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I guess thats the part that bugs me. I didn't trade anything cause I thought it was a trackable not a tradeable. A cacher with a consciense, go figure. Fortunately the cache was stage 1 of a long and complicated muticache. I'll be back in the area to do the final stages soon. I'll swing by and drop off some items then so I can get Jimminy Cricket to shut up about it.

I'm familiar with that little prison. I've checked on or rescued more than one bug from that place. I'll swing by and pick it up this week. Any requests on the type of cache you'd like it dropped back into? I can take him as far north as Indiana if you don't mind me sitting on it for a month. . . . play A-Team theme now.

This is going to seem very noobish to ask but I rather know than wonder about it. Lately I found a cache that had a GGA Geocoin in it. I took the coin assuming it was trackable. When I went to log it I discovered there was no tracking number anywhere on the coin. Is this typical? Should I have taken it? Am I expected to move it along like other trackables? What am I expected to do with this, should I put it back where I found it? On a related note I've noticed some caches have homemade looking wooden coins. Am I allowed to collect these or are they suppossed to stay in the cache as a record of that persons visit. Any guidance would be appreciated cause I'd hate to be one of those 'bad cachers'

Fixed. CUUUUURRRRRRSSSSSEEEEEESSS!!! Foiled by the Clik Syndicate again

At what level do I get the holographic monkey?

OH SURE! Another reviewer bashing thread and the moderators rush in to defend. We know whose side you're on. You guys are all just hogging up the GC helicopter so us other 'premium members' can't have a turn in it. Seriously though, the reviewers are doing thier best to garauntee conformity with the GC guidline and use thier experience to ensure YOUR cache will be a success. Work with them because they are dedicating thier valuable time to helping us.

Great idea, I totally love it ....... by 'don't steal it' I'm going to believe you also meant 'if you live in PA but cachers in Georgia are more than welcome to it'

I see people expressing interest in something that would 'enhance' the hobby for them. How is that making life more difficult? If you have no interest in 'adult' caching then continue doing what you're doing. The idea that 'adult' caching would displace 'family' caching is one of the things that undermined the last conversation and I tried to be clear in the OP that I wasn't interested in doing that. Again, I'll defer to the OP. I think we can agree MOST children do not have access to international currency unless it is given to them by ...... an adult. It was also meant to drive home the point that there are other reasons/uses for 'adult caching' than the exchange of 'traditional adult' material. This thread only has 2 - 3 relies for every 100 views. Surely that is the best insurance that we are NOT talking about changing the way caching is done today. That said, cache security would be paramount if this could/was to happen. How could one 'best' garauntee that the cache seekers are 'adults'. I thought about having the cache at a place where it can be monitored but then that would take the 'hunt' out of the picture. To me that's not an option. I also thought about locking the cache container (with a serious lock, not one of those cheesy suitcase numbers) and the seeker would have to get a key from me or another designated person who could verify thier age before turning the key over. Any other ideas?

how about: CACHNERD UBRCACHR Here in Georgia we're only allowed 7 and I've been thinking about getting UBRNERD or UBERNRD All I ask is you don't get IGJOE

Wait , what, you mean $30 doesn't make me better!?! OH, and I suppose my GC silver spoon is not in the mail, I don't get a turn in the GC helicopter or priveledged access to the 'Signal the Frog' suite in the GC mountian villa ..... Man, this PM thing was a total rip off. I could have used that money to get in on the ground floor of a 'not-at-all-a-pyramid' marketing opportunity.

I understand what you're feeling. I'm about to place my first cache and the thought weighs heavily. That said ...... Pull the cache, NO WAY! From the description you jumped through all the necessary hoops to place a cache in a very special place and you were VERY clear about the dangers. I would imagine everyone, including the injured, would be dissappointed to see it go away. Note the first thing the guy did after he left the hospital ..... hit more caches. Accidents happen and sometimes at the most unlikely caches. Earlier this year I found a cache that I gauged to be VERY EASY terrain but a another visitor slipped on some pinestraw and broke several bones in one leg. Every cacher knows the risks and accepts them willfully.

Agreed, I'd feel like a total heel for leaving a mechwarrior miniature in its place but I'd take it anyway. Then it would go in my collection of A#1 things I've found in caches ...... you know, with all my yellow & WJTB's Your OP implies these are easy to find if you know where to dig ..... then the obvious question is how do you know where to dig?

Not that there's anything wrong with that No, nothing wrong with that at all ................ bow chicka bow wow

Car problems after finding the cache? Dealt with that one. Came back from a DNF cache hunt to find I had a flat tire. It was a problem because I was about 2 miles offroad and I had a flat 2 days before, I was already riding on my spare. All due to my stupidity but I still made it out ok. Dead bodies? Never found a human before but I did run across a big dead horse in the middle of the trail. Very creepy to come around the corner to find something that big, that unexpected and that dead. It had just expired too because we ran across some other hikers that had seen it at another location earlier that day. At that moment in time our greatest fear was being too close to a free meal for other woodland predators. I do have a very pretty mouth so Deliverance style rednecks top my list. I really only fear snakes during those brief moments I'm groping into a crevice to locate the cache. Giant man-eating squabs also have to be one of the funniest and scariest things ever

My Autobot is still on backorder. In the meantime I cache in this

The following remark in the OP: was specifically put there because I'm well aware of this site's guidlines for cache content. That guideline gets violated with rather frequently, I think we've all seen some of those items in caches before. Frankly my favorite trade item I've ever gotten was a folding pocket knife shaped like a motorcycle. If I ever found bottlerockets in a cache it would be a close second. Since the rule does get broken somewhat often I thought there might be some avenue it could be better pursued (again, not necessarily via www.geocaching.com). 111 views and 2 replies lets me know I'm in a distinct minority so I'll let the idea fade away.............

whimper .... whimper .... but i like the Jeep....

There was a recently revivied thread about 'Adult Geocahcing' but it contained 1.5 pages of posts from 4 years ago, 1.5 pages of thread hijacking and 1 page of 'thread revived with an agenda' Before ANY discussion gets re-started (because I thought it could be an interesting topic to explore) lets lay down a few ground rules. We are NOT talking about: Placing adult items in a 'family friendly' cache 'traditional adult' material such as porn. Not excluding it, just saying its not the focus/intent suggesting this type of caching would displace or replace family caching suggesting these types of caches could or would get listed by in any way Personally I think it would be interesting to hunt some caches that I know would have really unique 'non-child' oriented trade items and/or would not be filled with Mcswag. The last thread had a challenge to come up with some ideas/example to prove the point that porn was the only reason someone would do this. One of the reasons I think ideas may be lacking is because it hasn't really been given a chance to be explored. Not all of these ideas are strictly adult & they don't necessarily have to be. The idea here is cache content that is beyond the interest or means of kids. Here are some obvious exchange suggestions/themes: zippos DVDs that includes (but not limited to) ratings of PG13 & up Cigar or pipe knifes scratch off lotto wine or obscure beer International currency Why did I name this thread 'Non-Adult'? The last thread had a clever quote that most things that are 'adult' are not very 'mature'. I took that and added a print media spin where if 'adult' = 'non-mature' then 'non-adult' = 'non-non-mature' = 'mature'. Sort of in the same vein that 'fiction' = 'not true' thus 'non-fiction' = 'non not true' ............. well, okay, sorry about the thread title and the way my brain works when it thinks its being clever.

0.7 miles - but it's a micro 1.4 miles - but they're on a bike trail that's rather militant about hikers 2.3 miles - but that's a puzzle cache, I might have to think instead of barrell through underbrush 2.6 miles - but it's .... oh crap! out of excuses

I have treated them with rubbing alcohol .... for areas like the ankles. Used it on the groin once and then switched to fingernail polish for that area.

Things could be different in your area but in mine I find that members only caches represent a very small percentage of the overall caches. Personally I had plenty of opportunity to hunt 'open' caches before the benefits of becoming a PM was clear. I prefer they leave the service open to free use with an option to join for added benfits versus a free trial period and then you are required to join in order to continue. I realize thats not necessarily the type of free trial conditions you we're talking about but I suspect its the way it would swing if thier policy was to change.

Here's a typical example of one that I updated. I try to be very careful to make sure the dates of previous attempts are preserved. I thought doing it this way cut down on the number of logs and kept the log summary 'cleaner' HOWEVER I really had no idea the owner did not get notices of 'updates'. With that in mind I'll definately switch to method A

Let's say you have to visit a cache location multiple times before you are finally able to find the stash. I'm speaking in terms of one or more DNF's, not muticaches. How do you handle the logs: A) A unique log for each visit Don't log it until you find it C) Edit the original log with updates D) I never make multiple trips cuz I log 'finds' no matter what E) None of the above (please explain) I've taken the habit of 'C', I'll edit the date and type of log based on my most recent visit but I am careful to preserve the original (previous) content of the log along with the dates those notes were made. Is this a bad thing. I just wanna make sure I'm not committing a faux pas in my noob-ness. I'm sure this has been discussed before (whole or in part) so let me apologize in advance if my search wasn't thorough enough.

Yeah, but by some of those definitions bowling is also a sport. I have to agree with Dennis Leary that any activity where you always have an ashtray nearby and button for a waitress to bring you drinks is not a sport. Personally I always saw the competition factor to be the difference between sport and hobby. Exclude the ubercompetitive number-cachers who could make Peanut Butter Jar opening a sport and I would consider Geocaching to be a hobby.

Really? I mean really really? I find that totally ...... um, curious. I'm not offended per say but I just have a hard time imagining a place in the US (assuming we're talking about America and not those wacky metric loving canucks) where public nudity is lawful. How do they legislate 'appropriateness'? How do they draw lines between 1 person nude in public vs. two people nude in public vs. two people standing next to each other & nude in public vs. all the above & holding hands vs. all the above and holding something else and so on and so on. EDIT: HTML quote correction