Oddly out of place is hard to find...

by Erik Lane 21. October 2004 07:30

So yesterday our oddly out of place cache was not found for the 3rd time in a row.  We loaded up the kiddos and headed out to make sure it was still there - YEP still there!!  I grant you, we even had to look for it but it was still there and oddly out of place.  :-)

We try to be creative but I think sometimes other geocachers want it to be easy and straight forward.  Don't get me wrong, I like those too but I don't expect them when the difficulty rating is at 3 (on a scale of 1-5).  It seems that some cachers just don't think outside the box; they look in the usual hiding spots and maybe some not so usual spots and then figure it's not there.  Normally when I can't find a cache in the normal/logical spots I step back and think about it for a few minutes and re-read the description/title/clues and try again.  There are only a few that we've not found that were actually still there.

It's still tons of fun and I'm glad people are attempting our caches.

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The Wife
The Wife United States on 10/21/2004 7:36:00 AM

Maybe we should up the difficulty to a 4?  Would that make people look harder?

I agree though and sometimes when we've been to a series of really easy caches it's easy to get frustrated more quickly when you move on to harder ones.

Plus, I think maybe we are the only two nuts in the bag who think the way that we do.  March to our own drummer, Laugh at our own jokes....etc.

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