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Someone must be proud. Second or third time now I've seen this picture in the forums. Nice construction, though might be a wee off topic. I don't think that would work for the cache I have in downtown Minneapolis at 5th and Marquette. I'd definately convert that one to a micro.

Both.. 2460 finds to 116 hides. I don't like finding nanos

I have a coin that I used to dip. I stopped after it became too much of a burden as I DO like to watch my numbers (go up). Besides, INATN now calculates my milage for me. I would imagine GSAK does too, or soon will.

It's location, location, location. I've hidden 116 caches. I'd say no more than 3 or 4 were ever muggled. One blew away in a storm. One was removed by a city because some idiot climbed a fence into a waterfowl sactuary after finding my cache. My hides are probably pretty evenly split between micro, small and regular. I've got rural, suburban and urban hides. The trick is to match the cache with the environment. The higher the muggle factor, the more you need to balance size and camo to the location.

12 posts before... Nevermind... I don't want a forum vacation. Back on topic: Looks like you found a perfect solution! Many good ideas. I'd take the extra cache and replace it in the field.

Is it a film canister? If so, then by all means. Archive that sucker before it gets a chance to infect others. Otherwise, I think you did just fine. 7 posts before this thread was hijacked..

Reverse psychology works almost everytime . I am glad that I was helpful in getting this thread back on track regardless of how it started out. On the other hand, and if you're (the collective you) not in denial, it would take me no time to find a thread where my original experiment could be true..

Which was the advice she was given quite a bit to begin with. Stop and review what she has said and think of how it applies. That research you have done sounds pretty interesting. I would expect that you have all that data compiled and on a spreadsheet somewhere. How about posting it so we can see the scientific evidence of the study you have done and the results of tracking in the forums that shows how the 9 times out of 10 breaks down in each catagory in each forum topic. Afterall that "data mining" I am sure you want to show it to back up your claims. Study still underway but you have essentially proven my point. Although, I don't believe your ID was in the top 36 (yet).

The worst thing any noob can do is post a question to these forums. 9 times out of 10 you will be ripped to shreds by the regular posters here because they have nothing better to do. During my research in tracking these forums, the data mining has shown that roughly the same 36 or so individuals, including some moderators, will criticize or hijack in some fashion, post after post after post. I guarantee you, the majority of cachers that you run into in person, outside of these forums, will welcome you with open arms and do anything to help you in your geocaching endeavors.

I like the people that use the "I saw the cache so I can log it" excuse when the cache is rated 4 or more stars and up in a tree. Like, give me a break. No effort, no smiley. You can't possibly think you're entitled to getting a 4 star terrain smiley if you didn't climb the dadgum tree. I don't actively audit my hides but on the odd chance that I did, I'd delete all logs that didn't have a corresponding name on the written log, or cache container, in some fashion. Does that make me a hard*ss? Don't care.

One very important thing to look at here is this statement.. if your GPS says you're 5' away, it is time to drop the GPS and start hunting for cache with your eyes AWAY from the electronics. If you're head is down while you attempt to get your GPSr to say Distance to Location: 0' then you'll never find the cache. There comes a point when you just have to start hunting for a cache once near GZ. Once you conquer that obstacle, you'll do just fine. My brother drives me nuts when he caches. He does the same thing. He can't understand why it's so difficult to find a cache when trying to determine GZ. I on the other hand, as soon as I get within 50' of the percieved GZ, I let instinct take over and I find the cache OVER 95% of the time when caching with him.

I'd quickly and shiftily reach into my coat and find my..

What the heck is a whatnot?? A whatnot is another word for etc. Does that explain it? Um, and here I thought, um, that it was a term, um, for lazy and incapable speakers to unecessarily, um, fill the air with noise, um. I was joking.. I know what it means. I've just never seen it written out before. I usually only hear it while in useless meetings at work or by dorks calling into talk radio stations. I think its use is rather fascinating.

What the heck is a whatnot??

What the heck is a whatnot??

Go for it. Just remember two things.. Rate it properly. Don't listen to the whiners here and list it as you like. Just rate it properly. There is NO obligation to mention ANYTHING else in the cache listing.

I always get a kick out of this one. Please define fair without showing your entitlement attitude.

The drain in question by Meralgia is an 8' diameter culvert draining into the Mississippi. It doesn't exceed 120' in length where at the end, it goes straight up to the street above the river. All previous posts are valid, and aside any legal issues, the only risk with this cache is doing it while there's a chance of rain.

Hey people, it's a ring of hell. Not a circle of hell.

Hey Karen, you're only mistake here is asking the national forums what they think. The only thing you're going to get here is "did you get permission" regardless of the legaility or who owns the drain. I'd leave the cache the way it is and move on. There are many caches around the world that are MUCH more risky than what you've got going on.

Stars?? They look like dope leaves to me.

I think the MySpaces and FaceBooks are already the third ring of hell. Now we need a means to tell everyone everytime you pick your nose or find a cache? Here come the attack dogs..

I would do precisely the exact same thing unless I personally knew the cacher. I've done it many times. An SBA or NM tag is not meant as a slam. It's meant to get your attention. At the risk of sounding mean, how could you not know for 7 months that your caches weren't archived? You couldn't possibly be that out of touch. And then to cast aspersions about a cacher that's broken no rules, real or implied.

I don't understand why everyone's initial urge is to screw their neighbor when they may have no idea about the circumstances for the cache. Either find the cache or put it on the block list.

He has only encrypted some logs and not deleted all of them, meaning the encrypted ones are still holding your smiley but are just not readily readable by people who do not wish to read spoilers. This should mean that your log contains some information that the CO considers important to remain concealed. He seems to be deleting your logs because they aren't in compliance with the logging requirements. These requirements also seem to be important to the integrity of the logs on his cache. You might consider reviewing the other logs, if you haven't already, so if you wish to be compliant, you will know how to be uniform. Personally, and this is just my personal opinion, I don't believe all logs have to be in English. I think an English translation would be courteous but free internet resources exist to give a translation that's comprehensible if the cache owner (or any readers of the log) do not know the language. A log that has an idiomatic expression may not be relevant to the cache and considering what was already happening in this tug-o-war, I can see a log with irrelevant content being deleted because it has irrelevant content and the cache owner is becoming less patient as more logs come in, not because it was in a non-English language. You seem to have the control here. You can (1) re-enter your log in compliance with the requests of the cache owner; or (2) forget logging the cache and move on. The choice is yours what you want to do. You aren't going to make someone else do anything - as an adult, you know life just doesn't work that way - so this is less of a question of what to do about the cache owner and more about what you want to do at this point. Good luck to you with whatever you and your friend decide. It all goes back to the fact that we ALL play the game different. Boy, if that isn't diversity, I don't know what is.