WalruZ
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Take an old prepaid calling card, and wrap a six foot piece of duct tape around it (long ways). Just put the card in your wallet or backpack, makes it easy to carry duct tape everywhere!
Duct tape is great on blisters or chafed foot areas. Other products are made for this purpose, but duct tape is, imo, better and cheaper. Always carry about a linear foot or two of it.
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I'm just curious is all. Waypoint IDs seem to be getting used a quite a clip.
BTW, FWIW, everything is peachy. I'm a premium member using GSAK and CacheMate and life couldn't be better. Well, I could have more time to cache, but other than that, I'm happy. [
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Trees Company - it was my 100th find. The first stage was a magnetic under a horse trough. The 2nd was in an 'acorn tree' - a tree that has many small holes drilled by birds and filled with acorns. One of the tubes (plubbgged at each end with a marble) was in a drilled out hole. Other stages were in trees, and in fact the 4th stage was in the same tree as the 2nd, just higher up. Once complaint was that you found yourself re-covering territory, but that was a minor complaint. The final is an ammo can in a tree, which might be why CUC (who uses a cane) could not find it. Let me know guy, and we can pick a day to go do the final together!
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You mean like this one? Hint is actual name of coffee place. It's a Travel Bug depot and it's nice to have the safe haven for them here.
It's a fairly big metal box under a couch. There's also a TB hotel in a pizza joint near me, and an ammo can at Buck's.
They're good caches. I've seen waaay worse.
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Take a look at the amount of caches in places like Nashville, Jacksonville, Seattle, or San Fransisco. 50-100 a day is easy with a little planning.
Assuming you are a premium member, go to the main geocaching.com page, put '94536' in the zip code search field, choose the first cache, choose the "geocaching.com maps" link from it's page, and then zoom out. That's my zip code. I've pushed my boundaries out to a little over 10 miles, cleaned out San Francisco and some of the area south, and done smatterings in surrounding area, mostly for scenery rather than numbers.
It is very possible to rack up huge numbers in this sort of environment. One of our top finders also has over 230 hides! I regularly cache with someone who is closing in on 6000 finds - he caches every day, and not just one or two, and he'll climb any hill you put in front of him. There's another fellow I know who hit 1000 finds in his first 6 months of geocaching. I was recently on an excursion and our party's combined find total was around 15,000. Competition on our leaderboard is fierce.
And it isn't just "micro runs". Much of the terrain underlying that map rises from sea level to 2500 feet or more. When the difficult caches get posted it's the numbers people who are out there first. All these people climb the hills, do the 4 star terrain, solve the puzzles, run out for FTFs, organize events and hide cool caches to boot. It's a great place to live.
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There comes a time in geocaching when you don't just search for caches, you search for cache sites too.
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It's not the cache type, it's the cache placement. It's not what, it's where.
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It should also be noted that bomb squads blow up all sorts of things, not just geocaches.
I don't understand the purpose of this post. Are you having trouble hiding caches? Having trouble finding caches? I'm not, nor is anyone I know. Perhaps you should just get out more and cache.
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Comon to the 5th B)ay A)rea D)ining & G)eocaching E)nthusiasts S)ociety Dinner, this very next Sunday, the 21st in Danville. It may seem like a drive, but after you've been caching for a few months it won't seem like anything at all. Just tell Nancy or Maddy your handle and we'll introduce you to the San Jose contingent. It can be harder to find a caching 'buddy' though, people's hours and availability vary widely. Most cachers are opportunistic and only meet at events. Kind of like trappers in the mountains...
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I bought mine at wal-mart. I checked in the hunting section and they said "we don't have that." - I went 4 aisles away to the duct-tape display and there it was, along with red, blue, and all sorts of other colors. There are other brands, but the kind wal-mart carries is the best.
A can of flat black spray paint can do wonders for most any cache container. Give it a try.
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When I was hiking to the bald mountain caches I passed a family with two strollers. There's no elevation change to speak of. It's the drive thats a bear, even though it's paved.
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Could it be MountainMudbug?
dunno, but she has a great tutorial link on her profile page. If you're reading this, thanks!
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There are only really 3 types of hides....
1. A beautiful or interesting spot - thanks for bringing me here!
2. A difficult hide that isn't a needle in a haystack - that was fun!
3. A film cannister or ziplock thrown down in some otherwise nondescript public or semi-public area just because nobody else has - excuse me, what's the point here?
As you review the areas you are looking at, throw out the number 3s.
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I take locationless because I can, but I like virtuals. They don't get muggled, they don't come up missing (usually), and they're worthwhile now that the approvers have guidelines to enforce. I've done 'lame virts', and believe me, they're even worse than lame micros, and they don't suffer entrophy either.
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So park just outside the lot and walk the extra 100 yards or so.
Not always so easy. In my area of California, most ex-urban parks are ringed with no parking zones. You'll approach a large regional wilderness area and signs will quite clearly say "No parking on this road - anywhere", and it's enforced too.
I pay to get into parks if I have to. At some point being cheap just results in denying yourself a great experience. You can go through life being cheap and die with lots of money. Is that worthwhile?
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You forgot "Don't let muggles observe you handling the cache."
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Or Chaco Z2s.
Second that. I've done Mission/Allison/Monument (and back) from the Stanford trailhead wearing a pair of Chaco's. REI has them.
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or they are hidden in locations that really don’t need a geocache. For example, a store parking lot.
A good geocache starts with location, not with container. The real issue with most micros and many small-to-regular hides is that the location is 'parking lot', or 'unmaintained bushes somewhere'.
The real problem is that GeoCaching has no good method for user feedback. Most crappy micro hides have logs that say, "quick find, thanks", which, in GeoMartian, means "crappy hide, crappy spot, you moron". The casual cacher who finds something steel to put a magnetic micro on behind a walmart doesn't really know what they've done, because it hasn't been communicated to them.
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We have FTF Travel Bug. [...] Please contact we for activities when ready group.
I've got an activity in mind that you can do with the travel bug, Jackson.
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For those of you that haven't noticed yet, you can now track digitalfish!
Coolness. My Spawning Ground cache has a container inside that is the the size of a large pill bottle, and it's completely full of them.
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can you at least name the city?
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I have a zire 71 ($100+) and like it alot - nice bright screen. I use GSAK ($20) to get my GPX files into cachemate format and then sync them to the palm. I carry hundreds of cache descriptions on the thing. Once the caches are on the palm I can use cachemate ($7) to view them and also export them to the palm address book. I can then run Mapopolis ($30 for maps) on the palm to see a map of the area, and all the caches that I exported into the address book show up on the map. If directions are a problem, I can select my current location as a starting point and the cache as the ending point and get turn-by-turn directions.
A hard-shell case is essential.
Do you need it? Depends. How many caches do you do in a week? In a day? If it's just the odd one here or there, no. If it's alot, then yes.
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I cache at night fairly regularly, mostly sub-urban type hides.
My best piece of advice there is not to park at the park. In other words, if you're heading for a cache in Fred Jones Memorial Park and Baseball Diamond, don't leave the cachemobile right in the parking lot by it's lonesome self. Go park on the street somewhere, with other cars. Walk a little further.
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Well... it is in a pretty sketchy area... [
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SF Bay Area geocachers
in West and Southwest
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It's a little pricey, but this would be a great Kealia sig item...