AdmiralPorkchop: When I opened my email this morning, the first message I read was a note from rogue with the image he attached. My first thought was - "Holy Crap! The coyotes ate my logbook!!"
As cool as that would have been, I'm glad that nobody got mauled by coyotes hunting for the cache. (Well, if they did, I guess they may have never gotten back to log their find online... Maybe a headcount at the next WGA event would be a good idea ;-)
Anyways, I'm going to archive this cache for the following reasons:
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I live 45 minutes away from this cache and when I'm in the area, spending time with friends and family will always take precedent over a plastic box.
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This is a big area, and a new cache placement will likely be more than 500 feet away, meeting the criteria for a new cache placement.
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I'd like to give someone who lives in the area an opportunity to place a cache there. That way a new cache in a new part of the park will: A. Please the geocachers who love high find counts and B. Feed the obsession of chachers who can't sleep at night knowing there's an unfound cache nearby. [;)]
I always liked where I hid it - for shorter people, it required a little ingenuity or teamwork to find it, without it being overly difficult to get to.
I've had caches get muggled in the past - usually they disappear without a trace. The cache that was here prior to this one went missing for several months and then was re-found quite a ways away from it's hiding place, with contents (including disposable camera) intact. When a cache goes missing like that, it's a bit of a letdown - not knowing what happened or why it happened.
In this case, though, knowing that my whole geocache WENT THROUGH A TREE SHREDDER is just awesome. A totally sweet way to go - it's like a Viking funeral vs. Christian burial, ya know??
Anyways, it's been fun and I hope to see a new cache in this area, either placed by me or someone else who gets in the area first.
Happy Geocaching!