RUFFLEDOSTRICH

When I first started, I had 3 or on the first day I went out... cache 1 - was a find cache 2 - DNF was the direct result of thinking that my yellow etrex would be accurate and it kept jumping around I still went on to cache 3 - the owners had disabled it that morning and I'd printed out the page the day before cache 4 - find cache 5 - find cache 6 - had an offset and I didn't understand the concept or even knew about the possibility of one. I spent two hours in the rain following white arrows that were spray-painted on the grass by the water company thinking they were part of the cache until they led me back to the first arrow. The very first cache on the next day, I had mis-punched in coords. It's a wonder I didn't quit caching then, but eventuallly I got the hang of it and avenged ALL of these caches (and adopted one). I find, though that if I DNF, I'm more likely to have a string of DNFs for the next few caches I attempt...a shot confidence thing. The most I've gotten on 1 cache is 4 in 5 days with no finds until I finally got the smiley on that one.

I found a fairly new motorcycle wedged in between two cliffs with about 20 feet of air between it and the ground. I can't imagine how it got to be in that situation, but the cache is called Grand Theft Auto and later on in the cache I found a HUGE track where I'd imagine a group of someones raced stolen cars about 20 years ago. There were cars in all states that had been jumped/fipped/crashed, but the car that looked like it had been driven halfway THROUGH the side of a cliff (probably driven halfway into a cave and over the years the cave fell in) really took the cake. All this in the MIDDLE of remote woods! Now that I have a digital camera, I plan to go back and get some pics.

I, for one, think that wading through mud WOULD be fantastic. I'm in.

I own one coin (that isn't trackable), but I got it through the cache-u-nuts coinquest caching scavenger hunt. I planned on releasing it into the wild, but when I found out it wasn't trackable, I put it in a stocked ammo box as an FTF prize. Man, never thought I'd have at least 20 e-mails from all over the country from somone offering to trade me trackable personal coins or money for it. That's nuts! I'd rather throw it in a cache and watch the sick scramble for FTF unfold in the logs. Anyway, that's the only time I could REALLY get excited about a coin because it represented 20 caches that I had to figure out how they applied and drive forever to get in the bitter cold. Now that's a coin relevant to caching.

I can get excited about a coin representing a country...especially if it's a country that isn't as active in caching. I'm more motivated to go to a cache to move a country coin more so than to move a coin commemerating some random dude's ability to...I dn't know...pick the most boogers while caching nude... Although, if that really were the coin I might have to OWN one on general principle, but you know what I mean. I LIKE the country coins as opposeed to personal coins or the area caching assosciation coins. But I'm a newbie...

What are the coins in question about/inspired by/to commemerate? I mean, TBs aren't always OT, but they move from cache to cache. Are they your coins or are you just moving them? As for the non-trackables? That's constantly baffling to me.

My son always has to "settle" for something else if a cache doesn't have a dirty old golf ball in it. Those are what he lives for finding in a cache, but he's two. (Although, we always trade WAY up for it.) What I can't stand is when cachers feel that a bunch of little items equal one nicer item in a trade.

Maybe his log should have said something to the affect of "While I don't agree with what this organization usually stands for, it's nice that some pack leaders have chosen to focus on more healthy, less contraversial topics such as geocaching that don't exclude anybody." That would still include his agenda (which I guess is against Groundspeak guidelines anyway) and not be so critical. This guy just wanted to start trouble...and wants to EXCLUDE Boy Scout/Cub Scout Troops/Packs.

I'd say that in the future you don't give hints to cache planted by that particular cacher/approver out of respect wether it's due or not just because he's specifically asked you not to. Next time you see a request for a hint on a thread, e-mail the person privately to ask them if they want a hint or not instead of posting the offer. It's silly and I'm on your side, but just to avoid more drama...

There's a local thread on our caching group page that's talking about how some guy caught his wife cheating by putting his GPS/similar device in her car on a mapping or routing mode (can't think of what it's called right now). Maybe you could plant a cache likely to be victim to the muggler and follow him or track him in some way. I'm kidding of course, but how funny would that be? Better yet, TheMuggler opens a cache that has a camera inside linked to a computer that will capture his image. If you have a lot of time on your hands, don't fear being accused of being petty and have money to spare...

How did the cache owner/reviewer find out that you gave a hint?

TBs traveling through less cleaned pb caches? Anyone?

That would be what I'd want on a prize like that. I'd love to carry that to an event and use it as a conversation piece, but I'm a dork like that. Mybe even FTF, the cache name, and THEN the GC number

Are you kidding me? I can't believe that anyone would do something so ridiculous to be threatening beyond the fourth grade. You're lucky that he didn't stick his tounge out at you too.

Is this just a friendly game gone bad? After Christmas was over, I'd considered being a "Grinch" and grabbing all 13 days of Chritmas/Caching caches series and leaving a note saying they'd been grinched and can be retrieved at the coordinates of a specific cache I knew the planter kept meaning to get to. I knew the cacher and thought this would be funny. (Because of the nature of the series, no one would be looking for the caches any time soon.) Anyway, I caught wind of someone thinking of doing this EXACT thing, but for less friendly reasons so I quickly put the idea to rest. Has TheMuggler given you coords and thinks that this might be a friendly side-game? Regardless, until this game becomes less hostile (in this area at least) I think that anything like that is a bad idea for the time being.

And then the actual muggler will be able to refocus hi/her efforts on filing a law-suit over the rights to use "The Muggler"

A charter member with more than 1000 caches to boot...

What about the TBs? Since we know that any TB has the potential of having been in a pb jar cache which has the potential of still carrying pb particles and touches the insides of other ammo can caches...

The Bethel Park School District, as well as many others in the county (we're locally districted in Pennsylvania) only prohibits peanut products in the classrooms themselves. Others in the area have adopted the not pb in lunches rule just this year. I wonder how long it will last.

We had a notorious micro-hater from this area go into a Cracker Barrel with "info" on geocaching to give to the management and informed him that one of these (caches) might be in the front of the store. THE INFO HE GAVE THE MANAGEMENT WAS A CNN ARTICLE ON A CACHE BEING CONFUSED AS A BOMB. That's just about the worst cache sabotage (we have that too...targeted at specific cachers notorious for planting micros) I've ever heard. It's one thing not to like micros because ou're afraid it will give the public the wrong idea of the sport, but to intentionally give the public this idea...that's scary, psychotic.

As a Girl Scout leader, nut allergies are part of our training...all the other allerigies are just in the first-aid trainings, but the nut ones are so serious that it's crossed overinto outdoor skill training...very scary stuff. I guess the deal is that even smelling pb can send someone with a sever allergy into anaphyllactic (not spelled right) shock which is basically instant death. That's a worst-case scenario, but it has happened. I hadn't thought about well-soaked then washed jars, though. Between my daughter and myself, we have two. PB is a primary source of protein in my house.

What about TBs that have been in a pb jar cache that HASN'T been cleaned out well? Schools don't allow any peanut products in the classrooms durning school hours. Some have banned other kids from bringing pb in their lunchboxes.

At 84 caches I noticed that a cacher that I had met was also at 84 that day. He seemed like the type that enjoyed competition, mostly because we had met in a race for FTF and re-met that way quite a bit. So I sent him an e-mail letting him know that the game was on...race to 100! It was the most fun week I've ever had caching. He won. If we do it again I think the loser should have to place a cache with a title reflecting the other ones win. I know some frown on competetive caching, but you can still appreciate the the longer more meaningful caches. Competetive games don't take away from other caching experiences, but that's only my 2 cents.

I was exposed to geocaching because Trillium Council sent me to be trained in it at Edith Macy Conference Center by Girl Scouts USA. There is a geocaching try-it, badge and IP already established through Erie Shores Council. If you pop them an e-mail, they'll send you the info on all three and pictures of the awards and info on where to buy them. Also, I'm training trainers regionally so that they can go back to their councils and offer trainings for leaders to pass it on to their troops.

I posted a reviewer note when I got my last cache approved in South Park asking about this form, but got the cache published without any response from Keystone. I then e-mailed asking if I needed to fill out a form for the two caches I own in South Park without any response. At that point in time I figured he wasn't responding because he was unsure himself so I let it go. I figured he would have posted the new guidelines on his reviewer profile if anything had changed.