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I like the idea myself but the cons outweigh the pros in my opinion. I visited a cache recently that's had some items in it since it was placed in 2003. Even if I came upon the cache and saw a nice cigar, I'd not take it and smoke it. I'd be afraid of someone having done something to it.

My Favorite geocaching memory has to be meeting 2 fellow cachers while in FL for job training. I was hundreds of miles from home, thrown in a hotel with no means of transportation and the dynamic duo of Burgi Dad and Yuzawa Kat came to my rescue. The first night out with them made me realize what wonderfull people are involved in this sport / hobby. I doubt they will truely realize how much I appreciated their generosity of their time but it can't be put into words.

Most caches hardly have anything worth trading in them, unless they are very demanding to complete. I was suprised when a relative newby located a mentally challenging cache in my area and took the 10 dollar bill out that I left and left a friggin travel bug. I have many other items I hoped to place in the final cache on this one but none would fit. I took a coin out I thought was cool and left a 10 spot.

My goal is to complete all the 5/5's in a 200 mile radius. We finished Tube Torcher over the weekend, hit a stumbling block with High Water due to a padlock, and L0st C0ve will hopefully be finished up next week.

One of the locals here had a copperhead strike his hiking stick and there was a fair amount of venom on the stick. Better the stick than the hand that would have been going for the cache, don't you think? They're also great for clearing out cob webs, parting holly bushes, lifting up pine branches, etc. . .

This was taken while doing a multi in NC called Biffle Falls GCG40P. The picture doesn't do the area justice.

The changing of the seasons has my accuracy from the winter time average of 20' to the summer average of 50'. It's the cover around here. Although while out one day in a wide open area we obviously had sun spots or something. I was showing 5' accuracy and right on top of the cache (yes an urban micro at a light pole) all the sudden I went from being 10' from the cache to 300' from it. It zeroed out and then jumped to a couple of hundred feet again. It was a craz day of caching to say the least. We ended up sticking with micros instead of going up in the woods and running in circles.

I think the volunteers have done an excellent job in Southwestern VA and Northeast TN. They arrived to us in a quick and efficient manner. With the size of them, it's sometimes difficult to find a cache they can physically be placed in. But they're getting out there. The aggravating thing we're encountering is they are listed in a cache's inventory but they aren't to be found when you get to the cache. I guess there's a lot of mantle pieces out there already? I think the names with the jeeps is sort of cool. I have one I'm trying to get to a cache that shares the same name as the cache. I also attended an event where the family's last name was the same as the jeeps name. Many at that very event commented how they like the name of their jeep and they wouldn't trade out with jeeps from neighboring states. I wonder if they will ever place them in a cache? If a low percentage of jeeps make it into distribution should that area's allocation of jeeps be pulled? I think it should, what's the feelings on that?

I thought it might be a sneak preview of High Water 2 I guess I was wrong.

Was there a 35mm under the base of the pole or was it a hide a key?

I'm quickly approaching the 1,000 mark but I enjoy going out hunting with other cachers. I also enjoy finding interesting areas that I never knew about. The variety of caches gives something to be enjoyed in one way or another.

To log a virtual / locationless you must pose nude for a photo. It will be the advent of nude caching. Possibly a "WOW factor" involved (especially if you find that Silicon Valley, isn't just in California) and also the "why didn't I think of that."

Although they are minimal in cost, I leave stickers that are similar to those oval OBX stickers you often see on cars. They have "FTF" in the middle and around the edge it has "A Cub Cache." They were about a buck thirty each and the local cachers seem to love them. It also helps increase the visability of cacher in the area and reveals their vehicles so we can cut their tires so they can't continue beating us to the FTF. (just kidding on that but it's what I jokingly tell people)

I think all areas has their own person who makes you realize just why abortion is legal. We have a fellow in this area who is hung up over micros yet he continues to log them and post snide remarks about them. I usually get my laugh in a log following his. One such log is: "We hear ya and hear ya and hear ya. When's the subscription over cause I'm sure I'm not the only one tired of the issues. Yet another quick and easy find while working in the area. Thanks for a quick smiley." At least it gives the cache owner and some area cachers a good laugh.

I guess it would take a special kind of person to help in the clean up. For me, I don't take anyone's crap. (I just had to say that)

It's good to see the state I live in recognizes the potential economic impact of geocaching. My friends laugh at me because I base my decision to stay at a particular hotel depending on the distance to the nearest caches. I guess I'm hooked, huh?

When you search ebay, just try looking for hide a key and you'll save a couple of bucks. I won a thermometer hide a key with the bid of a buck. Of course shipping was a few bucks but it was less than I could have picked up locally. It seems they think some cachers are suckers and by simply adding the word "geocaching" adds about 2 - 3 bucks to the minimum price.

Micros give me gas. just kidding Caches are like people, there's all types and they each have their place. Some 6' under, but we can't do that with a cache, can we?

Usually a pile of sticks / rocks / leaves, phone booth, light pole, gaurd rail or heating unit is a give away. But there are times I use the hint after looking for a while. Now that I'm paperless it's not something I've decrypted, copied and pasted onto a sheet I used to have to carry so it takes a little more effort to look at the hint now.

Sounds like a good reason to relocate. Oh jeez, now I know I'm addicted. But when you've found all the caches, why not try placing some and encourage others to hide some? Hopefully that will give you and others more to look for out there.

This one is took me 5 tries to get. I looked on average 30 mintues each trip. Blue Turquoise Stinger It's a short multi with only 1 stage (with a color code) and then the final. On my 4th trip to the site I thought I saw the container that housed the color code. I drove my hand into the leaves to grab what I thought was a 35mm film canister, only to find that it was a broken bottle of Jack Daniels that sliced me open. It was off to the emergency room. A few weeks later I made the 5th attempt at it. I finally found the first stage and after about 45 minutes of total confusion I figured out the color code. It was off to finally sting the stinger. I hold the hider of that one in high regards. He makes you think outside the box and you never know what to expect next.

We have a cacher who has a series at some of the most beautiful waterfalls that are often right by the road. The sights are amazine after you walk around the tree line. The series is called Fallin' For Virginia and was placed by Konnarock Kid & Marge. I am starting a series around some of my fave fishing spots around a lake I live at. Since caching now takes up my fishing time, I don't mind to give up my secret fish'n holes. hahahaha We also have a cacher who has a spin off at Bob Evans restaurants that he calls The Farm. I placed one in my area and called it Another Farm. Hey, Cracker Barrell ain't the only contry cook'n place we can have caches is it?

On the rare occasion I trade I will post and log it. It's rare to find something other than McJunk, but ya just never know.

We are still working on TT I and will hopefully finish it up very soon as well as nab High Water. The weather hasn't been cooperating with us when we'v had free time. A TT II would ROCK!!!!!

Being a scuba diver I have considered placing a cache in another popular dive spot at a nearby lake. I have thought about using some type of mesh containers, something like strawberries comes in. I would wire tie the back side together and use something to close the front so it could be opened. No it wouldn't be water-proof but I am thinking of making it some type of plastic item exchange. For a log book, there are dive slates that you can write on underwater. Although not a cache, there's a piece of chalk board down at 130' at that same lake where people sign their name, hometown, date, depth and water temp. It's always interesting to see where people are from that visit and sign that slate.