Sniggle&Snoet

There is another possible solution. Personally, I would like to see a time limit on caches. Any cache that has not received a favourite point must be removed after two years. (or 3 or 1 or 4) This would mean that approximately nine out of ten caches would have a limited life span. If a cache gets a favourite point, then the cache owner has the option of taking it down or leaving it. Just a thought. Turnover of caches rather than more caches. I realize that people will complain about litter, but I think that is part of the cache owner's responsibility.... clean up after your cache.

I am pretty sure I will get hate mail for this, but I would be willing to pay much more for a membership, if.... maps were speedy, reliable, easily usable by techno challenged individuals like myself. I will hold off judging til things have settled down a bit, but if they don't improve A LOT, I will be unhappy. Heck, double the annual fees AND make it members only, everyone has to pay .... and before you have hysterics, that's five (5) dollars a month. Think about how much you pay a month for batteries, or gas, or trade items, or any of the other ways you shell out for geocaching. The extra money could be used for the maps, and for a variety of other things that might be needed. You could have a free trial period of a month or so, but then, pay up, buddy. Five dollars a month is still the cheapest entertainment in town. I don't really understand why Groundspeak lets people play for free forever. I don't remember any geocaching guarantees in the constitution, or the bible, or in any other authority I can think of. Alternatively, make the premium memberships 50 bucks, and the ordinary one $25. Would still probably solve the paying for map costs. Point to ponder.... people also respect things more if they have to pay for them.... Let the hate posts begin.

No, these are not adopted caches; she has claimed finds on most of her own caches. And guess where the accummulated favourite points are spent? I guess part of it is that I am surprised that the system even allows you to claim a find on your own cache. Or give a favourite point to your own cache. And I worry that newcomers in our area will look at this and think that it is the normal thing to do. She has been caching longer than most in the area, and could therefore start a trend in the area. I do realize that worse things have happened at sea as The Blorenges said, but I didn't realize that only earthshaking events in the annals of geocaching could be discussed here.

One of our local cachers is claiming finds on their own hides. This seems odd to me, but I would like to know what really experienced cachers have to say about it.

I tried to be circumspect in my original post, and I guess that was a mistake. The reason I was not enthusiastic to find this tract in a cache was that a neighbour's child had got their hands on the same tract and was *very* upset because the tract told him he was going to burn in hell. I imagined a similar thing happening while a family was on a day's outing. Enough said, I'll not worry about it in future.

I have just started geocaching, but I did check the forums to see if there was a topic on this. If there was, and I missed it, I apologize. In one of the caches I found, somebody had put in a pamphlet advertising their religion. Doesn't matter which religion it was. I found this mildly offensive and removed it, leaving a pin. (Pretty darn good trade up for the cache, IMHO). I don't think geocaching is the right place for this. How does the rest of the community feel about this sort of thing? What do you do about it? Thanks.

104 here. Unfortunately, going further afield involves paying ferry fees and overnight expenses. Will have to wait and see if the enjoyment is worth the money, but I expect it will take a while to do the 104.