ChileHead

Seeking urban caches with kids makes things much easier. I can't crawl around a gazebo or look under benches without looking silly. When I send my kids on seek missions crawling around, nobody gives them a second look. I've never felt while geocaching, or any other activity with my kids, that somebody is giving me the evil eye.

I have a cache I placed, Vote 2004, that is completely political. The idea is to find the cache, vote for president, and the results will be tallied shortly before the election. The cache itself doesn't advocate one candidate over another.

Actually I'd love to have the electronic compass, it would be useful for geocaching. With that, your arrow is pointing the right way when standing still or walking slow.

I think you should visit some Rochester, NY, caches sometime soon!

You could probably estimate the last digit by walking North of your cache until the digit changes, and walking South of your cache until the digit changes, and ballparking where it lies between. Then do the same for East/West.

I placed a cache Bike 104 that is circular. It's a 8 mile trip meant to be done on bike, and you end up where you began, more or less. Makes parking easier.

Variety is the spice of life. I like having both. Easy ones are good when I bring the kids, but I enjoy the harder ones when going solo or with a group of other wacked out cachers. A "box in the woods" gets boring after a while. Many of my own caches are "box in the woods" variety, and I'm going to start archiving them soon and replacing with more difficult & interesting ones.

Piss off enough people around here, and your punishment is becoming an approver.

I would never allow a find to stay on one of my caches if a cacher didn't find the cache. I don't care if they were in the exact spot where a cache got muggled. I would never claim a find on a cache, even if I knew I was in the exact spot where it went missing. I must be missing something.

One of the fun things to do geocaching is the challenge of getting a first to find (FTF). Usually when I get one, I'll post my log right away. Lately I've been wondering if that is the right thing to do or not. I've noticed: - when I post right away, there are very few logs posted immediately afterward - if I wait a little while, then there are more logs from all the other FTFers who tried to get to the cache first as well. I feel like I didn't "win" if nobody else was out there going for it too! (I know - you don't "win" at geocaching, but humor me!) Is the right thing to do: - post right away, so that others don't bother running out at 2am to try to get the FTF - wait until the first logs start coming in, thereby not depriving others the excitement of the FTF race, and getting a lot of logs to the cache in the first day (which also makes the cache owner happy)

>Remember how frustrating it was, trying to access the website >last weekend to log finds or look for new caches? It hits the >volunteer cache reviewers just as hard. Actually I would think it would hit the reviewers harder. I was wondering if that was part of the problem! Thanks for the response.

I put out two multi's 5 days ago, and they haven't been approved and I haven't gotten a note saying there was an issue with them. There have been caches placed after mine that have already been approved. Do multi's take longer to get approved, or do caches get approved in the order they are submitted? I appreciate the effort our approvers put in, but sometimes I get impatient waiting!

I'd like to be able to see more than 20 caches listed on a page when doing a search. Any chance on making this a configurable option? Would be nice when listing unfound caches from my home location, to see 100 or more to quickly find any with the "New" icon on it.

Personally, I'm very offended at broken McToys. I'd much rather see pamphlets! I've put paperback Bibles in caches before. Does this offend people?

I've been noticing that too during the last two weeks.

There have been times where I'd like to add additional information to a cache that I own, but only for my own eyes. Specifically, this often occurs for multis that I put out. I'd like to attach the coordinates of each waypoint to the cache, but I don't want anybody else to see it. Any thoughts on adding such a feature?

Cats make great swag items!

I've injured my pride a number of times. Mostly in the winter when the cache is under 2 feet of snow.

I used a small thermos/snack-container I bought at the grocery store for about $3:

You missed the last line of his post. Let me quote it for you. But he didn't warn about the dangers of smoking. He just said quit. A perfectly reasonable alternative, even if smoking were healthy!

I was the guy who thought it would be cool to be on the show, planned on making an audition tape, but never had time due to a certain hobby. None the less, I was still expecting to get a call from the producers, but they dis'd me.

I've found the batteries bought at dollar stores are good for about 1 geocache outing. I used to buy these to put in a cache as an emergency backup for a cacher, but no longer.

Unfortunately we have a number of Connoisseur's in our area! It really makes the FTF difficult unless you are willing to go out at midnight, or can get to a cache before 7am. I've learned my lesson about getting out early, as Wheelygood has beaten me to caches by an hour or less on a couple of occasions. So I'm going to start setting my alarm earlier!

You forgot to carry a 1. It's 3.8283 repeating ...

I've been wondering about this type of action being taken ever since I starated geocaching. Seems like whoever found it overreacted, but in general ammo cans are used in many of our caches. Those certainly could be seen as being dangerous, even if they are labeled out the outside. I recently placed a cache in a very public area (well hidden, but a muggle might stumble across it). For this cache, I decided to use a clear plastic container instead of an ammo can specifically for the fear-if-found condition. If somebody stumbled across it, there shouldn't be any type of panic.