wandererrob
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This multi had some of the most ingenious containers I've ever seen. The owner cut the top open on a soda can, dropped in a 35mm film canister with the coordinates for the next spot in it, put the top back on, and stuck it under a bush. It looked so much like trash that was hard to get to we kept passing it up!
I had a similar find a while back. The micro container had a magnet holding it on the inside of a rusted tin can in a bush. 2 of us walked by it at least 6 times. Great camo!
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Where I come from, we call it a Garter Snake.
i'll second that. Good ole, garden variety Garter Snake. Pretty common in my neck of the woods.
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The cache was archived last month, when the owner gave this explanation:Archiving my remaining caches due to lack of will to maintain them.
dadgum, the guy archived 115 caches. How very sad
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I am still trying to get a handle on this one. Is everyone pretty much as confused about how to do this one as I am?
I think the general, round-about point we're trying to get at is that there are various ways of finding ground zero for a town depending on what you are trying to do.
I don't want to directly post a method, however, as this is part of the challenge in finding some of the ground zero caches.
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Does it really matter if it's a hoax or if it's real? One way it's fun, the other it's... fun.
with, what... 231 people now watching this cache? I'm inclined to agree. Not matter how you slice it Snoogans is entertaining lots of cachers with this one
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I guess what I'm trying to say is "lighten up". The cache container in question is obviously a fake upon close examination. It's just designed such that the casual passerby wouldn't give it a second look. What is the alternative -- have a requirement that you post a picture of your cache container to make sure it passes muster before the reviewer approves the cache? Outlaw all class 5 terrain caches?
I disagree. That electrical cache thing looks close enough to me, my eyes can't tell the differance. I would suggest, as was said before, to put a geocaching sticker or something on it. I know that if this was my cache, and I found out that someone did get hurt or killed because they thought an electrial box was a cache I'd feel like crap.
As for your non-sense about banning 5 terrian caches and such. If I go after a cache on the top of a mountian, I know before hand the danger. Even on a regular cache, I know before hand that I might have a tree fall, run into a wild animal or what not. With this cache, if I start tampering with something that looks electrical I don't know before if it's a cache or not. And if it isn't I could get fried. I think in general this kind of container is a bad idea, though I wouldn't go as far as to tell the owner to ban. But think about it, it's like making a cache container to look like a rattlesnake, or a poisonous plant. It's just not worth it, why bother?
I recently found a cache of vaguely similar design. The only reason I opened the camo was b/c the thing had the initals of the cache name on it. Just a couple of small letters written in an obvious spot, but not screaming "hey check this out!". So yes, some discreet labelling as standard practice might help encourage people to not just start opening up things at random.
A muggle would probably have thought nothing of it, but to a cacher it screamed "You just found it".
If you're going and opening random electrical junctions... well, that's just stupid.
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I have it on good authority that the initial puzzle that leads you to the purported 'dead-drop' is actually insoluble, being based on a 500-year old encryption coding scheme known as 'Voynich' of which the initial manuscript has been widely accepted to be a 15th-century hoax, and all attempts to solve it, even by experts using modern computer technology, have met with no success.
I call BS
Or did you slip up on purpose?
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Having sporadically read about and checked up on this cache, I get the feeling that it's some sort of inside joke that the finders continue with their wild stories. Kinda like, "ok, now that you've found it, help keep it going, don't ruin the surprise" or something to that effect.
And whatever the case, it got approved and hasn't been shut down.
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Check around, you'll actually find some "Ground Zero" caches. I did one recently. And no, it was nowhere near the post office, business distric or much else really. As for the source, that was part of the challenge in finding it.
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As a recent convert to Pocket Queries myself, I can attest to their helpfulness. You can set the search criteria and downlown all the info you need in one fell swoop.
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precisely my point. It'd almost need to be in an area that is NOT being trapped but would pass to the casual observer as just another lobster bouy.
Maybe something lower-key? A Large fishing bobber attached to a line? Just firing off saome ideas that won't tick off the Coast Guard
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my husband and i were wandering through a cemetery just yesterday wondering if we'd be allowed to set up a cache in the cemetery. this is allowed? do you have to ask permission? i quite agree that there is so much neat history to explore in cemeteries, as long as it is done respectfully!
You should always seek permission from the land owner/manager to place a cache. Cemetary or otherwise.
It just covers our butts and keeps the land owner/mgr happy.
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I'm still kicking myself for not buying a pile of Carabiner LED flashlights that were a buck each at a flea market.
I thought, "for a buck how good could they be". The one I *did* buy is brighter than my $15 one I already had and has been going strong for 6 months now.
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Here's a recent creation of mine. Can you spot the cache in this picture?
I'm voting for the grey electric junction there. But somehow that smells like a trick question...
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One cache I found was a knot on the side of a pine tree. The knot had been cut off and a hole the size of an altoid can drilled into the tree. The can was glued to the back of the cut off knot and then replaced back into the tree.
This one, though creative, doesn't really seem too cool to me. They cut and drilled a tree? This got approved?
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An idea I was kicking around...
I've recently come into possession of a stack of various music CDs. Thought that those I'm not into might make good swag. Granted some of the CDs are pretty obscure, but there must be others like myself that will come across such CDs and think, "eh, what the hell. I'll give it a listen."
One might even make for an interesting TB carrier!
Thoughts?
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What's a bison cylinder?
Bison Tube – Small, metal, water-tight cylindrical container that can be used for micro-caches. Small enough to fit on a keychain, and normally used to hold pills. The name is derived from the company which manufactures most of these types of tubes, Bison Design
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I've seen some that have obviously been vandalized and I think this is not only disrespectful but just plain sad to see.
But in older cemetaries it is not uncommon for some to simply succomb to age. They will sometimes naturally crack, break, and or fall over. I'm not really sure what to do about that though. Repairing them seems like a good thing, but I've seen some that time has just done too much damage to.
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One could conceivably use a lobster trap type bouy, couldn't one? Just need to make sure you're not messing with a local lobstermans traps, trap area, etc.
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There are a couple of other sites out there navivcache.com and terracaching.com come to mind, but niether are as extensive as geocaching.com
Your local geocaching organization, association, etc may or may not function outside of geocaching.com. I've heard of some local groups doing their own thing, but I think most groups are simply a way for local to meet while still using this site as their source for coords.
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I have a Mountainsmith Approach II. Very good daypack and roomy enough for winter hiking. Here's a review.
I use a Mountainsmith Guide myself, with a Camelback bladder inside. It's my all-purpose daypack be it for hiking, mountian biking or geocaching.
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So what's in your pants?
OK. Teensy bit ot.
I bought this for cachin':
AND THEN I went cachin' with the NEFGA Jeep Club.
The ON topic part of this post isn't exactly family friendly.
Good to see a new X being used properly!
I drive a well-loved, sometimes wheeled 2000 XTerra myself.
And to answer the OP, my GPS (loaded with local waypoints of interest) though not in my pocket usually is almost always in the truck now with cache pages uploaded into my iPod for quick reference. You never know when you'll have a long lunch or something to spare for caching.
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One thing I think has helped our area here, a less than target rich environment, is for more locals to put out more caches. Once you get to around 50 finds, you're pretty much going on the road for caches.
Not around my area. But then again my current finds are pretty dispersed, largely on purpose.
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Okay I admit that I am overweight, but I would think that active cachers would be relatively thin, like marathon folks. (I am not that active a cacher). I am not seeing thin folks. Maybe caching gets your apetite a little more active?
I guess this is perception. I just remember when I was younger and trying to climb all the mountains in the northeast (aka 4000 footers club), that all the folks I passed on the trails were relatively thin. Maybe these digital cameras are making us look heavy?
Or maybe we have all been super-sized by the evil "micky Ds". OR maybe I have been watching "model type" folks too often on the tele. Or maybe I am bored with a lame opinion on a lame issue to discuss.
You're not alone. Another big cacher, and generally active outdoorsman, chiming in
You Know You've Been Caching Too Much When...
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or have dreams involving the 2
My personal best so far though is:
At the start of any road trip,your girlfriend makes you empty your cupholders of the dead GPS batteries so she has a place for her beverage.