TerraViators

I have a cache in my yard and have never had a problem with it. My neighbors are cool with it. I've met several cachers. I do, however, say in the listing that it is my house and that cachers are welcome to ring the door bell and introduce themselves. I've never been an uptight type of person, anyway.

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IMO, not posting caches near RR tracks is ridiculous. Climbing a 50 foot tree is more dangerous than standing near a track.

You may be and probably are correct, however, I am following the procedure outlined in the Cache listing requirements and guidelines. Since you're quoting the guidelines did you do the parts in red, or did you jump right to the section about posting to the forums? The guy can post if he wants to.

This is a problem that will never go away....ever. It sucks.

Why is a pocketknife bad? I can MAYBE understand a lighter, but it's still a little up tight, IMO.

what are the red boxes with an 'x' in them? Disabled caches I don't see that in my map views.

a 10 mile search from my exact address yielded 797 caches. 9 miles = 679 8 miles = 558 7 miles = 456 6 miles = 332 5 miles = 259 4 miles = 185 3 miles = 82 2 miles = 40 1 mile = 20 (4 are my hides)

what are the red boxes with an 'x' in them?

AMEN!

Wow. Thanks. I can't believe I missed that. It was messed up after the site update a few days ago.

Would one of you HTML geniuses look at my public profile and tell me why several of my trackables are showing the generic TB logo rather than the uploaded image? I get the image link from copying the guid from the properties of the "print info" link.

It's going to be super cool to be able to use full HTML in logs. I did notice that a few of my trackable pages were messed up. I had to readjust the HTML in them.

Failure to maintain caches where I live is reachig epidemic levels.

I've talked to several people who have done the caches on the E.T. Highway. From what I've heard, the descriptions above are mostly accurate, except for the signing (or stamping) the log part. Most teams will take the whole cache at the first stop, and go. They'll stamp the log while in transit to the next cache. When the 2nd cache is found, they take it and leave the cache they have already signed. Then they move on to the 3rd cache, again signing the previous cache while in transit. This goes on and on. So what about that now missing #1 cache? Everyone already knows what the containers are, so they brought a new cache with them to place there. Either that, or if the team is returning home past #1 again, they might leave the last cache there. Doesn't this method place the wrong logs at each stop? So, the logs are not accurate for each GZ? What if someone only found every other cache? Now, the log would reflect that they found every other cache that they actually did not find.

You are correct - it was not a PQ that I sent but a generated GPX file from another program with just the eligible finds as stated from the requirements, but I will take the time to create a bookmark list as well and see if that helps. Thanks! IMO the bookmark requirement on challenge caches is ridiculous. It's just my opinion, but that is making the assumption the cahcer is dishonest and usually a control issue.

Come on, that sounds way more legitimate than half the ALR nonsense that counts as a "challenge cache" these days. Right. It's clearly a challenge. What else would it be?

Wouldn't bother me, really, but I'm pretty carefree when it comes to that stuff....don't sweat it, right? Wheter a cacher signs the log or not, I still have to pay my mortgage every month.

I would welcome any needed maintenance on one of my hides. I've heard of people taking offense to it, but not me. I guess I'm just not that attached to a throwaway container.

I have one hidden in the rocks near a boat ramp. Apparently, people have been using GZ as a dead fish dumping grounds.

I have a TB for my dogs. I kept their dog tags from over 10 years ago and added them to the TB chain and released it a few months ago. I was nervous about them getting lost and never seeing them again, but it was time and now I can have them out there instead of sitting in my desk.

Fixed it! No, not really. By editing your post, now you make my post look stupid and out of context. Don't hide behind your edited post and say you are only lavishing praise when your original post nitpicked my review of your cache. If a cacher wants to nitpick a review, he is entitled. God complex? By the way, "Find one benchmark" is not a challenge cache. Still. Sure it is.

Am I correct in that a bulk download (PQ) will only load the caches as waypoints? You don't get the cache page info.

None. I hid a cache the night I created an account and found my first one the next day. That cache is still active. I often hear the argument that new cachers should not hide until after they are familiar with the game. My cache has never been DNF'd and I've never had a problem with it. I use a good contianer, put in a log and pen, swag, cache note and an "official geocache" label on the container.