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@gotta run wrote:

BUMP.

GCMTEJ

This one I’d go for the Cache Rescue on, the Lone Pine…. Not so much. Let’s see if they show up in the CR list.

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@gotta run wrote:

People who never learned from the adage “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” when logging caches and feel the need to pepper their logs with criticisms on the hide, container, placement, writeup, puzzle, attributes, etc. etc. etc.

ESPECIALLY when said people have thousands of finds but no hides of their own (or only the obligatory 1 or 2 or 3 hides to satisfy old seed cache requirements).

Genau!!!!

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I would certainly accept it, but then I don’t have any caches that use the standard “take a pic of you and your GPS with blah blah blah” ALR as I, perhaps unlike many of you, find it rather boring. I try to make my earthcaches tough enough with uniquely site specific information and ALR’s that you can’t get them on-line and the only way to log the cache is to make the find.

I do agree with Zuma though. There’s plenty of fishy logging going on out there and I try not to get to worked up over suspicious logs or delete them unless it is truly obvious or blatant like logging from a foreign country. At the same time, there have been a couple short-cutters in the neighborhood who had logs deleted, and I think have learned their lesson.

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@Lostby7 wrote:

The West Bend event is finally here…OK a week away, but I’m curious how many caches folks will be attempting this next weekend in West Bend.

*EDIT Not sure what I do wrong when setting up polls, but there was also an option for 76 and over…

You also forget the other end, NONE. That’s how many I intend to find. I have a hard enough time being social with 5 people, much less 500. Doesn’t sound like my idea of a good time, but that’s just me. Put me down for none, in any case.

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What the h e double toothpicks do you people do besides geocache if you can find 10,000 of these things. It boggles my mind!!!

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@bugsmasher69 wrote:

It is a real shame that owners of virtuals who get tired of them don’t put them up for adoption to another cacher who is willing to do the necessary work instead of archiving them and having them gone forever.

Any other people out there who get tired of their virtuals please drop me a message. I am more then willing to take them over then let them be archived and lost for ever.

You could ask that it be unarchived and put up for adoption, but that’s a hard row to hoe with the reviewers as they are inclined to let caches that fall under the grandfather clause go the way of the dodo and be lost forever, no matter how cool, special or educational the virtual might have been.

I agree with you here. Put them up for adoption and let someone else manage the headaches for a while.

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I currently have:

8 Geocoins: 5 Released (1 MIA) and 3 Personal Stash
19 Travel Bugs: 12 travelers (2 MIA), 4 are tied to caches, and 3 are Personal Stash.

I’ve only had a few go missing and was able to replace those quickly as I try to create duplicates of everything I create, caches and TB’s alike.

Fortunately I seem to fare better than most when it comes to Trackables, and am not as jaded as some.

I do feel the pain when Trackables go missing on my watch. I always make an attempt to replace them with something of equal or greater value unless the owner specifically tells me not to bother.

To date I’ve replaced 3 coins and 2 trackables. As long as it doesn’t overwhelm me, I will continue to do so. I understand the value of Trackables having created so many unique ones of my own. It also pains me to see them languish in caches for too long, but I do not get too worked up when they are in someone’s possession as I trust they are being taken care of. I have one, Marrakesh Express, that is too large for all but large ammo cans and the poor soul who picked it up has been looking for a decent cache to stick it in for over a year now. She did, however, take it on a very long journey and subsequently logged it into a cache on the other side of the globe, which more than makes up for the TB’s stasis.

The exception to the last comment is, of course, those who have no appreciation for the owner’s intent as has been stated. At the very least, respond to e-mail inquiry’s about a trackables status so the owner don’t loose sleep thinking it’s gone for good. I guess those folk do irritate me to a degree. I’ve had a few in the hands of the unresponsive type and it does get irritating.

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Can you specify which end of the railing the cords are on? I’m gonna visit this one soon and really don’t want to waste any time trying to find the cords without knowing which end of the railing to look at. Also, are you sure it’s still there? With all the recent DNF’s, you might want to go check on this one. I was going to post an Needs Maintenance log, but then I saw this thread and figured I had nothing to loose by asking you, THE OWNER, about the condition of the waypoint.

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@Lostby7 wrote:

@Mathman wrote:

…I agree sometimes there is waaaaay too much verbiage on a cache page…

[LB7 Waves his hand as if to indicate that he is often guilty of this.]

[s|s Jumps up and down behind LB7 waving his hands as well]

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@marc_54140 wrote:

I am slightly surprised at the high number of cachers reporting they read the cache pages.

But then, that reflects the cachers who read and post to these forums. A special subset of cachers.

At the same time, this special subset is a pretty sizable group and while it may be skewed to the “I read all the listings” end of the spectrum, I suspect it’s a decent representation of most cachers with more than a novice number of cache finds.

There’s no accounting for newbie cachers who find themselves in the middle of a busy highway looking for a cache at a bogus set of cords, just like I did on my second or third time out before I realized there were some caches called “puzzles”. But then you can can’t account for all the other stuff that comes with new cachers either.

I now read EVERY cache listing before I go out to look for any caches, either here in the office if I’m planning a LCG run or in the field if I’m doing a spontaneous cache hunt. And not just for the info in the listing, but also to glean any clues about the condition or whereabouts of the final. This is especially true of lonely caches where reading the previous find and DNF logs can determine which one I’ll end up with.

Suffice it to say that the people sounding off here on the “yes” side (not all, but most) are also likely to “write” logs expressing gratitude for the hiders efforts, trade up or even on cache swag, re-hide caches decently or the way they were intended to be hidden and avoid too many puzzle finds that they haven’t solved themselves.

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@marc_54140 wrote:

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@marc_54140 wrote:

You can find it under my profile, bookmarks, WSQ Tour #4.

Not even close to what I was expecting (breathing sigh of relief)…

The Puzzle Tour comes later …………

Well then, let me know when you have that list ready. I need to pull some puzzle finals from the field for seasonal maintenance and your list would be a good place to start…

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@-cheeto- wrote:

I tried using the PQ and Google maps, but only a few pins show up

You whiners…

All of them show up for me… must be a browser (or mac) thing.

Could be. If I used what shows in Google Earth, it’d be a pretty quick game….

Strange that all the lonely’s show in the legend though.

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@Team Deejay wrote:

I only create the map because certain people who shall remain nameless (but their initials are LRWR) 😉 whine when I don’t.

Seriously, I think it helps people visualize where the caches are. Of course, it is easy enough to dump the query into any mapping program or even GSAK to see the same picture.

And S|S. I like this map. I tried using the PQ and Google maps, but only a few pins show up. I’m on a map so I don’t have that praised program GSAK and Terrabrowser wouldn’t work that well since it is only remote imagery and few place names to reference. So count me in on the whiners. I don’t even start thinking about going after lonely caches until the map comes out.

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@uws22 wrote:

i’ve run into a similar situation, and your best bet is to contact your county highway department. it’s usually their responsibility for maintenance and snow removal.

the problem i ran into was that after contacting the Ashland County HD, he referred me to a number in Superior because of a special circumstance (it’s within a park). after two straight weeks of no answer, I just gave up.

I thinks if rather ridiculous to have to include the name of an official for giving you permission to bring people to an historical marker! Isn’t that what they are there for? This is an EarthCache after all and there’s no physical container to place, so what exactly are you asking permission for? I’d say give them a name and submit it.

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@marc_54140 wrote:

big pink flamingo, hwy 41 south of appleton near hwy 76 exit. west side of hwy. no cache.

That’s the highway location of M Schettle whose main location hosts Zuma’s Hardware Store on the Yellowstone Trail. That place is the Motherload of all make and manner “americana” statuary and what makes up half of your oddity list.

I have been thinking about getting permission to place a Travel Bug Hotel at the Pink Flamingo location using one of their small arboretums. It could hold hundreds of TB’s and such and would probably fit right in. The grounds at the main location is not quite big enough for 2 caches.

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