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I'm just pre-senior (64).I used to do environmental due diligence. When a commercial property is to be sold, the environmental history of it needs to be researched; Part of it is taking photos of all parts of the property and adjoining properties. In the US, there is nothing illegal about taking photos from public land (street and sidewalks and adjoining properties. If a daycare was anywhere nearby I went there first showed them my card and offered to review all the photos I took with them. I was careful to not include kids and if I got adults and/or license plates in the photos, I would blur them out. Doing this, I did not have a single problem.

They do. Keeping this site running 24/7/365. Newer people haven't experienced the site going down over the weekend because of heavy use like it used to a lot about 15 years ago.

Don't use Chrome.

I found a multi where stage 2 was about a meter above stage 1.

Couldn't log onto the site from my desktop computer for a while yesterday. Wasn't app specific.

Got the shots at the Niagara Falls event center, went to the Seneca Indian casino a block away to blow $5 on slots and then found 3 urban caches on the way home both times.

Cached all the way through. If a container had virus on it the sun would kill it or it would be washed off by the rain before someone found it.If it was winter the cold and or snow would do the same. On the trail didn't wear a mask and stayed away from other people. In fact after getting the two shots, I went caching right after leaving the inoculation site.

This cache is only about a mile from where I grew up but it took me 13 years to finish! It has had3 owners and changed from 7 to6 stages and two of the stages have relocated over that time. Here my the log for GCTX8Q. It took me about 13 years to finally complete this multi. I had found stages 1 and 2 back in 2004 (the original cache). Found the former stages 3 and 4 back in 2005 Then searched for this stage 5 back in 2007. Then an 8 year gap (I lived in CA and only came back here (NY)at Christmas). Moved back in 2014 and refound stages1, 2, and 3 last year. Found stage 4 Sunday, and then stage5 and the final today.

Haven't been able to cache much for the last couple of years because of family matters (caring for a 94 year old mom). ALs allow me to fo out in the minuscule free time I now have and get maybe 5 or 6 caches. As I said before "IF YOU DON'T LIKE THEM, DON'T DO THEM." No onehas a gun to your head.

I know who dprovan and nariD new talking about. I happened to find 25 FTFs with him in one day. It was an event where the people had to go to 4-5 places in town to get info and then put it into "equations" for 35 caches in town. Everyone got the info at the same time and solved them at the same time. I was in his car with another cacher and he said everyone will start near where we all were solving. Lets go to the other side of town and start there. We got 25 FTFs and all 35 caches in about 3 hours. That was almost ⅓ of my 80 FTFs in almost 18 years.

App (iPhone) and website are not lofting in. I think I read that these forums are on another server.Reminds me of about 15 years ago when the website would crash, usually on weekends. Tried to go to the main site from the forums and could not.

I don't know if it is still true, but you couldspot Compton on the cache map of LA. At one time there were none in Compton except for a virtual at the city hall.

A Texas Instrument calculator from the 70s is more powerful than what was on Apollo 11.

All caches published except events. About a half dozen published ih the immediate suburbs of Buffalo. Because of the cold and snow, the number is way down from the summer. Also because of that people aren'yt searching as much.

One AC in my general area is in a large state park. There is no cell coverage at one location so the owner set the geofencing for that location to several miles so that one can log it elsewhere in the park. Almost all in my area are in populated areas and one (at Niagara Falls) has no problems with the nearby Canadian cell coverage interfering (Rogers Communication-just across the river).

A friend and I once grabbed a cache about 30 feet away fro,m a mom and her kid at a gazebo. We had clipboards and acted like we were city workers inspecting them. Was inspecting the rafters (cache location). Paid us no notice once they thought we were workers.

Thrdr are spectacular spots. Where i used to live, we used to say "Interesting spot for a cache" to nicely say this place is a dump and the cache should be archived..

There's a cache near me called "NotYour Average Guardrail Cache". It states it has numerous decoys. I have found two and some have found 5 but the cache is there and still being found.The page has a picture of a guardrail with a bovine stuck o oyt with an arrow stating "Not jte cache." The same COs have one that the log is in the container, but cleverly hidden.

Was at one cache that was a mag key holder about 15 feet up a baseball field light standard. Was going to pass on it when other cachers I knew showed up. They said "we have a tool for that". They went in their truck and got out PVC pipe that they connected together tp the required height. At the end was a T-connection that had a small ( few inches) piece of PVC on it. Reached ip and dragged it down the pole to a reachable height. After signing, he pushed it up to the original location the sane way.

I know I am replying to an old post, but someone in my area was testing her AL this spring and accidentally logged it herself.

If the hint was Jethro Tull, I would first look on a park bench nearby. "...sitting on a park bench..."

Did an AL Saturday. At one of the AL locations, the compass in the app worked fine and i located it. Just before that, I tried using driving directions and it directed me about a quarter mile away. Using an iPhone 7 with up to date iOS and the iOS directions app (Google?). Is it the app or the i)S that was acting weird? Heard from the AL owner that someone else had similar problems.

If you don't like it, don't do them. No one is holding a gun to your head.

I knew a couple who met while caching. They kept their own geonames and when their two kids were born, were given their own geonames on the day of their births. The older child is now a teenager and they still use their givengeonames.

I found 63 in about 10 hours near Lodi.CA back in 2012. Met up with other cachers after the first couple and we stoppedd at a winery along the way. Could drive to all.