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05/01/2009 at 3:29 pm #1906918
The growing number of TB’s (and geocoins) that go MIA.
People who (have one or two finds) and take a trackable then never respond to e-mails asking for help in moving them along. Ugh!
YIKES!05/01/2009 at 3:35 pm #1906919@Captain and Mate wrote:
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.
Yep, that’s when you should go pile more sticks where the cache is supposed to be.
Seriously though, this points out clearly another of my gripes. Cache owners who don’t post notes or maintenance logs when they actually check on their caches after inklings that it might be MIA.
Oh and I have to gripe about cachers who lie about finding a cache. Just plain wrong and frustrating to cache owners and others who follow and make attempts at finding potential MIA caches.
Oh and people who don’t log their dnf’s. It’s just a game. Log your dnf’s people.
05/01/2009 at 8:12 pm #1906920@Sparse Grey Hackle wrote:
The growing number of TB’s (and geocoins) that go MIA.
People who (have one or two finds) and take a trackable then never respond to e-mails asking for help in moving them along. Ugh!
YIKES!My daughter gave me a geocoin for Christmas in ’07. I placed it in a cache in Boulder Junction and it didn’t move until spring, but in the course of two weeks it went to Texas and has been in the hands of a rookie cacher (6) since last June who hasn’t responded to numerous e-mails. At what point do I stop nagging and give it up??? I have at least two other tbs that went missing last summer…God only knows where they are.
As far as the maintenance issues, does a lot of it have to do with springtime and the effects of our wonderful Wisconsin winter climate and the fact that a lot of us are itching to get out and get going while some are not? I went on a run yesterday and had more than 1/2 dozen DNF’s, a couple of which I’m sure were just me…and I did some maintenance on several caches that I did find, mostly water-related issues. I don’t mind doing that…I figure somewhere along the line, someone will do the same for me. Maybe more patience and understanding is needed after chomping at the bit for so long, but it is frustrating. I sympathize.Oconto...the birthplace of western civilization:)
05/01/2009 at 8:51 pm #1906921@bartrod wrote:
@Sparse Grey Hackle wrote:
The growing number of TB’s (and geocoins) that go MIA.
People who (have one or two finds) and take a trackable then never respond to e-mails asking for help in moving them along. Ugh!
YIKES!My daughter gave me a geocoin for Christmas in ’07. I placed it in a cache in Boulder Junction and it didn’t move until spring, but in the course of two weeks it went to Texas and has been in the hands of a rookie cacher (6) since last June who hasn’t responded to numerous e-mails. At what point do I stop nagging and give it up??? I have at least two other tbs that went missing last summer…God only knows where they are.
.Thats why the 2 I have stay in my possession, I let them get discovered when I remember but they both have some meaning to me.
05/02/2009 at 12:45 am #1906922Oh, this is a timely gripe:
Not receiving new cache notifications from geocaching.com!
05/02/2009 at 12:53 am #1906923Another gripe:
You refresh the wi-geocaching.com forums and there are no new posts! *sigh*
05/03/2009 at 2:53 am #1906924Reciept roll types of logs.
05/03/2009 at 4:10 am #1906925@Captain and Mate wrote:
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.
One cacher I met at an event brought up the fact to me that he didn’t disable a certain cache even though the container had been missing since August, and this was in March when he told me this. I attempted two of this same person’s caches in east De Pere, and logged DNF’s on them both. One of them was a multi and I couldn’t locate the first WP, which I had previously come in contact with but didn’t have my GPS the first time. What did the guy do? Nothing according to the cache logs, and the guy lives in east De Pere.
-The Happy Hodag!
P.S. Names have been removed to protect the innocent, especially those other cachers who may or may not be involved with such activities. . .
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05/03/2009 at 9:34 pm #1906926losing a great pen and a GPS in the same day. Now where the h… did I park the car?
05/04/2009 at 2:08 pm #1906927That there is not (at least to my knowledge) a NEXT NEAREST CACHE button you can click on when you are done logging a find to take you to the next cache instead of backing out and having to go to the original cache page and THEN click on NEAREST CACHES I HAVE NOT DONE. I don’t keep track of the GC numbers, so this would be a really nice feature for me. 😀
05/04/2009 at 2:20 pm #1906928Having waypoints in the GPSr based on old PQs!!!
On the Left Side of the Road...05/04/2009 at 3:41 pm #1906929Cachers not logging DNFs.
05/05/2009 at 12:03 pm #1906930cachers logging needs maintenance when they cant find it and they only have 8 finds..
05/05/2009 at 12:53 pm #1906931Cut and paste logs on my EarthCaches!
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05/05/2009 at 1:52 pm #1906932@LDove wrote:
That there is not (at least to my knowledge) a NEXT NEAREST CACHE button you can click on when you are done logging a find to take you to the next cache instead of backing out and having to go to the original cache page and THEN click on NEAREST CACHES I HAVE NOT DONE. I don’t keep track of the GC numbers, so this would be a really nice feature for me. 😀
That would be very helpful as I would definitely this feature as well.
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