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While it may be religious in nature, i'm thinking it's something more criminal. I really have no idea how or why, but is it possible that this is somehow drug related? A "get high with Buddha" idea that someone came up with? Why hide this stuff under a rock? I might move my cache but, until i found out for sure, it wouldn't be because of religion... I really doubt it is criminal in nature. I have dealt with a lot of criminal cases in my employment, some of them rather bizarre, and I have never heard of such a thing being related to criminal activity. All signs point to it being something religious. If I didn't know what it was, I would be more suspicious of a geocache found in the woods than a Budda and an urn!

For me it is not an issue of hating FTF. Although I personally am not at all into it, I don't hate people who seek to be FTF or hate that it is a part of the activity for some people. That really makes no difference to me. Instead, my concern is that people who seek to be FTF are only a small part of the activity, and some don't care for the activity being viewed as solely competitive. So, naming a magazine with FTF indicates that it is for only a portion of those involved and also has the potential to turn off some people. That seems like a rather bad idea from a marketing standpoint.

Based on the possibility that the location is something spiritual to someone, I think I would move my cache. Obviously there is no way to know for sure, but I would hate to be a contributing factor to the disturbance of something that might have a lot of meaning to someone. Sure, nobody likes to give up a cache spot that they really like, but there are plenty of other great places to hide caches.

I don't love the name. I think it gives the connotation that the magazine will focus on the activity only in the competitive sense, which isn't going to appeal to the entire potential audience. So it seems like a poor choice. Why choose something that will likely eliminate some potential readers right off the bat, especially if the magazine isn't actually only about that subject? Regardless, I will happily buy a well written geocaching magazine and certainly wish anyone making a go at it all the best. Based on the previous failures though, I am not likely to pre-subscribe. I hate to punish a new venture based on others' past failures, but I'm afraid that is simply the case here, based mainly on the last guy who tried, who came out of nowhere and made a lot of sincere sounding empty promises. But put out a good first issue and I'll likely sign up.

Gowalla and FourSquare are free iPhone apps that have a lot in common with Waymarking. Foursquare is also on Android and there is a currently limited Android Gowalla app. In particular, Gowalla gives you virtual items that you can trade at other locations, so it also reminds me a lot of caching. I have become rather hooked on Gowalla, which I was first introduced to by a person at Groundspeak.

I have seen far more wet pill bottles than I have seen wet film canisters.

Mine is my name and previous last initial. My forum subtitle of Pika Cacher comes from my love of pikachu and the CarleenC is a reference to my married last initial. I'm still waiting for my husband to change his name to Mr Pikagirl. For some reason he keeps dragging his feet on that.

Good to see you!

I had quite a bit of fun watching it all on twitter and the 10 balloonies blog yesterday. I certainly wish Groundspeak would have won, but it was fun nonetheless. It will be interesting to see the reports that come out of it on how all of the teams formulated their plans.

Up to 6! Yay!

Yay!

Thanks so much for posting that Kelly. I can't imagine how hard this all must have been for you. Best wishes and all my sympathies to you and your family.

Many of the oldest caches were named 'geocache'. Back when that cache was made, the system gave the name Geocache to any cache that was submitted without a name.

Your health is more important than any geocoin. Send the owners of it a note and let them know. They will understand.

I would say that the bumping of old threads has greater potential for degradation. Edit. Like he said: Apparently. Pointless bumps are leading to the degradation of the forum.

The cache that is the subject of this post does not bother me, but I have seen a few from time to time that were rather obnoxious. I just simply ignored them though, and since they tended to come from the same hider, I just ignored that person's caches in general. No need to find every cache or ruminate over tacky cache pages. Plus others with a different sense of humor kind of liked them I think.

Report his account to Groundspeak so that they can look into banning it if warranted. After that just ignore him. People usually behave badly for attention that they don't deserve, plus I see no reason to waste time, emotions, or energy on such a person. They will eventually get bored and go away. They almost always do. And to the extent you are concerned that you once liked this person, don't worry about it. Sometimes you just have to write some people off as not worth the effort. If they change their ways later and find you again, then great. If not, you are better off without them around.

I highly recommend the Northern CO area. 7 Utes Lodge is one of my all time favorites. Then, I have a soft spot for Cameron's Rocky Mountain High. Finally, Ruby Jewel is one of my favorite hikes. My last time up there predated that cache though.

True 5 terrain in my opinion should require special equipment, so it would need a boat or climbing gear etc. I know some consider length of hike with it, but I tend to feel that a long hike does not equate to a 5 terrain. 5 difficulty is pretty subjective. It would have to involve a difficult puzzle, or I suppose a difficult to meet challenge cache.

Hawaii If you meant continental US, then I would like to go from the Black Hills over to Missoula, Montana. Both areas have a number of interesting looking caches with nice hikes.

People can get themselves worked up into so much angst over these things. Personally, I have no interest in religious items and find a number of them to be rather tacky, but I also have no problem ignoring things that don't interest me. So if I see some religious materials in a cache, I just really don't care. It isn't going to have any effect on my enjoyment of the cache or particularly affect my day. Just like the broken McToys and other items that I might not care for won't do so. Plus, someone else might like the religious items. I know a few people who collect such things, and one of them isn't even particularly religious. Who am I to dictate what people might enjoy finding in a cache? Now, if a cache is making its entire theme into something religious with a specific aim to convert people, then it might run afoul of the guidelines against solicitation, but I don't think the simple presence of some religious trade items should cause issues with that.

A=Avoiding Angst in the woods from ants, animals, and additional biological items.

A=Angst in the forums caused by micro caches.

When you bushwack your way through thorns to the cache because you are sure there is no trail, you will find the trail right next to the cache when you get there.

Now that I tend to get horribly behind on logging, it is bound to happen. I also revisited one a couple of years ago with friends and things were not filtered for my finds. It was not in my normal caching area and I had found the cache in 2002 when it was pretty much the only cache in that area and I was traveling through. As we started walking toward it I suddenly got a sense of deja vu and then realized where we were going. That was kind of fun, especially since it is also a pretty neat cache.