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It's too late for Milpitas, but one solution to avoid conflicts in the future would be to waive the proximity rule for GeoTour caches only. Nearby caches could be clearly marked with their titles and GC codes, and notes in descriptions could caution cachers to be sure they've found the right cache. This would keep everyone happy cachers while we all promote geocaching in the community.

Thank you everyone for all the gorgeous pictures! I live in a part of California where snow is rare. Our challenge in winter is just rain. Just fyi, you can buy gloves with metallic threads in the fingertips so that you can continue to use devices with touchscreens without removing your gloves on frigid days.

Dear Time for a break I know the exact coin you are writing about. It's a nickel finish Year of the Water Snake geocoin. That was the only coin I ever left in a cache unactivated, the only coin I left as a gift. The reason I gave it away was that it was "surplus" from a project for my 6th grade astronomy class. I wanted every snake coin I had activated to belong to a student. Having a lose coin in the mix would have confused things. In any case please enjoy the coin. Little Hiawatha Little Hiawatha, Thank you for the attractive coin! I understand why your students are keeping these instead of dropping them in caches. What a fun class project to combine biographies and caching. I noticed that a couple of your coins were dropped last month into caches that have since then only had one visitor, so there’s a good chance they’re still there and will be moved on. Best of luck to your travelers.

Little Hiawatha, I don’t know if you’re still reading this forum, but if you are this note might be helpful. I have one of your beautiful coins that I picked up from your cache “Hidden in Plain Sight” on 9/10/13. It wasn’t listed in the cache’s inventory so I entered the tracking number to locate its page. I received a message that it had never been activated. I then sent you an email through your profile page sending you the tracking number in case you wanted to activate it to send it on its way. I never received a reply and the coin was never activated. I also noticed in your logs that you had placed a lot of coins in your caches and I wondered if you had meant them all to be random gifts to cachers. That seemed unusual. Perhaps there was a problem with the way you tried to activate the coins and you forgot to review their pages afterwards. And either your email is incorrect in the database, it’s an old account that you don’t check, or you thought my email was spam. There might have been other conscientious cachers that tried to contact you in the same way about your coins. Feel free to contact me through GC to get the tracking number again for this coin, activate it, and I’ll send it on its way for you. Or I can return it to one of your caches if you wish. Time_for_a_break