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A night in woods, sweet! I would probably be more pissed that I was hungry, than that I had to spend the night under the stars. There was probably one time we should have called a chopper, but then I wouldn't be able to tell people that I walked 6 miles over rough country with a shattered face, broken wrist, and a concussion after falling 20ft and landing on my head.

I had a cache where you traded only Louis L'Amour books. It didn't go over very well, people found the cahce and all but very few people traded books. My newest cache is just a paperback book swap, and already more books have been traded in less than two weeks than with the Louis L'Amour cache. There's also a cache around here called "Blockbuster" that is a DVD swap. So I guess what I'm saying is a DVD swap is cool, just don't narrow your market to the point that no one participates.

Or you ruined a good pair of slacks because you thought no bushwacking was involved. When realizing you would have to go through some brush decided to go ahead and find it anyway.

If I can be outside geocaching, I'm outside geocaching. If I can't be outside geocaching might as well be in the forums.

That happened to me once, except it was snow. But we're not talking about that because I was climbing a 14er, not geocaching.

I'm not interesting in that time you got layed out in the backyard football game. Just geo-caching injuries. Mine is kind of lame, but the worst thing that has happened to me while caching is I was searching for a cache with a stick under some rocks and disturbed a bee-hive. I got stung 8 times before I got clear. You can check out the HERE

My wife calls me all the time to tell me it's time to come home from geocaching.

The fact that YOU felt it was a good idea to move out of the area rather quickly I'd say no. Why would you put other people in the same situation where you didn't feel exaclty safe.

Ok, I still don’t understand the thought process. If you’re going to save the “good” or “fun” caches for a milestone, why not just hunt the good or fun caches all the time and ignore those that aren’t? The thought process is I like geocaching and try and do it when I can. I can drive up to an urban mirco over my lunch hour. I can go on a quick hike in a park after work if I want to bushwhack. All those things are enjoyable for me. However, I KNOW I would enjoy and all day/weekend trip it would require to get these cache's more than anything listed above. It's not that regular cache's aren't fun or good, it's these are BETTER, and thus I will save them for something special since more planning is required than jump in the truck with a GPSer.

Actually I'm looking for a cache exactly like that. While I live in a target rich enviorment most of them are puzzle or park n grabs. For my 100th cache want to find a cache like yours. The hard part would be finding the time to do it, but I would definatly do it.

This thread got me thinking. I'm actually going to do one of these.

I have to work tomorrow. Seems like everytime our local community plans something, I have something else going on. Wonder why they don't check with me first before scheduling this stuff.

I was looking for a cache on a steep hill, almost a cliff, last summer. I was using a stick to look under rocks for the cache. Except I upset a bee-hive! At the time I just carried my etrex without a cord or anything else. After I got stung several times I threw my etrex down and scrambled up to the top of the hill so I could run-away from the bees. I waited for a 1/2 hour in an adjacent to field to make sure I wasn't going to go into shock for have an asthma attack. (I had a cacher who was a nurse caching with me) Taking an inventory I had been stung 8 times! But now I had to climb the 80 feet down the hill to get my etrex that I threw in my flight from the be-hive. Good thing it was yellow, had I had a camoflage one I would have just left it there. When I finally retreived the etrex it was a little dusty, and I still have it. It's a tough SOB. Maybe laughing at my mis-adventure will cheer you up.

My work place is 500 ft from the KS/MO border, I thought about doing a micro-cache where the cache is actually in both states. It's not really a multi, but a local cacher has set up a series of cache's called KCopoly that take you all over the metro area and are located in both states.

Ghost town caches are cool. Add the story to the cache page as well as some local history of the town. Here is a link to a Ghost town cache I found last summer. Maybe you could set it up similar to his and make it a multi-cache. You never know, there might be cachers like yourself tht grew up there or knew someone who did.

A lot of good points in here. I'm normally not a numbers guy, but for some reason I want to spend more time caching this spring and summer intead some other interests I have. So I set a numbers goal for myself. Not because I'm obsessed with my numbers, but If I don't set a goal I'll spend more time doing something besides caching.

Been a while since I took the camera out for a hike. With a 4 month old daughter I've been play outside a lot less than I want to.

I agree, I feel much safer in the woods and middle of no where than I do driving to the trailhead. This isn't 1870 where you have to worry about Indian attacks

I must be a throw back, I just use a eTrex and a compass. If it doesn't fit into my cargo pockets it stays in the truck.

Thing I like about this recreation is the pioneers are doing a good job of welcoming the new blood. This is not the case in a lot of other recreations or messege boards. I wouldn't call myself a newbie, I've been lurking and caching for over a year. I see the same topics over and over, and the same time I can remember wanting to know such information, and I'm still learning. BTW, surely those little promotional swiss army knives are accepted. I thought about making those a sig item.

Like books it takes a little more effort to create than to use. I've placed two caches, although only one is still active. But each time I had to scout around the area I want to hide, come up with a theme, figure out what to put in the cache, and a bunch of other intagibales that you didn't think of. I'd rather a hider take their time, and to throw out a cache titled "Here's my first Cache" and it stocked with McDonalds toys.

From my expierence with Hurricanes, I think it's a good idea! Especially if the store runs out of beer before you had a chance to stock up.

I bought my etrex off eBay, and have not had any problems with it. It's a lot easier geocaching with a GPSer than w/o one.

I archived my first cache because a trail was forming, not becuase of the enviormental impact, but because you could follow the trail right to cache. At the same time I was worried about this happening at my second cache, but I did a check up on it, and there is actually more vegetation there than when I placed it. I found a cache that was placed in a ghost town that had been abandon for 40 year. Let me tell you, Mother Nature will take care of things.

I don't bring half that stuff with me all the time. I like to travel light. Bug spray...Sun screen, put that on when you leave the house or car (if its a long drive to target). My constant companions are: gps, pen, cache page, compass, trading item(s) But everything else changes, I'm not bring the same things for a 3 mile hike on the Rockies, that I would for a lunch cache.