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This was near a cache in Sugar Land if anyone wonders how this is part of the world of caching. That is the worst cell phone camera a Sony Ericsson.

This is at a cache in George Bush Park if anyone wonders how this is part of the world of caching.

There's a phrase I have seen used in the media these days that comes to mind... stolen valor.

I don't know why so many people just can't accept the fact that some caches are beyond their abilities. You don't have to log them all. Is it entitlement?

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I didn't know they got shut down. What a shame. This was before then.

It's been suggested that this situation is absurd, however I know it happens with moving caches at events.

Y'all are fantastic. Now I know why I keep coming back!

I'd suggest a dictionary.

Okay here's another example that might hit a bit closer to home for some. There is a multicache in my area that is a 10+ mile hike, where you end up at the final pretty close to the parking area where you start. If someone doesn't do any of the 10+ mile hike and goes straight to the final because someone else gave them the numbers is that a legitimate find?

Do you measure everyone you cache with? Are you a mortician? Seems a strange fascination/obsession.

I'm not denying them any of that, I just think if someone wants to claim a legitimate find on a cliff cache there ought to be some cliff climbing involved in their personal experience somewhere. Goes the same for tree climbers or whatever.

You said you felt height was an advantage in this game. If you had ever followed the game trails through George Bush Park you would think otherwise.

If I can't legitimately get to the cache and sign the log, I walk away empty handed. Is there another way to play?

You should go back and do that cache the right way for such a significant milestone!

What a sad world that is. Let's hope covid takes care of it!

Great now I gotta' question the legitimacy of summit logs. Thanks y'all.

That seems convenient.

Technically if someone hands you a cache from up in a tree you haven't been to the coordinates either. We live in 3d.

Anybody who wants to answer this can. If I climbed the tree brought the cache down and drove it to your house for you to sign then took it back. Is that a find?

Right there on your profile, where it lists that tree climbing terrain rated cache as found. If I don't read your actual log and see that you didn't actually do the 5 star part I might be put in a situation where I am being misled.

So basically you are saying by whatever means necessary. I may be taking this whole Everest thing too far, but there is an example of someone "summitting" Everest in a helicopter. Needless to say the outrage and debates continue to this day about the legitimacy of that claim. Go figure.

Let's take my Everest example. If your friend brought the Everest summit logbook (Don't laugh many summits have logbooks it's really the origin of these type games, but I don't know if Everest has one specifically.) down the mountain to you and you signed the log would you claim you climbed Everest?

Well he may have used a little oxygen!

Everest has been soloed without oxygen no less.