Nichole1980

#1 I said that there ARE a couple of caches where I am from that have about 25 DNFs. YES this happens. Perhaps you live in perfect geocaching land where all caches are never abandoned or forgotten. What a great place to live smarty pants. I happen to live in the woods where people come and go often and I am not surprised to find caches that have been abandoned and no one bothers to look for them anymore because of the MANY DNFs. I am very happy that you have "never heard of such a thing" because it goes to show that most cachers take care of their caches. #2 Credibility aside? Who are you to call my "credibility" into question? Did you happen to research my area and perhaps FIND the two caches I was speaking of? I doubt it. I "wasted" my time because, as I said in the original post that I generally do not research before going out to check to make sure it has been found in the last few MONTHS or even DAYS. I just grab my stuff and go. I can generally find caches with ease, these are the most extreme ones that I am talking about. #3 I agree that a month is not a long time for a cache owner to be away which is why I generally do NOT post an archive. I have literally posted TWO archive requests, ever. Do not ASSUME that I do this for every DNF that is out there. As always I am having fun! Even right now. #4 As you are entitled to your opinion, I am entitled to mine. I very well may be a cache cop, but at least the cachers in my area will have perfect caches everytime they go now won't they? #5 Thank you for your comment and I will take your concerns into consideration the next time I go caching with my badge in hand!

Do what you think is right. Adding another Needs Maintenance to a cache that already has several is unlikely to change anything. This is what happens when no one is willing to be the jerk: LOL this made me happy to hear that its OK to be a jerk sometimes! Thanks.

Thanks everyone! I feel a little better. With all of your helpful comments I will be sure to log a "Needs Maintenance" first and see what happens with it. I had not been doing that previously so I will start doing that now. Thanks again for the advice. I will also try to not take the game so seriously, which I do naturally so that will be a nice uphill battle with myself.

There are a couple caches around my place that have about 25 DNFs on it and not a single note from the owner stating they have checked it or anything. So..being the non-researching type I go on my hunt and will spend an eternity looking high and low for a cache. I come home defeated with all intents on logging just a DNF. I check out the other logs and I find that the cache hasn't been found in over a month (sometimes a year) and there is no communication from the owner whatsoever. I suppose I might take offense to this as I just wasted an hour looking for something that was not there to begin with. So I send an archive request. I am a cache owner myself and I take some pride in checking it often and making sure everything is dry and in good shape. I always go back to the logs on the ones I do this too and I always see a log from the cache owner that they have disabled it and are going to go check on it. I feel like a jerk. Like I am some Cache Nazi or something. Should I feel like a jerk because I am practically forcing them to get off their butts to go fix their caches? Should I just leave it alone and log DNFs? What do you guys think?

Robert.hill, me, and one of the three geocaching girls, were out for a quick cache run before running to the store. We came across this strange new breed of animal...I assume that it is a dog but since I have never seen a dog with flippers for front feet I could be wrong!

Thank you for such great replies! I am excited to get this thing scheduled and finally meet the cachers in my area. You guys are all great for helping me out!

Hey guys/gals/cachers alike! I'm a fairly new cacher here, and I want to host an event in my small town of Otto/Franklin NC, since the closest meet and greets are usually 2 hours away. We have plenty of cachers out here that I would love to meet, so I was wondering if anyone who has hosted an event has any suggestions as to what should be going on during one, what are the best places to meet at, what sort of discussion questions should be asked, etc. Thanks in advance!

Ha ha ha ha ha LOVE the idea of the fake winning lottery ticket!!! Even for SWAG. You mind if I steal that one?

This is my absolutely first post on this particular forum so forgive me if I did this wrong but this blogger irritated me. I am of course a newbie cacher but I am a LONG time blogger. I did not hesitate to post the above in a comment on this persons blog along with my own points. I did forget to mention that it was not me who said the first two paragraphs and I wanted to apologize for that...Sorry for stealing your words! Here is what I posted in case you wanted to read it: "Six years of people trampling this same area. Getting into the forest off trail repeatedly and bushwacking through this sensitive eco-system." The very first picture. The trail in the picture was obviously not from geocachers. There is clearly not enough geocaching traffic to create that trail. I guarantee you that the cacher placed the cache there because there was already a trail, not the other way around. Cachers have rules to follow when placing a cache. Most of us tree hugging cachers would never place a cache where these have been placed and there can be something done about some caches that are not placed within the regulations. Perhaps you should do some research first and have these caches removed the proper way as opposed to trampling through the forest with your own two feet (adding to the destruction I might add.) Besides, a good cache owner will just inevitably replace the missing cache within the first few DNFs. (That means "Did Not Find"). PS. What was the harm in the last cache on the beach? No fungi, no ferns, no mushrooms...Just sand, a hole, and a really well placed cache. Sincerely, Nichole1980 Blogger and Geocacher.