[Geocoins Going Missing!]

I've had a few go to Non-USA locations, and they got missing in Non-USA locations.

[How do I log a cache that doesn't seem to be published?]

You can see unpublished listings through trackable pages, but I guess that is more like a game of luck.

[Geocache Difficulty and Terrain Ratings]

I'm just wondering..what would be examples of different terrain and difficulty ratings?

[Up the Difficulty?]

I've had a good three DNFs on one of our caches and checked up on it, but the cache was still there!

 

I'm just wondering if I should up the difficulty or not, right now it's placed at difficulty 2, terrain 2.

[Worst swag?]

Worst thing I've ever found in a cache is melted soap..

 

That ruined a trackable and the logbook.

[Are my logbook entries boring?]

I've seen a cache in West Virginia where a newbie said in their log "that was not fun" and nothing else..that's a lot worse that plain old TFTC.

[Would this be a multi or a unknown]

I agree with everyone above me..it's a multi.

[Geocoins Going Missing!]

Numerous suggestions have been made to try and remedy this situation, but I doubt that anything that any of us can do will be of any use.

I sent out both an ugly coin and a gold "pirate dubloon" coin. The gold coin remained in play for a little longer. I sent out coins defaced (my initials scratched into them, holes drilled), I tried attaching extra info, sent coins by themselves (no pouch or anything, just the coin), and sent some in their flip sleeve and in a ziplock and all. I can't detect any difference in planning vs. loss. Mine did OK from 2009-2010, then began to evaporate, and now the majority are lost.

 

Since these are eminently "Trackable", having tracking numbers and their own pages, they could be picked up by an honest person and returned to the game at any time. Even years from now. I'm not waiting around for that to happen, but it can happen. I also expect any coin that resurfaces to be lost again pronto. So it's never ending.

 

That's happened to me once before, but I think you have to admit for most geocoins if they go missing they go missing.

[Adopt a Cache - Under Cover (GC3AHVT)]

I have moved out of this area and need somebody to adopt this cache.

Under Cover (GC3AHVT) is located in Libertyville, IL.

 

I don't think that posting here in the Geocaching Topics forum will attract the attention of locals who might be interested in adopting your cache.

 

This thread might get moved to the regional subforum: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showforum=18

 

You might want to seek out groups in the area, and see if you can get interest from their website or facebook page.

 

How do you get a topic moved?

[Adopt a Cache - Under Cover (GC3AHVT)]

I have moved out of this area and need somebody to adopt this cache.

Under Cover (GC3AHVT) is located in Libertyville, IL.

[Adopt a Cache]

I think all you need to do is contact the CO and say you will adopt the cache or not.

[Logged a geocoin in the wrong cache]

You should probably log on both caches, that the trackable you did not place but logged into cache A is not there, and in Cache B, say that there is a trackable item in cache B but it is not logged in there.

Hope this helps!

[What do I do now?!]

Easiest thing... now that it is archived, retrieve the cache, log the trackable out of it and place it elsewhere.

Although un-archiving a cache can be done, it is not done very often... when so, it is normally because of unusual circumstances.

I just don't see that "guessing" on a hide location would qualify.

 

 

For future reference, having a reviewer change the location (reviewer MUST make the change if moved more than 528') is not an instantaneous happening. It needs to be reviewed all over again (pretty much).

 

 

*This does present another very unique opportunity. est79 would be FTF as well as LTF. Dunno if that has ever happened before!*

 

I've seen a few geocaches in my area get archived before anyone found it. But all of them were cases of the person never found a geocache and hid it just for fun, but the geocache isn't actually there. They just typed in random coordinates and were lucky that it wasn't in a 0.1 mi radius of a cache.

[You may think you have found a geocache...]

Actually, our first geocache, Under Cover (GC3AHVT) was placed within 40 feet of a letterbox, however I had no idea that was there. It is frustrating having a letterbox nearby your cache because

1.Geocachers find the letterbox instead of the actual cache.

2.If the geocache is missing, people find the letterbox instead, so you have no idea the real cache is missing.

But there is one good thing, if somebody looking for the letterbox finds the geocache, they go to geocaching.com and sign up (that actually happened to one of our geocache finders).

 

The letterbox is not logged on geocaching.com, so the people looking for the letterbox do not know about geocaching (probably).

[How you Started]

I got started by randomly finding one in our local park. I read the flyer and signed up. We have 112 caches to this day and I love it!

[Geocoins Going Missing!]

At least half of my geocoins that I purchased and placed in December of 2011 and January of 2012 are now missing! I placed some more of my geocoins in caches today but I am worried that they will go missing too. I would like to think of ways to prevent this and remind all cachers not to keep geocoins that are supposed to travel.