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Andy





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Location: Apache Junction

PostPosted: 3/6/2006, 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Well they got me. I doubt if it was someone we know but someone with the same rural mentality.
Heres the email I received thru Geocaching.com

C&P
I found the cache at Valley Vista today. It has 4-5 bullet holes
through it. Probably won't survive a rain (if there ever is one). The log
is shot (a pun). What I am saying is, I think it needs some looking
after (I couldn't figure out how to spell maintenence.)
This is a great location, Thanks for the cache.
I left the cache past the boulder with the scuttle hole under it. Under
a small rock. Your coords were right on.

And heres the last entry on the site:

With tears in my eyes, I am doing the LTF dance (Last to Find). The cowboys used the Altoids tin for shooting practice. There was only confetti inside instead of a log.
Took nothing (obviously), left a card (pen doesn't work). This is a great location but I think it attracts too many red nosed trashers.

AZKOBY

I will replace this cache!
and someone will probably destroy it again Rolling Eyes
and it was NOT in a Wilderness area
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PostPosted: 3/6/2006, 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

It is a shame that your properly placed cache was destroyed. I agree that is was not by anyone who has posted here since it was left there and not in a wilderness area. The fact that it was left to trash up the environment shows the perpetrators were knuckle-dragging mouth breathers. If you check nearby you'll probably find a half dozen cigarette butts and empty beer cans.
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Andy





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Location: Apache Junction

PostPosted: 3/6/2006, 3:30 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

azhiker96 wrote:
The fact that it was left to trash up the environment shows the perpetrators were knuckle-dragging mouth breathers. If you check nearby you'll probably find a half dozen cigarette butts and empty beer cans.


I will go up there this week and clean up the mess(I would have done it already but I hurt my back a couple weeks ago Crying or Very sad ) and maybe move the cache slightly and update the coords.
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Shihiyea





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PostPosted: 3/6/2006, 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Sorry to hear about your cache. I did some cacheing a few years ago with a friend. We placed one on Sitgreaves Mountain July '04 and it STILL hasn't been visited. I guess I'm not too surprised, as the log book up there hadn't been signed in almost 2 years! It is not an easy cache to get to. Mary
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Joined: 31 Dec 2005
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Location: Needles CA

PostPosted: 4/11/2009, 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

Well, I finally got around to it--the computer part of it, that is. I downloaded a geocache location from geocache.com onto my GPS. Now for me, that was the hard part! (In memory of our friend, Hooli, I have to add the following comment: "12:00 12:00 12:00") For me the easy part is probably going to be hiking out to the area, pushing the "find" button and finding the geocache.

I want to learn this because of that summer job I applied for. I was going to go out there this morning to find the cache. But it is snowing, and the roads are very slick, so I am staying home.

I can see where this could be fun for families, my kids would have liked it when they were young, but after reading this whole thread, which started about 3 years ago, I have to agree that it looks as though there are quite a few problems with the hobby. I wonder, too, if its popularity has waned? Any thoughts? Any advice? Any websites I should be checking out besides geocaching.com?
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PostPosted: 4/11/2009, 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply to topic Reply with quote

I still geocache occasionally. My daughter loves it!
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