to make them "new" again.
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Coin stores, or online coin places. That's where I get the baggies I use for my geocaching logs as well. All different sizes of bags to accommodate all different sizes of coins.
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Not exactly Geo-Art, but...
Here's a track log from one of my night caches;
A tracklog from another one of my night caches;
Yet another tracklog from one of my night caches;
Well done sir!
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You are messing about in the throne room of the mountain gods; please be respectful to them, and skip the bold colors.
Bergheil.
What he said. Keep it neutral on the colors out of respect for the hills.
Also, do it. I've rappelled to a few caches now. Enjoyed every one of them, too.
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I hate caches hidden in residential neighborhoods or in view of people's homes. We've got a cacher here with just a few finds, but a dozen hides. They are all micros on street signs in residential neighborhoods.
I'm with you. We just had a cache placed by a guy with under 5 finds that is right smack dab in the middle of a condo complex. Not so bad if it's in the middle of a nice, clear field or something, but we're talking in the middle of a courtyard that is what six different front doors open up to. Anyone of them decides to leave their house, and boom. Compromised geocacher. No bueno.
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We did this one a few weeks ago:
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Bike-n-Find gave me a bicycle spoke with a hook bent in to it on one side at an event last year and told me to put it in my bag. It doesn't take up any room, but I didn't really think it would have been of any use.
I probably use that little spoke more than I use any other TOTT.
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You can do that, but it's probably best that you just put it in another cache and let it get on its way that way.
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Depends on how you orient the camera when you take the picture. Much like the poster above, I have to rotate too, but it's not a problem. No different than with any other camera, really.
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Be my Valentine and help me find a Sea Shepherd geocoin. Any finish, unactivated or adoptable. Will trade generously!
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I need help. I went caching a few years back and picked up a coin for "Fallen Heros". I had every intention on moving the coin on but life happened and I never went geocaching again...until now. I have always felt guilty of not moving the coin. I am about to embark on a trip to Florida where I want to put the coin in a cache. The coin is in honor of Specialist Nathiel A. Caldwell from Omaha, NE. If anyone knows how I can get the coin moving again I would appreciate the help. The coin was found in Gainesville, Virginia and it is time to be moving on. As far as I know it does not have any serial #'s other then *&^%$#. Not sure if that is a code for the coin or not. It has the American flag on one side and all the branches of service on the other (with the number on a jet). RIP Nathiel and thank you for your service and sacrifice to this country.
You can get that coin back on the move by simply placing it in another cache. Someone will pick it up there, and the cycle continues.
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This quote is pretty funny because I used your entire post #219 without deleting any of it.
:laughing: I highly doubt that I or anyone else can give you what in your opinion is a "good argument" for allowing the current guidelines (not rules) to continue unchanged. No matter what is put forth you will find something wrong with it. You have your opinion and I have mine. I would like to continue to have the right to delete logs on the coins I own as I see fit. Whether I exercise that right or not is something different. I still want that right.
Maybe this is a more widespread problem than I think it is. My feeling is that the log deletions happen very rarely and the OP was venting because it happened to him. It also sounds like there are a very few cachers who do do it. I have moved probably close to 500 trackables and haven't had a log deleted. However, there has been one poster in this thread who has had several deleted all from one owner. If I had that happen to me I wouldn't bother with that owner's trackables either moving them or discovering them.
You're right, that first part came out all wrong. My apologies. You didn't cut any of the quote, but it does seem that you only paid mind to a portion of it. That's more how I should have said it.
Believe me LadyBee, I want you to have that freedom too. I do because I want that freedom as well. I hate new rules like I hate wet log sheets. But apparently, people can't handle the freedom responsibly. If COs were allowed to delete logs on caches for no apparent reason, I'd have stopped caching long ago. I'd lay a few bucks down that a lot of folks would have. The moving and discovering of coins is a big part of caching for me, and I'm not terribly fond of people deleting rightful discovered and moved logs (yep, I said moved logs, still waiting on randomincoherencies to get back to me on whether he wants the proof of "willy nilly" log deletions) just because they have the freedom to do so.
In the last couple of years, since I started caching and moving geocoins, I've had at least 10 discovery logs deleted on sold coins. I kept quiet, didn't want to rock the boat, figured I was just unlucky. But threads like these seem to be popping up from time to time, and in each, someone else with a similar story. As the selling of activated geocoins becomes more commonplace, the practice of deleting rightful moved/discovery logs does as well. It's not rampant, I'll agree with you there. But it's still not right.
How many more of my logs have to be deleted before you agree? How many of yours?
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I agree with randomincherencies that I prefer the rule as it is. If any change is to be made then thebruce0 has made a very intriguing suggestion.
As the rule is, there is no rule. There needs to be some level of guidance for the people who like to take things to the extreme on both sides of the coin (no pun intended). No rules = anarchy = situations like these, where two sides get heated, angry, and wedges get driven between factions. I don't want that, and I doubt anyone here does. Yet, that seems to be where we are.
However, if you G&C are just here to debate because in general you like to debate then it would seem to me that you are the one stirring up the hornet’s nest. I also don’t see where you see the vast majority asking for a change. The “vast majority” of cachers don’t come to these forums…..
True, I said I like to debate, but try to read my entire post and not pick it apart to use the parts you like. I have presented the arguments for my side on numerous occasions. Now I'm here trying to figure out what the other side is exactly, and I'm having a hard time doing it. The good arguments have all regarded things like accidental logs, mistaken drops into wrong caches, virtual logs, things of that nature. Not once has there been a good argument given for allowing the continued deletions of rightful grabbed/discovery logs. At this point, that's my only desire in this thread, is to find out why you would want such a practice to continue unless it involves something that I mentioned above. Can YOU help me with that?
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Still not Convinced that there is a real problem here that needs to be rectified with more rules. Logs are not being deleted willy nilly.
Are you sure that logs are not being deleted "willy nilly"? Would you like proof otherwise?
No, I do not feel the need to spread the word via social networking to people who've never heard of it, and think it's actually a bad idea. People can just find out about it as they always have.
The impossible day?
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I won't be jumping in on the debate about what is right and what isn't. To each their own, so long as it doesn't affect anyone elses fun.
But I will jump in and say this:
That ET Highway was one heck of a workout. We took longer than 24 hours to do it, but we wrecked a rental car (figuratively), almost killed an old guy, and made me pretty sore for a few days. It was fun. But it was a workout.