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It seems that the anti geocachers have many tools to annoy us. Such as, bots, maggots, pirates, and hardcore tree huggers. It is all part of the game, frustrating, but part of the game.

WOO HOO! The new statistics link is awesome, and the fact that it auto updates is the icing on the cake. Thank you Groundspeak lackeys, and a very Merry Christmas to you too.

My first event, everyone was calling me a "newbie" since I had not even found 100 caches. I have passed that, so The only people I would consider inactive are the ones who have not been online or caching in over six months (unless they have a reason not to be). Casual cahers may not get the big numbers of other cachers, but they like to go for quality, not quantity. My wife and I are in the OCD category where we are trying to get an ever expanding circle of caches around our gz. You can imagine our frustration when we run into a disabled cache that messes up our pretty bubble. Now you know why we love to go out and try and fix caches that others just wish would be archived.

Simply reading the rules and regulations of how to properly place a geocache would have made the news team sound so much more informed. Muggles, what ya' gonna do?

Snow, no problem. Sleet, painful but fun (if you make the find). Summer rain, oh yeah! Winter rain, not so much. The truth is, bad weather just adds a star to the terrain and difficulty.

My wife and I have had this experience a few times, and it still amazes me that the local officers have no idea what geocaching is. I have printed out local geocaches in my town and submitted them to the local police, and since then there has been very few problems with the law. In New Jersey, the problem seems to be night caching. Remember, just be patient, they are just trying to do their job by keeping the community safe. (even if they should know better.)

It depends on how you draw the radius I live in NJ, and have a 4 mile radius cleared, but that is only if you don't go out of state. Since there is a charge to leave NJ, I tend to stay in state.

Wouldn't that be a puzzle cache, or a multi cache? The first stage can be a combination locked container with coords to the next stage on the outside. Find all the stages, and you found the combination to the lock. Now you just have to figure out the order of the numbers, and TADA the puzzle is solved. Not exactly what you had in mind, but a low tech solution to a cool idea.

Every time I find a container full of what I consider garbage swag, my six year old says, "OOOH daddy, look at that". Crap is truely in the eyes of the beholder. That said, it would have to have been a old hot wheels car with no wheels, and all rusty. Why would you spend the time to take a mile hike, and then leave that?

Lurker is such a harsh term. My wife and I love to read some of the topics just to see what's going on in the caching world. Since we cannot add comments to our local geocaching group site, this is a nice outlet of information for us.

The worst dnf was in a little park in a seedy neighborhood. My wife and I went around a corner in the trail to find some thug beating on a woman. Unarmed, and not looking for a fight with a local drug dealer, we beat feet, and left that cache for later. We returned a very short while later (now armed) only to find the area abandoned by the thug. The second time at the cache we did find the object of our obsession.

We use a Tom Tom one for getting us in the general area (ie parking), and then we use the tom tom (where am I feature) and a garmin e-trex venture hc for zeroing in on GZ. The more people you go with, the easier the find, and your GZ area will not need to be as tight.