[[bug?] Latest Activity not updating]

Possibly related, most (but not all) of the caches I found today aren't showing up as such on the map.

[How do you motivate yourself to go and geocache?]

Four hours of intensive daily meditation for the last 15 years. This has done wonders for my motivation to go caching, and it's honed my geosenses to the point where I can not only discover even the toughest D5 instantly upon arriving at the GZ, but I often find that I've already telepathically signed the log as well.

[Caching Culture Changes?]

On 5/15/2020 at 11:16 PM, fizzymagic said:

In 2002, cache container quality was terrible. Trash bags as cache containers were not unusual.  One of the first ammo cans I ever encountered was the APE cache I found in Georgia; before that, I had found all sorts of plastic containers that were already cracked and broken. In my first year caching, I found glass jars, ziplock bags with no container, black trash can liners (as mentioned above), poor-quality tupperware, etc.   Lamp-post hides had not been invented yet.  Film canisters were common and considered micros.

 

Seriously, people, the fantasy peddled by some here of a time when cache containers were all in perfect shape and the swag was wonderful are completely fictional.  It has never been that way.

 

I can confirm this; cachers back then, even more experienced ones, just didn't have a sense of what would survive in the elements. My very first find, in 2002, was a yogurt container taped to a tree. It was a few weeks old and the lid was already cracked. Plastic bags for logbooks were rare, even in inherently leaky containers like Altoid tins. Cheap generic tupperware and repurposed food containers of all kinds were prevalent. Once I found a cache made from plastic VHS tape box that was too warped to close. "Another lame micro in the woods" was a meme by 2005 at the latest. Swag was more common, yes, and 95% of the time it was stuff like McDonald's toys, business cards, pennies, and assorted dollar store crap.

 

The quality issues today are different. They aren't notably worse.

[test my avator]

Guess what boys and girls!? This is a test!

[Found It = Didn't Find It]

What about this one, by a newbie?

 

Found the barking dog and the can, but nothing inside. I've lived in [town] for 21 years and never saw this site before. Interesting!

 

The cache had been plundered. I know the can was still there because I was there earlier that day. So she found the remains of the cache shortly before it got archived. Is this a find?

[test my avator]

Doop-dee-doo...

[Revisiting A Dnf Cache]

I tend to delete my DNFs after finding the cache, unless my moaning and ranting was particularly poetic.

[What Are Ape Caches?]

It seems to me to make such a grand exception as to set up an entire special cache type with it's own special icon makes a mockery of the rule. If they grant such elaborate accommodations to what is clearly a major commercial promotion like that, then either there’s really no meaningful prohibition at all, or there’s a strong air of capriciousness about this rule.

It looks kind of strange now. I think at the time there was more of a need for publicity. I don't think it would be done today. Then again, the Jeep 4x4s have a special symbol, so maybe...

[Scariest Cache?]

The scariest cache I've done recently is my own. I was in the area and I decided to check up on it. It was night, so I needed a flashlight. The cache involves sliding(walking just doesn't describe it) down a steep embankment, which is tricky enough during the day. The cache is near a home. There is no clear line marking the end of the property. I got about two thirds of the way down the slope when I looked up and saw the house, with all of the lights on, and people inside. I then realized that a guy with a flashlight poking around in the backyard might look a wee bit suspicious. Deciding to abort the checkup, I turned off the light and started my way back up the slope in the dark, just waiting for someone to come out with a shotgun.

[Geo Cachers Find Another Body]

I mean somone setting up a cache for someone to find, the cachers go and they shoot you, or you lift up a rock and a bomb goes off. It could be a movie . . .

I figger the FTF nuts will get it before I do.

[2nd Annual Cannonball Run]

Just got the email! Can't wait for this one !

[What Is A Traditional Cache?]

I think the real distinction is whether there are trade items. I have seen film canister micros with trade items, and larger caches with only a log. Trade items entirley change the nature of the cache.

[Did You Leave Something Forgotten After Caching?]

The other day I left my GPSr at a cache. Fortunatly it was a multi, so I noticed about 30 seconds later.

 

Actually, about a month ago, I was hunting a micro in a suburban park, and decided to give up after about 20 minutes of searching. Upon coming back to my car I realized I had locked my keys inside! I called my dad, who had a spare set, and while I was waiting, I went and sat down on a park bench. Just for the heck of it I looked under the bench, and there was the cache!