Tared

We started geocaching on our Christmas Eve, My brothers fiance brought it up, we got excited and much to her suprise out popped 2 GPS units (must have been a sign), she called up her brother (a geocacher) for adivce; he said dress warm, and bring extra batteries and more than one flashlight (it was about 11pm). We headed out to find this geocache near my parents house which was in the middle of a woodlot next to a lake and there was no moon out. In our excitement we had forgotten extra batteries and about 100m from the cache (which was about 500m in dark forest trail marked with spray painted trees).. the lights dimmed and when we got to our location we had no light to search by (needless to say we did not get it that night)... We had to walk back along the lake and use the gps to help us cut through one section of forest (luckily we had marked the car!) We went back the next day and found it, it was 1 meter over from where we had had our first demo on where we could expect to find a cache (demonstrated by my brothers fiance). It was quite the adventure. Best part that night was getting back to the house and my brother pulls out an LED light for their dog's collar he had had in his pocket (and which we had repeatedly asked him to look for)... he was a bit sheepish, but the night wouldn't have been memorable if we had seen our path, or found the cache!

I wouldn't say that questioning this practice is "policing", I think that a valid point is brought up about how an unsuspecting cache-seeker could walk themselves into a pile of trouble without even knowing it (especially if the cacher is not aware of farming)... Just a thought, I mean I guess I would probably email the cache owner to see if they could at the minimum post a little notice, so that cache-seekers know what they are getting into (I'd probably pass on this one... but if I'd driven a while to get there I'd be greatly dissapointed).

I agree, Tared is a team of 2, I'd note the FTF and then log it when the other person has found it... My team has agreed to both find (but hey it is a game, just stick to your own plan).