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I like the photo on the page!, and we (speaking for the team) appreciate the (volunteer) work you do for the site.
On the Left Side of the Road...Everybody who places caches gets the gotta run seal of approval. 8) Thanks!
On the Left Side of the Road...@greyhounder wrote:
It’s a little bit odd, but keep in mind that gc.com considers a geocache to be the property of the cache hider. Given that concept, would you feel comfortable going into someone’s garden and pulling weeds for them (thin analogy, I know — there was some beverage drinking last night and I’m pretty beat today)?
True about the property issue as it relates to caches, but I have a reasonable expectation that no one would come into my garden (trespassing). In contrast, I put caches out in the public for the public.
More important, I think there is a reasonable acceptance by cache hiders of the practice of fixing things as it relates to their property. After all, if you find a cache that has fallen onto the ground out of its obvious hiding spot, or if the cover has been left off, or if its tether has come loose, or if the swag has been scattered all over the ground, I’m betting you’ll do what you can to restore it, rather than leave it as is and tell the owner something is wrong with it.
I consider minor maintenance including adding additional log pages/books/scrolls a common courtesy, but that’s just my opinion.
On the Left Side of the Road...I would post the coords I found the cache at in the additional waypoint and reference it in the log. I usually hedge my log comments with an “it could have just been us, but our GPSr put us quite a ways off from GZ.”
On the Left Side of the Road...On that same line of thinking, Sweetlife, what about randomly posting pictures from the photo albums to show how fun this is?
I agree that having a page that is 90% blank does nothing for the association.
On the Left Side of the Road...I didn’t realize there was any controversy surrounding replacing log sheets. 😯
Astute readers may recall that I was not real keen on cache containers being replaced in the LCG last year for two reasons. Number one, last year this was being done without permission so it simply perpetuated maintenance problems from AWOL owners. Second, people would put out “temporary replacements,” so if they thought my big ammo box was missing they’d throw out a 35mm film can to get the points. Both of these points have been remedied in the 2009 game.
As far as GENUINE maintenance, community maintenance is just common sense and being polite. We carry a backpack with all manner of containers and logs and will repair things that are damaged, full, or wet to the best of our abilities. The “legacy” log can usually be kept in the cache, but if it’s wrecked we discard it. Unless we are caching with CSI in which case will take it home, dry it, repair it, scan it, and post it to his log. 😆
Lastly, yes this is the owners’ responsibility, but placing needs maintenance logs for full or wet log sheets is needless and insulting if you are dealing with an owner who tends to their caches. A simple notation in your online log will prompt us to put it on our maintenance schedule.
On the Left Side of the Road...Your radius doesn’t go out far enough so I didn’t vote. 😉
I echo TBC’s advice. Just ignore idiot logs. 30′ is WELL within the range of acceptability. Besides, 30′ is really just 15′ – 15 feet on your device plus 15 feet on his in the other direction from a particular GZ.
On the Left Side of the Road...There’s a reason Navarino Bob is a legend
On the Left Side of the Road...-snicker-
On the Left Side of the Road...10/22/2009 at 1:12 am in reply to: State Parks – Can we do something like this in Wisconsin? #1915504@-cheeto- wrote:
In theory that’s 100+ state park admission fees 🙂
This is a great point to be made to the PTB, along with all the other positives.
On the Left Side of the Road...10/21/2009 at 7:30 pm in reply to: Timberline Echoes angling for the big one at Big Muskellunge #19153428) x 4,900!
On the Left Side of the Road...@sandlanders wrote:
Should we be thinking twice about what we do in the woods? 😉
Man, I’ll have to check twice before the next time I use a port-a-tree!
On the Left Side of the Road...How about lowest percentage of “found it” logs to total logs? Pulled up the profile page and it was full of logs but just one found it. Looked back 40 logs and only 3 found caches. The rest are owner maintenance, DNFs, disablements, and notes. When did caching get so administrative…
On the Left Side of the Road...@-cheeto- wrote:
Typically LCG logs are fun to read when you need some entertainment. Especially gotta run’s logs.
That’s because so many are DNFs that start with “This was the most frustrating cache we have ever looked for…” 👿
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