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That's great for the paper, but what about the dry leaves, grass, brush, twigs, mulch, and other flammable items in the area? FIRE BAD!

I wouldn't hide my last cache, or any cache in a parking lot of any kind. This includes a trailhead parking lot. And if I ever did find a Walmart parking lot cache, it's not my fault. I was sleeping!!! Those other cachers put my name on the log!

Fire bad. Fire not good for geocaching. Fire good to stay warm. Fire in forest very bad. Please no fire. You might do it right, but someone else will try it too, and do it wrong, and then someone else will follow suit and it will degrade from there. That's what happened to quality caches, and why people think a zip lock makes a suitable cache container, or why people think putting a cache inside a plastic bag is a good idea. Because someone else did it. Please rethink the idea. You can create heat by rubbing your hands together really vigorously. How warm does it have to be?

Besides! You don't have to pay to play, so it won't make a difference. You can sign up for free.

Gotta disagree with the OP. I say raise it up to $100/year, no more freebies, and eliminate the riff raff......is what I would really like to say, but courtesy forbids me to say that out loud, so I won't. Paying membership keeps this ship afloat, and has not gone up since day one. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

How gruesome do you want it? Those are pictures of tge cache containers. The Pumpkin King is holding the container in his hands. The goblin boogies are made of hot glue. The above caches are, sadly, archived. But only because the owner is no longer caching. I think he did get a little flak from a muggle about the Pumpkin King.

All the time. If he's going with me. I plan a hike, or paddle, that he will enjoy. If I'm going to do some serious caching that involves multiple stops, I leave him home. He hates long car rides, I live for them. If he's going to complain (more than usual) please don't come with me, you're ruining my good time. My curmudgeon is more curmudgeonly than most curmudgeons. One good thing about him is I can leave him for weeks at a time and he can take care of himself. As a matter of fact, right now, I am waiting to board a plane, and he is home, holding down the fort. See ya Saturday.

Downy, don't quit. The questions asked were because of the evolution of the game. Groundspeak has to keep a balance between players and land managers, or we might as well throw out our GPSrs. Reviewers are busier today than ever, and maybe this one didn't have time to stop and write out a personalized note. They have templates for the many submissions they have to review. It's not worth the worry. Just work with them, and they'll work with you. No need to walk away. It's really not as big a deal as this thread makes it out to be. I met Downy years ago, when he was still a kid, and a few times since. He's a nice guy! So cut it out. Darn! I missed the paddle event, because I was at another paddle event!

I don't know. I've never timed it. But if I don't find it soon, I give up and move on. There is so much to see, and for me, it's more about the location, than the container. I will not search an urban cache for more than 5-10 minutes, if that. I won't search a boring location for very long. I will stop and enjoy the view and surroundings on really awesome caches, and keep looking for them. Even when I start to walk away from those, I usually turn around and give it one more sweep. Then there was the time I walked right up to a cache and grabbed it. That was a fluke. The force was with me, that day.

How fragile is the vegetation in these areas? A busload of people going in circles looking at a GPS can sure trample an area pretty quick. I'd check with the land managers.

It might be listed on another website, and not this one. Did it have www.geocaching.com on the container anywhere, or in the log book?

Maybe it's because that's how far the average terrorist can throw an average sized stick of lit dynamite. Maybe, just because they can.

Maybe that's the average distance an averaged sized piece of crushed blue stone can fly when it gets flung from a railbed. It can't be because of derailing. 150' wouldn't be far enough.

Sorry, Groundspeak doesn't deal with safety issues. No, it's not their job to watch over over you from afar, but the railroad does deal with safety issues, and geocachers should. It's common sense that one shouldn't kill oneself.

Lots of parks have entrance fees. Some only charge seasonally. Lots of those parks have caches in them. Just make sure cachers know what to expect, and....ask the park.

In 2010 alone, 442 people were killed, and 388 injured as a result of trespassing on RR property. It can take over a mile to stop a train. When the engineer sees you, it's too late, and all he can do is pray for for soul. The train doesn't hit a car, the car hits the train. Even if he's stopped, he drove into the path. The train can't swerve. The FRA spends millions of dollars, just to raise awareness of how dangerous it is to be too close to the tracks, to try and cross when the warning signal is going, etc... Here is a trainspotter's safety page. He describes some of the dangers. Stuff can fly off trains and hit and kill you. It happens. That's why they don't want you close by. Makes you think. So think! There are plenty of places to hide caches without putting them near an active (even if it's once a week) railroad track.

Ask the park is the only answer here.

Uh oh. You made the dog howl. I agree. Copy and paste please. But I would really rather see a unique page for each one. They can't all be the same? Seems boring and redundant. And people have issues with copy and paste logs. I can hear it now, if all the cache pages are the same, people won't know if they are even logging the right cache. I am an old school cacher, and I prefer unique and interesting caches. I don't do power trails. Well, OK, I did one series on a dirt road over a mountain in Vermont and it was only ten caches. So I wouldn't call it a power trail.

You can bet your sweet bippy I am going to be retrieving and saving this logbook. My dear departed cousin, who was a journalism major, and knowing how I like trout fishing, gave it to me to use as a journal, but the closest thing in my life to a journal is my geocaching history. I miss her a lot and hope this doesn't ever go missing before I get it back. People love the book, and it seems they take the time, mosquitoes be darned, to sit and write something nice in it.

I have kept log books. And a few sheets. If it has mold, it gets tossed. So please close the lid properly if you want to be preserved forever in that box in the corner, reserved for "geocaching stuff". I'm not that organized. Some of the log books I saved have no cache name in them, and without going through online logs, I couldn't tell where they came from. Some are from other people's caches, where I replaced the log, and never got a reply about returning it to them. I would have left them in the caches, if they were in good enough condition, but when you clean out a cache, you don't put a soggy wet book back into it.

Some friend, he creates a fake name to post his log with and yet posts a photo of his friend showing his face. That is equivalent of being faster than your friend went a bear is chasing you. If you look at that picture you'll see that it's a picture of the Police Officer who came to search the area, not one of the cachers. OK, I can see the vest now. Bulletproof. Not your average geocacher's gear filled, pocket covered fishing type vest.

Some friend, he creates a fake name to post his log with and yet posts a photo of his friend showing his face. That is equivalent of being faster than your friend went a bear is chasing you.

I don't think it will work. FTF is not always the First To Log it online. Who is going to do the cross checking?

Your avatar automatically gets you rejected as a reviewer. And you don't sign up to be one. You have to earn it.

Edit your logs to say "co-FTF". That shows you shared it.