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quote:Originally posted by cachew nut: Hehe, when I find a post with the travel bug's tag number posted, I claim the bug as a virtual find, and then place it right back where I found it. LOL...do you have any examples of ones you've done that with? ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

quote:Originally posted by cachew nut: Hehe, when I find a post with the travel bug's tag number posted, I claim the bug as a virtual find, and then place it right back where I found it. LOL...do you have any examples of ones you've done that with? ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

quote:Originally posted by mtnsteve: On the coast, you are supposed to go in the ocean..you are not supposed to bury it in the sand. I would never have guessed that it was better to go IN the water, than to bury it. I'm assuming that this only counts for the ocean, and not for freshwater lakes or rivers? ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

quote:Originally posted by mtnsteve: On the coast, you are supposed to go in the ocean..you are not supposed to bury it in the sand. I would never have guessed that it was better to go IN the water, than to bury it. I'm assuming that this only counts for the ocean, and not for freshwater lakes or rivers? ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

quote:Originally posted by Markwell: I left the caches there for a few that couldn't make it to the picnic. Here's what we did: MiGO Picnic Cache. ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

I agree. I'd like to see this feature, too. ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

quote:Originally posted by Web-ling: the virtuals might get the nod during the summer in the south. Summers in the north can get pretty miserable, too. Between the 90° heat, the high humidity, the deerflies & mosquitos, the thick underbrush and poison ivy, caching activity seems to have ground to a near screeching halt in my home area. Even brand new caches and travel bugs are being left untouched for several weeks at a time. ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

quote:Originally posted by Web-ling: the virtuals might get the nod during the summer in the south. Summers in the north can get pretty miserable, too. Between the 90° heat, the high humidity, the deerflies & mosquitos, the thick underbrush and poison ivy, caching activity seems to have ground to a near screeching halt in my home area. Even brand new caches and travel bugs are being left untouched for several weeks at a time. ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

quote:Originally posted by Dwight J. Dutton: …was asked in turn if anyone had had their cache's swapped out instead of stolen - with a container of child pornography, poisonous material or even a bomb… …if I now go back and tell him that completely anonymous and unidentified people can get the cache coordinates, he will probably get the steriotypical "dollar signs in his eyes" look.... quote:Originally posted by Whidbey Walk: How would a fictitious name and an anonymous email address prevent someone who would do such a thing from doing it? I too have had people ask similar questions when I first describe Geocaching to them. This has been discussed in other threads. Really we’re no safer from any such random act of violence when were out caching than any other time or in any other activity. Would hiding coordinates to non-registered users make us safer? How? Even when people lie about their information here, ISP's and specific users CAN be traced if something of a criminal nature takes place. Of course, it would still be a matter of narrowing down which registered user had swapped out the cache for a bomb (or whatever the case may be). But perhaps the idea that they could be traced might help deter people from even thinking about attempting such heinous acts. quote:Originally posted by Captain No Beard and the Pi Rats: Part of the problem is that many people find the caches without a GPSr. They zoom in on the map, get a very accurate idea of the location, know the area and then decode a hint or two. quote:Originally posted by Whidbey Walk: Why is this a problem? Is a person without a GPSr or someone who chooses not to use their GPSr somehow less trustworthy or eligible to participate in this activity? How would hiding the coordinates have any affect on someone finding the cache with out using a GPSr or accidental finds? I don't think the Cap'n was saying that people who don't use a GPSr are less trustworthy at all. I believe his point was that simply hiding the coordinates, while still leaving the maps and clues available to non-registrees, isn't enough...it still leaves the caches vulnerable to those who might want to seek them out without registering. As for accidental finds, obviously changing ANYTHING on the website won't help those. That's up to the hiders to make the caches tougher to stumble across. But by adding one more hoop to jump through on the website, we would at least be (potentially) reducing SOME of the non-friendly access to caches.

quote:Originally posted by bartacus: I'd like to (auto-magically) include my caches (found and hidden) on my personal webpage, without documenting them manually. How about just including links such as Caches I've FOUND and Caches I've HIDDEN? ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

What do you think about breaking the current "Terrain" rating into two separate categories for "Distance" (from parking area) and "Terrain"? I love being out in nature, and I don't mind a three mile round-trip walk in a nice area during a cache hunt...but I'm not in the greatest shape, so even a fairly short walk over extremely steep or rough terrain can turn less than pleasant in a hurry. On the other hand, I imagine there are people who may enjoy the physical challenge of difficult terrain, but not want to take all day burning up several 'boring' miles on a single cache hunt. But, the way the rating system is currently set up, each of these factors can translate into the same 'Terrain' rating. (For my own cache hides, I typically describe how long of a walk to expect, and what the general terrain is like, unless it's a typical walk in the park. But many people don't go into much detail, so it's sometimes difficult to know what to expect.) Would separate ratings for 'Terrain' and 'Distance' be useful to you?

I've noticed a similar trend on the caches I've found and hidden. It's made me rethink my hides, so that I try to make the hiding place (and camouflage) as laziness-proof as possible. ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

A few of my caches: GC47D4 - Three (i.e. 1/4 of 12) stage cache hidden in the Baker bird sancuary. GC35C7 - My first cache (hidden in Keehne nature area). GC56A5 - Hidden on Leroy Schmidt Island GC56A9 - Hidden in the Whitehouse nature preserve GC4A4A - You have to go over the river and through the house to get to this one. GC4EB8 - A quick easy (i.e. "Xpress") cache hidden in the Leila Arboretum GC39F9 - Arts & Crafts theme cache hidden in a park in Marshall, MI. ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

Things that are too large can be difficult to find caches that will fit them. (So in general, the smaller, the better...at least where Travel Bugs are concerned.) ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

In pretty much that order. Plus, the person who placed it. (You start to get an idea, after finding a few, who places the fun caches.) ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

It would be nice to have a forum where we don't get our hands slapped when we go off on tangents. ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

It would be nice to have a forum where we don't get our hands slapped when we go off on tangents. ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

quote:Originally posted by Ukulele Andy: I have looked for two travel bugs that according to the website should've been in the caches I found but it was not to be. Ahh, those bugs must have been "No See-ums". ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

quote:Originally posted by Ukulele Andy: I have looked for two travel bugs that according to the website should've been in the caches I found but it was not to be. Ahh, those bugs must have been "No See-ums". ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

quote:Originally posted by wobbly127: i have hit a few caches in the last couple of years with borrowed GPS's and/or borrowed GPS owners. [...] I would never have been bitten by the bug if i had to DECLARE myself, give email address, and log in just to decide whether i liked it. It seems like it wouldn't be too much more trouble to have those same GPS owners also forward the cache coordinates for you while they're at it. ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

It's a pain to have to manually go to geocaching.com, and then look up the user, just to respond to an e-mail. I'd like to have a link to their profile page, or else be able to hit the 'reply' button, and have the e-mail go into a queue that would then forward it to the appropriate user. ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

quote:Originally posted by Couch_Potato: How about the 'print-friendly' page also stripping off the menu buttons on the left side and allowing the description to take up the entire width of the printed page? I would like to see the just the area with a white background from the current 'print-friendly' page to be the entire page, no green border, no menu buttons. That way there's not an extra inch of wasted paper on the left side of the printed description. Does this sound like a good idea to anybody else? Sounds like a great idea! ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

quote:Originally posted by Couch_Potato: How about the 'print-friendly' page also stripping off the menu buttons on the left side and allowing the description to take up the entire width of the printed page? I would like to see the just the area with a white background from the current 'print-friendly' page to be the entire page, no green border, no menu buttons. That way there's not an extra inch of wasted paper on the left side of the printed description. Does this sound like a good idea to anybody else? Sounds like a great idea! ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

quote:Originally posted by crr003: what are the thoughts on going back to a cache to reclaim a TB you originally placed in the cache because no one has been to move the TB on for weeks/months? The idea is then to move the TB on to somewhere more popular. A downside could be someone could just keep moving a TB back and forth to increase its travel distance (I see how sensitive some people are to TB abuse). It's absolutely valid to grab your own travel bug to move it to another cache, in hopes of having someone grab it there. If nobody else has logged it for weeks or months, I can't imagine anyone would accuse you mileage padding. The situation you described is completely different than keeping a TB in your possession, and logging it into and back out of caches, without giving anyone else a chance to find it. ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"

quote:Originally posted by mommy#1: I was wanting to know what a micro cahce meant. Does this mean you have to find one to find another like for example Pairie Triangle #1 #2 and #3 do I have to find one and two to find the big cache at three or is it just 3 little caches? It sounds like what you are asking about is actually a Multi cache, rather than a "Micro" cache. (Although many people who do multi-caches will use micro-containers for the pre-cache stages.) There isn't a particular set way to do multi's. Some will be a couple of stages which you do in sequence (each one giving coordinates or clues to the next stage, until you finally reach the cache). Others may give coordinates to a couple of stages, which you can do in whatever order you choose, where you then have to combine clues found from each of them to calculate the actual cache coordinates. There are as many ways to play this game as there are people to come up with new ideas. That's part of the fun...seeing what kinds of creative twists people will think up next! If a cache is listed as a "micro", it means that the cache container itself is very small...often, only including a small log sheet to sign, without any trade items. ------- "I may be slow, but at least I'm sweet!"