Watching …..

[-cheeto-]

@sandlanders wrote:

Well, if you have a watch on an event, plus own some caches near that event, you come home from the event to find LOTS of mail in the in-box!

And that is a problem how? 😀

[Northern Lightz]

First let me say Tim gets all the emails for geocaching.

I used to watch lots of caches but then Tim scolded me after I forgot to take the Cache Bash Event off of my watch list before we went. His phone will notify him when he gets a new email….I don’t think his phone stopped going off that whole weekend 😆 Because not only did I have the event but also the pre and post event. Everytime he’s phone would go off he would just look at me 😈

I’m lucky he didn’t leave me there. After that he banned a watch list for me, now I just watch by cacher so I look at peoples caching page. But then its more fun because I look at everyone’s pictures 🙂

[sandlanders]

@-cheeto- wrote:

@sandlanders wrote:

Well, if you have a watch on an event, plus own some caches near that event, you come home from the event to find LOTS of mail in the in-box!

And that is a problem how? 😀

Not a problem at all, especially now that I don’t get as many shopping pitches with the holidays over.
If it weren’t for geocaching, our inbox would probably have cobwebs in it. 🙄

[-cheeto-]

@sandlanders wrote:

@-cheeto- wrote:

@sandlanders wrote:

Well, if you have a watch on an event, plus own some caches near that event, you come home from the event to find LOTS of mail in the in-box!

And that is a problem how? 😀

Not a problem at all, especially now that I don’t get as many shopping pitches with the holidays over.
If it weren’t for geocaching, our inbox would probably have cobwebs in it. 🙄

I actually enjoyed the log emails your event “created” for me 😀

A few finds on my arrowhead/petenwell caches as well as a bunch of logs on my cow.

Too bad I couldn’t get away to attend. Sounds like those who did had fun!

I like reading geocaching log emails. I suppose if they were setup to go to my phone and my phone made noises all the time that would be a bad thing 😯

[sandlanders]

@-cheeto- wrote:

I like reading geocaching log emails. I suppose if they were setup to go to my phone and my phone made noises all the time that would be a bad thing 😯

Yep, the only way we know if anyone has found one of our caches is if we choose to look at our email or the cache page. No phone notifications on anything. The phone sometimes has cobwebs on it, too.

Not too many finds on our caches this time of year (except the new ones). We don’t have the influx of new people all the time like we do in the summer, and many of our caches involve walking through quite a bit of craphas. A lot of times we can cruise through the closest 100-150 caches to us and not see anything that was found in the most recent seven days. Love seeing all the logs we do get, though.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

We watch a fair number of caches, some we’ve found that, like Pete says, were SSSSo hard to solve, some that have some significance to us (like those on our How Hungry challenge, yesterday was a great email day there), and some that just look interesting to me in the form of “some day maybe we can go there” kind of thing. It has happened that some of those “maybes” do became finds later on for us, like the kayak earthcache in Hawaii or a cave letterbox hybrid in Michigan.

[marc_54140]

Well, besides watching a lot of local caches, here are a few unusual ones….

GC1YRBH
GCY6PM
GC1C9A
GCZ8ZK
GCB9A8

[-cheeto-]

@marc_54140 wrote:

Well, besides watching a lot of local caches, here are a few unusual ones….

GC1YRBH
GCY6PM
GC1C9A
GCZ8ZK
GCB9A8

So when are you going to hunt GCZ8ZK??

[ecorangers]

This archived cache still has 33 watchers…I wonder how many of the watchers have dropped out of geocaching since then? GCHZKB

[Trekkin and Birdin]

This one was archived not long after we started playing, when there was still a ton of stuff for us to find close to home. How I wish we’d made the drive to enjoy it, it is still the stuff of legends, isn’t it? 😉

[amita17]

@ecorangers wrote:

This archived cache still has 33 watchers…I wonder how many of the watchers have dropped out of geocaching since then? GCHZKB

Now that I know how to watch a cache, I had to see what 33 people think is worth watching. I suspect you are right, that many of them are not active anymore, or changed e-mails, plus you wouldn’t get any notices anyway. Did the owner of the cache do something wrong, forcing it to be archived? It seems like many people had great caching milestones here, although some had bad experiences. It seems like the owner maybe was frustrated with other cachers? I didn’t geocache back then and it isn’t in my area, so maybe things have changed since then.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Amita, watch your pms! 😉 Trying to stay true to the cache’s original intent, is all.

[zuma]

@amita17 wrote:

@ecorangers wrote:

This archived cache still has 33 watchers…I wonder how many of the watchers have dropped out of geocaching since then? GCHZKB

Now that I know how to watch a cache, I had to see what 33 people think is worth watching. I suspect you are right, that many of them are not active anymore, or changed e-mails, plus you wouldn’t get any notices anyway. Did the owner of the cache do something wrong, forcing it to be archived? It seems like many people had great caching milestones here, although some had bad experiences. It seems like the owner maybe was frustrated with other cachers? I didn’t geocache back then and it isn’t in my area, so maybe things have changed since then.

You can find out a lot of interesting stuff in the forums. This is not one of them. I suggest asking someone at an event if you want the whole story.

zuma

[Team B Squared]

@Todd300 wrote:

I have no interest in watching a cache an hour away.

There is one cache an hour (or a little bit less) away from you that if you watched it would help you to solve the puzzle… 😈

[marc_54140]

@Team B Squared wrote:

@Todd300 wrote:

I have no interest in watching a cache an hour away.

There is one cache an hour (or a little bit less) away from you that if you watched it would help you to solve the puzzle… 😈

Brian has said a lot there …….. I watch his puzzles, he watches someone else’s, and that person watches elsewhere ….. etc. Brian and I share several puzzles based on the same idea.

That’s a hint, for anyone listening out there!

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