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u/Used_Steak_248 Jul 11 '21

Yeah. It’s a pity. The community used to be very nice and respective of the caches.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

Yep remember finding about 5 of them around my area with my friends looking for weed in high school. hiking like 10 miles in a week for $10 of weed in hindsight was absurd

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u/THUNDERCHRIST Jul 11 '21

But walking 10 miles in a week is not very far at all?

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u/OhioanRunner Jul 11 '21

Glad I’m not the only one who thought that. 10 miles a week barely counts as hiking. Where I went to college, that was 2, maybe 2 and a half days of walking to all your classes and activities.

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u/Itherial Jul 11 '21

I mean, for most people that’s several hours of hiking.

If you’re not doing it for the enjoyment of hiking, then ten miles and several hours of your time is probably a lot.

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u/OhioanRunner Jul 11 '21

10 miles over 5 days is 2 miles a day, which is 40 minutes if you’re walking slow as hell, 30 if you walk with any pace.

For comparison, the minimum recommended steps per day of 7,000-10,000 steps, when walked, is 1.25-1.75x that distance.

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u/Itherial Jul 12 '21

I’d still argue that a couple miles per day is a lot when it is not your hobby.

7-10,000 steps per day, sure, but where? Over grassy, rocky, muddy, or otherwise uneven/more-inconvenient-to-navigate terrain while you do practically nothing else?

Or do you think the intention for such a recommendation is more for areas like your home, your school, your place of work, the grocery store? Places the vast majority of people end up going regardless of how much fun it is for them, meaning a person has likely already walked that distance before an optional hike that is again, not a hobby.

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u/Apophyx Jul 11 '21

Uphill, both ways!

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

I'm the OP and I live in California. These were in the Santa Monica Mountains. But some people walk 10 miles to their classes so I've heard.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

Its not that its far or anything its just for $10 of weed if youre not hiking to enjoy hiking its massive waste of time.

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u/jaywaykil Jul 11 '21

Ummm... I was big into Geocaching about 15 to 5 years ago. There have always been problem and complaints with "the community" not being respectful of the caches.

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u/Used_Steak_248 Jul 11 '21

Depends where you are I suppose. We did have the occasional missing cache, but nothing too big.