WarNinjas

I have to say those are some great containers! I really like the custom stickers as well. Thanks for taking the time to make them so cool! I am glad to hear there hasn't been problems with brute force to get to them as that was my concern. As for all the paranoia about having a lock picking set I don't see it as being a problem. (unless there is a law in that state that you can't have one) There would have to be several things that would have to happen for you to be arrested for it. First you would have to be found by a cop trying to open it. Then would have to be caught having the lock picks. Then not being able to explain what you are doing. Then....then... Unless you have a criminal record I can't see a cop taking you in for it. I think I would have a better chance of winning the lottery then all those things happening to where I ended up in court over it.

I miss the challenge caches that you had to find a cache with a certain word in the title. Like one I have signed that you have to find 50 caches that has "End of the road" in the title. Whenever I am out caching and I see a cache has "End of the road" in the title I am definitely going to go look for it! I will almost feel bad when I hit 50 and don't need to seek them out. I like fishing so whenever I see fishing or fish in the title I go for it. I was planning on making a challenge to find X number of caches with the word fish or fishing in the title. They ended it quickly so I was never able to set it up.

I know what you are talking about and it is a bit confusing. Just keep at it and it will correct itself after you add in the hidden waypoints. I wouldn't try and change it after adding in the final location just keep going and it fixes itself.

Not sure what app you are using but the one I use keeps them there for the most part. I agree it is definitely helpful!

We have only had this problem a few hundred times.

Its up to you. I am not a very sociable person but I do like meeting cachers. I would welcome you to join in! It can be fun to walk up to a cacher who is looking for a cache and act like you have no idea what caching is and are wondering what they are doing. It is fun to see the look on there face for a second before introducing yourself. I remember once my daughter and I got FTF on a puzzle and after posting the find the CO called us and said another cacher we had never met but knew of should be there shortly. We decided to hang out in our car for a couple of min and sure enough he came walking by. I opened the door of my car and asked if he was looking for something. He was so shocked he didn't know what to say because he was still walking to GZ and wasn't even looking for anything. It was cool to meet him and are now good friends and have cached together many times.

Very cool niraD! I didn't realize that! I kind of thought they were like a bison tube to hold pills. I always wondered why someone would want something so small for one pill and the magnet. That was really cool to hear! Thanks

I don't know if this is true or not but I pretty much think it is a good idea unless it is due to illness or something that the CO was unable to respond. If a CO had some long lasting caches with many favorites and say got into a major car accident and was out for months then got better to realize some of his favorite caches were archived and no way to get them back that would be messed up. A CO that just didn't bother to respond and then found themselves in the area months later and replaced I can see that as being a reason not to unarchive it.

To your question about cost. Yes it can cost $5 or more to replace a cache. Or it could be a container you already use that doesn't cost anything. It still costs in time spent and all but this is a hobby. My other hobby is fishing. It also takes time and money. I have often found a new type of fish I want to go for and the rod and reel set up has ran me over $300 and sometimes use a lure that might cost over $15 and I might loose that in a single cast getting it snagged. I have also bought boats and tuns of other gear. Heck the fishing license costs me over $60 a year. I own over 200 caches and spend more time lately caching over fishing but my guess is I still spend more on fishing then caching per year.

Yea that would be a good way to set it up so you were already out doing it and not just for one cache at a time. But if someone never plans on checking on it then they shouldn't probibly hide it. I was thinking more of a I don't feel like hiking to that cache this month, Maybe I should just pay someone to do it this time. Not that I would ever use this service but if I was to use it then it wouldn't be for regular maintenance just a occasional I don't feel like going there right now but still want it fixed up.

You don't need to do that! I will do it for $12!!!

My question is still what does everyone think the cost would be to make it profitable for the person doing it? Figuring that they say min wage will soon be $15 a hour. You couldn't just do a 10 mile radius around your house and expect many customers so it would have to be a wide area. The time it would take to get the request, Get the container together, even a basic container might take some thought at times to get. Then drive there and possibility hike a bit or climb a tree or kayak. Take pictures of it as others have mentioned. Send them over. Figure out how to get the payment. Then I would also factor in that maybe 1 out of every 10 jobs done there might be a unhappy customer because the cache had the same original problem and went missing before someone found it and you might have to give there money back. My guess would be around 2 hours per cache serviced. Plus container and gas and all. I think that would put the average cacher out of wanting to use the service. Not that I think this would work for many other reasons. If someone wanted to just do it for fun but I can't see it being done for profit.

I agree Clan but that is even harder to understand. I keep a caching bag in my car at all times. It is filled with containers, logs and swagg. I could maybe see the excuse you hiked up the mountain and forgot to bring something but found something you really wanted. But if you are right by your car and don't have anything decent to trade! I had fun with trading swagg for the first few months but after that I often don't even look past the log. After starting I also started collecting good swagg. My daughter was getting older so had tuns of toys she didn't care about any more. People I know are always getting rid of stuff as am I. Hard to believe once you start thinking OH that would be cool as swagg that cachers don't have a couple of boxes of swagg like I do. Now if I take anything it might be a quarter and leave a few little toys.

I don't think this would end up being successful though. If you were doing it just for fun and not for profit it might be OK but I don't see many cachers paying what it would cost to make a profit out of doing it. I see so many using containers that they have just had laying around and not spending a lot of money on there hides I can't see many spending what it would cost for someone to make a profit out of doing this. Maybe if you lived somewhere like Hawaii and someone on vacation wanted to place a hide and there back up was a service like this they might be willing to pay the (I would guess) $50 to make a replacement container and then drive out there and replace it but I can't see that being the case for most that just have hides in there area. I would guess it would have to be around $50 to make a duplicate container. Then drive out to the place, have to figure in time and gas and making the container. Then maybe hike to replace a cache you have already found. What is everyone thinking the price would be? Guess it would depend on how hard the container would be to make and how hard it would be to get to the place to replace it.

Do you have a kayak? You are hired! Ha Ha. Just kidding. I think I have seen this brought up before. I think in most cases I would archive before paying someone to maintain them. However there is a value there. I have a series of kayak ones around a lake (well 2 lakes right next to each other) and they tend to often disappear. Every now and then I will take a day to go threw and fix them all up. It pretty much takes up most of the day to do this. One time over a year ago a cacher said they were going to go do the trip around the lakes. They asked if it was OK to replace/fix up the few that needed new logs and whatever.. I said sure. I could tell from there logs they put some efforts into fixing them up for me and I felt like I should give them something for the effort. I decided to buy them a year of premium membership to there account. Well worth it as it saved me a day out there. The extra cool thing was that there was one they didn't have the supplies to fix. I guess they were grateful of my giving them that and they went back a couple of days later and fixed up that last cache! This was not them asking for something before they did it like a service, just a friend of mine who is a cacher who seen they could help me out and never asked for anything but I did see a value in it.

The bench removal is obvious what happened. At the base of a tree often a animal could remove it. They dig threw areas looking for food and stuff. Especially if it was a peanut butter jar or something.

Lately around here I just wish someone would place a cache. 3 months 100 finds or not just something new would be welcome!

What everyone is saying about putting the log in the cap is the key for most. I did just order some bigger bison tubes that are threaded the other way just for this reason. I only got 3 of them so on 99% of them do it that way!

I use a profile builder that will keep track of any FTF you can make whatever ping it as a FTF. I use WNFTF so if I ever FTF a cache in the log somewhere I will add WNFTF and it keeps a log of them for me. Don't use FTF because if you ever said "I thought I would be FTF but was a min to late" or something it will still log it as a FTF.

I would think that cachers with over 5000 finds have found more puzzles because they cached out the area and to keep playing would need to solve puzzles to have caches to find in the area. I am a male and don't really like to work on puzzles for the most part. I mostly cache while out working all over the place and just find caches where I am but don't want to work on puzzles most of the time. I still do but prefer just to go look for a cache.

Oh I am not sure.

I think they are just talking about new ones not being allowed. Not about one particular virtual.

Location and all the stuff already said is the main reason. After having a few 1000 finds I try and make this a rule. If I have to take a picture or video of the cache itself to show my daughter who loves caching then I most often give it a favorite. It is obviously cool enough and different from what I have found before for me to stop and take a pic of it so I feel it needs a favorite.

I think the new wording is good. I don't know what the old one was but no need to be mean in the email. I like the idea for sure. As a CO of many caches sometimes you can miss out on noticing some need some love. If I got one of these emails I would definitely go check it out.

Also when making a puzzle or multi it can be nice to add a checker. Often someone will come up with a number different then you did when making it. Then they will be looking in the wrong place. Most like me like to know they are going to the right spot. It can be as simple as a checksum where you give them the number if they add up all the coords that they will add up to. Or put a checker in that they can check. on these you can often add a hint after they are right. https://www.certitudes.org/certitude?wp=GC6GHEB