Pet Peeves when FINDING geocaches

[+Mick McPhee]

This forum subject hit a nerve with me. I have 41 caches placed with a combination of easy finds with large ammo cans full of swag for the kids as well as some small well-hidden caches in hard to spot places and well-camouflaged with flat black and gray spray paint. I bought a dozen ammo cans, cans of spray paint, neodymium magnets to attach some, specialty containers, O rings, dollar store swag, 10 pounds of polished rocks, trackables, etc. to make this sport enjoyable for those 8-80. I buy dollar puzzles, bracelets, cars, and other toys for the kids.

 

My peeves are:

Cachers only looking for boosting the numbers who only leave a TFTC in the Internet log

Cachers who do not rehide my caches well as they are in too big of a hurry to find the next one.

Cachers who take my trackables and do not log them or move them on.

Cachers who bitch about where I put caches, the size of the caches and the difficulty ratings (I use the chart on line)

Cachers who log the same sentence in each of the 27 caches they found today.

Cachers who have several thousand caches, bitch about mine and never put any for me to find.

Cachers with 2000 caches and ask me for clues. I figure if a cache is not found by a half dozen DNF's and I KNOW it is there then I will write a clue. To me a hard search for a known cache is part of the game.

Cachers who complain about the swag that has been visited a half dozen times and not replaced with good items by people like themselves. If you want to find some good SWAG then YOU put some good stuff in the caches YOU visit.

And especially cachers who trash the area around my caches because they can't find them.

[Ameliaonstage]

This forum subject hit a nerve with me. I have 41 caches placed with a combination of easy finds with large ammo cans full of swag for the kids as well as some small well-hidden caches in hard to spot places and well-camouflaged with flat black and gray spray paint. I bought a dozen ammo cans, cans of spray paint, neodymium magnets to attach some, specialty containers, O rings, dollar store swag, 10 pounds of polished rocks, trackables, etc. to make this sport enjoyable for those 8-80. I buy dollar puzzles, bracelets, cars, and other toys for the kids.

 

My peeves are:

Cachers only looking for boosting the numbers who only leave a TFTC in the Internet log

Cachers who do not rehide my caches well as they are in too big of a hurry to find the next one.

Cachers who take my trackables and do not log them or move them on.

Cachers who bitch about where I put caches, the size of the caches and the difficulty ratings (I use the chart on line)

Cachers who log the same sentence in each of the 27 caches they found today.

Cachers who have several thousand caches, bitch about mine and never put any for me to find.

Cachers with 2000 caches and ask me for clues. I figure if a cache is not found by a half dozen DNF's and I KNOW it is there then I will write a clue. To me a hard search for a known cache is part of the game.

Cachers who complain about the swag that has been visited a half dozen times and not replaced with good items by people like themselves. If you want to find some good SWAG then YOU put some good stuff in the caches YOU visit.

And especially cachers who trash the area around my caches because they can't find them.

I hate almost all of those! But Working on very few caches, I have not experienced all of these, but I can Imagine the annoyance.