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@Team Deejay wrote:

Film cans suck!!!!

Nano containers (available at science stores/online, about $1)
Plastic match containers (available at sporting goods stores, about $1)
Old time film containers (internal plug seal)
Metal match containers
Plastic Mag Keyholders
New style film cans (external cap)
Breathstrip containers
Ziploc bags
Metal keyholders
Altoid tins
Lipstick tubes

Awww gee, I was just thinking about placing a nice magnetic keyholder cache 😈 😈 😈

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@marc_54140 wrote:

Matchstick containers have O rings, which usually get lost fairly earlier in the history of the cache, and then the moisture starts getting in.

Better than film cans, but not by much…….

Not all match stick containers have the O-rings. The green containers with a hinged top that I can get at my neighborhood Gander Mountain for about a buck do not have an O-ring. The pretty bright orange container purchased form Walmart does have an O-ring.

I’ve used a fair number of the green containers from Gander Mountain. I don’t remember reports of wet logs, but then again, I don’t believe I have any out in extreme conditions. I dislike the orange containers because…..well, they’re orange.

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Ooh, goofball things like:

The person who’s crashed the most weddings / funerals to find a geocache. (2 for both btw)

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When we head north to Camp Sqa-ta-lot, we turn off the electricity in the cabin (except for the fridge) and run the propane lanterns. I love it….up there. Here, I want heat and POWER!

Seriously, I just went through the house and turned off all kinds of stuff (like the iron my wife left running)

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Cache to Eagle Series

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I’ll voice my opinion.

I think that an awards dinner is a good idea in theory. But I would steer away from any awards that deal with numbers. You have some school kids who love geocaching but can’t get to any, because they can’t drive. Some folks who love geocaching work several jobs and can’t get out much either. Should their expertise and enthusiasm be counted any less than some retired folk who have all the time they want to find geocaches (or self-employed schmucks such as myself)?

I see these awards as a potential sore spot for a lot of cachers…ie: “well there’s a surprise, they won – again.”

I’d rather see awards given by peers. Perhaps favorite logs, favorite hides, favorite containers, etc. I’d like to see regional awards. I’m an avid cacher in my little corner of he world, but I’ve never met many of the cachers whose names appear regularly on these forums. Naturally, I would know my local cachers better than folks who live further away.

I don’t know how the WGA would set up an awards program. I’ve seen the problems that COTM has caused in the past. I’d hate to see the awards program travel down the same path. Not to mention our Board is probably already overwhelmed. How would you collect and sort through the votes?

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I have a couple of caches in northern Minnesota that will occasionally get a little of the bubbly placed as swag.

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I suspected that may be the case, so you can quote me on this,

“I hereby announce that I, Rogheff, have absolutely nothing to do with the idea, design or placement of the cache for which you are presently hunting. If you can’t find it, don’t like it, if it needs maintenance or is placed in a bad way – don’t blame me. Unless of course, it’s a fantastic cache, then I’ll take all the credit.”

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You misunderstand me. %%$#@# means “lovely”, if I had written
%$%@#@ , well now THAT would mean…well, nasty things.

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Who are you and what have you done with Dave? More importantly, how do I find that %%$#@# cache?

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My Henwood TB has 14289 miles on it. Goal was to go to Thailand and back. It’s on it’s way home (SORT OF)

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@shine_like_a_star wrote:

@Trudy & the beast wrote:

Where are we getting the phone numbers from? 😯

That’s what I was wondering.

(262) 914-8699

How’s that for a hint?

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I once got a phone call from a cacher who was at the site of one of my more difficult hides. The cache was hidden next to a brick wall – on the ground. I had him measure from a corner, put his nose against the wall, and then told him he was standing on it. It still took him a while to find.

Sometimes the Phone a Friend is really needed. Some cachers (brkster) have all the patience in the world and want no hints. They’ll come back over and over and over. While other cachers (many of us) have no patience an will start tearing the place apart if they can’t find a cache. Better to phone a friend than to damage the place.

I don’t mind the phone a friend on my caches. I expect it on many. I’m not the cache police – play the game how ever you want.

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Course, I’m just crazy enough to have adopted The Gauntlet as well.

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You’ve got a couple of my favorite caches. PM sent.

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