You did emerge guns-blazing somewhat FW, but there's a pretty passionate bunch of people round here - which is what makes it such a great place - and the initial impression the chap gave of geocaching wasn't particularly in tune with TMA, or HH in general.
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> I also planted a cache at the thornborough
> Mounds site yesterday after finding it on these
> pages.
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A statement like that is going to sound very ominous to anyone here who has no context into which to put "geocaching". I think you can be forgiven for your over-reaction.

And frankly (as i've said before and doubtlessly will again) i'm still not convinced that a hobby which encourages the deliberate littering of the landscape with small pieces of plastic can be considered benign.

And yes, i get that litter removal is part of the philosophy of geocaching; and if they actually walk the walk as well as talking the talk, then that can only be a good thing.

I just get this irrational sense of a profane act being committed when people leaving plastic lunchboxes full of consumer goods at sacred sites... but as y'know - that'd be pretty inevitable with me (being a tree-hugging 'naturist' and all). Perhaps i should slink off back to U-Know! where i belong.