Redcap the Druid

If you don't want to involve the cops then go back and open the bag. If you aren't willing to open the bag... call the cops. Obviously something dead is in the bag, and it was dumped there intentionally. If you aren't going to bury something, why put it in a bag and weigh it down? Seems weird. I say tell the authorities (I'd open the bag, but I have issues).

Man oh man do I love caching in the outdoors. Sure the numbers are lower, but the quality of the cache is always great... even when they are empty. We spent the last five days at the bottom of Bear Lake on the ID/UT border having a wild time: swimming, fishing, canoeing, hiking, and caching. We snagged 15 caches and the majority were outstanding. My favorite was our stop at Minnetonka Cave Cache on the ID side. First off, it was my 50th cache!!! We dropped a Louisiana geocoin and pulled a 2006 CITO geocoin! Then we placed a bat TB that we made and headed on to the cave tour. If you haven't been on that tour and are in the area, let me tell you, it is worth the two hours and five bucks! An 888 step trip into a crazy cool (40 degrees) cave system full of bats.... a great place to start our latest TB! We also hit 10 in Logan Canyon in UT. Boy howdy do I love Logan Canyon. The caches were great and the scenery was worth any trip. Enormous pines and rocky peaks with the babbling Bear river cascading alongside the road. My favorite here was actually a DNF. It is called Gates of Moria and was a huge 75 foot+ cave entrance with enormous iron bars at the mouth - a well named cache! I had to scamper up a gorgeous waterfall only to arrive at a sign that prohibited going within 250 feet of the entrance due to it being a sanctuary for long-eared bats (seeing a theme here?). I couldn't find the cache and did not want to search past the sign, so I enjoyed the amazing view and danced back down the waterfall. I drove back to the cabin and had a cool brew on the porch and, wait for it... watched a half dozen bats circle overhead grabbing mosquitoes. Finally on our way back home, we hit a couple in Soda Springs, ID. One of them, Octagon Springs, had a beautiful bubbling thermal spring that was the color of orange soda, then we hit the geyser in the middle of town... and I mean middle of town. It looks like it is in a bank parking lot, surrounded by businesses and alleyways. But every hour like clockwork it erupts way over the tops of the buildings for a good 10 minutes. The wind blew and we all got soaked with sulfur water... AWESOME!!! This is why I am hooked on geocaching - the ability to mesh a game into what I love most, the outdoors and the natural world. Even better is that it takes me places I would have never gone otherwise, like deep under the earth and to geysers in parking lots, heh.

droooooooooooooooooooool I am going to need three of these babies. Great work...... wowza

1995 Jeep Cherokee Sport 4x4... hasn't failed me yet!

Well what do you know.... looks like someone picked up the coin just before the cache was muggled. They just logged it four days later as they were out of town. phew

Well, that is disheartening... http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...28-058c26540ad0 My first geocoin lasted a day. Sure makes me wish that I would have kept it, now I understand why there are so many coin hoarders out there! Can't let it get me down I guess. Perhaps I will try again next time I get one. Unbelievable

I was curious what your experience has been with dropped geocoin life expectancy? How long did yours last after you dropped it before someone stole it? I heard that they don't usually last long before they disappear... any truth to this? Just curious as I dropped my first geocoin today... a lucky leprechaun.

I bought mine for backcountry hiking and backpacking, but the day that I bought it I tried geocaching for the first time and was hooked. It is all that I have used it for so far

I have had to skip out on checking one of my caches so far this year. Not good, since it is deep in the forest and I want to make sure it made it through the winter OK. Plus, we are scaling back our summer trip as well which will halve the states I can cache in on the way!

34 here... started at 33. My beautiful wife is 42 and our red-headed twins are almost 7

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I graduated from the 28-day BOSS course in 1990 and this story didn't surprise me. This gentleman died during the "impact" stage - three days of intense hiking with no food and minimal water. During my stay the instructors were very concerned when we couldn't locate water. Several students began vomiting (which is quite painful when dehydrated with an empty stomach), babbling and hallucinating. I recall that the waivers were extensive and that I was required to sign several before the course commenced. Along the way, while starving and dying of thirst, we would catch counselors eating trail mix and slurping water which made us consider some dangerous thoughts. When you are dying you learn to justify anything to stay alive. Too bad this man gave his life while a counselor watched with water in his pack, a kind action could have made this a life-changing trip rather than a life-ending one. Sad story.

Hi all.... Thought I would introduce myself.... I am a regular lurker now and have started reading the forums to help me learn more about caching. I started last August and I am in love with this hobby. I am in Idaho and I am exploring the wilderness hides here, not a big fan of urbans as they make me feel sketchy. You folks may "disagree" a lot here, but it seems like everyone is passionate about geocaching. I am glad to meet you and thanks for allowing me to lurk.