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Years ago, Trudy & I made 5 attempts at finding GC6950 “You Can’t be Serious” in Manitowoc. It amounted to an 80 mile drive each way and several hours of looking on each trip. Others have found it with considerably less effort. But, since there was such a high price getting that Smiley, we place a great value on it. If someone such as Johnny Spirit were to cut and paste an obviously bogus account on the web, we would be seriously offended to see it.

This is what happened at GCJ0N8 A Moving Experience. Now as the cache owner I am forced to make a decision, Let the log stand and be a Rube, or delete the log and be a Jerk. Actually, this is an easy choice for me, I have had to play the jerk an several occasions in the past. If I must do it again to protect the value of a find at this cache, I will. If Johnny Spirit wishes to claim a find here, he will need to give me greater detail than he did in his cut-and-paste log.

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If you were to read his on line logs (mostly cut and paste) and compare them with the terrain, etc at the cache; most are ill-fitting. “Dogs barking” at bonita vista??? come on! “rode bike down eastern bank” at Moving Experience would be death defying if not impossible. Covert Cache – an “antique store”

The 13 Milwaukee area caches are his only logged caches en route from Lansing, MI to Marquette, MI for the Thanksgiving Holiday with family. A later log states he got his GPSr for Christmas. Johnny became a groundspeak member 12/19. a month after he made his trip. It seems strange that anyone would ride a bicycle along the 600 mile route through Chicago and Milwaukee rather than the 400 mile route straight north to the UP. It seems strange that Johnny has not selected caches in any location along his route other than Milwaukee. An educator that can’t spell? More than 50 logged caches BEFORE he signed on to gc.com? One can easily post-date a log, but one cannot get coordinates unless one has an account.

And, I got a heads-up from an out-of-State cacher, that this guy ain’t straight.

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The Garmin units are pretty tough. They generally outlive their technology or their user. My old Garmin 12 used to turn itself off after a sharp rap, but pushing the little red woodtick button would bring it back to life. That problem went away when I bought a hammer. Our second GPSr was a Garmin Map76. Great unit, we still have it in reserve after finding about 500 caches with it. Our work horses today are a pair of Garmin 60C units. They are tough. The real sweetheart is our Garmin C330 StreetPilot. She frequently brings us to within a few feet of caches if there are available roadways.

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Each of us finds pleasures in different facets of geocaching. We have put together itineraries that excluded micros to avoid the Pines and the rocks. Now, I wonder if we aren’t missing some great caching. We have our StreetPilot set for the shortest route to get away from freeway travel. We enjoy the journey. For a long weekend, we might include a number of PNG caches because they offer good vistas. Yesterday we visited GC11N91, essentially a micro in a pile of rocks, but toured the park it was showcasing. It would have been a huge mistake to grab the cache and go without the look-around. Later, we visited GCWDWV, a micro at the gate of Governor Thompson State Park. Again, we would have missed a lot without the look-around. The point is that if we concentrate in seeking only those caches that fit our liking, we may be missing the greater joy. Seek the caches you prefer, but don’t ignore all what your fellow geocachers offer.

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You can add our names to your growing list of well-wishers. 😀

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@shine_like_a_star wrote:

I got an email this morning saying that one of my favorite caches had been muggled. I’ve had caches gone missing before, but this just made me really sad. 🙁 🙁

If my memory serves me correctly, it seems that there were problems with a particularly malicious muggle in this same area a few years ago…
I wonder if it is the same malanthrope?

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Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

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@Gusty Winds wrote:

The beast (Trudy & the beast) will be there. He was talking about it earlier with Tie, I think. His computer hasn’t been working, so he has been off line. But, I still communicate with him.

Sure, I’ll be there ~tb

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effective when?

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We are shut out here, as well. Bummer 🙁

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I am of mixed opinion here…

on one hand, I think that if this cacher wants to seek archived caches to find where they might have been, It’s his game let him have his fun.

On the other hand, once a cache is archived, it is out of play, kaput, done, over, toast; don’t even go there. If you have access to a computer to log your finds, then you can check the status of a cache before you seek it out. If you are finding caches at a rate of less than one per month, there is no reason to be using a cache sheet that is 18 months old.

We will be going on a 2-week vacation in August and we started watching about 400 caches along our route. Over the next 6 weeks we will be watching to make sure that the 25-50 we eventually visit are ready for us.

Obviously, a big cache count is really not what our subject wants. Perhaps he should consider changing his smiley to a memo. At least until he has the opportunity to communicate with the cache owner.
~tb

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Whoo, Whoo… we got a little red Jeep today. 4×4, 5.7L Hemi. We won’t be doing much off-roading with it though; It didn’t come with skid plates. 😀

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Try a search by zip code 53214

Miller park is about 2.5 miles east of the P.O.

Or, try a search of all caches near GCXPFC

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No Jeep in our mail… 🙁

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