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On the Left Side of the Road...@Sagasu wrote:
seldom|seen moving a container
I thought caches couldn’t be mobile once put out for “release.” 😉
I love the smell of Skoal in the morning….
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On the Left Side of the Road...Favre’s Family Blocks 30 Hotel Rooms for Weekend of Packer-Viking Game:
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20090608/PKR01/90608160&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL
On the Left Side of the Road...@zuma wrote:
Most letterboxes are just regular caches with a stamp in them, which does not make them very special.
I prefer letterboxes that require you to follow simple directions to the cache in order to find them.
I agree. This is also technically part of where the “hybrid” designation comes from becuase letterboxes (as published on a letterboxing site) are generally designed to be found by following a set of directions. Use coordinates to get people to a starting point for the directions and you should be good to go. (Just note that the GPS still needs to be “integral” to finding the starting point. If you give coordinates for a street corner and say “go to the corner of Fifth and Main streets, which is at these coordinates” you will probably run into problems.)
Again, you don’t have to, but a set of instructions (or other puzzle) makes them different. It also makes them particularly enjoyable for the kids. They really like reading the clues on the trail and looking for the next marker.
Here is the other thread I was thinking of:
http://wi-geocaching.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=8040&highlight=letterbox
On the Left Side of the Road...@Miata wrote:
Signing log takes very long.
😯 ❗
@Miata wrote:A special sticker can help speed things up.
Please tell me these aren’t the ones that take up 10 spots on my “initial only” micro log rolls and make me have to do maintenance runs more often! If so, you have my full permission to use the patented “Marc Method” of “signing” logs on all gotta run caches!
On the Left Side of the Road...Oh, BTW, I could probably carve you one that looked like your cheesehead avatar if you’d like. No charge as long as you don’t mind amateur work. I enjoy making them. Just let me know and PM me your mailing address.
On the Left Side of the Road...To PLACE a letterbox hybrid, all you need is to place a cache that also has a stamp in it. It does not have to be a handmade stamp. In fact, even the artsy types are seldom|seen making a handmade stamp. They can be very simple, very inexpensive. You don’t even need to include an ink pad, just a stamp (and a log book, like you would for a regular geocache). It’s a good idea to write DON’T TAKE THE STAMP in huge flourescent letters.
You do not need to write clues or do anything other than have coordinates like you would for a regular cache. There is another thread on this topic somewhere here if you root around. You can come up with clues if you want, but the GPSr must still be “integral to the hunt.”
You do not need to publish your letterbox/hybrid on any other site than geocaching.com. You can if you want and there are two main letterboxing sites with overlapping listings (don’t ask): atlasquest.com and letterboxing.org
To FIND a letterbox hybrid…just go find it! You don’t need to stamp the log book unless you want to and have your own stamp. When we started letterboxing, we used a store bought stamp, but now we have our “signature” stamp that I carved, and that is also our avatar here.
Ok, T&B, did I miss anything? 😀
On the Left Side of the Road...And here it is…again, I’m a writer, not an artist, so you get what you get.
On the Left Side of the Road...06/08/2009 at 9:44 pm in reply to: Is there a way to know if a photo has been uploaded to a log #1908980THAT is the instruction I was looking for! Thanks!
Now I’ve got to find a way to remember it…like writing it down or something. Thanks!
On the Left Side of the Road...@seldom|seen wrote:
Letterbox? I don’t need no stinking letterbox!
Yes but you do need to carve a stamp for one. 🙁 😥 😡
On the Left Side of the Road...Hmmmm…looking at the leaderboard, I must issue an amendment…
If seldom|seen wins the letterbox, he may NOT use the stamp for any of his existing letterboxes!!!
On the Left Side of the Road...@Team Deejay wrote:
Actually, as a cache owner, you are, more or less, required to delete their logs. The guidelines require that cache owners maintain their caches, including checking logs to make sure the online entries are not bogus.
Yes but from a practical standpoint there is no way to do this. Who’s to say that a team can’t find 100 or more caches a day? We are a family “team” and we have multiple GPS units. Sometimes I am caching in one place and other family members in another. “gotta run” gets all the credit. Is that wrong? Ecorangers and others come to mind here too. With the Team Venom example, how can you be sure that the person turning around in the driveway wasn’t someone who had taken a wrong turn and was going back?
My point being, unless you get something blatantly obvious, you have no way of policing this unless you go to each of your caches and compare the physical log to the online log.
And even then, it’s not going to match up if Marc found the cache.
It’s incredibly ironic that policing bogus logs is an owner duty, but creating an additional logging requirement–which is generally a pretty good guarantee that someone found the actual cache–is prohibited.
On the Left Side of the Road...@-cheeto- wrote:
Sounds pretty simple and fun. 🙂
Too darn hard for some. I say leave ’em alone. How much fun can the game be played like that? They’ll be gone soon enough. Hopefully they don’t place any sooper dooper caches while they’re here.
On the Left Side of the Road...@Team Venom wrote:
I mean, you could then load all the caches within a route, and just drive by them, and claim found?
Thoughts….
Sure. You can even save yourself the trouble and just armchair log them.
I know some people do and, except on challenging caches where I think a cheap find is a particular disservice to those who have actually found it, I don’t care a whole lot. After all, if they care that little about caching in the first place, it’s highly likely they will not take good care of a cache when they actually find it (rehiding, rebagging, etc.). I guess if it became an epidemic on a particular cache I might start deleting logs.
The best part is that when you log using the Trimble app, you don’t even have to type so much as a period to get GC to accept your log because the Trimble boilerplate is there. No need to go through all the trouble to type “TFTC.”
“Lazy cachers of the world…” ah, they’re too lazy to finish that thought.
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