I USED to cache with my boyfriend, but now am single and looking for a buddy.
I think there are benefits to caching with a friend who A) carries snacks, can carry you if you break something, and C) converses with you. I have sought many fewer caches alone, because I am not big and burley, but once I carried a hammer up my sleeve, I confess.
I think I know which cache Flask refers to in VT where three trucks of hunters sit near a shooting range on posted land. I saw a herd of deer there as we were driving in, but I think we flushed them away from the poachers. If I had not been with a big imposing man at the time, I would have abandoned the cache, but I was able to find the cache and remove one of my favorite cache items-a voodoo doll left by Theragleb!
And I definitely would not go wandering in Mount Royal in Montreal alone as a man OR woman.
It is a challenge finding a buddy in VT whether I NEED one or not!