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What's a kilometer?

Add it to the list! I checked on this one today. The 2013 log was not in the logbook. The other cacher could not make it, so no one logged a "found it" today. That makes it over 6 years of loneliness.

OT: I just noticed we have the same join date, cerberus1. Cool. "Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world...", huh?

1145/51 There is no ideal. I've found caches that was the only cache hidden by a cacher with lots and lots of finds that was mediocre at best, and I've found several caches by a cacher with only 1 or 2 finds that were pretty awesome. The ideal number of finds is howerever many you want, the ideal number of hides should be in the range of "you can maintain every one of them if there is a problem" and "they are worthwhile to the game" (that last one is highly subjective!).

Back when I started in 2004, it was a race to find as many as I could find. There weren't a lot of caches around here back then, so I had fun travelling and caching. Most of the caches around here were fun to find. Nowadays, there are waaaay too many powertrails and Wal-Mart lamp skirt hides (ah, that old chestnut), so I just skip over those for the most part. I may pick up the odd urban micro if I happen to be going to town, but I plan my caching trips around hard-to-access or scenic areas. The last few hiking/camping trips I've scheduled revolved around finding some awesome caches in the canyons of North Alabama. I'm making caching fun for the reason I got into it... to take me to awesome places I never would have known about otherwise. I've also been incorporating caching into my other hobbies. I've recently taken up kayaking. While I enjoy going kayaking to many places that don't have geocaches, I have planned a couple of kayaking trips around getting awesome/challenging caches. So, I still go, but my selection process has gotten a lot stricter over the years. The first year I cached, I found my 500th cache on the 1 year anniversary of when I started caching. Last year I found my 1000th cache on my TEN year caching anniversary. Quite a steep decline in caches/day!

There have been many a cache hidden in the depths, from SCUBA gear needed to shallow ponds. Here are some links to previous discussions... http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=332648&st=0&p=5511559&hl=underwater%20cache&fromsearch=1entry5511559 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=332058&st=0&p=5506018&hl=underwater%20cache&fromsearch=1entry5506018 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=325690&st=0&p=5421682&hl=underwater%20cache&fromsearch=1entry5421682 If you find a container that might work, be sure to test it by submerging in a bucket or at the actual hide spot and keep a check on it for a week or so before publishing it to make sure it's watertight, or, alternatively, come up with a logbook that won't mind getting wet, like a diver's slate.

One of the first night caches I ever found was a great one. It was about 10 years ago. The cache is still active, but I think it's in disrepair. The starting point is an old country cemetery along a back road. It was a very peaceful place...until the sun went down. Here is my log from when I found it. Here is a picture of the starting point, after dark. And here is what the cache container looked like 10 years ago. Quite a surprise in the woods at night... Something not mentioned in the log: As I started my adventure alone, not far from the back of the cemetery, a giant hare jumped right in front of me. His eyes glowed red in my flashlight beam, and he just stopped and stared for what seemed like forever. I really almost just packed up and ran back to my truck!

I'm more of a kayak person than a canoe person. I've definitely found some "5" terrains in it, but not a true "5" difficulty, yet. I went down Bear Creek in Alabama today in it. It's a shame that there wasn't a single geocache along the way. It's too far away for me to maintain one, so I didn't place any. I sure had fun, though!

My geocaching backpack (which is a small hydration pack) contains a pen.

I have a hard one to get to called Floatin' the Lux that was last logged by an into app user that is no longer active in 2013, though I suspect the last time the cache was actually logged was in April of 2009. I've made arrangements to go check on this one next month. Another cacher is coming with me, so if it's still there, he's gonna log it. Quite the dust-off if that intro app log is false.

Some people like to hide very difficult caches or caches of certain D/T ratings to fill a grid under an assumed account, then log them as found under their usual account.

I think that only happens if you enter the "solved" coordinates in the cache page. I just went back and tried this... If you edit the coordinates on a puzzle cache to show the solved coordinates, the new location shows up on the cache page map, but the smiley stays in it's original location on the main geocache map.

I have a webcam cache (the last one in my state, and the closest one for a couple hundred miles) That gets more visitors than any of my other caches, but it's only had 233 logs since 2005. Of course, the "big" city it's in around here is only about 24,000 people.

I thought of that. Part two was a micro hidden up in a tree. You needed to lower some fishing line to get Once you open the matchstick the container empty. A bolt used for a weight for this hide, if unscrewed held the coords to the next stage. The rest of the stages were difficult hides in local preserves. They seemed like standard geocaching hides that just required some thinking, sweat, and tears. I don't know much about upstate NY (in fact, I'm pretty far away), but I'm just playing devil's advocate here. You mention preserves. Could a recent change in the preserves geocaching rules have rendered the hides out-of-compliance?

(emphasis mine) Could it be the actual container location or the way it was hidden was the issue?

You used the name "monkey puzzle"... do you have an actual "monkey puzzle"? I made one for a hide, and actually found a second one by another hider today.

As I was reading over some old cache logs (as I am wont to do from time to time), I found these that made me SMH, as the kids say these days. And then that same log adds... This was was only slightly nonsensical... This one was destroyed by new construction, but that didn't stop this guy from finding it! And, a very succinct log on a cache that had already been reported missing several times over...

I hate geocaching (app) yesterday because it logged my finds out of order. I'm OC enough for it to bother me, but lazy enough that I'm not going to delete and re-log 17 or so logs.

I wasn't halfway around the world, but was about 700 miles from home. I went to find a cache, completely unaware that no one had found it, yet. When I found the blank log, I had assumed it was a replacement log. Only after I got back to my computer to log it did I find out I got the FTF

I hate geocaching today because I didn't get to go.

As stated above, traditional letterboxes give directions to the box, mostly in the form of clues in a story. With a birdhouse as a container, you can tell a story about meeting a bird at the coordinates you post on the cache page, then weave a tale of how you followed the bird (maybe it's a talking bird that wanted you to visit his house) through a a park, pointing out landmarks you pass by or turn at to lead the story reader along the same path you took to get to the cache.

I've done it. CO was no longer maintaining a hide. It was a good spot for a hide. It got archived by a reviewer, and I placed a new cache in the location.

UPDATE They've admitted it was a geocache, but they are still calling it a "target" and a "device".

Cache mistaken for bomb in Grenada, MS. The mailbox the cache was in was sitting on the ground next to a tree. Even after lots of geocachers commented on the paper's website that it was a geocache (a few posted pictures of the geocache contents from when they found it, but were asked to remove them from the comments), the paper ran a front page article that the possible bomb that was exploded was still a mystery and that no one knew what it was or how it got there.