Ethankwolfe
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Greensburg, IN (right off 74) has two virtuals. Continuing on 74 you get to Shelbyville next, which has a couple ECs and a relatively quick Wherigo. Rotten but not Forgotten was a fun traditional cache there. There's also a park and grab letterbox, Indiana Benchmark Series - Letterbox Hybrid, with a really nice stamp. Indianapolis is next and has quite a few virtuals, including one of the best in the state, His Favorite Niece, located in Crown Hill Cemetery, where one could cache in all day with all the variety there. Downtown has quite a few virtuals and a couple ECs too. There's also a virtual at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Quite a few ECs to do in the area too, as well as some hit and miss letterboxes. A fun traditional is Indy's Largest Cache. Heading up 65 you get to Lafayette next (other places come first but only average caching along the way). Three virtuals, some ECs and a longer but really nice Letterbox centered around a Purdue grad, Neil Armstrong. Downtown/ Main Street USA: Lafayette, IN is a fun traditional. At the state park just a bit north is a virtual as well as some nice ECs. This area (particularly north of Lafayette) has lots of challenge caches on country roads. There really isn't much of note the rest of the way, but I haven't really cached in the area north of Lafayette frequently enough to get a better idea of what you can find. Hope this helps. Feel free to contact me with any questions you might have.
Gosh I wish I could hit all of those! But I'm pretty sure my friends would abandon me in downtown Indianapolis if I tried to drag them to that many caches.
But this is very good info, thank you!
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This May, my friends and I will be taking a trip from Ohio to Wisconsin Dells, WI, and I'm eager to find interesting caches along the way. We'll be taking I-74 to I-65 to I-90.
I especially enjoy interesting/ homemade containers. Try to avoid long walks or multi-caches, as we'll want to get to our destination in good time. Thanks in advance!
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So I've got a big tour of Columbus I'm planning, including as many caches as I can find as well as most of the puzzle caches I've solved and set aside. I'd like to make this as efficient as possible, so I'm wondering: What do you use to plan routes? Google Maps has worked pretty well in the past (and honestly, I can't imagine there's a tool out there that works better) but I'm looking for any other suggestions since it's been a bit buggy.
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You can show both names as the owner on the cache listing (you can put whatever you want there), but only one account can make edits and perform maintenance, and only one person will have it show on their profile as a hide.
I figured. Oh, well. Thanks for the response!
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A lot of people here are arguing over knives.
I'm not going to weigh in on how likely it is for a felon to get that while cleaning or whether kids should be given knives. But it states, in the guidelines, that they are not to be placed in geocaches.
As long as you're enjoying the website, you ought to abide by the rules they set. No knives in caches.
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I've been introducing my little brother to geocaching recently! He's only up to 13, but since I'll be home with him all summer, we plan on knocking that number up quite a bit. He's expressed interest in hiding a cache, and I've told him we're going to wait a bit on that (I myself have only hidden one), but here's what I was wondering: Could he and I both be listed as owners on a cache we place together? If so, how would that affect things? Would we both have permission to make edits or perform maintenance? Would we both have it listed as "our" cache? Or is having two owners more of an informal thing?
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Don't forget that some of the loggers are kids doing so with parental supervision. I know that the TOU says at least 13 years old, let's not get into that in this thread. Kids can be very direct, especially if they're "strongly encouraged" by their geocaching parent to log. It may not be your cache, it could be a father dragging his 8 year old through the forest when it's 90 degrees and humid.
tl;dr : don't read too much into a log.
I've been taking my little brother caching (don't worry, he's 13), and he usually uses the intro app's pre-loaded responses. Getting a unique log out of him is like pulling teeth, so I don't pull too hard.
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2. Trackables. I have a couple questions on these. First is how long is too long to be holding these? Should I be taking them and then finding a spot within 24-48 hours to place them? I found this one trackable that had a note with it saying it's goal is to get back to Seattle. I'm going on a trip there next month, so I took it. Is that too long to hold it? Also with that trackable, while the note with it said the goal was Seattle, online the goal says it just wants to go as many places on the Earth as possible. Which should I believe?
I'm relatively new to caching myself, but from what I've seen other cachers saying, you shouldn't worry about holding on to a bug for too long until you've had it for about two weeks, at which point you should definitely move it along.
As far as the goal goes, it's case by case. The note could be the original goal (which it might have made), and online might be a new, revised goal since it met the old one. Still, it couldn't hurt to send it toward Seattle, as long as it's hitting new places along the way! Or at least that's how I'd do it.
When in doubt though, I'd say contact the TB's owner.
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How much does a dedicated GPSr improve signal reliability, especially in thick cover, steep hills, or even spelunking and the like?
Also (if anyone happens to know), what's the major tech difference that makes a dedicated GPSr more reliable in adverse conditions?
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...I don't expect the Spanish caching community in Castellon (that's the 100.000 inhabitant city I mentioned) to explode but who knows...
Nobody expects the Spanish caching community!
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DO NOT TAKE THE CACHE, to return later when no others are about. I have a couple DNFs I feel may have been just that. Can't find it, come back days later only to find it right where I looked before. How rude.
If you know they are cachers, you can ask them if they want to walk away while you put it back. If you do not want to put it back while they are there, tell them, but don't wander off with the cache to leave them searching 15 min.s or more for something you have.
Edited to say if you must take the cache to insure it's safety, please mention in your online log you did so. And that you replaced it, so others will know it isn't gone and they can try again right away.
I second this. Please don't take the cache! People have a tendency not to take things that don't belong to them. You hear about people stealing caches thanks to large numbers and confirmation bias, but it seems to me that even if they were non-cachers and they saw you replace it, it's most likely still safe.
I would have walked over and asked if they were cachers and if they said yes hand it to them saying where it was hidden. Have actually done that a couple of times. If they said no would explain what I was doing and the re hidden the cache. I have also rolled up on my bike on people looking for or signing the log. Just ask.
You may have surmised that I am not much into this muggle stealth thing.
Here, here. If I'm too stealthy, I'll never meet other cachers! And explaining the game isn't so hard. Plus it might get some new people into it!
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I dunno. I read that section of the TOU. If it's just your average burn in hell unless you bow to my Big Sky Daddy threat.... How could someone who believes it's all imaginary actually feel threatened? Never seen a tract that was homophobic or racist. If there are such, my bet is Chick prints them, but they haven't found their way into my collection.
Like I said, I've only seen the one that fit into that category, but it was -decidedly- homophobic.
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If so, based on your posts I'm not sure I can trust your definition of "extremely damaging rhetoric."
It was specifically targeting a group of people as "evil". I didn't call it extremely damaging lightly.
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I guess there are lines to be drawn. Getting on with my life does not mean I should turn a blind eye to whatever I encounter. I would not feel obligated to trade something in to remove a pamphlet espousing racial hatred or covered with swastikas. One religious Chick track equates the gay community with "terrifying politicians" and strong arming the media to create "little sodomites in our school system." I wonder if that kind of religion crosses the line any more than a pamphlet advocating marriage equality -- and if both are left for someone to take and read, then is trading an issue?
I found something similar in a cache once as well. Note that most of them aren't that inflammatory, but this one certainly was.
I find that kind of rhetoric extremely damaging, and on an entirely different level than the rest of the material I've been discussing. That kind (anti-gay, anti-Semite, racially charged, or any similar traits) is just plain hate speech and that goes straight to the garbage. I hope nobody disagrees there.
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What exactly -is- GSAK? (Besides Geocaching Swiss Army Knife, of course)
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There seems to be an issue on this site that when someone raises a concern that others don't care about, they'll mock the OP about it in the topic.
Logging before a hide seems rude, and I sympathize. That's what he was asking. I don't think he ever asked anything to be revoked or banned, or the rules to be updated. He was just annoyed and looking for a sympathetic ear.
As far as the importance of FTF, I like the idea of finding something first and keeping track of that, but I'd never want to fight for a FTF on some sort of technicality. I've only got the one, and that'e enough for me until another one becomes convenient and quick!
Also people hunting for FTF's means more cache logs, and I'm all for that!
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So the Geocaching website offers a lot of statistics that I love keeping tabs on, but I've seen people using badges/ charts/ etc from a lot of third-party websites as well. I've looked into a few, but I'm wondering which ones people tend to prefer and recognize more often.
Reply with your favorite geocaching statistics services!
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Do you plan on giving your website the ability to parse pocket queries in order to determine whether or not these things have been done? Or is it (more likely) on the honors system?
Frankly, I love the idea. GC doesn't offer enough achievement-style incentive for me, and I'd love to get it elsewhere if it caught on.
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Hey,
I was born in country A and moved to country B around 20 years ago (both in Europe). Around a year ago I started caching, love the game, the outdoors experience, the "be a child again" thing, the stats and so on. Now in country B we have caches everywhere, but when I went last winter back to country A, I realized how desolate the caching map is on that area, with just 3 poorly maintained caches in a city of 100.000+ inhabitants.
In order to try to activate a bit the caching in A I was thinking to create some kind of "two countries" cache, where, in order to have a valid log in the "B cache" you must find somebody to log the "A cache".
Do you know if such a thing would be acceptable? and if yes any particular consideration I should have while creating the caches? (Regarding the CO, the idea would be for me to maintain the B part and my sister the A part)
Looking forward to your ideas
Thanks in advance
So logs would have to reference the user making the other log, and the two would have to be relatively close to the same time?
A pair between Newport, RI (USA) and Kinsale, Ireland, honoring the sister city status of Newport and Kinsale.
That's exactly what I was thinking, this would be great for sister cities.
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What I'd like to know is where you people that are offended go caching that you find sooo many caches large enough to even accept trade items let alone religious tracts?
I have been caching over 11 years in 40+ states and 4 countries, and I can really only remember encountering tracts less than half a dozen times and prayer beads only once.
I fail to see the frequency in the OP's stats that would precipitate such angst other than maybe a phobia for religion.
Love me some angsty geocaching topics though. Thank you all for the smug superior feelings. I hadn't posted in over 6 months. This has been fun.
I find a bunch in urban caches in the Ohio/ Kentucky area. Not all in the same small area, either. Seems like a lot of other people have been finding some, too.
Look man, you've got to stop this whole superior nonsense. Please. I made a topic in a forum asking what people thought. No angst, no phobia, just expressing an opinion and hearing others. But every time you post, you act like I'm waging a war or something. I've already had someone accusing me of insulting people when in fact I never did, the last thing I need is you making me sound like I'm in a rage about this when I'm really just listening and responding.
I get that this is how you deal with these things, but come on. You're not superior. We're all just doing something we enjoy.
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- If I know for sure that the CO is paranoid towards logs in his caches and that anything above "TFTC" might be attacked/criticized by him.
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What do you mean by paranoid?
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I believe that everyone's geocaching play list will be quite different given the diversity of cachers. I myself would load my geocaching play list with bands like Streetlight Manifesto, The Bouncing Souls, Danzig and a whole score of other bands most people care not to listen to, LOL.
I'm going to need to put my Streetlight Manifesto on my phone. Caching to "Would You Be Impressed?" is just too tempting.
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That would be it. I take it that I can't have one D:
Go ahead and make one in the style you like! I assume all of those were custom-made.
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There's a great forum just for travel bugs, so I'm moving this thread there. You might also want to check out the posts in that forum, they may give you some insight.
Whoops, my bad!
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...Anyway, my purpose for hiding a traditional cache is two-fold :
1) to bring people to a spot and point out something interesting to them, and / or
2) to give other geocachers another geocache to hunt for.
So a trail leading to where I want to bring people out to would actually be in my interest.
I love setting up a route and finding as many as possible along the way. Not because it's a numbers game, but because that way I get to visit more caches.
And in the woods, it's even better. No guardrails or lightposts, so it doesn't get repetitive.
Cache suggestions for my IN-IL-WI route?
in Midwest
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Luckily, I've already got those on my list! But I'll make sure to give those caches in particular more priority.
Hopefully I can convince a few friends to take a few days coming back, staying in Chicago and maybe Indy on the way back. More time to explore, and more time to cache, both on and off the road!