TeamEpik

well first of all i hope you get better soon . last summer i was trying to get a cache and alog that i was walking over broke and a fell about 10 feet down a broke 2 ribs and had a bunch of cuts . The next week we went back to the same cache and got it. get better soon

i realy do not think their is any bad caches . people take their time to hide them so you can have fun looking . So many people need to remeber this is all for fun . To the people that posted cache number just think how you may feel if it was your cache someone is talking about

well realy like all the caches every thing from micro and up. they are all fun

do you enjoy geocaching . If you do you would not care were they are made it seems like a pety thing to worry about. mabye i should not buy them because they are not made in canada.

wow thats alot . my self i feel bad if i hold on to them for more then a week. I like that you say you email the owners . That i feel is very considerate .

well thanks for every ones input. i don't mind it being dipped i just really did not know if it was normal . this is the firt TB we put out and we are havingg fun following it .

is this normal .I have a TB and a persone has picked it up and is just dipping it from cache to cache and not dropping it off. It is cool to see all the places the persone is going but should they not place it in a cache for outhers to find.

We are new to all this we have a couple of caches out their .One of them have had many trackables in it but now it says their should be three but some person felt the need to steal them. Now it shows their three trackables in the cache and I get people telling me there in No trackables . Is their a way to fix this. And to the people how feel the need to steal from your fellow catcher what joy can you really get out at looking at the stolen coins and bugs?

Well i do flash if your still looking for help let me know and I will see what I can do for you.

I think it looks great . I a very nice a personalized item.

wow I can't believe all this . This is all about getting out of the house having fun . How really cares if you use a sticker,stamp, pen . Just go have fun . To many people want to get all tied up in the little stuff . I think the next log I come to I should use a stamp on a sticker that i marked with a pen.

mmmm I love saskatoon berries . They make great Jam .

Well I thought I would show one of our caches that we have made.

Really? What if it's a ten-mile hike to get to the cache? You expect the cache owner to drop everything and make the trek within a month to fix something he/she put out as a free gift to others just so it will meet your standards? Wow. The sense of entitlement is breathtaking. I can see your side of it but do we not all to agree to take care of what we put out their. If the persone puts a cache out on a 10 mile hike they should be ready to take care of it as well

i don't think any more volunteers are need if everyone in the caching community was proactive and helped the reviewer by sending them a little message with a link to the disabled cache those are the guidelines and in my area our reviewers are doing a great job at "clean up", but the community is involved too a cache should not be disabled for more than 4 weeks for routine maintenance Yes if the owners would take care of the caches that fast would be good . For the reviewers in my area I think they have their hands full . It looks like geocaching is really on the rise in our area and having volunteers to look after older caches might be the best way to handle the problem .

A cache may be disabled longer than "a few weeks" due to some reason beyond the cache owner's control, such as construction, timber harvesting, etc. An automated purge of disabled caches would unfortunately remove such exceptions. You make a very good point. One of the oldest caches in my town is also located in one of the most spectacular spots nearby as well. It's located in a deep gorge that has a stone trail along a creek with numerous waterfalls, one of which over 75' high. And yes, it's right in town, probably a 15 minute walk from the heart of the downtown area. Every winter the trail through the gorge is closed for the season as the type of rocks and accumulation of ice makes it a pretty dangerous area. In fact, the trail was closed all last summer as well while the trail was repaired due to ice damage. It will really be a shame to have a special cache as that one archived automatically. Well it seems to be a big problem everywere. I know the volunteers look after publishing the caches and they are all so very busy. I think it would be good to see if they could find some more volunteers to start contacking all the people to have the disabled caches and find out what they plan to do. After they have been contacked they should be giving a time line on how soon they fix the cache or just remove it . That way ones that have been disabled because of a trail closed for repair or something like that are ok.But the one's that are just missing and the people don't feel like fixing them are removed from the system.

Remind me to tell you sometime about the response I got on posting "Any Status?" on a 15 month disabled cache. Two of them actually. (It is not appropriate for the forums) The problem with automated is that it can create geotrash - stuff left in the field. I'm not saying automated is bad but geotrash is something that needs to be addressed. I do agree about geotrash. The owners of the disabled caches need to clean up their disabled caches . That way we would not have the geotrash problem.I read so many logs that the owner can not find their cache so the just disable the cache and leave it that way.Their are s many of them that way in my area. It would be nice if they would be taken care of.

I have had a cache not posted do to a cache that has been disabled for a very long time was close to my new one.I think it would be nice if it was an automatic system that removed them from the system.That way new caches could be placed.

Well I don't really agree. where we live their is not alot of room for larger caches . So Micro are great . It keeps the game going you still can have fun finding them and when you live in a city it the best thing to hide . I do agree if you can put something larger do put a bigger one .