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Must have been one of your first few caches hidden. I just recently hid my first and had the same issue. I contacted the GC gods and got a very prompt response that made sense: Original Message Follows: Subject: Why hasn't my cache been approved? Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:56:58 -0000 Hello, I placed a new cache on 07/17/05 which hasn't been approved yet. The link to the cache is: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...ba-39a36fc66362 The cache is named Frank Nelson Park Cache and the assigned waypoint is GCPR7W. Following the guidelines, I've been checking for messages to be posted, but to date, there have been none. Just checking on when I can expect it to be posted. Thanks in advance and please let me know if you need anything else. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Response Received: Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:56:50 -0700 Subject: Re: [#213673] Why hasn't my cache been approved? Hi there Though it is posted that caches generally get approved within 72 hours, please realize that our local reviewers have full-time jobs, families, etc. Sometimes it can take longer than expected. If it has been longer than a week, please get back to me and I would be more than happy to investigate further. Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns. Cheers, Kerry Groundspeak, Inc. - The Language of Location -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> Hope this helps ya...it helped me and my cache ended up posted the next day.

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WOW am I impressed!!! Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication to our sport. Your video was great. How can I get a copy of your VCD without traveling from Florida to Canada to find a cache you've visited??? I'm planning an event cache soon and I'd love to use some clips during the event. Thanks again!!! and all other associated happy, happy, joy, joy emotes!!!

I'm lucky, I get to travel quite a bit with my job. I've seen some awesome places and because of all your posts, I've updated my "must do" cache list, just in case I get near any of the ones you've shown me!!! Here's a couple from my favorite cache to date: Rags To Riches (GCJ9E7) That's Hartford, CT in the background. It's almost 60 miles away and you can see downtown! Gotta love the zoom lense and the wide open sky!!! And here's one while I was logging a TB (Geiko the Gecko) in my home town Panama City, FL:

Awesome idea. I'd love to use it on one of my hides. I won't admit how long it took me to solve it, but wow! GREAT idea!

I sent the same question to the GC gods when I hid my first cache. Patience is the answer grasshopper. Mine appeared "as if by magic" within 48-72 hours of my page being published. Strange thing is, I edited the page a couple of days later and the map reverted to the basic one that was originally on the page. 48-72 hours after the edit, the good map showed back up.

Surfing the net one night for Florida treasure hunting, happened upon a link, checked out the site, thought..."this has gotta be a hoax". Friend of mine came over that night, mentioned it to him, found one listed very near the house that I just knew where it had to be, went out and found it that night. Came back to the house, looked up another that we just knew where it was, went out and found it that night. Went to work the next day, friend was off, he went looking for one which he couldn't find as neither of us had a GPSr at the time, he got mad, hit Wally World and got his eTrex, found it, called me and rubbed it in. Got my GPSr a couple of months later for Xmas and that's the tale. Getting hooked was easy...finding a clinic to get over this addiction is going to be the hard part!

Wow! Somebody out there with more time on their hands than me! Thanks for sharing.

I agree with the "gives me somthing to do, gets me off the couch, gets me outside" idea. I travel quite a bit with my job, all over the county, and it also gives me something to do other than sit around the hotel room. When you're in a strange city, it's hard to know where to go and what to do for fun. Geocaching has allowed me to explore these new areas and find places that I know I wouldn't have seen otherwise. As for treasure, I usually don't trade unless I have my caching buddy (4 year old Little Boo) with me.

I printed my cards on photo paper and then laminated them with some pretty think laminate. Left a few out in the rain for a few days and they all looked brand new when I checked on them. I don't consider them swag as I always trade up if I take, which is usually the case since my caching buddy is my 4 year old daughter and she's addicted to golf balls for some reason! Who woulda thunk you could make a kid happy with a beat up old golf ball in a plastic box hidden in the woods???

Nothing to add, however, I'm interested in the idea. I've found 2 archived, local, locations lately that were home to micros that were prime for traditional caches. They never should have been micros in the first place as they were wooded, large, public parks with plenty of hide opportunities. Is there a general guideline to follow as to how long an area goes un-cached before it's OK to go hide a better cache in the area. I understand the "not within 0.10 miles from another cache" rule, but 1 of the two areas has had it's cache archived for over 5 months and I really had planned to hide a box there just a week prior to the missing micro being posted. Not only a micro, but a typical magno box on a light post in the parking lot of the park type micro. I'm looking at a camoed ammo box as I type this that would love to call this park home!!!

I'm in total agreement. I recently visited a TB Depot in Fort Lauderdale, FL that hadn't seen a TB in over 6 months. It just so happened that I had just picked one up from a very nearby cache planning to bring it home with me, but decided "what's a TB Depot without a TB?" so I dropped it there. Since then, there have been over 20 folks who have visited it and ended up trading TB for TB. I kind of feel like I brought that hotel back to life all by my little self! If the owner of the cache feels that there should be a minimum of 3 TBs at all times in the cache, then I suggest he/she go to the time and expense to purchase/place 3 TBs in the cache with a rule that they are never to leave the cache. Other than that, TBs are meant to move towards their individual goals as quickly as possible. A fine example are all the recent "Race the other TB in my series TBs" like the Nascar TBs that are all over FL right now. Cache ON!

I love to see my sig item out there being picked up from a cache I visited and then dropped in another cache or just collected. I don't have the fancy buttons like JohnnyVegas above (read=very jealous of the fancy buttons! LOL!) but I do have a card I drop: I came up with it after seeing similar items in caches I've found. Still trying to find a way to turn it into an un-official TB so I can see all the places it goes that I can't.

I agree with all the previous posts. I travel quite a bit for my job and have cached in several states around the county. One thing that amazes me is that each new region I've visited, I've run into new and unique hide techniques. We recently had one of our more ingenious local hiders place a micro hung from a magnolia tree. What made this hide evil was that he had found plastic/artificial magnolia leaves and glued them to the outside of the container before hanging it at eye level right in the middle of the path. It took 4 trips and many, many, many reviews of the "Found" logs after my DNFs before I realized what I was looking for. Once I found it, I got my usual "Doh!" reaction as I realized I had probably walked by it 100 times before I found it. Stick with larger caches (E.g. Ammo Boxes, RubberMaid containers - larger than sandwhich size, etc.) to begin with. Once you've got a few more finds under your belt, you'll get over the "I didn't find anything today" feeling and get to the more fun "I didn't find the cache today, that $%#@! hider is just plain evil, sick, twisted, etc." feeling that we all love and will drive you to return to the site to search again, and sometimes again, and again and again, until you find it! Good luck and I hope to make it up to PA one day to catch a cache!

Congrats on discovering our secret world and finding something you and your daughter can enjoy together. A friend of mine and I discovered geocaching last September but he works so much, my usual caching partner is Little Boo, my 4 year old daughter. She asks me all the time when we are going to go "treasure hunting" again. LITTLE BOO TRADING OUT TRAVEL BUGS AT THE RUSTY BUCKET (GCN0HF)

one last time..yeah right

<b>one last time, if this doesn't work, oh well, good enough<b>

once more

try this one more time

TEST, TEST, TEST, IS ANYBODY IN THERE? HA-HA!