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From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-
bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ehamemail
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 11:41 PM
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: December 31st, 2010,terracaching will shut down
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They do .. WHAT? Really?
Nancy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Bensman" <junkmailno@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 10:48 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: December 31st, 2010,terracaching will shut down
> -
> 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
>> > World Wide Technology, INC.
>> > O - 314-995-8935
>> > C - 314-308-0916
>> >
>> > 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
>> >>>
>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
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>> -----
>> >>> *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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