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That would be un called for! The wall didn't do anything to my cache!!

Maybe, but not here. His friend ratted him out.

Hi guys... So I have a hide in a park nearby, and some little ___________ decided that it was too easy to find and then moved it to a "better" location. I know this because his friend e-mailed me to tell me so and he wanted me to go back and put it in the right spot so he could find it (can you imagine the nerve?). One of the more accomplished locals went looking for it and DNF'ed it. I know there's no real recourse (there isn't, right?) but I just wanted to vent here a bit to some sympathetic ears. Why do people think they have the right to eff around with a cache placement? It was put the way it was specifically so that it was really really really difficult in one direction, but a piece of cake if you changed your approach to it (the changing approach part is the fun part). Now I have to go find the cache from where this idiot moved it to and re-place it where it belongs. When I placed it, I knew how to find it. This idiot just hid it "better." I swear, I just... UGH. Happened to you guys before?

This, this, and this. +1. Agree. Like. Retweet. Etc. etc. etc.

For me, I wouldn't go that far, but I do think it's an odd question to ask when $30 gets you on for a year. Should everything that has an educational possibility for a classroom get a discount when a teacher buys it? Incidentally my wife is a teacher and premium member. She ponied up the $30. It never occured to her to ask. Not ripping the questioner, but I'm of the mindset that when something costs as much as a trip out to a moderately priced casual dining restaurant and the money goes to a good cause / company, you should just pony it up. If the discount is 50%, what does that get you? $15 off a year? Spring for it. It's worth it.

For me it's almost 100% about location. Everything else is just gravy. There are exceptions, like quick park and grabs that I can do when I'm getting lunch at work, etc., but really, it's all about location for me. I enjoy going to places and seeing cool stuff. Today I went to find one. It was on a parking lot roof. Not interesting? Wrong. It had a spectacular view of the NYC skyline and it was a place I'd never been. That, to me, is what makes a cool cache.

Yep, I got my first FTF today along with my wife! I had a "caching day off" on Wednesday, and this one appeared at a park I was in earlier in the day after I was a few miles away so I set it to watch and waited. This morning it was still there, so we went for it. We got there, and since it was a multi, we set out to find stage 1. We looked around, and around, but the clue for stage 1 didn't fit anything in the area. My GPS was telling me it was x number of feet away and so on and so forth. Suddenly, observant wife sees container and pulls it out. We open it up and there's the log and the FTF prize. Turns out the hider had put the wrong coordinates in and instead of taking us to GZ for the hint box, he took us to GZ for the final. Oops! I did e-mail him and let him know this. After we signed the log! Oh well. I knew you guys would appreciate the fun of a first FTF and I also figured the story would be interesting from a gameplay pov.

Almost all of the ones in my area are either virtuals / puzzles, or they're well away from anything near a headstone which is good because you won't have some idiot trampling a stone to find tupperware.

This is a virtual in my area. Don't want to give away who it's for but the story is seriously touching. Here's a link to the cache listing...

The only thing I've EVER traded for. I just had to. I love Domo.

Totally remember that. And now the song is stuck in my head.

That was gonna be my answer; glad I read before writing it!

No wonder nobody read 'em.

I hang my head in shame... But that picture is cracking me up.

In Before The Lama

The llama has to be named Tina. Like Napoleon Dynamite's llama. "Come get some dinner you stupid llama." I need to know, though, what's the difference between a llama and an alpaca?

Yep, I'd say it's about time to put this thread out to pasture.

Magellan Explorist GC 8 Size, regular batteries, works as a mass-storage device so GPX files are very easy to copy to it with no special software needed on any OS. I wish it had a compass. That's the only thing it doesn't have that would make it perfect. My needs aren't complex. I load a bunch of GPX files on and go for it, so even though this is a "beginner" model, I really don't need anything more. Not sure. Maybe higher up the Magellan Explorist line so I could get one with a built in compass. It would be a nice feature to have. Other than that, I don't see a need for an upgrade for my purposes.

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Nope, no requirement... Here's the closest I can find in the guidelines.... I thought I remembered a "code" requirement, too, but I guess not.

I would think it's up to the cache owner's judgment based on difficulty, size, the people who DNF'ed it's experience, etc. I'm not sure you can realistically make a black and white rule. One I'm dealing with right now is a real nuisance. It's sitting, supposedly, in a certain spot. The first person to DNF it said he knows where it should be (it is pretty obvious from the hint). The spot has been renovated and both the guy who previously DNF'ed it and myself agree that it should be where the renovation happened and that the cache was probably claimed in the renovation. Two DNFs, an e-mail, and a NM later, I finally e-mailed the area reviewer and asked what should be done because the guy is non-responsive. You'd think that something would've pried him out just to check on the dadgum thing, right? Point being, it's at their discretion, for better or for worse.

Am I missing something? You have 4 hides, two of which are archived. "Every time" amounts to what... Two times? I'm assuming they're going after yours because yours are the newest? And even if they weren't, how is someone seeking a cache you hid doing a bad thing? Here's my advice for what it's worth... You have 2 active caches that you own. Own them. Maintain them. Live them. Love them. Let others maintain their own caches, logs, etc. Honestly, this was a lot of thread about nothing, and I still feel like I missed what caused the ruckus because I just don't see how, even if I buy the OP's post with no evidence to the contrary from the other side, it still isn't that big of a deal. I'm going to bed. All this thinking done made me tired.

In my general area (the Bronx) we have the Old Croton Aqueduct Tribute Trail which honors the "best" in the area as far as geocaching. Last week one for Hallycat popped up. I was home, bored, could make it easily (it was at most 10 minutes away) and I would've had it, but I left it there because it was a tribute for her and she was meant to have the honor of getting it first. Bothered me a little because it would've easily been my first FTF, but I understood (without it even being told to me) that this was for her moment, not for my gratification. So I left it there. And when she found it, I felt great. Honestly, if you think that "it's fair game once it's published" you're kinda missing the point. Of course it is, and nothing can "stop" you from going to grab it; but I'd seriously question your character if you go after what is obviously a tribute and sign it before the honoree.

Unfortunately, you need the permission of the CO to adopt their cache.