Snarf93

I've had an experience that reminds me of that. My buddy and i set out for a loong day of 10 caches on our mountain bikes. We made it four miles into our journey and found the first cache. On our way out from the first we ran into another group of cachers who invited us to meet up with them at our local george bush park and go for a first to find with them. of course we cant say no to such an offer so we hopped on the bikes and met up with them. we began the supposed 2 mile hike through the deep texas brush. we made it to ground zero in one piece and began our search. after an hour searching we called the cache owner for some help. Turns out he posted incorrect coordinates. The cache was actually about a mile from our cars on a cement path. So we set up a cache at the original coordinates to comemorate the hike. we got the first to find and decided to call it a day. I learned the same thing. It doesnt matter how many you get but how you get them and who your with. It was in my mind my greatest day of caching with two smileys and a buddy with a new cache.

Ya thats a bit harsh when someones in a situation where it takes awhile just to load the internet i wouldnt expect them to try to fix something as insignificant as caches when instead they could be doing things like e-mailing loved ones. and hes not lazy either, just busy, as many people are these days.

Can you seriously compare tripping and falling, bad driving, or any of these other things to placing something into a game atmosphere to confuse another, when the end result next time could be their life? As someone who trained for years as an electrician, and has seen the effects of what a body looks like when it burns from the inside out, I think the common sense needs to lay with the hider as well as the finder. If the hider is smart enough to protect those who aren't then the game will be better for all. Common sense isn't a factor when a large portion of the community are after a smiley. The ends justifies the means. On all electrical outlets and other device there is always a warning that messing with it could hurt you. On his cache there isn't, so when they find it and start looking for another of his cache they might suspect an electrical box at first, but when they see the warning they will know thats not it.

There is a simple solution to this. Hide your cache so well that its hard for you to find it and you shouldn't have to worry about a muggle spotting it. Also from what i've seen ammo cans are usually placed in areas where theres really nothing to blow up, so even if someone stumbled upon it they probably wouldn't suspect it as being a bomb out in the middle of no where.

great topic one thing that almost never fails to add to the experience is a clever or custom made container. make it a part of the scenery! good swag can help. a fun hike or area really determines it for me. you send me through thorns and im ticked. a nice trail is a nice thing!

hahah my good buddy beast 101 and i were after a first to find on a local cache. we go and find that it is hidden among many many large peices of cement, these piles are common along the buffalo bayou here. so we search for about an hour when i finally said "lets ride down to the restaurant down the road, eat and come back later." so beast 101 gets frustrated and picks up the nearest rock and flings it down into the bayou. he looks down and there's the cache right under where the rock he just threw was. unbeleivable.

I own a few caches on another profile. It doesnt work on the forums but thats ok. anyway. Ive become increasingly bored with short, "copy and paste logs" I admit I am guilty of one or two but man! so many are showing up in my caches. its annoying. i put out caches to see if others enjoyed the area as much as i did or like the camo technique as much. i didnt put it out to hear "tnln" or "tftc" then there's of course the ones that use so much abbreviation that i have no earthly idea what they did, took, or even if they enjoyed it!

definetly. id continue through that minor setback. in fact while waiting for my gps to arrive i found my first 4 or 5 caches without a gps. that was quite the experience

your pockets! usually on short ones i can fit everything in two pockets. other times i just grab the first bag to hit my back

Hahahah im sorry but those things look a bit silly. only one thing to say about ammo boxes. the military may not travel super light but they definetly make up for it in how well their stuff functions. ammo boxes never fail.

I would love to contribute a few articles to the site. please contact me if you're putting all this in motion.

unless you have acess to a flea market where they do this it could be a bit pricier but you could have some of the magnetic signs for the sides of trucks printed with the info on them chop em to size and stick em on..

i personally would jump on a multi like this so fast id love to do that. itd take especially long cause id have to get there on a bike but hey, im never in a hurry. i think you sould make it in katy so i can do it!

Now that is far more interesting than donating it to the recycling place. im gonna have to make one of these puppies thats too awesome!

the acrylics idea is good same wit pvc. maybe if plastic is breaking from sun exposier then create a casing for it out of wood or something that isnt effected by sunlight.

any micro thats not custom and is out in the woods just aint right. micros are for urban areas. if theres a wooded area a small regular or large should be in order.

ive had plenty of fun dreaming up new and fun caches. one of mine is a drilled out 2x4 with fake bolts. its velcroed to a wooden bridge another is a coke can i sliced one of my buddies and i converted a sprinkler head into a cache i also have a birdhouse ready to but out. another option is making it fun to find by making it offset. the first set of coordinates lead you to something with a code like morse or braille or something like that they translate and then find it! plenty of fun even if something seems really unacheiveable just keep it in mind till somethin just hits ya!

I dont bring as much as some but i still bring enough. my pack holds: cheap folding knife (kept razor sharp) leatherman wave batteryless flashlight (the kind you shake) LED flashlight swiss army knife cooking kit (alchohol stove, pot, foil, disnatured alchohol, fork potstand) food modified bottle of swag sig items extra zip locks extra normal logs extra micro log books micro container many times i strap a larger or more custom cache to the outside of the pack! Keep On Cachin.

anywhere and everywhere i ride my trek 4500 mt bike. to and from school. to all caches within about 5 or ten miles. we love hittin the trails. last post was from a freind.

274 within 10 miles 1056 within 20 miles 2537 within 50 miles

here in the part of texas i live in my main concern is "OH no not another cache with no trail to it." or "oh no... not another mesquite bush!" Down here mosquetes can get thorns 2 inches long and only one of my bike tires has thorn proof tubes...

one thing you could do is make it a multi. first they must find a cache with sheets of morse on it that they could use to decode your transmitter next they take coordinates from that and find a cache with a hand cranked radio (the ones that you crank to charge the batteries) and they use it to hear the morse they decode it then go find the final spot

I use my specialized hardrock mountain bike for any and every terrain...great hobby and it keeps me in shape.

hey just a suggestion that cache would blend pretty well near a fountain or fake river or something like that stick it on the end of a short pipe and secure it near a pump of peice of equipment and it would really blend

I've been pumpin out ideas for caches lately and was wondering what makes the best cache. not necessarily the hardest just the ones you have the most fun finding opinions all accepted.