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Was that a typo or were you refrencing Cache Ninja? g4H!

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They are still there. See posts 34 and 45. The mysterious Cache Ninja. He was active in the NYC metro area and also had a hide in VT, but I don't think he is or ever was a reviewer. I've corresponded with him on a few occasions over the years. Sometime he responds to e-mails and sometimes he doesn't. He told me he was moving out of the area. This was about 3 years ago. ind3ED! .......helLo.

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........ Anyway, welcome back. Is Cache Ninja still around? ha! c/n

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any takers for doodletown or stanley cache? will check on l.bug next week, and likely archive unless it's in good shape and and i find someone interested in preserving it. c/n

hey all, it's been awhile..glad to see some familiar names..after some rough stuff, i need to move on and out of the area..looking for people to adopt a few remaining caches, otherwise I'll be picking them up/archiving them in the next few weeks.. ive run across a number of kind folks over the yrs who have helped me out, most of my active caches have been adopted... check out my cache list, the ones i'll need help with are: nyc: aqua serpentor hells gate harriman: stanley l.bug(needs some fixing) doodletown and i could really use a hand picking up flaxe(archived) i had someone taking care of crossroads, but it seems to need some help... much appreciated! please _msg_ me/e-mail me via the site take care c/n

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hey everyone...looks like i might be moving next summer, not sure where yet(not totally under my control), but likely...away. been slowly picking up/archiving caches and such..family illness and other things have made this slower than anticipated...wont have time in the spring(will be working 100hrs a week for a few months, then fleeing to Wellington, NZ for a bit).. will likely get time to grab up a bunch/most of my caches around this xmas. although i always meant for my caches to be temporary, creating experiences for people just for a short time, only to remain in memory(and i suppose, in collective memory in cyberspace)...would be nice for some of them to carry on... please let me know(e-mail only), if you are interested in helping out in any way (adopting, or helping pick up the remains). no worries, i'll be able to handle this on my own, but thought i'd ask... take care everyone, hope you are all well c/n remaining caches that need adoption:(or would even help if someone might pick it up and ill archive it) otherwise ill be picking up/archiving these soon: lemme know if you are interested in any of my others(NYC, some Harriman etc), i'll be getting to those sooner, most will be archived/removed..a handful have been adopted already... DE: delaware 7 (1st cache in Delaware) Harriman: +NJ: Doodletown (1st cache in, well, doodletown apparently..many followed, lucien fixed it up, but its not as special a spot anymore, could be archived) L.Bug-nice spot, my second attempt to bring people up to pine meadow lake-needs new container n_se-anthony's nose, would love if someone might be interested in adopting this one, great spot/view.. crossroads-kinda interesting hidden place(good fishing!), found it on the way to davidson cache, wish people didnt go through people's lawns to get there, signs are misleading, might archive it unless someone is interested... LI: naoko-bird land on your hands, on the beach, neat spot ...would be cool to continue this one on, people seem to love it there... MA r_point-great lookout , 1st greylock cache.. berry cache-pittsfield state forrest, nice spot to hike and camp for families, needs to be fixed up... MD Turino cache-1st attempt to bring people to gunpowder, trashed, needs to be picked up.. k thats it for now..........

hahaha...figured i'd reply to this one for a change...honestly, i dont consider any of my caches abandoned(those i've archived)-i will return to every single one(and have returned to most). my feeling is that if multiple experienced geocachers cant find them and the cache is noowhere to be seen, i can safely archive them and pick up the remains when i feel like it/get a chance. some plastic box under a rock for 3 yrs with paper and toys in it isnt going to do any harm. granted, others will have a different opinion on this....and for the record, ive done this(picked up remains of caches)....i have gone back and checked on caches, archived stolen caches/removed some... ...many of the caches they seem to assume i've archived and just left out there, ive gone and checked out, and either removed or verified were gone (i.e. flounder cache, gwon, yelllow long thing mentioned here.. countless others, i could post a list of 20-40 if you like).. ive done this either before or after they were archived. i had assumed that if i archived a cache, people wouldnt go looking for it, so it would be inane to post an update that it was, in fact gone, if i checked after i archived it(due to however many DNFs), i hold myself accountable for what ive left in the woods, i dont feel a need to report to anyone else that i've taken care of it... and if i archived a cache, similarly, i didnt think i needed to post a comment stating that in fact, i was archiving it because i checked and it was gone. if it;s archived, my opinion was, dont look for it, and ill take care of it. which ive done/been doing, sure slowly at times. all of this/these problems seem to revolve around some urgent timeline that makes some geocaching folks very anxious, which again i must submit perplexes me...i can only conclude that these people have not much else going on in their lives...perhaps rules and this sorta thing gives them comfort somehow, control. i dunno. too bad people can't just chill.. but "geocaching" means many things, to many people and always will(perhaps much to the frustration of nj admin and others)...of my caches that remain, people constantly desire posts that they are still there, i find this annoying....if i leave it up, feel free to look for it (i.e. serpentor cache has been there all along, as has aqua), the people who want me to constantly post updates that the caches are still there/i checked on them, can just as well not look for them as far as im concerned, im not going to post a log every time i check on an existing cache, its annoying, if people want to assume i dont check on caches, so be it, i dont care.... i do e-mail people every time they post a DNF to see where they looked/give hints etc, and do the same if someone declares a cache wet or trashed or so on to see if i need to check on/replace it, feel free to verify this-some people here might enjoy doing that sorta thing(i seem to see them posting really strangely anal lists of all sorts quite often).... i suppose i also feel as though i went to all this trouble, initially, to find certain types of spots to hide caches at, to share an experience/spot on the earth with some strangers, i was very particular about said spots, and often passed up many locations(which noone seems to bother to do anymore), if my cache gets trashed/flooded, i think it's fair to say it's up to me to decide on how fast i want to get there to replace it. if 20 , or even 5 people found a cache, had an amazing experience finding it(which makes me happy/is the point), and then it takes me 4yrs to replace it, i see no problem with this, as long as its not trash out in the open... granted there is this new density rule or whatever/people want to hide caches within 10 feet of existing/previous caches because they cant think of/find a place of their own..but i wouldve archived the caches to allow this, so it wouldnt be a problem. in the past i'd left them unavailable simply because i can't unarchive them myself, and didn't want to deal with this nj admin guy, who admittedly, has been less than enjoyable to deal with and loves to make all sorts of assumptions, accusations and so forth...and just doesnt get it, in my opinion...if people want to hide a million little geocaches within .3 miles of the spot i spent all thie time finding, go ahead, i realize folks have many different ideas about geocaching, perhaps creativity isnt at the top of their list....yes, i am bitter that people dont close/seal, rehide caches properly, put stupid things inside that ruin them(i.e. food), and/or give up after 10mins of searching and declare them "gone"..this has made me less likely to replace a cache that is messed up frequently and more likely to archive it eventually....sure in the beginning i used containers that I didnt anticipate not being so optimal(also, being broke doesnt help), but this hasnt been the main problem IMHO...granted, there is one cache someone listed up there i've been meaning to replace for 4 months, it's disabled. so what? holy crap, 4 months! it's a little unclear to me why people are so anal about timelines for this sorta thing, people have been to the cache, enjoyed finding it, it;s a cool spot, it'll take me awhile to get back there. so what? but again, there is no one "geocaching". i suppose there is one web site however, with some people with little else in their lives/too much time on their hands... whatever c/n

hey everyone(you know who you are), been a long time, hope all is well.... 1st cache in staten island(took more effort than youll ever know to pick spot and hide) is now archived and sitting in a ranger's office waiting to be picked up, would love to find a worthy SI resident/avid geocacher to donate this to, if someone is interested in such artifacts, otherwise ill pick it up.. not sure how pick from all/any takers, but any interested, doesnt have to be from SI i suppose, but prefer someoen who isnt going to just chuck it, send me a mail... 1st cache in brooklyn(decepticon) is long gone, as is 1st cache queens(forgot what i called it), 1st cache in the bronx(AJ) may be missing...someone beat me to 1st cache in manhattan(i was however the 1st to find it though...). ah so many 1sts. back in the day. miss you guys, still see some familiar names around.. k take care c/n

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