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And then they show up and, rather than defend their original position, simply get defensive and then retreat. If you post a message, at least be able to defend it.

Likely doing an update/upgrade. Looks fine now.

Reductio Ad Absurdum. The saturation rule must exist or people could glue a thousand nano containers to a picnic table and create a super stupid "power trail lunch table"

Why is it when some make posts like this (that encourage heated discussion or debate) they never seem to show back up to actually defend their original position?

Bomb squad blew my cute, little cache up You can read about it on my replacement cache here http://coord.info/GC77FC6

Alt.left would say "yes" emphatically. Remove anything from history that might be offensive to anyone. That way they can re-write it all covered in snowflakes.

This is great! Thank you!

Are you kidding me??? The fact that you are serious about this is disappointing. Not everything, every day, everywhere is about race!!!!! Go get another hobby [:(]

I just submitted a CITO on Power Island in Michigan. The event is scheduled for October 14th. The ranger will remove the dock the weekend before. So we will almost certainly be the only people on the whole island. But I figured we could still pick up trash while hiking to the caches on the island. So I am glad to hear there is precedence for events where no one or very few have attended.

No problems anticipated. No mention of the restaurant will be made.

A friend of mine is opening an upscale pizza place in North Carolina. He would like to have a geocache hidden outside his restaurant. I told him I could help since he is not a cacher (although he cached with me once). I am planning on making the listing after the hide is placed and he will be the local to keep maintenance on it. I am looking for ideas for some sort of cool cache I could hide. A couple of considerations...I want it to be remarkable, fun, interesting, etc but I don't want it to be difficult (i.e., a difficult field puzzle, hard to find). I also don't want it to be a micro or even a small (I generally enjoy hiding the largest sized container possible given the hiding area and since this will be watched regularly by my friend, I am aiming for a regular or large. I kind of envision something hidden in plain sight (e.g., I had a cache that was a mailbox in front of my house. Now I have a car that is a cache in front of my house). Anyway, he said he is willing to "spend a few bucks" on it so let me hear your best clever, cool, interesting, funny, creative ideas! Heck, I'll give you credit in the cache description!

If this happens, geocaching will be the last thing on my mind

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Square-Smart-Finder-Bluetooth-Tag-Tracker-Wallet-Key-Tracer-GPS-Locator-Alarm/620455163?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=11017&adid=22222222227000000000&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=42423897272&wl4=pla-51320962143&wl5=9015781&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=117088882&wl11=online&wl12=620455163&wl13=&veh=sem Would this work?

You are basically describing challenge caches (which I love!)

The weekly challenges have really been so easy that I really didn't worry too much about the details of this either (but I did find it vague). Cache on!

Perhaps. But that's OK. I have others that make people scowl at me

First, I just want to go on record saying I agree with fizzymagic. "Hard" can mean a lot of different things. Some puzzle caches in Cincinnati were eventually archived once reviewers determined that the CO likely made unsolvable puzzles full of gobblygook. Other hides are the "needle in a haystack" variety. I really don't enjoy those although I have found some rather difficult ones. Nothing clever about throwing a nano container in a thicket of brush and labeling it a 5D. Despite my distaste for those kinds of hides, I would say that as long as there is actually a hide at the given coordinates (and I am sure some of these unfound hides might be completely bogus or use fuzzy coordinates), they make for some of the toughest hides. I have never seen this one, but it seems to be a really difficult needle in the haystack kind http://coord.info/GC4MZ8P

Rainbow looked the same in Canada except it always ended each sentence with "eh" There is no ruler or measuring device in the cache nor is the length written on anything. It depends on finders recognizing the "Canadian" reference as a hint to use centimeters. Seems like everyone is figuring it out and enjoying it. http://coord.info/GC6ZXTG

Think creatively about how to get a set of numbers from something/somewhere. For example, I have a cache called "Canadian Rainbow" which has 6 plastic sticks inside stage one. The sticks correspond to the colors of the rainbow and, when put in order, have lengths in centimeters which correspond to the N and W coords.

OK, maybe this would be more easy to see on the map....

I kind of like this!

I LOVE IT!

If you really want to get the idea, go caching in a wheelchair. My best friend uses a wheelchair and I have done this to gain perspective. Nothing else can sum it up as completely as experience.

Contacting HQ??? Seriously??? I would not even contact the reviewer much less HQ if a cache has "too many" DNFs. "Too many" might be two or three if it's a LPC or GR hide. On the other hand, I have seen caches with dozens of DNFs in a row because they are very difficult hides. To even suggest that someone needs to report this to a reviewer or HQ is confusing and completely unnecessary, especially for beginners. Seems like every time there is something that has been going along just fine, they have to mess with it. If it ain't broke...

Hopefully they accepted the flogging they received from HQ for doing this