I am so PO'd that I am considering shutting down all of my cache hides.
If anyone cares, see my log for Another *%@# Micro


edited to fix the link.

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The link goes to an unpublished cache. What gives?

Link goes to an unpublished cache as already stated. Maybe you can explain the situation?

original post link fixed.

We have not done this cache of your but we had a similar situation.

We put a cache out that was kinda easy to spot but the challenge was how to get the log container out of the cache container to sign.

On the FTF the person ripped the cache container off of the hiding spot to just dump it upside down to get the log holder. We fixed and put instructions to NOT destroy the cache container but to figure out how to get the log holder out. Well it has been broken a dozen times since then.

It is very frustrating when people just do stuff sloppy and quickly to sign the log and do not take the time to think about how the cache was meant to be.

So sorry you are having trouble.

I know how you feel right now. Most of us long-time cachers have had a prized hide plundered or altered into an unrecognizable state. I admire you for having recovered the cache in question as many times as you have.

Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and retire one of your prized possessions. It saddens me to say this since this is a cache that I have not found

But, playing psychologist here, does it it make sense to drop the problem child causing the friction, rather than cutting them all loose?

I feel your pain. It's happened to me too.

No easy solution, though I can suggest some if you contact me offline.

~erik~

Yeah, anything more technical than covering an ammo box with sticks usually gets messed up. Heck, sometimes they cannot even get the sticks right.

My suggestion on Another Cache: Hose clamps. Lots of them. Zips ties do not hold up to over zealous cachers.

On the other hand you would be doing me a favor if you disabled your caches. I might get over my re-occurring nightmares about being lost in bamboo thickets looking for a pin head…..

And it appears that since groundspeak has taken up the role of log police, you can't even delete a "found it" log if the physical log is signed.

Now that my ire has cooled a bit, I think I will reinstate my 'problem child', but move it up closer to my area. Seems like I have a LOT less trouble with my caches up here in the mountains, than those that are readily available to 'flatlanders'. Not sure what the correlation with that is .... any suggestions?

And BTW - the 'bamboo forest' cache was just found by Budderbean. Took more than one trip, but they persevered. Congrats to them!

Next to a DNF, finding the cache and not being able to sing the log is very frustrating. I know of one cache that when it was found, the container would end up on the owners front step. I have one container that got destroyed on the FTF. I then put the instructions on the cache page on how to open it.