GO West

I would like to place this cache up for adoption: Iron Goat Trail If interested please send an e-mail through my profile page. I'll keep the cache active for another week or so.

I caught that story - the tape opened with a shot of the gps in her hand as she walked along and I thought - man she's caching. Sure enough that's what the reported said, plain and simple. It was nice that the news did not seem to think it necessary to explain what geocaching is all about ("high tech hide and seek," etc.).

Bumping this thread up - I'm still getting errors when trying to edit bookmark listings. Anyone else?

So does the Alderwood mall store. I was there today. Even had CITO coins for sale.

I found one today and logged it... it produced a new icon in my trackables list - but the quality is far, far below anything I have seen before in geo-coins.

Can someone please tell me why these pieces of tin are not geo-coins?

Should that be my responsibility? Forget about the coins for minute. My cache was used for a phantom dumping. Is that right?

What do you call it when someone uses your cache as a drop off point for travel bugs, but never actually places the bugs in there? I own a cache that is presently listing several coins in the inventory. But the coins are not there. They never were there. The previous holder handed them off, and used my cache as the phantom dump. Now, for whatever reason, the new holder has failed to “retrieve” the coins from my cache. So my cache sits there, with no coins but a listing enticing people to find it and ultimately be disappointed by the lack of contents. What do you call this?

Got some bad news tonight, so I won't be able to hike tomorrow. Have fun everyone on what I believe will be a "Bullitt the Blue Sky" adventure.

Has someone on the hike volunteered to climb that tripod? And bring the cache down for non-climbers to sign? - or is that considered bad caching etiquette? I've been to that spot a few times but never had the nerve to go up there.

I add my congratulations to jcar. Thanks for helping me find my 263rd. I'm no longer Lost In Seattle. Like FobesMan says, he plays it the way it should played.

I would like to report that FS 6830, the road to Mt. Sawyer Summit View near Skykomish is open now. That looging road had been washed out as recently as September 2007, but now is open all the way to the Tonga Ridge trailhead. The road is fine - you can see the washed out areas and repair work on the drive up. There are three nice caches up there, including this WA lookout challenge cache. It's a good hike, with excellent views. I left a coin as incentive for other cachers to try it. Also, within this same area is a rare drive-to lookout cache, Maloney Ridge Lookout. Finally, just a short way up highway 2 is Heybrook Lookout, an uphill hike but much shorter than some. A cacher could conceivably grab all three of these lookout caches in an afternoon.

^ That's exactly what I'm concerned about. I found a file mile stretch of bike path without a single cache - in a high-cache density area. Just can't believe a cache has never been placed there. Before setting one up myself, I would like to check for any archived caches, and the reasons they might have been abandoned.

Soooo..... Does anyone know if there has been progress on this issue? Is there any way to view archived caches?

Dug around for a long time before finding this thread... this is exactly the issue I was considering posting, but I knew someone else must have thought of it first. So... I think I'll kick it back to the top from time to time. Thanks J-Way.

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Placed. (I probably should have waited for the contest to start first)

Put a cache there and I'll go check it out. Otherwise - well, you know...

^ Thanks grossi! Kudos also to jcar for reaching 1300 at MO!

^ No problem about the conflicting hides. Funny thing about John's cache is that it was still there, a year after it had been shut down. The small path where it was hidden clearly gets more traffic now, but no one stumbled upon it. I hope the new hide stays as protected.

Obiter dicta: (oh-bitter dick-tah) n. remarks which are not necessary. Generally, obiter dicta is simply editorializing and extraneous material. Dicta are regarded as of little authority, on account of the manner in which they are delivered; it frequently happening that they are given without much reflection, at the bar, without previous examination. My Friend John Caldwell chose his caching handle with care, tweaked it to reflect something to do with caching (obit became orbit), and then lived by the name. As a lawyer he enjoyed argument and controversy, and when none was at hand, he would not hesitate to start one. But always, he knew his arguments were baseless dicta, eg: “Cachers should be limited to 5 FTF’s” – a classic. John passed away last week. (Please see note). I would like to keep his memory alive with a cache, Orbiter Dicta. The container is one I recovered earlier this week - the final of his multi, "Carolyn Grace's Multi-Cache Mania," named for his daughter Carolyn, age 7. I was tempted to leave it as found and re-establish the hide; unfortunately, other newer caches have moved into the area. I have moved the cache a few hundred feet to the East. Please give it a try next time you visit Carkeek park. John brought Carolyn here often, and it was one of their favorite parks.

Visitors to the area might want to make a side trip to Eagle's Cliff - an easy drive up FR90 (paved), a fun short hike and great view. Also a jeep as of this log.

Fish Soup nabbed #700 here. Impressive - been caching less than a year. Kudos!

Close the book on McClellan Butte; but "Scully Mountain (NM)" Green Jeep Travel Bug will be placed soon, probably by this weekend.

Weird, but I can't help wondering if they were geocachers... maybe even found a cache or two up there and signed the log book. Of course they never made it home to log the find.