savvysteve

Thanks for all the help. I got my cache page going right now and got a cache ID and I'm all set. I wanted to label the outside of my cache to make sure not to cause alarm in the chance event someone found it accidentally. Just the other day I found an ammo box used as a cache that had "blasting caps" on it along with other original writing. In the world we live in today IMHO there is no need in that... plus you have a lot of people who might be quick to raise an alarm. Thanks to all for the input.

Well if you check geocaching-u.com he gives some good tips about paperless caching. I just started doing this after findin my first few caches with paper. What a pain! I scored a Palm m515 color screen takes an SD memory card from a guy in my building at work for $30 they go on ebay for about $60. I got a Rhino case for it on ebay for $5 shipeed... highly recommend to keep it from getting destroyed. The guy on that website says it best. YOu don't want to buy something that you don't want broken. Can you afford to replace a $200 brand new Palm Tungsten E or whatever if you broke it after a month? You have to become a premium member to do pocket quieries for paperless caching to work. I tried to get around it without any success. I use Spinner and Plucker for my paperless caching. It is a great combo. Not a big fan of GSAK and haven't seen the need for it yet. I am still a noob so someone might explain it better to me later. Paperless is definitely great. If you keep your Palm and GPS loaded with the same GPX file you will be able to find any cache with your Palm in hand. Working great so far for me.

Ok. I am new to geocaching. I have found 21 caches and have a couple I have tried to find several times and other that are DNFs probably muggled. I am ready to hide my first cache, have an ammo can, swag, a Travel Bug, label, the whole nine. I want to label the cache with the GC.com identifier as well as the log book. I think I understand all the rules about hiding the cache and know about where I am going to hide it. But a couple of things are kind of odd to me being a noob. 1. But what seems odd is that I hide the cache and post it which then gives me the ID right? So I have to go back to label it correctly? What am I leaving out? 2. If I haven't found every cache and multi cache in an area much less the city where I live then how in the heck am I supposed to know if I am hiding my cache too close to part of a multi? My crystal ball is broken as we say in my family. Please help this noob understand. Regards, Steven

I am fairly new to the Geocaching and about to hide my first cache and first TB. From what I have been reading about TBs is that the owner has to be active if he/she expects them to keep moving. Look at the logs and see if anyone says they took it. They may not have logged them on GC.com yet just logged the find. I emailed a guy through GC.com about a TB that I didn't even own. I saw the cache had a TB but didn't find it when I got there. He was going to look check on it. The whole TB is kind left up to chance. You have to accept the fact it may be gone as soon as you leave it. Not everyone follows the rules. My .02, Steven