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JacobBarlow

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  1. With gas prices averaging $4.00 a gallon still here in the US, just wondering how far others are traveling to get to their closest unfound caches. 24.42 miles here. Basically my closest unfound is almost 1/2 hour of driving away. If it is far, have gas prices dented your caching trips?

     

    -Roger

     

    0.2 miles away... I don't cache as much close to home as I do far from home so they tend to build up.

  2. Hey everyone!

     

    Are you tired of having to go to online caching stores and having to pay around $4 for a single, small bison tube? Or about $3.50 for a magnetic nano/micro? Well I've got some ideas to get yourself a (magnetic) bison tube cache for only about $1.25 a piece (not including S&H).

     

    haha, nope! not tired of it, because I've always found them for under $1 each.

  3. I say go for it, maybe if you REALLY think whoever is watching you is going steal the cache if they see you touch it, then just see it and don't sign, leave it there, tell the C.O. what happened and that you didn't sign so that you wouldn't bring attention to the container and tell him what it was? just an idea.

  4. the use of the term "muggle" in a context outside of harry potter is best used by people who cannot dress themselves and need to be reminded to wipe the drool off of their chins.

     

    it is an idiotic practice and should have been stopped before it took hold. unfortunately, too many caching people tend toward the cutesy and thought it'd be swell no matter how goofy it makes them sound.

     

    geocachers are not (contrary to popular opinion) special, magical creatures that need differentiation from other people. i cannot think of a single other sporting group that wouldn't be grossly embarrassed to hear other participants refer to people who do not engage in the sport as "muggles".

     

    consider the sound of it on a soccer field. or at football practice. or even fishing.

     

    so PLEASE let's not look to the HP books to find other terms.

     

    and consider not using this one. i don't know if you've noticed, but people outside geocaching hear you use it, they roll their eyes and back slowly away. or they wait until your back is turned and they ridicule you for it.

     

     

    and so do i.

     

    AMEM!

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    ...A non-geocacher who ... is in the area when you're searching for a cache."

     

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    Mom read about geocaching in a magazine ... she's been out with us to find one geocache ... she is not a geocacher...

     

     

    Is it just me or do statements 1 and 2 BOTH describe your Mom ? It sure looks like it to me, so you can call your Mom a 'M-word.'

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    Why is it any different then any other SWAG ? To some people it's Gold and to some people it's garbage, some as mcdonalds toys, signature cards, or whatever else you see in a cache, if you like it, good, if you hate it, someone else will like it.

     

    Hiya Ad0or! We enjoyed your Utah caches while on our road trip!

     

    ... I'm sorry but my kids and I certainly do not find these items enjoyable, amusing, cute, useful or worthy of trades...

     

     

    Exactly, I love chick tracts and JW tracts and others, I've never seen a religious tract in a cache, but if I did I'd be excited, you don't like them, that's just proving my point from my first post you were quoting.

  7. but is really an accepted practice in geocaching?

     

    Why is it any different then any other SWAG ? To some people it's Gold and to some people it's garbage, some as mcdonalds toys, signature cards, or whatever else you see in a cache, if you like it, good, if you hate it, someone else will like it.

  8. Absurd 99% of the time. I have one cache that I adopted two years after I found it-that would be the 1% acceptable instance.

     

    I own several moving caches, when they've moved around several times and been placed again by someone else I might go find it and move it again, in that case I log it found.

     

    I've adopted many caches I've already found.

     

    Those are two good reasons to have "Found it's" on caches you own.

  9. Since it's not an "official" designation, just kind of bragging rights, I'm not sure it really matters.

     

    I agree. There are several caches I have on my "First to find" list that other people have on theirs as well, and we were not there at the same time, they didn't see my name and I think I was first, I didn't see theirs and they claim to be first, so I just told them to go ahead and count it and I did the same, it really doesn't matter, if the OP put on his page that Bob was the FTF when I found it with him and put on his page that I couldn't count it because he doesn't let people share FTF's I'd still count it, because I can and I want to. hehe

  10. I think that alot of cachers are older due to time and cost restraints.

     

    There are no time and cost restraints in my opinion, nobody says anybody has to cache a lot or cache far, it's a play at your own pace game :lol:

     

     

    I know that I wouldn't be caching if I had to buy my own GPS'r.

     

    My career and young family also keeps me from getting out alot.

     

    I've had to buy all 4 GPS units I've had, and have worked full time my whole caching career. I guess what I'm saying is it's all about how much you want to, most young people would rather do other things, but they COULD cache as much as anyone else if they wanted to.

  11. Where do the guidelines state to sign the log? I just read them and it seems like all "log" mentions are talking about how the hider must provide a log to be signed, I've always been under the impression that it's the finders choice to sign or not, it's only the hider who is told they MUST do something, if I somehow missed it and it IS a RULE to sign the log I guess I'll have to start, we find the caches and if bigger then a nano even open them to see if Helen likes anything in there among the trade items, often take pictures with it, but almost never sign, I sign if it was a really fun cache, or if it's older then 2003 (I really like old caches), or if we're the first to find... other then that, it always seemed utterly pointless to sign it, we're not trying to prove to anyone that we "really found it," it's not a game of show as much as it's a fun way to live our lives, we geocache everyday, we met through caching and married and eat breathe and sleep caching, we don't care what people think about us because we're having so much fun!

     

    http://www.geocaching.com/faq/

     

    What are the rules in Geocaching?

    Geocaching is a relatively new phenomenon. Therefore, the rules are very simple:

     

    1. Take something from the cache

    2. Leave something in the cache

    3. Write about it in the logbook

     

    Yet if someone wanted to look for caches listed on Geocaching.com and not ever sign their name in a physical log or trade any items, no one else would care a bit so long as they didn't log a 'found it' online. I'd guess that people would even accept if the person left a note on line tell about their cache hunt. Most people who saw someone with a GPSr looking for the container would say they were geocaching. But if you want to say they were looking for a cache but not geocaching that is OK too (does this make them muggles?).

    Nowhere do the "3 rules" from the FAQ say anything about logging online. Must you have been geocaching per the "rules" in order to log a found it online? It doesn't say that anywhere. The only guideline is that cache owners should delete bogus logs. If TPTB want to state that a bogus log means that you didn't take something from the cache, or leave something in the caches, or write about it in the logbook; they could add that clarification. I suspect they won't do this. Most cache owners will allow logs to stand where no trade was made and most won't check the physical logs to verify the cacher wrote in it. Most cache owners will not delete online found logs when it reasonably looks like the cacher found the cache and just forgot to sign or forgot a pen or something to use if the log was too wet to write in. Some cache owners will not delete any logs.

     

    Oh, that's why I didn't see it in the guidelines, its in the FAQ.... lol

     

    SO, if we're going to be technical, which I like to do.... Signing the log still doesn't count, you have to WRITE ABOUT YOUR TRADE, just signing your name is just as bad as doing nothing according to the "Rules..."

  12. Even though the guidelines state to sign the log, they also state :

     

    It’s an accomplishment enough to locate the cache.

     

    Where do the guidelines state to sign the log? I just read them and it seems like all "log" mentions are talking about how the hider must provide a log to be signed, I've always been under the impression that it's the finders choice to sign or not, it's only the hider who is told they MUST do something, if I somehow missed it and it IS a RULE to sign the log I guess I'll have to start, we find the caches and if bigger then a nano even open them to see if Helen likes anything in there among the trade items, often take pictures with it, but almost never sign, I sign if it was a really fun cache, or if it's older then 2003 (I really like old caches), or if we're the first to find... other then that, it always seemed utterly pointless to sign it, we're not trying to prove to anyone that we "really found it," it's not a game of show as much as it's a fun way to live our lives, we geocache everyday, we met through caching and married and eat breathe and sleep caching, we don't care what people think about us because we're having so much fun!

  13. I would like to know what 'peeves' placers who have REALLY contributed to the game. People like Retired Prof in the Yuba area or BKip in Marin. People with more than a dozen placements and enough finds to have a good grasp of what's it is really like out there.

     

    Copy/Paste Logging, I've done my fair share, but I quit a few months ago. My new opinion is that whether they are silly, dumb, awesome, or inspiring, logs should be unique and typed out.

  14. a person that only signs "TFTC" when registering a find on the web. Now it would be nice to see a little more of a response to a hide. It takes a bit of effort and time and a little cash to hide one and something more would be nice.

     

    I have caught myself doing about as bad but it is something that cashers should think about. Some, including myself, want to know that their efforts are appreciated. It is nice when the finder lets me know if the hide was a good one and well thought out or not. I have found 45 and have been told I have much to learn but if the old pros don't pass on their knowledge how are we to learn?

     

    If my hide is in a lousy area or not hidden well I would like to know.

     

    Now don't get the idea that I am all bent out of shape over this but as I was reading some of these posts I thought about it and though I would pass my thoughts on

     

    LOL, there are people here who have 1,000+ finds and have never said anything more than or anything but 'TFTC" and another who ONLY says "Signed Log"

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