I'm confused. So this person
A: DNF'd the cache, so hid a new cache to claim the grid.
B: Replaced the DNF'd cache and claimed it as a find.
And how far away? 1.5 miles? .15 miles?
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I'm confused. So this person
A: DNF'd the cache, so hid a new cache to claim the grid.
B: Replaced the DNF'd cache and claimed it as a find.
And how far away? 1.5 miles? .15 miles?
If you look at some of their other hides most are archived. The cache names even suggest that they place lame caches. That's just the way that player chooses to play the game. Remember the rule is there ain't no rules. For the most part anyway. I don't personally agree with it, but you know what they say about opinions.;)
How do you claim a find for an unpublished cache???Quote:
.15 miles and it has not been published.
Or even claim a placed cache???
OOH!! OOH!!! I KNOW THE ANSWER!!! IT'S A!!
and their hide was .15mi away...
here's a link to the cache page
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache...f-68753e16415d
Just read their log . . . very odd. Based on the placement (high and dry), cache container (a decent sized Lock n' Lock container) and fact that a long-time, reliable cacher found it shortly before (i.e. Upsalquitch . . . who has a long history of rehiding caches the way he found them and knows the rules) and based on the location (i.e. in the middle of nowhere with very, very little chance of a cache being found) I am a bit suspicious of this . . .
It also seems a bit odd that they logged the DNF for this cache this week . . . but there are no other logged cache finds in all of Maine and they live in Massachusetts (the last recorded cache find was in early July I think it was down in MA). I say this is a bit odd since I tend to log all my finds and DNFs whenever I've been out on a caching trip all at once . . . and it just seems strange that someone would drive all that way for one cache and then log a DNF and no other finds. I mean what I'm trying to say is that when we swung through the Northwoods we grabbed the other caches "in the area" . . . I recorded mine the next day, Steph recorded her finds a day or two later and Hiram used the auto-download feature using GSAK. I mean stranger things have happened and folks do strange things . . . just seems a mite bit odd to me.
Hiram . . . the only possibilities that I could possibly come up with is a fisherman stumbling on to it . . . although it seems to me that they would be a bit closer to the stream or is it possible that we were too close to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway . . . I mean I too looked at a map and it seemed as though we were well enough away from that restricted area . . . but maybe someone monitoring caches in the area thought we were too close . . . or maybe it was paper company folks . . . or maybe it was the green men in the space ship . . . or the shooter on the grassy knoll. :D;) In any case, very odd.
So . . . uh . . . when are we going back to check on this cache??? :rolleyes::D
and I don't think I can see your allagash theory happening, it is pretty well away from it, and I also think that if someone thought it was too close that our ears would be hurting pretty bad by now...