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As a person who has made several of these in AP chemistry for a sample lesson, I can tell you the biggest danger is getting the fluid in your eyes mouth or nose. The explosion is very minimal, it is loud however, and to take off even a finger you need at least a 3 liter bottle with the items in question mixed in the right amounts. Also it take a heck of a lot longer than 30 seconds, creates heat and you WILL know well before it blows up. I wouldn’t worry about this in the least. when you pick up a bottle that is full of something, your probably going to dump it out instead of putting all that weight into your bag anyway.

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@Todd300 wrote:

I’m supposed to go to La Crosse this spring to visit a muggle friend. I was gonna bring my GPS to do a little caching on the side.

Now, reading about all this, I probably won’t go to Lax. My friend did say she was gonna come up to my area to visit her family in the summer so I’ll see her then.

It’s a shame that a CO lets his caches go to waste on purpose just to see DNF logs.

I would encourage you to still come to the area, there are lots of other cache placers here, dean just happens to have hundreds more hides than anyone else. I would also encourage you to judge for yourself his hides, maybe they will apeal to you. I chose not to do them on past experiences, but I think each person should judge for them selves. There are some fantastic caches in this area, they tend to be overshadowed by 1 persons quantity of hides however.

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As a local cacher let me add a bit of insight to this whole conversation. I have found LOTS of deans caches, and at first I was a fan of all the caches that he placed, but about 2 years ago that changed when he decided he liked getting DNF notifications more than he liked smileys. He told that to me and many others in this area that he LOVES getting DNF notifications, this led to him not doing maintenance and then just archiving his caches and placing a new one very close to were the old one was. On more than one occasion, I have gone after one of his caches that was placed by an old one, and went over and get a free container since he didnt retrieve the old one he archived.

Dean if you want people in the area to like getting your caches again, go back to the old way. If you want to get the DNF notifications still make them HARD as hell but make sure they are there.

I stopped looking for your stuff shortly after you told me how much you like getting the DNF’s, until then I had put up with caches missing half the time, the containers that werent water proof and the logs were always wet, the post it notes for logs which are a disaster after a short ammount of time, and walking away from i don’t even know how many caches because they were in questionable locations, private property or just places that made me feel uncomfortable looking in.

How can I recommend a cache to someone if I dont know if its still there or if its been archived and replaced by something else.

I have found great caches by Dean, but once his attitude from wanting people to collect smiles turned to having them rather get frowny faces, I stopped lookign for his stuff also.

The other and probably even worse part about this style of hiding is new people to this sport see his hundreds of caches in bad containers, not maintained, and in questionable locations and adopt the same type of caching.

Dean place tons of caches like you used to but be an inspiration to the area, not someone who people put in gsak scripts to avoid. I liked your old caches, I can not say I enjoy your new ones at all.

If you archive everything I can’t say I will be sad, but I would rather have lots of findable maintained caches in the area, that follow the placement rules from groundspeak.

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I finished! And I had a BLAST, will do it again next year.

I didnt finish last, in my age group or overall and I beat my time goal by 15 minutes!

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10:30 is our race time!

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@Braid Beards Gang wrote:

I am starting to think that this might have been a bad idea. I am in the 10:30 wave tomorrow. I don’t think I can help with the carpool idea.

Its raining here at Bong. I am tent caming in this beautiful November weather. I can’t wait to freeze my ass off tomorrow!

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@Mister Greenthumb wrote:

Probably would not get approved if used on a cache as it is the opposite of what geocaching is supposed to be.

Could be interesting if used in conjunction with one of those new chirp things. Put in the status you will know you are close when your gps stops working and your chirp starts locating or however those things go.

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@JimandLinda wrote:

I should buy one for my BOL, the plumber! They installed tracking devices in their vehicles, so he can’t bring the work truck over anymore…which cuts down on the inexpensive plumbing!

Always a big brother watching someone. 😕

that site has some that plug right into the cigarette lighter to 😈

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/mini-cigarette-lighter-anti-tracker-gps-jammer-blocker-max-10m-coverage-55344

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@CodeJunkie wrote:

Caching with buddies? Stick this in your backpack and see what happens. 😆 🙄

I like this idea, or when your driving in the car with someone who relies on there nuvi to figure out how to get somewhere, turn it on and off every couple miles.

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Well you won’t see mine out in the woods anytime soon, but figured since these exist someone probably has already made a cache out of one 🙂 Might have to bring it to the next event I go to, just to see how many weird looks I can generate.

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Thanks for the lists! I have a few of these done already, and some I have no clue as to where to start.

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@Braid Beards Gang wrote:

I would recommend GC2YTJ1, it is an easy field puzzle at a Milwaukee area institution. The cache itself is one of those evil little hides.

Nice and it fills in a missing DT square for me! I will be doing this one for sure.

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I wish I had the equipment to go do that one, it looks really cool Sweetlife, Thanks!

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Last years bag is the perfect size to put my rain gear in. This years bag has been repurposed to hold my blaze orange hat, gloves, scarf, my hardhat and my construction worker vest.

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I just logged a challenge cache, because I completed the requirements last night without even knowing it was a challenge. My opinion is still the same on these things, and the more I look at them the more I think they should be filed under waymarking.

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