Would it be in bad form to... message someone who has recently found a cache and ask them to tell you where it is??
I have very recently started geocaching and so far have looked for 5 but only been successful in finding 2. I'm using an Iphone 3G, have a 7 year old assisting me, and have no sense of direction whatsoever, all of which complicate things! I don't want to spend the money on a proper GPS until I know for sure we are committed to it.
7-year-old is starting to lose hope that we can really do this. Definitely partly my fault, I know you are supposed to start with the biggest and easiest caches and not the ones that just happen to be closest to your house, but I don't drive so my options are limited.
Would it be really bad to message someone who has recently been to the ones we can't find and ask them to point it out for me? Then I could gently nudge the 7-year-old to it without actually telling him we are big fat cheaters. Could I just not log it since it's not really a legit find?
I think part of the problem is we are so new we have no idea what they usually look like, how they can be concealed, how open they usually are, etc. But then on top of that the GPS isn't very accurate so we have no idea what we are looking for or where! (I have already read everything I can on this site.)
Input or suggestions?
