sweetpersimmon

How do you send a cache page to PDF? When I am on the page, the PDF icon is not a live link, even though it says [no logs][5 logs][10 logs] they are greyed out and I cannnot click on them

We had this problem when we first started. The coordinates often put is in the middle of blackberries, or on the other side of the stream and when we crossed over it pointed back to the other side. When we found out that the GPSr only got us close we looked at clues. A big help for us was checking the logs. Our first four caches had been vandalized or removed for maintenance. (I just know how to pick 'em, I guess). We looked for some of those caches on our hands and knees for 4 hours -- very frustrating. Someone mentioned that we need go out with experienced cachers to help get the hang of things --- an excellent suggestion. Once we started looking for real live caches and getting close with the GPSr we started finding them. The first find felt very good and we are getting better at scoping out hiding places. Don't give up.

Aha, it would make sense if the caches we are looking for are easy to find that perhaps others who are not geocachers would find it. After looking at the logs, two of the caches we were looking for someone else, probably kids, found it and trashed it. Another one found the cache contents scattered all over and the ammo can taken. He put the salvaged contents in a plastic bag and moved the cache to another location. One other cache we were looking for has had 4 people in a row who did not find it. I do not feel like such an idiot. Perhaps we'll try again.

Is it cheating to look at the previous logs of people who found the cache?

That's a good idea to hook up with someone more experienced. I think we just need to find the first one....

All of the caches we tried were less than two stars for both difficulty and terrain. Two said no bushwacking and one clue today said at the base of a tree. We are looking for medium and large caches (ammo cans and tupperware boxes). We looked at the base of every tree for that one in the area looking farther and farther away from the coordinates. Today the one we looked for on our hands and knees said it was just off the trail. It was a one star for both terrain anddifficulty. How hard can it be to find an ammo can just off the trail at the base of a tree? We did find a hollow at the base of a tree that would have been ideal as a hiding place, and we did find a stump that would have been a good hiding place and we did find a ditch with sticks and leaves that would have been a good hiding place, and we did find two cinder blocks with a board between them that would have been a good hiding place, but no cache :-( Yes we looked at the clues, yes we tried to find easy ones, yes we were looking for large containers, and yes we got close with the GPS. So yes, maybe we are not very observant but are usually good puzzle solvers. Thanks for all your help. Maybe we should try one that is not in the woods.

My husband thinks that the GPS should have pin point accuracy and a 40 ft radius is too large an area to search. We tried 4 caches in the last week and spent about 3 hours at each site looking all over. I think that some of them were no longer there because we found a hiding place on two but nothing in them. The last cache today we spent 4.5 hours looking for it. Clues said it was just off the paved trail and you didn't need to leave the path to find it. We were on our hands and knees and searched a grid pattern 4 separate ways in a radius of about 150 ft and found nothing. If I can I'll try to get him to do one that is not in the woods. Thanks,

I'd like to know how accurate the coordinates are. My husband and I have just started geochaching and we have been out 4 times and haven't found anything yet. We get close to the coordinates, but then the ones we have been looking for are in the woods and the GPS doesn't seem to update there. When we get to a clearing it seems like we've overshot, or if we estimate where we think the coordinates are there are large chainlink fences or streams with no bridges or dense, dense underbrush and blackberries. We have been looking for caches with one or two stars. My husband is very, very frustrated because we can't seem to get to the exact coordinates listed for the cache. He's ready to return the GPS and quit. Help!