JASTA 11
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I own one car and I drove in it one time to the grocery store. My total vists to the store is one. My total cars owned is one.
Why would I even consider adding them together to make two?
Pretty simple. Cheezits.
LOVE Cheezits!
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I don't log my own events as attended. I think I'm in the minority though.
The same for us.
You already get credit for the cache on the 'Caches Owned' side.
For us it seems cheesy.
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We had one on a cache of ours recently.
The cache is located under a bridge, and is only accessable with a boat at high tide. Here's the log:
The bridge is closed so have to walk it. Lots of muggles around, but still able to use stealth and getterdone! Thanks for the smiley! (This guy had over 2000 finds at the time)
So instead of deleting it, I emailed him something like this:
Wow! Congrats on finding Xxxxx Xxxx. You have got to post how you did managed to reach reach the cache from the bridge. Everyone else who's found it has had to use a boat. We can't wait to read about how you did it!
He never replied to the email, but he did delete the find.
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I've found several throwdowns in my time (never placed one, for all the reasons stated), but here are examples of two where the throwdown substantially changed (for the worse) the caching experience the CO intended:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=7a22ff29-67ab-4335-b402-e0d1207cb0b3
Sweetwater Gentleman. The throwdown was a clear plastic film can in a tree. That didn't match the description at all, so we kept looking, with some trepidation...yep, the actual cache (a small lock and lock with a travel bug inside, so yes, much better than the throwndown) was found in the ancient, rather disturbing but more challenging...er...actual toilet area.
NASTY! I remember searching for that one years ago. You left out the part about the black widow spider infestation inside the brick ****house. We walked away from that one.
Just about any throwdown would have been a better caching experience.
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Found these two mingled within a long string of DNF's:
Throwdowner1 (13000+ Finds) Found it!hope you dont mind.. after a thorough search replaced cache.. hope it stays..
So much for 'hope'. Four months and several more DNF's later....
Throwdowner2 (10000+ Finds) Found it!Found with [other cacher]. We spent a couple of nights camping at Xxxxxxx so of course had to go for this cache. The tenting area was full this weekend so we waited until later in the day on Sunday to search for the cache, after all the tenters left. With all the DNF's, including our search, we replaced the cache after contacting someone who had found the cache before. It looks like this area goes under water in the spring when the meltage swells the bankings so not sure if this cache will last in this location. TFTC!
Do you think Throwdowner2 was talking with Throwdowner1 ?
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Just came across these situated within a long string of DNF's:
Found ithope you dont mind.. after a thorough search replaced cache.. hope it stays..
13,000+ 'Finds', but so much for their hope. 'Cause just four months later....
Found itFoundDNF with [other cacher]. We spent a couple of nights camping at Hancock so of course had to go for this cache. The tenting area was full this weekend so we waited until later in the day on Sunday to search for the cache, after all the tenters left. With all the DNF's, including our search, we replaced the cache after contacting someone who had found the cache before. It looks like this area goes under water in the spring when the meltage swells the bankings so not sure if this cache will last in this location. TFTC!
10,000+ 'Finds' for this guy. His partner didn't claim the throwdown. (Must have standards)
Replacing a cache without contacting the owner first? Then claiming a find? And TFTC? Just thank yourself!
I wonder if it was the first throw-downer that this guy called?
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We do it from time to time, and probably will again. MsKitty is almost never with me when I hide a cache, and I don't usually describe where it is, other than the vicinity. Sometimes, if we're in the area, she wants to try to find it. When she does .... with NO input or help from me ..., she feels she would like to get credit for a find. YOU tell her she's being cheesy! I sure don't want to!
:o 
As for it looking cheesy to others ... that's their problem.
Dear Ms Kitty: It's cheesy.
2. There are some "mystery spot" two-stage caches in our area. The coordinates take you to a container in a forest setting which contains a clue for finding the cache; when you find the cache, you're supposed to hide the cache in a different location and update the clue in the central cache. For those caches, the owner can certainly find the cache and log the find, since he wouldn't know where the cache is after the initial placement. (Actually, this style of cache permits multiple finds --- even FTFs --- for anyone.)
Moving the cache? Is that allowed without being reviewed?
Waymarkers do it all the time on their own waymarks, but I fail to see the point.
Predating Waymarking as I do, I seem to remember it being hammered out in their own forums in 2005 that it was generally accepted as being OK to log your own Waymarks as visited. That was when they had a mild amount of interest, and people actually did Waymarking though.
Just kidding, I just logged about 8 today, although I back-dated them almost 2 weeks. And a few of them were the same thing in multiple categories. I suspect if you have like 6 visits on your Waymark since 2007, you don't care about that either.
The cheesy-ness applies to waymarks too.
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...they're replacement crappy container caches placed spit out by considerate cachers entitlement junkies to assist cache owners and future finders boost their find count and reduce the number of DNFs they have..
Fixed it for ya.
EXACTLY!
Like this one who logged this in the middle of their 677 (and still counting) day find streak:
BigStreaker Found it!4:31:00 PM Super busy day today and this was on the way home until it's time for the next activity so stopped to grab it. UGH, where is it?? Didn't have time to go find another and had an extra container in the car so replaced it. Went to text CO to let him know and discovered he is not in my PAF list. It's not a fancy container but does have an official log in a baggie inside it so hopefully it'll last longer. TFTC #2038
This made me wonder how the 'consecutive days with without a throwdown' streak was going for them.
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I believe the aircraft's pitot tube (pressure sensor) is located outside of the pressurized cabin.
That's correct, but the pitot tube measures airspeed. It's the static ports that measure pressure altitude.
If your GPS is sensing the barometric pressure inside the cabin, then it reads 'cabin altitude' which will be somewhere under 10,000 feet.
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In your carry-on to keep it from getting swiped by the animals down below.
Bury it deep if your carry-on if it's going in the overhead. My mother-in-law had some stuff swiped out of her bag in the overhead recently.
Check the airlines rules on using the GPS in flight. Some allow it, some don't. You should be able to find the rules in the airlines' inflight magazine.
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You can log an attend log on your event. That is considered the done thing, unlike finding your own cache.
We could, but we don't. To us it is the same as 'finding' your own cache, but there's a thread for that elsewhere.
Without players placing caches there wouldn't be much of a game.
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Good luck.
We tried to get the CITO souvenir awarded to us back in April for organizing a CITO Event.
Was told: Nope, can't have it.
Cache placers aren't held in the same regard as cache finders.
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More info needed.
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Time to Archive?
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Logging ones own caches:
1. There is NOTHING wrong with it.
2. "Bad Form" says who? Think i would let the lackeys decide what is right and wrong for me. never.
3. I have logged all my own caches, and I am proud of it. No "excuses" necessary
This is you game, you are free to play it your way. Try to avoid the psychological programming from GS or the forums.
I do what I want- KCCO
You weren't kidding about logging finds on your caches.
No one disputes being able to play the game the way one wants to.
But could you explain your reasoning? Why do you do it?
Inquiring minds want to know...
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Obviously bogus.
With the CO apparently no longer in the game anymore, you could contact the local reviewer. Maybe they will agree and get it deleted.
Meanwhile, I'd keep on planning for that FTF if I were you.
Good luck!
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As I've been told many times "It's the other Jesús who walks on water."
Back on topic: I guess we need twenty or thirty icons, depending on the size of the watercraft? Surf board. Inner tube. Kayak. Canoe. Ferry boat. Water taxi. Walking on water. Ice friendly. Hovercraft. Swim the last twenty feet. Ad nauseum. "Available by watercraft" seems to fit the bill.
Why read so much into this?
All that I'm proposing is an attribute that differentiates a paddle craft versus a motor boat, not one for each possible type. Insinuating that is stupid.
The icons were posted as potential examples.
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The current 'boat required' attribute alone isn't adequate enough for most caches requiring water travel.
The attribute shows a motor boat. However, motor boats aren't always practical in many spots caches are hidden.
An attribute showing a canoe, a kayaker, or even a paddle would be more appropriate for caches in less accessable areas.
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There used to be someone who posted around here with the tag line:
"Logging a find on your own cache is like wearing a toupee. You think it makes you look better, but everyone is really laughing at you."
I've accepted that I'm losing my hair.
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I like the new picture, very scenic:
But this would seem more appropriate to caching these days...
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This. One near me was a small glass vial with a screw-top. A cacher found it broken, cleared out the shards and replaced it with a similarly sized container made of plastic. The CO actually went by to do maintenance and decided the new container was working fine so he left it. I still would have asked the CO before placing it, but in that case it worked out better.
That wouldn't be a throwdown.
The cacher actually found the cache and did some maintenance for the CO.
It's not like he didn't find it.
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My wife has logged a couple of mine as found. I never really showed her where they were, so I figured she found 'em so that was fair game.
She hasn't really gotten into caching, though...so she has no interest in numbers anyway.
Cool.
So she shouldn't complain when you delete them.
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I just noticed a cacher who has been placing a bunch of caches lately and all of them have the following line in the text "If it's not there a replacement can be signed, placed, and logged."
Another glaring example of the lack of integrity that is becoming widely accepted in this game.
Thank goodness for a bottomless ingnore pit list.
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BigStreaker Found it!
4:31:00 PM Super busy day today and this was on the way home until it's time for the next activity so stopped to grab it. UGH, where is it?? Didn't have time to go find another and had an extra container in the car so replaced it. Went to text CO to let him know and discovered he is not in my PAF list. It's not a fancy container but does have an official log in a baggie inside it so hopefully it'll last longer. TFTC #2038
Right in the middle of a 677 day find streak.
Wonder how many consecutive days without a throwdown?
Throwdowner1 (13000+ Finds) Found it!
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Found It = Didn't Find It
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Spent a long time looking for this one. I scoured thee two most prominate spots and did not find. I also checked around the area and could not find. I'll have to try on another day when it's not cool, damp and misting