Gamaliel
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Accordingly, I edited the cache page to clearly state that people should park across the street and not at the school, since it was alarming staff. Unfortunately, the next cacher to go for the cache not only didn't honor this request, they stated in their log that they had parked at the school.
There's been a number of times when I've balked at placing a cache in an otherwise fine location because I knew that cachers would park in stupid places.
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Downloading pocket querys containing the caches in your area and dumping them into GSAK would make this a piece of cake.
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When I read the title I thought it was about a very different kind of cruising.
I'd love to combine geocaching and (strictly nautical) cruising.
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I'm happy to see they appear to have given them all names. I live in the next county over from the infamous and boringly named Easy series: Easy 1, Easy 2, Easy 3....
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I don't agree as I don't know any legit cachers who visit a cache for the sole purpose of snagging a trackable. They're going to snag the smilie and if there's a trackable then that's icing on the cake.
I used to do this all the time. Coins and icons were shiny and new and interesting to me when I first started caching, so I would visit previously found caches to hunt them down. Eventually, geocaching for geocaching's sake became more interesting and coin/icon hunting became less interesting. That was helped along by missing trackables and the inability of many cachers to figure out how to log a trackable properly. (They have no problem getting their smileys, of course, but they can't be bothered to log TBs.) Now I never hunt after trackables unless there's a local TB contest or an old Jeep TB wanders into the area.
Even in my icon fever days I wouldn't go on a long hike/trip solely for a trackable, so a missing trackable at the end of a long hike wouldn't be a disappointment, as I would be there for the hike and the smiley. But would a thief bother with the long hike either?
Perhaps one way to cut down on trackable theft would be to not post inventories on the cache page and icons in the search listing. They are probably 25-50 percent inaccurate anyway. The trackables would still be tracked on the individual TB pages though. That'll probably never be implemented, but it's just a thought.
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Not quite. Florida, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that anyone charged with a crime which would warrant the death penalty deserves the best legal defense money can buy. Florida has also decided that us taxpayers get to foot the bill for these legal fees. So, if Florida decides they want to kill an arrestee, us taxpayers get to pay for it. I don't know if other states follow this same silly notion.
Were I to be arrested and tried for a murder I did not commit, I would voluntarily accept the death penalty to save the taxpayers all those legal expenses, and I'm sure everyone here would do the same.
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Sorry if this was old news to some cachers, but it was new news to me. Not everyone is aware of this. If some people want to use this as an excuse to get on an off-topic soapbox, that doesn't make that fact any less true.
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Drug Gangs Taking Over US Public Lands
Some Using Armed Guards, Trip Wires To Safeguard Plots
SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. -- Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggled immigrants to cultivate them.
Pot has been grown on public lands for decades, but Mexican traffickers have taken it to a whole new level: using armed guards and trip wires to safeguard sprawling plots that in some cases contain tens of thousands of plants offering a potential yield of more than 30 tons of pot a year.
All I thought we had to worry about was finding the occasional meth lab while caching.
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For anything that requires photo verification, I almost always use a picture of my hand holding the gps or my gps hanging on a sign instead of a picture of my face or other identifying bits. A mixture of necessity - mostly solo caching - and internet paranoia. Never had a problem or a dispute with a cache owner.
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Thanks to the tonelessness of text, what is a polite log to one person may be testy and rude to another. Not much we can do about that. I tend to assume I've misinterpreted things and just assume the best and shrug it off.
By the letter of the law, you didn't find the second cache. I would hope that all charitable owners would give you credit for finding it anyway, because if you find a container with a log at the cache location, there is absolutely no reason to assume you haven't found the cache. Should we double check all our finds? I was just dealing with this yesterday - I had to trash out a throwdown cache at one of my hides that several people had signed thinking it was my cache. I wouldn't dream of deleting their smileys.
As for deleting your other, unrelated log, there is absolutely no excuse for that, regardless of how good or bad your behavior may or may not have been regarding the first cache. I suspect your log will be reinstated soon by Groundspeak, and if they fail to act, I would repost it every single day until he stops deleting it.
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Great, we're going to go on for another 14 pages while the amateur lawyers argue about whether or not that was libel.
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Also, many times caches are placed and information given, but historical aspects are removed because they may not fit the current desire of the Groundspeak owners and reviewers. In one case, a featured series of caches on local towns talks about the history of the towns, but leaves out the fact that one town was a 'sunset town' which mean black people would be arrested if they didn't leave the area before sunset. Does describing the correct history mean it's an 'agenda'? Probably, but then again, is it wrong to educate people to the full and correct history, even if a few people at Groundspeak don't want to talk about it.
I have no comment about whatever Groundspeak's position is, but I suspect people would be a lot happier if such caches as the one you mention and the one being discussed attempted to mention both or all sides of the relevant historical event. I think that cache you bring up should mention the fact that it was a sunset town. History isn't just log cabins and butter churns and powdered wigs.
I placed a cache at (well, just outside the fence of) a historical cemetery from an long-gone sawmill town in the next county. I would have been remiss if I didn't mention that the cache was at the town's white cemetery and blacks weren't allowed to be buried there. Instead they were buried at the black cemetery on the other side of the tracks (literally), which was until very recently in the middle of a ranch and the headstones were being stepped on by cows.
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Yet you're still here, not contributing a thing to the topic, just gripping. Interesting.
That's the dilemma, isn't it? How do you complain about a thread without becoming part of the thread?
"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche
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Has anyone mentioned Nazis yet? I think we should Godwin this discussion.
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His opinion was probably that geocaches were trash.
More mindless speculation: I think the guy is a borderline psycho. According to Flask, he's a premium member. If that's true, he's been spending $30 a year for nothing more than the opportunity to steal from others. He reminds me of a guy I met during a meeting with a local land manager. He was a member of some hiking organization, and was adamantly opposed to the existence of caches in the wild. This guy didn't view them as simple trash. He viewed them as an insult against Mother Nature. Abhorrent, disgusting "artifacts" left by man, destroying the environment. He & I agreed to disagree on the subject, and as far as I know, he's happy in his world, as I am happy in mine. The fidiot who has been stealing caches took this attitude to a whole new level by acting as Judge, jury and executioner on geocaches.
There's a small equestrian trail in the woods around here that allows hikers and geocaching. The land manager is very pro-geocaching
but he told me the riders object to geocaching. He said it bothers them just knowing they are out there. 
What I can't get past is that if he's offended on behalf of Mother Earth, why is he in the Walmart parking lot under the lamppost skirt? You'd think he'd be more offended by the Walmart. I can't imagine that removing a hideakey is part of Edward Abbey's legacy of environmental monkeywrenching. That parking lot isn't getting any more pristine now that the cache is gone.
Maybe he's bothered just knowing they are out there.
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Before you think about posting your location online, have a look at http://pleaserobme.com/.
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What I don't understand is this: If he was supposedly an environmental crusader, why did he not limit himself to wilderness area caches? There is plenty of talk in this thread about missing magnetic hides, and the satellite map of the cache where he was captured seems to indicate a vaguely suburban area. Also there are plenty of other things cluttering up the environment, but he had a particularly narrow focus. I suspect some kind of OCD-related thing is the real culprit.
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Why would anyone want to be a reviewer? I'm an admin on a very popular website that allows people to edit articles about things, and I spend most of my time either cleaning up after people or getting accused of being on a power trip. People can't get it through their heads how little actual power such volunteer positions have. What good is a few extra buttons to click if you can't even make people stop whining?
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If your GPSr can bring you to within a foot of a cache everytime what fun will that be.
A lot! I like finding caches. Poking the shrubbery with a stick for an hour, not so much.
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A strangler fig on the Big Cypress Bend Boardwalk. Nearest cache is GCT0VH.
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The cache should be okay on its own for such a relatively short period of time. I would just leave it be or ask a caching buddy to stop by if any problems creep up.
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I just find the closest cache to my destination and use that as the center point. That way you don't have to find the coords of your destination. IIRC, you can use Google Earth to find the coords of a particular point.
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I figure if people are searching as a team then you claim the FTF as a team. After all, the other team members helped out, if only by eliminating other potential search spots. I found an unfound D4 after six of us were poking away at some vines for an hour or more. I think it was dumb luck that I was the one who found it and I'd have no problem if any of the others who were there claim FTF, like the couple who brought the flashlights or the guy who heaved up a pile of foliage so I could spot it.
Making FTF/co-FTF distinctions seems like too much work for a thing that doesn't exist anyway.
The more FTFs, the merrier.Reminds me of the "no-prizes" Marvel Comics fans used to get.
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but he told me the riders object to geocaching. He said it bothers them just knowing they are out there. 
The more FTFs, the merrier.
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Trace amounts of peanuts, even from empty containers, have been known to trigger serious allergies. That's why everything in the store these days is labeled "may contain peanuts" or "may have touched something that touched something that touched a peanut once".