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Some people only like to hide. No need to make up rules about some sort of find to hide ratio in order to hide new caches. As criminal said, the person needs some feedback -- communication. Do it gently. They're newbies and are actually trying to add to the fun of the game. Guide their efforts. Maybe offer to go meet them and have a soda together and discuss geocaching, or maybe go geocaching together! Make it a good experience for them and they will blossom and learn from the experience and count you as one of their good friends in the game. It's not just about the finds or the hides, it's about the fun, too.

I think you're not happy about it and as such, you should not register for the class. Others might be perfectly happy with it and discover a great new hobby or game to play outside. To each their own. -Ken

I think it all depends on the puzzle. If the puzzle is something where you, the cache hider, already know the LL, then engineering the puzzle to produce the LL desired shouldn't make it a problem at all, right?

Never. But here is a real triangulation problem. Ich bin traurig, aber ich lese nicht oder spreche Deutschen.

I earned this badge of honor searching for a geocache back in October. I was borrowing my wife's new Tahoe at the time and had to take particular precautions to make sure I didn't leak all over it. (Edit: That's my right shin/calf in the photo...)

I generally go caching alone. Sometimes I can talk my wife and/or younger daughter into picking one off with me. My older daughter seems to want nothing to do with it. She's 18, going to college, has a particular boy on her mind, works, etc. That's fine. I actually like going alone most of the time. I'm lucky, in one sense, because I'm probably the biggest, baddest thing in my forests when I go caching at 6'2" and tipping the scales over 300 lbs. On the other hand, tipping the scales at over 300 lbs. means I'm not really ever caching alone... It's always me and my friend, me. But I'm working on that part...

Ha, tense and hostile. I know what you mean! Generally, when I'm starting to let the expletives out so others might hear me (like "Did I say that out loud?"), I start to think about calling it quits. This may take upwards of an hour or so, depending on multiple factors -- my mood to begin with, the weather, the terrain, etc. Generally when I stop having fun is when I call it a day for a cache. I've hit that point on a few caches and yet they sometimes still beckon to me from my nearest caches listing... I'll often go out a number of times for a cache that I have not been able to find. Usually, I eventually find them but I've had a couple that I've just had to give up for keeps on. Don't get me wrong! I like a challenge! If the cache is in an area that I find enjoyable to be at in the first place, the level of tenseness and hostility take longer to reach critical. If I'm pulling up to find something like a well camoflaged urban micro hidden in shrubbry in the parking lot of an abandoned store in a part of town where I don't particularly like the idea of spending a lot of time looking suspicious or like an easy mark, the critical level may happen sooner rather than later. I'll still be back a number of times before I give up for keeps, though. Each time I don't find it, I'll log a DNF, for sure!

A better link would be here: http://users.cell2000.net/beowulf/ Scroll down to CACHING INFORMATION and you've got an index to the individual pages.

Heh, I think that is the problem... It HAS been unachieved. It looks like it has been not found twice in 8 months. Personally, if it were me, I'd have gone and done a maintenance check on it sometime during that period. The message is considerate enough and requires you to go on out there to verify it is still there and the approver will unarchive it. I'm thinking the stretch of time is what caused the approver to question it. Did you not receive an email from the approver prior to the archival? Might have been an oversite on there part if you didn't. Still, it's not something that can't be corrected. -Ken

Haha! That hostage note is funny. To me, it would be more fun to get some strange sense of humor messages like that in a cache that the old usual. Kind of refreshing to know there are people out there not associated with geocaching as strange as we are.

Now, really... If we policed ourselves, we wouldn't be butting into the ways others want to play their game, would we? To keep it in context, I was merely poking fun at the fireman looking like he was doing cop work. As a matter of fact, there is a community nearby me where the public safety folks are both cops and firefighters. And to keep this post on topic, I don't play my game by posting finds to the one, lonely cache I've placed so far. I really don't care how others play their game. My opinion is that the posting of a note is the proper way to post notes to one's cache. -Ken

Hey fireman, leave the policing to the cops!

No.

Hey, you can get those park and grabs without even getting out! I got to drive one of those during my stint as a campus police officer way back when. My father-in-law drove one most of the years he was a letter carrier for ths USPO.

I had a 1965 YELLOW CJ5 jeep from about 1981 through about 1993. 134 ci F-head and a three speed with 4.27 gearing. 50 MPH on the freeway! Wooha! I now own a 1992 Explorer with air conditioning and an automatic. Heh, I enjoy the finer things in my older age. Did I mention the air conditioning? Oh, yeah, and a roof and doors that actually keep the rain out. I did love my jeep back then, though, for getting back into places.

Yeah, yeah... or some of his relatives!

The West and Southwest forums would be a better place to post your message: West and Southwest Forums

Who really cares? They play their game, I play mine. If claiming credit for caches they didn't really find is their's, so be it. I have fun playing my game just the same.

Wow, that's a photo of a pretty classic case if ever I saw one. She's getting treatment early so I'm sure she'll be fine. I was bitten by a tick back quite some years ago and had a semi-suspicious rash develop, not quite as well defined as your daughters, it was mostly a bruise looking thing. This was when Lyme's disease was fairly a new thing out here on the west coast. I went to get a blood test and it showed I was in the lower end of the "gray" area. The doc had me wait a short while and go back in for another test. That one still showed in the gray area however it was elevated over the last time. Got some drugs which took care of the problem... I think I'm perfectly normal now. My avatar is a fairly recent photo of me.

How about MURS?

That's 'cause they want all the good stuff for themselves!

At first glance, I didn't think it was proper. But upon reading it and investigating a little further, I see that it is to introduce some troubled kids to something that could enrich their lives. I'm just guessing, but it looks like they not only want to introduce the kids to caching, but to using the website to log their find. Wouldn't you feel good about introducing some kids to the fun we've experienced with geocaching? Gosh, I think I'd rather have the kids experiencing a good time with hiking and geocaching rather than doing something else that doesn't set so very well with society. I applaud the effort by RangerKim! -Ken

I guess for some, it really IS about the NUMBERS.

Lose your article out here in California and I'd be happy to find it!

What *I* find interesting about all this is that Vargseld seems to be looking to find YJTBs on eBay rather than in caches! (Sorry, couldn't resist.)