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@Team Black-Cat wrote:
The point of geocoins is whatever you want it to be. Or not to be if that’s your choice.
I love to find a coin in a cache and add to it’s story. I also have a collection (not from caches!) of about a hundred coins. We’ve had rotten luck with coins we’ve released, so we probably won’t be releasing very many. Putting an unactivated coin in a new cache for FTF is very rewarding. At least you know where it went, and it’s appreciated by the lucky cacher that gets it.
Our first coin was from an FTF on one of Mathman’s caches. That’s what got us started.
Pretty much share BC’s sentiments on coins here. There are some really neat coins out there and there are as many or more not so neat ones. I think if you’re into collecting, you probably get more out of discovering them than others who aren’t.
I understand the point that GR is making. It’s a real bummer when a trackable or coin goes MIA. Even worse when someone else’s coin goes MIA from your own cache. I’ve had that happen a handfull of times and for every one that has gone missing, TB or GC, I have either replaced it or offered to replace it.
I also enjoy stashing FTF unregistered coins when I get the urge. Although, for a while I was just stocking up a fellow cacher’s collection, but then I also know he prizes coins and takes great care in making sure others get a chance to see them. He is even more sensitive to the ethics of uneven trading or outright pillaging of trackables, and in a recent discussion divulged that he is nearing the end of the frequent courtesy calls to keep his caches well-stocked for others since it seems the majority tend to take more than they give.
It’s tough on all of us when out caches, travel bugs and geocoins are mistreated or misappropriated. I recently had an ammo can that I invested $40 into creating go MIA right under the nose of many many geocachers. It stings. Many of us continue to give and give and give to the sport and once it a while it does come back around again, but the scales certainly seem to be tipped in the favor of the cache kiper.
I’ve had decent luck with mine but know so many that have disappeared. I like the laminate idea, but agree that it defeats the purpose. I’d say hang on to them if you fear you’re going to loose them. I know the kids want to see them travel, though, so maybe some really gaudy and nasty looking TB’s are the answer. Like Scooby Doody Doo… oh wait, that one went MIA too!!!
In other news…
Pierce Park Letterbox is missing as it the new Peabody Letterbox, both by the same Letterboxer. I hope they don’t get too discouraged.
@-cheeto- wrote:
I answered the question the original poster asked. All the rest of these posts are nonesense and don’t help the poster with what they wanted.
Besides getting their questions answered, the original posted now has a better understanding about “why” some people feel temps are logable and others not. I don’t think that qualifies as nonsense. I wouldn’t be so hard on the community of forum followers who try to offer insight on a posted question even if we tend to drone on with our own opinions at times.
Most of the posters here wrapper their comments with a line that basically says, “play the sport any way you want to, since only you take away what you put into it” In the case of Temps, if you feel like they deserve logging, then log them, if not, don’t. Pretty simple, really.
Think I could get a peak at that list?
Considering the gyrations I’m going through to get 2 new puzzles caches published and making sure there is “significant GPS use” so no one can find them without a GPS, the content of this thread just has me shaking my head.
On the one hand, I have to do everything I can to make sure a phantom geocacher who elects to try finding an unknown but hinted at spot (in an image on a cache listing) in a large State Park by “search and destroy” methodology, is not able to,
While on the other hand I’m reading that you can get your smiley count up if you choose to do so, even if it goes against WGA and GC stated policy and that’s acceptable by some and must have been approved by the reviewers.
I did some of the temps at the campout. Some of them could easily have been done with just the map and the clue. Hmmm, “Red Bird”, I wonder where that cache is, guess I better get out my GPS…
This after reading the thread about the archived but ofter visited cache at GC.com HQ that you can still log a find on, but that you need to request coordinates for which is also against GC policy, and so on…
And the reviewers are wondering why I’m confused about their strict interpretations?
In the final analysis, it’s what you get out of the sport. I get more out of placing that finding which is why after 3 years and 200+ placed caches, most of those puzzles, I am still not in the 1K club and maybe never will be.
But some people like numbers and the competition that goes with it. Some people like FTF’s too (I know a spot where you can get as many of those as you want as well). Do what makes you feel better and enjoy the act of getting them.I enjoy making MEMORABLE caches and will keep making them even though, on occasion, the fun fizzles as I jump through the 3rd or 4th hoop.
But I won’t be stopping anytime soon. As Adrock says “I got more product than Ron Popeil”@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
Thanks so much you guys, that’s the one!
Wow, a cache that violates GC.com caching guidelines right there at the Headquarters, how deliciously ironic….
10,000 finds. I don’t know how some of you manage numbers like that. At some point it must become more occupational than therapeutic (maybe it is therapy), but there you are still out doing it and getting, from what I can tell, the same amount of satisfaction from 9,995 as you did from number 5. It’s bloody well extraordinary! I might actually try to swing a visit on this one… will have to see.
Certainly would have been a different game last year if you had joined in earlier, but no amount of me trying to talk you into it back then could convince you to get involved in this folly. I guess you knew back then that is is probably where you’d be now, although I don’t imagine you expected to be topping out every month. I should have kept my mouth shut!
Anyway, it has been nice watching form the grandstand and jumping in if only for a few here and there just to stay involved. I can’t believe I had that much time to myself to pull off the scores I did last year. It’s been a relief not thinking about it too seriously either, although the current gas prices would have been nice to have in the early part of 08. I remember filling up for over $4 a gallon on a couple occasions, so maybe there was more to the logic of waiting til LCG year 2 than you let on.
Congrats on all the high scores and topping out over 400 points for May. Those of us who’ve posted numbers in that range know exactly what it takes to get there… a lot! See you next month, man.
@gotta run wrote:
@seldom|seen wrote:
If I don’t come back scrapped up, soaked to the waist, tick-laden, sun-burnt like a farmer, dehydrated, hungry and a little disoriented, what’s the point?
Now THAT is a geocaching motto! You should make it your sig line!
Never bothered with a sig line, but that certainly fits and I LIKE IT!
To go caching. iPhone and Keens. That’s it. You guys are all way over-prepared!
If I don’t come back scrapped up, soaked to the waist, tick-laden, sun-burnt like a farmer, dehydrated, hungry and a little disoriented, what’s the point?
Ask Dave, he’ll tell you how “prepared” I am when we go out.
-alex
I’ve cached with a few, although I certainly don’t keep a running list like some of you.
Sagasu, Labrat, QWERTY, RATMIX, Trick19, -cheeto-, gotta run, SGH, and a few others.
Personally, I like to cache solo. For the most part I go out to Place and not to Cache. I don’t find the Finding very rewarding anymore, to tell you the truth. Very few memorable caches, from my perspective, to make it worth the time and gas expense. But then I really haven’t gotten out to do that many in the state, so take that comment with a grain of salt. I would rather place 1 good cache than go out and find 100 ho-hum caches. To each their own, I guess.
Nice job. Yeah, I remember Dave shaking his head a little at the time. But then I think he does that every time I talk to him about a new idea…
Glad to know some aren’t daunted by this risky business, even the title page on the GC.com app for the iPhone says, point blank, ‘Geocaching can be dangerous, play at your own risk’
Besides, there are much more dangerous caches than this. I know, I’ve placed a few and there’s a new Old Man on the way that will have many of you saying WTF….
I think about this one EVERY DAY and how negligent I have been on it. I have a run planned to the hometown where a few others are disabled and need attention and I am hoping to fix this one up during the fist leg of that maint. run. I REALLY do not like my caches being down for so long, and even after a couple weeks, unless it’s due to road construction, I start to get really antsy. This one has been done far longer than I would ever car to admit, but it isn’t going to be a simple replace and needs significant re-thinking to make it work again. I pray I have enough time to do just that.
Hmmm, you know I never though to enable it without the waypoints since there is an alternate solve, but unfortunately it isn’t a puzzle. At least is appears that I only have 2 WP’s to replace and that I may only have to re-tool one card and hide.
05/21/2009 at 12:28 pm in reply to: seldom|seen seeks his 200th hide and it’s "A Oak A" #1907623@gotta run wrote:
@seldom|seen wrote:
…many of you have probably used my name in vein.
Eggcorn and homonym! Double points!
Well, I’ve never been accused of being behind an Eightball, but when you talk Smack.. well, Shoot, I guess you have to accept the Fix that is offered Up.
05/20/2009 at 12:11 pm in reply to: seldom|seen seeks his 200th hide and it’s "A Oak A" #1907620Thanks for all the kind remarks, it means a lot knowing full well that many of you have probably used my name in vein on so many other occasions.
You play this thing long enough and you eventually settle into doing what you get the most satisfaction from. It’s obvious where I find it and while the appearance of a new S|S pesky blue likely sends many of you into an epileptic fit, you also understand that there is sufficient reward at the end of any hard-fought solve to make the attempt worthwhile.
There are always more ideas and my in-process list of 20 caches never seems to get any shorter, no matter how many I publish.
In the end I hope you come away from my hides with lasting memories, a little knowledge that is more that useless trivia, and an experience unique enough to be shared around the campfire.
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