Frau P

I copied an awesome, hard to find cache I found a hundred miles from home, but in the same state. When logging the original find I mentioned I would try one like it in my area. I did place a similar hide, that I hoped was difficult, and mentioned in the write up that it was not my original idea, but copied from a cache I really enjoyed in the eastern part of the state. So the first guy to find it looked up my history of finds, figured out which cache I copied and deduced the "trick" of the hide from the original cache's logs. He patted himself on the back for doing his research and using "deductive reasoning". I was a little ticked and changed the description for future cachers. It wasn't supposed to be a puzzle cache, just a tribute to a cool idea.

I'm a cacher from Washington state and most people here refer to non-cachers as "muggles". This comes from the Harry Potter books and is the term for non-magical folk. While caching in Oregon, I noticed several logs refering to non-cachers as "aliens". So, where do you cache and how to you refer to people who aren't as cool as us?

Yeah, yeah, ok. I paid my 30 bucks yesterday. I still wish many DNFs on the cacher who mentioned it to Jeremy and got it de-activated.

What do you mean, pointed it out to him? Has it been a premium feature all along that I shouldn't have been able to access in the first place?

What's up with the geocaching.com maps? You used to be able to zoom and pan to find caches, now it's disabled? I think it's poopy if that's a premium member feature now.

We are new to geocaching and using a gps. We printed out a cache page description and the map. We found the park based on the map, but were confused about how to use the waypoint and the coordinates listed. The coordinates seemed to be the entry to the park. We thought the coordinates would take us to the actual hiding place of the cache. Are the large coordinates listed on each cache always just the starting point for the search?