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Hmm, I haven't been lucky enough to get a FTF ever. There are just too many way, way better cachers in this town, that apparently are independently wealthy and don't work! However, I do remember reading somewhere that one cacher had a habit of leaving krugerrands in his very difficult caches.

Be aware that hunters this time of year will often be scouting out potential locations for a deer stand so that it can be set up now so the deer become accustomed to it before the hunting season begins. The flags could be the hunter's markers for his trail into the area he plans to hunt. General advice for any flags out there is just to leave them alone and make every effort to follow the idea that cachers leave as little impact on an area as possible. If it is a hunter's trail or a survey trail, or some other legitimate use, you'll be in for the cache, out, and the person leaving the flags will never be disturbed. Same goes for nefarious flagging. Just don't mess with stuff, and you won't be messed with. Of course, the hunter angle is a good reason to remind everyone that the time of year where international orange is MANDATORY is fast approaching. NEVER enter woods in the fall without it, whether or not it is hunting season. Not every hunter follows posted hunting seasons, and getting nailed by a poacher because you forgot your orange will definitely ruin your day.

We did one this last weekend that simply said "your target is behind a tree". We're in a bottom in a hardwoods forest. Everything in sight was a tree! I was so freaking mad, until I realized that the bad clue was actually telling me EXACTLY where to look. I just had to notice the right thing. Sometimes clues that seem really bad just look that way until you start noticing the right things. Still, the blood pressure didn't like to decode the hint and read that in the middle of a forest.

I never thought about setting up a PQ and then just running that for each sort that I want. Thanks, everyone.

I've noticed that sometimes the format of caches listed in searches differs depending on the type of search you perform. I suggest that the website be customizable so that anytime caches are listed, it would refer to the user profile to see what info I want to see. The reason I ask is that I have two "home" locations, my apartment and my girlfriend's apartment. Now, when new caches come out, if they're near the location I have listed on the website as home, I'm notified of them, but we live far enough apart so that new caches on the other side of the second location can be missed. If I were able to pull up a list of all the newest caches in my state and be able to access and sort on distance information, I'm more likely to be able to pick up on caches that I otherwise wouldn't have seen. This functionality to select which information you see and be able to sort on it, no matter where the search originates would be nice.