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What in the world are geomuggles?

Tom Laidlaw

I think it's somebody who doesnt know about geocaching. Like people who dont know about magic in harry potter. YOu need to be discreet whilst geocashing as to not let them know what you are doing.

 

Be a ninja in the wind. <_<

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Right. Muggles is a word from the Harry Potter books. A muggle in the books meant a person not part of the magical community.

 

In geocaching, a muggle is anyone you encounter while geocaching whos not part of the the "magical" geocaching community. When a muggle is near, you usually suspend your search because your "abnormal" behavoir of searching through bushes and under rocks may be suspicious to a muggles eyes.

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Exactly. The term was indeed taken from the Harry Potter novels, you'll hear them also referred to simply as "Muggles."

 

They're non-geocachers. Muggles can watch one searching for an urban hide and become increasingly curious (or concerned!) about the activity. Muggles can also accidentally find caches, which has varying results: some take the cache or otherwise destroy it, others are drawn to geocaching because of it. One muggle wrote a lovely note in a cache I found.

 

In other words, like people (which of course they are), muggles run the gamut of human behavior.

 

-- Jeannette

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