The All-Purpose Geocaching-Related Gripe Thread

[gotta run]

On the Left Side of the Road...

[Mister Greenthumb]

Signing the log only TFTC.
Hides in evergreens.

[bugsmasher69]

People who take and keep geocoins or who move them with out logging them.

[AstroDon]

Hiding a stupid film canister when the area has plenty of room for larger containers.

[AstroDon]

@AstroDon wrote:

Hiding a stupid film canister when the area has plenty of room for larger containers.

In other words, the general Appleton area……

[Barry Butrymowicz]

No one from Wisconsin has done this so i’m not pointing fingers,

My gripe is:

Having to delete logs from people who virtually discover our coin collection, even though on each and every coin page we have this wording:

TO BE DISCOVERED AT EVENTS ONLY!!!!! This coin will stay in our personal collection. It will travel with us to events to be discovered by all geocachers who take the time to look thru our ever growing collection.

that is my one and only gripe,

Barry of sweetlife

[-cheeto-]

my only gripe is when people log “found it out in the open” and you go to check on it and it’s still not rehidden. come on folks.. it’s simple to try to rehide something at the ground zero and use any location descriptions given in an attempt to rehide. just because a cache is muggled doesnt mean that we shouldn’t do our best to hide it so that it’s not completely removed.

oh and I despise growing piles of sticks over caches where piles of sticks is not necessary. quit piling sticks!!!!

okay that’s 2 gripes…

[bartrod]

@bugsmasher69 wrote:

People who take and keep geocoins or who move them with out logging them.

AMEN ❗ ❗ ❗

Oconto...the birthplace of western civilization:)

[Vans Clan]

Micro’s in rock piles and short evergreens!

Rock piles are worse because you can’t cut them down and de-limb them with a Stihl Farm Boss !

Full logs sheets.

Nano’s.

3 stage multi in a 1 acre country cemetery.

Traditional micro after a 2 mile hike.

Rusted shut Altoid containers.

20 log pages in a micro.

95 Feet off on coords that contain 100+ hiding spots in the same radius.

“No Motorized Vehicles” signs at the trail head.

Forgetting my Stihl Farm Boss at home.

Forgetting my come-a-long and 50′ chain at home.

[Barry Butrymowicz]

Here is a new gripe for me, Reviewers that don’t give you at least 24 hours to fix a cache with a wet log before they temporary disable it.

Yesterday night at about 7-8PM we received these two logs on our Cache GCNMHA Family Fun Cache in Crivitz (About a 40 Minute Drive from our house) :

Needs Maintenance: April 30 by todd300 (23 found)
Log is wet.

Found: April 30 by todd300 (23 found)
Clouds and trees were throwing off my GPS accuracy, but found it within 20 minutes. Nice clue. Log was wet though.

HERE IS MY GRIPE at about 10-10:30 WE GET THIS POST FROM WIS KID

Temporary Disabled April 30 by Wis Kid (0 found)
Greetings from geocaching.com

Your cache has been reported as in need of maintenance. I have disabled it to give you time to repair your cache. Once you have completed the maintenance, you can enable your cache and post a “Owner Maintenance” log, which will remove the “Needs Maintenance” attribute. If you are no longer interested in maintaining your cache, please archive it and retrieve it at the earliest opportunity. If I don’t hear from you in 4 weeks, I will have to assume that you are no longer interested in your cache and will have to archive it for you. If you need more time, just post a note to the cache page indicating you are still working on the maintenance.

Thanks for your past contributions to geocaching in Wisconsin. I look forward to hearing from you.

Wis Kid – Volunteer Reviewer

I’m sorry but this was complete BS I did send him a message last night with no response asking him to make it active again as we are going to fix it tonight on our way to Milwaukee we will not have internet service this weekend so now my cache will be disabled all weekend.

This is a little more than a gripe,

Barry of sweetlife

[furfool]

@Van’s Clan wrote:

…cut them down and de-limb them with a Stihl Farm Boss !

Watch out what you post VC. I jokingly posted that I added a ratcheting shears to my caching bag. I believe it was a post on this site and once in the GC forums and I was taken quite literally. They way some people acted, I thought there might be a lynching.

[seldom|seen]

@sweetlife wrote:

Here is a new gripe for me, Reviewers that don’t give you at least 24 hours to fix a cache with a wet log before they temporary disable it.

Yesterday night at about 7-8PM we received these two logs on our Cache GCNMHA Family Fun Cache in Crivitz (About a 40 Minute Drive from our house) :

Needs Maintenance: April 30 by todd300 (23 found)
Log is wet.

Found: April 30 by todd300 (23 found)
Clouds and trees were throwing off my GPS accuracy, but found it within 20 minutes. Nice clue. Log was wet though.

HERE IS MY GRIPE at about 10-10:30 WE GET THIS POST FROM WIS KID

Temporary Disabled April 30 by Wis Kid (0 found)
Greetings from geocaching.com

Your cache has been reported as in need of maintenance. I have disabled it to give you time to repair your cache. Once you have completed the maintenance, you can enable your cache and post a “Owner Maintenance” log, which will remove the “Needs Maintenance” attribute. If you are no longer interested in maintaining your cache, please archive it and retrieve it at the earliest opportunity. If I don’t hear from you in 4 weeks, I will have to assume that you are no longer interested in your cache and will have to archive it for you. If you need more time, just post a note to the cache page indicating you are still working on the maintenance.

Thanks for your past contributions to geocaching in Wisconsin. I look forward to hearing from you.

Wis Kid – Volunteer Reviewer

I’m sorry but this was complete BS I did send him a message last night with no response asking him to make it active again as we are going to fix it tonight on our way to Milwaukee we will not have internet service this weekend so now my cache will be disabled all weekend.

This is a little more than a gripe,

Barry of sweetlife

HERE, HERE!

This happened to me twice as soon as the weather got warm. The vast majority of cache hiders are well aware of the status of their caches and most finders are very informative and quick to point out that a log sheet is full or wet, to make them aware. BUT, is there really a need to disable a cache because of a damp log or a full log sheet? If you are an avid cacher, you should have spare logs sheets in baggies with you and if you don’t carry that kind of stuff along while caching, you probably DO have a piece of dry paper somewhere on your person.

And REVIEWERS, even if you think the Needs Maintenance log warrants a “disable” status, can you at least give us 24-48 hours to respond to the post? Every time there is an action by one of you on a NM cache log like this it reflects poorly on us as cache owners. Certainly, if we don’t do anything about it in a timely fashion, then the disable may be warranted – to give us a kick in the pants. But BELIEVE me, I wake up EVERY morning with a run through of my mental to-do list on caches that need to be checked out or worked on. It IS ON OUR MINDS!

Personally, I think the Needs Maintenance log type should really only be used when a cache is in trouble – broken, water-logged, damaged – and, as many have said, finders should at least attempt to re-hide a cache that is found in the open. It never fails that within days of seeing a “found it in the open” log, a cache will get muggled. Sometimes we just can’t get in the car and rush out to save our cache.

It may seem like nothing to finders to post a NM log, but you’ll find that the more caches we hide, the more we are inclined to send the owner an friendly e-mail or a PM about the cache situation rather than flagging the cache itself as being poorly maintained, which is what a NM log does.

There, 1 gripe, 4 paragraphs… Think I’ll skip the other 10.

BTW, don’t gripe about full log sheets, bring extra and replace them!

[Vans Clan]

@furfool wrote:

@Van’s Clan wrote:

…cut them down and de-limb them with a Stihl Farm Boss !

Watch out what you post VC. I jokingly posted that I added a ratcheting shears to my caching bag. I believe it was a post on this site and once in the GC forums and I was taken quite literally. They way some people acted, I thought there might be a lynching.

I guess I shouldn’t mention the 5 gallon of gas I bring along to burn the tree down to ashes then then search for the micro bison tube? 😈

[furfool]

Here is a post of a cache I found last year. Nothing has been done about it yet. Last post was mine in fact. When ever possible I will try to help out the cache owner on maintenance or rehiding. If I’m not sure of anything specific, an email is sent with very specific details to the owner.

November 26, 2008 by furfool (974 found)
Log was completely soaked. I thawed it out on top of the heater vent in the truck. I patted it dry to a point, but I didn’t have the time to sit there til it was dry. Only other paper I had was a napkin so I couldn’t replace it for you. Sorry.
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[Captain and Mate]

Have you ever DNF’d a cache and were pretty sure it had gone missing (and you noted that in your log)? Then, several more DNF’s follow yours, but the cache owner doesn’t indicate that he’s disabling it or has done maintenance. You’d like to think the owner has checked it, but you’re not sure if (or when) you should take the time to go look for it again.

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