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I don’t mind them for other people. It does give a specific goal in what could otherwise be a random hunt.
Personally, I doubt I’ll get any challenges accomplished. It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s just that I’m not as aggressive about it.

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A friend of mine was searching for a cemetery cache at night. He went with another guy and they both left their big diesel trucks running while they looked. One of the neighbors called the cops and they came and questioned them.

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Read about this on another forum. Here are some links:

Story – http://www.wftv.com/news/24908948/detail.html
Video – http://www.wftv.com/video/24910111/index.html
Photos – http://www.wftv.com/slideshow/news/24909864/detail.html

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@labrat_wr wrote:

@-cheeto- wrote:

@labrat_wr wrote:

Shane, which one are you lacking? I will keep my eye out.

The one that can’t be bought. 😀

well, you’ve got at least another year to wait then…. 😀

Totally lost on this one 😕

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der….I totally misread that comment. Now I gotcha.

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That’s a sucky situation. Glad some good has come out of it with the upgrades. I don’t think it was necessarily a cacher that did it. Most people know that GPS units are not cheap. And they are very portable. ie: easy to grab in a hurry. Hope you have some luck catching the person(s).

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These are pretty popular in Europe. I believe they call them “Lost Places.”

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Didn’t think you sounded bitter 🙂 But the way you phrased it made it sound like I was selling the coins. I just didn’t want any potential buyers to be misled into a false sense of security thinking it was somebody in the WGA selling the coin.
I hope the seller does well too. These are beautiful coins, wish I had enough extra cash to pick one up for myself. Hopefully some day I can 😀

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Neither of the coins I posted about were mine. I just get bored and frequently search eBay to see how many pop up for sale. Didn’t mean to mislead anybody. Just figured I’d point interested parties in the right direction 🙂

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Offset caches are a variation on multi-caches. They are listed as a multi-cache when selecting a cache type. They are not found by simply going to some coordinates and finding a cache there. With the offset cache the published coordinates could be of an existing historical monument, plaque, or even a benchmark that you would like to have your cache hunter visit. At this spot, the hunter looks for numbers or information already appearing on the marker or on some part of the marker or site (geocachers never deface public or private property). The geocacher is then able to manipulate these numbers or information using instructions posted on the cache page to continue the hunt.

Source=http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#multi

I have one like this in a cemetery. The posted coords take you to a marker. Using the dates on the marker, the cacher does some math and gets the coords for the final.

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That is actually a pathtag. They are non-trackable, but they are loggable on pathtags.com. A lot of people collect, create and trade them.

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@CodeJunkie wrote:

My personal opinion is that I’m a little concerned about the WGA logo appearing on opencaching.us as it may appear we are supporting this as an organization. I know the logo says “Placed by a member …”, but there’s always the “association” factor to deal with.

I’d like to think that the members of the WGA that choose to use opencaching would be responsible enough to not place anything controversial. If we care enough about the sport/hobby to join an organization like this, we (in theory) would not want to do anything to endanger our pasttime.
In the meantime, I have removed the logo from my caches on opencaching.us as well as geocaching.com.

@CodeJunkie wrote:

I also wonder if the reviewers will look at opencaching.us when looking for proximity issues because the rules don’t specify if the 528′ rule applies to only geocaching.com listed geocaches or all geocaches (of which I’d assume opencaching.us geocaches would qualify).

I wouldn’t think that they would have to. I’m pretty sure they don’t have to check for navicaches, terracaches or even letterboxes (not hybrids.) Why would opencaches be any different? Though not recommended, there could be one of each piled up in the same spot.

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@sweetlife wrote:

The wheel has already been invented, why try to recreate it?

So since Ford made the first car, nobody else should have made one?

@sweetlife wrote:

with only 2 people running the site, how long before it starts having problems?

As the site gets bigger, more admins will be added.

@sweetlife wrote:

Think back, its great that its free now, but GC.com started out as a free listing service, once this gets too big for them, and need new equipment or bandwith, I bet there will be a fee too

I was thinking the same thing. You know what they say, nothing is ever free 🙂

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there are already navicache and terracaching why do we need another listing service?

I’ve never used navicache, but I am not a fan of terracaching. Because there are no other terracaches in the area, my membership would be revoked after a period because there is no way I’m going to drive to another state just to get one cache and keep my account open. Too selective in their membership that way. Competition helps make things better. If OC.us gets big enough, Groundspeak will have to work harder to be number one.

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pay the $30 bucks for a premium membership at GC.com.

The money doesn’t concern me, I just like fueling competition 🙂

Like you said though, this is just another listing site. Basically Groundspeak but more primitive. The containers are the same. The hide is the same. The write-ups are the same. Nobody is forcing anybody to use it. If you want to, great. If not, that’s fine too. If you want to shop at Wal-Mart, fine. If you want to shop at Target, that’s fine too. Same stuff, different person promoting 🙂

I am concerned about the self regulation portion. Some people just are not responsible enough. At that point, it’s up to the finders to report the cache and have the listing removed. Reviewers can be a headache at times, but I agree that in the long run they are very beneficial to have. I would like to see them incorporated into OC.us, personally.

I think the biggest draw by far will be the ability to post virtual caches. It seems like there is a demand to be able to do this and get credit for ‘finding’ them.

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There is no approval process. You write the cache description, you post the cache. Done. I could see it causing some problems in the future, but we’ll just have to see. I’ll have to check on the nickname thing -cheeto-

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Wish I would have know this was down earlier tonight! I all but one of the parts yesterday and went in to find the final tonight (without checking the cache page.) I looked all over for a good 20 minutes before giving up. Definitely have to see how this turns out.

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