Summary: <a href="http://geosnippits.com/GCPC_Logo.jpg"></a> November 30th, 2016 In tonight's episode of the Geocaching Podcast: Headhardhat and Sarah T-S are "on assignment" so CloakNDagger will be in as guest host. Tonight's topic is a bit of a rant show when it comes to bad geocache designs and hides. Everything from poorly made, poorly disquieted and more. This all can lead to unhappy geocachers, muggles and let's say uniformed parties. Suitable suggestions to help will be provided by the hosts. Be sure to check it out! Please share with other geocachers. We meet on Wednesday nights at 9:30PM ET at http://www.geocachingpodcast.com/live so you can see us record the show live and join in the chat room. See you there! #geocaching #geocachingpodcast #headhardhat #podcast ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Video Version of our Podcast https://youtu.be/HL0kI20K0HU GCPC EPISODE 477 Show Notes GCPC MAILBAG at <a href="mailto:GCPCMAILBAG@Gmail.com">GCPCMAILBAG@Gmail.com</a> NEWS: Have you planned your 2017 travel? One of the coolest things about geocaching is that it's played by people around the world in so many different ways. To celebrate this, we're releasing five new country souvenirs over the next few weeks! If you’ve already found a geocache in any of these countries, you’ll automatically receive the souvenir on your profile. Souvenirs that are currently available can be found here. You can view which ones you’ve already earned by checking out your Souvenirs on Geocaching.com. Stay tuned for the first new country souvenirs announcement in next week’s Geocaching newsletter. Looks like they’ll be announcing one a week for the next five weeks. The first one is Slovenia https://www.geocaching.com/blog/category/geocaching-com-souvenirs/ SB: just bags, plastic toys TAZ: Cheap plastic ‘Gladware’ type containers that disintegrate within weeks when exposed to the environment. Anything not airtight in humid environments (not as much of a problem out here in Cali.) Used Mini Mouthwash container w/o the cap (Yes, a ¼ inch hole in top, with paper jammed inside and no cap. I was FTF on one of these.) C&D: In order of highest irritation to lowest. Reviewers not being on the same page (they have a huge grey area of what is acceptable and what isn’t) and every reviewer is different in interpretations of cache is allowable and what isn’t. No logging requirements, though geocaching encourages people to write a log containing at least two sentences, they allow emojis and “one word Acronyms. Limited geocaching adoptions, there are circumstance where a great geocache has been placed and the CO has quit playing or has died, there is no option to adopt these caches to either preserve the memory or the age of the geocache. Complaints about geocaches being PMO. Poor swag hides/illegal hides Abandoned geocaches Not enough resources to help establish Large events. Groundspeak store does not engrave your geocoins like Coins and Pins does. Infoferret’s list of Rants! (not necessarily in order of importance). These are probably mostly placed by newcomers to the game: Inaccurate coordinates (10m + out). Meaningless cache hints. Unrealistic D/T Ratings (appreciate that this can be entirely subjective!) Flimsy / unsuitable containers (e.g. takeaway boxes). Eclipse mint tins which have not been camouflaged (shiny metal tins, which can look like litter). Ditto caches with glass containers (I’ve CITO’d enough glass that the idea of deliberately putting more out there seems crazy). Caches that look like something dangerous. (e.g. bombs, pest traps etc.) I’m all for creativity, but there are limits! Caches placed at the exact same spot where one (or more) have been archived in a short space of time previously. (Could reviewers make suggestions here?)
