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I will be purchasing my 4th year of premium membership this week. While that does not make me a “veteran” or “old” cacher it does help frame where I’m at with the hobby. It’s no longer new and exciting for me. There’s no need to rush and grab the ftf or place many new caches. There are newer cachers than me out there. There are older ones. Like Lostby, geocaching still brings me to places I would never find (or visit) on my own and that’s what I now enjoy.
Yeah I’ll grab a few in-town caches from time to time (the list keeps growing), but for the most part they’re just new caches in the same parks (or guardrails) I’ve visited before. I now watch the local caching community more from the side lines than as a “major player”. I try to keep up with what’s going on and who’s who but to be honest, I’ve sort of lost touch. And I’m ok with that. Being a WGA board member keeps me busy enough. I’m still participating in this fine past-time even if you don’t see any new -cheeto- caches or me finding any new caches.
Does that make me old or new?
Also a big congrats on your new found “fame” 😉
Can I get your autograph? Perhaps I’ll have to place a new cache to get it!
Congrats!!
@sweetlife wrote:
@sandlanders wrote:
Do you notice how most of us aren’t listing our full GC numbers? Is there something identity thieves can do with your GC number if they know it? 🙄 😉
These numbers are not secret, as long as I have found as least one of your caches, I can get this info from GSAK,
So your super secret GC # is really not a secret.
You don’t even need to have GSAK. Just click on a user to look at their profile page and hover your mouse over See the Forum Posts for This User and you will see their ID number at the bottom as part of the link.
@huffinpuffin2 wrote:
A bit of a diverge, but while hunting for a geocache in Door County, two young ladies came running over carrying a box and asked us “are you looking for this?” It was a REAL LETTERBOX! It happened to be placed about 20 feet from a geocache. Luckily, we had our trusty gotta run-hand-carved hp2 stamp, which we proudly produced and made a ‘find’ on it instead.
We then got into a good discussion explaining some of the joys and details of our respective passions, as they were unfamiliar with geocaching, and we knew little about real letterboxing. The biggest question was, what do you do when two or more ‘teams’ meet up at a letterbox – well, we decided the appropriate thing to do was to exchange stamps – so SMACK! SMACK! SMACK!
They then helped us track down the geocache, and then headed off to do more letterboxing. Plus they revealed they would soon be doing some near Suamico – by gotta run! Small World!
We now have an account with Letterboxing North America. It’s really interesting to compare the description of the geocache and the letterbox, which coexist, side-by-side.
Sunset Beach-Queen of sunsets! LbNA #: 49871 http://www.letterboxing.org/BoxView.php?boxnum=49871&boxname=Sunset_Beach-Queen_of_sunsets!
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Phish Creek Photo Op GC1WDWC
Found this cache yesterday 🙂 Sure would help with the confusion if they posted accurate coords on the cache and that the posted coords (and hint) didn’t take all finders exactly to the letterbox! Posted a note about this on my cache log.
Also posted a picture of the top of the letterbox 😉
Snowshoes?
@glorkar wrote:
On a related note, who owns small islands like Oasis? I know where one is located on a river that would be a good spot for a cache…
Not sure who owns that slab of cement and rock pile but I am pretty sure it was placed with full Menasha park & rec awareness.
What I do know is we (geocachers) should stop placing ammo boxes and tupperware on that island. It’s obvious this Island gets a ton of muggle visits each summer.
Whomever claims this island when the current cache is archived, please place something that muggles will not mess with. That way it can stay there for many years.
I can’t wait to visit the island again someday.
@Walkingadventure wrote:
You still have caches out there -Cheeto-? Guess I’ve missed a few.
http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=cf8d25b5-4df5-4912-b5b9-f31f6dfb1080
@Lostby7 wrote:
(as a side note I have removed all but about a dozen family members and freinds from my Facebook friends so if I defriended you it was nothing personal…there are no geocachers among my Facebook friends).
Doesn’t bother me any. I use facebook to network with others who want to network.
You could always post the URL to a cache page in a facebook post so there’s nothing really new here, it’s just much easier now and it indicates you “like it”.
I like the like button but agree it’s not really a rating system. It’s a tool for facebook users.
In general I like the networking aspect of where Groundspeak is heading with the blog and getting people involved with nominating caches and cache stories. The more people feel like they’re part of a community the better. At least that’s my opinion.
Apparently they made last minute changes to the “collectibles” feature as well so that folks can’t add items that are not your own to your collections. I have not played with this functionality at all but there are interesting conversations about it going on in the groundspeak forums. Using the term collectibles does sort of stand in the way of the trackable/movement idea. There’s one suggestion out there that I really like which is deeming a trackable as moveable or collectible and that way the owner controls how a particular item can be logged and what actions can take place. For instance a collectible could be discovered and not taken or dropped and a moveable could be taken or dropped. Would be handy for those vehicle TB’s and tatoo’s out there as well 😉
Anyone use the new Owner Maintenance log type on an Earthcache yet?? 😉
@huffinpuffin2 wrote:
Cross-threading here with the new gc.com features……..if you let me log one of your caches that I didn’t really do, cheeto, then I will ‘Like’ your cache….
Back on track now, sorry Peach 🙄
No one likes my caches… 🙁
Oh and to get back on topic, I do not police what I believe to be “fake” online logs on my own caches. But I agree with past posters that it’s probably more about the particular cache circumstances. Certainly, if it’s a 5/5 puzzle cache things might be different than a 1/1 guardrail. But it is your cache and you can do what you feel is right regardless of what all of us think.
@koolma_k wrote:
I actually visited one of my caches yesterday and photo’d the logs, there are names on there that haven’t even posted on GC.. you know they are most likely in it for the fun and that is fine with me.. but, I do prefer at least a little something in my logs, more then only “TFTC” . (Especially when I ask finders to include something extra right in the cache description!!)
I could make my caching so easy if I just plugged my gps into the computer and downloaded my finds from my gps to gc.com, I have an option to “type” in descriptions on my find log in my gps, but really, who wants to arrow through all that out in the field?? I prefer to type in everything later that day reliving the experience. I wonder if that is where the TFTC logs come from… just downloads straight from gps’s.If a cache is a simple park and go or really has nothing of interest or in hiding style I give the TFTC, quick find.. or something similiar… but the more elaborate the cache set up, the more difficult D or T, or the more interesting cache site gets a much more interesting log from me. Some fun examples:
GC1PQPF
GC1TPZA (April 6th)
GC28K69
there are many more… and I have gotten quite a few emails and messages of appreciation from the cache owners… which also helps promote keeping up with the fun logs. And, even more than that… I can look back over my old logs and relive the experience… it is like an online diary for me… :). Imagine… 10-20-30yrs from now… reading my logs to my grandchildren and letting them know what their parents did when they were kids 🙂 Priceless 🙂
(ok, sorry, babbled long enough!!)I believe you are referring to the field notes functionality… Using this to track “Found it’s” is an awesome feature but I would never think to type out anything into it on my Oregon. I just use it to track finds and exact order of finds and ease inserting logs because you can go through a list. I don’t necessarily think this functionality necessarily “leads to” non-expressive logs.
I do believe that smart phones allowing to log a cache “from the field” probably do lead to non-expressive logs for the lazy type. I’ve also seen cacher’s use this well also where they log a quick found and then come back and edit it later so it’s really just about the person and what they want to log.
@Team Deejay wrote:
The other advantage to using GSAK (rather than just Drag and Drop) is that GSAK allows you to use “corrected coordinates” for mystery caches (as well as for those caches where the knucklehead owners won’t fix bad coordinates). Obviously the raw pocket query data from gc.com won’t have the right coordinates for the puzzles. Additionally, if you add notes to the cache in GSAK, it will show up in your Oregon as the first log.
And yes, you can also export a GPX from GSAK and drag that file, but that takes a few more steps with no advantages.
Great tip on the unknown/correction cache coordinates!
I’m a grab and go kind of guy. I love that I can skip using GSAK and just drag n drop if I want. I also like to use the individual cache download option right from the google map.
Of course I still have to use GSAK to load my Nuvi the way I want, but that’s another story.
Neato! One of the updates they made added the cache type icon to our (as in the WGA’s) automated Recent Logs page 😉
How cool is that.
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