wildchld97

Well, now that you mention it. I have a cache at the apex of this tree. At the time of this picture, the water level was 10' above normal. There's a 14' gator who calls this stretch home. Please tell me that you have rated this cache at least a 3?

Ok..a "trash to cache" hide. I'm actually feelin' it. I was actually joking about the "trash" part..but it does have a nice ring. lol.

There is no harm in asking. Don't expect that they'll comply though.

Geodrinkers? Sounds like my kind of crowd.

Keep in mind that the cache may not be listed just as you want. A reviewer's job is a pretty big one. He/she will probably try (they are pretty good at that), but things happen.... Oh that's totally understood. It's worth a shot though. If it happens..great. If not..no sweat. It's not really a big deal.

Well, considering everything that has been said so far, I'm probably going to lean towards arranging for the cache to just be published the morning of the event. I'll make sure everyone gets the coord's and the cache will be hidden nearby. Sometimes the FTF stuff boggles my mind...but I'm glad I asked. I'll stick with the regular SWAG and leave the FTF's to fate. lol. Oh..and yes I did get your email..lol just haven't had a chance to reply yet. We definitely have to hook up. My schedule is mostly open.

Ok..I didn't want the cache to be published after the event. I wanted it published like..an hour or so after the event started. I can't say for sure, but I think the reviewer would be ok with that if I put my request in the reviewer note. So..it's not as if I'm allowing someone to have the coord's before it's published. I'm just thinking that if it's published at the same time as the event, everyone really has the same chance. The person who wins the coord's at the event might have a 10 minute advance. lol

Ok..I know this has been discussed ad nauseum...but I think this is a new twist. I'm having a small event. As one of the smaller prizes, I thought I'd give the person the coord's to a cache that I'd place beforehand so they could be the "official" FTF when it's published that day. Is that going to tick some people off?

I've got to head to Pittsburgh and look for more of Logsplitter's caches! Nah...that's why it was a "bonus find". 99% of logsplitter's caches are no bigger than my thumb..no room for SWAG.

No. LOL. I so wish we had geohashing here. Beer and a geocache might be a great idea. (Not so good if its a 5/5 though, unless someone is willing to hoist me all the way up the cliff and carry my arse back down. lol)

The only time I can think of that the reviewer took a bit more time to review my cache is if there were issues that he/she needed to address. That's a dead giveaway for me. Longer than a few days...and I'd better go back to the page to see what might be making the poor person scratch their chin. Usually it's something simple. Just go back to the page and make sure that there isn't anything that might raise a red flag. (agendas, distance from another cache, business names on the page...etc)

I fortunately thought about the HHH..and I made sure that I checked to make sure that there weren't any scheduled runs today. Besides...there wasn't any flour around anyway. lol. None of this is even close to the strangest things I've found near a cache. I smell a former or new thread forming.

I fortunately thought about the HHH..and I made sure that I checked to make sure that there weren't any scheduled runs today. Besides...there wasn't any flour around anyway. lol.

Well bless your lil' heart. I do understand the initial disappointment. I've been in the same situation. However, those dates in the actual log book really don't mean squat if you think about it. The person who logs it online FIRST is what the geo community sees. So in all actuality, you found it first. If the person logs it weeks or months later, it's rare that they'll actually put down the correct date. Even if they DO somehow remember the exact date...and bump you down, so what? You got another smiley AND solved the puzzle. That's enough for a pat on the back for me!

Nah, I appreciate them more..it gives us something to croak about. Otherwise we'd all be milling about in the OT forum. That's no fun.

I guess I can always argue that it was my civic responsibility as a parent to keep this evil brew out of the hands and mouths of our impressionable youngins.

Ahhh it just goes to show that even a micro can have Good SWAG! I think we might have disappointed some high school kids who might have hidden that stash for their weekend party...but finders keepers.

I was trying to imagine what you were describing. Does it look like this? Septic Tanks If I'm understanding correctly, the holes are open and exposed? If the holes are fairly flush with the ground, this is a big hazard. I guess there are no rocks or boards around big enough to cover the holes?

That's apples and oranges. What you are talking about is an obvious hazard. The OP is talking about a hazard that someone could very well accidentally stumble upon that is NOT obvious.

Watching where they walk is their responsibility, not mine. Of course not. No one can hold each individual seeker's hand and guide them to the cache, telling them to watch their step, look out for that branch etc. But if the CO knows there's a hazard nearby, and they know cachers have to --or likely will--walk past it on their way to GZ, I would say they have a responsibility to write something about it in the description. Sort of like this....Hazards

This is good advice. As for FTF's going out at night, you can take care of that by telling your reviewer NOT to publish your cache until daylight. I did that on one of my hides and the reviewer was very accomodating. Despite what others may think, it IS our responsibility to warn of known dangers associated with cache hides. It would make me sick to my stomach if someone got killed or seriously injured because of something that I failed to mention. I shudder to think of what would happen to a child falling into a watery pit because someone thought "none of my business where they walk".

I think we're all guilty of that. I wish it were the case for this one. I'd have just sucked it up and called myself a doofus. I asked the owner if maybe I approached the cache the wrong way, missed a trail..but no..this was the way he had intended. Geez.

I'm actually with you there. I once went to look for a seemingly "simple" cache. It had a rating of 2.5. The trail started easy enough and I enjoyed a nice little walk..until the GPS said "down". The trail had ended and I noticed that I was still .25 miles away. HUH? Ok..so down I went doing my interpretation of the arachnid crawl. Into the ravine I went and then the GPS said..."up". Well it was only .15 from here sooo..up I went. I grabbed onto branches, trees, rocks and whatever else that seemed like it was solidly fixed in the hillside. Once I got to the top it was still 500 feet...but at least it was fairly level ground except for the occasional fallen log. The cache was almost within my grasp. I was within 20 feet. The problem was that I was again on the edge of a hillside. I said a few cuss words under my breath. I saw a stream down there and a grouping of rocks on the other side of the stream. It was then that I spied my prize. It was in the grouping of rocks across the stream but getting to it presented another challenge. It was slippery, muddy, mossy and had the real danger of twisting an ankle if it got caught in one of those rocks. 2.5 my arse. I worked for that one. I privately emailed the owner and suggested that they up the terrain rating, but I don't think they did. For all I know, this person genuinely thought that this hike was a cake walk. Maybe they skydive/rock climb/hike the Appalachian trail on a regular basis..who knows? All I know is that I would have rated THAT one at least a 3.5 or a 4.

My opinion...? Get over it. Jimmney Crickets...do you even HAVE a life?

Weird, I was just looking at GeoHashing a few weeks ago. I had heard about it when the comic was originally published, but I never really checked it out. In my more recent look at the game, I ran across this same old thread, so I was surprised to see it bumped up again. There is a free Android app, and I think there's an iPhone app as well which do all the calculations for you. If you don't have either of those there's the "peeron map." Just click on your location (or whatever location you wish) and it'll mark the current GeoHash for that graticule. It will also display the coords in the lower right corner in several formats. http://carabiner.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html Ok..in TRUE hashing...we didn't USE those fancy schmancy little toys. NO ifones..no androids.Follow the arrows, drink a beer and have fun. Geez..kids these days.