Don't know about a cold beer, but we did find a small bottle of whiskey in a cache out near Yuma...GCBA27. It was unopened when we found it and there was significantly less when we all left ;) Two years ago yesterday...Anyone else have fond memories of that trip?!? LazyK - Dan _____ From: az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com [mailto:az-geocaching-bounces@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On Behalf Of SSpackeen@aol.com Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:40 PM To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Quality of cache trinkets.... I concur! I'm about to start a couple of caches and I have a stash of cool items ready to go. I have yet to find a cold beer in a cache - now that would be the best find I could think of (think Mammoth Grove)! In a message dated 1/20/2005 2:10:08 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, jscotti@pirl.lpl.Arizona.EDU writes: Hey Everyone, I've been working on making the rounds and visiting my active cache containers and have been very disappointed with the quality of the items I'm finding in my caches as well as in other caches when I go hunting. If I had brought a larger selection of items with me yesterday, I think I would have emptied out all of the junk and put a fresh higher quality set of items in there. I might still.... I've seen enough of those little plastic dinosaurs, bears, armymen, or whatever and 99 cent store plastic keychains. I usually bring at the least my favorite combo whistle/thermometer/magnifier keychains or even a compass or something and often don't even bother taking anything from the mostly worthless collection of junk in the cache. If I'm lucky, I'll find something actually worthwhile or a TB.... Other than team business cards, I don't remember the last time I found a team signature item like the TMBH keychains or the old Sand Dollars. Even a cheap whistle is a lot better than what I'm seeing in geocaches today. Is it my imagination or has the general quality of cache items gone down - or maybe I'm just comparing the quality I see to what I stocked the cache with originally (you know, like a sleeve of 3 golf balls for My Blue Heaven to grab, or a Silva compass or a homemade bag of genuine Hawaiin beach sand...) or even what I used to find when I was one of the first couple finders of a new geocache (I think most of us who hide caches tend to stock them well - I found an outdated old VGA graphics card in a cache once). Maybe the quality of cache items has always been that low? Sorry to sound so grumpy, but I really was disappointed with the contents I found last night. I'd hate to have to restock all of my caches with a better quality of trinkets. At least I didn't find any lighters, bullets or Playboy magazines in it.... Jim. Jim Scotti Lunar & Planetary Laboratory University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 USA http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/ ____________________________________________________________ Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching Arizona's Geocaching Resource http://www.azgeocaching.com