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    What Would You Do For A Geocache

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    Nothing as radical as you guys! But I did wind up chest-deep in a drainage ditch with knee deep muck in the middle of a marsh restoration project. Cache called "Bridge Almost Too Far" and I never saw a bridge. Nothing but tall marsh grasses and brambles. Thought I'd just step over this little stream and before you can blink, I'm in it. The smell alone could have killed. Sun's going down, I'm thinking hypothermia, if I get out. Holding the GPSr high, I'm grasping onto cattails thinking" spread out your weight, don't get more mired" as I give another mighty pull on my stuck legs. Face down in the soup and straining, I'm literally grasping at straws, utterly alone. "This is how they'll find me, spent and frozen, unless the coyotes get here first." Well, I got out and found the cache, then got lost because the GPSr got wet and useless. (I even marked the starting point when I began, so I could get back.) For what seemed like a lot longer than it probably was, I was in survival mode. When I got home all smiles, my wife just shook her head.

    Cemetery Caches

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    I am touched by the sensitivity of the GC community on this issue and have logged more than a few beauts. There is a local cacher, however, who gets approval by calling graveyards "little parks". It may simply be a ploy to gain quick approval or a little subterfuge to confuse us. These "little parks" are basically park and grab micros with no historical(except to kin)/geographic significance. I am put off by drive-by placements, but hunt them none-the-less.

    New Rules

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    These rules are simply clarification of the already exsiting ones. If we have no rules then we fall into anarchy.

    My Mama used to say "Follow the the Golden Rule." Then there was something about 10 more commandments. Then there was classroom rules and the Pledge of Allegiance, the Boy Scout Laws, driving regulations, high school guide books, the uniform code of military justice, marriage vows... ad infinitum.

    Mama was right.

    Sport Or Game

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    it's how do you define the sport, game, hobby, activity, madness, etc for yourself.

    It is what it is. Semantics aside, our "activity" can be all things to all people, thus wildly popular. Witness these forums, a free and open exchange of ideas. Do labels matter? A rose by any other name . . .

    Geocaching Recruitment

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    Posted · Edited by GeoVet

    Don't push it, is my advice.

     

    People will either like the sport or think you're a strange person, hunting for boxes in parks.

    Hey GeoVet, did you not read the post by BigFurryMonster? :lol::ph34r::lol::DB):lol::ph34r:

    Yup I read Big Furry's post and couldn't agree more. I think the sport sells itself. I just had to get some issues off my chest, I guess.

    Geocaching Recruitment

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    How about this? You bully and intimidate your way into high school lunch rooms, set up eye candy in front of handsome toughs, call everybody wussies for not geocaching, get all their personal data from the office (it's the law, they can't refuse) so you can badger them at home, offer them any impossible thing they want to go geocaching, set-up weekend indoctrination sessions ( . . . umm, GeoInfoCamps, yeah! that's it!) where in-your-face is par, convince them that they can't live without geocaching and they should just try it for 4 years. You could get the backing of multi-million dollar ad campaigns at government expense. Cajole, woo, threaten, intimidate, tease, sell, trick, muscle, subtlety court and spark young minds into thinking "Must . . . have . . . GPSr". Lie, cheat or steal. Tell them absolutely anything, promise them anything, guarantee them anything they want (legal, shmegal). . . if they will only go tupperware hunting.

    OK. I'm better now.

    Record Keeping Advice?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by GeoVet

    When I started caching, I printed out the cache page and used it to take any notes on the cache hunt, such as what I left/took, tb's, difficulties, fun things, dnf,  etc.  Then when I got home, I put these in a three ring notebook I had leftover from something else.  To me it was just a way to keep a "history" and I still do it.

     

    Same here. KISS works for me. Peace.

    Place A Cache Day?

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    How about a "Replace a Cache Day" where you replace some lame pointless cache with a good one?

     

    I like the way criminal thinks. We've got enough bad caches. How 'bout "Take a Noob to Replace a Lame Cache Day"?

    Whatever, there's bound to be too many rules involved.

    How Can I Improve My Cache Finding Skills?

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    Highpointer, same thing happened to me in Grand Cayman Island. Couldn't find the darn thing when I was sure I was on top of it and I knew I'd never be back. Sure enough, someone found the thing after I looked and looked. (Less than a year later a hurricane devastated the island and all but one cache was left. Guess which one.)

    When I am getting frustrated and can't find one now, I turn off my Garmin, sit down and "think like a geocacher". That's what I would tell my students when I taught a geocacheing class, too. Trust the force. . .

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