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Just another bureaucrat with nothing better to do. 14 finds since 2002 there is no way this cache has caused as much damage or disrupted as many folks in their peaceful enjoyment of the area as the other hikers or even the bureaucrat who stole the cache.

I still don't get it None of that stuff you said you would have twitted sounds even remotely interesting enough to me to interrupt what I am doing long enough to read them. Then again I am the kind of guy that holds entire phone conversations it 30 seconds. I signed up at facebook and still don't get that either. My aversion to twitting aside. Is it possible to set up a second twitter account just for caching?

Now see, I just don't get that. Why would anyone want to get a message about how much you hate mosquitoes or that you almost gave up but stuck it out and made the find. Put it in the log and I'll read it when I check the caches page.

I like to look back through this thread every few months or so. I don't usually read it all, just a quick glance.

How do you find Tyvek to be used like this? I'd like to get some but only knew of it being used in products. Save those mailers from the USPS. If you know someone who works in an office they probably see them a lot. The priority bags are made of Tyvek. You can immerse them in water and they will completely dry out without degrading. You need a pen to sign the log though. I'm trying to think of somewhere to stash this one. It has to be in a place with no muggles, a place that it can be sitting on the ground without threat of lawnmowers but also easy to find. I found a place for the phone. You can also pick up the scraps blowing away from a construction site.

The additional waypoint seems to be nothing more than an interesting feature near the cache site. If you need a justification for the reviewer try suggesting that it is a non-physical location, having nothing to find, and as such should not preclude the placement of a physical cache.

Nice work. I understand the smiley goes in the caches you've found. Do you put the frowny in caches you can't find?

Just out of curiosity, why? I did a 4.0 recently that was MUCH harder, involved walking a rotten log across a creek, BUSHES of poison ivy, and thorny vines that literally formed impenetrable walls. Is it because of the potential fall damage? And should I include information about the climb in the hint and the title? Something like titleing it "Such great heights" and the hint "Terrain rating sure is up there..." or something like that? I considered both the fall hazard and the fact that you stated short people would have a more difficult time of it. I figured rate it for the most challenging possibility and erred on the side of caution not having seen the tree. It may only be a 4.

Were there any trackable cookies in the lunchbox? I hate it when the trackable cookies get destroyed. I think it was a great idea that someone had. Why don't those of you who bitch about the bomb squads response go volunteer to open the packages? A fool and his fingers are soon parted.

4.5 unless it requires technical skill and gear.

Urban Dictionary: Spitballing Spitballing - 2 definitions - 1)To toss ideas around with no expectation of them coming to pass, to brainstorm. 2) To make harmless jibes or attack... I understood what spitballing meant. I was using a bit of sarcasm to show that I was really not taking it seriously.

Spitballing? Hell, I didn't think we were taking that seriously. By the way. Dead men don't testify and it is easier to hide a body than an injury.

Oh, I forgot to mention that the apparatus for surveillance should be placed well away from the actual cache and WELL camo'd (and secured with chain/lock/etc. Add $10 for the chain and lock). Only the camera would be close if its done right and even that would have to be 10ft away or so. Use a wireless cam. Worked right the "perp" will just think he scored some great swag. Just disable whatever indicator say the thing is on.

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I don't see how that logic plays out. As I read it the assumption is that power cachers won't want to spend the time on a cache with multiple waypoints. If you assume power cachers=numbers cachers, not an unreasonable assumption, then the premise has merit. Many numbers cachers avoid multi caches. Edit to add - On the top of the page select "My Controls". Scroll down. Near the bottom left select "Manage Ignored Users". Ignoring things doesn't make them go away.

I don't think there is anything that says an earth cache is limited to one waypoint.

Am I the only one who likes to be alone in the wild? For the most part geocaching is my alone time. That time when I can think my own thoughts without the world interrupting.

About $30 a year if you are a premium member. The best part, in my ever so humble opinion, is getting to see things that I never knew were there. Especially those places and things that I never knew about right here in my own back yard as it were.

You are one pathetic non-cacher. You don't even have the guts to use your real geocaching account to post this message. Now, for everyone who has posted in this thread, here is the actual log of the "FTF" "I managed to score the FTF on this one a couple days ago, but had to come back once it was listed to keep it on the up and up and sign the logbook with the correct date. I've been in this mine a few times, and I had plans to put a cache here a long time ago, but then one popped up across the stream and that was that. Thanks for the park and grab....it took me 17 minutes round trip to do this one. BOOYAAHH!! P.S. Met up with another cacher who will try to claim this as a FTF....but I was here 3 days before you! HAHAHAHAA" Maybe you should actually go and do this cache and see the logbook for yourself. It was not signed before the cache was published. It was signed about 2 hours after it was published. No where in the log did it say it was signed 3 days before it was published. I helped to place the cache, if it wasn't for me, the cache owner wouldn't even have known of this tunnel's existance. I could've signed the logbook when it was placed, but that wouldn't have been right, so I came back once the cache was published and got the so-called FTF. Which wasn't a FTF since I was the 2nd person to find it... I was joking around with the actual FTFer, and it was an inside joke. Obviously, lightrguy, you have too much time on your hands.....and with so much time on your hands, you would think you could use that time to find a cache before anybody else, instead of just bitching about it. Learn to read a log before you start complaining about it. P.S. I know you are a local cacher in my area.....I'm just wondering which one.... Howdy RH. How's things? Thingy? Is it you that all this crap is about? Someone don't know you so good do they? If they think you are actually claiming FTF before publication. What would they say if they found out that I actually DID claim FTF before a cache was published?

Your statement doesn't logically follow. The cache in question here (GC1X4Q7) is rated D1.5/T1.5. That doesn't mean that it is accurately rated or that the local cachers aren't good at puzzles. I have met, and know from reputation, a number of Massachusetts cachers and hold their puzzle solving skills in high regard. The statement "...it appears that I miscalculated the puzzle solving abilities of the local geocachers", irrespective of whether the puzzle is simple or not, isn't intended as a complement. I think he meant "and no one has found it yet" is an accurate statement. At least that is the way I read it.

I make 40 to 60 cache runs on a regular basis. I also don't always log for a week or two, so the logging number is actually higher. I try to write something unless it was just a cache that others here are calling "uninspired". People cutting and pasting on any of our caches doesn't bother me. While I like to read some logs, caches are made to be found. We have many in the area that do not even log online. The weird part is it only bothers you if the arbitrary guideline you set for posting is not followed. i.e. "unless it was really easy like a lamp post grab." Some find most of the regular size caches along the trails equally as uninspired, sticks piled on top next to a tree or in an obvious hollowed out log. Which one showed me something interesting? or showed some kind of history? or did something else to make the trip about more than a stupid smiley and +1 count? It could be either one, or both.

I'm not allowed to own a gun. I am allowed to own an aluminum baseball bat though. Are you allowed to own business cards? Of course, you could change it to "Have Bat Will Travel". but a lot is lost in the translation. That depends on the bat.

Count yourself lucky it is just the contents. Leave things as they are for a while and the semi-human slug will most likely get bored and move on to other mischief. Eventually he will get busted knocking over a liquor store. Hopefully by a clerk with a ball bat and a hell of a swing.

Yes, contact the owner. You may have found someones throw-down or a temporary replacement for the ammo can if it went missing.

Mmm, hamster jerky.