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Help - Respectful Thing to do with Geocoin Find?
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Help - Respectful Thing to do with Geocoin Find?

Got this coin from a yard sale. I’ve geocached in the past but I haven’t done so in a long while. Upon looking it up I discovered that it only had 1 log, way back in 2008. The person who logged it seemed to be a very prolific geocacher, with over 12,000 finds since 2003! I believe this person may have died, as the person at the yard sale said they got it from an estate sale that seemed to have been an after death sale. The person also hasn’t been on since 2020.

To me, this seems like it was a sentimental coin for the person as it hadn’t moved at all since the 2008 log. They had plenty of other trackables that did move. I don’t know how I would get in contact with whoever owned it originally (or their family) since it has changed so many hands at this point. My instinct is to put it in a cache for it to travel but I’m not certain if this would be disrespectful. Again, I’m not very well versed in geocache etiquette 😅

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

EDIT: I did some more digging into this person and it seems like they were SUPER active in the Geocaching community back in 2008. They attended GeoWoodstock VI and posted some pictures of themselves so I’m going to post in my local area and see if anyone knows who this is. I really want to make a good faith effort at finding someone who knows the history of this coin and the person who owned it

u/Rewby23 — 12 days ago
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Want to hide a new cache and have my dad get the FTF for his birthday

It‘s my dad’s birthday soon, and he’s really obsessed with geocaching. I figured that hiding caches around ocasions for him is a nice way to give him a present that’s also an activity he really enjoys.

Ideally, I‘d want him to get the FTF of course. I know where I want to hide it and I got the cache (it’s an old but sadly broken analog point and shoot camera that I‘m using as a container) and a location to put it. (Though I haven’t checked with our reviewer if it’s still free - though it’s on a 500m long bridge so I feel like I‘ll find something).

My question is: Is this something that is common/can be done etiquett-wise in general? And if so, how do I go about it?

a) do I ask the reviewer to publish on a certain date (if they acce that) and put in the description to let my dad get the FTF?

b) do I ask to publish AFTER date x and have him find it and get the FTF before it’s even published for everyone else?

c) any other options/ideas?

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u/Meif_42 — 11 days ago
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Caching with no cell coverage and no stand alone GPS unit

I'll be taking a solo hiking/MTB trip later this month to a rural region with well documented areas of no cell phone coverage. I'm confident in my skills navigating trails and paths with a compass and paper maps but I'm not sure how to go about caching while out there. Is it a hopeless cause without purchasing a GPS unit? How have others gone about it successfully? From what others have told me, I won't ever be more than 15-20 miles from areas with reception so I'll be able to get a signal when needed, just not WHERE needed.

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u/TheGoldenChow — 12 days ago
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Would you remove a lovingly built, nice quality gadget cache that was archived years ago?

I was in the state game lands (USA) today and came upon an elaborate bird house. I now know it is a gadget cache that was archived four years ago. It's in ok condition for its age and I can tell the CO put a lot of time and effort into building it. When I found the cache in the system, the last CO log was to archive it after someone reported the lock was malfunctioning. The CO doesn't appear to be active anymore and all their other caches were archived around that time as well. I know archived caches that were never removed are considered geotrash. At the same time, it was pretty fun seeing a festive bird house in the middle of hunting grounds. I'm torn between removing it per caching guidelines and leaving it for others to enjoy as an anomaly. Thoughts?

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u/FixYourStupidMuffler — 11 days ago