+John NW Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 Hi folks Could someone tell me how you are meant to be able to log GCB873 - Hitchhiker round the world? From it's description it seems to be a travel bug - if not is it a real cache that gets moved on from place to place. If it is the former - shouldn't it be under Travel Bugs? If it is the latter shouldn't it be under normal caches - like "Keep it Moving" or "Cuckoo Cache Too"? Also when will the banning of new locationless caches be lifted? Link to comment
+Harrald Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 Maybe you could provide a link? The waypoint GCB873 is not in the system and Hitchhiker round the world? turns up nothing like what you have described Link to comment
+IV_Warrior Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 here you go I actually had trouble getting it to come up, too. I tried to just copy/paste the waypoint. Had to actually type it in to get the page to come up Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 Looks like a TB or a moving Cache. Still it's grandfathered. Link to comment
+Allen_L Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 I had no trouble using http://www.geocaching.com/seek/ to find it by pasting the waypoint "GCB873" in the "By waypoint:" box. One thing if you copy and paste don't paste a space at the end i.e. use "GCB873" not "GCB873 ". The form isn't smart enough to trim spaces off and it will not find it if there is an extra space at the end. Link to comment
+Mopar Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 I agree, it appears the actually be a moving cache. Old enough to be grandfathered, so that's not an issue. The fact that it's not really a locationless cache is, though. It has a single, distinct location, and listing it as a LC means that location isn't listed in cache searches. Most cachers wouldn't even know it existed, even if it was 100ft from their front door. It also looks like it hasn't moved in a year, so maybe it doesn't even exist anymore? Needs more looking into. Link to comment
+Algonquin Bound Posted March 21, 2004 Share Posted March 21, 2004 The name search won't find it, because there is a typo in the cache name. It is called "Hitchhicker round the world", rather than "Hitchhiker round the world", as was probably intended. "Hitch-hiker around the world" would probably have been even more appropriate. Link to comment
+briansnat Posted March 21, 2004 Share Posted March 21, 2004 It looks like a moving cache wrongly designated as a locationless. Link to comment
+John NW Posted March 21, 2004 Author Share Posted March 21, 2004 So how does it get a proper designation? Link to comment
+CO Admin Posted March 21, 2004 Share Posted March 21, 2004 So how does it get a proper designation? More importantly, does it really matter? its a grandfathered OLD cache. Labels were a lot looser then. At the time it was approved it may have been the right cache type to use. I'm not sure its even worth bothering with all the trouble to try to change it. Link to comment
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