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In the past few days I’ve had people discover at TB of ours that was lost at Aztalan years ago. The weird thing is that the logs make sense as someone that knows caching, and not just some spam bug. I messaged the first person, their log said, that they had discovered it, but didn’t mention where they saw it. They said they had forgotten their password, but didn’t know anything about it – and that I wasn’t the only one messaging him. The second one was really puzzling. The next one came from South Africa, saying they had discovered it while on lockdown in South Africa! By the time I got to their account to ask them about it, they had already had email and messaging locked down by GZ. Checking my TB, both logs have already been scrubbed. Ideas?
We had pretty much the same thing yesterday. A coin of ours, which has never circulated and is in our possession, was discovered by someone in South Africa. When we checked, the log did not appear on the coin’s page. Very puzzling!
Thanks to this thread, we noticed one of our caches had been “found” under false pretenses. The cache was premium only, but the logger was not premium. 88 finds all over the world in one day. Well, now it’s down to 87.
We’ve used the Timberline for years and it’s a great tent. Lay it out, set up the external frame, hook it on and you’re good to go. Very easy for one person.
looking through some eBay listings and found a link to the following site: http://geodetecting.com/index http://geodetecting.com/volunteer knowing all we know about the geocaching rules for placement, does this appear to be another way to play the game or something that is bound to stir up grief in the community??
Wow-what could possibly go wrong? I’m sure parks will love having people bury stuff (called “caches”) so other people can come and dig for them. This could turn into a real nightmare if it catches on.
Sold it yesterday.
Sounds like a worthy cause. PM sent.
02/20/2015 at 2:53 pm in reply to: How do you access your geocaching info? Mobile device or computer? #2035975We still haven’t gone with smartphones, either, although we use a Verizon device for internet. It’s handy for travel and we use it a lot with our tablets and iPod. Although we are on FB, we don’t pay much attention to the geocaching pages there. To answer your question, we get the most use out of this site and geocaching.com for our caching info. Our main devices are the trusty laptop and our tablets.
We had a similar issue recently. We think GS needs to address this, especially with the current surge in the popularity of challenge caches.
@sandlanders wrote:
They hide something personal, then give the coordinates to someone special to find it. Marriage proposals, birthday presents, family gatherings, Easter egg hunts… Why do cachers need to go through all of this rigamarole to do what they’ve always been doing?
This does sound like pretty much the same thing and is a whole lot easier than what Groundspeak has going.
I guess we should have read the email announcement more carefully, since there doesn’t seem to be anything obvious on the GS homepage that directs you to the details about this. We’re feeling like Lacknothing-we really don’t get what this is about or what to do if we did want to participate. Is this something that might become permanent, or will it just go away at the end of the month? 😕
That makes sense. We didn’t consider that possibility. The cacher in question appears to be from the Netherlands (no surprise) and some of the other logs referred to “found on the internet” and a “virtual discovery.” We did delete the bogus logs.
We got #31 today in Austin, Minnesota. One FTF in the process.
We load the cache info on our iPod touch using the Groundspeak app, but still use an old-school handheld for finding the caches.
Ours is also Illinois-we live just a few miles from the border.
We like “lobster mitts” coupled with a light-weight glove liner. They allow a little more dexterity than a regular mitten, but you’d still have to take them off to open caches, manipulate the GPSr, etc.
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