Anton Posted May 27, 2002 Posted May 27, 2002 I've got five recently placed geocaches that have not been logged. Used to be they were logged within 24 hours, or a couple of days. What's up? Is anyone else noticing a decline in activity, or is it just a fluke here in Central New York? Anton, N2RUD Syracuse, NY [This message was edited by Anton on May 27, 2002 at 06:24 PM.]
+Moore9KSUcats Posted May 27, 2002 Posted May 27, 2002 I don't think so... I think that with the increasing number of players, and the increasing number of caches available, they are not all rushing out as soon as they see a new one pop up. In January, when we started, there were about 175 available in the 100 mile radius of our zip code. Today, there were 225. That is a net increase of 50 in just 4 months! At the same time, others have been archived, so that isn't an accurate count of how many have been placed since then.
+EraSeek Posted May 27, 2002 Posted May 27, 2002 My guess is there are all the sudden a whole lot more cachers out there placing caches. More caches, less individual hits.
+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite Posted May 27, 2002 Posted May 27, 2002 I get a few hits a day on my caches. Usually. But when I put out the World's Worst Cache I am shocked to find that it's stood there for 12 hours already without a hit. Well, maybe since the sun is still up the 3 or 4 cachers who probably found it will log it later. Never Squat With Yer Spurs On
+culpc Posted May 27, 2002 Posted May 27, 2002 My last two caches were logged in the cache but have never shown up on this site--people hunting but not logging! Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son!:eek:
+McIrish Posted May 27, 2002 Posted May 27, 2002 Geocaching is not dead here anton, but it sure is quieter here than last year. I think it is still early in the season. Maybe geocachers hibernate longer. I have noticed a sluggish start to our season, but I am sure it will pick up this summer....at least I hope. "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."
+Ttepee Posted May 27, 2002 Posted May 27, 2002 Keep in mind that spring is a busy time of year. Between weddings, graduations, birthdays, confirmations/communions, baseball, soccer I know that I don't get enough time to do what I enjoy doing.
+Exocet Posted May 27, 2002 Posted May 27, 2002 Chad, my geocaching partner-in-crime and I have done several caches that are NOT easy to get to. We're proud of the fact that SOME of our caches aren't part of the "see if you can bag 50 in a day" circuit. The Pechuck Cache (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=7683) hasn't had a logged visit in over 8 months. The only person to try noted that there was several feet of snow on the mountain. "Excellent." --Mr. Burns, The Simpsons Solid! (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=22221) ...No visits in three weeks. You need a boat of some sort to visit this one. There's not a lot of geocachers with boats, I guess. Magic Mile (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=10201) ...Didn't have a visit for more than two months after we'd placed it. It's at around 6300ft of elevation on Mt. Hood. And it's currently under about 10 feet of snow and ice. Fellow geocachers ...it's ok to rack up a million visits for a geocache that you put out in the metropolitan area. But take pride in those truely difficult ones - the ones that get those seeking the cache into a really new place or doing something they've never done before. Those are some of the best caches they'll ever search for, guaranteed. "What you do today will cost you a day of your life." --jabber's sig on /. and k5.
+EliJoMikMiNi Posted May 27, 2002 Posted May 27, 2002 We are fortunate to have a lot of new Geocachers in this area of the world,WV, and they seem to like placing caches as well as looking for them. I can't keep up with them. Plus, now that the weather has warmed up and the pools are open, I am being torn between going swimming and going cache-hunting. With any luck at all, maybe I'll get to hunt for a cache in a park that has a pool, so i can combine the two! The harder you work,the harder it is to give up. Vince Lombarde
+Dep&Uno&Co Posted May 27, 2002 Posted May 27, 2002 Well, things seem to be jumping here in VA, although we have yet to run into another cacher out in the wilds. Also, Uno was up in Indianapolis this weekend for the Indy 500 and introduced his cousin to the sport of GC and he is now hooked. So at least there is one new member Dep
+apersson850 Posted May 27, 2002 Posted May 27, 2002 Two months ago, I could easily fit in every cache in Sweden in my Vista (max 500 waypoints), with a lot of room for other points. Today, I can still get them all into the Vista, but just barely, since there are 488 right now. The number of finds per month in Sweden has increased tremendously, almost four times, but since most of this activity has been focused on some urban areas (Gothenburg and Stockholm), I still have a cache (let it be that it's difficult to get to, GC2513 ) that hasn't been found for 178 days. More caches in convenient distance means less travelling to more distant caches. Anders
+briansnat Posted May 28, 2002 Posted May 28, 2002 There seems to be flurries of hits. The first week or two out my caches are hit by the "usual suspects". About a dozen or so avid area Geocachers. Then hits are more sporadic. Strangely enough, some caches will go for a few months without a find, then suddenly will have 3-4 finds on the same weekend...and I don't mean a group of Geocachers who found it together and logged separate finds.
+The GeoGadgets Team Posted May 28, 2002 Posted May 28, 2002 Around here, since this is a heavily hit area during tourist season (yes, you can hunt them here! ), I notice that one will find that folks have logged in the physical cache log, but they wait until they get home from vacation to log them online. I'm waiting here to see a bunch of finds on my caches for this past weekend. I drove by a spot where one of my newer caches is hidden and each day saw two or more cars there. Hopefully they weren't just walking their dogs! Me? I'm optimistic. Geocaching isn't even CLOSE to being dead! ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda, Jedi Master from Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
iryshe Posted May 28, 2002 Posted May 28, 2002 I agree the comment that the number of caches mean that the players to caches ratio works out so some caches don't get hit so much. Based on the stats on the "About geocaching" section, this is the first weekend to break the 4000 accounts logging caches in one week. 14155 new logs is pretty amazing. So no, I don't think that geocaching is dying out. Jeremy Jeremy Irish Groundspeak - The Language of Location
+bigredmed Posted May 28, 2002 Posted May 28, 2002 I have been to several caches in and around Omaha that have been visited 10 or more times, the contents of the caches different from the last web-logged visit, and yet on the website it may have listed no visitors for 2 weeks or more. It may be that your caches are being visited, but not logged on the net.
+RomadPilot Posted May 28, 2002 Posted May 28, 2002 I travel and wait till I get home to log finds online, today i logged finds back from earlier this month. Fear not, Caching will continue. jm2c ROMAD Frank
OFF RODE Posted May 28, 2002 Posted May 28, 2002 Things have slowed here a bit from a peak in Mar. Of corse it is starting to get a bit "warm" here and now most of the National forest is closed to entry. To see Az stat activity try this page. "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." Yogi Berra
+Dekaner Posted May 28, 2002 Posted May 28, 2002 I'm sorry Anton. The weather has been a mess and I've been traveling a lot, both work and pleasure. I promise to hunt all 5 down this weekend and log them! I'm serious. - Dekaner of Team KKF2A
+Team J&K Posted May 28, 2002 Posted May 28, 2002 Things seem to be slow in the Indy area. Even with the long weekend there really wasn't much activity. We had more "finds" in Feb & March than April & May. Our rains might have slowed some of the cachers down a bit. We are seeing more caches put out in the last few months, a very good sign.
+Team Tecmage Posted May 28, 2002 Posted May 28, 2002 This time last year, we had 13 caches in Iowa. This year, we have 147, and new cachers everywhere. Between work and getting married, Tracy and I have been too busy to Geocache like we did this time last year. The upside is the weather earier this year let us get out a lot to hit some of the newer caches around the state. Richard
+The GeoGadgets Team Posted May 28, 2002 Posted May 28, 2002 In relation to both this thread and the one by Jeremy concerning the ability to auto-archive caches, I looked at all of the caches within 100 miles of my zip. I checked for attendance. Only some of the toughest or most out-of-the-way caches hadn't been visited in the past two months. I'd say that that is pretty good for this area. Now, in Klamath/Butte Falls, if a cache goes one day without being found you can bet that some nuclear disaster has struck or some type of mass plague...
+Hawk-eye Posted May 28, 2002 Posted May 28, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Tecmage (R&T):.... Between work and getting married, Tracy and I have been too busy to Geocache ..... Richard, from your profile picture (not the face on the right, though) ... I doubt there's one single solitary guy out here that would blame you ---------------------------------------------------------------- Co-founder of the "NC/VA GEO-HOG ASSOCIATION" ... when you absolutely have to find it first!
+briansnat Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 I read the first post and thought, geez Anton, haven't heard from him in a while. He's placing caches again? I was about to respond when I saw the date .
+krazymtbr & QT Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 Not in my area. Especially when it comes to finding it first. In this area if a new cache sits for 5 hours I'm surprised. Krazymtbr
Yankees Win! Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 No, geocaching hasn't died. It's simply evolved to appeal to a wider audience.
+beejay&esskay Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 The funniest thing about this thread is that it started 3 years ago... So geocaching has been dead that long and we didn't even notice?
+dingermcduff Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 I've noticed that fewer people are out hunting this year, despite several new usernames popping up in the area, but there is still a lot of hiding going on. North-central Minnesota had near-record rainfall in May and June and some old timers have said it's the worst mosquito and deerfly year they have seen. I've easily picked up 5 times the deer ticks this year I normally get as well. Perhaps a little West Nile fear is in play as well. Hopefully this is the reason for the slowdown and things will pick up now that the skeeters are settling down.
+ohgrl Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 Well since it is resurrected I may as well throw in my .03 here...I think here in MI the record high temps have had quite a bit to do with the slower finds. I know during the winter and early spring I was reading new logs almost daily...now it is more like weekly
+Yamahammer Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 Around here in East Texas, the weather has had an effect on the hunting of caches. With ambient temps in the upper 90's, dew points in the 70's, it makes for a tough day out. Just my opinion.
newmonster Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 Everything seems to be well in Michigan. Im sure someone will get yours pretty quick.
SCP-173 Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 Everything is fine in Central NY. I'm hoping to get up there soon, actually. Maybe I'll even find that new cache that Anton just recently placed. Guess he didn't want caching to die.
+ohgrl Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 Everything seems to be well in Michigan. Im sure someone will get yours pretty quick. I guess it depends on what part of Michigan because Kalamazoo isnt getting cached right now...oh I don't worry about my cache being found, I am trying to live vicariously through logs until I can cache again
+horsegeeks Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 Bring those unfound caches to raleigh. They'll be found by 10AM
+Tharagleb Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 (edited) I agree the comment that the number of caches mean that the players to caches ratio works out so some caches don't get hit so much. Based on the stats on the "About geocaching" section, this is the first weekend to break the 4000 accounts logging caches in one week. 14155 new logs is pretty amazing. So no, I don't think that geocaching is dying out. Jeremy Jeremy Irish Groundspeak - The Language of Location And more recently: In the last 7 days, there have been 135300 new logs written by 23404 account holders. So it's not dead. Edited August 2, 2005 by Tharagleb
+tabulator32 Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 I know this is three years old, but I just had to add... I'm not about to stop geocaching, so... Nope. Its not dead.
+welch Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 This time last year, we had 13 caches in Iowa. This year, we have 147, and new cachers everywhere. Between work and getting married, Tracy and I have been too busy to Geocache like we did this time last year. The upside is the weather earier this year let us get out a lot to hit some of the newer caches around the state.<BR><BR>Richard I feel very dumb, i'd read half the thread before I noticed the date. The numbers were way too low for hides, its now like 1300!, and Team Tecmage doesn't do much finding here lately since they relocated to another state!!
+Sagefox Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 (edited) The number of people hitting my Northern California caches does not seemed to have diminished. If there has been any change it appears that there are more hits now than during the early years. (Why was this thread resurected???) Edited August 2, 2005 by Team Sagefox
+Sonoran Privateers Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 (edited) Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." Disclaimer: Decode at your own risk. [edit by trippy as mod: "We don't want any trouble in here in any language." I know it's encoded... but that's pretty hefty language when decoded. Not really suitable for these forums. ] Edited August 2, 2005 by trippy1976
+Tharagleb Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." Disclaimer: Decode at your own risk. [binary stuff deleted] BTW, I wish you put spaces in your sig so my Firefox binary decoder could handle it. /back on topic No, it's not dead at all.
ju66l3r Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 Please just let this topic die. It's clearly not relevant to modern discussion and should just be archived.
+Marky Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 Semi-on-topic: It was getting close to dinner time on Sunday and we noticed that our cache just got approved, so we went and got dinner and then drove over to the cache. We got to say hi to four cacher groups while we ate dinner. Good times. --Marky
SCP-173 Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 BTW, I wish you put spaces in your sig so my Firefox binary decoder could handle it. Where could one get this decoder for themselves?
+pghlooking Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 BTW, I wish you put spaces in your sig so my Firefox binary decoder could handle it. Where could one get this decoder for themselves? ditto
+sbell111 Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 Google is your friend. Here's an on-line one that worked well with both his message and sig.
Mvillian Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 (edited) Am I the only one who thinks this topic is the thing that's dead? I mean, hey the answer is now very obvious!!!! Edited August 2, 2005 by Mvillian
+flask Posted August 3, 2005 Posted August 3, 2005 huh. and i thought, now THERE'S a voice from the past...
+Sonoran Privateers Posted August 3, 2005 Posted August 3, 2005 Google is your friend. Here's an on-line one that worked well with both his message and sig. Here's the one I use. I like it cuz it's encodes as you type, and spaces into an 8 bit byte. http://www.adcott.net/binary/
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