Wadcutter
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When we first found Mingo, GC30, 21 years ago it was a 5 gallon bucket buried in the dirt next to a fence post. A few years later we were coming thru the area with my son who wanted to log Mingo. Then it was a bison tube and the 5 gallon bucket had been removed. It's now showing Mingo as a large cache.
Sizes change. And that is very common when someone does a throwdown such as an ammo can replaced by a pill bottle.
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Sounds like similar to logging a travel bug. Once the number is public fake loggers flood the log book.
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Sounds something like an off set cache where you go to a given set of coordinates to some object then given instructions to go some distance at such a degree. I use to find those occasionally.
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We started in 2002. I don't recall attributes then. Could have been but I'm not able to remember something like that from 22 years ago.
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Here's what my map for WI looks like from that site. Highlights the map. Also lists the names of the counties and the number of caches I've found in each county.
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12 hours ago, MtnGoat50 said:
I'm not saying you're wrong and I'm sure it varies from region to region but my experience in my area is that the hardware store has a poor selection in geocaching sizes. That and paying $1 for a single (close to) bison sized o-ring made me look elsewhere.
Oh please. Regional? Faucet repair kits aren't sold by regions. A Moen faucet is going to be the same faucet in Spokane as any where in the US. Same with all the other makers of plumbing fixtures. Spokane isn't "special".
You need to check other hardware stores. If your hardware stores do not have a plumbing section with faucet repair kits then you don't have a hardware store. The O ring for a bison tube is not a special O ring made just for bison tubes. They're a common size. You just have to look or ask if you aren't able to find them.
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Any hardware store will have an assortment. They may have a specialty section. If not look in the plumbing section for parts to repair leaky faucets. I've gotten some there.
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6 hours ago, Goldenwattle said:
It's not my reviewer. I doubt my reviewer would make that comment.
I now wonder how many NMs are needed before a NA can be placed?
I was travelling. Same reviewer who said they couldn't do anything about a marked 1T wheelchair accessible cache which even I, an able bodied person, couldn't reach without a long stick. I wasn't though physically capable of returning the cache back up that high, which I shouldn't be expected to, as it was marked 1T, and didn't return it to where it was, but left it low. The latest log of that cache said they were tall but it was a 5T. I don't consider it that either; maybe a 2T or 2.5T, but it gives an indication that it's not wheelchair accessible. I was under the misapprehension that the one rating that the reviewer could correct was the 1T, when it wasn't wheelchair accessible. I was corrected here and told that's not so and that a reviewer can't do that. I have known reviewers to correct that though, changing it to 1.5T to remove the wheelchair attribute.
I'm trying to follow this line here. Am I correct in understanding that you disagreed with the D/T rating so you marked it as Needs Archived?
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Do a search for archived caches GC3TJAK and GC3TJBN. An instructor at a junior college attempted to do the same. They were a bit slow learning such caches violate Geocaching.com rules. The reviewer who finally archived them posted they should never have been published.
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With GSAK you can load caches into a Garmin Nuvi 2 methods. Either export it as a POI or use a macro with Garmin POILoader. I like gamin-nuvi-exportgpx.gsk. If you can find it. It was discontinued by the owner but one of the best macros I like with GSAK. There are other export macros in the library but I like this one better. Personal preference.
With that macro caches are listed under Geocache TourGuide in the Nuvi menu from closest to farthest. Then each cache is showed my their name, type, cache number, and if there's a TB in the cache. Click on which cache you want. It will show a split screen. 1/2 of the screen is a map. the other 1/2 screen shows more details about the cache, ie, coords, type, size, last 4 found status, D/T, name, who placed it, date placed, and date last found. Scroll down and it will give the description just like on the cache page. Scroll a bit further and it will show the last 5 or 10 logs depending how you load the cache. Then click on "Go" and you get a full screen map with highlighted road to the cache and turn by turn voice.
Exporting as a POI does not give you all the cache details but it does have one advantage that if you want to remove a cache from your Nuvi you can delete it on your Nuvi. With the macro the cache is in memory until your use GSAK to write over that file. Not a big deal really.
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Sorry those 2 didn't work out. I've never tried loading that many caches at the same time. Several hundred at most. That many ran slow. I would imagine 15K would really be slow.
If you find a copy of Nuvi_GPX_V3.gsk would you please email me a copy too. I'll give it a try.
Thanks much and good caching.
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When I first signed up for GSAK there was a macro titled "garmin-nuvi-exportgpx". I've had several different auto type GPS since then all Garmin. I'm currently using a Driversmart 55. This macro works great with all of the auto type GPS I've had.
Load the caches you're interested in or a PQ into GSAK. Run the macro. Then load the file into your Driversmart using Garmin POI Loader.
This macro works great for paperless caching. It will show all the same info that's on the cache page on geocaching.com. It will also show the last 5-20 logs.
With all the info in the Driversmart I can see what caches are in my direction. I then click on the cache and the "I" where I can then read all about the cache. Then click on the go to and it will direct me to the cache by the route. Once I get to the cache location I use a handheld on foot. Altho you could use the Driversmart to hike it's just not as convenient.
Unfortunately it does not appear that macro is still available.
Masscache I've sent you a PM to your email listed on your profile. More info in that.
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Where in IL are you located? If near Springfield I and wife can help. There are several larger type caches that are easy to find.
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Several years ago I had a cache out that was found by a cacher with over 10,000 finds. The cache was a 3 terrain. I had in the description to replace the cache where it was originally placed. The cache was easily seen but the trick was figuring a way to get to it. The high round count finder said it was too hard for the average cacher therefore he rehid it where it would be easier for people to get to. I suspect the real reason he rehid it was because he didn't want to make the effort to rehide it in the original location.
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Or you could log a "note" and write that you were unable to remove the log sheet and plan to return.
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On 4/6/2022 at 1:48 PM, RuideAlmeida said:
Lovely. Please always try to add the GC code of a nearby cache.
That picture was taken 20 years ago near Quincy IL. No way I would remember the GC code on a single cache from 20 years ago. Most likely that cache has long been archived.
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Mrs WC and Snickers caching in 2002
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There use to be a cache not too far from me. The coords took you to the middle of an old cemetery that was almost 3 acres in size and surrounded by trees and trees within the cemetery. In the description the hider wrote the cache was not at the given coordinates but within 150 ft "in the usual hiding place". That meant it was anywhere within a 300 ft diameter circle. When brought to the attention of the reviewer it was immediately archived. The hider must have changed the description after the cache was approved. I can't see any reviewer who is doing their job approving such a cache. The reviewer for this area is pretty good so I can only guess the hider changed the cache after it was approved.
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16 hours ago, arisoft said:
I think that one reason for this kind of abuse is the fact that players tend to read the hint only, not the description.
People often don't read the description/narrative. Years ago my dad placed an off set mystery. The coords listed took you to the starting place. When you read the narrative it told you various distances using old surveying terms. The cache was at a historical site and had a connection to surveying methods 175 years ago. The actual cache was about 100 ft away from the given coords. If a person had read the narrative and researched the surveying terms they would have easily found the cache. It wasn't a difficult cache to find or figure out. But instead people would post 'needs archived' because the cache was missing at the starting point coords or that the coords were off by 100 ft. He got a lot more of those type posts than he did from those who read the narrative and played the game.
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22 minutes ago, Max and 99 said:
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No contact required
- Caches cannot require geocachers to contact the cache owner or anyone else.
And.... From the geocaching rules:
No commercial content
Cache pages perceived as commercial will not be published. Commercial content includes any of the following characteristics
- Overtones of advertising, marketing, or promotion
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Suggests or requires the finder do any of the following
- Go inside a business
- Interact with employees
- Purchase a product or service
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Name, links, or logos of the following
- Businesses
- Commercial products
- Competing games or cache listing services
- Links or logos of agencies and organizations (including nonprofit organizations), unless needed for permission
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1 hour ago, Max and 99 said:
I sure hope that wasn't my trackable they left where the cache wasn't, but was supposed to be!
Guanabara Bay Tag.
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Circled and circled for 20 minutes. Could not find it.
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Didn't find it
04/14/2021No find. No trackable either that a previous cacher said they left. There's nothing even close by like the description.
Gone. 7 DNF in a row for a 1.5/1.5 cache.
Needs to be archived if the CO does not correct.
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Found it
04/09/2021Found it but didn’t really find... it’s obviously not there because several people have marked DNF. If you looked you’ve earned a find in my book. TFTC
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03/20/2021Didn't have long to search at a quick restarea stop and was unable to locate.
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Found it04/08/2021
Ran past it. Construction, so it’s not there. Everyone else is marking as a find so TFTC.
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The following post is on a local puzzle cache series. A total of 22 "art" caches. You have to figure the puzzles to get each cache and then the art map will be filled in with smilies.
So did this cacher figure out the puzzles? Were the actual caches really missing? Are there now a string of geotrash placed out there? More throwdowns. At least they didn't claim 'finds' for their throwdowns.
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So (caching partner) and I have had our eyes on this geoart for a while. Today we finally made it. It included a tour of many gravel roads, crops and local farmers harvesting their crops today. We were disappointed that about half of this series were missing. We replaced as many containers and logs as we had with us, the rest we DNF'd. Most of the ones we found were wet and in poor shape. The whole series could use a little clean up. Nothing found here! Thanks for putting these out there and the smilies we did find!
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I only leave TBs in caches that have recent finds in the log book. I won't leave a TB that only gets found once a year as likely the TB will just sit.