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I have been geocaching for a few years, and must agree that the popularity of geocaching is on the down ward slope. Mostly I believe in missing caches when effort and logic have been used to solve the clue. only to find some has removed it on purpose. The stealth approach is for some reason now difficult to achieve. Being spotted is a game in its self, and the disposing of the cache, is consider to be as entertaining to some people just to think of Geocachers searching for an no longer cache. Another reason is when a cache is hidden in in a residential area, the local residents quickly spot the strange coming of non local visitors, and again remove the cache. "WE don't want strangers here" or in some cases , seen as suspicious . In our local area alone within a radius of five kms ten caches have now been removed or destroyed. The person who placed them in position has to my knowledge replaced them at leased twice and one case three, and could be a good example of my thoughts, one placed on a little grass triangular green dividing the road has a few trees, ideal spot, but behind the surrounding hedges several large expensive houses, the cache owner not only has replaced the cache but repositioned it. Still disappears.!! when we cycle pass not a person in sight,, so who does remove them? and keeps doing so. This example of missing caches is in a very rural part of Suffolk, England. Great pity, but I am afraid to say a sign of the times.

 

Whilst on the subject of observations WHY HAS THE DOWNLOAD APP taken on a new format. Diffidently not an improvement. Please , please modify and make it more user friendly.

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No offense, but I thought it a bit odd for a '13 cacher to speak of the "old days". :)

 

I believe that many issues with caches missing has to do with permission.

 

It's very possible that road/yard crews (large, expensive houses) are grabbing them, depending on where permission to place a cache came from.

Also, some containers just look like trash.

I've brought home a few myself. :)

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Just today I went out with an old friend whom I used to geocache with back in the early days. I rarely see geocaches stolen, but I have observed a decline in the quality of caches over the years as players leave the game and their old caches waste away. After the introduction of Smartphones, other players entered the game and seemed more interested in how many caches they can find or place with no thought on how they can maintain so many caches. These caches are also now becoming geo-trash. There are still good caches out there, you just have to look a little harder to find them. The search filter is a great way to weed out the caches you wish to avoid.

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Back in aught-six, when I first started geocaching, all geocaches were large-size containers hidden in the woods.

 

Then, less than an hour later, I found my second cache. It was only an ammo can.

 

 

Really? I didn't realize that Mingo, currently the oldest active geocache, was off in the woods, I thought it was in a very public, boring spot off I-70...

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Back in aught-six, when I first started geocaching, all geocaches were large-size containers hidden in the woods.

 

Then, less than an hour later, I found my second cache. It was only an ammo can.

 

 

Really? I didn't realize that Mingo, currently the oldest active geocache, was off in the woods, I thought it was in a very public, boring spot off I-70...

 

You found Mingo in 2013. Maybe back in aught-six it was in a wooded area. :blink:

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Back in aught-six, when I first started geocaching, all geocaches were large-size containers hidden in the woods.

 

Then, less than an hour later, I found my second cache. It was only an ammo can.

 

 

It seems you logged your first and second find in the wrong order. ;)

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Back in aught-six, when I first started geocaching, all geocaches were large-size containers hidden in the woods.

 

Then, less than an hour later, I found my second cache. It was only an ammo can.

 

 

TONGUE IN CHEEK:

 

what is the challenge with a regular container hidden in the woods ... shucks a nano would work very well indeed.

 

BTW: Just back from Intervales Park's Ape Cache ... now THAT was an old style container.

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