Papaya101

Thanks for getting back!

My brother and I were out hiking in the woods SW of Steamboat Lake, Routt County, CO, and we found a US General Land Office Survey with the year 1917 stamped into it. There was also a sign on a tree nearby designating it a “Bearing Tree” with some symbols on it. Can anybody help find the page in the online database (if there is one)? I can’t seem to find it. We marked the location on Maps and the coordinates took some finagling to get out of it so they’re definitely approximate: N40 46.530 W106 59.028 (Pictures attached)

When I was little (ok, maybe I’m still “little”) my grandparents took me to Universal Studios in Orlando. In Harry Potter World (I’m a huge Potterhead), when you buy a stuffed Pygmy puff there’s a huge adoption ceremony where you get to pick a name and it’s announced to the whole store. I was a little crunched for time so I chose “papaya”. A while afterward, I was introduced to Geocaching and what better name to give to my account than my pet! Unfortunately, just “papaya” was taken so I added a random number.

I did see that. I’d assume that’s just someone trying to be creepy, not actually a hint about the geocache.

There it is! Even though it’s archived, from the way it seems to me it might still me solvable and available. After all, the last log does say “back with a vengeance!” (Although the link in the image in the log is dead...) Does anyone have any ideas on that?

I’m reading about puzzle caches and that brought to mind something I saw a long time ago. It was a mystery cache, and either the name or the hider was just “.” (a separate account tailored to the cache) and many of the logs were by someone called “mysterious stranger” (with quotes, I remember that) or something to that effect. I remember it got mysteriously archived right before the first solver was about to fly in and find it. I also remember that periodically, logs were posted with pictures of strange, creepy, gothic-looking pictures on them. Does this ring a bell for anyone? A GC code, maybe?

Yeah you know what I’m talking about. (Pretty good, how bout you?) At least with all those summer concerts at that location, it’s got high odds of getting muggled... not that I would ever wish that on a geocache...

I admit, I like when cachers fill THOSE gaps.

Oh I don’t think having a high find count is important for your account looking good, I was just trying to find a counter argument to make myself look fair. I guess the fact that my counter argument didn’t hold up just proves my point further

There’s a geocacher in my hometown who’s hidden a TON of geocaches, but doesn’t have that many finds (like myself, I admit). The wording they often use in the descriptions of the (sorta crappy) caches is “filling in gaps”. I am opposed to the idea of using “filling in gaps” as the reasoning for hiding geocaches, at least in this case, because while it makes for more finds/hides, very little effort goes into each geocache, making for a more underwhelming experience. Additionally, “filling in” those gaps prevents other geocachers from hiding better quality caches in those spaces. That being said, I could see the argument for the other side. You get to spend more time overall geocaching, and your account looks better touting a higher number of finds/hides. What do y’all think?