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Here’s where I come down on this topic. I can spend my life trying to make people who will never be happy with me happy with me, or I can appreciate the people who like me. For instance, I am a scout leader. The vast majority of people like the job I do, and if the majority doesn’t like something I do, I change it.
But there is that 5 % of people who will never be happy with anything. It is ALWAYS the same people. The kind who complain but never lift a finger to help. The kind who if you give a half a glass of lemonade to will not say that the glass is half full or half empty, they will complain that you didn’t give them root beer.
You cannot worry about those people. They are the users and losers in life.
Same goes for geocaching. I love reading logs and digest every HP2 story like a good novel. I know that they, and others like them, appreciate my caches. I know that we share similar values when it comes to geocaching. These type of people are my “customers,” the ones whose opinion I truly value.
However there are some cachers who I know I will never get any validation from. I know there is a team in my area for whom every cache is “an easy cache for our team to find” regardless of its actual difficulty, and who has never given anything back to the sport by placing even one cache. I know there is a cacher who seemingly enjoys every cache exactly the same, whether it’s a 2 mile paddle out to a breathtaking island in the bay or a guard rail hide. I know that these people are who they are and they will never share my values about the game.
So as my dad used to say, consider the source. Treasure the good feedback from respectful players that you receive, and ignore the unappreciative, inconsiderate, or simply inarticulate players out there.
On the Left Side of the Road...In my office on the phone to a client who told me about it. Went downstairs to watch the news. My daughter was nearly 3 and son was 2 months from being born. She was babsitting 2 kids my daughter’s age. Even the kids knew something was wrong.
On the Left Side of the Road...@cheezehead wrote:
@TeamCabana wrote:
If all you want to put after finding the cache is a TFTC thats fine don’t let CO’s bully you into writing more if you don’t want to.
So I guess you do not want CO’s to put out more cache for YOU to find then, huh? With out CO’s, there are no caches to find. Why should a CO put out anymore, and maybe CO’s should just achive their caches cuz finders don’t seem to care aboout the time and effort and money that is put into placing a quality cache. Just sayin… As a CO with over 170 caches, maybe I should say enough is enough, I’m done hiding them, cuz it seems most people just don’t seem to care anymore.
If gc.com did away with the comment section of the online logging system, would you pull your caches? Or place any more?
As a general rule I put a LOT more time into creating our letterboxes because it takes a long time to carve the stamp. When those boxes get found, I get a simple “status update” from letterboxing.org. Many letterboxers don’t even bother to keep track of their stuff online so half the time I don’t even know a box has been found. Yet I still keep placing them.
On the Left Side of the Road...There is no listing of caches that owners would like to have adopted. Occasionally an announcement comes up on the boards here.
Unfortunately, the usual path of progression is that if a cache needs to be adopted, it is because the owner has lost interest in the game as well as the cache, so they don’t go out of their way to keep the cache going (or even to pick up the geo-litter). Not always, but usually.
On the Left Side of the Road...Got the Hodgman hip waders as well but I find occasion for the chest waders. Just thought they’d last longer than 2 years; maybe I had unrealistic expectations.
On the Left Side of the Road...Giving this one a bump. Highly recommended if you have kids who like to find a cache every 10 minutes or so. Typical northwoods up-and-down-the-hills terrain.
Ate enough blackberries to…well, we ate a lot of blackberries.
On the Left Side of the Road...@Trekkin and Birdin wrote:
I’d love to do Ile du Diable, but river traffic there with a kayak is a bit scary for me. There are a couple local ones we’ll check out when we’re next in that area for our own caches. The rest are there for the LCG people’s enjoyment. 😀
Too much power boat traffic?
On the Left Side of the Road...I keep looking, but the closest is over 50 miles away. All you slackers in the west and southwest part of the state, let’s pick it up!
On the Left Side of the Road...@Trekkin and Birdin wrote:
I’m in a bad mood today after two days of kid care and a major mess from a storm this morning, that’s what happened, LOL.
And like I said…if others want to play this one, have fun. Not me! We all enjoy it our own way….
Been out of power here for just under 8 hours…
On the Left Side of the Road...@Trekkin and Birdin wrote:
Why do we need evil caches? We’ve pretty much decided when we see “evil,” we’re moving on, unless the location is worth a visit. Some love that kind of thing, so maybe they’d savor something like this.
Hey, what ever happened to the positive-thinking, “live and let live” T&B? 😀
On the Left Side of the Road...Better not be any hunters using that land! 😯
On the Left Side of the Road...@hack1of2 wrote:
We currently have 34 trackables we have released, only three are marked as missing (so far) so I guess we’ve been pretty fortunate.
Wow…we have about 10 left out of two dozen. You’re doing well.
@hack1of2 wrote:
One thing I have noticed is that the ones that are missing were attractive looking. Maybe we have to put out ugly travel bugs and geocoins…
Yes, that is definitely the case.
On the Left Side of the Road...@kungfuhippie wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
It’s hard to fit travelers into bison tubes.
I don’t know, I found a foam bunch of bananas TB that someone just put in the tree next to the bison. 😯
was it an evil monkey hide?
On the Left Side of the Road...It’s hard to fit travelers into bison tubes.
On the Left Side of the Road...Obviously there are lots of travelers out there so it’s just a general observation. The appeal of travelers wore off quickly, especially for our kids, who would release a TB only to have it disappear after a few months, or even a few days.
That’s just our experience, and one that comes up every time the topic of TBs is raised it seems.
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