Earleheart°

Hey Earleheart°! I just took my two youngest kids out and found your "For Quacks Only!" cache. I must admit that I would have never dreamed of turing that into a cache container . We loved it! I also just replaced ISQ: Caching in Stile. It is ready to be found. Welcome to the forums. I'm glad you licked it.

This is silly. Put a pencil in it.

There mus be a hundred of them around here but I don"t know if any new ones. I llike them and I know where there is one I'm going to put one.

I agree! (sorry, I couldn't resist) I agree! (sorry, I couldn't resist) I second that motion I agree! (sorry, I couldn't resist) I second that motion I 3rd that motion Really though I think it comes from people not knowing how to use the forum properly. I agree! (sorry, I couldn't resist) I second that motion I 3rd that motion Really though I think it comes from people not knowing how to use the forum properly. Yeah, that drives me nuts too. I think people should stop doing that. Seriously, this question has crossed my mind more than once. If I am responding only to the person above me, I usually don't use quotes. It doesn't make sense to me to do so. Well it seems we're in agreement. I wish I'll I had to worry about was "mis-use" of forum quotes. Opps, I broke the 'qoute' thingie. that's just great!!! you broke the quotey thingy!! O no say it aint so. lol

Delete the parts you don't need. Like that. cool thank you.

Ive got a photo vest but its hot and very hot. It has to many places to pu things to. lol

Good quoting practices have been frequently promoted - and invariably ignored - pretty much since online communication was invented. I used to deal with it as a Fidonet moderator, and long before that the problem existed (and still exists today) on Usenet. How do you quote part of something?

You should play it like you want it and if they take away your find its not the way they should do it.

If its good musioc its good for me.

Hello from Indiana. Lets geocache.

I did a little "geo forensics" and I see that your first cache has a unique container, an interesting cache name and is hidden just off a rural road next to a stream. Two of the first 3 finders complemented the unusual container. It sounds like you are on the right track to me! A word or two about micros. They are not "bad" for geocaching, however meaningless lame hides HAVE given micros a bad name. With that said, first and foremost, don't hide a micro in an area that will adequately accomodate a regular sized cache. If you apply the same techniques to a micro hide then it will likely be well received. Find a meaningful location that someone from across town or from out of town might not know exists, like a city park, historic marker, trail head for a new trail, a veterans park or war memorial or a museum. With a location identified, find a good hiding spot that will support a unique container. Unique can be a fabricated item, a hide a key rock, a ornamental frog from a garden shop, a painted bison tube hanging from fake ivy on a fence; use your imagination. Hide one at the local WalMart but PLeeeeze, not a film can under a lamp skirt! Make it interesting and put it in a high muggle area so it is a challenge to retrieve and replace. What is "redeeming" about a WalMart hide? It makes it easy for out of towners to find the place AND it gives traveling geocachers a quick fix (especially important if they are saddled with a carload of geocaching adverse grumps.) Regardless of what you hide, be creative in your selection of locations and cache containers, place the hide and use the comments and feedback from your finders to gauge the quality of the hide. I found one of thos mini caches in a lamp pole and I thought it was neat. Why don't you want me to hide one.

That is a good idea.

I was going to hide a mini cache and then everbody says they are bad for geocaching so I hid a bigger one. Then one guy said you have to trade for stuff but you don’t. I resd that you don’t have to swap and you have to sign it but then someone said you don’t have do do that ether. I think Diabo is right and Quiggle but some of them realy make me mad. This is just a game the way you want to.

I saw some one say they are cache cops. Thats just not write because this is a free hobby.

I have only been geocaching for a couple a weeks and it is a fun game. Thesee forums are fun to but there might be another game going on in it. I have notived that sometimes an old person all the way back to 2001thinks he plays it wright and we play it wrong. Maybee everyone plays it right. Anyway it is annoing when the old guys tell us we are doing it wrong. How would they like it if a newbie told them how to do it? D newbies imake old players as mad as they make us?

If I ever become this anal, I hope my friends will shoot me in the foot to wake me up. I am newbie and I already have my first cache and I agree. This is A fun game and I like it. Why would you want to take the fun away from us by taking our finds? If yo delete them you are anal. Remember it is just a game not like poker.

I second that. And I'm having a nice day. LOl

I think you should find the place first and make it a good one. lOl

Show them Goggle Earth.

snake eater!

I hidden my first cache and it has already been found two times. Just do it. Lol

What? You mean just "marking" the outside of the container isn't enough??? You mean you have to consider those who may visit after you! Also, the job isn't finished until the paperwork is done! Pathetic attempt at a troll, son. When my team discussed it I thought it would be okay. * The forum community backlash showed me it wasn't. I took collective responsibility for a bad decision, apologized publicly, offered to replace any cache we signed, and changed my stance to 'the log should be signed unless there are reasonable extenuating circumstances'. I haven't gone to look, but I and most of my team, I think all of us, decided not to log the 312 caches we signed, nor do we claim to have set the new record. Get over it. Ed * For those just joining us, he references our Dallas Record Run, a 24-hour world-record cache run attempt, wheren I allowed as having the cache in hand and writing DRR on it with a Sharpie was an acceptable way to save time by not opening it and digging out the log. It was a mistake, but some still believe I should be crucified for my sin. Others just use it for cheap shots at an admitted sinner. This is what I mean you don’t have to sign the log to find it but you have to sign the logbook to sign it. Lol

Wow. This is the most incredible example of calling black white and vice versa I have ever seen. I am afraid you have it completely backwards. The situation is exactly the opposite of what you describe. It's those who want geocaching to be about having fun that tend to only claim smileys when they actually found the cache. Because, believe it or not, you can have plenty of fun without getting any smileys! On the other hand, those who insist on getting smileys whether they found the cache or not are more likely to be obsessed with their find counts. It seems that they define "fun" as "being awarded finds." I couldn't have said it better than FizzyM. One correction to Tozainamboku's post though. For us traditionalists, the point of geocaching is to find caches and have fun. The "found it" (or "didn't find it") logs are simply there to record the results of our search. It is the radicals who have made geocaching a quest to get smiley logs online and who have changed the definition of a "found it" to mean things other than actually finding a geocache. This is very silly to argue about because found it means found it and signing the log means you singed it and found it. I don’t see why it makes any difference any way. I will sign all my chahes but if I don’t have a pencil I will not but I still have found it.

Geocaching has taken over my life I think too. I couldn't hardly believe it to day when I found a geocachew really in a light pole. They are everywhere and you can put them everywhere. Some of them are really cool and I want to place them there.

I havbe only been caching for a few days and I tell everyone about it.