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You have a 12V battery mounted on your bike so your GPS can charge.

It's usually a short show. I've never used this stupid thing. Would someone like to tell me what makes it so much better than the official App? Or is free the major factor? I do have the official App, but not on Droid. Just keeps getting better and better.

This show never gets old, no matter how many times I watch it.

Too bad ALRs are outlawed. I want to hide a challenge cache that requires you to post a picture of yourself posing with an alien on 12/22

After the aliens have wiped us all out (and we all know that's what the Mayans are predicting) they are going to wonder why we all valued McToys so much that we hid them in ammo cans all over the planet

I like a variety of caches but one of the most important things to me is knowing I have authorization to be there and I don't have to risk doing damage to find the cache. If I start wondering if the CO really got permission for the cache to be there ( ie somewhere i would never want someone rumaging around) or I have to guess which of the 5 identical sprinkler heads is the cache, I'll move on. There's nothing like looking over your shoulder to take the fun out of the hunt.

I'm all for people playing the game the way they want to but, even if I had the time to do that, I don't have the money. After the first 2 months I would have used up the caches in close proximity to my house (5 miles). That would mean I'd soon be getting into an extra gallon of gas a day and increasing as time went on. Plus I don't often like to go after just one cache, which would mean I'd be driving farther sooner. I hope to have my day chart filled in within the next couple of years but doing it in any structured fashion would take the fun right out of it for me.

It is very common/usually preferred, for the finder, for the trackable prize to be unactivated. That way the finder can activate it when and if they see fit.

I really like the idea and, if I was still working with youth groups, I would be taking them caching, but I think you might run into a couple of potential problems. Based on the guidelines about caches with an agenda etc, getting a series like that together and cleared with the reviewers isn't something I'd attempt. There are plenty of caches out there with non-religous agendas but the religous ones always seem to draw more scrutiny (in my opinion). There is also the issue of having the prize. It's common to give a FTF prize on a series but I would assume that you would want one of your youth to win it so having the series published would give someone else the chance to get FTF and claim the prize. If this is for a youth group you lead/are involved in, I would probably just do this as your own scavenger hunt game without publishing it. Afterward, you could try to get the caches published and then if you run into trouble with them, you've already had your fun with your group and you can modify them however you need to in order to meet the requirements. Cheers

I know there are apps, which handle such thing well. c:geo is also great for caching. But it is a shame that the official GC.com app is not able to handle waypoints properly. C:geo is really inaccurate when it comes to waypoints too.

This option might not please some but I would just leave it a PMO and give the info to my friend and let them look for it.

90% of those trails are accessible to a 2wd Ford Ranger. You just have to know when to look at a hole and know enough not to venture in. Often, you can access the rest of the trail from another direction and get the caches. I got lots of "jeep trail" FTFs this past weekend with a little Nissan XE pickup. No prob at all. I'm pulling for staying in Ocala too.

I cringe to think of the time ICM put into that event. I still don't have all of my finds logged and he had to put most of them out there. It was a truly great weekend. Looking forward to hearing the date for next year so I can mark it on my calendar.

I have 2 etrex and a droid 2. They have comparable accuracy as far as I'm concerned. When hiding caches, I take at least 3 readings from each and average them. If there is a big disagreement between the two, I come back on a clearer day. Both have days when they are consistently off. The difference between the phone and the etrex is that I can look at Google maps on the phone and see my position relative to landmarks and see which direction I'm off and with the etrex I have to poke around and figure it out by trial and error. They both go everywhere on planned caching outings. A watertight box holds the phone when needed. Part of my reliance on the phone is that the prep that is required to cache with the etrex almost takes the fun out of it. (lazy... maybe) The map view, finding nearby caches, finding new caches, uploading photos, posting needs maintenance logs etc etc, all without going home to visit a pc are all great features. I usually wait to get home before posting my found and DNF logs so that I can type something meaningful. The only two things that annoys me about it are 1. the short battery life (i bought 2 extra batteries for $15 to solve that) and the reliance on 3G. I've had noses turned up at my at events for using a phone but I personally believe that those who don't have them, don't know what they're missing. But again, that's the nice thing about caching. To each his own.

Cache permanence as defined by the Geocaching guidelines is 3 months I'd guess you're looking at Jonathan Dickerson State Park, where the majority of the 200+ caches are archived annually, per park management. All caches there must have park management permission and are expected to be removed each year, and shifted to a new spot. A few more remote caches can remain, and a couple of older hides (the oldest cache in that county is in JDSP, it's allowed to stay "as is"). That's good info about Jonathan Dickerson. That's not the only place I've seen it though. Again, not trying to poke at the COs because I know they're within their rights and I enjoy finding their caches either way. Personally 10 or so good caches and some good games to go along with them are enough to get me to an event that I'm interested in. For instance, I drove 2 hrs to the Durney Key BBQ and only found about 8 caches. The fun was in the uniqueness of the event.

Only really being active at this for about 2 years now I'm just starting to see something I'm sure everyone else is used to. It seems that whenever there is a big local event, I start seeing caches I've found being archived off. Then, for the event, a new one is placed about 10' away so that cachers will have the fun of going after a new cache. I'm sure I understand the reasoning behind this; including drawing folks to the event, reducing saturation etc. It would seem though that it goes against the idea of caches being permanent. I like finding new caches and I like going to events but it's a little big of a drag to see huge groups of caches go away just so they are fresh for an event a few months later. I was even looking at a state park several hours away where an event is scheduled next year and they've even posted on the cache pages a date when they will be archiving off all of the caches. I know the CO owns them and can do what they want and that we all play this game in a different way but I just wondered what everyone's thoughts were.

For micros, look for empty, pre-drilled holes in the wooden structure. You can often find one that will hold a bison. For a larger cache, you're going to have problems. You might be able to find a similar looking piece of wood and hollow out the inside and insert a larger cache. Then your challenge is figuring out how to add the piece of wood to the local environment.

- not expecting many visitors are you? StarBrand is right. After the first few finders the hugely vast majority will just ignore one that difficult. Try this. Each leg is it's own cache with the QR code on the webpage. At each cache they find a laminated sheet with some numbers on it that are part of the coordinates for a final (fourth) cache which would be a mystery cache. Now people get 4 smilies and can do each leg as they desire. I'm ok with not having a lot of visitors. Half the fun is going out and hiding it. I had thought about making each leg a different cache and then a bonus cache too. Any number of things might work.

Thanks for the suggestions. Glad to know there are others like that out there. I believe I'll set it up where each leg might require a separate trip anyway. For instance, the first leg might be a 2 mile hike and the 2nd leg be a 5 mile paddle, in a totally different area and the final might be a bike ride in a 3rd area.

So someone who didn't have a smart phone would just have to return to a computer to get each set of coords and move on to the next stage. A pain, but doable.

Ok, here's my idea for a multi cache. It may have been done but I haven't been able to find an instance and have come up empty searching the forums. Since so many people seem to have problems with cell phone caching but seem to be ok with other types of caches that require specific equipment such as the chirps, I wanted to come up with a multi particularly geared toward the cell phone. I saw a QR code image used in a mystery cache and thought that would be a great way to hide the coords for stages of a multi. The location of the first code would be posted, then the seeker would use a free app to scan the code and get the coords for the next stage. Other info such as hints or educational info could be included in each stage also. The final would be a physical container. I did not post this in the cell phone forums because I'm sure most there would be in favor of it. I didn't see anything specifically applicable in the guidelines so hopefully I'll get an even smattering of opinions, or at least some interesting ones. Cheers

When I was first introduced to geocaching it was explained to me that a geocache basically has 2 components, the log book and the opportunity to trade items. Regardless of the merit or lack there of in that definition, it has sort of stuck for me. In that sense, I would say webcams aren't caches but I would also say that nanos aren't either, because you can't trade. All that being said, I enjoy both of them. I don't go out of my way to track down webcams to log, unless they're part of a challenge but the one I did was fun. If I ever get bored with the array of things on the GC.com site, I may branch out to Waymarking, benchmarking etc but, for now, I'm fine with what's on the one site to keep me entertained. One argument for not having webcams is that I would be a little annoyed if there I tried to hide a physical cache and was unable to because there was a webcam too close.

Only been to CA once but I'd think California Style would have a label on it that says something to the effect of "The state of California has determined this cache to contain a material that might contain a carcinogen." That was my impression from 3 days in CA anyway.

I don't know but I'd be interested to find out too. I had the same thing happen to me, although not on caches nearly so far away.

The only two I've found that would fall into that category are below. (southeast) I'll be keeping my eye out for more though. Got friends and relatives in your line of work. Glad to see someone looking out for their caching needs. GC20CK8, GC25GWE