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  • 04/29/2013 at 5:47 pm #1734083
    gotta run
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    Did some maintenance on caches today and I’m always surprised to find the way caches are hidden versus how they were originally placed.

    Preaching to the choir here, but if you find a cache put 10′ up a tree, don’t move it down to 4′ to make it easier (am I the only one who resists the temptation to put them HIGHER?). If the cache was hidden by various natural camo don’t leave it in the open. Simple stuff, eh?

    I now return these forums to other pressing world problems…

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    04/29/2013 at 9:30 pm #1970032
    BeccaDay
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    Yes, very annoying. I found a cache in Tosa that had previously been out of our reach down near the ground on a return visit. It was disappointing, I had been looking forward to the challenge of the climb.

    And on the flip side, if a cache is supposed to be a 1 or 1.5 terrain PNG, don’t hide it 10 feet in the air where the shorties like me can’t get them! This happened to me yesterday and I was frustrated. And on one of my caches someone did this and then I got chewed out because it wasn’t appropriately rated. Not my fault when someone else rehides it that way!

    Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien

    04/29/2013 at 10:12 pm #1970033
    Trekkin and Birdin
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    Our pet peeve is when someone hides it to be “more winter friendly.” Yes, this is Wisconsin, but for various reasons, not all caches need to be placed that way. When that’s been done for us, the cache in question often goes missing.

    04/30/2013 at 4:52 am #1970034
    labrat_wr
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    some people take the idea of “re-hiding it as well or better than you found it” to a ridiculous level

    Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

    04/30/2013 at 1:42 pm #1970035
    WStemple
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    I have one that I placed up in a tree and people feel to lazy or whatever to climb back up to replace it. If a 58 y/o CO can get his old butt up there then a 20+ cacher should not have a problem.

    Next maint run. . . ZIP TIES!!

    04/30/2013 at 8:58 pm #1970036
    gotta run
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    @WStemple wrote:

    Next maint run. . . ZIP TIES!!

    Great idea…keeps them from simply untwisting the wire. Won’t solve cutting the zip tie though. 👿

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    05/03/2013 at 12:27 am #1970037
    Run N Search
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    Gotta_run, you hit my “pet peeve” button on this subject.

    We had one of our caches thrown into a drainage culvert by a finder. One of our geocaching friends found it and alerted me to the “new” placement.

    On the opposite side, one finder placed our cache in a tree 6 feet up because he “found it on the ground” (Which is where it is supposed to be) .

    If we find one on the ground, that’s where we put it back, unless it has a hook.

    Just put it back like you found it, and hopefully, the previous finder has done the same.

    05/03/2013 at 3:12 am #1970038
    BigJim
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    Sometimes I find a cache, and I think, “That’s a stupid place to hide that cache. It would be so much better if it were over/up/in there.” BUT I go ahead and replace it where and how I found it. It’s not that hard.

    All opinions, comments, and useless drivel I post are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the WGA BOD.

    05/03/2013 at 6:12 pm #1970039
    Todd300
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    All depends what cache description and past logs says as well.

    Let’s say the attribute is winter friendly but I find it on the ground – out in the open. That is obviously not winter friendly. Depending on what’s around it, I’ll hide it in a winter friendly spot at the same coords, of course, and send the CO a note.

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