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I have to agree with "hottie"...ick (the avatar).

I understand that you're in a tough situation. I guess you could send them an e-mail and say that you really are enthusiastic about new geocachers in the area. But, it is expensive for people to come in and take 4 or 5 things and leave one. The upkeep is really hard to make, and shouldn't be so much of a problem normally. Ask her that if you take 5 things leave 5 things, or take 1 leave 1. She'll be really accepting I'm sure. She probably just doesn't understand.

Uhhh....I searched for Alpha Omega on Google.

I really think the "swag" movement has fallen off. Alot of sig items are coming out. I LOVE IT! Anything to break away from McDonald's. And infact I have a found card I drop off in caches. It's nothing special, but it's something neat. Thanks for the innovation.

I love the experience. But right now I was challenged by another cacher in the area, so it's numbers until we see who hits a certain number first. But believe me, I only pick caches with some kind of scenic/historical/hiking/picnic or something like that. I don't go micro.

There should be a "hiding limit" for cachers. Like one hide per member per month. To stop the 30 micros in one area. To totally throw off the balance of large/regular/micro each is good in small doses, but if you overload an area with too many, you have made an impact on caching in your area. No ONE CACHER, should be able to change the face of caching in their community. Leave some hiding spots for the rest of us, and let us decide what we like so we can hide it. The more variety the better.

Alot of the best places are taken. But my opinion would be that if you're in the woods. Don't hide a micro for a traditional cache unless you absolutely HAVE to place it due to traffiking. Even if trafficking is a problem move the coordinates 50 feet off the trail behind a tree and cover it up. Micros can be nice, but don't overuse them because they are easy for upkeep and to replace. Finding a 50cal ammo box in the woods is easier than finding a "certain leaf". Micros are a needle in the haystack out there. If you revert to micros, do it in the cities, but out here, keep it regular.

I wouldn't think there'd be any "scramblers" in the area, because Air Traffic Control needs to track these planes and they probably use GPS related equipment to do so. If it isn't working where your standing you may be in a highly magnetic field, because my digital compass goes on the fritz in these locales and it's impossible to navigate when you're spinning in circles according to it. The magnetic fields will also throw off satellite reception. But I highly doubt there'd be on in an airport.

With how expensive travel is due to gas prices...I think I'll pass.

This happened very near to my home. A local park placed like 8 caches very close to stores and such so that they'd make some money. These caches based only on the ability for them to make money for the business's should be shut down. The people's screen names who placed them never found one, hid 8, and never had an action since. I SOOO wish I had an ignore button.

If I was a Premium Member, I have a feeling that I'd be VERY ignorant.

Maybe it was a coincidence.

How did you find out about the subscriber only cache that was close?

With the gas prices the way they are. There is no better combination! WEAR YOUR HELMETS!

I've tried the Google maps, even better than my beloved TerraServer. some parts are blotched out on the "aerial photos" especially in a region that I've been dying to see what's behind that mountain and never got a chance to walk there yet. Oh well, I know it will improve in the future. Try it!

That avatar could show a little less skin.

One thing that can help is if a group of cachers in your area all make a few new caches to stir the area's "new" cache listings, so that you don't have to drive 30+ miles to get the closest cache you haven't seen already. Gas hasn't taken an impact on us per se, but you have to take into effect that one you find some many caches in one region, a long drive is inescapable to get to another cache you haven't found. This gas problem many be more confined to people with many local finds, or people without many local caches.

I live in bear country. No one tells anyone on vacation caching here about bears, it's understood that when your in the wilderness, things like bears, snakes, coyotes, etc. are a possibility of finding you when you're searching for a cache. If you REALLY find it a problem then you should post a warning, but unless these bears are aggressive or HAVE A REASON to be aggressive, they normal won't confront you. (Or this is atleast what I'm told from rangers). Either case, post it on your site, make them aware of it atleast.

This idea needs to work out some issues. What if someone picks up the bug and moves it somewhere else? It's no longer in the cache it was placed in by you. Virtual? I don't know about that either. It sounds ok in theory, but executing would be downright near impossible.

That's the worst trade item of ALL time, I'm going to stick with my McDonald's Toys as trade items. jk.

Ahem.... GeoStalking

Cache vandals ruin this game. There's always a spoiled sport, and these are those people trying to ruin the fun for others. They're probably reading these forums and get a kick out of it. But when they see something they enjoy destroyed by "people having a little fun" they understand what it feels like, and hopefully will stop. These kind of people are everywhere, just gotta deal.

I think muggles get blamed for alot of "looting". But I read alot of forum posts, and all the logs for all the local caches. And when one comes up missing, you can always read back and see how "great they were hidden" and "camoflauged extensively". I hike VERY frequently and I've never recalled a muggle hopping around off the trail BEGGING to get a snake bite or something of that nature. Maybe it's just jerks, who aren't geocachers but have a GPS and decided to play some games. Maybe it's geocachers that got bored. Whatever the case may be, most of the time "muggles" get blamed WAY to often.

Troll. Hopefully this thread won't go TOO far.

GeoStalking If someone will follow you where ever you go, let's say "nature" catches up with you. And you decide to relieve yourself by the nearest tree. And the "GeoStalker" catches you them. Now won't that be candid!