JASTA 11
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No matter how you folks try to justify it, it's simply just lame.
What's next? A power trail of drive by events? Remember, there's no requirement to sign a log at an event.
Here is an idea I had posted a while back: a geocaching 'transponder' (like the ones used to to pay highway tolls electronically IE: EZPass).
Just drive on by within range of the cache (event) and it automatically logs your find (attended)for you.
No hassles of getting out of your car and expending precious calories by walking. No tedious searching and the brutal task of actually using a pen and signing a logbook! You'll never have to be more than arms length from your cigarettes and oxygen tank in the climate controlled comfort of your car.
Hey Groundspeak, there's a buck to be made here!
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Our Letterbox Hybrid is set up for both cachers and letterboxers, not simply a cache with a stamp:
For a pure letterbox hunt we posted it here:
http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gBoxId=216645
To keep it simple, you could post yours on GC.com alone, but with full letterboxing clues for those who might want to skip using a gps.
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Why does there have to be a 'default log' for anything?
How about having the app instruct the player to 'write a thoughtful log about your experience'?
This is just promulgating poor habits to those who are newcomers to the game.
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We're not big fans of TB Hotels. It seems that they seldom actually have any trackables in them.
There are some TB 'Wardens' around who try to impose their additional rules in the listing.
This is an example from around here, but not labeled as a ' TB hotel':
It is also important to trade equally or trade up. Please do not take anything from the cache unless you have something to leave in its place. I have placed two trackable items in the cache and that means there should always be two trackables in the cache. If you do not have a trackable item to leave, please do not take one from this cache. It is part of being a fair and responsible cacher.
I posted a note about TB etiquitte, not being regular trade items, wanting to move along etc. The note was promptly deleted.
Some folks see things differently...
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TeamThrowdowners (9000+ Finds)
Found it!Cache is MIA but I replaced where I thought it should be.. Seems like they cut the tree / Bush down at GZ.. I stuck a small container in the brush. You should and relocate it.
TFTC CacheOwner
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I checked out another thread on hammocks. There was a lot of talk about under quilts.
Anyone have any experiences or suggestions regarding quilts to share?
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Our recent hides have been PMO until FTF. Then we open it up to all.
Why the initial restriction?
After noticing that the vast majority of the attendees at our CITO events are premium members, I figured we'd let PM's get first crack at it.
Some undoubtably will disagree with our reasoning, but there's a group of PM's in our area that always come out and support us. It's a gesture of gratitude is all.
Bash away...
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Our recent hides have been PMO until FTF. Then we open it up to all.
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Lots of people gleefully find them, with no negative feedback, right?
Like lemmings to the sea!
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Not only can it be dangerous, it's a dumb idea.
They couldn't find some place interesting to hide a cache?
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Sounds like the complainers need to hook up with other catchers that have a boat.
Exactly.
We held an event last summer at an old abandoned fishing shack out on a marsh. It wasn't far from land, but you needed a boat of some sort to get there dry.
Some folks borrowed kayaks or hitched a ride in a canoe. Where there's a will, there's a way. Another way is to ask a friend.
Then again, some people don't have friends.
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We've hidden 22 paddle caches including a lengthy (30+ mile) paddle trail series. Have also hosted a few paddling events.
I wish there were more around. Paddling and caching are two of our favorite things to do.
You should place a few more in that whiners area.
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Ideas on how to get rid of crappy caches:
Stop finding them. A cache owner isn't going to put out caches that noone wants or tries to find but all these "crappy caches" get found dozens or hundreds of times. Stop looking for them and they will go away.
I agree with most of that, but there are plenty of cachers who strive to find every last cache they can to make their find count increase. Finding hundreds of identical, unimaginative, film canisters placed .10 mile apart along a highway makes many players giddy with excitement because of the large number of smilies they can possess and tell their friends about.
Eliminate the find tallies in players profiles and there will be far less motivation for hiding and seeking 'crappy caches'.
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Found it!
Found the X but no cache to be found...0 for 2 today :-(
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So, that would be a no then.
The best thing to do would be to contact your local reviewer and run some things by them to see what may be possible.
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Last year: 37 DNFs on 225 searches for 16.4%
Our Total: 135 DNFs on 1366 searches for 9.88%
That made 2013 a banner year for us!
Check that...
(edited for poor math)
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Found It!
First find for me and my 4 year old son.Well we found the rock not the cache
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I only counted a few TB's that were listed as 'location unknown'. Quite a few were in possession of one particular cacher.
It appears that they are playing the game within the guidelines. They took it, they logged it.
That is, unless you subscribe to the 'take a trackable - leave a trackable' mindset, which isn't correct since the purpose of a trackable is to move, not necessarily to be traded.
Perhaps this cacher is really into collecting GC icons?
They could 'discover' the trackables to get the icons instead of removing them, but I don't see anything really wrong here.
Just sayin'.
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Would this be based on seven years of research?
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Some Boy Scouts went benchmark hunting:
DenMutha Found It! I am the other Assistant Scout Masters of Troop XX located all the survey marks up here per other log. Not sure if this one still exists; since others are logging it I will too.
(from the Boy Scout Handbook)
SCOUT LAW
A Scout is:
TRUSTWORTHY. A Scout tells the truth. He keeps his promises. Honesty is part of his code of conduct. People can depend on him.
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This comes up fairly often and my interpretation is that the Difficulty rating should reflect how hard it is to find a cache once you've reached ground zero.
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Once at the posted coordinates, how hard is it to find the event?
Some folks may have a more difficult time paddling a canoe than others, but that's not where the difficulty is represented in the rating.
Go with a 1/5.
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Assess the risk, mitigate if necessary and re-assess.
Then decide if the risk is worth the reward.
Only you can make that decision, and some are bound to be wrong.
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Ah--you don't understand how the log book works. Well--now you do. It is patently untrue that scrolling is necessary. Look in there--you can find friends' logs instantly, too. Pretty cool how it works. Happy caching--
And happy caching to you as well.
But while you're here, what is your take on the subject at hand?
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The melodrama was saying that you had to scroll through 4000 logs to find the reviewer. That's absurd, patently untrue, and frankly--melodramatic. As I said--click on the link to the logbook, click on the link to the last page, scroll to the end and there it is. No computer locking up, no problem--simple, takes 10 seconds.
Originally I had tried scrolling, and my laptop froze up. I guess its patently true. Haven't tried your method yet, but I will.
Your previous post wasn't disputed, but restating it was frankly, unnecessary.
Back to the topic...
Found it!
Drive-By Events
in General geocaching topics
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Brucie, you're the one showing the emotion.
I never said they couldn't do it, didn't suggest it was against any rules either.
It really doesn't matter to me. Don't care if they are allowed or not. Over the years I've learned that Groundspeak doesn't care to reason, so it's not worth the effort.
It's lame. There it is, cut and dried.