hukilaulau

Even though you may be technically wrong, I agree with you 100%. No one person can find 751 geocaches, take the log out, sign it and put it back where they found it in one day.

My favorite from around my area: "Couldn't find the cache. All I saw was a bucket hanging in a tree."

openly acknowledged false finds have been happening forever. Here are a few great bogus find logs: "If it had been there I would have found it." (A Central Park cache that was found several times over the next two days.) "I won't be coming back again so I'm claiming the find." "I saw where it should have been so I'm claiming the find." And my all time favorite example of distorted logic: "Couldn't log a DNF, because it wasn't there to be found."

I often sign in random spots just out of convenience. I've never read anywhere in the guidelines that I should take the time to find the last log and make sure mine is snugly under that one. I have wondered if anyone cares. (Now I know) Also, because my work schedule is so weird I often don't know what the date is when I'm out caching, so I often get it wrong. I don't do those challenge caches people are talking about so I don't really need to know what day it is. I find caches. I sign the logs. I post it online. That's about it...

Very interesting. I just put out a series of caches with 60's song titles as the name for each cache (and I mentioned the performer on the cache page). It never occurred to me that I might be crossing some kind of copyright or geocaching guideline. So. far no complaints. As an aside, I was told by our own "TheRat" that you cannot copyright a book title. He said if I wanted to write a book about how my wife left me because I would not stop eating beans before bedtime and call it "Gone With The Wind" I could do so legally.

PnG Trail of 100 Challenge Caches: https://www.geocaching.com/map/default.aspx?ll=27.802929,-80.941333&z=12#?ll=27.802929,-80.941333&z=12 Wow. A string of 100 caches that I wouldn't look for in a million years for two entirely different reasons! I had no idea geocaching had sunk to this level. Kudos to Groundspeak for pulling the plug on this nonsense...

The first thing I do when I'm in a new city is figure out how to get out of town. (I've done rental car, bike, subway.) My favorite "downtown" caching, however was Seattle, specifically the GC tour around headquarters. The best group of ten caches I've ever seen. If you're looking for quantity, of course, then you'll have to go someplace else...

How long has THAT been there? I'm glad you asked in this forum. That's the feature that I missed the most during the "upgrade" a few months back. This is even better than when it used to be on your home page.

That's a warning to cachers who are looking through the logs. It doesn't obligate cache owners to tolerate spoilers. Of course you are right, but a pedant like myself allows for the minority interpretation. Like when the help desk phone menu announcement says that "your call may be recorded for quality control purposes" -- in my mind, it is giving me permission to record the call. When I was a kid there were signs on the Air Force Base shuttle bus that said, "No smoking allowed." My father jokingly said that meant you don't HAVE to smoke. Back on topic, I get the OP's point that this seems to be a trend. I've noticed it much more in the past couple of years. In many cases the spoiler IS the found it log, as in "It's in the wall" or "Look in the hole in the tree." I blame the intro app (as I do for most of the things that are wrong in the world today). How many intro app users do you think have read the TOU agreement? Or a forum thread? Or a cache page? They have no idea what the game is about or how to play it.

Oh, now I get it. I just don't understand why...

I don't even have a profile. I thought my renew date had passed and I didn't update my credit card or something, so I bought another year.

Yep. Well said. I'll just add that PMO's are a little help in protecting geocoins and travelbugs. I won't leave them in regular caches anymore. Too much chance of an intro app user taking them without having any idea what they are or what you are supposed to do with them.

I live in New York and took a temporary job in Arizona so that I could drive through Kansas and find "Mingo." I had to be back at work in NY four months later so I guess that counts. Next month I am attending a professional conference in Seattle and plan to go to geocaching headquarters. I have to be back at work three days later.

Good ideas! It takes some folks years to figure out that they don't have to hunt down every cache they start out looking for. Some never do get that I've rented a bike when traveling to distant cities and had some great caching days. I've even taken a bike on a NYC subway to get to a particular park. When I'm going somewhere for a conference I look at the maps for a park with a bunch of caches within a 30 minute drive. I'll only look for urban caches if they happen to be near where I'm going anyway.

of course

Huh? I love this. Reminds me of instructions on my first computer: "To shut down computer, press START" Anyways... A simple rule of cache placement: Don't expect people to follow your instructions or suggestions. If you have to tell people not to come at a certain time, it's probably a questionable hide.

Just to add to the confusion: Under "hidden by" you can put anything you want on the cache page. It will still come up under your official geocaching name when you hit the link but sometimes you might want to use a different key name for, say, your mystery caches. A few years ago I started saying "A cache by HUK" just because it was easier than typing "hukilaulau." I also have one that I placed on April Fools Day that says by "herringbone". I've seen several hiders use different names this way.

I wish that posts could be cross listed. Too often posts that start in the "geocaching topics" forum get immediately shunted into obscurity if they contain certain key words. The best example is if they contain the name of a city, like "What are some great caches for visitors to Las Vegas?" Sent off to a regional forum as soon as a certain admin lays eyes on it! This despite the fact that LV locals might be the LEAST qualified to assess what would be good for a visitor. (Hint: it's other visitors! Who probably don't read the regional forum.) What I'm saying is, before looking for MORE sub-forum subjects. I'd like to see more discussion of what constitute general interest, and see if it's possible to keep some posts there as well as listing them in a specialty sub-forum.

Good news! Until you've found more than 120 caches there's hope for... oh, wait... nevermind.

yeah I did once at an Earth, Wind, and Fire concert in Honolulu in the 70's. This guy walking towards us with his friends looked just like me. Everyone stopped and stared. Like that Seinfeld episode... Oh, wait, that's not what you're talking about. What a rush...

1. Waypoint your vehicle 2. Stay on the trail. 3. I really wish I had started taking a picture at EVERY cache, especially signs at parks and trailhead. 4. Permethrin and DEET work much better when you actually put it on rather than just having it in the truck.

And what does this post add to the discussion? Actually, I think the OP's post expresses the idea more clearly and in much more depth. I got to thinking about the specific points and I agree with a lot of them. I started in '04 and met some great people locally within my first year. When a new cache was listed it was almost certainly worth going out for. We had some great events that usually included a bunch of new caches and some added games (and great food!). Now, most of those players are gone. When a new cache is listed it is most likely a grocery store micro. I still meet great people at the events, but they are usually smaller get-togethers in a restaurant. When I'm preparing for a trip, green slime trails on the maps make me want to cry. On the other hand, I like Google Earth and the dynamic maps. I started with an eXplorist 200, no maps, no hints, black and white screen. I like using my eXplorist 500 and have the iPhone available to check a cache page if I'm having trouble. So, pros and cons... but I definitely miss the "old days." I still enjoy the game, but I'm glad I got to experience a different era. Also, go be fair you should consider the OP's entire body of work when it comes to hides. He has some amazing puzzle caches as well as some good trads. He provides "something for everybody" probably more than most. (And written some pretty good books!)

So far, name brand knock-offs don't seem to be much better either. We picked up a stack of Rubbermaid with the tabs for product testing and most of the tabs warped a month or two out in the yard. Shame, the heavy silicone-like seal looked like it'd be okay. I MOSTLY agree with this exception: I've had "Snap-Loks" from Costco that are still doing well after close to 6 years. They come in sets of several sizes and I've even used them to store FOOD from time to time!! They work well for that too...

I think this is probably not true. It is easy to imagine examples of outrageous discrimination that would provoke lawsuits or even get the site shut down. "No -----------'s may have caches published on this website." "This agency does not hire --------'s." Just because you have a private company does not mean you can do anything you want. Ok, now this is going off on a completely irrelevant tangent. I hope the thread gets closed down before the sentiments stated 2 and 5 posts above get lost in the noise. I am happy the issue has been resolved, and I don't disagree with the sentiments you referenced. But the question was not whether it would be NICE to have English descriptions in the listing, but whether GS and its representatives (reviewers) can or should disallow a cache description in ONE PARTICULAR LANGUAGE without English enhancement. I think that my response was right on point, and the question has been answered.

I think this is probably not true. It is easy to imagine examples of outrageous discrimination that would provoke lawsuits or even get the site shut down. "No -----------'s may have caches published on this website." "This agency does not hire --------'s." Just because you have a private company does not mean you can do anything you want.