JASTA 11
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I've seen this in the case of a CO who's account was 'suspended' by the empire:
No mention of it being an automated message though.
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Didn't find it Found the container label. Probably muggled.
Found All we could find was the label.
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Found It!Didn't really find do not go over there,there are nifes a old house we think a homes less person,not safe.
Didn't Find ItDidn't find this one. I did find the transient camp nearby which is a little unnerving because you never know what type of person might be lurking in the middle of the woods.
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We were on our annual vacation in Florida, and caching in an area we had discovered the previous year. Found a cache and discovered that we were the last ones to sign the log, over a year earlier.
(No-we didn't go and log a find online twice!)
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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.
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I doubt falling and cracking his head open was something he loved to do.
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Hiking and kayaking.
Definitely time away from the wife as well.
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Why not have the event at the posted coordinates along the trail and not at the trailhead in a parking lot?
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.
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I got a Hennessy Asym Zip last winter and used it on all my overnights since. Absolutely love it. I'm just under 6' tall and 200 lbs and slept quite comfortably each time.
I use a down sleeping bag in the spring and fall and haven't had the need for a quilt. The only downside I found is with the size of the rainfly. I'd recommend getting the larger one. No more nights on the ground for me, I'm hooked!
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I agree with niraD that there should be a waiting period, not a minimum number of finds. Especially in this age of the smartphone app, many people have short attention spans. They'll download the geocaching app to try it out, then quickly get bored and move on to the next app.......
+1
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I think Watertown is still in the lake effect band that hits Syracuse. It may even get more snow than Syracuse but isn't considered a major city. I suspect that Oswego and Mexico (the city in NY) get as much or more snow than Syracuse as well.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Would it be considered unethical to put a glitter bomb in a cache container....
Start with 'dumb' and then work your way down to 'unethical'.
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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.
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However many nanos were destroyed, it's a good start.
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When it gets smashed, or otherwise disappears, folks will take to signing the building.
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Why is Germany always at the forefront when it comes to things that entirely miss the point of geocaching?
Don't let those folks over in Ohio hear that!
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Unless I look at satellite maps, and possibly google street maps I can't tell if I'm going to like the cache until I get there, especially if it's in a city/town in which I'm not familiar. If CO's didn't place caches in areas strewn with garbage, populated by drug users or others that might make one feel unsafe, a lot of cache seekers wouldn't waste their time going to locations where they don't even attempt a find.
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Experienced this while caching on vacation.
Walked into what turned out to be a homeless camp with my then five-year olds.
Not cool.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Noticed something that happened twice in the past week on two different caches with two separate groups of people. A FTF is claimed, then another cacher finds it and claims that the log is blank. An examination reveals part of the log is missing. Not to name names or to point out specific people, but really?
Hope this isn't the newest trend..
C'mon now, let them play the game they way want to.
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The old "Cliffsides and Grapevines" events in our area were similar. They would just re-enable every time they would get together to do some climbing. They didn't move all over the place though.
Are they trying for Mega or Giga status?!
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.
Didn't find it 
Found 
Found It!
Few New Cape Cod Caches
in Northeast
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Maybe the Cape has reached it's crappy cache saturation point?