The Jester

A constant 5 percent doesn't mean the same number of cachers. The total number is growing, so the number of cachers is growing - 5 percent of 120 is greater than 5 percent of 100. Besides, you can make statistics say just about anything.

That's just one opinion. I have a multi in Renton, WA that uses plaques and monuments of the coal industry for the numbers, ending in a park nearby. Most people think the history tie in makes it a better cache. But if someone is so focused on the final cache they can't see the interesting points along the way, I feel sorry for them. I like finding caches that show me parts of the area I don't know about. That's another opinion.

I'm on a diet, no doughnuts, so I'll just have the leftover holes please.

I probably treat my cat as well as you do your dog, and he thinks HE's a god! I'm so bright my mother calls me son!

Heck, even in 'waterproof' containers I place logbooks inside ziplock bags (as well as everything else). While the cache is open rain can get inside and dampen everything.

As a native Western Washingtonian, how about "Raindrops keep falling on my head..."

That's an awful big But... How much time is "..."? Hours? Days? Weeks? If it was disabled that was wrong. If it was archived, the area is up for grabs.

It's not the servers that are the problem, but too many of you are sitting at your computer looking at forums, not out caching. More finds = more logs = more work for the servers. Get youselves in gear and go hunting!

Me too. Of couse, since the OP doesn't seem to have hidden any caches, they might not know about the that's there instead of the red checkmark now. I think he meant on the Map It maps.-

Any thought to renaming this - ala Snolympia Cache Machine - to Raining the Iron Horse?

The little voices told me too! Actually, it started in '92 at the Seattle Bike Expo. I was looking for a pair of tights for rock climbing. The one pair I was going to get were sold when I returned, but they had a pair with one bright yellow/gold leg and one bright red leg. These were my school colors, and it was the year of my 20th reunion, so I went with those (and, yes, I wore them to the reunion picnic). A couple of years later, at Halloween time, I saw a jester costume in the same colors and I couldn't resist. Now I seem to collect jester hats as I see them, and they fit the color scheme - a buddy's mom made me a warm watch cap in the colors even. So it just fit when I signed up here. And that's no joke!

I'll have mine (110) with, along with several extra FRS radio's if people want to borrow them.

Phil & Cathy and blindleader completed the series! Congratulations! But, gee guys, why'd it take you another 10 days?

They track different things: "found" caches & "found" TB (retrive). The number of TB's found shouldn't add to your cache found total (on profile page).

Not only do I talk to my GPS...I've named my GPS I'm serious BTW, Winston, my GPS, says hello... I'm not opposed to naming inanimate objects. Tstar You mean it didn't TELL you it's name?

Just a note to say there are some enviroments that are permanently damaged by a single passage of a man. 30 years ago I went to the Craters of the Moon in Idaho. Just off the marked trails there was a line of footprint in green. For over 2000 years nothing had grown in the loose volcanic soil, until it was compressed by that foot. Then plants took root. Just a few years ago I was back, and the whole area was now covered in plants. Now I'm not saying that one person was responsible, but it will never "recover" to it original condition (unless another eruption cycle happens). The compacting of a social trail does take a very long time to revert, so we just have to be careful in our placements.

Nah, he's his (knitted) sock puppet!

First, I'm not against micros, some of my best hunts have been micros. But then some of the worst are too. Many points brought up (why micro's: cost, ease, etc) are valid, but what I often see is a lack of thinking and imagination. The best example I can think of is a film can hidden at the base of a fence post, while 20 feet away was a tree with a wonderful hole in it. The whole could have taken up to a small trad (sandwhich size) cache, or several different possible ways of concealing a micro (of any size). Conventional thinking can lead to uninteresting caches, no matter what size they are. Another cache I was hunting recently was well concealed at the base of a tree, nice hide, hard to find - but 30 feet away was a 20' stump that had a portion on the side that opened like a secret door, with room for a 5 gallon cache if you wanted. Let's just say if that cache is archived I know where my new cache will go... So, can we make rules to make good, reasonable and proper placements? Not really, each hider and cache site is unique - some we will like, some we won't, and if anyone ever comes up with a good way to tell them apart prior to the hunt, he'll make a whole lot of friends (and maybe a few bucks).

A similar thread is in the NW forum: Here No answers, lots of guesses.

Some of the rocks are key-hiders and available at hardware stores.

Did anyone else here the news that, according to DNA testing, Chihuahuas are actually bred from a type of rodent, not dogs? Fred Hutchingson Cancer Center in Seattle is the place that announced that.

What?? CR, you're not going to share with the rest of us?

Yeah, there was a section cut out right where the trail swung aroung the stump. We haven't had all that much rain recently so care is alway needed. We do have to be careful about using magnifing lens while looking for those mini-micros.

Just found and read this thread today (what a waste of time, but then I have the waist to waste, which BTW was bounceing/jiggling enough to chase the cat off my lap ). I guess I'll stick with 'muggles' as I don't think I can agree with someone who used "nerdizes" in a sentence (hi, umlaw97 ). Besides, I'm about the only one who can use it legitimately - in both meanings - as I am a magic user (we prefer 'magician', in this dimension, over wizard) and a geocacher. So with a wave of my magic wand (with a spray of pink sparkly glitter) I declare that "muggles" is the official term to be used for non-cachers everywhere (and if you don't like it, I'll turn the guy next to you into a frog, and you into a fly! ). NOW you can close this thread.

Let's see if I have this right: Leave on trip at 9am, lunch at 1pm, hmm..., 15 minutes per cache would be 3 hours so inbetween caches we will be doing 25 MPH! Ouch, on a dirt track even! How am I supposed to watch the GPSr at that speed, not to mention the hot brakes at each stop.