LycanthroFee

My absolute favourite cache was one I did on a holiday; we were up in Combe Martin at an event with a tonne of friends, and we had a good few hours before the closing ceremony. It'd been a long weekend full of fun, but we hadn't yet trekked much further than the venue's pool! I took a glance at the website, goodie!! A trail was nearby! I decided to gather my partner and go on a wander round the town and the hills. The sights were BEAUTIFUL! We had a lovely walk all over the little town and up into the hills, and the caches were brilliantly smart, kooky, and fun! As our lovely walk lead us to the last cache, we ended up looking out over where we had walked (we could even see the venue!) right as I got my 100th cache... Best caching experience I've ever had! (pictured; me on the hill, gesturing to the venue)

Sorry if I miscommunicated; I meant it was a national trust cache. National trust has a thing set up where families can grab a GPS and some coords and go off geocaching in their parks (no logging online, no accounts, no explaining the rules other than a 'you go to the coordinates and try to find it then write your name in it') What I had meant was, I'd rather that the national trust would give them the basic ruleset instead of setting them off with not a clue of what's allowed to be placed in! It's not so much that I'm blaming the people who did it, imagine if you'd been set off caching for the first time and you've just been given a basic example of what can and can't be done, it's just natural that someone's going to do something against the rules at some point if they don't know what the rules are in the first place

I've been thinking a lot, and I want to ask you guys what your favourite kind of cache is! Is it a cleverly hidden micro in a challenging spot, where you have to use quick wit to get it out? Is it a large container with plenty of swaps? Maybe it doesn't matter what KIND of cache it is, if it takes you to a beautiful spot that you'd have never gone to before, had it not been for the cache! Or maybe just a funny and memorable container! (I've got a rubber ducky one in the works at the moment ) I'm personally a big fan of the all of the above!

18; lots of cachers are older, I know that! I'm one of the youngest round here, for sure! Probably because when you're busy getting your life in check with college, it leaves little room for hobbies ... Arr, I'm definitely a busy bee who uses geocaching as a weekend stress release hobby!

I've only really done it once, when I was on holiday. For me, it was a learning experience of sorts! take out pen; sign log; put pen in geocache; travel to next geocache; take out pe-- OH, DARN IT! After that, I learnt to bring more than one pen ...

'found place described as hiding place; didn't find cache' WHY are you logging it as a find then?! Also when people leave food, leaves, etc in a cache. I found an entire SANDWICH in a cache before! I only really see this one at National Trust properties; lots of newbies who don't even know the rules being handed a Garmin and some coords ... I mean, I'm all for getting people into this hobby, but PLEASE tell them basic etiquette ... Do you want badgers stealing your caches? That's how you get badgers stealing your caches.

Okay, cheers mate!

Found a TB with a confusing history, contacted the owner, and aparrently the cache was lost and needs a new code. They have sent me the new code. Should I just, paint/draw over the metal tag? Or put a new tag on? Should I offer to post it back to them? What should I do with this? :? utterly confusing. Of course, I'd like to try and fix this issue, but also I'm veeery confused

Cache was hidden on a green box, which there was two of at GZ ... The cache was still there as well ... "Found the Green Box had a good search around no cache though"

I guess for some people, getting that smiley is the fun part, not searching for it. Which doesn't make sense to me, I enjoy the journey just as much as finding the cache. Though I'm someone who relives my childhood through geocaching. and I was a VERY rough-and-tumble kid .... I will run through nettles, lie in mud, stick my hand in that dark crevice without a second thought ... but that's fun to me! Stuff I wouldn't otherwise get away with that really just brings me back to my childhood ... I suppose it's different for others, and they want their smiley and ONLY their smiley! I have fun on DNF's, log em, come back some other time! On most of the DNF's I've logged, the cache is actually MIA anyways, so I take logging DNF's as serious business, because I KNOW if I don't start the DNF chain, most people will be too self-righteous to log a DNF

I moved mine permanently after the area it was in was marked for foresting for the next few months, but moving it temporarily wouldn't hurt! At the end of the day, it's your geocache, you can choose what you want to do with it I think it'd be a nice thing so that you can still have people visiting the cache! Personally I'd say you should do it!

I don't even understand how they think a DNF is a threat - like if you can't find it, that's on you buddy, not the CO ... I prefer people to log a DNF on my caches if they can't find it, it lets me know that the cache might have gone missing ... honestly, if someone asked me for a hint and threatened me, I'd tell them to hop off haha I'm all up for asking for hints but I would never threaten someone for a hint! though usually I'll suck it up, log my dnf and look harder! As I previously said, I'll only ask for a hint if i've visited the area for two long looks that both equal up to at LEAST over an hour, depending on the dificulty, sometimes well over 2-3 hours. I'll only ask for a hint if I'm positive I'm 100% stumped! though usually the CO I message tells me the exact location of the cache instead of a small lead ... can I join in on the 'bah, millennials' train if I ask for hints like them?

I have sent messages asking for hints, but it was more along the lines of 'hey, we've visited the cache 3-4 times and kept getting DNF's, could we have a hint?' but only if there isn't a hint given already. I'd personally never give someone a timeframe to reply as I think that's a little rude, the CO should reply in their own time when they want to reply.

I've never understood what the appeal is in them taking a small magnetic nano, or a random bit of tupperware. If I wasn't a geocacher and I found a weird container, I'd perhaps poke around, open it up, look around, but I wouldn't take it unless it looked like a lost item that I should turn in. I just don't get it, why do they take them? Thankfully none of mine have gotten muggled yet, but I just don't understand.

Here's one I'm placing soon! Quack quack

Ammo cans truly are an exciting find, though I'm a much newer player who's barely been playing for a year yet, I agree that it's sad that there's less big caches in beautiful remote locations, it's about the place as much as it is the cache, aye? I think a reason ammos are becoming an endangered species is because I've only seen ammo cans for £10+ which just cannot rival 80p for some tupperware sadly... Even micros and bisons are abot £1 a pop. We as people favour the cheaper option half the time, so most players are much more likely to pop up to the shops for a nice bit of tupperware.

the free app doesn't even show attributes so most newer inexperienced cachers who don't know much about where it's safest to drop a TB wouldn't be able to see it anyways so the main people who would need it couldn't see it ...

I have a strange bug on my tablet (and sadly not the traveling kind). I like to log my finds in the field, but often I cannot retrieve the trackable item as the option is grayed out. I can grab the trackable (as I have had to do before when I found a tb and geocoin in a cache which were supposedly still in the last person's hands when the last person had logged the cache weeks ago ...) but not retrieve it. As soon as I get onto a computer the option to retrieve the trackable is available, so it's only on the app... I don't know why this is, I'm assuming it's a bug.

Never used a gps (can't afford one), I use a tablet my dad got for free from his workplace, works fine for me! Never had a problem with finding a cache yet, only that it's out by +/-8m so it can make coord grabbing for a new cache a bit hectic, especially when the spot is too small to accurately pinpoint on google maps ....... (usually the reviewer ends up finding a technological workaround - god bless reviewers and their dedication!) Also thought I'd add ..... both phone and tablet have suffered greatly from geocaching incidents ... tablet out of hand and phone out of pocket, in woodlands it's not so bad but on urban caches .......... yikes, you ought to see 'em! My iphone is so cracked that the touchscreen is so uncoordinated .... Perhaps I'll be due a new phone soon, my trusty old iphone 4 is dying on me lol (perhaps I'll invest in a proper protective case instead of a cute one! ..... or just get a real gps so I don't risk destroying equipment that would cost more to replace! :s)

I always enjoy finding mcdonalds toys or the yolks of kinder eggs! I'm getting a little too old to waltz into mcdonalds and order a happy meal ;P Keyrings are also really nice things to find! I personally love badges in caches. There's too many cheap 'party favours' in caches though, rubbers or hand clappers, they're boring and unoriginal and just not too fun to come across. Perhaps more fun for a younger child dragged along with the family I'm ordering some pokemon figures off ebay, you can get a bulk pack of 24 or something for £2.50 and they're decent quality, at least decent enough to be an exciting find in a cache (perhaps more for pokemon fans like me hehe)

Thank you! Also names change from app to app and are called things by different people so I'm never sure whether to say 'extra small' or 'micro' haha, sorry about that! Thank you very much for your reply, I think I'll chose 'other' as it is a unique shaped cache

Hello all, I'm placing a new cache soon but I'm quite unsure of what size to list it as. the cache is a rubber duck with a bison and a weight attatched. Does this mean the cache is an xs, or 'other'? the bison is only clipped onto a piece of zip tie on the duck. Is it 'small' or 'other? Thanks, Cy.

someone brang it up that I can activate the TB then keep it on hand so it can be discovered and so i can have it visit caches - that's actually a really good idea and I think I'll do that!

thank you all for giving me these wonderful advice! I've chosen a small cuddly rabbit to go on my tb, which I will write 'do not keep me, i am part of a travel bug' and the code on it! hopefully nobody nabs it, but what can you really do? the only way to make sure they're 100% safe is to hang onto them forever!

Hi, all! So I have recently purchased a TB, which I will release on the 13th to mark another anniversary with my girlfriend, but I'm unsure of what to put on it. If I put something of too much value on it, will it be stolen? I'm probably going to attatch it to a charm if I can find one, but I'm scared I'll have something nabbed.