Today I replaced our easiest cache. GC73998 Baynes Channel View is D=1.5 and honestly we think it could be1.0, it’s that easy. It shouldn’t have any DNFs, but in fact it has 25 (on 187 Found It logs), mainly because it IS so easy to find. So easy to find that apparently m-ggles find it too, and you know what m-ggles do when they find a cache: “Oh, I don’t know what this is, so it must not belong here and I must have the authority to remove it”

This happens a LOT with easy caches, thus the counterintuitively high DNF rate.

Today I replaced this cache for what feels like the 90th time (but is actually only the third in 6 years) with this log:

Replaced cache. Temporary log – I had only a nano log strip on hand. Printing some more suitable log sheets today, will revisit later this spring to install.

• Was the cache washed away by high winter seas that left the hide object alone? Unlikely.
• Wildlife that thought it looked tasty in spite of the abundant food all around? Not at all likely.
• Lunkhead muggle who came across it and the first thought in his empty skull was “SHINY THING MINE!”?? On the money.

IFLove geocaching anyway.

Hopefully the new cache will stay put for another couple of years. It cost me more in gasoline to go check out the situation than it did to replace the container, so no big deal. Now my finders get a nice new clean cache with lots of room in the nice dry log, and I have one of my spring maintenance chores off the books now, so everyone wins!

I hope whoever took off with the old cache steps on lego tonight.

Despite everything, I f***ing love geocaching!