Annawashere

I've met 3 geocachers in the field, not counting the cache owners who placed caches in their yards... Most times I run across suspicious muggles who end up getting scared when I grin at them and ask, "Did you find it?" So the number of odd muggles far outway the informed cachers. The one time I knew for sure it was a cacher was when I saw a woman in business clothes on a busy street, sticking her head in the bushes and lifting up light pole skirts. Sure enough, cacher. I know tumblr code is "Nice shoelaces" (to which you reply "I stole them from the president."). Maybe we could do something similar?

The biggest power trail I know of is ET highway - 1500 I believe? So yes, as far as I know this is the biggest. Congrats

No. Everyone has different caching goals. Mine, currently is to go 183 consecutive days, which has required quite a few easy skirt lifters. You're bumping a lot of old threads lately, you know. In the grand scheme of things, only a teeny percentage of highly active premium members of this website have any sort of "geosteaks" going, or are interested in doing such a thing. I've never liked how so many of this small fringe element seem to like to justify the tens of thousands of LPC's because they're great for their personal Geostreaks. But feel free to flame away at me if you're part of this small fringe element. Sorry... I just discovered the forums and got over excited and forgot to check the dates of posts... No flaming. Just here to learn and hear from other cachers. I think it's awesome to see what everyone has to say, especially as a little baby cacher (I know I have a lot to learn).

It was a LPC. Took 3 visits to GZ with a Nuvi to figure out they could lift up. Ahaha the first skirt lifter is the best. I went with a friend who'd found a handful already. She wanted to show off, so she'd never told me about them. She walked straight up to it and lifted the skirt. I screamed. Literally thought it was the best thing ever.

Never archive a cache unless you are 100% done, not going to replace it. If you want to take it out of commission until it can be REPLACED, then you need to temporarily disable it. Just for next time around.

Just remembered one container I can't believe I forgot. (Photos belong to Team Trunk Monkey) I was FTF on this cache and it was already full of water, log practically pulpy. I somehow managed to sign, but I'd be surprised if 2TF had any such luck. I should think rule number one of placing a cache is to not choose something riddled with holes, practically inviting water and bugs in.

The problem with that is if the cache goes missing for any reason you likely will get blamed for it. I don't get the correlation between reporting a violation and responsibility for a missing cache. Are you saying that people will associate reporting with a desire to personally remove a bad cache? I would never personally remove a bad cache, all that would do would send cachers looking in a bad place for nothing. Too bad that doesn't count for much, I guess.

I'm the worst klutz, so of course I've had a few spills, although never a full on face plant. One cache was in January, whilst raining, on a muddy trail, straight uphill. After lots of climbing, and going straight through bushes and piles of leaves, we found the cache. After signing, my group decided to head back. Well no more than 5 feet into the descent, I lost my balance and fell hard on my back side... into a mud puddle. This kept happening the whole way. By the time we got back to the car, I was dirty, wet, and freezing Lesson for those reading: wear actual hiking boots, not converse I have a few others. On an (amazing!) cache called Australia, which is in a deep culvert, I slipped and slid all the way downhill, across piles of rocks. And on the way up, I almost flipped my friend (who was giving me a hand up) over my shoulder and down the hill. She went sliding down towards me when I grabbed her hand, and she even ended up ripping her pants This same friend attempted a cache along a creek bed. It was a steep, rocky decent to the muddy creek bottom. She figured she could grab a branch and jump down quickly while I waited for her farther back. Well as soon as she grabbed the branch, it snapped and she splashed down. She miraculously managed to not kill my iphone which she was navigating with, but she was soaked through from the waist down. Another time we tried to find a cache in the cold, dark, underneath a big metal bridge. I went to step over some brush, and didn't realize that it was on a sort of ledge thing... dropped down and landed hard on a metal bar. It pierced my shoe and the bottom of my foot. There's been many other spills, but those are the ones that come to mind. It's a running joke with my friends that the only time we'll ever need the first aid kit we bring w/ us is if I'm leading the way

Are those mailboxes really watertight? Or are they just designed to drain easily? In the 24 years I've in CT, I've never had a piece of mail get wet. And my mail gets damp every time it rains. I really need to buy a new box. Same. And over the last few years I've found families of many different bugs living in my mailbox. I would hate to open up a cache and find something like that.

Or bad contents! WOW!!! An AA battery! and my boy got himself a lighter! Oh, if we're talking bad contents, I've found of all things condoms, rusty sharp metal somethings, and human hair. Oi.

Says you. I still enjoy finding GRCs Depends on the hide. A cool bridge with a scenic view is one thing and a bland country road or dead end is another. I happen to love bland country roads. I've placed quite a few caches on them to encourage Sunday drives in the country. To each their own.

If it's my Trackable, all I'd ask is a log note with info on what happened to it. +1 Also some coins can no longer be replaced. Some owners may not want another one (as it's not quite the same thing).

There was a cache published a couple of months ago, claiming to be an easy cache. But upon further investigation it showed that the cache had been placed over a year ago, although the date it was published was recently. And the CO had only had 1 find. I decided not to bother, but put it on my watchlist. Turns out I was right, as over 3 cachers for it with no luck and now it's disabled.

Wow! Can't say I've ever run across human remains, really or ones made to look so. Although I've run across quite a few animal bones, placing and finding caches. I think some of my most interesting geocaching stories happened on the same night. We (two cachers and myself) were in Memphis for the color run, and after picking up our packets went out to do some caches & dinner. We hadn't cached in months, were still noobies, but we were on a roll. It was 11 p.m. and we decided to keep caching. Well, of course, that's when ran into two back to back um, situations. The first being the cops rolling by, very suspicious and never having heard of geocaching. Then the very next cache we ran into a drug dealers during an exchange (I swear). Needless to say, we booked it and called it a night.

GCJFKF 3/29/12 Yay! Found it. This was my first geocaching find. I went with b cr8iv. We had trouble at first, but we figured it out in the end -------------------------- The funny thing is, this was a virtual. I was such a noob I didn't even know what that meant, I'd just been dragged along by my mother's partner (who also knew nothing about geocaching). We spent 20 minutes looking for a container before we finally read through the cache page

No. Everyone has different caching goals. Mine, currently is to go 183 consecutive days, which has required quite a few easy skirt lifters.

You seem to be the one unwilling to admit he's wrong, based on everyone's response to this and it doesn't seem like what you're saying is all that revolutionary, just because you keep saying it over and over will make it so? Not everyone wants to play the way you do. And they shouldn't be forced to. Those who choose to watch their statistics, rankings, d/t grid, can choose to do so through a third party website. And that seems to be fine with everyone playing, except you.

One week? I've had caches go a full month without a find. You would take the FTF away from the legitimate FTF because of that? And I've heard of ones going a year without a find because of difficulty.

It sounds like you want to take what is currently a side game that a lot of geocachers have no interest in playing and making it mandatory for a CO to be part of that game. I suspect that for some cache owners, rather than be forced to participate by placing a FTF code in new caches, they'll choose not to place any new caches. Creating a "leaderboard" is even less meaninful for "the best FTF" hound than it is for the total of caches found. For those that have the luxury of living in a place where a lot of new caches are being placed they can achieve a high spot on the leader board, but in most places in the world the number of FTF opportunities pales in comparison to what you see in areas with a lot of people placing new caches. I don't exactly live in the middle of nowhere but there have been several periods of time of several months when there were only a handful of new caches placed. A few years ago, over a 4+ month period there were less than 5 caches placed within 30 miles. Same. For a couple months I was practically the only one placing caches within 25-30 miles. Until a few months ago, and even now it's just one other person who's placed a handful of caches (which is amazing, but it's still only one person placing them).

Out of over two million caches (and who knows how many cachers)? That would be a huge undertaking. Because you know many 2TF's would "protest" it, every single month, every single one they're allowed.

I have a bookmark list specifically for any cache I've DNF'd. I set it to email me when there's a log. I like watching the smileys pop up on the list, as I get better at the game. And for that reason I never remove ones from there once they're found, just add a note saying I found it and when. And yes, I've gone back 3,4, even 5 times to find a cache. There's one near home that's a nano, although it should not have been hard. It took me (and two caching friends to boot) 4 months before I could find it. It felt like a better victory then a 5/5, let me tell ya.

And anyways, would you want to claim a cache as something it isn't, especially to fill your grid? I've found caches that are a 2 difficulty, maaaybe. But they were rated a 4 difficulty. Even though it fills a square in my grid now, I don't feel like I truly earned it, you feel me?

Yes. Yes. B. This^ And yes, the cache owner is allowed to change ratings as they see fit to describe the hide more accurately. If a change makes a difference in a cacher's "grid", it is best to simply seek a new cache to fill one's grid. +1 I maintain a friend's cache, and we had to change the difficulty 3 times, just because we weren't sure. We finally hit a sweet spot and people don't complain about it being over/under rated. You can't always be sure until you get feedback from the people hunting it.

Here's part of my map. I've done quite a bit of caching farther away, though.

There is also a 5/5 virtual cache (Deep Dam Cache)