Cedar Grove Seekers

I've seen a few clever finds, but one that sticks out in my mind is in Toronto. There is a cute little stone seating area in a parkette with some black wrought iron gates. The cache is a black tube about 7-8 inches long, with the same thickness as the wrought iron. There is a lid on one end, and a magnet on the other end of the tube. The magnet secures the tube container to the gates. Rather than the tube running along a piece of wrought iron, it sticks out perpendicularly, appearing to be part of the design of the gates - it truly blends in.

I'm going to take a wild guess (on either of the unanswered questions) and say "Guacamole".

My dad introduced me to it, and pronounced it 'geo-cash-ing'. Had he pronounced it 'geo-cash-ay-ing' then I'm sure I would have just ignored him and never taken it up.

It's a toss-up between pumpkin or pecan for me.

First to circumnavigate the globe in a shipping container?

I think the OP has bet someone that he can get 25 replies to a nonsensical question, and is about to win his bet.

Jerusalem is correct. Seattle is not one that I was aware of, but it appears to be correct, so take it away Mag Magician. Bye the way, the other two I had in mind are: Istanbul - formerly Constantinople, and was chosen as the site for the capital of Rome's eastern empire because it had seven hills Lisbon is the other.

Neither - sorry.

After you responded I googled both London and Tokyo for seven hills and nothing came up.

Rome is indeed correct. Its location was chosen for the fact it has seven hills. Tokyo and London are not correct. I am aware of four such cities, and will reveal the following: - one is related to Rome and also was selected specifically because it has seven hills - another is in the bible (and not Babylon which no longer exists) - another is on the Iberian Peninsula Of course there may be others that I am not aware of.

I have to say that I agree completely with this post. .... Why are you so critical of how people play this game?

OK, here's a geography question: (Without googling) name three major world cities that are all known for being built on seven hills.

Sorry for the delay - I'll have a question today.

I would have never thought that a picture of a cake would impress me so much. Thanks for sharing it with us. Very cool.

Trilateration - it uses distance rather than angles to triangulate..er, I mean trilaterate, the position.

I personally don't mind the hints such as "in the rocks", "stumped?", "pine tree", or even "predator". Sure, there might be five "pine trees", but at least I know it's not the other types of trees, or rocks, or park benches. I'd prefer a one word hint that merely narrows the search down over a detailed description. I also can understand a hint such as "not at this time" on a new cache - to me the FTF should be able to find it sans hint. I'm not a big fan of hints that are useless once you are at the cache such as "park in the parking lot", "don't forget your pen", or "bring mosquito repellant".

That's probably the reason I call it "sea-toe" too. Bye the way, Cito is back managing the Jays again.

No, I've never been given a guided tour of a cache placement, at least not one that I'd ever even consider claiming an FTF on. I would also never log a find on a cache that I didn't actually find the container/logbook. I think the above situation is interesting and warrants a note, but not a Find/FTF. However, these are the guidelines I play by, and others are free to play by their own guidelines.

That's exactly what I was thinking. On one occasion the wife and I hiked a mile into the woods at 1AM on an ice packed trail just for an FTF - we still reminisce on how crazy (read: stupid) we were - but we got the FTF.

Considering that you are looking at # people per cache, then your 10km radius is a little arbitrary. For example, Toronto is larger than a 10km radius, so you are not getting all the caches but you are still counting the entire population of Toronto in the # people/cache stat. Conversely, some of your other locations are much smaller than a 10km radius so you are attributing caches that are outside their boundary to a population that is within the boundary.

I don't agree. My one and only FTF so far was 13 days after the cache was published, and I didn't even know that it had yet to be found. It wouldn't have been any more fun if I HAD known I was looking for an FTF. Maybe when you go for a few more FTFs you'll change your mind?

I fondly recall our first FTF - we beat the hounds. We wouldn't have had the same sense of accomplishment if the hounds were restricted from getting the FTF. We don't go for FTFs anymore, but some of our most memorable caches involved the race. I'd hate to see restrictions put on getting FTFs.

That's how I used to play. I started caching the week Dave Ulmer hid the very first Stash. I found it but never signed the logbook in the bucket nor did I mention it online anywhere. I also failed to sign the logbooks and log online for the next few years for any of the thousands of caches I probably found. At some point in 2003 I broke down and started logging both, and it's more fun to me this way so I've kept doing it. Me too.

Your FTF list is your own, based on your own rules. In my neck of the woods, FTF is about the race to the cache, and the starting gun is when the cache is published. My own FTF criteria are based on this, and I am comfortable with my resulting list of FTFs.

Great original post! I don't think I'll ever forget this story.