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    Obviously, the topic should have been “Mystery Cache “Classifiction”, but I don’t think you can edit the title of the topic once you hit submit.

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    It can be tough sometimes to get a cache approved as a “Mystery”. I had 2 physical containers for “V Tree by the Sea” … both can hold objects and have a log book. But I could not get approval for the 1st one to be a “Traditional” which leads you to the 2nd as a “Mystery”. I had to make it one cache as a “Multi”. I’m not sure why … I’m not saying the approver was wrong … just stating that sometimes a “Multi” is the preferred “catch all” category, for reasons that are not 100% clear to me, which may be the case in your situation too. Now, if you are saying that you found a cache that is not a “Mystery” that has the cache coordinate as parking area or approach point, with the actual cache hiding spot stuck in the text as coordinates, without any magical special thing to do … I agree, that’s seems to be a no brainer as being done incorrectly by the placer of the cache.

    Personally … half the fun of geocaching is reading the cache text and log entries, for me paperless would never do. … a classic example: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=c339f05f-5473-4e7e-945b-7e7508c6e105

    [This message has been edited by EnergySaver (edited 07-20-2004).]

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    I’ve always assumed a mystery cache is one that involves more that just hunting down a location via coordinates or multiple locations/coordinates with my GPSr.

    The cache Energysaver spoke of sounds more like a standard cache with an attached bonus cache. I have hunted a couple of these, but often there is no mention of the bonus cache on the cache page. The information needed to hunt the bonus cache is a suprise, to be found at the first cache.

    I think the easiest solution is to go paperless with a PDA. Cache information is always at my fingertips, and this does include past finders log entries.

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    “Bonus Cache” … I’ve not run into one of those yet … Cool! … something new to dream of doing.

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