Casting Crowns

*wipes drool from mouth* YES, that would be awesome! There is a multi stage cache here in Texas that's a 10 mile hike but the "prizes" are customized patches saying you completed the find. Very cool.

I was told by my Reviewer that nothing that is "in the cache container is mine" so I just complied. I have a Pathtag Exchange cache and had listed in the notes to take one replace with one....take two and replace with two...etc. Was shot down. Had to reword it. I made it a members only cache to help with the function of the cache but have already had one cacher take three and "promise to replace when he came back or saw me in person". All I can do is hope. I'm afraid with this stipulation you may be setting yourself up for disappointment. Do you have a lot of cachers in your area with handmade items? There aren't many in mine. Most use pathtags.

That is sad. Sorry for your loss.

Wow! What an awesome view! 80 miles of driving? OMG! Man, I gotta get out of D/FW and go find some caches like yours....

I'm very fortunate in the same regards. When I joined the caching community over a year and a half ago, FTF's were already an "established sub-genre" of geocaching itself. We have a blast running around together and I've met some great people. People who are like minded and aren't weenies.

Opalblade is the voice of reason here....I agree with her. If he mentioned an FTF prize then he's playing the "sub-genre". There was no need for the rude responses posted to the OP. Some of you "veterans" need to get off your high horses and accept the fact that geocaching has evolved.

WOW! That deserves some recognition! Not just the FTF's but that 600th was a booger! Good job.

I wanna say at the store I went to they were over near the bow and arrow section along with the camo tape! Good luck!

Just to mention.....I made one of the bottle cap cache containers mentioned here. Quite easy and "neat". Thanks for the idea.

I've made shrinky dink sig items.....but, the one's I prefer to use are the LASER PRINTER shrinky dinks. So much more colorful and neater. I also make the bottle cap ones shown in the other thread. People love them down here.

There is a series her in Dallas/Ft. Worth called the DFW Smilie Project. It encompasses the whole metroplex and surrounding areas to create......wait for it.....WAIT FOR IT.......a HUGE Smilie face on the map. I would provide a link but you should be able to find it in the hide/seek a cache feature. Sorry....:/

I bought a pair of knee high "gaiters" from Academy last year for $20. They work very well against snakes AND thorns/briars. Should still be cool enough come the Texas Challenge to be comfortable. They do get hot in the Summer. But, with all of the copperheads I ran across last year, it's the least of my concerns sweating a little bit.

It took you a year to build it.....how long would it take to find?

Article was long....only read first page. I was thinking this was a cache gone wrong at first. I guess I'll never be a good puzzle solver....[]

Yes....the chosen one has spoken!!! I concur.

Something positive from this post? I am now familiar with the term "sock puppet". Good day to you, sir.

Ft. Worth, TX area tends to be in the evening....mostly Friday-Sunday. That's the greatest times for a new cache but others pop as late as 2 a.m. or any other day of the week.

I've heard of it happening before. Also those darn Mystery caches can get you too....leaving it there should be OK but you do run the risk of it being found if you're REALLY close to the other cache. I have found archived caches before looking for a different cache.

Everyone's scared of TEH TERRORISTS!!! ZOMG! Why don't we just ban all urban caches? If we let this have a negative affect on us then we're the fools. I've been stopped by the police at LEAST 6 times in a year and a half of caching.....none of them were LPS hides.....all were backroads or in wooded areas. Only one thought I was a nut for doing such a thing. The other five were actually interested in knowing more about the sport/game. Stop living in fear, people.

*Double Post*

Hello, Johnb647! Welcome to geocaching! As far as the No Frills Bar and Grill meetings.......They are held by the South West Arlington Geocachers (SWAG) "Officially" once a month on Wednesdays from 6:00 p.m. until-??? "Unofficially" they have them EVERY wednesday because there is usually someone always there. Hope to see you there sometime! Oh yeah, at times there are as many as 30+ people depending on the event.

Well, I hope we didn't discourage you from trying. I dump 8-10 TB's at a time in an ammo can when I run across one (lot's of micros lately around here). This game is for you to have fun as well. Don't let it cost you any sleep......other than going for FTF's!!!

I usually replace baggies and logsheets. Don't want to carry TOO much stuff. My bag already can get heavy at times with the stuff I put in there.

lets just say that there are about 13 "in town caches" and i'm close to a forestry but from what i can tell no one drops off TB's around here. we have tourist in the summer and fall but that's about it. i'm hoping that if i get a hotel or something like it, it would attract more cachers. Then I would suggest placing more caches instead of a hotel. I wouldn't travel very far to visit a TB Hotel unless I was actually traveling but I WOULD drive, and have driven, 60 miles to make a 68 cache series around a lake!

I only have four active caches at the moment......my most popular (surprisingly) has been a good tree climb in a 40' Bald Cypress with decoy at the bottom. The one I'm most excited about just posted and is a Pathtag Hotel for people to trade out their pathtags. Will be fun to see how long it lasts....