[How much ($) have you found while geocaching?]

The money I've found wasn't in the caches it was dropped by people along streets and while I'm walking to GZ of the cache I happen to find it laying on the ground.

$10 so far in bills and a few coins. But it did pay for my app download to my phone. Caching makes you pay to whats around you.

[How much ($) have you found while geocaching?]

I've been at it a month today. It's been fun and interesting, seeing new areas checking out places to go but how much $ have you found while geocaching?

I found $5 while walking down a cache a few weeks ago, I didn't even find the cache the first time so the $ made it worthwhile.

 

Then yesterday in a lil more urban area near a bus stop I'm walking around the shelter to get to the cache and I wonder a lil to far and see all these bent bus cards (that I picked up and threw in the trash at work). I see another $5 dollar bill. Not bad $10 in under month, it paid for the Geocache.com app. Now I'm working on the upgrade.

 

So how much have the cachers that have been at it longer found?

 

If this isn't the right area to be posting this please move it to the appropriate forum.

[Who Are The Lurkers? Introduce Yourself.]

New meat here. Found geocaching watching Youtube videos where a get found a cache in the middle of the woods in the Netherlands. I googled it, did a lil reading and figured it seems like something my wife and I could do together while traveling or riding bikes. Got started on 3/12 while we took a ride to the Jersey shore and have been at it since. We have 44 finds at this point and had 3 that were a little more difficult the ones we had found. We kept at it and were able to put smilies up on them.

[Increase In Damages to Caches?]

Sounds like some trail cameras need to be put out to try to ID the people doing this. So disgusting.

[Help deciphering a cache description in AZ]

What if there is no size listed? How do I have an idea of what I'm supposed to be looking for?

[AVATAR TESTING and INSTRUCTIONS]

TEST test test.

 

How long before I will see my posts?

 

Never mind, I guess it hit the number.

[Prescription pill bottles]

I'm a newbie at this too but I thought the same thing about the small plastic bags used to keep the logs dry. As a firefighter EMT I've seen way to many of these baggies and they aren't for Geocaches. I see this as a much better use. LOL

[Help deciphering a cache description in AZ]

A common recommendation for beginners is to stick with small size, regular size, and large size caches. Until you're more experienced, avoid micro size caches (and other size caches, which are often micro, or effectively micro), some of which are smaller than most beginners can imagine (sometimes called "nanos"). Save those for later, after you have some experience.

 

Also, stick with caches that have a difficulty rating of no more than 2 stars . Save the more difficult ones for later. You may also want to choose caches with easy terrain ratings. (The difficulty rating tells you how hard it is to find the cache once you get there. The terrain rating tells you how hard it is to get there.) And it is often best to start with traditional caches, which will be at the published coordinates. Multi-caches or mystery/puzzle caches or other cache types can require more work just to figure out where the container is located.

 

Under ideal conditions, a consumer GPSr will be accurate to about 3m (10ft). That applies both to your device, and to the cache owner’s device, so you may find the container 5-6m (16-20ft) from ground zero under ideal conditions. Under less than ideal conditions, both GPSr readings can be much less accurate. Once you get within that distance of ground zero, put your device away and look around for places where a container could be hidden.

 

Where would you hide something? Do you notice anything unusual? Is anything too new, too old, too organized (e.g., UPS: an Unnatural Pile of Sticks/Stones), too symmetrical, not quite the right color or shape, etc.? Don’t look only on the ground; the cache may be knee-level, waist-level, eye-level, or overhead. How might the container be secured in place? With magnets? With a hook? With string? With fishing line? With something else? Does anything move when you touch it? (Be careful when touching things though.)

 

Go ahead and read the cache's additional hints (if provided), and read the past logs and look at any photos in the cache's image gallery. They may help you understand what you're looking for, and how/where it may be hidden. It may also help to look at some of the cache containers available online. For example, check out the cache containers sold by Groundspeak. Also, take a look at the Pictures - Cool Cache Containers (CCC's) thread in the forums, and check out some geocaching videos on YouTube.

 

Some very good information and a great reminder that they all aren't park and grabs. Since I've just started and have had some luck at locating the caches I've went looking for the ones I can't find and have gone back for a few times it can get frustrating but I remind myself that I'm doing this for fun. My first nano find took a few ride by's and 2 good searches until I was able to get the light to go on in my head and jam my finger past a bolt to pull it down. I had no idea that caches came that small. LOL

I have one that has me baffled right now, I've made 2 stops to look and have started doing some research on the cache. It'll come.

[Replacing Cache and Log Etiquette..]

I just started this new addiction and have found a few caches that have been wet and or damp. I wrote that in the found it response and hopefully the cache owner will look to replace the container and log to make them waterproof again.