JesandTodd
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I realize this topic is rather tongue-in-cheek...
While I like the idea, I can see something like this being posted automatically on a person's profile discouraging them from logging DNFs. It's hard enough to get folks to log them without that.
I agree! I only have 571 DNFs. But I don't want everyone to know that. I am certainly not proud of my DNFs. Most are a failure on my part, and are of no use to the CO.
My finds are of no use to the CO either....
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I realize this topic is rather tongue-in-cheek...
While I like the idea, I can see something like this being posted automatically on a person's profile discouraging them from logging DNFs. It's hard enough to get folks to log them without that.
You misinterpret my intent. There is no tongue in any cheek.
I believe that legitimizing and posting the DNF statistic would go a long way towards alleviating the unwarranted stigmatization of those logs.
Users could be encouraged to post them, along with the associated sometimes-amusing stories.
DNFs can be as much or even more fun as finds, if that's the way you like to play this game.
I totally agree. I wish my DNF pride was hyperlinked to show all my DNF logs. Some of them are great!
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People have other things than DNF pride there too
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You have to manually change your number, as appropriate. Sometimes Ater an epic DNF I think, 'oh yeah, I get to update my stats!"
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My iPhone lasts about as long as my Garmin 62s unless I'm facebooking and texting at the same time.
I have plenty or caches already saved offline-several thousand even. I update them frequently. Usually once a week
I've only "wished" for a GPS when I wanted to see NWTrails. Other than than...I've NEVER said it.
I still haven't seen a cache I couldn't find with my iPhone. Still....
Carry on with the smartphone hate. It's so yesterday, but please, by all means, carry on...
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Yeah, I knew about the April fools joke, but why does Moun10bike have that?? I'm jealous.
Oh...not everybody has them???
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Yawn....you can do any, and ALL caching with your phone.
Don't listen to the naysayers
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I think my biggest 'pet peeve' (in a variety of outdoor hobbies) - is DON'T GO ALONE!!
Not because people aren't capable of preparing or physically or mentally not cable of it...
But because:
Animals & Insects - You get attacked. Spider bites, snake bites, animal attacks... If the situation is bad enough, you won't be able to reach for your cell phone and call for help. Even if you're able to call - what if you don't have cell service? By the time your family & friends realize you haven't returned from your journey, it's too late.
Slips, Trips, falls, etc. - You fall & break a leg, your legs/arms give out, you fall and hit your head knocking you out, you have a seizure or other medical condition, or some freak accident. Once again...you might not be able to call someone. Again....By the time your family & friends realize you haven't returned from your journey, it's too late.
You can't prepare for everything - but if you have another person with you, you're chances of survival are much greater!!!!
The same things can happen while caching in a park. People may just think I'm asleep.
To do nothing alone...is ridiculous. I won't live that kind of sheltered life, tyvm
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Have never heard of it...
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I don't think that I'll be able to get the event one. I have been thinking for a while about hosting an event this month, but it'll be an outdoor one and it's just too stinking hot right now. I may do it in September, but then there's school...
Not coming to the block party?
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Log in log out,,,
Oops. I mean, log out log in
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Depends on location and my personal timing. If it's the only cache I care to look for, and it's a d3.5 or greater, and out of sight from muggles, then I'll spend as much time as I can. After a while, if my search tactics aren't changing, then I'll leave. For me? I've spent hours at one cache location.
Hours
But if it's a really high muggle area? I might log my DNF in <2mins
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I want to limit the traffic to my cache. This is a *good* thing. I don't want newbies trashing the forest looking around for my cache.
So what you're saying is that people who are NEW to geocaching are prone to vandalism and destruction of nature? Does this go away once they've been geocaching for a year or more? No, I don't think so.
I would say that anyone who would trash a forest would do so regardless of how new they are to the hobby.
Remember, YOU were new once too.
Yes I was once new, and yes I remember. And I was a terrible geocacher when I was new because I didn't know how things were hidden. So YES I, and just about EVERYBODY else is better at geocaching once they are less new.
Anything else?
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I don't understand how it's possible to geocache if one is on a very tight budget. The cost of a GPS or smartphone (and 3G plan) would be prohibitive to start with. Let alone the gas expenditure. I spend $25 to $60 dollars in gas on a day of geocaching.
Person had all the cool gadgets just before he was downsized and the rest of the company moved to Mexico.
Living in the suburbs, caching's a bike ride away.
Then they can find all the basic caches they want. Plenty of those to go around...
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You can do what I am seeing many others are doing in their logs these days....tell a story about your day - your day's activities, the weather, where you have been and are planning to go, etc., then at the very end of your personal story, just add "TFTC"
They seem to think the acronym makes the autobiographical story into a cache log.This kind of attitude is why less and less people tend to write good logs. Too little and we get ridiculed inthe forums for being lazy. Too much and we get ridiculed in the forums for writing an autobiography,
Lame
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Solo female hiker here...
I use a totally free web service called iNeverSolo where I list my hike plan, my supplies, my intended route, my clothes and equipment, etc,
When I being my hike I start the timer that I have set for myself. I can check in at any point along the way (assuming I have service, which I normally don't) but if my timer runs out without me logging in and ending my plan, then everyone on my designated list get an email saying I didnt check in and complete my hike.
My people on my list get an email when I start as well.
It's not the only thing I do
and it's not the only thing I rely on. It's just *another* tool I use while on the trail -
We street park every time we go with only a short walk to HQ. it's usually plentiful (and free!)
I asked Siri to navigate me to Groundspeak and this is what she came up with for an address.
837 N 34th St
Unit 300
Seattle, WA 98103-8882
United States
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Obviously you don't have one of the older iPhones.
I certainly did. And I placed my first cache with it. A micro in the woods.
Boom.
Obviously you don't have one of the older iPhones.
Obviously, you don't have one of the older GPSrs.
Lol
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And if this were implemented, I'd lie about what I use, because people have an irrational fear about smartphone hides.
So the information would be inaccurate anyway.I mention that I use my Garmin on my hides for this exact reason, even though most times my iPhone has been more accurate.
I took about a hundred reading when I reinstalled my salmon cache. Walked away came back. Came from this angle, that angle, this day next day....sunny rainy,,,,, left my Garmin there for a while... my iPhone gave me the same numbers each and every time, but my Garmin came back with some wacky results.
But hey, placed w my Garmin makes everyone feel soo much better.!
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No, that ain't right...
I did love riding a bike through that 1.3 mile tunnel of fun. Incandescent lights work best.
Me too. And I love the ape event every year and I love the monster hiding inside! FYI it's 2.3 miles of ice cold , wet love.
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We need a 12 Monkeys scenario to go back in time and kill it.
Funniest thing I've heard/read all day....
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On the upper right hand Side of your cache page is where you can 'edit description'
Add it to wherever you want, remembering your html line breaks!
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Bugs go missing in PMO caches as well, it's a global issue
And even when you are able to contact a cacher about bugs, there's a chance they won't respond the way you like or respond at all.
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It's working for me. I just found this thread (among many others) using it.
Me too. That button is the only way I browse the forums so I'm glad mine is working.
They seem to think the acronym makes the autobiographical story into a cache log.
So the information would be inaccurate anyway.
Parking for 2014 Block Party
in General geocaching topics
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We've always had luck finding free street parking. Usually near the troll. One time we parked near gasworks park.