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If someone else has a different way of playing, who am I to say no to them? I supply the cache, and they have fun finding it however they feel. Unless it was a really tough hide, I wouldn't be worried.

"Palos Verdes Estates, California. July 27, 2003. This cache was confiscated by police and returned to owner with a warning that he would be cited for littering if they found another one." That's ridiculous..

There's one that's not been solved and was published almost a year ago. There's a couple red herrings involved and it's getting frustrating but I want it's glory.

I went through and read a few of them. I may read the rest later. Very interesting, and an awesome series I hope to find some day in my travels.

I use both the paid app and the website equally. I think the App is awesome. I can "discover" trackables on the spot, I can read logs and hints and descriptions on the spot (can with my gps too, but yaknow), if I'm in a different area and have a bit of free time, I can just click "find nearby caches" and end up with 8 finds without even planning on caching. I log them from my phone usually as I go, and charge the phone while I drive. However, when I'm home I usually have the website open and look around the island for a cache that may look interesting to me, and then I mark it down somewhere so that I can eventually go out and get it. I also use it to seek out potential hiding spots for myself. I usually always have the website open. Also, my GPS is always in my car with a couple extra sets of batteries. If I'm out and realize there's one in the woods close by, I simply take the coords from the phone app, and put them into my GPS and away I go. The App is great, but the intro app needs improvement big time. The only thing I would change about the paid app is being able to view user profiles and message them if I need to.

Most of my caches are scenic in my area, places people don't know exist, or abandoned places like/or playgrounds. I have two that don't fit those qualities, and they're just what I consider great hides with their container/camo. I choose where I want to put it in daylight so I can see what traffic may be like, and what happens around that area during general business time. This is after I look at the map for quite a while to determine whether or not it's too close to another cache. Once that much is completed, I go out at night with the container and give it multiple hiding spots, and then choose the best one based on how well it's hidden. My favorite caches to place are historic ones, though.

There are three here in town that I've found called "Lest We Forget" or "Our Heroic Dead" either at war memorials or at monuments built for those lost at sea.

I always have multiple blue pens with me. One is always in my pocket, I always have a few in my car, and some in a book bag I carry to most caches. This particular pen has never not worked for me. It's just a papermate thick pen, but it's proven itself. I'll hate when it runs out of ink, but I have a bunch more in the car and bag like I said.

Great constructive addition to the conversation, NeverSummer. Let's talk about this, guys. As community members, we are all responsible for bringing up the new generation of geocachers. How can we offer our help or a re-direction when we see someone trying to figure out how to play this incredibly nuanced game? Was there someone who helped you figure out the proper caching etiquette when you started? We are asking questions like these at HQ, as well. How can we offer guidance and instruction to the new folks who want to come play? How can we support the current community with helping them educate and spread the word? To start with, we are working on more informative blog/FB posts, updating and reorganizing the Help Center, and thinking of fun new ways to inform newbies of the fine tuned, community created, social etiquette mores. In addition, I will let you know that the default log text in the Intro App was just supposed to be an example log and not something that they could use to post a log to any cache. We will be following up on this to make sure that the text is not introducing new cachers to bland/lazy logging techniques. Many of you are already AMAZINGLY helpful to the new cachers who ask questions in the forums. As a fellow community member - I want to say a big THANK YOU for that. Since we are all stewards of the game I ask the same question to the rest of the community: What are some other ways that we can guide and teach the newest players on a local level? For the text on the app, there's a way to do grey text, correct? As in, it shows up for them to read, but it doesn't show up on the app as actual text for them to post? For example, the search bar here at Groundspeak. It says search, you click on it, search is now gone. For the app, why not grey text "Tell us about your experience!". Second, I strongly agree to having people verify their email. This will weed out one timers for sure. I'm a fairly new user, caching for almost a year now. I use the paid app for the most part, but I have a GPS for non urban caches. I agree that a tip of the day should be added. One of the most helpful things from when I started, was a couple members in the community emailed me asking me where I'm from and everything, and talking to me about caching and giving tips. They also recommended some finds to me and some friends. While I'm fairly new, I would still consider myself experienced to an extent, and I help out new users as well.

I found a tote container in the woods filled with kid's toys. Was pretty cool.

Sounds like a great idea to me.

In my area, there have been caches with many DNFs that were last found in 2010 that still haven't been disabled.

Many tin cans in a garbage bag in a tree caches. One was a tin can in a garbage bag sitting in the woods. A lot of baggies with a log stuck into benches. The worst, however, was very recent. There used to be a glass jar in a tree hanging by a hook. Someone went in, couldn't find the jar so they put a plastic bread tag on the hook that was still in the tree.

"Half Blood" is from Harry Potter, as is Muggle. Someone who had one parent a muggle, and one parent a witch/warlock. So a half blood in geocaching terms would make sense, since we already use muggle to describe someone who doesn't know what caching is. A half blood is someone who knows what caching is, but doesn't necessarily cache in the traditional way making them half a geocacher and half muggle. Get what I'm saying?

That's soooo cool!

A half blood.

I go in like I'm supposed to be there, and it's all good. There was one where I couldn't. It was magnetized to look like part of the bench, and you wouldn't even notice it unless you look for it. It's at a bus stop and a heavily used one. I spotted it, sat down, and chatted with the elderly lady next to me or a bit. I slipped it into my lap while talking to her, signed it, slipped it back and asked her for directions to a cache close by that was also a stealthy one. I didn't know where the street was, which is why I required directions.

Oh man.. I read 1973 the first time I looked at it. Drag.

Must have been a tough battle with the reviewer lasting 40 years.

There are many things that would make a cache "too hard" and that one went unfound because of it. This shows that being "too hard" isn't a reason to archive a cache.

There was a Cache in Ontario that wasn't found for 12 years. It was published in 2001 and not found until this year.

We have a local puzzle cache that has gone unsolved since it was published. The owner likes to make difficult caches, and this one is difficult without anyone even finding it yet. As of right now, there are 371 failed attempts at solving it, and about 12 of those are mine mostly from taking random six letter words he used on the cache page and turning the letters into numbers, as his Sudoku directions state. A few people have solved the Sudoku he made and said it's solution doesn't work because there are three different solutions or something, so I'm trying to find alternative routs with no prevail. I'm positive the Sudoku is just a ruse to confuse us. Ever come across a puzzle that was never solved? Do people go nuts over those unsolved, or just ignore them? Something about it being unsolved makes me want to solve it even more.

I went for a FTF one day and found it 167m away from the posted coordinates. It was the first cache the guy put out and he only had about six finds at the time so wasn't really sure what he was doing. He gave a bunch of hints "WHITE TREE" and things like that, and I decided to walk up a near by hill to get a better look at the grouping of trees at GZ. Turned out the cache was up that hill and in the treeline a few meters. Still don't know how I got it.

I don't know about you, but I still get an email every now and then from someone discovering a trackable I'm watching at an event in quebec. Other than that, none of the trackables have moved much at all.

It definitely burnt me out, but I streaked on for a few days afterwards. I actually got more in September than I did in August, though. Spent a couple days going all out. Tomorrow may also be one of those days.