MeffyEllis

Just occurred to me to ask: these frogs that jump out of caches... did any of them have a little GPS antenna on their heads?

That's what I'm trying to start with. Once I can afford to spend on this I'll probably get the "official" gc app, if only to help support the site a little.

Stealth required. (Which, if we can believe sigs, means one oughtn't to put a cache there.)

I don't "do" events but have been trash-out-ing for as long as I can remember. Just started actively looking for caches, but I've been hiking in city parks (wooded, swampy, undeveloped ones) for many years. It's a rare walk that I don't find and haul out plenty of garbage. Not many other people seem to bother, but I've never got disapproving looks or anything like that. Bonus: nobody who's seen me wonders why I'm bushwhacking; they can see I have a bag of old bottles and cans and such.

Just got back from not finding a cache due partly to not being able to breathe; someone left a plastic bag containing some kind of animal very near it, and I'm afraid it wasn't pining for the fjords. :-{ Guess it's time to contact the parks department. Not quite caching, but a few hundred feet from where I found a cache: A few days after Hurricane Irene, a week or two before deciding I'd been getting Groundspeak emails long enough without actually doing anything about them, I was out clearing storm debris off paths in a different segment of James River Park. Picked up one fairly hefty tree limb and heaved it into the underbrush, and was surprised to hear it strike what sounded like a plastic trash barrel. Before I had time to wonder who would leave a trash can deep in a wooded park, a five- or six-point buck leapt up from where he had been resting and dashed off into the forest. =@.@= The thudding sound was from the branch whacking his rib cage and lungs. Didn't seem to have hurt him but I'm sure he had no kind thoughts for my trail-clearing effort. My "Sorryyyy!" didn't mollify him; he stomped away in a huff. "Huff, huff," quoth he.

*cheers* *confetti cannon* ... (*broom*) Thanks!

I hadn't thought about this, since I don't think our local parks have such a rule, but I can see at least one good reason for such a restriction: to prevent one method for the spread of tree-killing insects like the pine bark beetle, the emerald ash borer (which doesn't just attack ash trees), and so forth. Makes sense.

I have a related question. Yesterday, after knowing there were caches strewn about the Pony Pasture Rapids and Wetlands Parks on the James River in Richmond, Virginia, I went ahead and fetched some coordinates, then searched while on my daily walk. Logged two finds and two DNFs. I plan to try again to find the DNFs, naturally. If I do find them, what's the accepted etiquette? Should I delete the DNF log entry if I find it again very soon (seems a bad idea)? Leave it and log a second entry for "found" (my guess)? Use one of the little monkey-face novelty erasers from that first cache to rub out the DNF entry on my display (white-out would probably work better)?