colleda
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Finally have a chance to add another. Booked a trip to Sth Korea for late September.
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18 hours ago, barefootjeff said:
I'm sorry to hear that and hope your specialists can help improve things for you.
Thanks Jeff.
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On 3/15/2024 at 11:27 AM, ivss_xx said:
If you want to see your caches keep going and find like it's not feasible to maintain them, you may consider reaching out to other local cachers to see if someone would be keen to adopt.
I'd prefer to archive. It would give others a chance to place their own and also enable previous finders to revisit the islands. There have been some terrains changes since the originals were placed. One island has disappeared, gone, blown away.
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On 3/6/2024 at 3:29 AM, CyberTrek23 said:
I have been inspired by birdhouse gadget caches they hide in plain sight yet are super fun and get lots of FP’s (usually)
My experience is that birdhouse caches have a high attrition rate, especially gadget ones. And, I have come across real birdhouses stuffed with junk and bits of paper by cachers not realising they are not caches.
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28 minutes ago, BigOpe said:
When distances displayed on the geocaching app go above 528 feet it kicks over into 0.1 miles, and that can actually be anything from 529' to 792', after which it kicks over into 0.2 miles, etc. Is there a setting I haven't found to solve that if I need a more precise distance?
Go metric?
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It's eleven months to the day since I started this thread and I thought I should do an update on how my caching is going as there has been a somewhat recent change which is affecting my caching ability as far as maintenance is concerned.
My mobility has been affected by a recurrence of rheumatoid arthritis which has affected my feet, imagine walking barefoot on marbles. Luckily, I can cycle ok. I have some caches (a series) on islands which I would normally maintain by kayak however the arthritis in my shoulders is restricting my ability to paddle. I may have to archive those. ATM I am doing my best to keep up the maintenance. I have a list of specialist appointments coming up soon which, hopefully, may improve things - rheumatologist, haematologist and urologist. Aging is a baitch.
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On our Danube/Main/Rhine cruise in 2018 I just loaded PQs for each city stop. We joined the (included) cruise tours which were all very interesting and mostly done before lunch. This left the afternoon free to do other stuff including geocaching which took us to not so familiar tourist spots which were still very intersting. We didn't feel like we had to find them all and, looking back, there were a lots of things in the tours of historical interest - to us. We could also pick up a few quick finds along the way.
One thing I noticed were a lot of Virtuals however many were time consuming with many stages . We gave those a miss (it's all about the numbers init
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7 hours ago, barefootjeff said:
The trouble is the official app puts the hint button more prominently above the description and says to only look at the description if you get stuck (by which time it's probably too late).
Sometimes I wonder if it might be better on traditionals to just put "This page intentionally left blank" as the description and have everything in the hint.
With this cache there is an additional hint in the description could help but I think most would miss it.
"Cache is a small 375ml container ...."
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I like the magnets from old computer hard drives. Very strong.
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Those once wet, faded, stamped signatures come in handy when I come across a full log sheet.
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On 11/30/2023 at 9:43 AM, MNTA said:
Take it up with GS because they definitely don't agree with you.
Cache hidden 2010.
Co Joined 12/13/2009Last Visited 01/11/2020
Looks abandoned by all the rules for cache placement.
Former logs:
Cache needs maintenance badly! I couldn’t write on the log book properly. Paper so wet.
Found both containers, 1 has no lid and is drenched through, signed log that was dry, TFTC
So the second container was probably a throwdown. But even that has issues. Logs show issues back to 2022. You need a responsible owner to take care of any and all issues.
The area has plenty of caches and is regularly frequented by finders. My guess is in a year or two another cache will replace this one, hopefully sooner.
Correct on all counts. I don't like fake, or otherwise, sprinkler caches. And, as in Goldenwattle's example have dismantled a real one and spent way too much time reassembling it. This example was not immediately recognisable as a sprinkler nor was it in a spot where a sprinkler would be normally placed.
I saw this as an example of throwdown, placed after a string of DNFs, saving a viable container (albeit a poor choice of container) where the CO is MIA. As found, this cache had no issues per se. It was easily located and the log was dry and signable although getting a bit tatty. Nothing really requiring a NM. BTW I am not a fan of community maintenance and if this cache had a soggy log I most likely would have logged a NM. Surprisingly the inside of the sprinkler had a volume about the same as a film pot.
I don't know the CO personally but I have found a few of his caches and he does seem to pop up occasionally after a long absence.
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Here is one I re-found today. It had a few issues including soggy logs and rusty mint tin throwdown. Despite one NM a bit over a year ago, and a little cache creep, it remains a viable cache. The original, which is still there, was a fake sprinkler.
On Thin Ice Traditional Geocache
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My Android phone alerts me to emails. It then "pings" my Garmin watch where I can read them, with a little difficulty, if I don't have my glasses handy.
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1 hour ago, barefootjeff said:
A few possible explanations come to mind, such as only doing the ones they needed for a challenge cache, skipping the higher-D ones or even just leaving some for a later visit. If the ones they didn't log have had recent finds, I'd be doing a wait-and-see. Taking a quick look at a few, they still seem to be getting several logs a month so maybe give it a few weeks.
That's why I try to make my DNF logs as detailed as I can, so the CO (and others) can hopefully get a good idea of whether there might be a problem or not, particularly as most of the time there's not.
They found the toughest one of the series, a D4, for which finders often need multiple attempts (Team 737 had four goes before your DNF). Plus a couple of others that are tricky and skipped a few easy ones. No pattern.
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Today, an experienced cacher (3k+) has finished(?) my Fernleigh Track series of 21 traditional caches (including one disabled). However, what concerns me is they have only logged 13 finds. I am now left wondering if they skipped some or DNF'd them. So, do I go and check or just wait for the next cacher to do them. I'll wait and think about sending the cacher a polite message asking if they DNF'd any.
If people can't find my caches I want to know about it.
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You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
Lennon/McCartney
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6 hours ago, barefootjeff said:
It depends on whether it also adds in the string of 4 DNFs it had in 2019-2020 that were followed by the 3 finds later in 2020. I once got a CHS ping on a 2/5 multi after just one DNF, so it seems a bit hit and miss.
That was early days. CHS has had much tweaking since.
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Only 3 DNFs on a D3.5 won't trigger CHS. I recently had 5 DNFs on a D3.5 without being "pinged".
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19 hours ago, barefootjeff said:
Today being sufficiently cool (although a bit showery), I went out to GC4YF8F to satisfy my curiosity ahout those recent DNFs:
I was expecting to either find it missing (in which case I'd have logged an NA), as those DNFers clearly thought (though luckily none of them were sufficiently convinced to log an NM or NA), or pushed too far into its hiding place and out of sight, so I came equipped with a torch and a gooseneck camera. I didn't need either of those, as the cache was just sitting there in plain sight, exactly where it was meant to be. If it had a mouth, it would have been yelling "I'm here, find me!", I'm sure. Given that it lives in the roof of a cave, the container and logbook were bone dry and in excellent condition:
Yes, sure, the CO has been inactive since 2018 and has likely left the area, but caches like this one and the others he placed are a rare treat and would be unlikely to be replaced by anything new if they were archived. I wouldn't place a cache there, or adopt it if I was offered it, as I find the climb into the cave a bit more daunting and nerve-wracking than I'd be comfortable with on one of my hides, and I don't know of anyone else in the region who'd be likely to either, so if it did get archived due to an inactive owner it would almost certainly just become more empty space on an already cache-sparse map. We're a community here and help each other out on caches like these.
Interesting (to me) is the CO's last find in 2017 was one of my caches. Maybe I put them of their game.
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7 hours ago, barefootjeff said:
I can be a bit of a dunderhead when it comes to puzzle caches, I'm probably the only one in the state who hasn't been able to solve all the geoart puzzles from the 2018 mega near here. Sometimes I can be lucky, like one recently where the pattern of numbers reminded me of an encoding scheme I'd used a lot at work, and sure enough that's what it turned out to be, but on another recent one I disappeared down rabbit holes involving base64 conversions, signs on buildings at the listed coordinates and email encoding schemes when it actually had nothing to do with any of that and was much more straightforward. After a nudge (well, two nudges) from the CO, I got there with the obligitary forehead slap and ultimately gave it an FP for both the puzzle and hide.
Puzzles can cover a broad range of interests, skills and difficulties, where one man's meat is another man's poison is an absolute truism. Do the ones you like and ignore the rest.
I would imagine you have done better than me Jeff. I've only scored 15 out of the, IIRC, 54 Mega puzzles. Puzzles aren't my thing.
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Profile>Statistics>Maps.
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There's only one way to find out. Suck it and see.
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14 hours ago, barefootjeff said:
How does blaming an absent owner improve the game? You can blame all you want, but at the end of the day there's still one less cache for the community to find.
The "moldy" log may have indicated a problem with the container or perhaps it was not properly closed by a finder, we will never know. The CO could have done something about it and didn't. How often have caches lingered in a sorry state before they 'died', we've all found them. But some cachers are reluctant to put them out of their misery.
And, as someone once said. "You don't have to find them all".
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21 hours ago, barefootjeff said:
Well it was in an official blog post by HQ so I'd hope it represents official policy, but it's also contrary to what reviewers are posting as official policy, so it would be nice to get some clarification on this from HQ.
I think it's sad that NM (now Owner Attention Requested) has now been effectively turned into NA (Reviewer Attention Requested). Looking at the logs on that cache, the three consecutive NMs were from five years ago and were about water getting into the container, but there's no mention of wetness in the more recent logs, in fact one of them says "all good here". Archiving a cache simply because the owner is inactive and hasn't cleared an historic red wrench isn't punishing the absent owner, it's punishing the community and only serves to further discourage logging NMs for issues that don't require archival of the cache if they're not addressed by the owner.
One log described the log as "moldy". Yuk.
There is no shortage of caches in the area.
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"smelling fruity" could attract cache stealing critters.
If I recycle containers that may have contained foodstuff I will first wash them in soapy water then rinse with white vinegar.