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Hey now, that kid (one of them anyways) is a GIRL. You would be rude to a weak, helpless, mentally inferior girl? You would brutishly ignore her cute little caches? She thought she was being clever with her soft coords, poor thing. Come on, one of her hides is called "Skurdibbles!". Sure, I don't have a clue what that means either, but who am I to quash her girlish enthusiasms?

I would like to see a video of someone trying to sign the log in the pen with the pen. It would be like a small child trying to put their arm into their sleeve, and they keep going around in circles chasing their sleeve.

I was stung by a bee on Sunday during my Banner Weekend of Caching Misery. Last summer I thought a cache was up a metal pipe. I reached in, and hauled out a very active wasp nest. The ensuing chase scene was like a cartoon; me sprinting down the trail with an arrow-shaped cloud of wasps hot on my heels. Suck it up, be a man, cache on. Let's not start sticking Warnings on everything. Responsible people will be aware and take proper precautions. Unresponsible people can stay home.

This just made my whole day:

The lack of reports is a bit surprising. Wasn't it just a few months ago that a New! World! Record! was being trumpeted every week or so? Hasn't anybody done all 1,000? I'm seriously curious. All seriousness aside, has the Power Trail fad waned already? Is it now the Beanie Baby of geocaching? What will be the new fad, the Silly Bands of the caching world? On a local forum someone brought up the idea of filling a barrel with 500 film cans, each containing a log, and allowing 500 finds on the same cache. No need to drive anywhere at all.

I didn't see the original write-up, but I think your cache page is fine right now. The cache has only had one logged dnf so far. Leave it as it is and see what responses you get from cachers who go looking for it. Never mind what the forum thinks. Opinions here vary so much as to be wellnigh useless in the real world.

In the words of Spanky McFarland, "You said a mouthful!!!"

I've gotten about 7 or 8 FTFs in the past year. Only on one of them did I go charging out of the house the minute I saw the notification. From Publishing to finding was about 45 minutes. Here's my log for that one: Only 3 other times have I leaped into the car and gone racing to be first...and was beaten each time. All my other FTFs were several hours, and even a couple of days, after the cache was published. But these were all within 14 miles from home. Anything further south than that, and I don't even try. Local cachers know why.

I'm a recording musician, and I drop a CD or two into caches as swag now and then. I don't go overboard with it, and I don't make any mention of it in my Find logs. I also put a couple in my own hides. No complaints yet! As long as the content and artwork is family friendly, it's no different than any other swag.

I wonder if McDonald's is shaking with fear over this? You know, I don't think I would know a happy meal toy if I saw one. I've never bought a happy meal. Do they really make you happy, or is this just an evil ploy to lure helpless children into McDonald's clutches?

Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Let's not be too hasty. It says that the cache is IN a small round camo chew can. The actual cache might not be so bad. Then again, it might be a wadded up gum wrapper.

Ok. Good enough for me.

I'm going to hate myself for saying this, but isn't advertising in the forums rather frowned upon? If I put a song about geocaching on my next album, can I promote it here? I'm not going to, because I think a geocaching song would be silly. Nothing against the author or readers of this book; just wondering.

Thanks wimseyguy, now I really want some of that Colby Jack. Still two hours to go before quitting time. But I suppose the time will go faster if I actually do some work instead of goofing around on the internet.

My humble observation is that these giant power trails have evolved into a game other than geocaching. There doesn't seem to be any "hide something, find something" involved, if these are all identical caches. The old "take some stuff, leave some stuff" no longer applies either. It may be a fun game for those involved, as they devise new and creative ways to grab as many as possible as fast as possible. Nothing wrong with that, but I wouldn't call it geocaching anymore. It's clearly going in the direction that virtuals went, before they became Waymarking. Maybe the Frog will catch this drift as well and branch it off into "Leapfrogging" or something.

I'm reading this thread, and I'm pretty sure I don't know who Mia Farrow is. Do I need to get on board? I DO know who Soleil Moon Frye is. Do I need to get a life?

How high is too high? If you hide it on the gazebo, will people shorter than you be tempted to climb up on the railing? I've searched gazebos that are pretty solid, and others that have flimsy railings that won't take the weight. But I'm tall myself, so I can jump up and pull myself up from the rafters. You don't want folks breaking anything trying to reach the high places. My personal opinion is a NANO can be hidden in plain site with little fear of muggling. Just place it so the muggles won't accidently touch and dislodge it.

It was indeed a long day. I pulled out of my driveway at 4:30AM and pulled back in at 9:00PM. But I got 37 finds and only 3 DNFs. I probably could have gotten another 10 or so finds, but I abandoned the bike trail at the halfway point and went hiking in the woods. Had a great time, and completed the requirements for 2 challenge caches. Consumed a box of donuts, 3 bottles of Mt Dew, 3 bottles of ice tea, and 2 bottles of water. Felt slightly ill later on, but what the heck.

I've been focusing on biking and caching this year, so I've had some pretty good days along a few Rails to Trails. My best day so far has been 32 Finds and 5 DNFs in 9 hours. Some tough hides and multis in that count, too. I won't do "numbers runs", but I do like to see the numbers add up. I have another long day planned for tomorrow. 50+ caches loaded in the GPS; but I don't reckon to get them all.

Or Sackville-Bagginses. At the moment my mind is still boggling that the mere word "clam" brought up such images as those seen above. They're seriously freaking me out.

Been caching for less than 2 years, yet I know far more about this hobby than I ever will about Harry Potter. Never read the books, never watched the films (in spite of my obsession with Emma Watson). As far as I'm concerned "muggle" is a geocaching term. I sometimes use the word "clown" when refering to muggles in cars. As in, "Is that clown gonna sit right next to that light pole all day?"

I'm not a social cacher. If I meet another cacher on the trail AFTER I've found the cache, I'll be glad to say hello and exchange a "Good luck! Have fun!" with them. But if I'm on my way to the cache, or going round and round GZ muttering curses under my breath, I wanna be left alone. I logged a DNF yesterday after a long frustrating search. Near the end of the ordeal, a couple of chaps went by on a nearby trail. I knew they were cachers, and it would have been easy to give them a friendly holler. But I hid behind a tree until they passed by. No big deal. Just the way I roll.

The only caches (micro or otherwise) I don't like are the ones I can't find. I don't think Groundspeak can come up with any filtering software to help me with that.

Shirt? Was there a shirt in that picture?

I took a look at the first Find log: