sixgunklr

Well, I'm the January 4th entry listed here, but thanks for protecting my identity. At that time I had a whole 2 caches under my belt and didn't really understand alot about the Geocaching culture or practices. I had been doing it for 9 days. I know better know. Wow, you're from Tacoma Washington and you went all the way to Peru, Indiana looking for evidence to prove your point. You're either deeply disturbed or deeply committed. Either one's a judgement call. Thanks for the taste of much correction, six

Has anyone else noticed the large number of trackables that are MIA from caches in Logan, Peru, Wabash, and Kokomo Indiana? It's getting a little disheartening. It seems now that even the Key without a Cache has been ganked from a the Lost your Marbles Cache. Many of us are hoping that someone is just collecting them for the upcoming spring picnic, but if you are get busy logging as such. By my count there is a USA Geocoin, White Jeep TB, Yellow Jeep TB, and several other misc TB's missing from caches in this area. Someone needs a beating. Six

I'll provide lodging, who's gonna handle his food? ********* I went way overboard in the last thread, so I'm refraining from getting too far into this one. I'd just like to offer my "virtual cache" solution to the problem of maintaining a high number of caches. The iSQers alway photograph the area nicely and research the residence. They could easily give you the coords to the cemetery entrance and then the hunt would involve finding the featured stone and reporting a key peice of info. You would still have to do a bit of searching, maybe even more. Instead of a cacher with his head down at his GPS, pacing off toward some tree with a backpack full of goodies and supplies, you would have a person walking through the rows from stone to stone admiring the area and finding a person to honor. No different than any other visitor really. Hold your ears, GM I also want to apologize to SixDogTeam. I got wrapped up in things in the last thread and went after you hard, too hard for my own comfort. I know some of the people who are teamed with you. They are good people and if they respect you, then you must be a decent person. Sorry man. I'm done with this one, Six

I meant no disrespect. As a guest here, I defer to your judgement as moderator. If you feel I was off topic or disrespectful, feel free to delete or move my posts. Please don't read any anger or "passion" in my posts. I just enjoy crafting a debate position. Six

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I'm coming into this discussion kind of late, but I think that in the area of caching ethics, an interesting side issue has been raised. What's more of a threat to the credibility of geocaching? A) walking into a cemetery at night looking for a cache or Peppering Indiana with hundreds of ISQ's that you couldn't possibly maintain. It was said that we are basically participating in a bit of fashionable "littering" with a purpose. I feel that making sure our "purposeful litter" is well maintained is just as important as when cachers actually go looking for them. Case-in-point: the cache in question, ISQ #432 I found this one right after RD109 and read SixDogTeam's admonishment. If he has time to police his log entries and build elaborate HTML pages for his caches, he has time to check on the condition of the ones he currently owns. The micro in question is hidden under a sliver of wood on top of a burned log in a burn pile. It is a rusted metal glasses case that has no weather-proof qualities what-so-ever. I could barely pry it open. The contents were frozen solid because they were completely permeated with rain and it was freezing out. I was unable to separate the pages to sign the log, so I had to just write on the outside of the ice-paper brick. I started hunting ISQ's because I thought it was a cool concept, now I hunt them so that I don't have to look at them on the list anymore. The containers themselves are so neglected that they seem to lean more toward the litter end of the spectrum. It sounds to me that this whole thread has been more about ego and control issues than about law. That's on SixDogTeam. I've read alot of what he's written. Though he seems to be a bit full of himself, I must give him credit for the amount of effort he puts into posting and placing his caches. On the other hand, I criticize him for over-reaching and extending his cache-placing beyond his ability to perform up-keep. His approach to cache-placing seems to be motivated by territory marking or big statistics, and less about purity and responsibility. That having been said, there a plenty of good people involved with the ISQ movement and not all of them have power and control issues. I would suggest that these caches move into the virtual cache realm. The focus of this series caches seems to be on paying respect to men and women buried there. You don't need a 35mm canister or a M&M tube to do that. A virtual cache could do that nicely without the need of return maintenance. That would seem the more respectful, quality-assurant method of placing these ISQ's. sixgunklr

can anyone post a link to the old version? I deleted the install when I downloaded the new version and I don't like the new one. I can't find a way to upload more than one waypoint at a time to my GPS with the new one.