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1 hour ago, frostengel said:
But I though prefer the multi cache with all the tools provided by the owner.
Unfortunately provided tools tend to magically disappear.
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1 minute ago, Goldenwattle said:
In over 10,000 finds I can think of only once where a magnet was needed. The example I mentioned. So it's not something I routinely carry.
It probably has to do with our caching preferences.
We prepare all cachingtrips and select caches we want to do. That means we have a low "run of the mill" caches percentage and a higher percentage of "better" (for us) caches. That means more gadget caches and thus more "tools required" (all kinds of batteries, magnets, water, screwdrivers, wrench..... ). I just recently bought a lockpicking kit in order to go after a few caches that need them.
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I'd say traditional + fieldpuzzle attribute. Using GSAK to load caches to the GPS shows attributes so no issue on that. As for drilling the hole. I've seen plenty of them. Most common is a hole with micro in it covered by a reflector. I doubt that these holes on public property have permission. OTOH I've never hear about CO's getting in trouble for it. Since we see more cooperation between CO's and town officials (sometimes using the town's tourist bureau as CO name) I guess most are OK with it.
As for magnets. Should be in everyone's backpack.
I just bought 2 extra strong ones (19 Kg pull) as my smaller magnet (2Kg) sometimes let go. They are used on a regular basis (2 times yesterday).
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You can download the GPX and "save" it to your PC and then copy it to the GPX folder on your GPS or directly save to that folder. No need for apps.
As for a PQ, just download, unzip and move/copy the files to the x:/Garmin/GPX folder.
Do you have any filters set on the GPS? Are the caches >150Km from your location?
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6 minutes ago, coachstahly said:
The fact that it didn't even come up seems a bit odd to me as, at least in my area, cachers tend to be talkative when running into other cachers, even if we don't know each other,
We did talk a while but I didn't ask to be 'joined FTF" and he didn't. The reason? It's not important. When meeting other cachers we always have talks about each other's caching experiences and more importantly about nice caches. When meeting cachers along a series though we tend to wait a while so others can enjoy finding the containers themselves or if we are on our bikes we try to get ahead far enough.
6 minutes ago, coachstahly said:Beats? Are you trying to win something here?
Nope. But I see a "team" as people who know each other and make arrangements beforehand, not people who accidentally meet at a cache and "team up" to be FTF.
Besides, did I miss a memo? Is there something to be won? (besides FTF
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4 minutes ago, coachstahly said:
Only if the two of you talked about it and agreed to it.
It didn't even come up. Just logic. He FTF'd it, not me.
It also beats the "team" argument. We arrived simultaneously but were no team. In fact we've never met again.
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21 hours ago, IceColdUK said:
I didn't use the word 'snatch', though I did mention 'elbows':
It was wording used by Goldenwattle
11 hours ago, funkymunkyzone said:Still here, just not rising to your obvious trolling.
Nope.
From the other posts it's clear some think that when FTF is not shared being nice and friendly is over.
Glad I'm not into FTF's, in fact, we tend the wait until after the "big rush" is over for new caches.
Anecdote: Years ago a cache was published that was just a few 100 meter from home. I went out and arrived at the same time as another cacher and we stared to look for the container. He got it first, logged FTF and I logged STF. Should we have both logged FTF? He found it first, not?
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On 9/2/2020 at 6:11 PM, fuzziebear3 said:
So the screws would be my ender right there -- I dont think you should ever need to unscrew something. Plus the guidelines, and the muggle factor -- I would have ended up with a DNF at that one.
Muggles yes... they would keep me from logging this one. Anything electric, nope. We logged large electricity boxes, most were gadget caches with electronics inside to get codes or to unlock compartments. We logged a few electricity outlets where a micro was hidden where a plug should be inserted, in seems that the plug and a 35mm film canister have the same size. Only recently we found an electrical switch + outlet combination fixed to an utility pole holding a micro.
As for unscrewing, most of the time, if something needs to be unscrewed it's mentioned in the listing or hint that a screwdriver is needed. It's part of our TOTT backpack anyway.
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I wouldn't create an event just to get a new country, if there are so little caches to be found chances are no one shows up anyway. The primary idea is always to at least meet a fellow cacher preferably a local but another tourist is OK too
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3 minutes ago, EarthSciSD said:
Already deleted the preloaded files long ago. GPS is glitchy, the geocache files have simply "disappeared" in the past. in the past I have been able to connect the Garmin Etrex25 to the PC and the geocaches would come up again. This time, I had placed my GPS on a table and when I picked it up, only 11 caches would show up.
How far are the caches from your location (after the GPS has a fix)?
Have you checked the filters?
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37 minutes ago, IceColdUK said:
I'm really not sure where you're going with this.
Claim 1. We're all friendly cachers and share FTF.
Claim 2. If only the first one to have the cache/log in hand is FTF people will "snatch it first"
You can't have both. In any case, if "2" it's obvious that some think sharing FTF is OK when they are not the first to have the cache in their hands but if FTF is not shared people will "fight" (snatch) over it.
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Just now, Goldenwattle said:
They are where I live. I have shared FTFs and no one has shown a problem with it. Not that I get many FTFs these days, as I don't live with my phone on my hip to get notices. In fact, the data on my phone is not even turned on most of the time. I often see FTF shared logs though, so people are still sharing the find.
Then why argue people will "snatch" a cache out of another cacher's hands? To back up the "share FTF" agrgument?
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5 hours ago, Goldenwattle said:
So it's okay for one person to find it, but after reaching for it another sees where they are reaching and snatches it first. First to get their hands on it. Nice...not!
Where did all those "nice friendly cachers" who gladly share FTF go?
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2 minutes ago, terratin said:
I kind of have the feeling that reviewers won't publish some of those, especially on airports and cruise terminals for the 'been here, got the smiley' events. Thus we'd never know how common those really are. But that something in that respect was added to the guidelines a few years ago suggests that it might have been a bigger problem.
Too many uncertainties at airports or other transportation locations. I think it's best that the EO can guarantee to be at the location (except this year
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In the Galapagos we were near the locations for a week, in the Falklands 3 days. We would have loved to do the same during other holidays but if we can't be 99.9999% sure we'll be there, we'll pass.
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Sometimes things don't go as planned.
The first event I hosted was in Greenland and I was 10 minutes late, a few people were already there.
After that success I planned 3 events, one on each of the islands we stayed. Only at one of these we met 2 US caches who had little time as they were on an organized tour and had to be at the dock a little later.
I tried an event again when we were in the Falklands, again no one showed up but I knew someone was supposed to be there, we met at our B&B the next day.
The most difficult thing with these holiday meetings is finding a good spot in a place we've never been, thaks to GE and streetview or websites with photographs all 5 of our locations were logical and easy to get to and pick a time when most or all activities have ended.
We also checked how may times nearby caches get logged to have an idea how often cachers pass by but even then there are no guarantees.
Another time in Amsterdam we were taking notes for an earthcache when we noticed another couple with a GPS, a bit later more people with GPS's showed up, we were at the location of an holiday event by accident (right time, right place) to sign the log and log a few TBs.
I don't think many will create an event to "bag" a country, even at the remote places we held them we found most nearby caches so we "bagged" the country without the event anyway.
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I've had a few of these. All were in rather remote locations. I made sure I could be there and I was. Since I attended, I logged an "attended" log.
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4 minutes ago, IceColdUK said:
while politer / less-competitive cachers would be standing back, saying 'after you',
Yup, that would be me IF I were to run out immediately, which I don't.
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20 hours ago, TmdAndGG said:
You really think every single FTF hound sees the side game as competitive?
I just like to try to be friendly when I meet other people out geocaching, regardless of the situation.
1. Where did I write that? If I say birds fly have I said everything that flies is a bird?
19 hours ago, Goldenwattle said:I don't want to play your competitive game.
Which competitive game is mine? If you had read any of my posts anywhere on these forums you'd know I don't compete with anyone.
Point is that FTF hounds are the ones heading out within seconds of receiving a notification and often find they are not alone at the cache. In order to "claim FTF" they "team up" for a few minutes so they can claim a "team FTF" instead of FTF for the one that retrieved the log first and STF, TTF for the next ones.
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5 minutes ago, TmdAndGG said:
You seem to like comparing an actual competitive sport to a game/hobby. Nice move.
Because FTF hounds see it as competitive.
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1 hour ago, Goldenwattle said:
Like the winning bicycle team.
You saw Bottas win the F1 race in Belgium yesterday? Neither did I. His team mate won though.
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2 minutes ago, Goldenwattle said:
Locally here, everyone who was searching together for the FTF claims it, and that's excepted practice.
Like a bicycle team in a race all claim the win if one of the teammembers wins? Let"s not get into that again, it's been discussed before.
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There can only be 1 FTF even if people claim they were FTF in a group.
As for the different logbooks, it will be fun seeing all the online logs but it will also create uncertainty for some finders. We even saw people signing the paper that's saying "this is not the logbook, keep searching" and then claiming the find online. Some newbies finding stage 1 of a multi sometimes claim a find.
You'd better make sure it's 100% clear what the real logbook(s) is/are.
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The few caches we did at or near playgrounds were WPs of multi's where we had to collect information (color of an item, letter/number on an item) but never was there anyone around. We avoid busy places anyway so popular spots are done in winter.
Hiding a container near a playground is a bad idea anyway, kids will find it by accident and it will disappear.
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Stats like this don't say much.
Most years around this time the average monthly find rate goes down and so will the average over the whole year. Our days caching are about the same as previous years but we did have a few days with a lot of finds. In fact, the weekend of August 21-23 we were away from home for 3 days and found 149 caches. A few days earlier we found 34. In all, with 294 finds August 2020 was our highest find count since we started geocaching. I doubt we'll break our 2011 find count but if we do it will probably be because of 1 or 2 geo-art outings.
I just bought 2 extra strong ones (19 Kg pull) as my smaller magnet (2Kg) sometimes let go. They are used on a regular basis (2 times yesterday).
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Tools are more prone to disappearing than the caches they are needed for. So far the caches needing tools we did were sturdy and well fixed. Since the tools can not be fixed to anything if they need to be found some distance from the cache they get lost more easily.
If a cachecontainer is large enough (birdhouse...) a secret/hidden compartment can be used to hide the tool.