Lostboy1966

Nice paint work.

There's a Community Celebration Event coming up nearby. Time to reboot! I'm not proud. Or tired.

Handlebar mustaches and stovepipe hats, preferably with a black cape.

Thank you. (Somebody had to say it.)

If I am especially concerned about photos (I usually am) I add a line to the cache page stating Please do not post spoiler photos in your log just for added emphasis.

Add my voice to the 'the new default view makes no sense' chorus here.

SUCH a waste of prime real estate in my opinion. Even if it is a stage of a multi, at least make it a small. Save the micros and nanos for urban settings. Just adding my $.02, even though I couldn't leave that change in a micro.

Having recently gotten back into the game out of boredom due to this <expletive deleted> virus, I find myself looking forward to returning to the 'before times', and attending a good old burger-joint based Event Cache. Someday soon, I hope...

The 64sx is a great unit, but it chews through batteries like nobody's business.

59 hides up until 2009, then a decade off. I'm currently at 82 and trying to figure out the path to 100. I cringe to look at some of my early hides now.

Write at least a single complete sentence in your log, dangit! What also irks me is people that reply to a forum topic with an opinion that probably has been mentioned 1000 times already.

Having read all of the heartfelt comments, I apologize for the Subject of this thread; I should have titled it more along the lines “How Do I Get Hunters To Read My Cache Page Description?” Sometimes being a grognard when phones came on the GC scene still taints my comments; my intent certainly was not to offend anyone. I do put a good amount of effort into my containers and write-ups, however. It is where I get my enjoyment of the game (and we are all free to play as we see fit). Am I wrong for wanting people to read them and not just drop a ‘TFTC’ regardless of the device used to find them? In this case, the Mystery Cache route seems the best way to go for most of the series. I will probably start with a Traditional the leads to four Mystery hides. Again, the schtick is to add a little mini-game to the mix in the series. Wish me luck, and thank you, everyone!

Thanks for the advice. The move will be multiple miles.

I Archived this after another nearby hide of mine went missing. I'll re-release it in a more remote location soon.

I'll have to make the next container a Large...

Muggled. This is why we can't have nice things! I probably should have gone for a more remote location. Oh well. Rest in peace (hopefully not pieces) Audrey II.

Thank you, everyone, as always. I'll probably go more towards the Mystery cache route.

Work in progress, BTW...

That's my point. Sometimes a hider puts effort that has something to do with the cache, but nobody reads it because they are just checking off the next smiley on their phone.

It’s a five cache series, and I’m still not decided if I’ll make it ‘find one to find the other four’, or ‘find four to find the final’ yet. The schtick so far is Traditionals as much as possible, with a Choose Your Own Adventure theme a la D&D, where you pick a character and there is a die in each container to randomize your progress – just for fun, even if it is a low D/T listing. The schtick can be ignored and you can just go for the TFTC logs, but I want to encourage players to go for the full effect. I’m trying to keep away from the Mystery category (which I’ve done for series before), but I suppose at least one will have to be in that category. I’m still building the containers, anyway, so I have time to decide on the format. Thank you, everyone, for the feedback!

Back in the olden days, I harrumphed about these new-fangled cachers that used their phones instead of the website and a GPSr to find a hide. I realize now that the game has grown to where a good portion of players are playing exclusively by the phone app. The issue I see now is that, by the nature of the app, there is little incentive to read a cache page description; you just click the target and go, then leave a 'TFTC' (or less), then move on to the next find. In one of my recent hides, I have started the post with "Please read cache description; there is a special request for logging online." (https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC8TBYJ_the-mark-twain-quotation-station) , yet still get logs from some hunters that obviously have not read the cache description, and have seldom, if ever, logged onto the website. I'm working on a new series that I hope will be a LOT more fun if people read the write-up before going for it. Any suggestions on how to grab a phone cacher's attention enough to load and read the description before hunting?

Why haven't I thought of that? I build exclusively on Lock & Lock bases these days, and those 'Do Not Eat' packages are everywhere - seems like a good idea for humidity-based moisture. I'll give it a shot on my next hides!

One. But it has barely been an hour yet. Actually I turned it off before it could acquire. It darn sure would not have locked from inside my garage! I might just take it out on my next walk.

When cleaning out my garage, I found this little wonder. Popped in batteries, and the 'TIE Fighters' went right to work!