1. No matter how much advance research you do, the cache will be on the other side.

2. Any references to water/swamps/mosquitos/ticks in a cache’s description or log entries should be believed.

3. Always take the official bushwhacking distance and multiply by 3.62.

4. Waterproof footgear isn’t – unless the water is already inside.

5. About the time you think the Force is with you, the next cache will have been designed by two Jedi masters.

6. Hearing “Dueling Banjos” in the cache’s direction is not necessarily a good thing.

7. If possible, have two or more on a caching team. One looks like a stalker.

8. You are allergic to some form of plant life; you just don’t know which one yet.

9. Trade goods migrate from pocket to pocket.

10. Sometimes you have to just trust the instruments; at other times go with your experience and instinct. The trick is figuring out which approach to use for THIS cache.