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  • 02/11/2013 at 2:35 pm #1733914
    Team Deejay

      Guys, please be sure you have contacted the owner of missing caches prior to replacing them. There are certain folks that are very offended when their cache is replaced. On the opposite end of the spectrum, replacing the cache of an owner who hasn’t been heard from in several years is also a bad idea. We don’t need more unmaintained listings out there. The idea is to help out someone who is temporarily busy, under the weather or just behind in their maintenance. It is NOT to help out people who have moved away, quit geocaching, etc.

      02/11/2013 at 3:10 pm #1968204
      labrat_wr

        Very good point Dave.

        there are some old “legacy” caches out there that people like to see keep going long after their owners have moved along.

        Perhaps one way to allow this legacy to continue would be to allow the archiving process to complete and relist it with a link to the “legacy” cache page.

        Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

        02/11/2013 at 4:56 pm #1968205
        Mister Greenthumb

          GC161R0 is hidden at the location of the first geocache in Wisconsin. There is a link on the page to that original cache page. Unfortunately it went missing before anyone found it. Click on the hider for some interesting info.

          So what was the first cache ever found in Wisconsin?

          02/11/2013 at 5:15 pm #1968206
          huffinpuffin2
          Participant

            @Mister Greenthumb wrote:

            GC161R0 is hidden at the location of the first geocache in Wisconsin. There is a link on the page to that original cache page. Unfortunately it went missing before anyone found it. Click on the hider for some interesting info.

            So what was the first cache ever found in Wisconsin?

            Ontario, Wisconsin? 🙂

            02/11/2013 at 5:34 pm #1968207
            huffinpuffin2
            Participant

              GC160R0=> First Down Wisconsin

              Interesting thing about the Original CO is that he was quite the ‘Johnny Cache Seed’ back at the beginning.

              02/11/2013 at 5:49 pm #1968208
              WStemple

                That would also be the first muggling in Wisconsin. 🙁

                02/11/2013 at 6:14 pm #1968209
                Mister Greenthumb

                  Oops! GC160R0
                  No wonder I have so much trouble finding caches.

                  02/11/2013 at 7:03 pm #1968210
                  Team Black-Cat

                    Yes, but who really HID the cache?

                    02/11/2013 at 7:10 pm #1968211
                    huffinpuffin2
                    Participant

                      @Team Black-Cat wrote:

                      Yes, but who really HID the cache?

                      Are Andy Hill and iryshe not one and the same?

                      02/11/2013 at 7:57 pm #1968212
                      sandlanders

                        Andy Hill is the name on the cache page. This can be anything anyone wants it to be. iryshe is the name of the cache owner of the cache page according to geocachign.com. This is the person who has access to the cache page and anything that can be done with it.

                        I could write “huffinpuffin2” on the cache page as the cache owner of a cache I placed, but clicking on that will send you sandlanders’ profile page, not huffinpuffin2’s.

                        02/11/2013 at 7:58 pm #1968213
                        sandlanders

                          @Team Black-Cat wrote:

                          Yes, but who really HID the cache?

                          I believe there is only one person who may know the answer to that, and it wouldn’t be me. 😉

                          02/11/2013 at 8:08 pm #1968214
                          Team Deejay

                            @huffinpuffin2 wrote:

                            @Team Black-Cat wrote:

                            Yes, but who really HID the cache?

                            Are Andy Hill and iryshe not one and the same?

                            No. Many of these very old caches were extracted from the GPS news groups and added to the site manually by Jeremy through his reviewer account, way back when. While he was involved in the sport near the beginning, he was not that prolific of a hider as his reviewer account would imply. 🙂

                            02/11/2013 at 8:39 pm #1968215
                            sandlanders

                              Thanks for the insight into the early days, DeeJay. Interesting piece of info. I kind of suspected that geocaching.com did some trolling and/or co-opting to build their base before people got around to discovering the site.

                              Orignal cache names back then: Geocache :LOL:

                              02/11/2013 at 8:50 pm #1968216
                              Mister Greenthumb

                                Can you imagine the logging nightmare if every cache on the ET Trail was named “geocache”. Who woulda ever thunk.

                                02/11/2013 at 9:07 pm #1968217
                                Team Black-Cat

                                  I don’t think Mr. Irish would pick pseudonyms like “Robert & Ann Johnson”, “Shelley, Matt and Adam” and “Kevin and Grace”, but I might be wrong.

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