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So I was looking at my DNF list again and discovered this old cache that I dnf'd 8 years and 10 months ago. It looked like a perfect cache hunt for a moderately warm day in June, and so it was! 2.5 mile round trip with this one and a "new" cache (placed in '07) as the only finds. Anyone else found any old caches that they had previously dnf'd?

Bingo! I have hated guided tours since I was 6 years old traveling across the country with my family. I love exploring but I want to do it on my own terms. There have been many multi's over the years where I have just quit in the middle. not because I couldn't find a stage, but just because I got tired of it and wanted to walk in a different direction.

What I meant to say was: "Telstar" by the Tornados. Inspired by the first communications satellite.

Of course you don't. I was just playing along with the idea of a "challenge", which I've always thought was kind of silly anyway. For the record, I consider you a geocacher despite your not having done whatever it was you didn't do.

Not necessarily. Just because a task is difficult doesn't mean it should be eliminated. If you really "think you are a geocacher" you should be willing to spend some time and effort reaching the goals. Toward that end, here are my suggestions: Find a cache 1,000 miles from home. Find 2 caches placed in the year 2000 Find 5 caches placed in the year 2001 Find a cache accessible only by watercraft. (rent or borrow a boat if you have to) If there are numbers involved, make it a requirement to write a unique log for each one that actually says something about the cache.

I looked at few I have found near Foxwoods and was surprised that none of them were on a bookmark list. There are a lot of these small cemeteries around the area so I would have thought there would be a list. If you don't find anything else I can give you the handful that I've found.

Well, I would hope this thread would make you think a little longer if there's enough evidence that people want to see certain topics in the general forum. This actually is nothing new, though. For years I've seen threads get moved from general interest to regional threads just because they mention a certain state or park. For instance "What are some great caches near Las Vegas for someone from out of state?" got moved quickly even though it is clearly a topic of interest to people from all over, including Hawaii. In fact, out of staters are probably BETTER qualified to talk about great caches for visitors. OK, the short answer is I agree with the OP. Threads are sometimes moved inappropriately. I wish you would consider who might be interested rather than what is "best."

I log a find if I've been in the general vicinity and maybe found a few other other caches nearby. :lol: I will be sure to say I'm not describing the cache so I don't "spoil the experience" of others. Actually, I think I would would log a find on all the OP's examples except maybe finding only the lid. That's just me. As others have pointed out, everyone draws their own lines.

No! It was a cool idea that just had some issues you hadn't thought of! Don't let this stop you from having creative ideas! I am right now on my way to an area that has a whole series of totally lame caches placed "just to scatter some more caches around the area." We need more people like you coming into the game!

To answer your question: I think what you remember is something from the forums, not the guidelines. There was a long discussion about how far off the posted coordinates your gps might send you. There was general agreement that a 40 foot deviation was not out of line for a single gps. So, if the hider's gps was 40 feet off, and the finder's gps was 40 feet off in another direction, the total discrepancy could reasonably be 80 feet. Then someone came along (Fizzy?) and provided evidence complete with 8 by 10 photographs with circles and arrows on the back of each one explaining what each one was... No! Wait! That was Arlo Guthrie... Anyway... I think that's where you remember "80 feet" from. Now back to the off topic discussions...

Funny, I started doing that too a couple of years ago. "A cache a day" seems like a good plan to live by... I need to get a few more by the end of the month. Also, at least once during the year, when I'm out in the woods somewhere jumping a creek or climbing a tree I want to say, "This feels exactly like it did when I was 13 years old."

Wait, DID THEY FIND THE CACHE? That's what I've been waiting for. Did I miss that somewhere?

I think you left out the part where the OP answers his own question, says he wishes he could delete his first post, and then doesn't delete his first post (which is really easy to do)

I would reason that I Did Not Find it so I would post a DNF. The stuff people have written to justify not posting a DNF just hurts my head. I am a simple man from the land of the palm trees. Guantanamera.

+1 I've been a big defender of GS over the years, but I do believe throwing fish guts to the gulls is hurting, and will eventually kill, the game. I see the two parts of your post as amounting to the same thing (seagulls and numbers.) Ironically, catering to the numbers oriented cachers without a clue has finally made the numbers truly meaningless. Jeremy got what he wished for in a way that many of us never saw coming.

I hate cut and paste logs, although I suspect this is becoming an obsolete term. (Like "I'm going to tape that show.") Isn't "Mass logging" or something more accurate now? Anyway... The MOST annoying ones are the pointless paragraph logs that have 3 or 4 DNF's on either side of it. They tell a story alright. A story of someone who can't even be bothered to remember which caches he actually visited in an area, much less write something unique about each one. My most prolific caching day was only 25 finds, so it was fairly easy to maintain my practice of ALWAYS writing a unique log for each one. Over 3,700 times. It ain't J.K. Rowling or nothin', but it is something about the experience.

I looked at the area near some of your caches. Looks like almost virgin territory! How about that open space north of "Bottom of the 9th"? Looks like there's a little creek or something running through it. Is that parklands? All you need is the base of a big tree and a bunch of sticks.

Sheesh. I'd log the find to make an accurate report of what happened. Sheesh +1. I logged the finds because I found the caches, just as I logged finds on caches hung on hooks screwed into trees in cemeteries, just as I logged finds on film canisters with soggy logs, etc. Logging a find is not indicating approval of the cache or its hiding method, it's merely a statement of the fact that I did find it. I did not give any of these Favorite points, though several other finders did. "Increasing numbers no matter what" is what's done by leaving throwdowns whenever a cache is not found. OK, maybe I came on a little too harshly. What I should have said is, "I don't take a smiley for something I don't think is a legitimate cache" and left it at that.

For the record, in the urban parks around NYC and Long Island, most of the garbage is not from "the homeless." It's from casual day hikers and adolescent drinking parties. Cases of empty beer cans and spray painted rocks and trees all in one place don't look anything like homeless camps.

I guess the idea of not taking a find is that you want to shun caches with procedural faults? I guess you could put it like that. This isn't the first time I've done that and I'm certainly not the first to do it. My note made it clear that I had found the cache. Your reason for claiming the smiley is disingenuous. I understand that you want to increase your numbers no matter what. I look at it differently. What I really thought was that the cache should have been retracted, erasing all evidence of a cache that clearly should not have been there in the first place.

Well, heck... I think I'd want to go have a look at that there myself!

A couple of years ago I found a cache in one of our nice parks where a hole had obviously been dug to accommodate a large plastic container, with just the top exposed. Several people had claimed finds, expressing delight at how clever it was (One had said, "I want to do exactly the same thing when I get home!"), but one of our most prolific cachers had declined to take the smiley and said the cache should not be allowed. When I found it I agreed and posted a SBA (without claiming the find.) The reviewer asked for pictures, which I sent, and after asking the cache owner to fix it or explain it, the cache was archived. If the reviewer had not done anything, I would have just moved on and forgotten the whole thing.

I'm pretty sure this is none of the above. I believe if people would take a deeper look into the situation, they would find an enthusiastic, energetic young man who is trying to share something joyful with others, with support and assistance from his family and community.

I wish. I'm afraid Mr Incredible frowns on me dating other people. The reason I ask is I went caching with someone today and being that we have a mutual friend, I was wondering if it would be appropriate for me to say 'I had a geo-date with so-and-so' without it sounding kinky. With that avatar, you're worried about appearing kinky?