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My understanding is that the state colors are brown, orange and gold (sausage, cheese and beer!)
Marc, I don’t believe we can award Jeeps as prizes. They are actually owned by the Chrysler Corporation, and are not intended to be collected.
Amazing! While I already had a low opinion of Magellan’s customer service, refusing to repair or provide parts for units still on the market is really beyond the pale. This might be a new low for customer service quality. I would suggest that you replace this with some other brand (ANY other brand.)
Note that with earthcaches, they will insist that you have explicit permission to place your cache. Of course, you should have explicit permission to place any cache, but they require that you provide contact information for the people providing permission. We usually just trust you unless the location appears private or has known issues, such as DNR land or Dane County Parks.
@Lander & Lancelot wrote:
Does this mean if there is something already out there with a screw that it needs to be refitted some other way asap?
It all depends on whether you want to follow the guidelines or not. If no one complains about it, there won’t be any issues. If another cacher or the landowner complains, it would probably be archived. As reviewers, we only revisit geocaches when they are moved or when complaints are lodged.
@tyedyeskyguy wrote:
I have an upcoming cache where I’d like to put a cache in a concrete wall, and cover it with something. This concrete wall already has almost the perfect hole in it, but I wanted to make it just a bit bigger so the custom container will fit. The hole now is about 1 1/4″ and would need to be about 1 3/8″. The wall is on public property, technically has something already covering the hole, and if the cache was ever removed, you would in no way ever notice the hole, just as you cannot at this point.
Any idea if this one would fly?
In theory, no. You cannot “modify the landscape” without permission to do so. Of course, as reviewers, we would never know if you did something like this. This is an “honor system” sort of thing.
@LDove wrote:
If anyone has figured out how to get Cachemate/GSAK to work with Windows Vista I would owe you a beer!!! Ever since I bought my computer, I can’t use it!! 🙁
I would recommend that you take your computer back and get it converted back to XP. I don’t see any significant moves by ANYONE toward mainstream adoption of Vista. In fact, if you buy a computer from Milwaukee PC, they will refuse to sell you a computer with Vista and tell you that they cannot support it if you go out and buy your own copy. The phrase “not ready for prime time” seems to come to mind. Remember that Microsoft has had many examples of Windows versions which never became popular and faded into obscurity. (97, ME, Bob)
And, if you really want to keep Vista, try turning off all the security features and then turning them back on one at a time until it breaks GSAK. Alternatively, you should just go to the GSAK support forums and get help from the people there. Describe in your post SPECIFICALLY what is happening, not just “I can’t use it”, and they will provide you with a solution to your problem.
Remember that the guidelines forbid any kind of defacement, including painting or writing, using screws in trees, drilling, digging holes, etc. Tacks and staples are kind of “on the edge” in that usually a tackhole would have little or no effect on any kind of tree. The key is that anything you do must be easily removable (either by you or the land manager). Note also that we can make exceptions if you have EXPLICIT permission from the landowner, so if you want to make your garage door a waypoint and paint the coordinates in 2 foot high letters, that is ok.
Assuming this submission wins, be sure to get permission from Groundspeak to use that “G” in the logo. I think they have it trademarked.
The site which discusses their intellectual property policy is:
If you guys read what I said, KFC should be OK. Just don’t intentionally tie it to chicken.
Guys, one thing please, if you come up with a logo, please do not include any sort of chicken reference. When I review these, I’m ignoring the commercial component (for the good of the game) but if you start referencing chicken, colonels, extra crispy, mashed potatoes, or anything related, I’m going to be in trouble.
As the owner of several puzzle caches, I think you have to recognize that there are puzzles that are easy and there are puzzles that are challenging. I think I only have one in the challenging category, and it is that way for a reason. The rest are either field puzzles or relatively easy codes. I think the problem comes in when people hide what I like to call “Read My Mind” puzzles. An example of this would be a puzzle with a big pile of digits on the page and someone has to skip so X digits between numbers to get the coordinates, where X is the 1,045th digit of pi, for the first number, the 1046 digit of pi for the second number, etc. But, of course, all the page has is the big mess of numbers. Somehow you need to guess that the solution method involves pi and that you start with the 1045th digit. Someone actually submitted this as a puzzle cache, mostly as a reaction to another “impossible” puzzle put out by someone else (still not found, by the way.) As you might guess, I didn’t publish this, but persuaded the owner to change it to a more traditional puzzle, which seems to have gone over well.
I suspect that a few people find it fun to beat their heads against the wall, trying to solve these impossible puzzles. Most just ignore them. But a few of us are compulsive enough to actual obsess over not being able to find a particular cache, just because it is close to their home. To these folks, I say, HIT THE IGNORE BUTTON AND MOVE ON! Once you ignore a cache, it will no longer show up on your listings and PQs, so you can just forget it was ever there. Then you can spend your time finding the caches you actually enjoy and not waste time being frustrated at a puzzle.
@SammyClaws wrote:
Is it ok to list your cache on more than one site? I really dont want to have to read through the TOU info to figure it out. Yes I am lazy.
Yes, cross-listing is allowed on all sites.
I like em all as far as types go. To me, I would prefer either a nice place to visit or a clever hide, rather than one more guardrail along the side of a nondescript section of road or dead end.
As far as stealth caches go, I used to not like them much, but then I figured out the correct approach to these….NO STEALTH! I figure if the owner is dumb enough to hide a cache in a place that is very likely to be muggled, its not my role to prevent the muggling. I pretty much invite ANYONE who happens by to help me with the search. Kids, dog walkers, police, maintenance men, little old ladies with walkers, you name it, I will ask them to help search if they show any interest in what I am doing. So far, I don’t think any cache has disappeared immediately after I found it. Sometimes you just need to trust people.
I think its probably easier to define a kid friendly cache by defining what it is not…..
NOT hidden on a street sign, guardrail, lamppost or other noninteresting location, unless there is actually something interesting at that location other than the guardrail
NOT a nano. (These also qualify as not adult friendly) Bigger micros are fun for older kids, but the little ones still like small or bigger.
NOT leaky (nothing worse than opening a cache to find a lot of wet paper and rot or a solid block of ice)
I’m sure you can all add to the list.
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