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Well that’s frustrating to hear as someone who’s moving to Eau Claire.
It’s not really that bad, actually. There are plenty of caches to be found here that have had staying power. I only started noticing this issue recently now that I’ve found a lot of the older caches and the transient ones are what’s left over.
Finding a spot to place a cache that’s worth using and isn’t already taken….That seems to be another story but maybe part of that is my lack of skills in seeking them out. I got an EC county plat map in the mail yesterday and I’m starting to look more outside the city limits.
I’m generally not available on weekdays but I am in the area and I hope to see you out there!
not go back to the same park time and time again because some newbie put a new cache there.
Where I live it’s not the newbies. It’s the people who have found everything in the area and now all they do is FTF’s and cache placements. They’ll constantly archive and relist caches with various different puzzles and nuances. The cache will remain often just long enough for them to pad each other’s FTF stats and then it’ll be archived in favor of a new one in the exact same spot or close to it.
I’m actually not complaining, though. They get quite ingenious trying to outdo each other’s hides and puzzles etc and they’re often very fun finds if I can get to them fast enough. They seem to be nice enough people, too. They’ve always been decent with me.
Since every camera now is idiot proof and comes with a free phone attached to it and, at least in part due to social media, I think people might be starting to reach a point of picture overload. To me, it feels like nobody can do or say anything any more without producing a picture and frankly I’ve been a bit fatigued by it for some time. I wouldn’t be surprised if others are starting to feel the same way. Even on Facebook, it seems like increasingly the pictures I see are not originals but simply things that have been reposted/shared….or it’s people sharing family pictures with distant relatives.
Don’t get me wrong, I do think there’s a time and place for a good picture and I’m sure there always will be. Hopefully the drop off in production is simply an indication that people are getting more selective.
I don’t worry about what other people do as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else.
I do, however, think that it is an interesting question, “Why?” What is the exact nature of this hole that some seem to have in their spirits? How long has it been there and how did it come to be? How do their actions serve them? And, how conscious are they of all of this?
Most people don’t act this way even knowing that they can get away with it so I suspect it’s much deeper than that.
Ok, obviously I’m a little late to the party on this thread but I’ve had anywhere from 1-4 hives going for 4 years now.
To set the record straight there are many avenues of education for beekeepers. Most hobbyists simply take a 1-day seminar and or get an experienced beekeeper to mentor them.
There are several “Master Beekeeper” and other programs out there that will offer a “piece of paper”….some of them are extremely rigorous, take years to obtain and are not intended for anyone with less than 50 hives….others are extremely easy. None, however, are actually required of anyone.
Ok, yes, apparently “beccaday” is quite well connected and, while I’ve never met her, it appears as though her and I do have a mutual non-caching acquaintance so we very well could cross paths. I’ll watch for her!
@Casual-Cacher wrote:
I'm able to create pocket queries and receive them via e-mail. However my problem is creating GPX files – when I download my query it always wants to create a loc file.
I found this info and will have to study it and try again:
CC, you might be running into the lmit on number of caches that can be downloaded via e-mail. If your PQ generates more than 500 results than they need to be downloaded via the GC.com website rather than through e-mail. That’s just a theory.
It sounds like the original poster is having a different issue, though.
Or, if you don’t have GSAK (I had to Google it to even see what it was), you can unzip the file from your computer and connect to your GPSr to transfer them. I’m being very “general” here. Specific instructions vary depending on the make and model of your GPSr.
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