What we really need is a forum for rants. Had two caches publish Thursday morning in Stevens Point. CO had 1 find and no hides prior to these. A cacher ran out to find them, but encountered a group of workers painting the building at one, so didn’t search. The other he found. Later that day I went to take a look, but spent 15 minutes searching in the bushes in front of a couple businesses. After a while I was joined by another cacher, but still no find. We expanded our search to a nearby business whose name matched the name of the cache. Finally we went to search for the other cache, to see if the container or hide style might give us a clue. Found the spot where it had been, but no cache (later confirmed by the FTF). Walking back to my vehicle, I was stopped by a group that was drinking in the outdoor patio area of the establishment. They told me that they had found what we were looking for, and that I probably wasn’t tall enough to see it, then I spotted it on top of a brick light post about 6.5 feet up and 0.14 miles from the posted coords. The hint for the cache had suggested that it was down low.
Friday a multi-cache published from the same CO. Cacher who had made FTF on the Thursday morning cache went to look for it this morning and was joined by another pair of cachers. No luck. Later today the CO posted Temporarily Disabled for all three caches, but implied in the logs that they were permanently removed. I wish that there was a rule prohibiting new cachers from hiding until they had at least 50 finds.
Thanks for letting me vent. Rant over. (I feel better now)
