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    Quote Originally Posted by Trezurs*-R-*Fun View Post
    Waiting to log the FTF is sometimes part of the fun. If you are in an area where there are several cachers that rush to get the FTF and its friendly competition then what's the harm. Personally I log my finds as soon as I can unless something prevents me from doing so. That was not aways the case when I had lots of competition in the area; Haffy??? Smitty??? I always got a chuckle when I beat somebody or was beaten by that somebody and many times ran into that person while trying to achieve the FTF. Then we would sit and chat and raz the second to find. I was humbled many times, lol!!

    I wouldn't be upset if I went to get what I thought was an FTF to find out that it had already been found. Matter of fact, lots of times (oh yeah FFJ, I'm thinking of you, LOL) being, or attempting to be the FTF simply means you're the guinea pig for the new listing to see if its correct.

    The idea of this whole sport is to have fun, stay with the caching spirit and enjoy it!!!

    My 2 cents worth!!

    Or like when... lets say... someone goes out to find one of laughing terry's caches after dark in an area where youre not supposed to be after dark, and after a painful and agonizing search for what you thought would have been a gauranteed FTF... you find a signed log book (not mentioning names but it had a stamp that said TRF) and then the cops show up!
    Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

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    Nope that was Smitty who was FTF on that particular cache Hiram. TRF and myself found that the next day.
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    As I said before, if you want FTF you take all liabilities assosiated with it. I have refrained from logging so that others can head out for FTF with the same enthusiasim I had. Of course, that may be short lived, but that's life!

    It's just a game, and if too much is made of FTf, we will follow the footsteps of other areas where cachers log their FTFs with a cell phone, since it's not FTF that matters as much as FTL - First To Log.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Haffy View Post
    Nope that was Smitty who was FTF on that particular cache Hiram. TRF and myself found that the next day.
    Was it?? It was a lot of excitement at one time for me... (i'll have to scratch steve off the list and put smitty in place of his then....)
    Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

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    Was reading the profile of a new cacher who just put out a cache in the Wells area. He has his eyes on Gob-ler and MaineSleddah's FTF levels. This should be interesting. He says this is an inexpensive hobby - my gas bill wasn't last year LOL

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