wimseyguy

I recently received an email from another cacher with the greeting 'good afterburner'.

Is there a local forum or Facebook group? That would be the best place to organize that kind of activity.

Ditto with the sherminator; why do you need to notify anyone of your whereabouts when you're caching? Are you a sex criminal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKOjhLTpLns&list=PLckLgPKlCS65m8It_mBnqkiV1a2CcvGdk&index=5

You're fine on both issues. As someone's already posted that language is for legal CYA reasons only. You're not sending your kid onto the website to play in this sandbox, or find the target caches, all you're doing is letting them actually find the cache in the field. Which is also perfectly fine and a wonderful way for a parent to spend time outside with their kids. I really doubt they have any memory of where the cache was hidden that's helping them make finds today.

Yea I agree, a two mile walk in the woods listening to chirping birds, breezes in trees, the crunch of leaves, watching my dog race around with a goofy grin really sucks if I cannot get another smiley. What an awful waste of my time!! <Borat voice> NOT! What I will agree with is that 2*T might be a bit low for this one, and while it would be nice for the CO to mention the height issue s/he's under no obligation to do so. Sometimes caches are supposed to be hard to find or access. And some locations are worth returning to.

Also I think you need to include the proper phonetic pronunciation for those of us visiting from outside the area so we aren't embarrassed if we get it wrong. Is the NY version pronounced 'nork' like it is in NJ, or is it pronounced 'new-ark' like they do in DE?

Because I am giving permission to open the lock, and that is the entire purpose for it, criminal intent wouldn't apply. That is also why I designed stickers specifically stating that it was a lockpicking cache. Apologies in advance if this is already asked/answered but this thread is TLDR. Do you plan to supply the tools for these caches hidden at a nearby Additional Waypoint? Or are you expecting seekers to come prepared with their own set? It's a bit more specialized than a Phillips head screwdriver that is found on most multitools.

This is the guideline are asking about. Physical elements of different geocaches should be at least 0.10 miles (528 ft or 161 m) apart. A physical stage is defined as any waypoint that contains a physical element placed by the cache owner, such as a container or a tag with the next set of coordinates. Non-physical caches or stages, including reference points, trail-head/parking coordinates and/or a virtual stage waypoints, are exempt from this guideline. Additionally, within a single multi-cache or mystery/puzzle cache, there is no minimum required distance between physical elements. The graphic below shows a few examples of what is and is not acceptable in terms of cache saturation. EarthCaches are exempt from this guideline as they do not have physical waypoints.

Yes, you can log archived caches as long as they aren't locked. The owner of that cache appears to have dropped out of the game. He only found one cache last year, and none in 2014. As mentioned in that disable log he had a baby so perhaps that new addition has taken up his spare time. Disabling a cache merely posts that status on the listing page, the owner still has to physically remove it, or not. In most cases I wouldn't tell anyone to remove a cache from the playing field. But I think you can do so with this one. If it's in good shape you can recycle it for a hide of your own, if it isn't then discarding would probably be OK.

We've got one puzzle creator here who has managed to create two different puzzles that yield three different solutions. He created one listing for each of the three possible solutions on both projects.

I'm quite shocked that someone who has been a member since 2006 posted this. B. Me too. I'm also quite shocked that Pup missed an opportunity to cite the relevant guidelines. Traveling caches used to exist back in the very beginning of times on this website. There are still a few of them out there wandering the latitudes, but new ones won't be published.

Remember that it's really about the journey and the experience. Don't get too hung up on actually making the find. Pick caches that are in parks or locations you enjoy being in no matter what. When it stops being fun, move onto another one.

You don't need to spend a lot of money. Simple gift cards for a local coffee shop, $1 camping matchstick holders from a bigbox store that already have a logsheet in them so the winner gets a ready to hide cache, something hand made that can become swag, etc.

CITO events are a bit different from your normal meet n greet and the focus really should be on the community service and shouldn't have a competitive aspect. But door prizes can be given out for things like traveled the greatest distance to the event, oldest/youngest to attend, found the most caches on the way there, has the longest running cache a day streak, first time attending a CITO (no you shouldn't keep the prize for this one )

Yes, parks are nice places for caches. So are greenways. Much nicer places to look for caches than in parking lots. And if you feel compelled to hide one in a parking lot, at least have the decency to put it away from the dumpsters.

I'm going to guess the fine folks at HQ will professionally and politely tell you that they just administer a listing service. What happens out in the field is between the cachers. In other words: "meh-get over it." Or as my good friend fishingfools says: "don't pet the sweaty stuff and don't sweat the petty stuff."

Nope, I already had a 2% solution bookmark list of all of my favorite caching experiences when they created points. I awarded all of those caches points the first week I could (except the events). I still had over 1000 left and at this point have over 2000 to award. I guess this means that either I am not picky about what I'll find, or perhaps that 1/10 gives the points out too quickly?

Don't enable crappy cache maintainers by placing a throwdown cache.

Surprised that the CO didn't mention that this is really close to an airstrip too! CO and his missus are a really scary looking couple

I wasn't here for the very beginning, but have been at it since 2002. I only spent ~$100 for my first yellow etrex at walmart, never had a wall full of Topo maps nor a big bank account, and my Nissan Murano has 4WD but only 22" of clearance which I've tested a few times. I think the size descriptions we have are just fine. And the way they are described has been improved since the old days. I would like to see nano added as smaller than micro, but it's usually pretty obvious when you get to GZ that you're looking for one of them. I concur with whomever pointed out that we're experiencing size creep as more smaller containers are placed. I just did a maintenance run on one of my older caches and replaced a 30mm ammo can with a smaller container as the location cannot support the ammo can any longer but I liked the spot so I put something there that will fit in better.

From the guidelines: It doesn't matter how the puzzle was solved. Period. The FTF can contact Geocaching HQ to have their log restored if they signed the physical log. Just curious-are you merely an interested observer, the CO, or the FTF?

Actually I think it would have been better to archive the old thread and start a new one. It's been moved so far that the original forum experience has been changed for a different one. And if you think the old version of the website was more better, check out the wayback machine to see what we had to deal with in the really early days.

Maybe just host a chess tournament event? Assuming there are enough chess playing cachers in the area?

I didn't discover these trees while I was out geocaching, but someone else might have? Someone found several trees in a Russian forest with WW2 weapons and artifacts embedded in them. And this old great thread deserves a bump anyway.

Since you're posting in the South and Southeast forum I'll suggest the NE corner of TN. Lot's of power trail caches along the country highways, some are busier than others, some are more scenic too.