NotThePainter

Not a cache, but a benchmark. That should give me half points, no? Here is the Moon and Venus setting over Highland Light.

Back when I ran a big (50-90 person) event I typically released the coord en-masse at the end of the evening. End was defined as between 8:30 and 9pm. (The event started at 6, put people usually showed up 5ish for dinner before the event so they could spend the event time chatting!) Yeah, a lot of people ran off. And a lot didn't. It was not a disaster, quite the opposite. This may have been both because of the time they were released as well as the size of the event. But in any case, the release of the coords can serve as the end of the event anyhow. Work with your reviewer, mine (gpsfun) was great about it.

I've never been fond of the geocheckers. I really like being in contact with those that seek my puzzles. It makes it all the better when you meet up with them at an event. Paul

I hear this a lot and as far as I'm concerned nothing could be further from the truth. The dirty secret of puzzle caches is that placing a puzzle cache is pretty easy. I'm a fairly prolific puzzle cache hider, and frankly, one reason is that I like puzzles but solving puzzle caches can be so hard! (Note it is very easy to create a very hard puzzle that is unsolvable. The trick is to make the solvable, sometimes with a little effort, sometimes with a lot of effort.) I'm in awe of those that are good at solving them! Paul

I have GCRAP6 which has a nasty bushwhack in it. One logger noted that he get on saying "Crap" while doing the cache!

Ditto the "been there." Glad you are coming back. Jeannette and I took her stick hiking last week, that was nice. Good thoughts your way from us.

In the absence of any official rules sanctioning body, FTF is what you make of it. I realized this early on in my "first to" days and realized that I enjoyed the "race" part of the hunt, and a race implies a starting time. That's when I stopped hunting FTF and starting hunting FTFP, the P stands for published. Like we saw above, FTFAP is also used, never seen FTFAPOGC, that seems both obvious and unweildy. It is like having different classes of racing, you might have the small engined cars and the big engined cars on the same track at the same time, but more than one trophy is handed out. Works for SCCA.

I live near the ocean. There was a lot of activity off the Atlantic Coast during WWII. We had an exploded 40mm munition wash up on shore this summer. The finder carried it to the police station. See the Cape Cod Times And of course the is almost worth watching. Please call the cops.

Most of my puzzles are that way, like these (the last two are very hard) The Art of Jean-Luc Charbonneau 2063 Bacchus If Extradition Were Possible... (much harder than it looks) Lots of Numbers I'll gladly tell you if you've solved it via email. Sadly, you'll need to travel to NH to get the "number."

Like my "Outstanding in his Field" mini-series. Rubik's Cube: Outstanding in his Field #1 Quipu: Outstanding in his Field #2 You cannot solve these at home. You should do some research at home, but bring your notes with you and solve them in the woods. #3 and #4 were designed but I moved from the area before placing them. I actually have an offer for a local maintainer if I want to travel back and place them, and someday I just might do that!

uh, umm... Have you looked at your own profile recently? Some would certainly say that you are bragging about your numbers. Different kind of bragging, but bragging none-the-less.

I've heard that mapmakers often put errors into the maps in innocuous ways so that they can detect when their copyrighted work is stolen.

Make a TB out of it.

I'm firmly in the camp of "after published" but I can't control what game others play. So I made my own game. I log FTFP, first to find published. You may choose to play this game, or one of your own design. Doesn't matter to me.

Man, you people in the desert just have too much land... :- ) Well done!

I was flying over the American West the other day, just marveling at the scenery below and I got to thinking about geocaching there. I know, I know, there are cache is Antartica, and above whatever high latitude there is in Alaska and Norway and Russia and who knows where else. But if I recall, having looked at at least some of them, there are other caches nearby. Caches tend to breed caches it seems. So where is the remotest cache? I'll define "remotest" in several different ways, including the anti-cache remoteness. First the rules. The cache must be on a continent. Sorry, otherwise the answer is just a special case. The cache must not be a virtual or locationless. Remote 1 cache - the cache that is furthest from its nearest cache. Remote 2 cache - the cache that is furthest from its nearest cache in the lower 48 United States. Remote 3 cache - the cache this is furthest from its nearest cache in Europe (and man, I don't want to define Europe, I'll let someone else tackle that.) Remote 4 anti-cache - the center of the largest circle, on a continent, that contains zero caches. (The center must be on the continent, not the entire circle) Sure some database massager can handle this one.

Think outside the box. compressed air (yeah yeah yeah, I can think of tons of reasons why that wouldn't work, but man, seeing the cache sail through the air... priceless)

Many, many people go there. Sadly, unless you just want to "hang out" or visit the porn places, getting a wonderful experience out of SL is a lot of work, and that isn't for everybody. Myself? I raced sailboats for about a year, couldn't afford to do it in the real world once my skipper sold "our" boat. And now I'm a sculptor, making the things I see in my head that just couldn't be made for real. So yes, there are things to do there, it just takes a lot of time and patience and if that isn't for you, that's fine also.

THere was a cache in my area that had a 4 sentence rule. I was so, so, tempted to find it and log: Took nothing. Left nothing. Signed log. Thanks. :- ) Paul

I just had to run the new numbers: Based on your overall rate of 0.16 finds per day, you'll find number 300 around 2/16/09 and the big 1000 around 2/08/21. However, over the past few months, your find rate has only been 0.01 finds per day. Based on that, you'll find number 300 around 7/28/16 and your 1000th around 12/31/69.

I think this log says it all for me: A Little Help From My Friends If you don't want to read it, that's ok. It was estimating 2027 and I've slowed down since then! Oh, I started in Feb 2004 if that matters.

Thanks everyone, good it get a consensus. Paul

I've never been a fan of micros. Yes, if you check my profile I have hidden some, I'd like to think that none of them are lame, but that's for the community to decide, not me. Anyway, I'm going to start hiding some more. Why? I live near an awful lot of National Park Service land. My plan is to take the trails through the land, find some sort of sign, and put up some easy multi. You then compute the coords and head off to the nearest guardrail or Stop sign that is not in NPS land. I've used magnetic keyholders in the past with waterproof paper. I dislike those tiny buttons things, but they are easy to hide on Stop signs. I've not yet used the waterproof match containers. Is there a good consensus on what makes a good micro hide? PS: Please don't tell me to place full size containers off the NPS land. You don't know my geography. Yes, it is possible but very hard. Most of the land around that isn't NPS land is private property, or water. Thanks! Paul

From reading all the replies I'd say that one person has given you a BIG clue.

And then there are the decoy puzzles...