4wheeler

Your streak, Your Rules. Do it however you feel is right for you. Want to go back and change your original note to a find then do that. Want to log on the date when challenge was completed then do that. Want to log on the date that you discovered that you have completed the challenge previously then do that. These is no one more correct other that what you feel is right for you.

When I started geocaching in 2002, it was common to write long logs in the log book. Some caches even had continuing stories that each finder would add another paragraph to the story.

Found one that may be a legal version of what you are talking about. It was a mystery cache with many possible locations. When you find it then you move it to one of the other possible locations but don't tell which one. Locations were all LPC in a large mall parking lot

Another one turned up in California at the top of Pine Mountain near Atascadero but was soon torn down

News just posted: Now a mysterious Arthur C Clarke-style monolith appears in ROMANIA after unexplained metal vanished from Utah – so who (or what) put it there? Mysterious metal monolith has appeared in northern Romania after another vanished from the desert in Utah The shiny triangular pillar was found on Batcas Doamnei Hill in the city of Piatra Neamt last Thursday One side of the structure, which is 13 feet tall, faces Mount Ceahlau, known locally as the Holy Mountain A mysterious metal monolith has appeared in Romania this week after another similar structure found in the remote Utah desert was removed by an 'unknown party'. The shiny triangular pillar was found on Batca Doamnei Hill in the city of Piatra Neamt in northern Romania last Thursday. It was spotted a few metres away from the well-known archaeological landmark the Petrodava Dacian Fortress, an fort built by the ancient Dacian people between 82 BC and AD 106. A mysterious metal monolith has appeared in Romania this week after another similar structure found in the remote Utah desert was removed by an 'unknown party'. The shiny triangular pillar was found on Batca Doamnei Hill in the city of Piatra Neamt in northern Romania last Thursday. It was spotted a few metres away from the well-known archaeological landmark the Petrodava Dacian Fortress, an fort built by the ancient Dacian people between 82 BC and AD 106. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9001495/Now-mysterious-Arthur-C-Clarke-style-monolith-appears-ROMANIA-vanished-Utah.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR0QmaHle-MGBBbEXqP0X7v-RAQyEtlwUdz9OtZ35mEHPhm0MLRYCWSdcEg

Too late, today it was reported that the monolith has mysteriously been removed and replaced with a pile of rocks

I used to care about FTF but found that it is meaningless. Since every finder is a FTF in some way. FTF on a Tuesday, FTF by a left handed, red headed person, FTF at 2:15PM today. I could not careless who is the FTF, all I care about is actually finding it and enjoying the search.

These are located in San Francisco: Yams Arcade Yams Arcade: Flappy Yam Yams Arcade: Pacyam Yams Arcade: Missile Coyam Yams Arcade: Yamsteroids Yams Arcade: Yammer Yams Arcade: Whack-A-Yam Yams Arcade: Lunar Yamder Yams Arcade: Snake Yams Arcade: Circles Yams Arcade: Punch Out Yams Arcade: Yamtris Yams Arcade: Yamaga Yams Arcade: 2048 Yams Arcade: Yam Says Yams Arcade: Yamvaders Yams Arcade: Yamsweeper Yams Arcade: Yam Ninja

A few years back, a group including alamogul rented a van with unlimited mileage and hit 48 states in 10 days. A couple of the group flew up to Alaska while in Washington, so they got 49 states in 10 days.

Here is another good rule. Never criticize another cacher for breaking one of your own rules. They only apply to you and no one else. Everyone else plays by their own rules.

I have rescued a drone while geocaching. Was in a park and stopped to watch a drone flying around. It got stuck in a tree and the operator used up the battery trying to fly it out. I went to my truck and got out my 16 ft telescoping TOTT and got it down for them. They couldn't understand why I would be carrying such a thing around so I explained geocaching to them.

Why is that the lesson you learned? If you don't know whether it's real or fake, are you really saying you ought to have just left it there and moved along? I can't think of anything more irresponsible. I'm confused too. Everything sounds like it went well and each entity followed proper procedure, but you're saying you'd do things differently if it happened again? I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing that a potentially dangerous object was still sitting there where it could seriously injure fellow cachers. we were detained for hours as the suspects while officers went into the woods in groups to look at the object. If it had been real and we were the bad guys, they were all in danger as a group. The sheriff's department did not know what GPS coordinates were when we reported the find so they asked us to remain at the location to show were it was. If a fireman hadn't know what geocaching was, we would have been arrested for doing the right thing.

We called the police one time when we found a hand grenade while looking for a cache in the woods. Many car loads of police showed and they held us for questioning. When the fire department trucks showed up to block the road, one of the fireman knew geocaching and explained it to the police who finally let us go after several hours. Finally the bomb squad from a nearby Air Force base showed up and it was found to be a dummy practice grenade. Lesson learned, don't call the police.

It is a virtual cache. the answers are on a plaque at the posted coords All of those are now on my target list. Thanks for pointing them out for me. However, GCGGHY Route 66 - The Blue Cut is worrying me a bit. I've tried to search for the three names mentioned in Question 1 and I can't find anything on line. Unless they are mentioned on a sign or plaque there I'll be stumped. NO, I'm not asking for the answer, just mentioning the potential problem. regards Tony

You create your own rules and you are the only one that has to follow them. Everyone else has their own personal rules and you don't have to follow those.

In 1995 nevadatrophy and myself created an event held in the Nevada desert East of Reno. We placed stakes with tag containing a codeword in remote locations recorded the coordinates and assigned a point value based on the difficulty of the location. We held a event where the contestants were give a list of coordinates and given a time limit to locate as many as possible using a GPS. We charged an entry fee to cover our costs and awarded trophies and prizes. The event attracted primarily Land Rover owners but there have been other. The event has been held almost every year since. It is while laying out the waypoints that I encountered geocaching in Jan 2002 and found my first cache in Dec. 2002.

Everyone makes their own rules for geocaching and the only one that has to follow your rules is you. If you don't want event attendees to have an advantage finding caches at an event then when you host an event, don't hide any new caches nearby. See problem fixed.

The spurious finder has 4 caches and an event of his own so just post a couple of hundred phony finds on his

Actually the only rules for Geocaching, other than the limited rules made by GS and the individual cache owner, are the rules that you make for yourself and only you have to abide by them. If someone else logs a find on a cache that they didn't find by your rules and the CO doesn't care, leave it be.

15 thousand years ago, a split second in global time, North America was covered with a mile thick sheet of ice and the polar ice cap extended as far south as Mexico. Where did it go and what caused it? Were the woolly mammoths driving SUVs? People who have a vested interest in controlling others want us to believe that man in all of his might can actually change the Earth. Guess what Earth changes all by itself , always has and always will, regardless of man. Man has only been around a few thousand years, compared to the millions of years for the dinosaurs and look where they are. Just another failed evolutionary experiment. But Earth will still be here until the Sun (the source of our energy) burns out.

I you don't like how some others geocache, don't do it that way. Everyone makes up their own rules. The only person that you have to satisfy is yourself. There are no winners or losers.

I had a reunion with the Devilfish scuba diving club, that I belonged to while at Cal State LA in 1969, this past weekend and took advantage of it to return to the Bay area via Death Valley and Yosemite. Was able to log the final 5 map pages and complete the challenge. I was also able to scratch a couple more off the bucket list while in Death Valley: I will never again drive through Lippincott Pass and I will never again hike to the bottom of Ubehebe Crater.

Was looking for a cache in the So. Cal desert in a lava rock field. Hint read "under black rock" and looking around there were maybe two million black rocks. Thanks

Here is another one outside of Lovelock, NV http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC29D1T_who-turned-out-the-lights-4-beacon-28a

Within a couple of centuries after man has become extinct, the Earth will have cleansed itself of anything that man may have created. The Earth is fine, it's man that is endangered.