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@fitbobcat wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
The cache is GC36G3K.
That cashe has been stolen. That is not my fault on that one
You do realize that as the owner of the cache, it is your responsibility to maintain it, right? Even if it gets stolen, you are responsible to either replace it or archive the listing. You don’t get to say “well, someone took it” and wash your hands of it.
Well, that’s weird
@fitbobcat wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
The point Kungfuhippie is making, I believe, is that among your owned caches, one was archived for lack of maintenance. So I’m not sure what you mean by the problem being “fixed,” because the cache has been archived since May. Perhaps you’ve asked for it to be re-enabled.
My comment is based on the “Would you like help or not,” which sounds pretty snotty to me. But, in a forum things don’t always come across as they do in the real world so I apologize if I misinterpreted it.
Nevertheless, I believe KFH makes a legitimate point.
OMG. I dont have one archived then. So far i only have one geocache i ever made. Can you send me a link. Sorry i was not trying to be a snot rag.
According to your profile, you have hidden three caches. One of those, http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=8f49e9d9-c6aa-4f38-841e-bd4f862942af%5Dwashington park, was archived by a reviewer because you didn’t respond when the cache was disabled.
When you have veteran earthcache owners throwing their hands up in the air in frustration, you have a problem with your system. You have earthcache owners who have created good E/C’s in the past and they are out finding new locations that would make more good earthcaches…and the only thing stopping them is that they don’t want to deal with the bureacracy of the earthcache.org.
I have a location that I think would make for a decent E/C. The research I’ve done so far shows it to be a pretty unique geological feature around here. But I’m hesitant to start assembling facts and details simply because the process of getting an earthcache published seems daunting. I agree that an E/C should be held to a higher standard but there does come a point where the “guidelines” seem arbitrary. The hoops they make you jump through makes it seem like they’d rather NOT have earthcaches published. Strange.
Getting an earthcache listed shouldn’t be like writing a Masters thesis, for goodness sakes! Yes, you CAN make your E/C so involved that it would take a masters degree in geology to complete it, but most earthcaches are about bringing people to a location and learning something scientific about it. I don’t mind doing the work to create or complete an earthcache, except if the roadblocks thrown up are put there on a whim.
I don’t let crappy logs bother me too much. They do confuse me, though. There are so many great caches that get TFTC logs and I am just confused on how finders could take so little from the experience that all they want to do is type in the least amount possible to be able to log a find.
The one thing about crappy logs that does bother me is the loss of the feeling of community that it brings with it. Without sharing your experiences, good or bad, this just becomes a numbers game. A TFTC or smiley face log tells me absolutely nothing about the cache besides that it was found. Caches are slowly being reduced to “check this box if you found this cache”. 🙁
For many CO’s, the reward for placing a cache is the logs you receive and being able to share in the adventure with the finder. With TFTC, there is no sharing of anything and CO’s eventually won’t be overly inspired to place anything beyond a park and grab cache, since numbers mean more than adventures to too many cachers.
Now, I’m not the most prolific cacher, so I can’t speak from the perspective of finding dozens or even hundreds of caches in a day/weekend (heck, 10 caches in a day is a lot for me). So, I get the reasoning behind some TFTC or cut-n-paste logs…I’m sure some caches are just a blur at the end of the day. I guess that’s where “play the game the way you want” comes from. Personally, I couldn’t imagine racking up cache after cache if they were so unmemorable.
@Team Deejay wrote:
RJ, I recommend you place that challenge in Korea. Be sure to put it on a railroad bridge next to a school, and put in lots of text promoting local businesses. Also, be sure to put some knives and firearms in the cache for good measure. Erik will be glad to help you with this one.
You forgot about making the finder take a picture of them wearing a pink boa and playing the bagpipes before they can log the find!
@Team Deejay wrote:
First of all, you can move the center point if you want. Just say yes. And you can drag the center point all over the map or extend the radius. The reason that a small radius is used is because the map loads very slowly for people using certain versions of Internet Exploder if we use a radius that has more than a handful of caches.
This is why I use Firefox. I was tired of my internet exploding 😯
Every tax refund season, I think about buying a new GPS but the 60csx that I’ve used for the past few years just keeps doing so darn well that I decide not to replace it. It does lock on to a signal like a pit bull and I don’t recall it ever dropping off, no matter how thick the cover.
By comparison, my Nuvi will lose satellite reception just going through the underpasses down by Mitchell International in Milwaukee.
@Team Deejay wrote:
I plead the 5th.
Don’t you mean the 1st?
@huffinpuffin2 wrote:
psssssst: Ya gotta have skills
😆
I learned how to handle that by going deer hunting 😯 Lots of beer and greasy eggs for breakfast and you learn quickly to bring a roll of TP along everywhere you go.
I just count poison ivy as a fact of life if you’re going to venture out into nature, especially for caching as you tend to get off established trails and could end up in the middle of a patch of it. I make sure to keep a good supply of ointments and itch-relief creams on hand.
@huffinpuffin2 wrote:
@Walkingadventure wrote:
Crow T Robot (aka Bassanio) was a reviewer
There are clones in our midst. :LOL:
And I did it while I was sleeping 😯
Actually, I knew there was a reviewer with the name Crow T Robot already (hence the need for hyphens in my name), but I figured it was like Ghostbusters…our streams wouldn’t cross. It’s a small world after all.
I saw some of these notifications last night and wondered why a french reviewer was publishing Wisconsin caches. It seems like Groundspeak just sent caches out to random reviewers. I wonder which caches Bec and WisKid published today…
The Glacial Drumlin trail near Madison has quite a few caches along it, many of them part of the America the Beautiful series.
Tuskeegee Airmen National Historic Site-ATB is at one end of the trail and Hot Springs National Park-America the Beautiful is at the other.
I believe there are 62 caches total in the series, plus others not part of the series along the trail as well.
Look on the bright side…there are five nearby lakes that are available to hide caches. Use the opportunity to place the kind of caches you’d like to find.
When you arrive “near” the first set of coordinates in the Wherigo cartridge, the radius alert will trigger a new screen to open on your device and that will have the next set of clues/directions/coordinates to go to. Once you get to the next radius bubble, it’ll trigger another new screen and so on. After the first radius alert you get, you’ll probably find it very intuitive and catch on quickly on how to finish out the Wherigo.
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