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We are traveling to Madison for the Great Urban Race on 20 June and wondered if any other geocachers are participating? We'd love to meet some fellow cachers in the race.

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There's a really awesome micro in a lamp post skirt at our Walmart... Okay, so maybe that's not a #1,000. So how about cache GCRCT5? It is one that a lot of folks in our area consider a milestone cache, and one that we might consider for #1,000 (we're at 840 right now). Good luck!

I was at Midwest Geobash this weekend (GC154HT) and attended a Reviewers' Panel where this issue was discussed at length. The two biggest things suggested to prevent this from happening were 1. Labeling the cache as a geocache, and 2. Getting the landowner's permission. Both are important, but the problem with #1 is that someday, someone may hide an explosive and label it as a geocache. People will be nonchalant about it and then a very bad thing is going to happen. Getting the landowner's permission is the most important thing, in my opnion. If that person knows it's a cache, situations like the one described in this thread can be avoided. And we really need to do this, because the more bad publicity we get, the more our hobby is going to suffer.

I've run a few PQs lately that came thru slower than normal, but I did get them. I figured I just hit a heavy traffic period, since they usually arrive within minutes of when I run. But now seeing these other issues, maybe it's more than just heavy traffic???

Do you want one of mine? For some reason I've never been able to solve, I get two every week, and they come several hours apart.

Motorcycle Mama has directed you correctly. Read thru the page there and it'll help you. What we generally do is run a route in Google Earth and save it as a .kml file, and then uploade it to GC.com (and you'll see the upload option at the top of the "find caches along a route" page. Good luck!

We've not seen anything like this, but at least the guy logged that he moved it, rather than leaving the owner wondering where it went. And, he made a trade instead of just taking the entire thing home. So yea, the log is bizarre, but he did a lot more than most muggles would.

Do your best sales pitch to get some of these nay-sayers to accompany you on a cache or two. When you're done, they may still think "what's the point?" but you might be lucky enough to find that they get hooked. We cached for about a year and my mom thought we were nuts. She just didn't understand why we liked geocaching. But then she went with us one day and now she's Lady Bug 61 - finding and hiding geocaches every chance she gets.