Everybody’s Baking Banana Bread” and highlight the punch line: I flip her an article: “ Forget the Sourdough. There are no barriers to entry, to the Fridge, to the pantry, to the potato chips. Or the counter tops, which on alternative days are lined with Susan’s Chocolate chip cookies, Zucchini loaves and Banana Bread. ![]() I’m up a whopping seven pounds since being sheltered in place. What generally ends up happening is that the inside of the outer bag becomes a gooey, mildewy, disgusting mess for all finders other than the resident slugs who invariably find their way into the bag.Friday. ![]() Cheap containers with poor seals, like the clone Lock & Lock knockoffs, that cannot withstand the elements are also a problem.Īnother pet peeve is people who put their caches inside a plastic bag to either improve the camoflage or in a misguided attempt to make the cache more weatherproof. The most common cause of damp caches I've come across is caches that are too full which often results in something, like the corner of a bag, getting stuck in the container's seal when it is closed and allowing the rain to get in past the seal. I generally carry a good supply of ziplock freezer bags in my caching bag to replace damaged bags or to bag a porous trade item, like a stuffed animal, that has become damp so that it does not affect the rest of the cache. Around here, virtually every cache has the logbook in a ziplock and I noticed an increasing trend for people to leave their trade items in a ziplock as well. it is enevitable that caches will get damp at some point over the monsoon season. No matter how careful finders are at keeping rain out, between condensation, damp trade items, etc. It doesn't really matter how waterproof the container is. Wet caches are a fact of life around here, especially in the winter months. To borrow a phrase, i have left caches unopened due to weather more times than most people have noses. it was a small fire, and i just had to melt the ice enough to get it out. no ammo can has ever come out the worse for its time with me. i will be happy to painstakingly chip it free with my pickaxe or to light a fire under it. ![]() if any of you would like me to sign the log to definitively claim a find, i will be happy to kick the thing loose. Similarly, if your gladware is frozen solid and i have hiked in to get it and i would destroy it by giving it a swift kick, i'll decline to dislodge it. in hard rain the cache gets my very nice rain jacket while i go all moist and get moldy after. If the rain is falling in the normal vertical fashion it's usually good enough to do a quick signature while kneeling on all fours over the container. i should mention that i have only resorted to this once or twice and that it is not appropriate where the challenge is opening the container. when it's raining horizontally i MAY just take my picture with it to provide enough evidence detailed evidence to the hider. I have, once or twice, declined to sign a log due to extreme weather. ![]() Scenario b: not raining when you start the hike (.2 mile), pouring when you get to the can. This is what the weather is like here: blue sky, no visible clouds, raining anyway. Now was that such a hard decison to make? Except it's raining all day today, and it's not August, so I'll just wait to do it another day. Now I need to go out and check on the Beave's Brothers cache and see if it's all wet inside. Don't know if it'll do any good, but maybe it'll make me feel better. So, geez-o-pete, people, if you must cache in the rain, (why? why? OK, I did it once too, I admit it, on a warm Aug day in an all day steady downpour, and I also admit it was fun, and I do get the Pacific Northwest dilemma of cabin fever, and if we gotta wait til the rain stops, it'll only be because it turns to snow- but I love caching in the snow and I do digress- but hey, this is Indiana I'm talking about!) So, anyway, if you must cache in the rain, bring plastic to cover the cache box with when you open it. Once that rain gets in, it won't evaporate out again. It stands to reason that a watertight container remains watertight, whether the water is inside or outside of the box. The same week, another new cache I placed has a rain log. great spot to revisit if its not raining.
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