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I had the good fortune to visit the cache in question. I had on a suit and tie since I had come from a business meeting. I checked my luggage for the flight and took the light rail to the Mt Hood stop and walked to the cache to pick-up and drop off bugs. I had been to the first incarnation of the cache and was blown away by the new location. It was summer and the grass was very tall. Suddenly you were at the cache and I felt I had entered a different world. I have been telling cachers about that place ever since and was saddened to see it go away. A memorial cache is fitting. It was a most magical place.

JeeperDad is right. My numbers also dropped after deleting the notes. It really doesn't matter though. I know I had every one of those bugs in my hand and could have logged them in and out of a cache. If I am at a cache with a bug that has a clear goal and I can't help it to that goal, should I log it out, and then in, to show I have "found" it? Seems silly. Or, I could physically grab it and take it home and drop it later even if I have done it no good, then I would have a "find" but I would have kept the bug from its goal. I havn't seen a notice that says anyone is paying big money for geocaching stats so I guess I will continue to do exactly what I have always done; find caches, help bugs if I can, and read the forum posts to see who is upset about what new issue this week.

Interesting comments about Minnesota cachers. Perception and reality don't always match though. Doodlecat laments his bug being in Minnesota for months. Well, here is the history of that bug. Dropped in Oregon in September. Changed hands five times (once doodlecat picked it up and dropped it in another cache), dropped in a Oregon cache on 9/20 and picked up by me on 10/6. Spent 90 days in Oregon and traveled 30.7 miles. Arrived in Minnesota 10/6 showed it to Centris, who posted a note. Spent 10 days in Minnesota. Dropped in eastern Wisconsin (240 miles from Minnesota) on 10/16 traveled 1634.4 miles from Oregon. Picked up 81 days later by KC0QEG who brought it back to Minnesota. He has had it for a month. So, 90 days in Oregon, 10 days in Minnesota, 81 days in Wisconsin and now 30 days in Minnesota. As to the first bug doodlecat found, yes I see it is in Minnesota in the hands of a cacher who has not been very active in recent months. He will get out more in spring and drop the bug. We all like geocaching. We all have a little different slant on what is fun. I personally think locationless caches are kind of goofy, but I wouldn't complain about cachers who love them. I suppose we could invent all kinds of rules to govern geocaching activity, but so far the diversity of ideas and interests has seemed to me to be refreshing.

Cacher for one year. Lurker for one year. Read most of the posts and get a lot of laughs and learn a lot. Great entertainment.

Thanks. That "bit" of information solved the puzzle.

I am new to this and I am having trouble Uploading a picture to a travel bug site. I have a 99.1k bmp file, and when I try to upload i continue to get the message "thatsite is not available". Any suggestions?