[GeoStL] Re: December 31st, 2010,terracaching will shut down

  • From: "Jim Bensman" <junkmailno@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:48:20 -0600

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Actually, lots of the number hounds cannot be bothered with taking the time to 
log a cache.  So they have developed shuffling.  They replace the first 
container with one with a signed log, they sign the log on the way to the next 
cache, and then replace the cache with the previous cache.  Then they act like 
they are super cachers.

I've been thinking of a cache and calling it the "Yellow Jeep Cache."  It would 
be an ammo box with 30 black decoy film canisters.  Then there would be a clear 
film canister that is the real cache.  You will be able to log it every time 
you put the clear one back in and refind it.  I think I would limit it to 5,000 
finds a day (and each could be a FTF in its new location).  I would only 
require them to sticker the log once and then put how many times they found it 
on the log.  

Jim Bensman
"Nature Bats Last" 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Lusicic
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 6:51 PM
> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: December 31st, 2010,terracaching will shut down
> 
> -
> Maybe they should just create a new kind of cache. A "log only" cache.
> That way you don't have to actually visit the cache. You just log it
> for
> the numbers.
> 
> On 11/29/2010 5:34 PM, Bear wrote:
> > I agree. However, to Jim's point, when you tie wrap 1000 film cans on
> > reflector poles every tenth of a mile, it doesn't serve anyone but
> > number hounds. I don't think you can justify that as quality over
> > quantity.
> >
> > Mike Griffin
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> >
> > Sent from my AT&T iPhone.
> > Please excuse any typos.
> >
> > On Nov 29, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Glenn <potbellystove@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:potbellystove@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >> yep, thats a real tough one.  I know an old lady that caches in a
> >> wheelchair. Her high quality caches are the ones she can reach from
> >> her chair, in parking lots, by guard rails. She could not care less
> >> about the cool cache just a bit down the trail in the woods because
> >> she cant get there.
> >>
> >> Not everyone things of quality the same way.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Nov 29, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Michael Rogers wrote:
> >>
> >>> The problem lies with defining what constitutes a "quality" cache.
> >>> Some people might want a long hike, some might want difficult
> >>> terrain, others a hard puzzle and some find just the caching
> >>> experience and almost any cache that gets them outdoors to be
> quality.
> >>>
> >>> This was best evidenced onTC.com <http://TC.com>itself. You'd be
> >>> amazed at how similar the vast majority of caches there were like
> >>> ones on Groundspeak.
> >>>
> >>> -Michael
> >>>
> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----
> >>> *From:*Jim Bensman <junkmailno@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> <mailto:junkmailno@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
> >>> *To:*geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> *Sent:*Mon, November 29, 2010 3:00:42 PM
> >>> *Subject:*[GeoStL] Re: December 31st, 2010,terracaching will shut
> down
> >>>
> >>> I just looked at their website and I wish I would have realized
> this
> >>> was here. I liked what I read.   I wish Groundspeak would do more
> to
> >>> push quality over quantity.
> >>>
> >>> Jim Bensman
> >>> "Nature Bats Last"
> >>
> >> Glenn
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> 
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