BulldogBlitz
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got the new one all done. I am kinda worried about putting this one out but i plan to dive in and give it a shot one last time. I like this one alot more then the last. it several inched longer and also a bit larger pipe diameter. the goal was a metal/mythical/metalic looking paint job. the ends have a compass rose carved in them with an L and a R to show which side you should hold in which hand.
that is AWESOME! i'm completely jealous of your skill with the dremel and paint.
there is nothing on the outside of it though to tell those potential muggles that they are taking something which is supposed to be there.
had i run across that in my muggle days, i likely would have taken it too.
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letterbox has geocaching beat...
i mean what isn't awesome about finding a letterbox with a little plastic kids stamper and a note that says "THIS IS NOT A GEOCACHE, IT IS A LETTERBOX"
one close to work had that note because the cache was in a tree about 30 feet away.
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Take a look at this map
The population of that city is about 2.4 million. The one cache you see on the map is the first ever placed in the city (about a month ago) and has not yet been found.
a vacation cache in a city with no other caches... what is the reviewer thinking?
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i've seen one in the woods.
i've also seen an active one used for a cache... it was the free newspaper variety and seemed to work out alright. it is in service in a real location (next to a bunch of pay newspaper machines).
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i dont even know how SwineFlew managed to find pictures of Dave, but to you folks its all in a days work.
boredom... at least that was my excuse. i found him too, but wished to remain a lurker on this thread since i am more likely to hi-jack a thread.
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there is a function within a premium member's account which would allow you to search by attributes.
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there are 3 states which have absolutely nothing to do in them.
other than that, you should be good to go.
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Kids geocache?
i know of 15... all between the ages of 11 and 14 that geocache. about 10 of them are paying members.
not that they would go across the city alone in search of an FTF (or any other cache), but the family goes out to the park for the day...and a GPS goes with them so their lone cacher clears the park. several others cache around their neighborhood in pairs (and sometimes more).
i've run into a problem with setting up "events" for cachers that age because it does end up being so specific... yet there are people in the area who have listed events as "adult only" and gotten away with it.
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There are two kinds of people in the world: The kind that divide people into two kinds, and the kind that don't.
no singing Kumbaya please.
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a Ziploc bag of syringes under a light pole skirt. alerted the cops, had to explain what I why I lifted the skirt. Never found the cache
you didn't sign the log that was in the bag?
i left those syringes for the diabetic cachers.
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I didn't know there was an Us and Them.........I was told this by another cacher........................................."It's true that for some people geocaching is finding a piece of paper at a set of coordinates and that's enough for them, but it's not enough for many of us." .....................................
Don't we all find a piece of paper in the end?
some people cringe that there isn't an epic poem on a cache page, to them i say "read dante's inferno if you are looking for 'a good read'".
geocaching isn't a best-in-show scenario where you are only going to have the premium locations, write-ups, containers, etc. you MUST take the good with the bad, outside of that, filter out those items that you might think of as "bad" - and be happy with the 5-6 caches in your area that fit the criteria.
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"them" should just step back from the keyboard and go back to harrassing random teens and average citizens who might have a tail light out rather than nitpicking the "quality" of a piece of tupperware in the woods.
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I live in southern WV and have recently gotten back into Geocaching, but there seems to be a problem... Everytime someone logs that they dropped a GC or TB, or any trackable, within an hour or 2 it's gone with no new entry in the log book or on GC.com... I recently investigated this myself on GC23JC7. the morning after the GC.com log showed a TB drop the previous evening, i went to check if it had been stolen too. IT HAD!!! So my topic would be, how do we stop them but still have fun in our past-time?
contact poison.
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Random thought popped into my head today while I was at works
Has there been any "candy caches" for halloween??
Just a simple easy to find cache that has bags of candy
Thought was to place a container on my doorstep and put a big plastic pumpkin over it - easily hid then and would be known to cachers
I know there are more details that I would have to work out - but I thought I would get the forums peoples thoughts and opinions on it
Bear in mind - just a random thought
Not saying I would actually do this
Not sure if its even possible to have a one day cache listed
Thoughts-opinions???
Thanks
Racettes
coming to this thread soon....
the naysayers.
temp cache are frowned upon.
food in cache is frowned upon.
fun in caches is frowned upon.
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Sorry. This just made me cringe. Just because a cache requires that seekers utilize brain power to obtain the final coords is no reason to punish them by bringing them to a blistering, 500 acre, exhaust laden parking lot, bristling with soccer mom driven SUVs. A crappy location does not become less crappy simply because it is used in a puzzle. It still sucks. Heck, one could argue that it sucks even more than a traditional LPC, as with those, most folks can figure out that the location is crap. With a puzzle cache, folks won't know that until they solve it. Talk about a let down. Why not utilize a nice, scenic location as the final for a good puzzle?
...because there is only one mt. everest.
Waymarking might be more your speed since the only caches you seem to accept are ones with scenic locations (and no film cans).
i can only think of two really scenic areas in all of central texas, both have caches. i suppose we are tapped out. crap.
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i think it is great when i see someone with an account with 1 find... and 3 hides.... one on the west coast, one on the east coast, and one 10 miles from my house in the middle of the country, yet i can't get a cache or event published to save my soul.
makes me all warm and fuzzy inside for TPTB.
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do shuttle launches qualify as geocaching events?
Too hard to comprehend?
nope. thanks for the wake up, can check one more thing off the list.
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do shuttle launches qualify as geocaching events?
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i do too.
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Maybe what we need to do is emphasize the swag a little more. Perhaps create a section of the online log where we are encouraged to list the item we took and the item we left.
Maybe more people would be mindful of the cache contents, if swag had a little more significance.
heck no! there is someone in the area who seems drawn to those newly released caches with cool sounding swag in them. he's got a habit of cleaning out caches for a rock... or a stick, but at least he's nice enough to put it in his online log that he's done it.
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put out 5 different series, in five different directions outside of town... have them all released on the same day.
IF anyone else happens to place a cache, you might have a shot.
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I call shenanigans.
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grab the brooms.
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I bought one of these. I haven't quite figured out what to do with it, yet. (It's a rubber dog toy.)
get a bunch and make a bomb tree 10 miles from anyone.
get a bunch and make a wyle E coyote / road runner series.
put one under a lamppost and wait for that one hapless cacher to come along and get on the news.
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Well Geocaching.com added a CAPTCHA to basic members WP downloads. That made my favorit geocaching mobile app unable to put a list of geocaches on google maps. I figured it was about time to upgrade anyway.
what? another level of membership? how much did the primium cost... where is the link?
How many of you keep it a secret?
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