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I have lived in Western Washington all my life and I can assure you the folks in BC say "Eh" at the end of pretty much every sentence in general conversation. I worked for a Canadian company for a few years and we joked that "Eh" was the Canadian equivalent of "um", "huh", "like", "you know" so common in the USA. Nothing more than a filler.

I live in Mount Vernon and may be able to provide some local help. As has been asked, what additional details can you provide?

Nope. I have signed logs with charcoal, grass and leaves (they make a nice green juice) and blood. If I don't sign the log, I don't claim the find. Yep. A twig and some mud, a twig and squished flowers, even a muddy fingerprint.

I am unable to make any sense out of this post.

2B1ASK1 I would've had more fun caching with the other kids back in the day, rather than trading pins. Of course, geocaching hadn't yet been invented when I went to those conventions. The internet did not exist.. but codes, cyphers, dead drops, and letterboxing has been around a long time. I like to think that geocaching just evolved from all of them. I asked about 10 years ago. Not platinum yet, but I have leveled up to 3 and 32.

Hey Seth! Haven't seen you around for many years, as you say. In our (and your) neck of the woods I rarely see cachers asking outright for permission to claim a find when they actually should DNF. Typically they will just claim the find and no one knows anything to the contrary. Still love your caches and have good memories of the ones we have found so far. I see your webcam cache is still active. We may need to go do it sometime soon. Bottom line for me? No find, no smiley.

We found our first 6 caches 12/26/2003. Our kids were 10 and 7. This created a great potential opportunity for us to share a family experience. It worked for a few years and all 4 of our family members still cache to some extent. Our find count has declined in recent years since our kids grew up and moved away. I still am on the forums every day and am certainly emotionally invested in the game. Still a premium member. In our early years I took pride in and worked hard to maintain our find count among the top 100 in Washington State. As power trails and the popularity of the game grew, I found our team was not able to "keep up" so I/we changed our focus and we now find caches when we can and we still enjoy the game very much. Our stats are just that. One of these years we may finally complete a challenge to find a cache every day of the year. Not in a single year, but over time. Not too many days left, but January has two days that we didn't make a point of, or try to "check off" this year just to satisfy some list. In the early days there were many cachers who adamantly claimed that anyone and everyone who was finding caches MUST hide at least one cache for every 10 found. Thankfully this debate has quietly receded into our glorious history. Perhaps a professor can find a way to quantify what people find to be engaging in geocaching. The reasons to start and the reasons to stop are as entertaining as the reasons to keep playing. I choose to keep playing regardless of the stats.

Hey there pig. Don't have a heart attack, but I pretty much agree with you on this one.

I would also log a DNF since I didn't find the actual cache. Well done on the caching ethics front!

Absolutely log your find! I have found quite a few caches by simply deciding to look at a spot that "should" have a cache. To me this is the epitome of caching.

I suspect more people are finding caches these days using their phones with an app than those using a dedicated GPS. I have a nice GPS, but I have been using my phone the past few years since it is one less thing to be toting about. I do take the GPS if it will be a long day on trails. Battery life is far superior with the GPS.

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This thread reminds me why I generally do not attend event caches, and when I do I don't post an attended log.

I get zero spam in my email box related to geocaching so I am assuming this must be related to the forums.

We are boring because we don't make a big deal about milestones. Here is the log from the first cache we found the day of our 10th caching anniversary. First find to mark the start of our 11th year of caching. Jane wanted to make a couple of gift purchases for relatives back in the Seattle area so George insisted on making at least one find in the downtown area. today. Needed the hint but made a quick find after that. Working as a group made this find a lot easier. Thanks for the fun!

How about this discussion stay focused on the theory that some high find count cachers play fast and loose with the generally accepted norms within the caching community? This has nothing to do with "medium-numbers cachers" or "low-numbers cachers" since the topic is all about high numbers cachers and their behaviors.

I don't find so many caches that I feel there is any need for me to filter. I can easily read each cache page and choose which ones I want to try to find. I expect the vast majority of cachers can easily fit into this model if they chose to. Sadly there are many cachers who proudly proclaim they do not read the cache pages. In my opinion, not reading the cache page reduces the cache to a number rather than the experience the cache hider hoped you would experience.

I have been asked more than a few times over the years and I always ask if the person has ever heard of Geocaching. If not, I tell them it is a techy game of hide and seek and start telling them about GPS and latitude and Longitude and online listings. And they usually walk away shaking their heads. For police or security I always tell them I am Geocaching and go from there. I have never had a bad experience using this strategy in 10+ years. Try to lie or bluff and you will get people suspicious.

Of course you would, after all, in three years you have never logged a single cache, why start now? You are either naïve or are simply trying to stir the pot. In response to your original question. I would log each cache in order as I found them. The date would not really be important since I don't log cache finds via my phone. I log them via my home computer when I have the time and opportunity to do so. Problem solved as far as I can tell.

I will do my best to respectfully disagree with your opinion regarding unsolicited cache replacements (throwdowns), especially by someone who has not previously found the real cache. You didn't find the original cache so you really have no idea if the container was gone or not. I recently did a maintenance run on a cache I own in a nearby State Park. A prior finder posted a note saying it was gone and there was a string of DNF logs before I disabled the cache. My wife and I checked on the cache and I found it about 20 feet further into the woods from the trail where it was supposed to be. I am very thankful the prior finder didn't leave a throwdown in a misguided effort to be helpful. The needs maintenance log that WAS posted alerted me to the problem and allowed me to put things back in order. Every cache "replacement" that is done without the approval of the owner is a throwdown. Every throwdown is a degradation of our game in my opinion. To each their own.

I will admit that I have never, ever used a cut and paste log. Every cache I/we have found has deserved a unique log when we posted our find. Anything less than a unique log for each cache find is simply being lazy. If you find 500 caches in a day you should write 500 unique logs unless the cache owner expects you to post crud because the cache didn't deserve anything more than crud. Blech

If the "impossible" puzzle is still active I would suggest you contact the cache owner for direction on how to proceed. Until you do that you have no real way to determine if you can complete the puzzle or not.

I usually delete my own Notes for TB dips or drops. It does not affect the TB. Please do not use Note logs to dip TB. It creates anoying SPAM for the CO. Instead, do the dipping by editing your Found log (or DNF or whatever) that you have previously left. Please feel free to use Note logs if you happen to be dipping your trackables in any of my caches. I don't find the notification emails annoying in any way.

Wow, I will have a darned tough time managing to get to 50 charter members. Running the macro I show 67 finds and 16 charter members. Quite the interesting challenge concept and I hope that whatever version shows in in the PNW may be a little more attainable for me.

I met my wife to be in 1979. Married her in 1980. She gave me a GPS for Christmas 2003 because she thought I might have fun with this new game. She was right.