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Another start of the school year imminent, another round of videos to watch about such thrilling topics as Blood Borne Pathogens, Asthma, Sexual Harassment, and Child Abuse. Nothing better than having a completely diffident voice droning on for an hour about these things.
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Hate to interrupt the normal conversation here, but this fits in with the conversation we are having about the LCG. It seems Oregon is pushing to have caches five or more years unfound archived if not maintained. Well, that is a bunch of my caches out there. I do have a few people maintaining things for me, and a couple of hikers that are trying to finish my hides along the OC&E Trail, but haven’t got to the eastern end yet. The caches on the trail are containers that are built for the long haul. Locations are solid. It is like all the lonely ones we have up in northern Wisconsin. https://coord.info/BMDHC5A
Oregon reviewers follow this specific Wiki and maintain it. I see no mention of 5 years or more of not found t be archived. https://gcwiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GEO/pages/529840/Oregon
I have over a dozen copies of this email:
“Hi from geocaching.com,
It looks like your cache has not been found in at least 5 years. One of the responsibilities of a cache owner is to maintain the cache. Please visit the cache to confirm that it is in place and ready to be found, then log a note on the cache page that you have visited the cache location and it’s available to find.
I will check back in a few weeks to make sure the cache is available for cachers to find. If there is not a log on the cache page that you have checked on the cache I will have to disable it at that time.
If the cache is no longer available, you may choose either to replace the cache in the same location or archive the cache so it no longer shows up as available to find.
Thanks for understanding.
Sincerely,
ThunderEggs
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I have reached out to everyone that cached out there. Most have gone into hibernation themselves, or the caches are too remote for them to access easily. I lived out of town, they are all “townies”. I do have people that see them, are excited about finding caches that have gone unfound for multiple years, and reach out to me – especially for the puzzle caches. That’s how I have maintained caches for 7 years now. When they are missing, they get archived.
Geo-junk was something I actually worked on cleaning up while we lived there. There were dozens upon dozens of caches that had been archived in a pique of anger by a CO, that then quit caching altogether. I methodically went through their archived caches and found whatever was left on site, sometimes placing a new cache to replace (and republish) in the same location if they were not simply the high desert version of a GRC. I know my caches are (almost all) there because of the containers I used, and the locations I chose.
The reason the caches are not found is because of those locations. Like the caches that dominated the LCG in northern Wisconsin, nobody wants to hike the OC&E. It isn’t a power trail.
Because of the way we were forced to move back, there was no way we could remove the caches placed. But, like I said, I know most of my caches are still there even after all these years because of the locations chosen and the location in general. The closest thing to muggles are free range cattle that walk the Trail.
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Hate to interrupt the normal conversation here, but this fits in with the conversation we are having about the LCG. It seems Oregon is pushing to have caches five or more years unfound archived if not maintained. Well, that is a bunch of my caches out there. I do have a few people maintaining things for me, and a couple of hikers that are trying to finish my hides along the OC&E Trail, but haven’t got to the eastern end yet.
The caches on the trail are containers that are built for the long haul. Locations are solid. It is like all the lonely ones we have up in northern Wisconsin.
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Sorry to hear about your dad, Noonan. My mom passed away on May 11, and the contents of her apartment are in my kitchen, spare bedrooms, and garage. In fact, I’m not sure that I can get to the garbage can to take the garbage to the recycling center tomorrow.
Sorry for your loss too. Hoping the end of school (and work) give you the time to mentally and physically process this.
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Congrats on your retirement Jim! Think of all the time you have now to do maintenance!
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Hey all. My dad passed away last week. Dealing with this has put caching on hold for some time. I know I have caches that need maintenance and TLC, but no time in the day or mental energy to do it. It may take until school gets out for me to return to that focus. All my caching stuff is physically under the things we hauled of his apartment, which is a perfect analogy for my frame of mind now too.
Hope to see some friendly faces on June 2 at the event cache in Adams.
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Happy Easter everyone. In my thoughts even though I’m not here frequently.
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FTP for this chilly Saturday
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74 hours at school last week. Probably over 60 this week. Glad I get those extra $40 for working games.
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How busy has work kept me? I placed a cache before Thanksgiving. I never got around to writing a description, but I have it all written in my head. Not a puzzle, just a scenic place I go past every day on the way to work. Sandlanders helped with the place name. I checked on it two weeks ago, still in place. I wonder if the snow plow buried it now?
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OOOH! I’m excited for you! Which one?
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Can’t say I miss that mud, but it does bring back fond memories.
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FTP for sandlander’s birthday, and bluecougar’s birthday, and my sister’s birthday! Blue frosting anyone?
And my daughter! Happy birthday all!
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Running the Game from March 1st to December 31st might be a good permanent change, as there are less cachers out hunting in the snowy months.
Not having a boat, walking on hard water is the only way I have to find T5s that involve water. Taking out those months would take that possibility away.
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