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My request would be that the forum is more strictly moderated from now on, so that these things can be nipped in the bud before it gets to the scale of the last few days.
It is easy for the forum Admin. (Is that just Lakky now?) to delete or change posts, close threads, delete whole threads, or even ban people from posting.
I am a great believer in freedom of speech but lets keep this a friendly place to visit please!
Not such a great believer as you say, judging by your preceeding comments.
Seems to me that this is one big storm in a teacup. Moote objects to a cache in private, posts a generalised topic in here, then someone else comes along and is more specific and backs up his point of view. Now all of a sudden there is a troll witch hunt!
Can anyone provide some links to all the trolling that goes on around here? Cos I seem to have missed it....
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[Do we really want to be party to the possible destruction of such environments?
The fear of environmental damage caused by geocaching is a concern which is almost as old as geocaching itself, and quite a controversial one. Interesting can of worms you have opened there!
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I think it would be good if the travel bug owner could choose whether or not to allow discovered it logs on their bug/coin.
I have lots of coins in the wild and I would like to be able to set it so only people who moved them earned the icon.
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That might be Birders North/South Over the Pole cache.
Could be, or maybe it was that day I went for a really long walk/swim and got lost....
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I don't like how the person who starts the topic can say something controversial and lock the thread, then no one else can contribute their opinions.
lol, its only an internet forum. No need to get worked up over it.
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OK, here's ours. Not sure about maximum one day distance!!
234 unique caches.
234 finds logged.
2 DNF logs (on found caches only).
Centroid = N 53 21.639, W 7 21.289
Avg. Difficulty = 1.59
Avg. Terrain = 1.63
Avg. Challenge = 1.83
27 hard caches (12%)
4 countries
4 US states
0 multiple finds (0%)
44 (18.8%) archived
First log: 12/25/2002
Last log: 05/4/2006
Most finds: 8 on 06/26/2005
Maximum one-day distance: 11478.1 miles on 03/20/2005
From S 37 44.085, E 176 07.288 to N 51 21.347, W 0 51.920
Oldest cache: #369 (GC171)
Newest cache: #382662 (GCVKZW)
Difficulty:
1.0: 92 (39.3%)
1.5: 57 (24.4%)
2.0: 59 (25.2%)
2.5: 14 ( 6.0%)
3.0: 7 ( 3.0%)
3.5: 2 ( 0.9%)
4.0: 1 ( 0.4%)
4.5: 1 ( 0.4%)
5.0: 1 ( 0.4%)
Terrain:
1.0: 90 (38.5%)
1.5: 58 (24.8%)
2.0: 48 (20.5%)
2.5: 21 ( 9.0%)
3.0: 12 ( 5.1%)
3.5: 2 ( 0.9%)
4.0: 3 ( 1.3%)
D T 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0
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1.0 | 64 9 11 5 2 1
1.5 | 10 32 10 3 1 1
2.0 | 13 11 21 7 7
2.5 | 4 3 4 3
3.0 | 1 1 3 2
3.5 | 1 1
4.0 | 1
4.5 | 1
5.0 | 1
You have found 30 out of 81 total Diff/Terr combinations.
Cache types:
1 ( 0.4%) Cache In Trash Out Event
1 ( 0.4%) Earthcache
18 ( 7.7%) Event Cache
1 ( 0.4%) Letterbox Hybrid
3 ( 1.3%) Locationless (Reverse) Cache
20 ( 8.5%) Multi-cache
1 ( 0.4%) Project APE Cache
161 (68.8%) Traditional Cache
9 ( 3.8%) Unknown Cache
17 ( 7.3%) Virtual Cache
2 ( 0.9%) Webcam Cache
Containers:
6 ( 2.6%) Large
22 ( 9.4%) Micro
21 ( 9.0%) Not chosen
8 ( 3.4%) Other
144 (61.5%) Regular
16 ( 6.8%) Small
17 ( 7.3%) Virtual
Countries:
1 in France
1 in New Zealand
210 in United Kingdom
19 in United States
US States:
1 in District of Columbia
1 in Florida
1 in Maryland
16 in New York
Multiple Finds:
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If they can't get to it to maintain it, they won't be able to get to it to pull it in either. Thus resulting in the boxes still being out there, hence geolitter.
If this is the case then it has been potential geolitter from day one. If you cannot get to a cache to maintain it, and nor can the person you have nominated to be the guardian of the cache then you shouldn't set it in the first place. I don't think anyone can really dispute HooloovooUK's point there.
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Not found since December last year and unavailable for 4 months = good grounds to archive IMHO.
The cache can always be unarchived at a later date if maintenance happens, but seeing as it hasn't happened yet then what is the likelihood it is suddenly going to get done?
The argument posted on the cache page about worrying about temporarily disabling caches is ridiculous. I had to disable one of my caches due to flood damage to a footpath, it was about 2 months before it was sorted but every few weeks I would post an update on the cache page so people knew it wasn't abandoned.
If you just disable the cache and don't do anything about it then expect it to get archived sooner or later.
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I would say it was acceptable to take as many or as few as you please. I have emptied out a TB hotel before, and within a month or so many of the TBs I moved had made it to different countries, I would have no qualms about doing it again.
Everyone always seems to say "if you can help with its mission then its ok." The way I see it their primary mission is to travel, people (wrongly) assume that if they are heading in the opposite direction to a bug's goal then moving it will hinder its progress. The sidestep you give to a bug might save it from a cache which is about to be muggled, or drop it right into the path of someone going exactly where the bug needs to go.
My pet hate is when someone sets up a TB/coin hotel and then states that you cannot move all the bugs, or you have to swap 1 for 1 etc. Bit cheeky to try and impose trading rules on other peoples coins and bugs.
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I found a FTF on a cache today ... signed the log book and retraced my steps on a nice walk that I had enjoyed. I didnt find the micro at the second stage but used the way the webpage was written to deduce the final cache location. Are you suggesting that this is not acceptable?
Not at all. The situation I have is the opposite, where they have found the first part but not the second, yet have claimed a find
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A few people have logged a find on a two stage multi of ours, but have openly admitted in their log that they could only find the first part.
So, before I go through with my big bad delete button I thought I would gauge everyone's opinion on this. Would you allow it on one of your caches, or have they got to go?
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How come when you go to log a CITO cache you can choose "Found it" or "Attended" but when you log an event the only option is "Attended"?
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Well, we took you up on your double dog dare Eartha. Before setting off to our CITO event I had a look at the calendar and counted 110 CITO events taking place around the world today, I hope they all went as well as ours.
We had over 100 cachers turn up, and managed to fill 2 skips to overflowing.
We had never been to a CITO event before, it was a very fulfilling day and reading the logs made me very happy. Everyone seemed to get a lot out of it. Thanks for the dare!
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Think you are supposed to include the date the event is happening on, not a random date 2 months after everyone else has gone home
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One of my caches had lots of people unable to get a good reading in the area of the first cache, so I decided to do a spoiler pic. I didn't want to publish it so I set up an email autoresponder and put instructions on the cache page as to how to obtain it.
Every time someone sends for it I get a blank email from them, and I have found that maybe 10 - 20% of finders email for the spoiler
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So long as it doesn't turn out to be another type of cache that I have to trek half way across the globe to get the icon for...
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And in the evening...
Reminds me of the Lost event!
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just had a little look at that site, seems to me its equivelant of beta versus vhs!! i.e there is just no comparison!
What, you mean all the professional cachers use navicache but Dixons have stopped selling geocaching.com?
Betamax and Digital Betamax is still going strong, next time you see a TV crew doing an outdoor broadcast have a look at their cameras, they won't be VHS....
Anyways, whether you like navicache or not its good to have more than one cache listing site. Monopolies suck.
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hi , im looking to get into geocaching and was looking to spend about £100 on a unit then someone mentioned a pda , now im even more confused , for a little more i can get a pda (new) which gives me so much more . has any one else been down that route ? what else would i need to go caching ie software . ps does any one in the leeds /bradford/ wakefield fancy taking me under there wing for a couple of outings .
love n peace
andi
I have a pda but I wouldn't recommend it as the only caching tool for a newbie. Sure, it does loads of stuff but as others have said its not as robust as a gps receiver, plus you would still need to buy some type of gps device (bluetooth or whatever) to use with the pda if you were using it to actually locate caches.
My advice would be to buy a cheap gps and see how you get on, if you get hooked on caching then maybe go for a pda further down the line. A pda is far from essential where caching is concerned.
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Geocoins - Started with the basic USA coin, and exploded with Mou10biker, national and other personal coins
Almost right. The original geocoin was the Moun10Bike coin, which was the first geocoin in existence. Travel Bugs came at roughly the same time as the release of the first Moun10Bike coin (Sept 2001), although they were not publicly available immediately.
My take on it is that a travel bug is something which you attach to another item, to give that item the ability to be tracked. A coin is something which can be tracked in its own right.
Before they were trackable, coins were mostly a personal thing, made by individuals to leave as signature items. Now that they can have unique icons then everyone seems to be minting them!
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Wow, all going off in here!
I was very surprised/pleased to see the distance lots of cachers are willing to travel to attend the CITO event. I won't let the venue of the morning after meet stop me dropping by and seeing everyone who has put in a big effort to come down and help us out.
I know from experience it is difficult to locate a good venue for an event you are hosting far from home and besides, I like Maccys breakfast ;-)
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The part that has puzzled me on seeing the photo of her grave is why her hubby Alan is not on there?
He has his own headstone beside hers.
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You're right - I've just found it - its at the end of Kiln Lane, off Silwood Rd! I didn't even know of that one.
A colleague has just told me that Diana Dors is also buried there (somewhere near N51 24.129 W0 37.926 - or that end of the cemetary she thinks)
Well, I set off today after work to see what I could see. The Municipal cemetery is fairly small so it didn't take long to look round there, unfortunately no sign of any Blackmans. Your waypoint for Diana Dors (whoever she may have been) was quite accurate though.
Then I went to Holy Trinity C of E, Church Road, which is substantially bigger. Alas I could find no Blackmans here either, I may have missed them I suppose, although I did have a good look around, especially in the areas which were from the right era.
So, no smiley for me, just another DNF...
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I live about 5 miles away, will see what I can do....
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