AuntieWeasel
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There were very few of these in New England. I'm seeing many more in Olde England.
I don't think I've ever done one. I do the stages in the wrong order and not on the same day and lose my notes and generally don't have the attention span for it.
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Yes it is a card in a CD plastic case....and no Cache.....as in no nothing......
Not good...
It happens. With luck, whoever it is will get bored and move on. Especially if he's not getting a lot of feedback. Whoever it is hopes to get his jollies ruining your fun; don't let him.
Meanwhile -- places to hide new caches!
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Cache area? You mean, you found the card instead of the cache? Sounds like a sig item from someone who likes to poach caches.
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Oof. Yes. That's happened to me.
I've got 20 bugs (not counting my personal TB). Only four of them have made a move in 2010. Oddly, one of those is my very first bug, which is getting on for six years old.
The ways of trackables are mysterious.
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There are half a dozen within a mile of me. Somebody recently hit the closest town and peppered it with film can micros. I'll get them. Most of them, before they vanish.
There are also a lot of churchyard micros within a few miles. I HATE those, so I'll probably never do them.
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As for stealth...you need to be as stealthy as you need to be.
If you're way out in the woods and there's not another soul around for a mile, you don't need to be the slightest bit stealthy.
If you're at the intersection of Main and Elm at rush hour feeling up a wrought-iron fence for a film can...pretty stealthy.
Being Last To Find is a pretty wretched feeling.
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There was a time in my caching career when I took great pleasure in being the Cache Fairy and sprucing up caches that had gotten worn down. Fresh baggies and a bit of new swag. Trashing out the naff bits. Paper toweling out the insides if they were smelly. I went out for one or a few caches per trip, so it was something else to get gratification from.
There's all kinds of ways to enjoy the game.
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I usually don't bother to declare them missing. Not least because they occasionally pop up unexpectedly, even years later.
If you mean writing it off in your heart...yeah, six months, you can probably say goodbye to it.
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I had a two-cache mismatch that I couldn't work out, then I remembered there was a traveling cache that turned up at our local meets that I signed more than once.
But thirty caches is a big difference...
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Oh, thank goodness. I thought you had badly misspelled "serious."
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Please don't be put off posting photos! Most cache owners love photos in logs (and most of your fellow cachers do, too).
On the other hand, please don't be a moron like me. I once celebrated completing a particularly difficult multi by posting a picture of my hand triumphantly holding aloft the log book.
A friend had to write and tell me that the coords of the final were written on the cover and perfectly legible. I don't know how many people short-circuited that multi because of me.
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Plain old tupperware under a rock behind a Middle School. I don't remember how many tries it took. Several. Meanwhile, people were logging, "my first cache, and I walked right up to it!"
Feh. Stupid cache.
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Well, it could happen, but chances are they're there and you're just not finding them.
Were these micros, by any chance? Were there hints, and did you read them?
This isn't quite as easy as it sounds...
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Happened to me more in the States than here. It's common, sadly.
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I think you meant: "...so I talk properly" :-P
See? What'd I tell you?
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Heh. That's cool. I lumme some maps.
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Welcome to the UK! You may have noticed, they talk funny here. (I was born in Johnson City, so I talk right).
They do hide some fabulous caches, though. We don't get many ruined castles in East Tennessee.
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Some folks can't be trusted to hold a stick. I'd be annoyed, too.
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My DNF rate is about ten percent, but I often screen caches beforehand to make sure they've been found recently.
Keep at it. Avoid micros and multis while you're new. Read hints. Relax. Enjoy yourself!
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Yeah, I'd go with funny.
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Not if you logged the cache, no. Truly over-cautious people like myself don't do caches that give them the vapors.
Not unless somebody dares me to.
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I saw a whole box of trolls at a table sale over the weekend for £5. I was sorely tempted. I always hated those things and thought they were horrible...but, hey! Whole box full!
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hahahaha
hey at least im not a lurker, gleening, and not learning, im being active, and besides sitting on this forum reading, and posting, and getting responses worth listening to, im out there caching, and hiding, and donating money by leaving it in caches,
Donating money by leaving it in caches? Donating it to whom? And why?
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I love my Colorado, but I have to admit, it's a hinky beast. Firmware updates haven't done much to improve that. I believe my map updating problems may be card related -- I removed and re-seated the card with the maps on, and it's been pretty stable since.
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Nah, cache maggots are mostly just run-of-the-mill losers; the kind of people who break things they can't enjoy. Even when they cite the environment, they don't do it very convincingly.
"Billy No Mates" they call people like that here.