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Glad your all enjoy my subject!
It’s neat to see I’m not the only one hauling all this junk in the woods.
Some of you have things that I have too, but have forgotten, so I added to my list (batteries, camera, wet wipes).

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Lets see if I can take this joke told by the engineers in my office, and give it a geocaching “flavor” ….

A geocacher, an engineer and Bill Gates were driving along in a car (maybe carpooling to save energy, haha). Suddenly the engine died and the car came to a halt. It would not start. The geocacher suggested that they all search a nearby woods metal boxes with spare parts and a repair manual. The engineer suggested preparing a detailed algebraic analysis of the potential solutions. Bill Gates suggested that everyone open the car doors, exit the car, close the doors, open the doors, get back in the car and it should start right up.

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I think Otter’s suggestion would be good. Your never going to find the owner of the CDs. I’d say that area has a ratio of 300:1 Geomugglers to Cachers. It’s most likely one of the kids that leaves 5# of trash at a time, that leaves packs of fire crackers laying around for others to find, and started a coat on fire and left it on 7/4. I think there should be a sign that says “open to hunters and geocachers only” put up.

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Congrats!
Does this mean I can slow down on placing new caches for you to find

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Great isn’t it!
I love to post a more lofty picture from my office window, but my darn camera is at home.

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Originally posted by Auntienae:
Neat idea! I even know where I can find an old record player like that. You really think the kids there would leave it alone?

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No, I’m kidding. But they might not know what it is. But if they kick tree stumps apart in this park, they’ll trash that too. Auntienae, you’ve got to stop believing what I say, except when I say I will never make a dog dropping geocache, pass that on to TamCo

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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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Originally posted by Auntienae:
.. it might be a good idea to offer them as a CD swap cache in the coming months if we are not able to find the original owner.

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Here’s your idea for a cache … put an old Victrola record player out there with a secret compartment with CDs in it … the kids will never touch it.

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Are you allowed to answer your own forum question? ChillsX3, you may want to also take them along when you solve my “Valley of TB Zoo” series. There are not long periods of ugly terrain … but one of the “bars” has caused me to almost tumble down a small hill every time I’ve checked on it and one of the early finders found the cache by grabbing a hold of a tree while he started to fall off the same hill. Plus the actual cache “zoo” goal is in a spot that seem to give some people the creeps and wet ankles. P.S. the wet ankles are caused by the woods, not the fact that they got the creeps; thought I should clarify that.

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“Auntienae” … if you have no replies here, you may also want to try emailing the people that visited the cache before you (also make sure no one logs an entry for the same date after you, because maybe they were really before you). Just in case it is a cacher and they don’t read these forums (their loss). I would do this for you, but since you have the CDs it would be silly for me to get in the loop. Very well could be a non-cacher, talking to “Team Venom” it appears that kids are running a muck in this area 24×7 … he’s chasing them off his hunting land next door and making them drag out 4000 bags of trash.

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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

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Great article … way to go Mrs. Ecorangers! Bike helmets, we need to add bike helmets to our climbing ropes and bug spray!

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Originally posted by kbraband:
[*]April 2000. I bought my Garmin eMap GPSR, which is what I still use today.

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Only thing better than an eMap is an eMap with a school bus yellow rubber rain coat … http://www.gpscity.com/emapprotcvr.html

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For the last 5 or 6 finds I have been “changing my habit” and uploading the coordinates to the eMap GPSr and then running Find/Waypoint/Goto for the waypoint. It is much more instictive to watch an arrow and watch 10ths of Miles and then Feet moving downward. Again … my mistake/frustration was a product of bad habit (print and run), rather than knowledge of doing the best thing to prepare GPRr to be the best tool that it can be. More often than not it was not a problem in the last few hundred feet … I just had a habit of being on the wrong side of a creek, ravine, road, etc. more often than need be.

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Good News … I’ve moved and replaced the cache … check it out at http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=d4226b52-fae3-416c-a134-4f35d7f22841

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