THarvey3

Tassie, the geocaching Shiba Inu!

Level 2, higher when I travel and have time to kill.

Perfectly said.

Palm Tungsten E2 - about $175. Color screen, can hold audio books, Texas Hold Em, and double as an MP3. I'm very happy with mine. With the $10 cachemate program you're set!

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I have 10-12 TBs out and about and more than half are reincarnates after the original hitchhiker was stolen. After bidding farewell in the TB graveyard and reincarnating them, the actual mileage travelled is all out of whack. I think the virtual graveyard is in the middle of the ocean so the Reincarnate gets the mileage to and from the middle of the ocean. Can Groundspeak add a feature to set the mileage at zero for all those TBs given new life? Right now, the mileage means absolutely nothing since its overstated by several thousand miles.

Thanks for the definition. I think it's optimistic for people to think that the general populace knows what you're talking about!

The only thing I'll rush out to find is a white jeep TB...and that's only if it's within 5 miles...other than that, I don't care.

I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, but why do you care what pic they post with their log. It's their log. As long as it doesn't have a spoiler that would affect you, or post something obecene that would affect both you and be against GC guidelines, then why do you care? I am asking because we have this happen in our area. A few people rule their caches with an iron fist. Log the cache their way or it stands a high chance of being deleted. Now new cachers in our area are starting to think this is the norm rather than the exception. I don't understand why anyone wants to control what another person says in their log or what pics they post. It's their words and thoughts, not the owners. I don't agree with everyone's opinion in their posts on my caches, but that's their view and they are entitled to it. I would never delete it for something so trivial. Actually the pix stayed in my cache's gallery for about a year - I just got sick of looking at them. I think there's 10 pix in my cache's gallery and there were 15, total, with these completely unrelated pix of TBs at other locations. Why would someone post pix of TB's at OTHER locations in the log of the cache where they're dropping them off? If the pix stayed under the person's posting that would be fine. However, as the geocache page is programmed, pix are thrown into a gallery so they are not just limited to the posting of the person uploading it. Savvy?

Because some of us, (myself included), are cheapskates. I spent over $400 on my Ique and it's not much more than a paperweight. I would've been much happier with a $20 paperweight. Nicely done!

I had one of my posts deleted after visiting "a new park in the area" - it wasn't a park in the traditional sense, it was a half acre wasteland of dead trees next to a drainage basin. After posting that this wasn't a "kid friendly or dog friendly" area and that my dog nearly strangled herself on a branch, my DNF was immediately deleted. After a 6 mile roundtrip walk to this so-called "park," I wasn't in the most complimentary of moods. The lady that placed the cache defended it by saying the city declares this area a park. It is hardly that and I avoided anymore of her placements.

They don't "suck", they're just challenging. As your hide count starts to climb and you start to see the patterns, a nice challenge is desirable once in a while. I keep thinking that some of these caches have to be real boring, micro and especially regulars, for the people with 2, 3 and 4K in finds. No, searching for an hour in a 20 foot radius without finding a trace of a cache does SUCK.

I just deleted a log because the attached pix had absolutely nothing to do with the cache. It was pix of a TB everywhere except my cache. The person re-logged without the pix which was just fine.

Micros that can be found are fine...hides where the person intentionally doesn't provide clues and after an hour searching a 20 foot radius -- NOTHING -- those hides suck.

I bought a palmOne Tungsten E2 for $175 new. I can play music, Texas Hold Em, audio books as well as video, jpgs, and, oh yeah, the $8 CacheMate program. Why skimp? PDA's are cool.

How's this one. I took my 12 year old neice caching for the first time. She got stung by a yellow jacket when she stuck her finger in the "wrong" pipe. The micro was in the "other" pipe -- there were only two. I've asked that the cache be moved. Appropriate or not?

I've enjoyed everyone's perspective on this but want to clarify my gripe: it was searching for a non-descript micro with jumpy coordinates that had me whacking in two separate blackberry bushes within a 20 foot radius. Blackberries or not, however, I still did not enjoy the DNF after searching for over an hour. I now wonder if it was even there. Many micros are quite a lot of fun - they don't deterioate like the ammo cans in the woods and, in an urban setting, are quite cool. I found one in New Zealand on vacation last year with people everywhere. I concluded it had to be stuck under a mailbox right next to a popular boathouse...sure enough, it was a film cannister with a large magnet taped to it. I just rec'd my Mr. Magneto's and am excited to place a few. My point is that I'm not going to have people search more than 10 minutes for it. BEING IN ON THE SECRET that a micro is attached to the, in this case, big metallic sculpture along the trail is THE FUN OF IT. If it's not challenging enough for people, they don't have to come find it. To restate, to me the fun is being taken to a place I would have never gone to - and there's a reward at the end - the secret that a cache exists and finding that secret. To spend an excessive amount of time looking for the "reward" is not fun. Not finding it at all defeats the whole purpose of going, IMO.

Lost a Magellan and replaced it with a Garmin? Consider that God smiling down on you! I lost my $200 Maui Jim sunglasses bushwhacking...that was painful. Then I went and bought an even nicer pair so you just gotta roll with it.

The thrill of finding a cache when you know where it is before you get to it? The thrill of going down a trail you didn't know existed that happened to include some very cool sculptures? Being in on the secret of some micros? Sounds fun to me.

Lookup "Power Trail" in the forums before you spend too much time on this. I tend to avoid anything with a rated difficulty of more than 3.5 because I too don't like to spend much more than 45 minutes searching. I've never heard of that term before now. Thank you for educating me on it. I'll revise my initial idea...it'll still be cool!

Yeah but it's that little green crate on my geocache map that's killing me...I want to put a checkmark there but refuse to spend another second looking for a needle in the hay. I'll have to learn to live with it, I suppose.

To each his own, I suppose. Certainly not my gig! Again, I like seeing places that are new to me...logging a DNF once I'm there just isn't satisfying. To make matters worse, it put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day (as I attended to my many bleeding scratches)

My VERY point. I want people "in on the secret" that there's a trail of micros out there. Once they're on the physical trail, they'll quickly know that the string of small steel sculptures are where the micros are attached. The fun of it is experiencing a scenic route AND enjoying the thrill of the micro find. Bushwacking for an hour looking for "something not easily seen" isn't my idea of fun. I'll certainly avoid those in the future. Perhaps the title of this post should be "Caches that are impossible to find, including but not limited to, micros"