Unkle Fester

Been approached by local LEO, FBI (on a stakeout), Sheriff, DEA... I think only ATF is missing from my list. Nothing like getting approached by the FBI while they were on a stake out... Other than DEA wanting to know what I was doing on the woods where they were busting a pot growing operation... Or the Sheriff wanting to know more about the remains and clothing I found... Or getting stopped by LEO for being in the area they found a body dumped the week before... A friend of mine got caught at 2am, barefoot, placing an ammo can under a bridge... the story was very funny (I since have met the same cops while out caching the area). Edit: grammar,. and punctuation..!,

For number 3000 I drove 250+ miles after picking up the kids after school, stayed in a hotel, got up and did five caches and then grabbed the Oregon Delorme Challenge before driving the 250+miles home in time for a class the next evening. Over 500 miles for 6 caches... when I did 1500, Groundspeak headquarters, I stayed up caching until 4:30 in the morning to get to a point of not needing any other caches, got up at 6:00, loaded the family and went to Seattle (sleeping all the way).

You're killing me! This has to be the cache of the year if you do it...

No matter how you slice it, they would probably hold up much better than some of the containers out there. ...like a ziplock bag... Sorry, Dead Horse Flogging is Wednesday. With Veterans Day, I thought I'd get a jump on it...

I think so. Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunt. I keep all the treasure boxes and bury 'em in my backyard. haha. See you should read the guidelines before going out. Geocaches are not allowed to be buried. This includes stolen, horded geocaches. You can store them inside as long as the place you are storing them is not a commercial venture. If it is you must keep your stolen geocaches outside, but only if you have received permission! He can bury them. He just needs to prove to the reviewer that he has permission from the property owner. Instead of Muggled, does this mean missing caches are Sol'd?

Stop on the side of the road an pick up some gravel and leave an interesting "rock" in each cache you find. Of course I'm also a guy who gets a lump of coal in his stocking every year too.

There was a recent case here in bittsen's home town where some deleted logs were locked and I think the locker is a reviewer. I hope you were being sarcastic because your first sentence is frowned upon by grounspeak, if not a joke. We Portlanders stick together and are seldom wrong. Well, to be perfectly honest, one of us thought we were wrong once, but it was quickly pointed out the error of our assumption. without knowing the cache, we'll never know "the rest of the story"

Did one an hour ago...

Someone trying to keep the discussion light and trying not to sound like a bitchy complainer. I just looked at this thread for the first time in a couple of months tho, and looks like it got a little less light-hearted for a bit, there. I've done a bunch more caches since I started the topic and had pretty good luck not coming into any more soggy caches, but alas - here comes the rainy season.... Wow, glad this topic came up, I've just done about 30 caches on maintenance in the last week and plan on another 10-20 tomorrow to get ready for winter. I now remember a note about one of mine being a ziplock now. Better add it to the list. (I just adopted about 80 older caches and trying to make sure they are ready to go).

Cache with someone else and holler out "hey, I need a hand over here". Works for me.

No... It's much more important.

Hang out in the forums, that was my cure. Or post an angsty thread...

November of 2000 I was in the mountains of Colorado at a conference and a guy took me out to find the one in Colorado at the time. I thought he was nuts. April of 2008 I was in Christmas Valley, OR at another conference and a guy took me out. I was hooked.

My kids love it, regularly get 30 or so with them in a good day of a run... Today 400, tomorrow the WORLD, MWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!

Out in Oregon there are a lot of "Secret Gardens", none of which you want to be caught near. Lots of deep woods for a body to disappear in.

Until I read this I was sorry that they had banned the moving caches. Man I think this would drive me nuts. Guy from the parallel universe: it's a great idea though. Was smart of you to come up with it. Just someone thought of it a while ago, and then someone else un-thought it before you got here. How do we know he doesn't travel back in time and create travelling caches? There is a puzzle cache in Albany (Oregon) that is in a parking lot with 4 light posts. Talk about the nightmare LPC

And one being particularly annoying can be called a sithhead? Was there sith scattered all over the park? Would we then refer to CITO events to picking up sith droppings? I just want to know...

I've never liked this term either. It's annoying whenever I mention it for people to give me a knowing nod or laugh and say "Harry Potter" when I've never watched any of the movies or read the books. I just state back to them, dead serious, "it's an old military term that Harry Potter borrowed/stole". But I still don't like it... anyone ever come up with alternatives to "muggle"? I have a term, but I can't print it in the forums.

We're allowed to have a sense of humor in the forums? What is the world coming to. Now I have Angst. Better bask in the glow of my Platinum Membership, that always makes me feel better.

Throw the coke bottle in an ammo can and call it the FTF prize, $0.05. Thought that might help...

I've got new and old pqs and routes. none are running

Thanks for saving me the trouble of pointing that out. That sounds like the perfect answer to me. Ha...a Milestone is just a really big stone!!! Out here we use little green metal sign posts.

I remember! It was on a Tuesday... It was raining... Toz was rambling on about puritans... Back on topic: A while back I opted against logging stinkers. As such, my find stats, such as they are, will likely never be accurate. Still, I enjoy the camaraderie of milestone celebrations, and participate in them as both the receiver and the giver, as the situation warrants. It matters not to me that my 2000th find is gonna be more like my 2032nd find. I still have fun. As the Great & Powerful Snoogans once opined, "If you ain't havin' fun, you're doing something wrong". Sounds like you're having fun, doing things your way, and harming no one. Dude! You're golden! Sorry, I was in the bathroom for the last three months, did I miss something?

You set your mini led mag lite at a cache and backtrack 45 miles and 20 stops to find it because you're wife won't let you get yet another replacement

Uhhh...