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Found is found, why shouldn't I be able to log it? Tigger 2 here. Well, in this case I call it Bad Cache Management and it is a problem. Personally, I would most likely not claim a find but I have no problem with someone that does. This is getting to be a problem with Geocaching that needs to be addressed; Caches that are abandoned. Some folks like to hide caches but hate to ever go back and maintain them. In my local are there are many caches that have been hidden by one player and then another player has to step in and do the maintenance for them. I don't understand that kind of attitude. When archiving my caches, I have always removed my caches right after I archived them mostly because I wanted the log and the container. Tigger 2

Hi folks, The problem that I have run across about half a dozen times is someone claiming a find on an Archived Cache. It happened again today. 2 people claimed a find for an archived cache of mine and were sharp enough to back date their find to a time when it was still in play. But, they were not sharp enough to realize that they were not even playing the game at the time that they claim they found the cache. One of them was short by 3 months and the other one by 13 months. Also, they claim that they found it with another player but they are using a different "Find Date" from that player. I archived that cache on May, 7, 2007. Maybe they'll try to tell me that the e-mail must have gotten lost in the system and is just now arriving. That will set some kind of new record! And for 2 of them to get lost in the mail for over a year and then miraculously arrive at the same time? No way. On one of my virtual caches, I had a player claim a find and his information was not complete. I sent him an e-mail requesting the additional information. His response was to tell me that he lives in Germany and his way of playing the game was not to go out and find caches but to try and convince the Cache Owners that he actually did find it. All without leaving his house! With players like this out there, how does anyone think that someones total number of finds is honest. Or that numbers matter at all? Another cache, not one of mine, was claimed by a player for a date that preceeded its' hiding by a month! How do you find a cache that has not been hidden yet?! So why do these people do it? They think that it is all about the "numbers". So in the case of Archived Caches, they claim finds in the hope that the owner has left the game and noone will notice the phoney find. Once in a while, the owner is still playing the game and calls them on it. Then they have to back down and say it was a "mistake" or some other lame excuse. I just wish that when a cache is archived, it would not be possible for anyone but the cache owner to post anything on the cache page. If someone needs to make a change in the page, they can contact the owner and have him do it. Mr. J. Irish? Is it possible to do that? Tigger 2

I couldn't agree more. My mother is in a wheelchair so I understand the situation. I live in the LA/Orange County part of Calif. and we have a small percentage of ADA accessible caches. However, with as many caches as we have (I have 2700+ within 100 miles) that means that many are do-able for a person in a wheelchair or that has trouble walking. A large percentage of Virtual Caches are ADA compliant because we often use historical markers and they tend to be ADA compliant. I wish you luck in your hunt for ADA caches in your area but don't forget that there are others looking for them too, so go out and hide some! Tigger

Yup, they do that all right. I bought a "Ram Mount" for my motorcycle so that I could take my E-Trex along. Just the vibration of the engine is enough to shut down the GPS. I just gave up on the "Ram Mount" and geocaching on the motorcycle. The vibration is longitudinal with the top to bottom of the GPS. It shakes the batteries and the wimpy little spring contacts are not strong enough to resist the force. As soon as they compress, the rigid contacts lose their contact with the batteries and 'poof', it's lights out. Good luck in your efforts to fix this problem. The suggestions made by the others all are good ones that are worth trying. You could also try taking a small piece of plastic and wedging it into the area between the batteries and the case of the GPS. Do it at the end where the little conical, coil springs are and it should keep the springs in constant contact. It just won't let the batteries shake.

Three cheers for the man that makes this all work! And his team of co-magicians. I found my first cache on March 2nd. One week before that date, if my computer blew up, I would not have replaced it. One week after that date, I would have gone out and bought a new system THAT DAY. I have nothing but admiration for the job that Jeremy and Company do on this site. It is the best set up and maintained web site I have ever seen. Go to any commercial companies web site and look at the dismal way they are run. Thank You, Jeremy. Tigger2

Three cheers for the man that makes this all work! And his team of co-magicians. I found my first cache on March 2nd. One week before that date, if my computer blew up, I would not have replaced it. One week after that date, I would have gone out and bought a new system THAT DAY. I have nothing but admiration for the job that Jeremy and Company do on this site. It is the best set up and maintained web site I have ever seen. Go to any commercial companies web site and look at the dismal way they are run. Thank You, Jeremy. Tigger2

Here in So. Cal., we are coming up on the situation of real caches in amusement parks, Disneyland in paricular. I can see this becoming a BIG problem for us. Since 9-1-1 all of the amusement parks are at Def-Con 5, they search the patrons, the employees and the vehicles that go into their property. If some hysterical person should find a cache in the bushes and think "bomb", after the clearing out of the area, calling in the bomb squad, S.W.A.T. & Hazmat, we (Geocaching) will get a nasty-gram from those folks that will make our eyes bulge. For the forseeable future I would recommend that we not be using REAL caches in the amusement parks. Virtual caches are no problem. So it isn't like we can't use the fun part of amusement parks. We have a few terrific virtual caches in Disneyland and DCA that are a lot of fun. (If I ever get them finished.). I just don't want to get the whole world P.O.ed at us and use Nancy Reagan's "Just say no!" when ever we ask.

Here in So. Cal., we are coming up on the situation of real caches in amusement parks, Disneyland in paricular. I can see this becoming a BIG problem for us. Since 9-1-1 all of the amusement parks are at Def-Con 5, they search the patrons, the employees and the vehicles that go into their property. If some hysterical person should find a cache in the bushes and think "bomb", after the clearing out of the area, calling in the bomb squad, S.W.A.T. & Hazmat, we (Geocaching) will get a nasty-gram from those folks that will make our eyes bulge. For the forseeable future I would recommend that we not be using REAL caches in the amusement parks. Virtual caches are no problem. So it isn't like we can't use the fun part of amusement parks. We have a few terrific virtual caches in Disneyland and DCA that are a lot of fun. (If I ever get them finished.). I just don't want to get the whole world P.O.ed at us and use Nancy Reagan's "Just say no!" when ever we ask.