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"Goop"... http://eclecticproducts.com/ag_adhesives_epoxies.htm Takes a while to cure but holds up well in weather and climate change conditions... only thing I use for caches

I find it fastest to just hand load the coordinates into my Magellan... tedious, but still.

Not overly familiar with the 210... there should be a way to manually enter the map coordinates directly into the unit as with the Magellan I have... if not, then you will probably want to upgrade, and if you want to be able to download coordinates via a USB into your GPS you'll need one compatible: so a Garmin...

There are a few that stick out in my mind... 1) A small hidden inside a home made road side reflector. Maker used the same metal as others in the area, and the same triangular reflector device. Added a hinge and hid the cache inside. Added it to a set of reflectors near a rest stop, spaced the same as other reflectors in the area. Only found it because the hinge had opened a bit revealing the yellow container inside. 2) A rock in a HUGE rock pile. An actual rock that had split open along a fault line, about the size of my open palm and less then 2 inches thick. Owner had hollowed out the inside just enough to fit in a logbook, and carved out and glued in a hinge so that the rock would open to reveal the logbook. Fortunately it was different from the rest of the rocks in the roadside build up, but tons of places to hide a small cache... I think this was the most evil one I've ever found. 3) Large metal sign in a rest stop. Cache was a 8 inch aluminum tube painted the same black as the sign legs and inserted through an empty hole in the legs near the ground to look like a large bolt. 4) large carriage bolt in a wooden sign post.... sort of. Wooden info sign some 8 ft wide, cache was a fake bolt in line with the cross beams of the sign. Had a copper tube soldered onto the sawed off head of the carriage bolt with the log inside. To add to the camo, there was another actual carriage bolt at the top cross beam. Finally figured it out when I checked the opposite end of the sign and there were no bolts "holding" onto the cross beams at that end of it. I hunted for an hour before finally cluing in to this one.

From the sounds of it, they knew exactly what you were doing there, and were just messing with you... maybe already trolling these forums to see if you post your encounter with them!

Lessee.... dropped my Magellan Triton 300 - 2-3 ft and bounced it off of rocks doing so... three times now... but it then just needed to be turned off and on again and it was good to go... wore my tires down a little more then normal on my 2005 Toyota Echo... and spent more $$ on gas... but no damage really... nope. None that comes to mind...

Yeah, encountering similar in my area... a duo of cachers goes out together, one hiding, the other "finding" (and vice versa) on the first day the cache is published: sometimes making the first logged "find" on the cache... sometimes not quite... They do however, 'neglect' to date the first log entry into the physical cache log... so what locals have begun doing is stating on the website with regards to either one's caches: "FTF after Publishing"... It is a bit irritating, but everyone plays the game in their own way... so all the power to them. If you are using some kind of program to log your FTF's, some look for the "FTF" in the log... so if you say on the online log entry "almost FTF but XXX beat me to it" it will grab that 'FTF' entry and ask you for confirmation... which you can do even though supposedly YYY was first to sign the log.... but YYY went with XXX and did not date the logbook... or dated it before XXX even hid the darn thing...

Your perception of the experience is too narrow. A micro in the woods without adequate info is a needle in the haystack search and the effort to look for it does reflect negatively on the area more than a regular sized cache. The experience that this negative impact creates for the next finder is not really pleasant (IMO) and it damages the area with all the tramping around (true experience). Bark torn off of trees because the chip looked fake, moss ripped from its roots because it looked like it didn't quite belong. Logs on the ground trampled to death and not just on the trail and the foliage takes a major hit. The damage can be significant enough it begins to border the look of vandalism. Micros are not an area friendly cache when placed in the middle of the woods. Yes some of it does repair itself over time, but the crushed logs don't become the habitat they should have been. My question boils down to this... Why hide a cache that's going to knowingly create more localized damage than a regular sized cache? I heartily agree! Micros have their place, even Nanos, but the wilderness is really NOT that location. Heck, if you want to make it tough, why not a real Nano: engrave a "You found it" and the coordinates to a log book on a piece of rice and hide it on a sand bar on a river edge! Let's see anyone find that!

Traditional: 35 Multi: 1 Puzzle: 1 Virtual: 0 And how many of them are disabled? 1 Micro: 19 Small:14 Regular:3 Large:1 Unspecified:0 To get "creative" one tends to gravitate towards Micro if not Nano caches... Of my "Micro" caches, Four are Nano caches: being less under 1/2 inch in any dimension. Personally I hate micro/nano caches... especially a Nano.... But that being said, I would rather hunt a Nano on a waterfall (as long as a good hint was provided) then a regular container in the middle of a city... City caches suck! A 280 Lb, 5 Ft 6 Man with long hair (waist length) and a "biker" look (black with vest) does NOT do "stealth" very well... I'm just surprised no one has called the RCMP (police) on me yet...

Go for it... screw what the flamers, whiners, and general grumpy complainers on the forums say! (Let alone the Grammer Nazis). I would suggest though, that if the cache is within easy eye sight of your residence, and is as complex as it seems, that you offer a friendly note to rest searcher's own nervousness that it won't be muggle eyes watching you from the residence... I HATE caches that are at the edge of a playground with 20 houses staring down at you as if you were some kind of sick predator of children... I've started to just skip those...

Put in what you can afford/want to leave for a complete stranger... I usually don't do special FTF prizes... unless it's a special cache such as my 4 step multi that I left a $25 gift certificate for a restaurant in for the first adult finder. And that was only because it had been re-gifted to me from someone else... and I did not really care for the place personally... but thought someone else would!. I have been toying with the idea of making/molding FTF, STF, and TFT "medals"/Pins for my future caches... combining some of my other hobbies (modeling/jewelry making) with caching... a simple "medal" (i.e war medals) with a pin for affixing to clothing and various colors depending on the cache difficulty etc...

I have a Magellan 300 as well... hit MENU button, select view, select settings, select navigation, go to coordinate system, select lat/long, will go to accuracy screen, select deg/min.mmm That, plus the WGS84 Datum should get you on track. The Magellan isn't as user friendly as the Garmins, but it's still my primary GPS even with a Garmin...

So the top of the pipe is 7 ft off the ground... better suggest a step stool as well so people can actually pour a 5 gallon pail into the pipe...

Another question, would anyone even USE a condom that they found in a cache?... And yes, this sentence could be twisted and turned into a joke: some examples to get you started: - Depends if there is room enough for 2 in the cache... - why would you do that to a cache?

That id my thoughts as well... I suspect they may have something in the vicinity they may be trying to keep 'hidden'.... such as a secret garden or such. I'll be pulling and archiving from the looks of things.

Salutations... Just wondering on some direction and advice to take this... I placed cache GC1FQRG a few days back in a little gulley just off a side road not too far from town. Check out the map and satellite images to get a better feel for the locale. The little triangle of land is unfenced on the road sides, not posted as 'private' (or any postings for that matter), and completely uncultivated. However, a recent finder has stated that they had an encounter with a person who alleges that they "owned" the piece of land where the cache is hidden... and were not happy to have people snooping around it... I've disabled things just in case... but... given the dimensions and location, I'm skeptical that it is actually "owned" by the person claiming it... So, any ideas as to how one would go about checking actual land survey titles here in BC in Canada? Without spending an arm and leg in legal fees that is?

Like several who've stated before me, I went with the upgrade just to support the site/cause... it's not until later... about a month actually... before I bought a Garmin and could even benefit from any of the other premium member benefits... and frankly I really don't have much use for them up where I'm at... and as for Premium Only caches... I don't think there will be any up in my neck of the woods unless I put them out myself... which I don't think would make a huge difference as I think everyone up here has premium membership anyhow!... yeah... the caching community within 75 miles can probably still be counted without running out of fingers...

I just get mine from the local dollar store in the crafts section... no name brand.

One thing I have found to make plaster reproductions a bit tougher is to use some industrial strength white glue mixed in with the water prior to mixing in the plaster. I use a dental plaster for the reproduction which is pretty strong in itself, but then use VERY a watered down "Weld-Bond" industrial strength white glue to which I add the dental plaster (Dry into wet: never the other way around). This makes the setting time quite long (hours compared to 30 minutes). But once set and hardened the final product is almost as hard as plastic... though not as durable when it comes to moisture. I have yet to try any long term environmental tests with this, but it's a suggestion for when you start making your molds and pouring the copies.

I understand your train of thought, but larger sig items like these usually don't see another cache Hmm... true, but even sitting for too long in a cache, I think it would absorb a lot of moisture: even if 'sealed'... have you done any time/field tests? (i.e. sealing it and soaking it overnight in water? Just curious if a good method can be found for sealing plaster as I have some ideas for building caches out of Hirstarts bricks... IF I could find a good way of weatherproofing them that is.

LOL I recognize of those models you used to make those oh fellow Warhammerer (well the Warhammer ones at least)... My own "signature" tokens I made from some old Bulldog Buckles 40K Icons for Orks, Space Wolves, and a Crux Terminus. You may have inspired me to make something more "mine" though... If you make a mold of these and cast them in plaster the plaster won't hold up well to the "caching experience" even once sealed. I would recommend investing in some pourable plastic and cast them in that instead of in plaster. Much more durable, tintable, paintable, but the pourable plastic does break down the mold a bit quicker then plaster does.

When I first got into this, I was concerned about this as well... How many should I hide:find? What's a "good" ratio to keep/maintain? I decided to set a 10:1 ratio, but really, in looking for spots to hide my own caches that weren't just crappy "just cuz there isn't a cache nearby" sort of thing it's not so important to keep a low "Hide:find" ratio. Far better to make the ones you do hide be GOOD hides. I'm considering going back to some hasty micro's I've done and upgrade them just because I'm not as happy with them as when I first hid them. The other thing, in trying to maintain a specific ratio, ALL of the decent/neat/wow spots get taken pretty fast and you'll end up having to drive farther and farther just to find a good place to make a hide that isn't just a magnetic key case inside a flagpole or lampost shroud... Oh... and currently I'm at 6.2121 (rep.):1 Find:Hide Ratio...

Kinda makes me glad I'm so far North that the only animals that can kill you in the wild up here are ones that outweigh me at least 3: 1... and I'm pushing 300 lbs...

OH! I thought those were just posts regarding the cache- i didn't realize that it was a record of found/not found. thanks. Yep, they are posts about the cache: but also others' experience with it and smiley face= found, frowny = Did not find

Click on the cache to open the quick link telling you name and date placed, Click on the cache name, that will open a link to the cache page, which will show when it was last successfully found. Caches that are lost/gone do get removed/disabled/archived.