Because prosecutors couldn't prove that Kent knew he had a cache, he technically shouldn't have been done for what was stored in it.
He built a log cabin on the lake, which he named Cache Lake, and his story unfolds in the wilderness with his friends, Chief Tibeash, a Cree, and Henry Kane, an illustrator whose work appears in the book.
He takes positions on things, he's got cache, and he's saying some things that would interest voters.
To minimize his resupply costs, he'd cache his unused cans of food and fuel in the permafrost, then draw himself a map so that he could dig them up the following year.
In the year he has been participating, he figures he has found 150 caches and even come up with a few of his own.
In the meantime, if Zadran's men could lead the Americans to Taliban weapons caches, he was authorized to pay out reward money.
"They have detained some of the targets, and they have uncovered a number of I.E.D.'s and found caches," he said referring to improvised explosive devices.
He said weapons caches seized by the Americans included AK-47 rifles, antitank mines, hand grenades and 107-millimeter shoulder-fired rockets of a type used by Soviet forces during their occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980's.
When he was twelve, he found a cache of old photographs in his grandfather's wardrobe.
Having a sort of gonzo quality helps in geocaching, and Mr. Malatesta is proof: he told me later that when he placed the cache Feb. 2, "it was wet and muddy, and it was icy mud, and the wind was whipping".
