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My wife does most of the driving on our geocaching adventures, mostly because she doesn’t like to navigate. She drives 100% of the time when we are visiting a new area. She feels like more of a team member this way (and we get lost a lot less when at least ONE person is trying to navigate.) Now, if I could just get her to slow down below 65 when I say, “The parking area is a quarter mile ahead”…..
Is the grill about the size of a 55 gallon drum cut in half? We will bring charcoal, but we just need to figure out how much. If the grill is permanent, I can just swing out and take a look.
How about some numbers of these items as to what you need? (Consider this a volunteering, just need numbers so I can say what we are bringing).
Raising hands to volunteer. No incentive necessary.
Great job, searchers! Slow down a little so that we can cache up!
Sure, we can always use another meal!
You actually have time to geocache with all the time you have committed to maintaining the website?? Seriously, congratulations on your milestone.
In one of the caches, the cache owner logged that he went out and took $20 himself, so I am guessing its real.
@Jeremy wrote:
While it is optional, I recommend that everyone provide their gc.com profile link as it also enables some other mildly cool stuff (like an icon linking to your gc.com profile, ability to pick up your out of state logs, etc.)… most members have done this, but some seem to be resisting. 😉
Hey Jeremy, thanks for posting this. I didn’t have the link handy when filling in my profile, and never went back to complete it. NOW, it is done.
Woohoo! Congrats!
Thanks for pointing out the fee location, guys. My worry would be that they take in the money then disappear. Notice that they haven’t committed to a start date yet.
Ack! I step away from the boards for a few days and find I started a flame war. Sorry about that.
Since my intent was not to embarass any particular cache owner, including the one who accidentally got dragged into this one, I am not going to mention specific waypoints, but here is a list of these caches we have run into. Some of these are currently archived, some are not.
- A cache in Wisconsin located in a park “garden” area with a latticework structure. Coordinates take you right to the middle of the structure, cache description says it is somewhere in there. Maybe within 100 feet, maybe not, since we never found it.
- Numerous park shelter caches where the coordinates are not even in the shelter, but the description tells you the cache is there. I believe I have run into these in at least 3 states.
- In Indiana, we ran into a cache on an old locomotive. The coordinates take you to the parking. The cache description tells you it is somewhere on the locomotive.
- Again in Indiana, a cache on a footbridge. Coordinates take you to a parking lot. Cache description tells you look on the bridge.
- In Tennessee, another footbridge cache, this one, the coordinates take you to the center of the bridge. Cache description states it is “somewhere on the bridge”. This one might have been within 100 feet of the coordinates (we didn’t check it after we found it), but the hiders intent was to take you to the middle of the bridge. (This one was actually under the wooden bridge, with the lid of the container nailed to the underside of the bridge, but not in the center).
The thing is, that most of these caches were sort of fun to hunt. But is it geocaching? I don’t really know. Is this a trend? I guess thats a matter of opinion. But my question was not about difficult hides, nanos, coordinates posted in error, GPS inaccuracy, finders moving the cache around, or even badly set coordinates. All that is part of the game. It was merely about these “It’s in there somewhere” caches. From Jeff’s comment, it sounds like these are indeed not kosher, and that was all that I asked. I suppose you can avoid these by reading the cache descriptions BEFORE going to the caches, but I do enjoy the surprise of finding the cache without the help of the description. Fortunately, it becomes obvious rather quickly when you find yourself in the middle of a parking lot that “something is fishy here”.
Now, get off the computer and into the woods!
Alright, I give up. Where exactly on the website do they post the entry fee? I gotta say that this smells of a scam, but even if it is legitimate, the payout is pretty pathetic. Note that if 999 people enter, they take in $99,900 and only payout $10000. Kinda makes the state lottery look like a good bet. I kinda doubt they will get 100 people entering anyway.
Hey, welcome to our obsession! As a quick bit of advice on file conversion, you should check out GPSBabel. This is a command line program which does ALL the “under the hood” file conversion in GSAK, but you can also use it directly to convert files, run filters (even arc/point/polygon filters), and generally do everything GSAK does in a signficantly less user friendly method. If you have GSAK still installed, GPSBabel sitting on your computer. Just go to gpsbabel.org and check out the instructions.
Also, believe it or not, there is perfume in soap bubbles, which will have a tendency to draw critters. If you are using Ammo boxes, you should be alright, but for other containers you should leave out the bubbles.
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