nonaeroterraqueous
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I've been doing a little looking around. In Ohio it seems that municiple roads are owned by the government, but the rural roads tend to be built on easements. I wonder if this is generally the case in most states?
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Post the final coordinates on the outside of a skyscraper, where only a drone with a camera can see it. Put the cache deep inside a tiny drainpipe where only a robot with a camera can get to it. Require all finders to log their finds with a spambot.
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I always hate it when people do this on The Price is Right, but...
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If I solve the puzzle myself and then use a drone to retrieve the cache, is that cheating?
No, that's innovation. Equip that thing with a rubber stamp, and you can make it legitimate.
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Knives, sorry, I won't leave them if I find them. I'll usually leave some none-bladed swag in its place, but unless we're talking Back Country, don't leave knives.
I wish. Knives aren't allowed in any cache, even in Back Country. It's too bad, because you know I'd make a cache with that as the primary initial swag item.
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In most States in the US, there's a thing called right-of-way.
Property owners usually own (and pay taxes for) to the public road. The right-of-way is for road crews and utility workers, not public access.
I kind of wonder how many people know that. It's a strange rule, in a way, that says a person's property line extends halfway into the street, even though they have so little say in what happens to that part of the property.
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Lets see, visitors go to sign in with their actual names and notice random usernames peppered in with TFTC. Hmm.
That's called a "visitor's sign-in hybrid" -- new cache type, anybody?
There is actually a site who has that as a cache type. It's not called that though.
I always thought it would make a funny joke on the finder to hide a micro in the pen of a visitor's log. I wouldn't do it, because it would make too many people mad, but it does present an interesting red herring.
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I have a blank travel bug that came with the magnetic travel bug decal that I bought. If I decide to stop using the decal, I'm supposed to write the number on the tag and send it off on its way. It sounds like you got one of these. Because you got a blank only, and no accompanying bug with an actual tracking number, then I would have to say that it's only useful for replacing lost or stolen travel bugs that you may have had.
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I disagree. Whether it's 1000 geocaches 528' a apart or several 50-60 cache mini power trails, both promote the notion of quantity over quality. Personally, I'd rather see a handful of 500+ cache power trails out in the middle of nowhere then the proliferation of 50-60 caches trails that are becoming commonplace in smaller cities all over the U.S. and Europe.
Except that that road out in the middle of nowhere might actually pass right by some remarkable hidden points of interest. I recently visited a place called Maddalena Ranch, in the middle of the Sierra Valley. It has a long line of film cannisters blasting right past it. Few people know about the ranch, but it's open to the public, with a well maintained privy, nature trails, and educational signs. It's also the only place to access the Feather River for miles around without tresspassing, and they allow canoe access (though I'm still trying to figure out how that works). They've even got a canoe gate on the waterway to let the paddlers in and out. The person who placed the power trail likely thought this was just some aimless road out in the middle of nowhere, with nothing interesting on it. The geocachers who come by here will never find this discrete little place. The problem is that when people stop placing geocaches at interesting places and start placing them in places that they think have no points of interest, they act on ignorance, making decisions based on what they don't know. Just because you don't know of any hidden gem in the area doesn't mean that there isn't one, and placing caches where there doesn't seem to be anything interesting sometimes prevents a person who knows better from leading people to a point of interest.
Completely agree with you on this, although if the massive PT is really out in the middle of nowhere, there might not be any remarkable hidden points of interest. On the other hand, if there is, the PT (whether it's a large or smaller one) would effectively block the creation of a new cache at the remarkable hidden POI, and if there *was* a cache at that location that pre-dated the PT, many would just log it as if it was part of the PT.
I think that sums it up very well.
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I disagree. Whether it's 1000 geocaches 528' a apart or several 50-60 cache mini power trails, both promote the notion of quantity over quality. Personally, I'd rather see a handful of 500+ cache power trails out in the middle of nowhere then the proliferation of 50-60 caches trails that are becoming commonplace in smaller cities all over the U.S. and Europe.
Except that that road out in the middle of nowhere might actually pass right by some remarkable hidden points of interest. I recently visited a place called Maddalena Ranch, in the middle of the Sierra Valley. It has a long line of film cannisters blasting right past it. Few people know about the ranch, but it's open to the public, with a well maintained privy, nature trails, and educational signs. It's also the only place to access the Feather River for miles around without tresspassing, and they allow canoe access (though I'm still trying to figure out how that works). They've even got a canoe gate on the waterway to let the paddlers in and out. The person who placed the power trail likely thought this was just some aimless road out in the middle of nowhere, with nothing interesting on it. The geocachers who come by here will never find this discrete little place. The problem is that when people stop placing geocaches at interesting places and start placing them in places that they think have no points of interest, they act on ignorance, making decisions based on what they don't know. Just because you don't know of any hidden gem in the area doesn't mean that there isn't one, and placing caches where there doesn't seem to be anything interesting sometimes prevents a person who knows better from leading people to a point of interest.
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I think this is the correct link:
http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=323494
You lost the last digit in previous one.
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What about cats that have died? Are these archived cats? Don't they still count? If so, I have a lot of cats to add to my cat count.
I know you're only joking, but I've always thought that a person's find count ought to refer only to active caches. I like to keep track of how many containers are out there whose subterfuge is known by me. If I stopped playing long enough that my entire find count referred only to archived caches, then I would feel like a newbie. That kind of leader board would keep people from resting on their laurels.
Incidentally, I don't think the compilation of voluntarily public information by any party, third or otherwise, is a problem. I can imagine a marine biologist being told not to count flounders in his assessment of biodiversity because that species never specifically opted into the study.
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I'm new but I already have an irk.
Most of the bigger caches I've found have been full of junk, and I mean expired coupons (from 2013) and just trash (IMO). Used erasers, chewed up pencils, business cards etc. I don't get it. A bag full of small toys can be bought at the dollar tree so what gives? I think that's perfectly acceptable swag.
How new are these caches? A good urban or semi-urban cache can get looted down to scraps and junk in one or two months. Swag maintenance is prohibitively expensive in many cases. Not many people can afford to keep up with the swag looters.
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This one makes me laugh:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=621d77e6-74d9-475c-a381-57c4b7d7cb4d
I like this part:
I got one foot out of the canoe into about a foot of water (I was in the front) and realized the current was too strong for me to grab anything near to hold the canoe. At the same time the rear of the canoe swung around and I just barely fell back into the canoe. With me lying on my back in the centre of the canoe, Model12 had swung around in his seat facing the rear of the canoe (which by now was pointing forward) and paddling furiously. All I remember for the next 10 seconds was feeling the water soaking through my back and the seat of my pants, my soaked foot and Model 12 keep saying "holy sh.."Calm water at last. Charlie was shaking like a leaf in the centre of the canoe. We took stock of everything. Nothing lost or broken. Wow, and to think that people pay for rides like that!!
By lying flat on his back at the bottom of the canoe, he was probably doing the best possible thing to keep it afloat. A body makes a great canoe ballast.
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Yeah, no kidding. I just found one that was about a third of a mile from the nearest trail, a steep uphill bushwhack. It had a note from a muggle who found it by accident, nestled under a pile of rocks. I only had a short off-trail hike compared to what the other guy did to get to it and accidentally find it.
According to the note, he left the trail way down there in the area of that lake in the picture. I cannot fathom what that must have been like. Yet, he did it, and he ended up right on top of the cache. At least he was kind enough to put it back after leaving the note.
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Well, anyway, I'd say a missing cache is probably worth replacing at least once, if you don't know why it went. Random things happen. If it happens a second time, then you might want to reevaluate it.
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I can't imagine how you can be so sure it wasn't an animal.
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Would that be the activation code that you're looking for?
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This is the best I've received. (Poster also included a map indicating where he'd gone versus where the cache was, but not sure how to reproduce it here.)
19/04/2012 23:20hrsFTF
Sorry it has took so long to log but here goes.
I didn't need a cache for today but I received the notification after drinking lots of sherbets with the new boss. I stood working out the cache location at the kebab van whilst waiting for my food.
My co-ordinates placed it closer than I thought so off I wobbled with my kebab compass
As I arrived near my projected GZ I checked the geocaching app and the distance was still over 1 Km I paused and checked the co-ordinates.
The app was right. I still had further to walk. It appears that I had miss typed the co-ords I was exactly 1 mile out, my projected co-odds of N52°14.262' E0°09.230' put me about to start searching between the Milton road and the A14. (the title fitted the area as well)
I continued with my walk and I was soon heading down the right road and at the correct GZ the compass settled and I checked two places before finding the cache. As I was logging the cache I received notification that the co-ords had changed by 4 metres which was obviously not needed, imagine the embarrassment that would have followed if I had been searching my original location.
I replaced the cache and headed back to Waterbeach, which wasn't simple either.
I was glad to find a nice sized cache but like others I also found the brambles I have a scratch from my eye to my ear. Cuts and stings are part of caching in my book. Thanks for setting the cache and being dedicated to recheck the co-ordinates. I think it deserves a favourite point just for my co-ordinate mistake.
TFTC
I assume this is the correct map.
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I'll give you unhappy. But the anger is what caught my attention. It's a stinking game for crying out loud. Get over yourself.
Because getting angry about someone getting angry about a game* is much better
*Although the jury is still out on whether it's actually a game or something else.
Of course, you broke the chain by saying that with a smile. Wasted opportunity, I say.
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Wait...is this still the geocaching forum?
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and whoever googled "the gender of flask", good job. i am not sure whether to laugh derisively or just to laugh.
No one googled it. You've been around a long time, and I just happened to know. I remember, also, that it came up over some comments made by a certain Benwa in a game called Ikariam, long ago. You knew me as "nony" then.
This is Flask you're talking about. She hasn't been any different over the years, and people still like talking to her.
Well, I know I'm not going to be making any friends with this comment, but here goes. The whole time I've been reading this thread, I'm thinking "What's the big deal, I don't get it." But now that I know Flask is a 'she', it all makes perfect sense. Well, maybe not perfect sense, but it's not surprising now.
Oink oink
I'm not really sure what to make of this post.
I know exactly what to make of it.
I step away for a few days, and I come back to this? Yikes. I'm not sure what that was about.
Post the final coordinates on the outside of a skyscraper, where only a drone with a camera can see it. Put the cache deep inside a tiny drainpipe where only a robot with a camera can get to it. Require all finders to log their finds with a spambot.
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The date isn't absolutely necessary, and no one should complain if you don't write it, or even if you write it wrong. Some of us just like to read the log book and see who was there and when. I know I do, especially if it's an old cache or one that doesn't get found very often.