wimseyguy

Inferring that anyone who diligently maintains a pristine cache with a perfect description and coords is an abnormal and indecent person Wow! Is that what I said? Wow! That's what you said. Wow! I know, but I like to fight nonsense like Batman fights crime, and once the dramatic orchestral music starts up in my head I can't resist I'm still doing more caching than posting though - so I think I'm OK It's been years since I've posted that my find count was greater than my post count, glad to see someone else taking up the torch. And that was years before the introduction of power trails which make it sooo much easier now.

I've tried the county assessor's office website and the information I'm getting on a particular cemetery is that it is exempt from taxes ($0) and it is deeded to the "XXXXXXX Cemetery Association" with no address or other details given. I could spend hours on various websites and working with the county and still maybe not get the information needed. Contacting a local monument retailer requires using a phone book and making a couple phone calls gets me the information I need in a much more timely manner. Wait, you still have phone books in Dubuque? How quaint.

I'm glad I found this thread. There are two sets that I have found but do not see listed in this thread, and would greatly appreciate if someone can create the gpx file for them so I can update my GSAK finds DB. I don't see the ones from the GPS Adventures Maze Exhibit - Corvette Museum on 1/18/14 http://coord.info/GC4R6PT or from GeoWoodstock XIII on 5/23/15 http://coord.info/GC54840

Let's not forget that residents of Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia cannot properly answer any questions about xxx in a state since they live in commonwealths. But since this is America I will defend the OP's right to feel offended.

I want a bluetooth heads up display of my GPS screen on my sunglasses so that I don't have to stop watching where I am going and enjoying the scenery to look down at my GPS screen. But I don't want to look uberdorky like a Google Glasshole. Just something subtle in the corner of my sunglasses that I can see, but looks perfectly normal to anyone else. I'm not sure what I would use on cloudy days or at night though.

I didn't own a bike for over 20 years, but I bought one a few years ago because so many local caches are being placed along paved greenways. Of course I still have to drive my car to the parking lots of the trail systems, but once there it's all pedal power. I feel much better about myself when I'm looking for those.

I won't speak for most places, or even your place, only my place. In most spots of NC event attendees like to find caches on the way to an event sometimes. Other times they might meet people that they don't cache with on a regular basis at the event, and then go caching together after the event. Hiding a few new ones in the general area of an event merely facilitates those perfectly normal caching behaviors.

Is there something at the posted coords? If the answer is yes then it's a multi in my book. If the answer is no then it's a mystery/puzzle. Any container based cache type can be made into a LBH if a stamp is added to the container.

Yes, owners should be notified that a cache has needed maintenance for too long. The Needs Archived log is how you should tell them. No need for a robot to do your job for you. Maybe in a perfect geoworld. But I suspect most of us know of at least a few caches in our own areas that have been on life support for far too long but no one bothers to post that NA log for any one of a number of reasons. If HQ has figured out a way to nudge CO's of these caches that are in need of some owner TLC I think it's a good thing.

Seems you have been misinformed. As already posted all they get is a complimentary PM and a thank you.

But Santa has found only one cache... And maybe Will Wheaton if the Enterprise was in Earth orbit, or at least our solar system.

But then ANYBODY would be able to view it. The group was closed immediately after I made a reference to something said about me, after I read it there. You could probably rejoin. That was around the time someone from our group got banned from the forums (and perhaps gc.com for a short time) and paranoia was running deep... Hi Keystone, it has been a long time. One thought some one had was we could put a link our our OKIC public website and on that website put a link to our FB page. OR could we just say "find us on facebook" with no link on the cache description. Open to any other ideas that meet the agreement terms to plug our local group. I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. Sincerely, Keystone Marx

I bet their father is very proud of the person they have become today.

At least the OP has been around long enough to have a valued perspective on this topic. I'll agree with the spectacle wearing pooch, I don't know that there are than many more caches in public spaces than we had a few years back. But it does seem to be a higher percentage of the total new caches placed when compared to old school walk in the woods hides. I'm an omnivorous cacher who will seek most anything out there except extreme terrain. There are times when I'm perfectly happy with public space caches. As others have pointed out, the best approach is to act naturally, switch off the Mission Impossible/Pink Panther mental soundtrack and just go for it. Sometimes that even involves asking a park bench sitter if they mind that you are about to look under the bench they're occupying.

Isn't that the alligator infested canal around a castle?

I see your and raise you one . I've been calling these geo-graffiti for a while. Geo-art uses icons where you actually find caches at those waypoints.

There's a great BBQ joint in ID Springs. Have stopped there several times on the way from DIA to Breckenridge.

I chortled when I saw the OP's handle. Email sent.

Or instead of more rules we could all be responsible for ourselves and not search for caches that aren't any FUN for us, and leave the others to cache the way they enjoy playing? I have spent 30 seconds looking for a cache and I have spent 30 minutes; it was my choice.

Nope no need to bother with the OP's process for me. I have over 1000 sitting in my account, and I am pretty generous with how I give them out. Running a few power trails will give you more fave points than you are ever able to properly distribute. Before they were created I ran a BM list called my 2% solution with the top 2% of caches I had found. As soon as they were introduced I went through that list and gave a point to every cache I could (had some LC's and events on there that cannot get points). If anyone is so short on points that they need to remove them from previous finds let me know and I'll see if I can't sell some on ebay or craigslist for you to get.

Here's a post from one of those sad and pathetic cachers in that first video. That week caching in the desert on the Rt. 66 trail with three like minded friends was one of the best weeks I have ever had. As others have already mentioned finding the caches was secondary to the stories, laughs, and inside jokes. It was so much fun that we got together the following year to do the ET Trail. I've lived on the east coast my entire life, so I was spending as much time as possible enjoying the scenery. When you are stopping every 528' it's a lot easier to enjoy it than when it's passing by at 70mph too. Caching in the dark is easy, especially when the caches are placed with excellent coords, and usually under an obvious rock pile. But the best part of the whole trip was standing out in the middle of the road, headlamps, car, and flashlights all turned off, and marveling at the night sky without the light pollution I am used to back home. I probably wouldn't have ever taken the time to experience that if those caches weren't placed there. What's really sad and pathetic is sitting at your computer judging how others enjoy themselves.

Almost always have a pilot g2 gel pen in my pocket. It allows me to sign over another log on a full nano and can often get ink onto all but the soggiest wad of pulp. On the rare occasions I have left the pen in the car, I have managed to take a pointy stick and green leaf and etch my initials or at least a W on the log. Once or twice I have found a container that was stuck or rusted shut, those got signed on the outside and I took a pic of the cache in situ in case the CO challenged my find. The only time I have had a find deleted was an old Locationless Cache with a clenched CO who didn't think I had enough of my face in the picture.

A bunch of good ideas, and a bit of typical forum snark are in this thread from last month.

We did the trail in late June 2012. It was 108 in the shade in Las Vegas the day before we drove up there. I don't care if it's a dry heat, it's still a lot of heat. But once we gained some elevation the temps dropped to a comfortable high 80's. We did encounter high winds which made the dust blow like crazy in the more open areas, but the heat wasn't an issue. And caching at night was an amazing experience. I had no idea just how much light pollution affected my view of the skies on the east coast. Rule #1. Bring PLENTY of water. Rule #2. Carry an extra 5 gallons of gas. When you need to use it, it's time to drive to the nearest town and fill up your car and spare can without stopping for more caches.

Am I the only one here that's puzzled that Cezanne has nearly 4 times as many posts on the topic in this thread than total events attended? As to the 'would this get published' query, only your reviewer can answer that question for you. What the other forum posters think won't get it published nor keep it from happening.