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I knew that.

One of mine.

My thanks to Team K-9.My Webpage Lets try this.

As you can see I clearly am psychic.

Yeah. Where somebody says " I visited ----- cache" and you click on the ----- and go to the cache listing.

Great!! Can you answer the question?

Yeah, somebody will. One somebody or two but not more.

Following under the category of "duh" to some of you, I'd like to know how to post the cache site references. You know, the ones you just click on and you're at the cache page. Before answering I admit (1) I am not that computer savvy (2) I am too lazy to find out any other way and (3) I have no friends.

I am confused about this "graveyard" of which you speak. I had a TB. It was a fine TB and it traveled well. However, it went missing in California in a trashed cache. I was advised to send it to the graveyard so I went to the TB site. What I ended up doing was reporting it missing, whereabouts unknown. I saw nothing on the site about a graveyard and, from what I just read, what I did is better. But....what is this "graveyard" and how would I have accessed it?

After some months I really lost interest in swag. I started to log more LNTN. But every once in a while I'll open a cache and find something unique. The best one I ever got was a nifty fanny pack in camo. From then on, I have been using that fanny pack on every geocaching trip. Other items that comes to mind is an Iraqi 250 dinar, a Where's George? dollar and a Sacagiwea(sp?) dollar.

I think you're all nuts!

Someone who steals or defaces a cache without authority. They used to be called "pirates" because they would steal or loot the cache. But many feel "pirate" undeservedly elevates these folks to a rank beyond their station. Ah! Thanks for clearing that up. In the last two weeks, I have been the victim of a cache maggot. My cache was cleaned out but they left the log book and ammo can. I just assumed some kids found it.

Tell me about these "maggots". What does this term mean? On topic - Seems the law of natural selection applies here. A "jerk" could not long sustain his caches by behaving poorly. As some have suggested, his or her cache could disappear. Alternately, no one would want to seek it. It is interesting to know that I have unlimited authority over my caches. I will try not to let the power go to my head.

Either way, you are on a far faster pace than I am.

Wait a minute.Joined December 11...today is April 13.....87 days?

Last weekend we went on a little excursion to a very small Indiana town for a multi-cache. It was the only cache within miles that I had not found and it had been freshly unarchived. The weather was warm and the sun was shining and we spent a very pleasant few hours wandering around town - a town we would never have bothered to stop in otherwise. Got in some nice hiking and found the cache. Took an Iraqi dinar with badman Saddam's face on it. Had lunch at a local diner and returned home. Yeah, that's it. That's plenty.

Stop the madness!!!

This is a silly thread. Your numbers and my numbers depend on: How long you've been geocaching How much time you have to geocache What your purpose in geocaching is Whether or not you are honest How skilled you are Where you live (lots of them nearby or only a few) Who you cache with Many other things I did not think of. To use the tee ball analogy, we are not all batting against the same pitcher. There is no comparison of your numbers against mine. That is pointless. They're just numbers.

My approach is a bit different. If muggles are around, I just hold the old GPS up and walk around like I'm doing something important. Most people figure you are some kind of techno geek doing some incomprehensible field work. Never had a problem using this method.

This thread got me thinking.....always a dangerous thing. While we all agree that what this jerk did was deplorable, what is the legal situation? That is, can we say from a legal standpoint that a theft occurred? Is there any case law? A geocache is placed so others may find it and trade items but it is intentionally left in an unsecured location. Hmmm.

Thanks for the responses. Soooo, the site is slow for everyone at certain times and improvements are being worked on. Sounds good. Maybe I'll log my finds on Wednesdays.

Lately, I have experienced very slow speeds on the geocaching.com web site. Sometimes I have even been rejected from a site due to a high volume of traffic. Is anyone else experiencing this and are there any plans to correct this? I have broadband so my speed is not a problem.

Thanks. That is precisely my position too. Sometimes I want to get efficient and I think about getting a gizmo like you are discussing; however, reading this thread discourages me from that. Better to keep it simple (and a whole lot cheaper).

Mister low tech here. I started out using a paper copy and now I have a big file with my notes on the sheets, the day I found the cache, the number of caches to date, what I took and left. Being a stubborn sort, I now insist on keeping my files even though I have been exposed to the more efficient palm pilot method. It's a trade off of hard copy mementos versus maximum efficiency high tech. Ah! The memories! Personally, I do not fault either method as they both have advantages. My way requires no batteries. So there.

I didn't read the whole thread so I apologize in advance if this is out of sinc but... I came across a cache in Pennsylvania that someone had taken the time to take a dump on. I can not imagine the mentality of someone who would do that. It made me sick at heart.