Geo Quest

works fine for me.

That sucks. Next time take your valuables with you and leave a big Rottweiler in the car instead.

That sucks. Next time take your valuables with you and leave a big Rottweiler in the car instead.

I get the bug, but only once. Hit the back button and everything is cool again.

I was all riled up for a while but I've calmed down and gone back to caching. CACHE ON!

Anything homemade or quirky

It's cheaper to just join. Placing a cache costs between 10-30 dollars or more. I could never afford to place one cache per month. "God bless those pagans" - Homer Simpson

It's cheaper to just join. Placing a cache costs between 10-30 dollars or more. I could never afford to place one cache per month. "God bless those pagans" - Homer Simpson

There's a cache here in Oregon called Tree Hugger. You are required to climb a tree to get to it. The tree is very close to a paved jogging trail and you get some real werid looks. My wife was at the bottom of the tree while I was logging our find about 40 feet up. Two female joggers approach my wife (who is looking up). "What are we looking at"? they said. "My husband" she said. "What's he doing?" they said. "Treasure hunting". she said. "God bless those pagans" - Homer Simpson

My concern was basically the same as his. With more and more people becoming members there will naturally be more and more mocaches. As the old public caches wear out and fade away we will have a smaller and smaller pool of caches from which to choose. Speaking for myself I know this is true. I just joined and the first thing I did was make two of my caches members-only. Any new caches I place will be members only. I figure I coughed up the 30 bucks, I want all the features that entitles me to. "God bless those pagans" - Homer Simpson

My concern was basically the same as his. With more and more people becoming members there will naturally be more and more mocaches. As the old public caches wear out and fade away we will have a smaller and smaller pool of caches from which to choose. Speaking for myself I know this is true. I just joined and the first thing I did was make two of my caches members-only. Any new caches I place will be members only. I figure I coughed up the 30 bucks, I want all the features that entitles me to. "God bless those pagans" - Homer Simpson

First of all I applaud Jeremy for his vision and enterprise. Congratulations on what I consider to be the finest website ever. As a currently non-paying (non-charter) member I have a few minor concerns about the new pay-to-play system. It creates a dividing line in the geocaching community. The elite and the petite, the haves and the have-nots, the feudal lords and the lowly serfs. You can already see the line forming. In these forums people are voicing their opinions long and loud. Will I pay? What are my benefits if I do? I get to hunt member-only caches. How many member-only caches are there? I just read a post by a charter-member stating that he will not create member-only caches because he wants as wide an audience as possible. Is this the typical charter-member attitude? I don't know. I can only speak for myself. I know that if/when I fork out my moolah I'm going to convert all my caches to member-only. I will prefer to hunt member-only caches over "regular" caches. Basically what I'm saying is what good is the charter-membership unless you use it to it's full advantage. I'm betting that the pool of high-quality free caches will dwindle. Why would you pay for a membership and then keep on placing free non-member caches? You could do that without paying. Why post a free cache that could potentially be vandalized when you could post a member-only cache that only paying-members will be able to hunt? Do you see what I'm saying? All of the sudden there are two classes of geocachers. The ones who pay will create pay caches and hunt pay caches. The pay caches will be as vandal-proof as they can be, they will be high-quality since only charter members will visit them. Free caches will be visible to any dill-hole who frequents geocaching.com. Any moron with a GPS can hunt one. Cache quality may start high but will inevitably decline as more and more first-timers with their McToy toting kids find them. So, what incentive does a charter-member have for placing any kind of cache other than a member-only cache? Only the assurance that more people can visit the cache. Is that a good thing?

A pair of pliers

First of all I applaud Jeremy for his vision and enterprise. Congratulations on what I consider to be the finest website ever. As a currently non-paying (non-charter) member I have a few minor concerns about the new pay-to-play system. It creates a dividing line in the geocaching community. The elite and the petite, the haves and the have-nots, the feudal lords and the lowly serfs. You can already see the line forming. In these forums people are voicing their opinions long and loud. Will I pay? What are my benefits if I do? I get to hunt member-only caches. How many member-only caches are there? I just read a post by a charter-member stating that he will not create member-only caches because he wants as wide an audience as possible. Is this the typical charter-member attitude? I don't know. I can only speak for myself. I know that if/when I fork out my moolah I'm going to convert all my caches to member-only. I will prefer to hunt member-only caches over "regular" caches. Basically what I'm saying is what good is the charter-membership unless you use it to it's full advantage. I'm betting that the pool of high-quality free caches will dwindle. Why would you pay for a membership and then keep on placing free non-member caches? You could do that without paying. Why post a free cache that could potentially be vandalized when you could post a member-only cache that only paying-members will be able to hunt? Do you see what I'm saying? All of the sudden there are two classes of geocachers. The ones who pay will create pay caches and hunt pay caches. The pay caches will be as vandal-proof as they can be, they will be high-quality since only charter members will visit them. Free caches will be visible to any dill-hole who frequents geocaching.com. Any moron with a GPS can hunt one. Cache quality may start high but will inevitably decline as more and more first-timers with their McToy toting kids find them. So, what incentive does a charter-member have for placing any kind of cache other than a member-only cache? Only the assurance that more people can visit the cache. Is that a good thing?