JASTA 11
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...If you don't care for a particular type of hide or container or location then don't do them...
It has nothing to do with what type of hide it is.
It's:
1) that the hiders are placing caches they don't intend on maintaining and,
2) it defeats the purpose of having a physical cache with a log.
Why bother with 'find it, sign the log' etc, when there's no requirement to find anything? That 'finding' part will just slow you down.
Maybe one should get credit for just driving the length of the highway?
How about coming up with a 'Groundspeak E-Z Pass' transponder for your car?
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I also would have no problem picking up the caches to help, but the attitude on here seems to indicate it is not the COs problem, it is everyone else that should take care of it.
Not true. A responsible CO does maintenance on their caches, that includes recovering archived caches.
Our point continues to be that if they couldn't be bothered to pick up their geotrash in the first place then your efforts to remind them of their responsiblity is probably futile.
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....Groundspeak's love affair with the numbers oriented cacher is the true downfall.
+1
Case in point: the blog featured the E.T. Highway power trail recently. Part of the bloggers advice - bring about fifty film canisters with logs inside so you can do cache maintenance. (Or perhaps more accurately - to sign and throw out the window as you drive along down the road.)
Groundspeak isn't exactly promoting ethics and sportsmanship here.
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If the OP really wants to irk the CO: Go find the caches, log as found to get the smilies, then remove the geolitter.
Maybe they could score a good container or two out of the deal?
Just sayin'.
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If it's archived, it needs to be removed regardless if somebody thinks it's really cool to find archived caches later on.
Chances are that if they didn't go out and recover the containers when they archived them, then your little message fell on deaf ears.
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It's a tough question to answer, but we'll go with this one:
(edited to paste in correct link)
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Spent the long weekend hiking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Hiked twenty miles, bagged two 4,000 footers, found four caches, spent one night in an Adirondack shelter, the second at the AMC's Galehead Hut, and had a great time doing it all!
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Often it's a lame way that somebody justifies the smiley because they we there when it was hidden.
Gotta get those numbers up.
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In Florida about six years ago, a crack-head (possibly a meth-head) sleeping along the path to a suburban cache. He woke up, strung out and angry.
Sorry I didn't get a picture.
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On Sunday, a friend and I kayaked a river for about seven miles doing maintenance on one of my paddle-multies. Afterwards we put in at another spot and went to an event (well, sort of) out on a spit of land in the middle of Mount Hope Bay (Rhode Island).
This tiny 'island' is just over .10 mile long, so you guessed it - there was room for two caches.
The weather wasn't great, but any day out on the the water is fine with me.
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Maybe 'Lameness Permeates' ?
That would describe the state current state of the game.
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--- take a small can and a paint brush and every .1 miles slap a log with the word geocache and your done. Not creative or impressive and a detriment to the pastime IMO.
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Let me get my chainsaw and saturate the area and watch how many new favs get posted.
YEE-HAW !!!
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I believe the ruling on this a while ago was that a geocache needs to be a container holding a log, not simply a log.
If it were just a log, the arguement is that one could sign anything at GZ and call it a find, thus defacing via graffitti an area. "Sneaky" hides like that make it difficult to know that the "log" is the cache, and may encourage the signing of whatever you want, anywhere you want near the coordinates of a geocache and calling it a find.
Kind of like this one that started out as a traditional, but when the container went AWOL signing anything around became acceptable:
Started out early enough with a good low tide. Charlie led the way. Most of the front part of the rocks were slippery and slimey. Charlie checked out another approach and although still wet with it was the best way up. Slowly I climbed step by step until we reached dry rock. Ambled over and over until reaching the top and the flag. Happily I headed to the cache only to find a portion of it. In true form I signed the pole log. Tide already coming in so off we went and waded with water up to my ankles. What a great morning.
I made the trek out to the rock, and found the bottle top that was presumably part of the cache container, so I signed the flagpole and am claiming the cache as found.
CO-please let me know if this isn't a find and I will recind the find and try again next year when I visit again.
Fun cache in any case! Love the location!
TFTC!
Cache Owner's Note:
Sign away until xxxxxxx, xxxxx, myself or next-to-find bring a container out to the pole
I am claiming this a a find, as we timed the tide, and made it to the flag pole. My daughter slipped repeatedly on the rocks and since she was bleeding, from the hands and knees, I did not let her climb up to the flag pole. I could not find the cache, but since we made it to ground zero, my team decided on a find.
This was the end of a great vacation on xxxxxxx lane. Sad that we had to return to Missouri. TFTC, we will return and hope to find this cache again.
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A new low in the lameness that geocaching has become.
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PoleCat (6,000+ Finds)
Found It!Started out early enough with a good low tide. Charlie led the way. Most of the front part of the rocks were slippery and slimey. Charlie checked out another approach and although still wet with it was the best way up. Slowly I climbed step by step until we reached dry rock. Ambled over and over until reaching the top and the flag. Happily I headed to the cache only to find a portion of it. In true form I signed the pole log. Tide already coming in so off we went and waded with water up to my ankles. What a great morning.
"True form"? True to what?
FlagpoleSittah (600 Finds)
Found It!I made the trek out to the rock, and found the bottle top that was presumably part of the cache container, so I signed the flagpole and am claiming the cache as found.
CO-please let me know if this isn't a find and I will recind the find and try again next year when I visit again.
Fun cache in any case! Love the location!
TFTC!
You know yourself that it isn't a find.
Cache Owner
Sign away until xxxxxxx, xxxxx, myself or next-to-find bring a container out to the pole
How about disabling or archiving?
i'mentitled (49 Finds)
Found It!I am claiming this a a find, as we timed the tide, and made it to the flag pole. My daughter slipped repeatedly on the rocks and since she was bleeding, from the hands and knees, I did not let her climb up to the flag pole. I could not find the cache, but since we made it to ground zero, my team decided on a find.
This was the end of a great vacation on xxxxxxx lane. Sad that we had to return to Missouri. TFTC, we will return and hope to find this cache again.
i'mentitled and othercacher (note: othercacher didn't lie and claim a find)
With Missouri being the 'Show Me' state, how about you show us where you signed the log?
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The game of geocaching isn't hurting the environment.
It's the inconsiderate and uneducated that do the damage.
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zipit! (15000+)
Found It!Cache has disappeared. Added a log to the aforementioned item found at the cache site and a ziploc bag.
(translation: stuck a log in with a bag of golf tees someone found lying around)
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zzzzz.....mmmm.. powertrail zzzzzz.....mmmm.. powertrail zzzzz
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Virtual tours via Google Earth?
No need to drive that pesky power trail...
What if I 'thought' about doing that power trail?
That should earn some smilies too!
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I made 25 events in August since there are no new caches in my area. Quite a few of them I was the only one to show up and attend. It still counted as a find and no one cares.
Sorry, but that rates a 5/5 on the cheese scale.
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There are plenty of people who believe that's not geocaching.
You can count us among them.
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We own caches that haven't been found in over a year.
We know that they're still there because we check on them.
So, bad idea.
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shortnsweet Found It!
Nothing there
noshame Found It!Found the hollowed out tree but no container.
kindofcacher (Sort of)Found it!Did some "insane" geocaching during wild thunderstorms today. On my way from Northern California to North Carolina on a geocaching road trip.
Sort of found it... I'm sure I would have found it but GZ was completely flooded from the thunderstorms today.
4/25/11 12:08 PM Find #633
(yuh, I'm sure too)
shortnsweet2 Found It!Nothing there !!
This cache had a string of finders with questionable integrity:
HonestCacher Didn't Find ItStop by for a great visit with Luster. Quite a character. Spent quite a while looking with Luster's help. Luster confirmed it was missing
Teamofcheats Found It!Guy said it was taken !!
talk2cache Found It!Didn't really find the cache, but had a nice talk with Luster. Luster said the cache is missing. That's it's been gone for awhile and he is thinking about putting one out to replace it. Asked Luster about the his geocoin and he was sad to say he lost it. But, talking to luster was as good as finding the cache. Keep visiting and ask for the cache and maybe he or someone will put a new one out
nocacheclass Found It!luster said cache missing but he may replace one there if you want to check later.
goodcounter Found It!Was looking forward to seeing this cache. Luster says that the cache is gone but we were in the right location. So, I'm counting this as a find.
Found It!
Locked User = Disabled then Archived Caches?
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Probably shouldn't have been playing with fire.