JASTA 11

Found it! Yes the tree is gone and the container as well, we replaced the cache with a new container and put in the area that the prior finder suggested. TFTC The tree was cut down due to disease. Too bad they didn't replace the tree as well.

I doubt falling and cracking his head open was something he loved to do.

Hiking and kayaking. Definitely time away from the wife as well.

This is what I'd do. You can post that if anyone wants to join you to meet you at the trailhead at a specified time. It'll cut down on drive-bys too.

+1

Yep, it was that moisture in the air that would turn to snow as soon as the sun set. Every morning there'd be another inch or so on the ground. We'd get up in the morning an do P.T. outside. Afterwards, I'd be in the barracks getting changed for work and Willard Scott would be doing the weather. "Coldest spot in the lower 48 right now - Watertown, New York". Still beautiful country up there though.

I'd like to see a minimum find count before hiding, but the legs have been beaten off that dead horse so why bother. It's too easy to fake finds anyway.There's no published guideline for integrity. On the flip side, there are players around who have thousands of finds and have hidden dozens or more caches, who still don't get it right.

The piles around my driveway are over six feet. We lost our shih tzu in the back yard for a while after the blizzard. The only time I've come close to this was living way up in upstate New York. I'm not talking about Poughkeepsie, that's only way upstate to the islanders. It was up near Watertown. I first got to Fort Drum just after Thanksgiving. Already the snow banks were too high to see over. The road from Lowville to Drum was like a canyon. You couldn't tell where the intersections were. Except for when the snow mobiles crossed the road right in front of you. It would snow every day up there, just as soon as the sun started to set. It's not that bad here. Yet.

Start with 'dumb' and then work your way down to 'unethical'.

The power company routinely clears high-voltage line cuts around here. I don't know how much it has to do with terrorism, but inspecting the lines by helicopter is becoming commonplace. Soon they'll be using drones to do the job. Once again Groundspeak injects subjectivity into it's 'guidelines'. While 'on' the transmission tower is quite clear, they leave the 'near' part up to interpretation. What constitutes 'near'? My guess is that 'near' will be determined arbitrarily by reviewers, or by whoever decides to dime your cache out.

However many nanos were destroyed, it's a good start.

When it gets smashed, or otherwise disappears, folks will take to signing the building.

Don't let those folks over in Ohio hear that!

+1 Experienced this while caching on vacation. Walked into what turned out to be a homeless camp with my then five-year olds. Not cool.

I wouldn't have attempted it either, urban micros aren't our thing. As you get more experienced with the game, things will seem more obvious to you. I'm not sure why folks hide caches in questionable areas, and some are unsure why we hide caches in swamps. Don't be discouraged. Consider it a lesson learned and go enjoy the game.

This is a newbie log on a multi of ours. It made me chuckle. "This was the most difficult cache I've found to date!" (Their second find) "...the coordinates for location 2 may be about 10 feet off target." They seem to have given up on caching after this.

Sandwiched in the middle of a string of a dozen DNFs: Throwdowner (2100+) Found it! This cache is way to important not to be found and stay active. Xxx Xxxxx has been watching this cache for over a year waiting for it to be found. There has just been to many DNFs lately from geocachers with great skills not to believe it is not truly missing. So xxx XXXX waddled out to GZ and placed a temporary yellow micro container in a tree. If the original is ever found, then that person will be allow to keep my temporary contain as a prize. Everything is now good to go. Great spot. TFTC and I signed to new log. A six year old micro along a rail trail. Not sure what made it so important.

C'mon now, let them play the game they way want to.

I guess its more common than I thought. I'm surprised those C&G events were allowed to continue along that way up here in the Bay Colony.

This is a first for us: http://coord.info/GCK5E6

Once upon a time I would cut through Irvington on my way back and forth to work over at the airport. One day I learned that it wasn't really a smart thing to be doing. After that, I would only cut through there if it was raining out. The locals didn't hang around outside when it was raining.

If you don't find what's supposed to be there, just log something you did find! A benchmark that was a fire tower, dismantled back in the 70's: ''DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1958 (WER) ''THE STATION IS THE TOP CENTER OF THE LOOKOUT TOWER WHICH IS ''LOCATED ON THE SUMMIT OF MT. XXXXXX, APPROXIMATELY 7.5 MILES ''SOUTHEAST OF YYYYYYY AND 7 MILES EAST-NORTHEAST OF ZZZZZZZZ. '' ''THE LOOKOUT TOWER IS A SQUARE CABIN SUPPORTED BY FOUR LEGS ''AND IS APPROXIMATELY 35 FEET HIGH.

Yes, I messed that up. The email reply came from a "Community and Volunteer Support Coordinator", not a volunteer. An employee of Groundspeak did not want to go against the volunteer reviewers decision, nor did the employee offer the courtesy of a reply to my follow up questions. That's understood. Each reviewer will have their own subjective opinion. As far as this discussion goes, my beef isn't with the reviewer. It's with "HQ". They (the paid employee) made a decision on the matter.That's fine, I accept it. But now that they have made a ruling that something is in violation of their Terms Of Use, why is it selectively applied? Has the wind changed direction or something? My belief is that rules or 'guidelines' are applied arbitrarily and inconsistently, and when this occurs the player is just S.O.L. But does it justify selective enforcement?

I wasn't going to go into details, but here I go: Last year I had an event listing rejected by a reviewer because of wording contained in an image on the listing that was deemed by the reviewer as an 'agenda'. I appealed to Groundspeak, citing precedence in numerous other published listings. This included a listing published by the same reviewer six months prior that had the same phrase contained in my image, used as the cache title. Soon after, I get a reply from the 'volunteer', siding with the reviewer stating that it was indeed an 'agenda' and violated the terms of use. I wasn't pleased with the decision, but I accepted it. I removed the image and the listing was published. About a month later a new cache was published nearby, by a different reviewer this time, that has a title nearly identical to the wording in the image I had to delete. What gives? I send an email to the volunteer in appeals asking why the wording in my image was considered an agenda, but this cache title was not. No reply, nothing. Just crickets chirping. So what am I to believe? I believe that the appeals volunteer did not want to go against the reviewers decision, and I wasn't afforded the courtesy of a response to my follow up email about the title of the other cache because they knew they couldn't defend their reasoning.

The TSA prohibits loose lithium batteries in checked baggage. I had no idea about this particular restriction until I flew into Minneapolis last month. I noticed security signs in both Calgary and Minneapolis airports now mention these batteries. Yeah, you have to keep them in your carry-on. That way when they start smoldering, it won't be in the cargo hold. It'll be under the seat in front of you warming your feet.