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michellepluseight

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  1. That's where you're going to have a problem. The rules say that if you don't sign the physical log, the cache owner can delete your online log. Some people don't care and don't check. Others feel that, because they put effort into making an interesting, difficult, or tricky cache, and other people put effort into finding those caches, it's not fair for someone who didn't find the cache to get credit. And, as was mentioned, they will delete your online log. From reading these forums, I get the impression that the "must sign physical log" rule was initially created to settle disputes about whether someone had "really" found a cache (or to prevent cache owners from coming up with extra criteria about what you must do to count it as a find). So the rule is, if you signed the log, the find stands. At least, that's what I've gathered.
  2. Some do. I'm in Ontario, Canada and I find the black dog bags smell like baby powder. The type like in the photo (rolled up), that I've bought are odorless. Neat, I'll have to keep an eye out for them. Around here most people hang them from trees. It used to be that the poo was kicked in the woods or left in the trail, but now that dog walkers have to pick it up, they tend to use bags and toss them in the woods. It's not limited to one area, but very widespread. Nowadays a walk usually entails noticing bags of poo hanging from trees. Needless to say I think they are lousy trade items. I don't think they intended the bags as trade items, but to use for taking trash out of the cache. I wouldn't be unhappy to find a roll of them in a cache, though. I use them for all kinds of things -- CITO, dirty diapers, dirty baby clothes. Once I used one to carry some wet (but still good) swag back from a cache.
  3. Posting an NA because a cache hasn't been found in three months is ridiculous, but is it really necessary to post a DNF if you're posting an NA? The only time I was certain a cache was gone was because GZ was right in the middle of an area recently cleared for construction. I posted an NM (active CO, so I figured he'd archive it if necessary, no need to bother the reviewer), but didn't bother with a DNF. I mean, it's obvious I didn't find it from the fact that I just posted saying that GZ was gone, right?
  4. Why would a restaurant even offer free WiFi if they don't want people to sit there and browse the web?
  5. It really doesn't matter ... If you're happy with how much you get to cache, then don't worry about others' numbers. My best friend and caching buddy started caching almost a year after us, and he has 7800 caches to our 2200. Doesn't bother us at all! He's been retired while we were still working. Anyone who really cares and makes an issue about it don't matter. I like numbers, averages, and statistics, so I'm interested.
  6. I've actually been wondering how many caches others find, on average, per day / week / month / year? I'm a little over a month from the end of my first year, and I've found 94 caches total. As it stands, I've found about 8.5 caches per month, and 2 per week. (Or, if you take out the months that I didn't do any caching because of a new baby, it comes to almost 19 per month, and about 5 per week.) I realize I'm a pretty casual geocacher, but I still wonder how that compares to others.
  7. I use my camera bag. Bonus points for also protecting my camera when I choose to bring it along.
  8. I can't see why anyone would send an unsolicited hint when you could be just as friendly and welcoming by sending an email *asking* if a newbie wants a hint, without any risk of spoiling it for someone who doesn't want one.
  9. Are you asking whether you can use the app to log finds on two accounts at once, or whether it's ok for you both to log the find, each on your own account, when you find it together?
  10. I was told that the "not in front yard" attribute is useful if you hid a cache in a neighborhood but it's not on private property. That way cachers know not to go tromping through anyone's yard looking for the cache. If they look at the attribute, anyway.
  11. I thought they were supposed to be digital tire gauges?
  12. The only time I have ever been confronted was when we were looking for our very first cache. I had five of my kids with me, and we were walking back and forth across a parking lot trying to figure out how something could be hidden there when there was nothing but parking spaces and light poles. A couple in a car stopped to see if we needed help, and I was so embarrassed that all I could think to say was that we were playing a game. They looked at me like I was the worst mother in the world, and drove off.
  13. Am I right to think a soda tube preform should be a micro? I just found several in a series of these that were marked as "small," but they're only big enough to hold the log and nothing else, and the ones I saw on Amazon were listed as being 50ml.
  14. Last month I was trying to find a cache every day, so I did a lot of easy, PNG, urban caches. This month I've been trying new things, so I have gotten a bit of a better idea of what I prefer. My favorite ones involve a nice walk through not-too-tough terrain. I take my kids with me, and I am often carrying the baby, so I don't want to have to hack my way through. (But at the same time, caching in parking lots or other urban areas with a bunch of small kids is not ideal.) The hope is to find at least a regular-sized container (sometimes a small), with swag, trackables, and/or pathtags. So far I have enjoyed traditionals, letterboxes, virtuals (although it feels like cheating when I'm visiting a place I'd go anyway *and* I get a smiley just for being there!), Earthcaches, and multis. I have solved quite a few puzzles and enjoyed that, but for me the most important part is the actual finding of the cache, and a lot of times the puzzle solution is somewhere I don't really want to go. I haven't tried a Wherigo yet. I haven't tried anything harder than 3.5/3.5 D/T.
  15. Pet peeve, but Texas is not a giant desert. Houston averages almost 50 inches of rain per year, making it the 8th wettest large city in the US. Almost every cache I have found in the past year has been at least damp inside, with the exception of ammo cans. Recently we found a bucket (with a lid) hanging from a tree in such a way that you couldn't take it down; you had to just tip it over. Of course it was full of nasty water. Luckily, everything inside was in ziplock bags. The worst one I found was literally a cardboard pocket with a paper log inside. I think it was wrapped in duct tape, but the whole top was open. Not only was it soaking wet, it was full of ants!
  16. My kids actually say "lawl" rather than "LOL." And yes, they actually say it, regularly, because to them it's just a word like any other. The joys of growing up in the internet age.
  17. Maybe it's because, being a relatively early adopter to the internet, I kind of grew up on them, I don't see the problem with acronyms.* IMHO, the problem is with logs that don't actually say anything, not merely with how the nothing is said. To me, this: is infinitely preferable to this: The first is a specific response to this particular cache, while the second could be cut and pasted into the log of almost any cache. I realize I'm still new to geocaching, but I'm kind of a language nerd and I think this applies to any communication. Getting across an actual message is better than using words without actually saying anything. *Actually, we're mostly talking about initialisms. Acronyms are pronounceable, like RADAR or SWAG.
  18. Oops, already replied to this thread, and just repeated myself.
  19. I do not find the website very intuitive, and I have stated elsewhere that the app is even less so. However, I'm confused about people saying there is no easy way to find caches near you from the main page. When I go to the main page of the site, on the right-hand side there's a little box that says "Search for Nearby Geocaches" with my coordinates automatically filled in. I just click the little magnifying glass, and there are the caches near me. To see it on a map, I then click "Map This Location." That's one click to see caches near me, and a second to see a map. Totally within the "three clicks" rule.
  20. The discussion of ROW reminds me of a neighbor of mine who doesn't think people should be allowed to walk past her house, at all. She claims that, when people walk on the sidewalk past her house, it sets off her burglar alarm. At first I told my kids to just walk on the other side of the street. But then she started insisting that they couldn't visit their friends who lived next door, or across the street from her. They'd be walking up the sidewalk to their friend's house across the street, and she'd come out yelling at them to "leave [the friend's grandmother] alone!" One time they came to see if the friends next door could play, and were asked to wait on the porch for a moment, and this neighbor came out and started yelling at them to stop "bothering those people!" I gave up. Crazy people are going to be crazy, and there's no point in trying to accommodate them. I've also noticed that some people think that public spaces are only for "certain" people. I was at a park day with my kids, and one of the moms was extremely concerned about a *man* being at a very large and popular park. "He has no business being here!"
  21. There is no family premium account, or any other kind of group discount for premium accounts. But why would you all need premium accounts? Basic members can log PMO (premium member only) caches. So if someone in the family has a premium account and you all use the same information to find a PMO cache, then you can all log it. Can you? Because my son has a non-premium account, and when he goes to the cache page of a premium cache that we found together, I don't see a log button. Just a list of all the features of a premium membership. PS, our family is following a suggestion I read on the forums. I bought a trackable for each member of the family, and we are going to dip each person's trackable into each cache they helped to find. That way we can share one account, but still track who found what. That cost us ~$50 (not counting one that we got for free), whereas premium accounts for everyone would have been $300 per year.
  22. Pastor B, your fix is correct and helpful, but the OP shouldn't have posted that code to begin with. Now anyone can log the trackable without actually having or seeing it. Those codes are meant to be secret.
  23. If you can afford it, it would be really nice to offer to replace them. I don't think it should be necessary, but certainly kind and polite. The most important thing is to let the owners know what happened, though, so they aren't forever wondering what happened to their trackables.
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