David

FWIW, I feel your pain. Variety is the spice of life. Virtuals and locationless caches provide some of that variety.

When I go into an area to hunt BMs, I prepare my sheets based on the NGS descriptions and omit any gc.com finder info. That way, I'm looking without any knowledge of previous finds. And yes, I log whatever I find, or not.

quote:Originally posted by Jolly B Good: quote:Originally posted by Bill-W5WAF:Perhaps one way to help mitigate the fears is if we label the cache with a REAL name and a telephone number. At least that gives a real point of contact. Think of the drawbacks, though. It's Saturday morning at five a.m. and some cacher calls and wakes you up -- he's calling from a cell phone and can't find your cache and wants some hints. If the phone number is on the cache container (not the datasheet), the cacher would have to find the cache to get the number. Why would he call you for a hint?

From memory, which may be wrong, normal recalculates position once per second, battery saver is once every five seconds, or some number.

quote:Originally posted by TahoeJoe:I wish people would get off their anti virtual high horse and realize that both types of caches can coexist together. Lake Tahoe Geocacher Amen! Hallelujah!

I think all caches are cool. Traditional, virtual, locationless, micro, webcam, etc. The person below agrees with me that this thread is as useless as a screen door on a submarine. I think I'll go throw an ammo can full of McToys into the bushes in a semi-remote area.

I envy you guys in and around DC. So many cool benchmarks to find!

It happens to me regularly, too. I have gotten into the habit of copying my entry to the clipboard before I click submit. Then, I just paste into the second attempt if necessary.

quote:Originally posted by hydee:We want cool caches that the geocaching community will enjoy. I'm not trying to pick a fight, nor am I belittling the amount of effort that it takes to keep this site running smoothly. However, it seems that hydrashok's intentions are exactly what I've quoted. It also seems that any ammo box full of McTrinkets hidden with permission on private land in the general proximity of the hider's area of finds will, in most cases, get a rubber stamped approval. How cool is that?

FWIW, I'm with you.

I wonder if there has been, or will be any feedback on this request. It hasn't been implemented yet.

Have you received any feedback on this suggestion?

quote:Originally posted by Team Kaz:I am still a newbie, but wish Grounspeak store sold padlock, waterproof boxes. I would be willing to shell out money for one after my 1st cache was used as a urinal. If you hid a padlocked box, how would I open it when I found it?

quote:Originally posted by Shark River Pirates:The Electric Shavers strike again. I was kind of skeptical about this mark since it's fairly close to my house and sure enough it was there is plain sight. http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=KV0799 Strange... Their comments include "might be buried" when the description says "2 FEET ABOVE THE SIDEWALK" and "SET VERTICALLY".

quote:Originally posted by Zaphod Beeblebrox:Microcaches with high difficulty ratings placed by people who have never found a cache of any size with a high difficulty rating. Could you give an example? I think I'd like to try one like that. I thought I'd be able to just look at your not-found logs for this information, but you have no logs of any kind.

Would any of you, my fellow benchmarkers, log this one differently? EE2320

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quote:Originally posted by jeff35080: quote: I figure that if I could find it with the published description, you can too. I found several over the past couple of days and all I did was update the description with modern road names such as "County Hwy 331" from a "gravel road". Right! Good examples. I've noted several times that church names, store names, and others have changed. It's good to note these. I don't measure how far the mark is from the centerline of the highway, however.

quote:Originally posted by jeff35080: quote:Finally, why do so many hunters find the disk in the lawn but fail to find the 100 foot church spire 40 yards behind the lawn? Is there something unworthy about church spires and water tanks? I log 'em all but I have noticed that some people don't log these types of marks. I am an equal opportunity recoverer. I'm an equal opportunity recoverer, too. The choice made by some to ignore spires and tanks closely parallels the choice made by some to ignore locationless and virtual caches. I'll log anything I can find that has an individual PID or GC waypoint ID. To my knowledge, I haven't logged a find unless I saw the "station" as described. Anything less gets a note, a not found, or a destroyed. We should all "play" by the same rules. I invite any of you to critique my list. Be warned, however. My descriptions are rarely wordy if the published description will suffice, and a photo of the brass disk is usually all I include. I figure that if I could find it with the published description, you can too.

quote:Originally posted by roadchild:I'm one of those phantom cachers that sign your logs but don't post logs on the site. I guess that could get me screamed at too. I just don't care about the count, not a lick. Nor do you care about the owner and/or other cachers who like to see and benefit from realtime find information. I hope you don't take travel bugs out of caches.

That sounds really cool. I'd love to see a picture of those items.

quote:Originally posted by GOT GPS?:I think that he meant that landmarks, 6 miles from his GPS Position were quite visible. That would be a comfortable viewing angle out the window.(His position on the map versus the landmarks on the same map). Correct.

Funny. I took my GPS on a trip last week. It was cool knowing we were at 37000 feet doing 540 MPH. from my window seat, most landmarks were comfortably seen at about 6 miles away.

quote:Originally posted by Sugar Kane:Because the minty aroma - curiously strong and all that - could be pretty hard to get out of the tin. If you rinse it out with something like clorox then water, it won't smell minty. You do need to put whatever goes inside into a ziplock to weatherproof.

Well, if honeychile's explanation is correct, someone should not have approved W7WT's FD cache. I think they should all (FD Event caches) be approved but I'm biased. Friends don't let friends attempt to persuade them to be biased toward any particular type of cache.