WeightMan

I might suggest that the best way to answer this question for your area is to find several caches and see what works and what doesn't work. That will also help answer some of your other questions as well.

I found a concrete tombstone in a cemetery this morning. Does that count as a near death experience? I think it is a ticket of some sort for admittance to some goulish activity. It is a near death experience only if your name was on the tombstone.

I know you can get one day passes at REI and I think you can get them at a store at Snoqualmie Pass. There is a convenience store/gas station on the east end that should have them available. I would advise not trying to get up and back quickly. Come back again when you can spend the day at the pass and enjoy it. The cache will still be there. And there are a couple of other good ones on that side of the tunnel.

Didn't see the edit before I posted. Yeah, park at Asahel Curtis and hike up the Annette Lake Trail until you get to the Iron Horse Trail. That trail comes well after you cross the creek on a bridge. Don't mistake the service road (I think that's what it is) for the Iron Horse. And parking requires a NW Forest Pass.

Its not a five minute hike by any means. Figure on a couple of hours. It depends on how fast you hike on a very uneven trail on the way up to the Iron Horse. And 30 seconds would be a long time for this one.

Your idea of half burying containers is a sure way to get the cache archived if a reviewer finds out about it. Digging is a guideline violation and not acceptable. Very bad advice to give newbies. By the way I've encountered many well concealed ammo cans that took quite a bit of time to find. I know of one that has over 50 DNFs. None of them were half buried. I have one 50 cal can hidden that several have had trouble finding. It is on the trail side of a tree, but live ferns grow over that area. I can always see part of the can from the trail when I go to check on it. It is about ten feet off of the trail. I have another one that has fern camo painted on it. That seems to work well when hidden amongst the ferns. All of my ammo cans are painted in varying shades of very flat black, browns and tans to match the general shades of the area that it is placed in.

My regular Monday PQs ran as normal just after Midnight (Seattle time) and I created one later on and it ran as well.

A nano is a term for a very small micro. Micros are defined as roughly the size of a 35 mm film can. Nanos can be dime sized.

Well, you could bicycle up from North Bend on the Iron Horse. That will take all day though. I think it is something like 20 miles or so.

Having gone up the Annette Lake Trail route, I would say no. The early part of that trail is fairly heavy with roots and rocks that might make footing a bit difficult. Once you get to the Iron Horse Trail, you would have no problems. There is a bit more direct route that is pretty much bushwhack (and includes a creek crossing) that Prying Pandora took a few years ago. I'm not sure if that is the route unclefunky is talking about, but it would not same time, nor make it easier. Now, a key on the other hand, would, but with chunks of ceiling possibly falling on you . . .

The number referenced is the tracking number and so you can just go to the TB page, and retrieve it and place it where it really is. The number on the tag itself should never be put on display as anyone can grab that TB at any time.

Old news as Harriet reported in June.

I knew he was fast, but I didn't think he was that fast.

I found it. This was a from the article on the KOMO news web site. You can read the article here. It states fairly clearly:

Gotta be western WA from the phone number. Probably Kent or Auburn areas, but could be Federal Way. That general area anyhow.

It is well worth the trip. I would not advise going early in the morning, as I did, unless you have waterproof gear on. Dew on the trail will get you very wet.

By saying the exact same problem, do you mean that you have a PQ set to run daily? If so, copy that and submit the copy. That should generate immediately. The other thing to check is to see if the PQ was run (check the date on the right side of the PQ screen). If it has not run, then the problem is not with your ISP, but lies elsewhere. If it has run, then, more likely than not, the problem is with your ISP.

The Asahel Curtis campground in the Snoqualmie NF is right close to the trailhead for the APE cache. Sorry I can't find a link to the campground. Denny Creek is not far away either.

I had that done a bit over a year ago. I was back in full form (as much as that is) within a week. I was walking around the neighborhood, including up and down stairs, the next day. I may have to have mine replaced, but that is a different cause.

Both are possible, mine especially if there has been a problem with the PQ server. Before notifications, I had set up a New Cache PQ to run daily. That was pushed back quite a ways in just a few weeks before I realized I could preview it without having to run it. I have no idea how far back a daily PQ gets pushed nowadays.

There is also the queuing problem. Your PQ is placed in the queue based on when it last ran. The longer ago that it ran, the earlier it runs in the queue. If you run your PQ daily, it gets pushed further back each day. At some point it may even get pushed back over 24 hours so that it doesn't run at all.

I create a Caches Along A Route PQ, but never run it. I use the map representation of that PQ to look at caches I may want to do along the route and create a private bookmark of those caches. I then create a PQ for the bookmark and run that one. I keep that in a separate database in GSAK. For your final destination, generate a PQ for that area and store that in GSAK. You can update that close to your departure time and have a reasonably up-to-date set of caches. You may get a few disabled, but that is not normally much of a problem. If there are must do caches, check online if you can on that cache.

The obvious one, to me at least, is Searchin' by The Coasters

Don't forget I Hate I-5 Old Covered Bridge.

The problem is that the website wants the location entered as degrees minutes and decimal minutes while your GPSr is set to give you degrees minutes and seconds. If you take the 13 and divide by 60 (since there are 60 seconds in a minute) that will give you the correct format. You might want to set your GPSr to show degrees and decimal minutes (normally indicated as HDDD MM.MMM).