SMDMD

After getting nearly trampled at a local cache poker-run (unaware the cache I was finding was part of it) by some rude geocachers, plus the vitriol in some topics, and then being "stalked", or "harassed" at my own cache by a local geocacher who felt I violated their warped version of geocaching rules, I am glad I don't meet many geocachers. I enjoy the solitariness of the activity. No, I am not a sock puppet, I don't log my caches and am a lurker here.

Not sure who got ripped off more, the guy who took the candle holder or you for spending that much on a candle holder. You can get candle holders for a $1 the DOLLAR store. Swag spelled backwards is crap

Wasnt Jimmy Hoffa found in a cache? Or was it several caches? hmmmmm?

What prompted me to write this was that one day while attempting to check up on a cache, I can across two people looking for it. They were being non-chalant, etc. until I asked them if they were geocachers then I intro'd myself. We chatted a bit with explaining that all they had were the coords, I offered a hint and they seemed grateful. I went to Subway for lunch to wait them out before checking out the cache. They found it, log it up in the logbook. But they never logged it online. I just wondered why, but then someone said, yes you can access caches without being a member (though I think w/o being one, you cannot do close-ups on mapquest through the site) I am pretty diligent about maintenance, adding TB's etc to my caches, and I think they are in some interesting places so yes, I do like them to be found and if that means being interested in numbers so be it. However I do like reading the postings too

Check out "Cache Dashing Dakiba (TB63D0), it logged 91273 miles. It helped that it looked to have travel from Alaska to Antarctica (the "old map" shows that, anyway) and it helped that one geocacher escorted it for quite a ways too. That pretty interesting, to me anyway.

I was checking out caches in other countries, there looks to be quite a few that havent been found and are quite old. Check out some in South Africa, several are several years old and haven't been found-yet. FYI, I read about an underwater cache off the Azores (or what is the Canary) Islands that of course required one of the those little mini-subs (not from Quiznos or Subway!). Someone actually went down there to find it but the cache container couldnt stand the pressure (a mile down or something) and was destroyed. However the cacher reported a crushed colored container down there Whatever.........

If geocaching had been invented in the Republic of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaidzhan, Chechnya, Ossetia, or Dagestan it would be a Caucasian sport since those countries lying within the Caucasus mountain range.

I dont think the cache owner was inexperienced. The Finder was inexperienced and impatient. My own experience has been in my area is that a corp of experienced cachers will offer good criticism and their own coordinates to a new cache. Eventually we'll average out the coordinates and re-post them. They like good experiences, they want others to share that too (God, am I being nice or what this morning?-Geez!) Also a friend of mine of a scientific type said that a glue stick container may actually be a good container after all as it needs to be air-tight to prevent the glue from drying out. Who knew!!! My two Yen........

They don't correspond: I have caches with 30 logs in the cache's log book but there was only 23 logs posted online. Do some of you (and you know who you are) participate independently of the geocaching webpage? By that I mean, you log in long enough to get coordinates, but thats it? Nothing else? Its all very interesting (to me anyway) Has anyone else noticed in their caches, etc?

Oh boy, 729 TB owners will have no-reply emails stating placed/retrieved, placed/retrieved, placed/retrieved, placed/retrieved of their travels bugs without any mileage on them towards their destination/goal. Thank God for the delete key!!!! I think I am going to add in my TB's descriptions that they NOT be taken to an event.

Your cache is off to a good start, found 15 times. Congratulations! The other posters are correct about the container, it may not hold up to the elements. But with summer here, it may be alright for several more months though. That park is pretty small. Perhaps you can fit the park into the cache.

I am white, well a bit off white. I think of geocaching as a caucasian sport because, A) I am caucasian and I dont see or meet other geocachers, ever so for me its a solitary activity and I am white so ipso fatso, it must be a white only activity, invented only for me. Wait, I take that back, I went to find a cache several counties away and it was apparently planted as part of local county geocache "poker run" game. I stopped to say hello to some of the other cachers, but they were very rude, abrupt and kinda mean. That moment made me glad that I didnt ever run into other geocachers. Whatever.............

While I prefer regular/small caches to micros, I will still find them. Here in our fair city, all the good places (very broad and a matter of opinion) for regular caches are taken (good places to me have some historical, geographical or whimsical backgrounds to them) so micros are the way to go for the other places. I have placed two micros myself, both are in high high traffic areas which makes it fun to read the posts. My two rupees...............

.....Because there are only so geocaching topics you can discuss. Its not general economics pop culture, DNA or astronomy.

A TB of ours has been held hostage by a now-former geocacher. Each month about this time, I send them a friendly reminder that they are still holding it and if they could please drop it off in the cache they found it in. I have done this since October. Its obviously they have stopped geocaching as they havent logged in since last summer and have found only four caches total. They also never respond back to me so I am unsure if they are even getting my emails. They have not placed a cache so I cannot post notes there asking for the return of my travel bugs nor do they post here at the forums. Honestly I dread it now when a really new geocacher finds one of our Travel Bugs ("Will this happen again") However that is beside the point. I have read about Travels Bugs that come back from the dead but am not optimistic that this one will arise again. When should we give up? All opinions, flames, diatribes, pontifications and dissertations will be greatly appreciated

Geocaching has taught me that: Nature and the internet are compatible. Items in the junk drawer is really geocaching swag. My dog will never learn to sniff out a cache.

I have "seeded" my own caches with TB's I have found. I do that because I dont like when one of my caches goes a month or so without a find. However my caches are not remote, they are in a large city. I dont find that selfish, I prefer the term lazy or self promotional. Anyway.....................

Blitzkrieg caching, how German................ For me this is a leisurely activity, if I wanted busy and fast-paced I would work as a hobby.

We have added the a note in our TB's descriptions requesting that our TB's not be placed in lonely, remote or seasonal caches (seasonal meaning accessible only when weather permits). We have a TB sitting in one of those kind for over six months now. We nearly missed another being left at a Mt Hood, Oregon cache. We wouldnt do that to others geocachers TB's so we are hoping it wont happen to us.

We've had several TB's end up at various events, which is fine. But what is the point of "touching" a TB and counting it as a find? All the in/out, in/out, in/out, in/out logging of TB's do is generated unnecessary emails and not one mile of travel for the TB. I would rather have one geocacher move a TB 1000 miles than have 1000 geocachers move a TB nowhere. If we cannot move a TB sufficiently or we have had it for a couple weeks, we drop them off in one of own slower found caches and let someone else move it along. SMDMD

Took advice of the posters here, deleted subject post and will lock out this topic. Sorry....